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Study: Man-made ocean acidity threatens sea life

NovaScience — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:28:27 +0000

“Man-made pollution is acidifying the world’s oceans at unprecedented rates and is threatening sea life, an international team of researchers reports”

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2012/01/greenhouse-gases-make-oceans-more-acidic-threaten-coral/1

Filed under: CLIMATE CHANGE, CO2 due to human activities, IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, Ocean acidification

Arctic Temperatures Continue Rapid Rise as 2011 Breaks Record Set in 2010

NovaScience — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:52:51 +0000

“Record Ice Loss and Tundra Melt Amplify Warming Feedbacks”

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/01/23/409099/arctic-temperatures-continue-rapid-rise-2011-breaks-record/

Filed under: Arctic, Arctic melting, Arctic temperature, CLIMATE CHANGE, CLIMATE CHANGE EVIDENCE, CRYOSPHERE, Permafrost, Tundra

2011 Climate Change in Pictures and Data: Just the Facts

NovaScience — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:24:41 +0000

“Few simple and clear pictures (and links) showing how the planet continued to warm and change around us in 2011. And these facts are just part of why all national academies of science on the planet and every major geophysical scientific society agree that humans are fundamentally changing the climate.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/petergleick/2012/01/21/2011-climate-change-in-pictures-and-data-just-the-facts/

Filed under: CLIMATE CHANGE, CLIMATE CHANGE EVIDENCE

Precognition – feeling the future?

NovaScience — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:43:31 +0000

“A barrage of experiments seems to show that we can predict the future – but they may tell us more about the scientific method“

http://neshealthblog.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/precognition-feeling-the-future/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Filed under: BRAIN & NEUROSCIENCE, Extrasensory perception

U.S. had most extreme precipitation on record in 2011

NovaScience — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:37:10 +0000

“Now, it’s official. 2011 – through its entirety – was record-setting for extreme precipitation in the U.S. dating back 100 years.“

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/us-had-most-extreme-precipitation-on-record-in-2011/2012/01/11/gIQA7oJXrP_blog.html

Filed under: CLIMATE CHANGE, CLIMATE CHANGE EVIDENCE, IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, Precipitation

More than 10 billion terrestrial planets across our galaxy

NovaScience — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:50:27 +0000

“The study concludes that there are far more Earth-sized planets than bloated Jupiter-sized worlds. This is based on calibrating a planetary mass function that shows the number of planets increases for lower mass worlds. A rough estimate from this survey would point to the existence of more than 10 billion terrestrial planets across our galaxy.”

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2012/07/full/

Filed under: Earth-Like Planets, Exoplanets, LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE

Almost 1 In 3 U.S. Warplanes Is a Robot

NovaScience — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:08:51 +0000

“And the current fleet of flying robots is just the start. The Navy’s developing a next-gen drone that can take off and land from an aircraft carrier. Future missions, the report finds, include “stand-off jamming” of enemy electronics; “psychological operations, such as dropping leaflets” over an adversary population; and even measuring the amount of radiation in the earth’s atmosphere. The military’s working on increasingly autonomous drones — including tiny, suicidal killers — and on increasing the number of drones a single ground station can operate.

The Air Force even holds out hope for a “super/hyper-sonic” drone by 2034. It’s a good time to be a flying robot.”

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/drone-report/

Filed under: Flying machines, Military technology, Robots, TECHNOLOGIES

A Review Of Star Gate Related Programs On Psychic Research For Congress, 1995

NovaScience — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:35:12 +0000

“This document reviews the psychic spy remote viewing programs from various branches including Army, Missile Command, CIA, Navy, USAF, and others. “

http://www.starpod.org/Slideshow/1112012ss.htm

Filed under: BRAIN & NEUROSCIENCE, Extrasensory perception, Remote viewing, Stargate files

Top 10 Global Weather Events of 2011

NovaScience — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:04:56 +0000

“A remarkable blitz of extreme weather events during 2011 caused a total of 32 weather disasters costing at least $1 billion worldwide. Five nations experienced their most expensive weather-related natural disasters on record during 2011 — Thailand, Australia, Colombia, Sri Lanka, and Cambodia.”

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/01/02/396307/top-10-global-weather-events-of-2011/

Filed under: CLIMATE CHANGE, CLIMATE CHANGE EVIDENCE, Cost of climate change

A Brief History of the Apocalypse

NovaScience — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 07:29:06 +0000

2000 – 2012: “Real Soon Now”

http://www.abhota.info/end5.htm

Filed under: 2012, CIVILIZATION

What You Should Know About 2012: Answers to 13 Questions

NovaScience — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:27:43 +0000

Is it really time for the Apocalypse?

