Link: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article7128402.ece

Google is set to move into the living room with a computer operating system that will bring the internet to home televisions. The company is working with the chipmaker Intel and Sony, the electronics giant, to introduce Google TV this week at a conference for 3,000 Google software developers in San Francisco. The aim is to get them to create new and innovative applications in the same way that outside developers have created new software programs for smartphones.The system will be based on its Android platform, which was developed 18 months ago for mobile phones. There are already more than 50,000 applications available for Android.

Link: http://congress.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/05/13/democrats-pull-science-investment-bill-rare-win-for-republicans/

House Republicans scored a rare legislative win Thursday. They forced Democrats to yank a science research and development bill off the floor. That's right, keep things just as they are with the American people enslaved by the oil companys with no other options, no other energy alternatives.

Link: http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1370.htm

To the greatest significance of all of these things, and with yet again the mysterious date of December 21, 2012 being linked with strange occurrences, it can be said that as our World is now being warned by scientists that we’re on the brink of a biological disaster due to the catastrophic loss of bees, and as the United Nations has just warned that our Earth’s natural support systems are on the verge of collapsing, and as vital plankton populations are reported disappearing from our oceans, the sighting of a gray whale off the coast of Israel this week that has stunned scientists because none have appeared there for hundreds of years, may be showing us all that the time to move is now.

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7713393/Out-of-control-satellite-threatens-television-reception-across-US.html

A TV communications satellite is drifting out of control thousands of miles above the Earth, threatening to wander into another satellite's orbit and interfere with cable programming across the United States.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/04/2010416131130451197.html

An ex-CIA head agreed with a decision to destroy hundreds of tapes purportedly showing US agents harshly interrogating two al-Qaeda suspects.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2010/04/201041020422607584.html

Space may be the final frontier, but the question of how to best get there has divided America's politicians and scientists as they debate controversial plans to abandon the country’s manned space-flight programme. The White House has said it wants to cancel a Nasa programme tasked with creating the next generation of manned spacecraft, including a proposed replacement for the soon to be retired Space Shuttle.

Link: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/821475-professor-calls-for-ufo-studies-to-be-a-university-subject

Anthropology professor Philip Haseley from The Niagra County Community College in the state of New York wants students to be able to study what one could describe as a non-traditional subject.

Link: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/819822-brainstorming-makes-you-less-creative-researchers-say

Far from generating a raft of brilliant new ideas, thrashing out random thoughts in the boardroom on a Monday morning is counter-productive.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/03/201033012213217329.html

A team of scientists in Switzerland have made a "major breakthrough" in understanding how the universe was created billions of years ago.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/9010183

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Who doesn't want to be a millionaire? Maybe a 43-year-old unemployed bachelor who lives with his elderly mother in Russia — and who won $1 million for solving a problem that has stumped mathematicians for a century.

Link: http://timesonline.typepad.com/science/2010/03/lhc-sets-record-for-highest-energy-beam.html

The Large Hadron Collider has achieved a record for the highest energy yet achieved in a particle accelerator after successfully circulating two 3.5 TeV proton beams at just after 5.20am this morning.

Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/biology_evolution/article7048800.ece

The discovery of a 240-million-year-old dinosaur in southern Tanzania has led scientists to rethink their evolution. An almost complete skeleton of the species, Asilisaurus kongwe or “ancient lizard ancestor” was reconstructed using the remains of at least 14 other dinosaurs.

Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article7034945.ece

BRITISH scientists have drawn up plans to build the world’s first nuclear fusion power station. They say it could be pouring electricity into the National Grid within 20 years. Nuclear fusion, the power that lies at the heart of the sun, offers the prospect of clean, safe, carbon-free power with a minimum of radioactive waste. But despite decades of research the technical problems have seemed insurmountable.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/feb/21/hobbit-rewriting-history-human-race

The discovery of the bones of tiny primitive people on an Indonesian island six years ago stunned scientists. Now, further research suggests that the little apemen, not Homo erectus, were the first to leave Africa and colonise other parts of the world, reports Robin McKie. It remains one of the greatest human fossil discoveries of all time. The bones of a race of tiny primitive people, who used stone tools to hunt pony-sized elephants and battle huge Komodo dragons, were discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2004.

Link: http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/nissan-leaf-electric-car-comes-to-new-york/

The Nissan Leaf was shown to the press on Thursday. It will be on display at the Time Warner Center on Friday. Nissan had originally planned to bring its Leaf electric car concept to 22 American cities, but requests from Atlanta and Boston made it 24. Nissan will sell or lease the Leaf only with batteries included, no separate battery deals. The next step, in April, will be to ask those interested consumers to put down a refundable $100 deposit to reserve a place in line for the Leaf, which has 100-mile range and a top speed of 90 miles per hour.

Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7017922.ece

THE scientist at the centre of the “climategate” email scandal has revealed that he was so traumatised by the global backlash against him that he contemplated suicide.

Link: http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-2912-Seattle-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2010m1d27-Giant-UFOs-around-the-Sun-NASA-claims-malfunction-physicist-says-giant-ET-UFOs-use-Suns-star-gate

FIG. A- NASA: Stereo solar image, Jan. 23, 2010NASA’s Stereo spacecraft monitoring the Sun began registering huge spherical UFO’s in the vicinity of the Sun around January 18, 2010. According to one observer, the UFOs “appear to be moving as they are in different positions on many [of the NASA Stereo] photos, and are huge possibly at least the size of Earth. If the UFOs were planets or some type of huge asteroid comets, they would already have been pulled into the Sun by the strong gravity the Sun produces as in the case of the recent comet."

Link: http://www.newser.com/story/77384/scientists-dolphins-are-non-human-persons.html

Dolphins are not only the world's smartest animal after humans, they're so intelligent they deserve to be classed as "non-human persons." So say scientists who argue their research on dolphins' brains shows it is unethical to keep such the animals captive in amusement parks or to kill them for food or accidentally through fishing, the London Times reports.

Link: http://eclipptv.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=9156&title=Global_Warming_Emerging_Science_and_Understanding_Part_6___Dr__Coffman

Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 5
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 4
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 3
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 2
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 1

Eighty percent of the American population now believe that man is responsible for global warming. Emerging science, however, is providing important new understanding of this issue. Yet, this information is not getting out to people, especially to our school children. It has not been proven that man is responsible for global warming or cooling. Rock Creek Free Press: Climategate: Science Scandal of the Century -The World’s Most Influential Climate Scientists Get Caught “Fudging” the Data. AWIP: Copenhagen climate change conference: 'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation'

Link: http://www.11alive.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=139198&catid=3

Six Republican congressmen from Georgia have signed onto an Atlanta-based organization's legal challenge of a federal announcement that could lead to government regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. The Southeastern Legal Foundation filed a petition last week calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its Dec. 7 "endangerment finding" declaring carbon dioxide and other gases linked to global warming a threat to public health and the environment. The petition argues that news of a conspiracy within the scientific community to hide evidence that calls into question manmade impacts on global warming has emerged since the closing of public comment on the EPA filing. CFP: Time to Revisit Falsified Science of CO2. Science Daily: No Rise of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Fraction in Past 160 Years, New Research Finds.

Link: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/30/land-surface-temp/

Earlier I wrote about the Arctic Oscillation Index going strongly negative in December and what new cold to expect in January. From NASA’s Earth observatory, we have a high resolution temperature anomaly map that provides visualization of the effects. This image was taken while the Copenhagen Climate Conference was in progress.

Link: http://eclipptv.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=9155&title=Global_Warming_Emerging_Science_and_Understanding_Part_5___Dr__Coffman

Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 6
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 4
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 3
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 2
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 1

Eighty percent of the American population now believe that man is responsible for global warming. Emerging science, however, is providing important new understanding of this issue. Yet, this information is not getting out to people, especially to our school children. It has not been proven that man is responsible for global warming or cooling. Rock Creek Free Press: Climategate: Science Scandal of the Century -The World’s Most Influential Climate Scientists Get Caught “Fudging” the Data. AWIP: Copenhagen climate change conference: 'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation'

Link: http://eclipptv.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=9154&title=Global_Warming_Emerging_Science_and_Understanding_Part_4___Dr__Coffman

Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 6
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 5
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 3
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 2
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 1

Eighty percent of the American population now believe that man is responsible for global warming. Emerging science, however, is providing important new understanding of this issue. Yet, this information is not getting out to people, especially to our school children. It has not been proven that man is responsible for global warming or cooling. Rock Creek Free Press: Climategate: Science Scandal of the Century -The World’s Most Influential Climate Scientists Get Caught “Fudging” the Data. AWIP: Copenhagen climate change conference: 'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation'

Link: http://eclipptv.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=9153&title=Global_Warming_Emerging_Science_and_Understanding_Part_3___Dr__Coffman

Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 6
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 5
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 4
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 2
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 1

Eighty percent of the American population now believe that man is responsible for global warming. Emerging science, however, is providing important new understanding of this issue. Yet, this information is not getting out to people, especially to our school children. It has not been proven that man is responsible for global warming or cooling. Rock Creek Free Press: Climategate: Science Scandal of the Century -The World’s Most Influential Climate Scientists Get Caught “Fudging” the Data. AWIP: Copenhagen climate change conference: 'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation'

