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BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | What happened to global warming?
"This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.
But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.
And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.
So what on Earth is going on? "
Minister praises 'high standard' of science journalism - Press Gazette
The minister for science and innovation, Lord Drayson, has praised the high standard of science journalism at an industry conference.
Speaking at the World Conference of Science Journalists in London yesterday, Drayson defended the work of science and health correspondents in their coverage of issues such as swine flu.
He dismissed claims that science reporting only results in sensationalist and misleading headlines, and said journalists provided an important bridge between scientists and the public and helped people make informed choices about their lives.
Scared silly over climate change | Björn Lomborg | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
We are frightening children with exaggerations – they believe they don't have a future and that the world is going to end
Swine flu could infect 'one-third of world population' - Scotsman.com
SWINE flu is likely to spread around the world in the next few months and infect one-third of the global population, according to the first detailed analysis of the spread of the virus published by British scientists today.
The human brain is on the edge of chaos
Cambridge-based researchers provide new evidence that the human brain lives "on the edge of chaos", at a critical transition point between randomness and order. The study, published March 20 in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology, provides experimental data on an idea previously fraught with theoretical speculation.
The 'Global Warming Three' are on thin ice - Telegraph
A London employment tribunal has ruled that Tim Nicholson, right, was wrongly dismissed as a property firm’s “head of sustainability” because of his fervent commitment to “climate change”. Mr Nicholson had fallen out with his colleagues over his attempts to reduce the company’s “carbon footprint”. The tribunal chairman David Neath found the company guilty of discriminating against Mr Nicholson under the 2006 Equality (Religion and Belief) Regulations, because his faith in global warming was a “philosophical belief”. Recalling how “eco-psychologists’’ at the University of the West of England are pressing for “climate denial” to be classified as a form of “mental disorder”, one doubts whether the same legal protection would be given to those who fail to share Mr Nicholson’s “philosophical belief”.
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2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved
Looking back over my columns of the past 12 months, one of their major themes was neatly encapsulated by two recent items from The Daily Telegraph.
Global warming: Reasons why it might not actually exist
2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved, according to the Telegraph's Christopher Booker. Sceptics have long argued that there are other explanations for climate change other than man-made CO2 and here we look at some of the arguments put
Brain-boosting drugs 'not to be feared' - health - 14 December 2008 - New Scientist
SOCIETY should embrace the use of drugs that boost brain power. That's the message from a group of neuroscientists, psychiatrists and ethicists.
A recent survey found that at some US universities, up to 25 per cent of students routinely buy Ritalin or Ad
Pre-industrial CO2 levels were about the same as today. How and why we are told otherwise?
The basis of most of the IPCC conclusions on anthropogenic causes and on projections of climatic change is the assumption of low level of CO2 in the pre-industrial atmosphere. This assumption, based on glaciological studies, is false.”
The Perfect Family Is a Myth
There's something "right" about a nuclear family, or so we think.
Family, we're taught by culture and religion, "should" be composed of a mother, father and at least two kids, preferably one of each sex.
The 10 big energy myths
There has never been a more important time to invest in green technologies, yet many of us believe these efforts are doomed to failure. What nonsense, writes Chris Goodall
The turn to online research is narrowing the range of modern scholarship
A recent study, suggests that the boom in online research may actually have a "narrowing" effect on scholarship. James Evans, a sociologist at the University of Chicago, analyzed a database of 34 million articles in the sciences, social sciences, and huma
Procrastinating Again? How to Kick the Habii
Although biology is partly to blame for foot-dragging, anyone can learn to quit.
Procrastination does not mean deliberately scheduling less critical tasks for later time slots. The term is more apt when a person fails to adhere to that logic and ends up p
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