Posted on January 9, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

Tedious Tantrums's avatarTedious Tantrums

The MET Office have decided that there will be no further warming until after 2017. Their crystal ball must be back working again. That’ll be the one, which cost taxpayers £20 million then! Even the mega warmist Mr Hansen from NASA says it’s impossible to measure a global temperature and there has been no warming for 15 years or more.

2012 the wettest year on record? Really? So for around 150 years the data has been collected from the exact same sources at the exact same times and there have been no “adjustments” to the collected data at all? Oh wait there may have been a few changes and adjustments but the MET Office knows best what to say and do.

The BBC are happy to parrot this of course. They even mentioned the wet weather as being a sign of worse to come. How do they know? They don’t…

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Good News:Coral Found A Way to Survive

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

Coral reefs are under stress worldwide, often due to climate change issues. Researchers have uncovered a pattern of gene activity that enables some corals to survive in higher temperatures.

Some of the Acropora hyacinthus corals in the back reef of Ofu Island, American Samoa, can thrive in pools that experience daily heat fluctuations of up to 6 °C. To find the molecular basis of this resilience, the researchers compared gene activity in heat-resistant and heat-sensitive A. hyacinthus corals by measuring their transcription — the complement of RNA molecules transcribed from the genes — under different temperatures.

The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveal genes that — though present in both populations — are more highly expressed in the temperature-resilient corals. These genes code for antioxidants and other proteins that organisms deploy in response to heat shock.

The study found that the expression of hundreds of the corals’ genes changed in response to their tank water being heated from the control temperature of 29.2 °C to 32.9 °C. Around 60 of these genes were already highly expressed at the control temperature in the heat-resilient corals. Front-loaded gene expression could give these corals a survival edge in changeable conditions.

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Posted on January 8, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

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By Niamh Fodla

Physical health is an important part of health.  It’s only one aspect! But it’s important.  It’s hard to meditate when you’re in pain. And it’s hard to be as sympathetic and kind of a person as you can be, when you’re preoccupied with health problems.

 

Dr. Joel Fuhrman is a doctor and nutritionalist who advocates a vegan way of eating, and he’s changed a lot of people’s lives with his extremely well-informed advice.  What I don’t like about this video is that it looks like an infomercial. Camera shots of the people nodding and clapping, his introduction that makes him sound like a salesman — I don’t like that about this video.  However, if you ignore that and listen to the information …I think it really is life-changing information.  I think just watching it (If you can manage not to roll your eyes at the style…

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New Doubts on Cause and Effect Relation Between Global Warming and Droughts(link)

Posted on January 8, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

There have been devastating droughts in the past few years in places like Africa, Australia, and the United States. Last summer, the drought in the central US caused the loss of massive crops, causing a major economic hit for the country. The seemingly increasing prevalence of droughts has some announcing the effects of climate change coming to fruition. However, a new study from researchers at Princeton University in New Jersey and the Australian National University in Canberra has cast doubt on this premise. Their work indicates that the development of drought is much more complex than formerly believed and that recent droughts were more an aberration than an overall drying trend.

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