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Climate Change Science Has Been Reduced To Comedy Material

Monday, February 28th, 2011

Scientists who at one time shared in the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore and still teach at Universities like Harvard now say climate change is a fraud. Over 1000 scientists have come out along with their names, addresses, credentials, and more to make it very clear that climate change science has been reduced to a joke and they do not support it. The popular opinion among students in Universities is that man made global warming is in fact real although teachers are starting to explain to their student that they are wrong and have been misled by the UN climate scientists.

Just because Al Gore and several other climate scientists have won a Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts in climate change science doesn’t mean that it is true. Scientists that at one time accepted this award with Al Gore now claim that the science is in fact a lie and they do not approve of the continual lies that are being used to teach man made climate change. Many of the facts being used to support climate change have now been discovered to be facts taken right out of opinion pieces in magazines and newsletters with no scientific authority.

Beyond the report that lists one thousand scientists by name as well as where they teach, their phone number, and quite a bit of other information you have over 94 different climate gates. Each climate gate I have read has made me laugh because of the initial absurdity of the claim of destruction CO2 would cause to the earth. When I would read why and how the claim was disproven I would laugh even harder and I am really getting into the whole mocking idea of calling these things “gates”.

Climate science that claims man causes global warming has about 94 different fraudulent alarmist reports that have been disproven. Scientists that teach at Harvard and some who have even won Nobel Peace Prizes in climate science now admit that the UN global warming conspiracy is indeed a conspiracy. Skeptics have reported on the 94 climate gates and the number continues to grow. The Alaska glaciers are not melting and sea ice is doing just fine.

Over 1000 respected scientists now claim that the UN climate change scientists are in this for ulterior motives and the whole thing is a big fraud. The facts and science in truth show that it would take another 150 years of data to determine if man is causing any changes to the environment through CO2 emissions. The most likely reasons for rising temperatures in metropolitan areas has more to do with streets, buildings, and pavement than emissions from cars, aerosol cans, and power plants.

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Watch Documentary Videos On The Internet For Free Of Charge

Sunday, February 27th, 2011

What if there was a way that you could see your favorite documentary films on the net for free? Watching these documentary films online means that you can spend less money and less of your precious time at the DVD shop, and seeing documentary movies on line can keep you up to date with the latest happenings and occurrences throughout the globe, as well as staying on top of your favoriteissues. These documentary films on the web can be chosen and seen twenty four hours a day, at your own convenience, ensuring that you can view documentary films on the web for free, very easily.

The first step to seeing documentary film on the web is to make use of the directories that are available. Using these websites, you can search for documentary movies and watch TV shows on the net while also comparing the various feeds that are available for the streaming movies. This way, you can use the ratings that has been written by other viewers on the net to determine which feed is going to provide the greatest seeing experience.

What should you consider when watching documentary movies online? First, you should search for the name of the documentary videos that are being seen. Next, it is important to ensure that you are searching for the right title. Using the information regarding the production date of the films, the actresses in the videos and even the topic of the documentary that is being seen, you can find the films that you are searching for and use the information to watch the documentaries on the net.

Using the internet, you can find videos that can be viewed online for free. You can learn more about the world around you and even find documentaries that have been just released, through the streaming video technology that can provide you with hours on end of films and documentaries to watch.

These on the web directories are full of documentaries that can be viewed and can allow you to search for practically any genre or title of video.

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Why Every Country Needs To Focus On Achieving A High Literacy Rate

Sunday, January 30th, 2011

Communities having a good population of literate people is on it way to progress socially and economically. The more the literacy rate the more stable and prosperous the community is. The prosperity of a community is not the measure of the financial power ,but the fraction of population literate , so literacy get an important aspect.

If you want to bring progress in the literacy rate of a country, you need to make people realize the value education has. Also when the tools of education are used properly to improve the knowledge base of the community, literacy improvements can take place.

Country’s keep the record of their statistics on literacy which is calculated for the whole population according to region they belong for men and women separately. this record of the statistic give a clear picture of the people access to education and those who don’t have access.

Literacy percentage makes one identify people who have got education and have living standards which are high compared to those who didn’t get education at all. These educated people also found better work opportunities.

A high literacy rate is of no use if the community member does not use their knowledge and enhanced skills in the progress of the country. the population of the community should realize the value of education and use it.

The knowledge gained in high school level prepare them to face challenges of life and enhance work environments, organize them and ability to manage their troubles and hindrance in the development of education.

