Arctic 'warmest in 2,000 years'

" Arctic temperatures are now higher than at any time in the last 2,000 years, research reveals. Changes to the Earth's orbit drove centuries of cooling, but temperatures rose fast in the last 100 years as human...

2009 will be one of the warmest years on record

British climate scientists have predicted that 2009 will be one of the top five warmest on record, as the average temperature is expected to be more than 0.4 degrees celsius above the average. This is despite the...

The Best "New" Energy: Stop Heating the Outdoors

Alternative energy sources are clearly needed and wanted, but some of the biggest and cheapest gains to be made in the field of energy come not from wind, solar, or exotic biomass sources, but rather from...

Dubai Plans to Cool Sizzling Sandy Beach

The Palazzo Versace hotel in Dubai has hired the Hyder Consulting firm to invent a device that will cool off the hot sandy beaches so that the tourists can lie on them more comfortably. They plan to suck out...

2008: the Coldest Year or the Warmest Year?

Reports today suggest that 2008 could be the tenth coldest year since 1997, but still the warmest year in the last 150 years. Information out of Oslo suggest that this is the 10th warmest since records began in...

Fireproof: Never leave your Partner Behind

The Movie is based on the Premise that a Fireman/Policeman has a special relationship with his/her partner while assigned together.  Metaphorically speaking of marriage.  In marriage, many times the...

The end of steroids? New device enhances performance in the palm of your hand

New technology out of Stanford gets you to put gloves on instead of taking them off when things heat up.  Two biologists, Dennis Grahn and Craig Heller have designed a device called “the glove” that cools...

Report: N. Korea preparing to restart reactor

"Report: N. Korea preparing to restart reactor" (CNN) -- North Korea is preparing to restart a reactor at the key Yongbyon nuclear complex, the South Korean news agency reported Thursday. ...

California Court to Rule on Dex-Cool Settlement

" Millions of consumers could collect repair costs from General Motors for engine damage caused by the coolant Dex-Cool following a hearing in California scheduled for late August. Two class-action lawsuits are pending in California state court involving GM customers who...

N. Korea destroys nuclear tower

" YONGBYON, North Korea - North Korea destroyed the most visible symbol of its nuclear weapons program Friday, blasting apart the cooling tower at its main atomic reactor in a sign of its commitment to stop...

Nuclear plant shut down after leak

" SLOVENIA today began shutting down its only nuclear power plant in Krsko following a leak in the cooling system that authorities said does not represent a danger for people nor the environment.In Brussels, the...

Global Cooling

[OPINION]Oh the weather outside is frightful... Frightfully cold that is. Maybe I'm being a little premature in saying that global warming, at least as the environmental alarmists make it out to seem, because...

Pioneering 'cold cap' saves baby from brain damage

"Doctors have saved a newborn baby from developing a disability by using a pioneering cooling technique to chill her brain for three days. Staff at St Michael's hospital in Bristol fitted baby Olivia Templar's head with a cooling cap after she was starved of oxygen for ten...

Doomsday vault begins deep freeze

"Engineers have begun the two-month process of cooling down a "doomsday vault", which will house seeds from all known varieties of key food crops. The temperature inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault will drop to -18C (0F) in order to preserve the seeds. Built deep inside a...

AIM Report: Flip-Flop: From Global Cooling to Warming - September A

China's latest growth industry. Their project to destroy HFC 23, the ozone depleting waste product in refrigerant gas has spawned a money-spinning carbon credit industry and has resulted in an increase in the gas....

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