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  The Financial Times has a compelling opinion piece on the subject: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8aefbf52-d9e1-11de-b2d5-00144feabdc0.html Some excerpts: "If the University of East Anglia had been sharing more of its data and the computer models and statistical simulations running that data, the email hack would have been much ado about nothing. When doing important research about the potential future of the planet, scientists should have nothing to hide. Their obligation to the truth is an obligation to openness."On SuperFreak Dubner embraces ClimateGate conspiracy theories posted 11 hours, 17 minutes ago 25 Responses

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  Dbaker, One link would have been enough don't ya think? This may be just one, insignificant, lab with a lot of aggression, not a mainstream research facility. Also, the files may or may not be falsified or tampered with. It is way too early to draw any conclusions from the file, which is quite a bit more than the deceptive statement above, "a hand full of emails". In fact the full file unzips to 173 MB of text files, pdf , Word docs, Fortran computer code word-processing documents, PDF files, formatted data files and misc text files. See here: http://di2.nu/foia/ The computer science side of me is quite concerned about the programers extensive "read_me" file and samples on the modeling code and the data normalization. I can only hope that the software and data in the shape documented was not the basis for any projections used by other researchers. This incident makes a good case for opening up all of the data and source code for the climate models for public inspection. I feel that the secrecy has done great harm to the credibility perception. This gives a whole group of people prima-facia evidence that climate change projections are less than good science. Not good at all.On SuperFreak Dubner embraces ClimateGate conspiracy theories posted 5 days, 17 hours ago 25 Responses

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  Just recently began substituting canned (well, really "foil-enveloped") salmon in my favorite tuna salad recipe. With a teaspoon of lemon juice added even the most discerning palates have not been able to taste the difference. The two things that frighten me about tuna are: 1). The few test results I have seen show a very wide range of mercury levels between individual cans of tuna. 2). In spite of the dangers of mercury in tuna, the government does not do periodic testing of tuna. That just seems odd. Wouldn't they want to isolate the highest-mercury tuna BEFORE it gets into the food supply?On To change your tuna, consider the sardine posted 2 months, 1 week ago 7 Responses

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  Germany and Spain allow nice allowances for those that produce the power at home. For example, the price paid for residences in grid-tie solar systems is $.60 per KWH in Germany ("Solar is only economic for installation on rooftops because of the feed-in tariffs for solar electricity of 60 cents per kWh".  http://www.edn.com/article/CA6432171.html )

  Note that Germany is doing this even though solar is much less efficient there.  Germany is located at ~ 51' N latitude . For reference, Great Falls, MT is at ~ 47' N Latitude.

  If the US tariffed-in rates were set at even $.38 per KWH, solar would be a no-brainer investment for majority of homes in the US and coal and natural gas generation would die a natural death with no power infrastructure upgrade needed.

  As a side note, the price of natural gas sets the world price for Ammonium nitrate - a product which uses natural gas as a major catalyst  to produce. Therefore the price of Natural Gas has a great impact on the cost of food for most of the world. ( http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/icm/2003/4-14-2003/natgasn.html ).

  That is to say:  the  electricity we use that is generated by natural gas, increases the price we pay for food-stuffs here and in the rest of the world.

   

   

   

  On Home power plants project unveiled in Germany posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago 3 Responses

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  Me too. Outta' here.

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