The education given in the class at high school level enables and get them ready to cope up with in the challenges in their respective fields and general areas of life.

People gain good employment opportunity when they are educated. the economic progress lies in the fact that the country should have a good educational system, awareness regarding education and knowledge and easy excess to them.

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Get Outside With Your Kids

Monday, December 20th, 2010

The information was supplied by EE IN WISCONSIN, A guide to Wisconsin’s environmental education organizations, programs, materials, and professionals

The Wisconsin No Child Left Inside Coalition is working to develop an Environmental Literacy Plan for Wisconsin that will address the environmental education needs of Wisconsin’s pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade schools and will pay special attention to creating more opportunities to get kids outside. The Plan will recommend a comprehensive strategy to ensure every child graduates with the environmental skills and knowledge needed to contribute to a sustainable future.

Wisconsin has a strong environmental education foundation already established, with active schools, supporting organizations, and abundant opportunities to get outside in rural and urban settings. The Environmental Literacy Plan will build upon these strengths, and suggest priorities for present and future attention. It will lay out the next steps towards fulfilling on our State’s commitment to ensure all people in Wisconsin are environmentally literate.

State Superintendent Evers has formally asked the Coalition to develop the Environmental Literacy Plan for Wisconsin. A Steering Committee meets each month to draft the Plan. The Wisconsin No Child Left Inside Coalition Steering Committee is made up of representatives from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education, Wisconsin Environmental Education Board, Wisconsin Environmental Education Foundation, Wisconsin Association for Environmental Education, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Wisconsin Environmental Science Teachers Network, Milwaukee Public Schools, the Green Charter School Network, and the US EPA’s Environmental Education and Training Partnership. The broader Coalition is kept updated on progress, provides input and feedback to guide the plan development, and ultimately, will play a key role in implementing and evaluating Wisconsin’s Environmental Literacy Plan.

Wisconsin’s Environmental Literacy Plan will be compliant with the pending national No Child Left Inside (NCLI) legislation. The No Child Left Inside Act requires States develop, implement, and evaluate a State Environmental Literacy Plan in order to be eligible to receive funding associated with the Act. Currently, the bill suggests an appropriation of $100 million to support the State Environmental Literacy Plans. You can learn more about the national NCLI Act and its various provisions and requirements here: www.cbf.org/Page.aspx?pid=948.

For more information about Wisconsin’s NCLI Coalition, contact Jesse Haney (Jesse.Haney@uwsp.edu).

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Understanding The Chinese Lunar Calendar

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

Prior to their adoption of the Western solar calendar scheme, the Chinese almost wholly followed their own lunar calendar for determining the times of planting and harvesting and festival days. Although people in China today use the Western calendar for almost all business, governmental and practical matters of daily life, the old method still serves as the basis for determining many seasonal holidays. This coexistence of two calendar schemes has long been accepted by the people of China.

However, this does not only happen in China, it also happens in most other Eastern countries, like Thailand, and most Arabic countries.

A lunar month is determined by measuring the period of time needed for the moon to complete its full cycle of 29 and a half days, a standard that makes the lunar year a whole eleven days shorter than its solar counterpart. This difference is made up every 19 years by the addition of seven lunar months.

The 12 lunar months are further divided into 24 solar divisions characterized by the four seasons and periods of heat and cold, all of which bear a close relationship to the yearly cycle of agricultural work.

The Chinese calendar – very much like the Hebrew calendar- is a combination of the solar and lunar calendars in that it strives to have its years concur with the tropical year and its months coincide with the synodic months. It is not surprising that a few similarities exist between the Chinese and the Hebrew calendar.

For instance, an ordinary year has 12 months, a leap year has 13 months. An ordinary year has 353, 354, or 355 days, a leap year has 383, 384, or 385 days. When working out what a Chinese year will be like, one needs to make a couple of astronomical calculations.

First of all, you have to determine the dates for the new moons. In these cases, a new Moon is the completely black Moon (that is to say, when the Moon is in conjunction with the Sun), not the first visible crescent, as is used by the Islamic and Hebrew calendars. The date of a new moon is then the first day of a new month.

The reason why the majority of countries which had their own calendars had to dump them in favour of the Western, Julian calendar that we use today, is business. First the British and then the Americans ran international business and they used the Gregorian calendar. Anyone who sought to work with them had to follow suit. This is why national policy often varies from local custom in Third World countries.