Link: http://eclipptv.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=9152&title=Global_Warming_Emerging_Science_and_Understanding_Part_2___Dr__Coffman

Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 6
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 5
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 4
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 3
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 1

Eighty percent of the American population now believe that man is responsible for global warming. Emerging science, however, is providing important new understanding of this issue. Yet, this information is not getting out to people, especially to our school children. It has not been proven that man is responsible for global warming or cooling. Rock Creek Free Press: Climategate: Science Scandal of the Century -The World’s Most Influential Climate Scientists Get Caught “Fudging” the Data. AWIP: Copenhagen climate change conference: 'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation'

Link: http://eclipptv.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=9151&title=Global_Warming_Emerging_Science_and_Understanding_Part_1___Dr__Coffman

Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 6
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 5
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 4
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 3
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 2

Eighty percent of the American population now believe that man is responsible for global warming. Emerging science, however, is providing important new understanding of this issue. Yet, this information is not getting out to people, especially to our school children. It has not been proven that man is responsible for global warming or cooling. Rock Creek Free Press: Climategate: Science Scandal of the Century -The World’s Most Influential Climate Scientists Get Caught “Fudging” the Data. AWIP: Copenhagen climate change conference: 'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation'

Link: http://rt.com/Top_News/2009-12-18/data-cherry-picked-climatologists.html?fullstory

As skeptics at the Copenhagen summit are demanding proof that climate change is man-made, a Russian think-tank has accused British researchers of manipulating Russian weather data which does not fit into alarmist theory.

Link: http://www.physorg.com/news180632039.html

"Africa, which is the homeland of all modern humans, contains more than 2,000 ethnolinguistic groups and harbors great genetic and phenotypic diversity; however, little is known about fine-scale population structure at a genome-wide level," said Tishkoff, professor in the departments of genetics and biology at Penn. "We were able to distinguish among closely related West African populations and showed that genetically inferred ancestry correlates strongly with geography and language, reflecting historic migration events in Africa.

Link: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/21/see-sunspots-run/#more-14418

The sun is showing signs of life. There are no fewer than five active regions on the sun’s surface, shown here in an extreme ultraviolet photo taken this morning by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). Each circle contains a sunspot or proto-sunspot belonging to new Solar Cycle 24. After two years of record-low sunspot numbers and many month-long stretches of utter quiet, this is a notable outbreak. Whether it heralds a genuine trend or merely marks a temporary, statistical uptick in activity remains to be seen.

Wikipedia: Sunspots are temporary phenomena on the surface of the Sun (the photosphere) that appear visibly as dark spots compared to surrounding regions. They are caused by intense magnetic activity, which inhibits convection, forming areas of reduced surface temperature. Although they are at temperatures of roughly 3,000–4,500 K, the contrast with the surrounding material at about 5,780 K leaves them clearly visible as dark spots, as the intensity of a heated black body (closely approximated by the photosphere) is a function of T (temperature) to the fourth power. If a sunspot were isolated from the surrounding photosphere it would be brighter than an electric arc. Sunspots expand and contract as they move across the surface of the sun and can be as large as 80,000 km (50,000 miles) in diameter, making the larger ones visible from Earth without the aid of a telescope. The manifestation of intense magnetic activity, sunspots host secondary phenomena such as coronal loops and reconnection events. Most solar flares and coronal mass ejections originate in magnetically active regions around visible sunspot groupings. Similar phenomena indirectly observed on stars are commonly called starspots and both light and dark spots have been measured.

Link: http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2009/12/cop15-day-12

Obama’s short speech to the conference plenary was probably the most insulting and patronising speech delivered by a US President in a long time. Unsurprisingly green groups are outraged, but it begs the question – why? The Kyoto Protocol was a monumental failure and didn’t deliver any significant emissions reductions but still rallied activist and political campaigns to dupe the public into thinking its ratification would mean something. Why don’t they just go on that roundabout again? To their credit leaders have managed to whittle down the pre-conference one hundred and eighty-odd pages of negotiating text down to just three, but it has come at the expense of meaning anything.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/dec/17/women-yorkshire-archeaology-find

Bones of Medieval women found in a village abandoned in 1400s during the Black Death prove the legends of large, well muscled women from there to be true.

Link: http://theresilientearth.com/?q=content/stat-model-predicts-flat-temperatures-through-2050

Stat Model Predicts Flat Temperatures Through 2050: While climate skeptics have gleefully pointed to the past decade's lack of temperature rise as proof that global warming is not happening as predicted, climate change activists have claimed that this is just “cherry picking” the data. They point to their complex and error prone general circulation models that, after significant re-factoring, are now predicting a stretch of stable temperatures followed by a resurgent global warming onslaught. In a recent paper, a new type of model, based on a test for structural breaks in surface temperature time series, is used to investigate two common claims about global warming. This statistical model predicts no temperature rise until 2050 but the more interesting prediction is what happens between 2050 and 2100. CFACT: Scientific experts gather in Berlin to challenge UN scientific assumptions.

