I'm backing Ed's excellent response 100%. (Except the bit where he teazes DT; that's very cruel!!) If we keep increasing atmospheric Greenhouse gasses then...
Thanks Peter. I hadn't heard of him before. Dave S ... From: Peter Rose To: Knutsford SciBAr Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 5:55 PM Subject: [kscibar] Bert...
Hmmm! -- Now where have I heard that title before. We seem to be getting a few things pointing the same way, these days . Of course it doesn't prove anything...
Yours Dave Thompson 07768-355-814 "Unprecedented" results after new Alzheimer's treatment Jan. 9, 2008 World Science staff In findÂings deÂscribed as...
Four healthy habits may give 14 more years: study Jan. 8, 2008 Courtesy PLoS Biology and World Science staff PeoÂple who adopt four healthy habits seem to...
Search for ET beefed up-with your help Jan. 2, 2008 Courtesy University of California - Berkeley and World Science staff The longest-running search for...
I've just emerged from a week of bad cold or flu (apparently the symptoms are the same). It seems that in order to catch such a virus, it normally has to enter...
Welcome back Dave. Hope you enjoyed your holiday. This is the extract published on the 'SCIENCE' web site:- The Turonian (93.5 to 89.3 million years ago) was...
Hi John, Off the top of my head from an unattributable past reading a long time ago:- The virus invades the cell which then starts making viruses -inside the...
This was sent to me by Mike. I thought you might like it . I like it --but if this is typical of " Stone Raft " , it sounds like a bit of a heavy read. Yours ...
I have been skipping through this volumous document :- http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg3/ar4-wg3-ts.pdf Despite the usual IPCC abbreviations,...
Dave, In one of your earlier comments you said that CO2 takes about 100 years to break-down in the atmosphere. Do you know how it breaks down and into what...
There have been two recent British Nuclear Energy Society meetings at Risley on ITER - the next, post Culham, fusion tokamak project. Unfortunately I was only...
Great websites -- easy to understand and great pictures -good prep for 4th feb- Thanks ,Andrew ... From: Andy Coatsworth To: kscibar@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
That's a good question Ed. CO2 is obviously broken down by plants to create biomass and Oxygen. The biomass may become coal, be consumed by bacteria to make...
Dave, Many thanks for the answer. However I'm not clear about your maths and the relevance of anthropomorphic CO2 in your calculations. If man did not exist...
Ed, I realised overnight that I made an error in my calculation. The 3,000 Gigatonnes of atmospheric CO2 is a mix of anthropogenic and naturally-generated gas...
Who can you rely on , these days -- Sad isn't it.There's usually a vested interest . On both sides Yours Dave Thompson 07768-355-814 STERN REVIEW 'EXAGGERATED'...
And there's more ,here, on the other side of the balance sheet Yours Dave Thompson 07768-355-814 But perhaps the most sobering assessment cited by the CRS...
I forward the latest UKCIP newsletter which has some informative articles for those interested in finding out more about climate change -- Regards Peter Dear...
This is a copy of an earlier message that went astray I am not a biologist but I believe that we carry more bacteria on our skins than we have cells in our...
This is an extract from the January UKCIP newsletter which I get regularly. An earlier attempt to forward it to SciBAr failed so I have cut and pasted this. I...
This is a reply I posted a week back which went astray. It is to the report from the Daily Telegraph which stated "Scientists have discovered that glaciers...
I've just read the Pitt Review mentioned below, and it clearly states in Chapter 3 that "The summer 2007 floods cannot be attributed directly to climate ...
Are we really this stupid in our pursuit of Global Cooling.-- It sounds like it. Is this for the benefit of the world or just the west or just a scam . Who...
It is almost impossible I find to establish what is a fair price to pay for the contribution to global warming that products make. We have exported our...
It smells more of increased taxation opportunities and holding on to advantages to me rather than a search for fairness but as you know cynicism is hard to...
Dave, I don't really understand what you are saying - other than you think Global Warming is not an urgent problem. Unfortunately, most people out there...