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/reality-check/201112/what-you-should-know-about-2012-answers-13-questions

Filed under: 2012, CIVILIZATION

Death for “Arsenic-Based Life”?

NovaScience — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:30:19 +0000

“A single study rarely causes a revolution in science all on its own. Only through repeated confirmation and refinement of research can we come any where near something like “truth.””

http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/death_for_arsenic-based_life/

Filed under: Forms of life, LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE

Redefining “Mental Illness”

NovaScience — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:24:30 +0000

“Defining “mental illness” has vexed researchers for more than a century. Are mentally ill people just different from others in the larger group?”

http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/redefining_mental_illness/

Filed under: BRAIN & NEUROSCIENCE, Mental illness

Michio Kaku rebuttal

NovaScience — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:42:49 +0000

Michio Kaku rebuttal to John Horgan’s Response to his Wall Street Journal Opinion Editorial “The God Particle and the Origins of the Universe”

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41681

Filed under: Michio Kaku, PEOPLE, SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES

2011 ‘second warmest’ year in UK

NovaScience — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:22:46 +0000

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16366078

Filed under: CLIMATE CHANGE, CLIMATE CHANGE EVIDENCE, Record high temperatures, TEMPERATURE, Temperature increase

Happy New Year!

NovaScience — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:48:37 +0000

Filed under: 2012, CIVILIZATION

Mayan High Priest from Guatemala Apolinario Chile Pixtun speaks about Mayan prophecies and 2012

NovaScience — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:20:55 +0000

2006. Mayan High Priest from Guatemala Apolinario Chile Pixtun speaks about Mayan prophecies and 2012

“What are the Mayan prophecies? What is the destination of mankind? Apolinario Chile Pixtun is a Mayan High Priest from Guatemala on an important worldwide mission to share his ancestral teachings. He is an elder of the Mayan tribe called ‘Kaqchikel Mayab’. Apolinario’s spiritual name is ‘Achi Ijatz’ which means ‘sower of the ancestral Mayan wisdom and spirituality’. This indigenous spiritual teacher and naturist doctor speaks Kaqchikel, Kiche, Keqchi and Spanish. His special titles include that of ‘Keeper of the Ancestral Mayan Wisdom’ and ‘Guardian of the Prophecies’.”

Filed under: 2012, CIVILIZATION

2012 is not the end of the world, Mayan elder insists

NovaScience — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:49:58 +0000

“Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the end of the world. “I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff,” he said. …Mr Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan ideas.”

“… But hysteria surrounding 2012 does have some grains of archaeological basis. One of them is Monument Six.

Found at an obscure ruin in southern Mexico during highway construction in the 1960s, the stone tablet almost did not survive; the site was largely paved over and parts of the tablet were looted.

The inscription describes something that is supposed to occur in 2012 involving Bolon Yokte, a mysterious Mayan god associated with both war and creation. However, erosion and a crack in the stone make the end of the passage almost illegible.

Guillermo Bernal, an archaeologist at Mexico’s National Autonomous University, believes the eroded message is: “He will descend from the sky”.

But Mr Bernal also notes there are other inscriptions at Mayan sites for dates far beyond 2012 – including one that roughly translates into the year 4772.

The Mayan civilization, based in modern day Mexico and Central America, reached its height from 300 AD to 900 AD and had a talent for astronomy

Its Long Count calendar begins in 3,114 BC, marking time in roughly 394-year periods known as Baktuns. Thirteen was a significant, sacred number for the Mayas, and the 13th Baktun ends around Dec 21, 2012.

“It’s a special anniversary of creation,” said David Stuart, a specialist in Mayan epigraphy at the University of Texas at Austin. “The Maya never said the world is going to end, they never said anything bad would happen necessarily, they’re just recording this future anniversary on Monument Six.”"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6300744/2012-is-not-the-end-of-the-world-Mayan-elder-insists.html

Filed under: 2012, CIVILIZATION

SETI to Scour the Moon for Alien Footprints?

NovaScience — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:24:47 +0000

“Paul Davies and Robert Wagner of Arizona State University have suggested a crowd-sourcing effort to find artificial structures on the moon. After all, lunar missions like NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter are returning some dazzling, high-resolution imagery of the moon’s surface. If aliens have been there, perhaps we could spot evidence of their presence.”

http://news.discovery.com/space/seti-to-scour-the-moon-for-alien-tech-111227.html

Filed under: ASTRONOMY, Extraterrestrial Civilizations, LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE, Moon

Maya begin ‘end of era’ countdown

NovaScience — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:38:09 +0000

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-16295720

Filed under: 2012, CIVILIZATION