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If you follow the claims of Global Warming at all there seem to be new factors jumping into the fray everyday. Mostly humans in some shape, or form, but I bet you never considered ancient hunters as a source of Apocalypse.
Hunters who took out the last of the whoolly mammoths are being held accountable [...]

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More evidence that short sample sizes can be skewed to look like anything. Oh wait…did I just say that? This is always my first thought when I read a title such as this. That the sample size is way too small to draw very conclusive results. I don’t disregard them mind you, but I definitely [...]

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New studies suggest that rather than tens of millions of species on planet Earth, there may actually be less than 10 million. A University of Melbourne-led study, based on a new method of estimating tropical insect species — the largest and one of the most difficult groups on the planet to study — suggests that [...]

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I’m sure you remember all the talk that stemmed from President Reagan’s administration about “Star Wars”. The name has changed, but space weapon research is still quite heavily funded. Space.com has a good article about some of the more recent weapon/vehicle testing that has been done in space here.
Interestingly enough, I see this article [...]

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So…someone actually used some far reaching data to try and figure out some of the climate change issues. In this case 1.2 million years of Earth orbital cycles.
UC Santa Barbara geologist, Lorraine Lisiecki, discovered a pattern that connects the regular changes of Earth’s orbital cycle to changes in Earth’s climate.
Published in the scientific journal [...]

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Well…this is just a name for something that some people believe they already knew was going on. According to geologists from the University of Leicester, which includes Nobel Prize winner, Paul Crutzen and atmospheric chemist.
Yes. This guy winning the Nobel Prize automatically makes the whole thing true right?
While this stuff doesn’t sound like [...]

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While the overall subject of this study is rather interesting, the results are far from conclusive. First a little background on the study:
For more than 20 years forest ecologist Geoffrey Parker has tracked the growth of 55 stands of mixed hardwood forest plots in Maryland. The plots range in size, and some are as large [...]

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Let’s bring up some new Global Warming news today. With all the people calling for a conspiracy in the whole Climate-gate fiasco in the last couple months, we still have reports about possible warming issues going on in the world right now. Melting ice sheets is always one that pops up every few weeks.
A new [...]

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First of all, isn’t it getting a little old that everything has “Gate” at the end of it? Isn’t THAT a conspiracy? Certainly adding “Gate” to anything taints the debate from the second it is inserted now doesn’t it? Doesn’t mean this isn’t a big deal, but it makes it too cheesy to take seriously [...]

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Not often do you get two stories in the same week about threats to more than one species. Unfortunately this week we have it. One because of nature, and one that is significantly impacted by us.
First, the one under heat from nature. Amphibians, like frogs have been around for more than 360 million years. [...]

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