2012-2-7 As shocking as the acoustic Beats studio of the Monster. The design of these wireless headphones are made to fit into your ears snugly. Because of this, it will feel natural as if you are not wearing anything.That Dr Dre is putting his PhD to good use the Monster Dr Dre Headphones line has proved incredibly popular, and since we reviewed the Beats Solo back in January, we’ve been spotting the bass-thumping bad boys destroying the eardrums of trendy teens the nation over. The conditions are uncharacteristically rough and it is increasingly difficult for us to film, but even as we are tossed around Monster beats like bath toys on the rough waves Dr Rawson gamely gets out his sterilized instruments and begins to take his samples.We should not discount financial motivations in the negative statements abIn neighboring Afghanistan, the Monster Beats Studio has built a successful string of television and radio stations and Web sites since the American-led invasion in 2001. Both Beats and the Mohseni family were named in the renegade Web site posting that appeared Thursday.

Hi all.  I've been lurking here for several years, enjoying the discussions. I posed the following question recently on another website during a heated discussion on global warming et al.

Are there any studies which conclude that CO2 levels are a leading indicator of temperature changes?

I am not a "denier" as it seems like there is enough evidence that recent global temperatures have been increasing at a rate that is a bit out of the ordinary given our historical knowledge of global temperatures.  Have we as a species emitted lots of CO2 and other gases beyond what nature normally produces?  Of course.  Has it been enough to impact the environment?  That is where I am on the fence.  If someone could show me an authoritative scientific study that concludes that CO2 is a leading predictor of temperature, I'll be ready to start listening to other aspects of this issue such as cost/benefit of remedial actions.  Right now, I liken this problem to someone telling me I need to spend $10,000 for a vaccine for a disease that I am not at risk for.  Prove to me that I am at risk  (i.e. our carbon emmissions are causing this), then I'll consider the cost / benefit of the cure. 

TIA

 http://www.greenprophet.com/2011/11/hula-painted-frog/

 BY: GEORGE PELL From: The Australian October 27, 2011 12:00AM

SCIENCE and technology have already achieved considerable mastery over nature, and massive local achievements. But where is the borderline separating us from what is beyond human power?

Where does scientific striving become uneconomic, immoral or ineffectual and so lapse into hubris? Have scientists been co-opted on to a bigger, better-advertised and more expensive bandwagon than the millennium bug fiasco?

We can only attempt to identify the causes of climate change through science and these causes need to be clearly established after full debates, validated comprehensively, before expensive remedies are imposed on industries and communities.

A question we seem to regularly return to, and which is important enough to ask multiple times.

The following is an excerpt from a book review (of the book Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet, by Tim Flannery) at The New York Review of Books. Unfortunately the review is behind a pay-wall, but there's enough meat there to start another discussion: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/oct/13/can-our-species-escape-destruction/

(note: I have not read the book)

Can Our Species Escape Destruction?

October 13, 2011

John Terborgh

Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet

My fellow Australians, it gives me no pleasure to be saying the things that I am saying at this time. It tugs my heartstrings. It eats me up inside. But I can no longer remain silent in the face of the outrages being visited upon us by the enemies of freedom and humanity.

There comes a time in every man’s life when he must stand up for what he believes in. There comes a time when every man must say enough is enough, and not enough is not enough, and I say to you now, my fellow Australians, I’ve had enough lies and tyranny, and I’ve had not enough democracy and telling-the-truthness.

Yesterday I watched as the Prime Minister of this country placed a tender kiss upon the other prime minister of this country, and I very nearly retched at the hypocrisy.

From the current issue of New Scientist

FORGET hydrogen: ammonia could be the answer to developing an emissions-free fuel for cars.

Ammonia produces just nitrogen and water vapour when burned and, unlike hydrogen, it is relatively easy to store in liquid form. That means transporting ammonia will not require costly new infrastructure, says John Fleming of SilverEagles Energy in Lubbock, Texas.

Fleming and Tim Maxwell at Texas Tech University, also in Lubbock, are developing a system to produce ammonia that can be installed in filling stations. Powered by mains electricity, it first produces hydrogen from water using electrolysis, then combines it with nitrogen from the air to produce ammonia.

To achieve this, the researchers have adapted the Haber-Bosch process used to make ammonia industrially. Their version works on a small scale and can make ammonia fairly cheaply.

The shit is supposed to hit the fan around dinner time and last for 20 or so hours.

If you are morbidly curious, check www.scanct.com and listen to feed #1.  That is the fire department.  It might get interesting in a while.

New Haven, Conn. — Organisms discovered by Yale undergraduates growing within fungi in the Amazon Rainforest can degrade polyurethane,

 a findings that may lead to innovative ways to reduce waste in the world's landfills.  * Yale Edu News*

http://opac.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=8766