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Warming Caused by Soot, Not CO2

Friday, July 17 2009

Submitted by Doug L. Hoffman on Wed, 07/15/2009 - 13:19 A new paper in Science reports that a careful study of satellite data show the assumed cooling effect of aerosols in the atmosphere to be significantly less than previously estimated. Unfortunately, the assume greater cooling has been used in climate models for years. In such models, the global-mean warming is determined by the balance of the radiative forcings—warming by greenhouse gases balanced against cooling by aerosols. Since a greater cooling…

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King Canute at the G-8

Wednesday, July 15 2009

When King Canute of lore wanted to teach his citizens a lesson, he set his throne by the seashore and commanded the tides to roll out. Canute's spirit was back in business this week at the G-8 summit in Italy, where the assembled leaders declared that the world's temperature shall not rise: "We recognize the scientific view that the increase in global average temperature above pre-industrial levels ought not to exceed 2 degrees [Celsius]," or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, said the…

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Green-industrial complex gets rich from carbon laws

Friday, July 03 2009

Brendan O'Neill | July 03, 2009 Article from: The Australian THE word environmentalist usually conjures images of down-at-heel campaigners in tie-dyed T-shirts who eat only organic muesli. In truth, going green has become big business. We are witnessing the emergence of a green-industrial complex, an alliance between national governments, corporations and powerful individuals that is using the politics of fear to transform the economic and political worlds. For a snapshot of the government and business interests intertwined in the rise…

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The Angel’s Game

Friday, July 03 2009

The prequel to the bestselling Shadow of the Wind. Again set in Barcelona during the 20s and involving the bookseller Sempres and the unforgettable Cemetery of Forgotten Books, Zafron has written another magical booklovers book .

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The Finest Type of English Womanhood

Friday, July 03 2009

Tale of two young women from different backgounds who meet in Johannesburg during the days of pre-apartheid South Africa. Involves a true murder case mixed with fiction and the whole story reads well- would make a wonderful television series.

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Not Becoming My Mother

Friday, July 03 2009

A memoir from the foodwriter who wrote Comfort Me With Apples. Looking back through her mothers private papers Ruth realises that far from being happy ,her mother had been thwarted in her career and settled for married life all the time wanting to be something else but making sure her daughter, Ruth, had the choices she had been deprived of.

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