English: author: Hugo Ahlenius, UNEP/GRID-Arendal source: Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, Arctic Climate Impact Assessment URL: http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/pathways_of_contaminants_to_the_arctic (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Near Tullaghan Looking north towards the Atlantic Ocean (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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After the flood: Will things ever be the same in Alberta? Jul. 2, 2013 3:35 PM The Bow, the Elbow, the Highwood, the Sheep, and the South Saskatchewan rivers will soon return to their normal banks. But life may never be quite the same again for some Alberta communities that got in the way of nature's anger.
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New research could explain why the Arctic was much warmer during a period millions of years ago that scientists say most closely resembles Earth's climate todayAnalyses of fossils, pollen and chemicals contained in core
Now, researchers in the United States and United Kingdom say the difference between the Arctic of the Pliocene and that of the present may boil down to shifts in the topography of the ocean floor -- in particular, of a group of underwater ridges and channels that extend from
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The article states:
"That's because scientists who work with the models test them by seeing how well they can replicate the climate of the past, a process called "hindcasting." If a model can accurately reproduce past conditions, the thinking goes, researchers can be more confident about the model's ability to project the future climate."
For serious modelers, the process is referred to as formal model verification. Any model that cannot predict actual conditions from actual conditions should be discarded as faulty. It is not an optional exercise enabling those who pretend to model to feel better about themselves and models.
Breaking the Seal on Drug Research
Dr. Doshi’s renown comes not from solving the puzzles of cancer or discovering the next blockbuster drug, but from pushing the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies to open their records to outsiders in an effort to better understand the benefits and potential harms of the drugs that billions of people take every day. Together with a band of far-flung researchers and activists, he is trying to unearth data from clinical trials — complex studies that last for years and often involve thousands of patients across many countries — and make it public.
Utilities Switch Off Investment in Fossil Fuel Plants
Companies like RWE of Germany and EDF of France are confronting complex
challenges. Their revenue is being hit by dwindling demand for
electricity and by new wind and solar projects that undercut the price
of the energy produced from many fossil fuel plants. At the same time,
record-low prices on carbon emissions trading
markets, which were introduced to encourage clean and efficient energy
production and use, have perversely become a disincentive to investment.
“To make multibillion-euro investment decisions, the carbon price needs
to be high enough to make them worthwhile,” said Mark Lewis, the head of
European energy research at Deutsche Bank in Paris. “Where the carbon
price currently is, no one is going to build power plants.”
DoD Report Details Nightmare Leading to Gitmo Detainee’s Death
The stressors of indefinite detention, “forceful cell extractions”
(beatings), isolation, and other forms of abuse and torture are
practically never mentioned, while camp medical authorities are quick to
label the young traumatic brain injury victim someone who is
personality disordered and antisocial.
The report confirms that there was an attempt to switch Latif to monthly
injections of Invega, “administering the medication against ISN156′s
will,”
The report confirms statements reported in a Truthout article by
Jason Leopold last January that “long-standing standard operating
procedures” (SOPs) at Guantanamo were not being followed or enforced.But the report goes farther than that and states that differences between how SOPs are formulated between Guantanamo’s medical and detention/guard commands cause confusion among camp personnel. The report cites failure to adequately train personnel, failure to hold anyone accountable for not following standard procedures, and failure to do anything about this even when similar problems were specified in earlier reports as needing remediation.
The report describes a health care and guard-detention regime at the Cuban-based US military base that is unprofessional, sloppy, confused, and subservient to military command.
The failure was fatal to Adnan Latif, a traumatic brain injury victim falsely labelled a terrorist, and only years later cleared for a release that never came. Instead, it seems, his conditions of confinement and despair over ever being released led him to make numerous suicide attempts and suicidal statements, and carried him into the far reaches of psychosis.
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