The government desires to trade on the International markets, but the ordinary family in the country can not. So, the government adopted the Gregorian calendar but the people only pay lip service to it. I live in Thailand and people here do not even use the 24 hour day divided into two halves. Their day has four sections of six hours each and the first part starts at 6AM, not midnight. Therefore, they have four 4 o’clocks a day, for example but no 7 o’clocks. They are also 543 years ahead of us, although this is more common, for instance in Muslim countries.

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What Is Concentrated Thermal Solar Power?

Saturday, October 30th, 2010

If asked to think about solar power, most of us would imagine the blue or black rectangular panels that sit silently on the roof, providing electricity to the home below free of cost and pollution. However these panels are not the only way the sun’s energy can be used to generate electricity. One other approach is called Concentrated Thermal solar power. Many commercial scale power stations have been built using this technology and their production can rival that of coal fired plants. How does this technology work?

Whereas domestic solar panels convert sunlight directly into electricity, Concentrated Thermal solar works with the heat of the sun’s rays. As children most of us will have used a magnifying glass to burn bits of wood, cardboard and the odd unfortunate ant. When we concentrate of the sun’s rays through the magnifying glass lens it is acting as a heliostat. Concentrated Thermal works in a similar way but it reflects the heat from mirrors rather than condensing it through a lens.

By making a mirror in an arc shape called a parabola, it is possible to reflect all the light that hits it onto one point. The amount of heat focused on that point is then a factor of the size of the mirror. A large surface area of mirror can produce incredibly high temperatures. This fact is utilized in dish shaped solar camping cookers that can be used to boil water.

In commercial production of electricity, a tube containing synthetic oil is placed at the focal point of the mirror. This oil is able to reach temperatures in the many hundreds of degrees. This oil can then be cycled from the heating dish to a turbine where it heats water to make steam. Then the turbine can generate electricity in the same way as a coal fired power station.

Clearly the more mirror surface available the better such a system will work. There are Concentrated Thermal power stations in operation that consist of seemingly endless rows of such parabolic mirrors. These mirrors track the sun’s movement so that the power plant makes the most electricity possible through the daylight hours. Excess energy is stored in tanks in the form of molten salts. At night the heat released by these cooling salts is used to continue water boiling and therefore electricity production.

Concentrated Thermal solar technology ticks all the boxes. It is cheap, reliable, safe and proven. It produces no pollution save for that generated by the construction of the plant in the first place. There is also very little maintenance required aside from keeping the mirrors clean.

Learn more about solar power at Roger Vanderlely’s website, www.green-planet-solar-energy.com. You may also be interested in free kids’ experiments in the solar energy education section which will give your child hands on experience of the power of the sun.

Dummy Warfare Tactics & Dummies Gear & Material

Friday, October 15th, 2010

The word dummy has a number of connotations in military nomenclature that can refer to a variety of assorted technologies. It can indicate misleading actions employing equipment and capabilities created to confuse an adversary before during and after the cessation of war as well as weapons and equipment that are used for training purposes. Another usage of the word indicates a thing that does not have a chemical explosive. In other words, a dummy slug, missile or grenade will not detonate and is usually involved in some type of development regimen given to inexperienced personnel. The expression also indicates that the round is totally deficient in propellant and has no volatile potential whatsoever.

This expression is ofttimes confused with the concept of a blank; whilst a blank does have some form of powder it does not have a bullet projectile to impact a target. Additionally, the word has come to denote many forms of deceiving practices used before and during combat operations. Duplicate airfields and towns were scattered across the English countryside during the Second World War in order to bedevil the Luftwaffe, the German Air Force. As a result, armed forces installations and civilian cities were spared the ravages of perpetual bombardment runs. There were many other misleading tactics utilised during the hostilities in order to reduce damages and subdue a resolute foe.

The tactical usage of dummy airfields and dummy towns led to the systemization of the dummies concept in an comprehensive operational design. One of the most notable of the strategies implemented during the Second World War was known as Operation Fortitude that itself was solely a portion of Operation Jael afterwards known as Plan Bodyguard. Divided into a twofold pronged attacking manoeuvre the dummy landing sites included the Pas de Calais and Norway. The ‘Allies’ deceived the ‘Axis’ powers that a northern and a southerly battlefront would open up at the indicated sites. This dummy information tended to concentrate the forces of the Axis powers at locations that would receive the opening disastrous blows that would be the start of the conclusion of the warfare.

