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Scientist are hoping the launch of an European Space Agency (ESA) climate/weather satellite in early April will provide the needed information to better determine the effects of climate change.Scientist are hoping the launch of an European Space Agency (ESA) ... more
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How can you keep your food fresh and your drinking water cool in a hot third world country? The pot-fridge is the latest in a range of savvy inventions for the poor in the developing world. An idea revived by NGOs working in Africa, this nifty invention is now being used by farmers and their families in warm climates to preserve their food and keep the insects away. This desert cooler does not require electricity or any power source, apparently making it ideal for poor rural villages and sustainable living fans. According to the NGOs, a pot-fridge will keep your tomatoes fresh for almost three weeks and all it takes is some sand, water and two pots. Is it time to give up on ‘white goods’ and get earthy? The programme shows us how to make one.How can you keep your food fresh and your drinking water cool in a hot third world... more
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The threat of a new ice age loomed so large in 1974 that American intelligence collated a report on the likely effects. Maurizio Morabito unearthed it
More parallels can be drawn. According to the CIA report, in 1974 climate science was developing ‘a successful climatic prediction model’, as indeed it still is. Government intervention had brought together eminent scientists who had previously been at odds with each other then had established a ‘scientific consensus’ on ‘global climate change’. The scientists claimed this pattern of cooling would cause ‘major economic problems around the world’. Dealing with this would, of course, require the creation of several new government agencies. The media at the time seized on all of this, just as it is doing now. Newsweek and the New York Times described the global cooling threat.
How is it that the parallels between that 1970s panic and today’s have been so little remarked upon? And it doesn’t stop there. There have even been recent attempts to label the ‘global cooling consensus’ a ‘myth’, most notably in a well-publicised article by Thomas C. Peterson, William M. Connolley, and John Fleck published by the American Meteorological Society in September 2008.
It’s easy to miss what you do not look for. Mentions of a global cooling consensus appear as far back as 1961. I found the CIA report referred to in a 1976 newspaper article and was doubly amazed to discover it was available as a microfiche in the British Library.
So what would have prompted the CIA to compile such a dossier? The most likely explanation is what it describes as the loss of ‘a significant portion’ of the USSR’s winter wheat crop in 1972. The harvest was so poor that the CIA saw geopolitical ramifications. Its report says that ‘the politics of food’ is a complex business, which cannot be understood by ‘existing analytical tools’. So to address a political problem, they asked scientists to come up with a solution. Precisely the same thing is happening today. One might almost conclude that, in the world of climatology, theories are made to order.
Or is the problem with the general public, who cannot talk about climate except in doom-laden terms, and for whom the sky is the last animist god? This might be the most important lesson of the 1974 report on global cooling: that we need to grow up, separate climatology from fear, and recognise — much as it pains politicians and scientists — that our understanding of how climate changes remains in its infancy.
More at the link:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/5592803/part_2/the-cias-global-cooling-files.thtmlThe threat of a new ice age loomed so large in 1974 that American intelligence... more
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This one's for all the geeks out there.
"At $30,000 on eBay, the PIPE DREAMS Computer Station is "made with a Plastic Nylon Connection System isolating the heat transfer for each hardware component, from one another, promoting cooler systems over all." Auction page. Click here for first picture in gallery.
PIPE DREAMS incorporates a Wall of Fans System. It pulls the heat from the entire inside area and simultaneously on opposite sides, drawing out all of the heat and leaving the two systems functioning very cool."
Possibly the ultimate cooling solution for all you overclocking needsThis one's for all the geeks out there.
"At $30,000 on eBay, the PIPE... more
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The Blackhawks are putting a coat of foam all over structures at Forward Operating Base Kalsu to help keep Soldiers a little cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter.The Blackhawks are putting a coat of foam all over structures at Forward Operating... more
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It’s so interesting what goes on behind the scenes of a magazines. There is a whole other side to just editorial. There is the advertising and promotions aspect too. You might have read a great article, but it could have been an ad! Read this piece and see how clever our beauty blogger writer about Mystic Tan and Billy Jealousy and how you would be totally fooled if you didn’t know they were ads. Really good tips on self-tanning and razors and again, you will have NO idea they are ads. Clever, eh?It’s so interesting what goes on behind the scenes of a magazines. There is a... more
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A PC FPS gamer details how he changed the 80mm exhaust fan of his PC's power supply unit (PSU). Presents pictures that detail the procedure on how to change the exhaust fan of a PC power supply unit (PSU). Also includes a link to another guide (ExtensionTech's) that further supplements the procedure on how to change the exhaust fan of a PC power supply unit (PSU).A PC FPS gamer details how he changed the 80mm exhaust fan of his PC's power... more
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