Link: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/12/17/cancer.research.breakthrough.genetic/

The entire genetic codes of two common types of cancer have been cracked, according to scientists, who say the breakthrough could unlock a new era in the treatment of deadly diseases. Scientists at the UK-based Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute catalogued the genetic maps of skin and lung cancer and have pinpointed the specific mutations within DNA that can lead to dangerous tumors.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/science/space/18dark.html?_r=1&ref=science

A ghostly sea of subatomic particles has been detected by an international team of physicists. Known as "dark matter", it's believed to account for 25 % of the universe and determines the architecture of the visible universe. The particles showed as two tiny pulses of heat deposited over the course of two years in chunks of germanium and silicon that had been cooled to a temperature near absolute zero. But, the scientists said, there was more than a 20 percent chance that the pulses were caused by fluctuations in the background radioactivity of their cavern, so the results were tantalizing, but not definitive. Gordon Kane, a physicist from the University of Michigan, called the results “inconclusive, sadly,” adding, “It seems likely it is dark matter detection, but no proof.” Dr. Kane said results from bigger and thus more sensitive experiments would be available in a couple of months. The stakes for astronomy and physics could hardly be greater. If the particles are confirmed by tests at other detectors, it would mean that, after more than half a century of speculation, astronomers are zeroing in on the identity of the invisible material that accounts for 25 percent of the universe and determines the architecture of the visible universe.

Link: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/146517/Climate-change-lies-by-Britain

'Warming of the past 30 years is likely to be an illusion'. UK climatologists “probably tampered with Russian-climate data” to produce a report submitted to world leaders at this week’s Copenhagen summit, it is claimed. The Met Office’s study, which says the first decade of this century has been the warmest on record for 160 years, is being used to trumpet claims that man is causing global warming. But experts at the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis say the British dossier used statistics from weather stations that fit its theory of global warming, while ignoring those that do not. AWIP: Copenhagen climate change conference. Daily Telegraph: Climategate goes SERIAL: now the Russians confirm that UK climate scientists manipulated data to exaggerate global warming.

Link: http://climateaudit.org/2009/12/16/climategatekeeping/

In the MIT Climategate Forum, Ronald Prinn trotted out what has become one of the standard “move along” memes in the climate science community: that while the “tone” of the Climategate emails was “unprofessional”, they did not succeed in their “endeavour” to prevent publication of articles in journals or mentions in IPCC. As so often in climate science, Prinn is talking without apparently doing any due diligence. The Climategate Letters provide many examples of CRU and their associates successfully preventing publication of articles in journals.

Link: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/16/china-declares-copenhagen-climate-conference-hopeless/

China has told participants in the UN climate change talks that it sees no possibility of reaching an operational accord this week, an official involved in the Copenhagen talks says. The official, who asked not to be identified by name, told Reuters that the Chinese had suggested instead issuing “a short political declaration of some sort”. Quadrant: COP15: Day 10.

Link: http://www.prisonplanet.com/un-chief-we-will-impose-global-governance.html

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has again publicly admitted that the agenda behind the Copenhagen summit and the climate change fraud is the imposition of a global government and the end of national sovereignty. Speaking about the agenda to impose targets on CO2 emissions, as well as a global tax on financial transactions and a direct tax on GDP, Ban Ki-moon told the Los Angeles Times in an interview, “We will establish a global governance structure to monitor and manage the implementation of this.”

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNQy2rT_dvU

This film by the documentary-maker Martin Durkin presents the arguments of scientists and commentators who don't believe that CO2 produced by human activity is the main cause of climate change. It's all to scare the shit out of us folks! The Illuminati set this up to make us, the people of the world, the problem. Don't believe it! Resist the New World Order!!!! AWIP: Copenhagen climate change conference. Daily Telegraph: Climategate goes SERIAL: now the Russians confirm that UK climate scientists manipulated data to exaggerate global warming.

Link: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/14/doe-sends-a-litigation-hold-notice-regarding-cru-to-employees-asking-to-preserve-documents/

It appears bigger things are brewing related to CRU’s Climategate. WUWT: Gore gets caught in a factual fabrication at Copenhagen. Climate Depot: Brochure reveals Gore accurately cited scientist's prediction of ice-free Arctic -- It is the Scientist who has the explaining to do -- not Gore.