
Wednesday 3 February 2010 23.43 GMT
The American scientist who produced the “hockey stick graph” showing a sharp rise in global warming was largely cleared of misconduct by an academic investigation today.
The board of inquiry at Pennsylvania State University said it found no evidence that Michael Mann, a leading climatologist, had suppressed [...]
February 4, 2010 | Posted in
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By SUNIL Sonkar
Hidalgo County, Feb. 01 — Dead animals are being dumped on the road at 6 Mile Line, north of Mission says the residence in the area.
On man in the locality said, “It doesn’t make me feel right. I don’t think there’s a lot of people who feel the same way I do.”
The person [...]
February 1, 2010 | Posted in
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On the eve of the fullest moon of the year, NASA scientists were told they won’t be able to visit any longer. In his new budget, President obama plans to eliminate the space program’s manned moon missions.
When the president releases his budget on Monday, a White House official confirmed on Thursday, there will be a [...]
January 30, 2010 | Posted in
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Collier County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to ask Gov. Charlie Crist and the Cabinet to approve navigational markers for Clam Bay after the state Department of Environmental Protection sent a letter to the county earlier this month revoking its 2009 approvals.
January 27, 2010 | Posted in
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GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — A rare and nearly complete dinosaur skeleton stolen from private property in Montana and stored in an evidence locker for more than two years has been turned over to researchers.
Scientists at the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research in South Dakota say the 70-million-year-old turkey-sized predator could be a new [...]
January 25, 2010 | Posted in
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Glacier scientist: I knew data hadn’t been verified
By David Rose
Last updated at 12:54 AM on 24th January 2010
The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders.
Dr Murari Lal also said [...]
January 25, 2010 | Posted in
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The west Himalayan range includes 15,000 glaciers
A WARNING that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it.
Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a benchmark report [...]

The mini ice age starts here
By David Rose
Last updated at 11:17 AM on 10th January 2010
The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.
Their [...]

Florida Orange Growers Brace for Possible Killing Freeze
By TOM SELLEN
Florida orange growers are bracing for possible crop damage as an arctic blast plunges temperatures to record lows Saturday and Sunday nights.
Sleet and snow mixed with rain has been reported Saturday from the Tampa Bay area to near and north of Orlando, the first time snow [...]

One of the world’s most respected scientists is embroiled in an extraordinary row after claiming that black people are less intelligent than white people.
James Watson, a Nobel Prize winner for his part in discovering the structure of DNA, has provoked outrage with his comments, made ahead of his arrival in Britain today.
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December 30, 2009 | Posted in
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