Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Nobel Prize Winnings Slashed 20 Percent - US News and World Report

The sagging global economy has caused the Nobel Foundation to scale back cash prizes to $1.1 million

Israeli professor says global warming caused by sun, not man | San Diego Jewish World

”Dear Danny,” Professor Shaviv wrote to me, when I asked him about global warming, “I did not deny the possibility of global warming in that 2009 article you read online. I argue that

a) If at all, it is not man made, b) It is due to solar activity, c) The effect is much smaller than claimed, and d) It is periodic and warming and cooling happened in the past before the industrial revolution and when there were no humans around.”

When I asked Dr Shaviv what his opinion of climate activist Al Gore, he told me: “Al Gore is an idiot who does not know what he is talking about. He shows two graphs and hides the third one. Moreover, there is evidence that temperature rise preceded the CO2 rise (long before the industrial revolution) so that the cause and effect that Al Gore claims is completely wrong.”

Fire and Warming - Different Forecasts for Tropics and Temperate Zones - NYTimes.com

I got in touch with the lead author, Max Moritz of the University of California, Berkeley, and one co-author, Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University.

Cold weather, snow storms and shrinking budgets pour less beer in Romanians’ glasses in first quarter | Daily news in English from Romania - Romania-Insider.com

Romanians drank less beer in the first three months of this year, mainly because of the cold weather and heavy snow in January and February.

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