The complete Bodyguard campaign included a variety of subterfuges regarding the timing, localisation and forces deployed to attack the mainland. The Bodyguard operation had three main components: Fortitude’s northern and southerly dummy operation as indicated above and Operation Zeppelin that was a ruse implying a invasion in the East. The entire war hoped to achieve at least a triad of primary goals that would be utilized in conducting the fight. The beginning, as was previously mentioned, included the initial timing of the invasion. Secondly, to detain the enemy powers for two or more weeks.

But the most foremost of all objectives was of course to make the German High command assume the attack would come around the Pas de Calais region or East of this area so as to secure a relatively undefended front at Normandy. Each of these objectives met with outstanding success and as a result victory over the Axis powers would soon be attained despite heavy losses in the initial landings. The outcome of the deceit and dummies used in combat continue to reverberate across history but their counterparts in peacetime are more effective and less well known as part of a scheme of deceiving the subject populations.

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Has Peak Oil Production Already Been Reached?

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

The inevitable crisis of Peak Oil comes closer to us as each month passes, and may already have occurred. This is the point where global oil production begins to decline, which will inevitably lead to demand exceeding supply. This has moved from a hazy distant problem to an immediate issue that we will have to face in this lifetime, with significant global consequences.

It is fair to say that the industrial and economic power of developed nations such as the USA, many European countries, Australia and now China have come from the use of fossil fuels. From production capacity to military strength coal, oil and gas have allowed people in those countries a higher standard of living than at any time in the history of the earth.

Pleasant as this situation is for those of us fortunate enough to enjoy it, it may soon be due for a change. Without a serious effort to employ renewable energy on a massive scale, the economies that rely on fossil fuels, oil in particular, will become unstable. This is no idle concern; the International Energy Agency has undertaken a comprehensive study of the 400 most significant oil fields around the globe in an attempt to clarify the situation regarding actual reserves of recoverable oil.

There are good grounds for the IEA’s concern about the status of oil reserves. Very recently the Saudi government stated that it will lift production by another 300,000 barrels of oil per day. This is not even close to the lift in production requested by the US Administration. There are fears that the Saudis won’t lift production above this level simply because they are unable to. This throws into relief the possible status of the reserves of OPEC countries, whose reserves are not monitored by any regulatory body. Since their ability to sell oil is tied by mutual agreement to their stated reserves and has been so since the mid 1980s, there is a widespread belief that they have grossly overestimated their reserves in order to capitalize on current high oil prices.

If this is indeed the case then the scenario of Peak Oil may be upon us very soon indeed. This will have a significant impact on the global economy which is still geared toward continuous growth in order to achieve stability. It does not take much pondering of this situation before scenarios of resource wars, extreme nationalism and a global economic crisis come to mind.

The way to address the need for energy security is to focus on developing alternative energy sources. Nuclear power would make a good intermediate, but since that too is based on a limited resource it is not a long term solution. While Nuclear has a bad name, its safety record is very good compared to electricity production from coal or oil, even after taking account of its spectacular disasters such as Chernobyl. A better solution would be the implementation of renewable energies.

Irrespective of whether we opt for a nuclear stopgap or go straight for massive scale implementation of solar and wind energy, we need to start moving away from relying on oil. A global investment in clean energy makes a great gift for future generations but these need to replace fossil fuels, not just act as a decorative add-on. Decisions need to be made to ensure our energy supply for the future, regardless of ecological concerns from the pollution caused by fossil fuels.

Read more about Peak Oil and other issues related to Fossil Fuels at www.green-planet-solar-energy.com. You can also find information on getting cheap solar panels to reduce your reliance on the mainstream energy supply.

Is Hydroelectricity Really A Green Energy Source?

Sunday, October 10th, 2010

Hydroelectricity is often presented as a green energy source, but how true is this? Hydro has several environmental and aesthetic drawbacks that make it less than ideal compared to the clean energy provided by sources such as wind and sun.

There is much talk about the environmental impacts of hydroelectric power, as they rely on damming of rivers and permanent flooding of the low lying land behind the dam. While this is not desirable, it is merely an alteration to the environment. If the dam remained flooded this would not pose long term ecological threats to us from this modification.

The real problem with Hydroelectricity installations is the amount of methane gas they produce. This gas comes from plants that rot in the absence of oxygen. The process of methane formation is very similar to that which produced oil and the other fossil fuels.

