Brain Scans Can Read People’s Thoughts

March 12, 2010 Yahoo News By Associated Press A scan of brain activity can effectively read a person’s mind, researchers said Thursday. British scientists from University College London found they could differentiate brain activity linked to different memories and thereby identify thought patterns by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The evidence suggests researchers can tell which memory of a

Gut Bacteria & Obesity May Be Linked

March 8, 2010 Reuters Some of the hundreds of bacteria found in the digestive systems of humans may be linked to specific diseases like cancer, diabetes and obesity, an international team of scientists said in a paper on Thursday. Researchers, led by Chinese scientist Wang Jun, said in the latest issue of Nature they found more than 1,000

Are Global Earthquakes Getting Worse?

March 1, 2010 MSNBC Chile is on a hotspot of sorts for earthquake activity. And so the 8.8-magnitude temblor that shook the region overnight was not a surprise, historically speaking. Nor was it outside the realm of normal, scientists say, even though it comes on the heels of other major earthquakes. One scientist, however, says that relative to

Iceberg Ahead

Climate scientists who play fast and loose with the facts are imperiling not just their profession but the planet By Fred Guterl One of the most impressive visuals in Al Gore’s now famous slide show on global warming is a graph known as the “hockey stick.” It shows temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere rising slowly for most of the last thousand years and turning steeply upward in the last half of the 20th century. As evidence of the alarming rate of global warming, it tells a simple and compelling story. That’s one reason the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change included the graph in the summary of its 2001 report. But is it true? The question occurred to Steven McIntyre when he opened his newspaper one morning in 2002 and there it was—the hockey stick. It was published with an article on the debate over whether Canada should ratify the Kyoto agreement to curb greenhouse-gas emissions. McIntyre had little knowledge of the intricate science of climate…

Croat scientist warns ice age could start in five years

Croatian Times | A top scientist in Croatia has warned Europe to prepare for an ice age instead of talking about global warming.

How Met Office blocked questions on its own man’s role in ‘hockey stick’ climate row

By David Rose The Meteorological Office is blocking public scrutiny of the central role played by its top climate scientist in a highly controversial report by the beleaguered United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Professor John Mitchell, the Met Office’s Director of Climate Science, shared responsibility for the most worrying headline in the 2007 Nobel Prize-winning IPCC report – that the Earth is now hotter than at any time in the past 1,300 years. And he approved the inclusion in the report of the famous ‘hockey stick’ graph, showing centuries of level or declining temperatures until a steep 20th Century rise. By the time the 2007 report was being written, the graph had been heavily criticised by climate sceptics who had shown it minimised the ‘medieval warm period’ around 1000AD, when the Vikings established farming settlements in Greenland. In fact, according to some scientists, the planet was then as warm, or even warmer, than it is today. Early drafts of the report were fiercely…

Leaked Climate Change emails Scientist ‘Hid’ Data Flaws

By Fred Pearce Phil Jones, the beleaguered British climate scientist at the centre of the leaked emails controversy, is facing fresh claims that he sought to hide problems in key temperature data on which some of his work was based. A Guardian investigation of thousands of emails and documents apparently hacked from the University of East Anglia’s climatic research unit has found evidence that a series of measurements from Chinese weather stations were seriously flawed and that documents relating to them could not be produced. Jones and a collaborator have been accused by a climate change sceptic and researcher of scientific fraud for attempting to suppress data that could cast doubt on a key 1990 study on the effect of cities on warming – a hotly contested issue. Today the Guardian reveals how Jones withheld the information requested under freedom of information laws. Subsequently a senior colleague told him he feared that Jones&#…

Telegraph: Was swine flu ever a real threat?

London Telegraph | With one scientist alleging a World Health Organization ‘conspiracy’ that was a bonanza for drug firms, Mark Honigsbaum asks if H1N1 could have been handled differently.

Glacier scientist: I knew data hadn’t been verified

January 25, 2010 DailyMail.co.uk By David Rose 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 he was well aware the statement, in the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental

The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-2-09

Today, Kevin goes into why the government has banned him from every Fox News network, every Disney owned television station and even USA Today & TIME Magazine! Get the latest news you won’t hear from those news sources! 100% of Non-Organic Chickens Carry Deadly Bacteria Secrets to Boost Your Immune System Climate-Gate Scientist Steps Down Vioxx Side Effects Known

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