Consider the following chain of events that unfold once the dam has been constructed.

First the valley fills with water. As this happens, the trees and other plants are covered with water. They drown and begin to rot, but since there is no air and little oxygen in the water the decaying plants give off methane. This methane is absorbed by the water.

So far all is normal, just the same as any other permanent flooding. But since this is a power station and in most cases also an urban water supply, the levels tend to fluctuate annually. The water levels drop in dry times. This exposes sections of land at the bottom of the dam.

This exposed land is ideal for growing plants and so it blooms with new life. As most dams are shallow, the amount of land exposed at the edges as the water drops can be very large. The shallower the dam, the more land is exposed annually.

Eventually the rains come and the dam refills, filling the new plants with water. Then it is the turn of these plants to rot anaerobically, releasing even more methane into the water.

This continues year after year, resulting in a slow but steady increase in the amount of methane absorbed in the water of the dam. This is a problem because methane is not very soluble in water. When the water passes through the dam’s turbines it escapes the water and enters the atmosphere.

Methane is approximately 21 times more effective than Carbon Dioxide as a greenhouse agent. This makes hydroelectric energy anywhere up to three times more polluting per megawatt of electricity generated than the equivalent coal or oil fired power station. This figure is dependent on the climate the dam is located in and the geography of the region. The effect is significant nonetheless, with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) now taking hydroelectric energy methane production into account when inventorying national greenhouse gas emissions.

Hydroelectricity may be a renewable energy source but it is not an environmentally friendly one. When looking at whether a new Hydro plant is warranted, methane emissions must be taken into account. A cleaner and greener solution is to build solar and wind power stations as once constructed these have no emissions associated with them at all.

Read more about issues around the topic of electricity generation and use in the Fossil Fuels section of Roger Vanderlely’s website, www.green-planet-solar-energy.com. If you’re looking to reduce your own carbon emissions, have a look at the tips for buying cheap solar panels.

Is Clean Coal An Environmental Solution?

Saturday, October 9th, 2010

What is Clean Coal?

Clean coal technology is perhaps the shortest sighted approach to controlling carbon emissions. Carbon Capture and Storage, or CCS for short, aims to remove Carbon Dioxide from the emissions of coal burning power stations. Several methods of doing this are under development, yet not one of them has been brought to the point where it would be commercially viable. Not only that, none of the current methods are able to extract 100% of the Carbon Dioxide from the emissions in large scale operations.

CCS does not eliminate Carbon Dioxide but rather requires it to be stored. Current suggestions for storage include injecting liquefied gas into used oil wells.

There is a major risk associated with this activity. Should geological movement open up one of these carbon storage areas, there would be effectively an enormous Carbon Dioxide burp emitted. Given the vast quantities of CO2 that are being planned to be buried, such an event could release enough CO2 to risk a significant imbalance in the atmosphere.

CCS does not dispose of Carbon Dioxide, it merely hides it away underground so that we don’t have to deal with it now. But it will have to be dealt with, most probably by our children. It looks as if our children are going to have enough problems already without adding an extra ticking time bomb in the form millions of tonnes of buried CO2 gas.

30 MW Of Carbon Free Coal?

There is a fully functional 30 Megawatt clean coal power station being operated by a company called Vattenfal, in eastern Germany. The emission fumes from this power plant are pure CO2. Because of the high purity and concentration of those gases, it is easier to capture the majority of the CO2. The CO2 is then liquefied and trucked away some 300km to an underground storage site.

The pure exhaust fumes are obtained by burning the coal not in regular air, but in an environment of pure oxygen. Both the use of the pure oxygen and the effort needed to capture and store the emissions reduces the effectiveness of this type of energy generation, while doing nothing to remove the long term threat of the Carbon Dioxide escaping into the atmosphere at a later date.

Just As Long As I’m Alright

It is important to realize that CCS does not stop Carbon emissions. It merely delays them to become a future problem. It is just this kind of “I’m alright Jack” attitude that has led to the environmental problems we have right now. If we are to genuinely clean up the future, we need to produce clean energy, not just dirty energy with a whitewash over the top of it.

Perhaps we should refer to clean coal as “swept under the carpet” coal.

Read more about Clean Coal and other current issues about energy production at the Fossil Fuels section of Roger Vanderlely’s website. There is plenty more at the site, including tips on finding cheap solar panels to make your home more environmentally friendly.