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‘Cyborg’ bacteria deliver green fuel source from sunlight

Written by Matt McGrath

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Image caption: Scientists have grown bacteria covered in tiny solar panels made from cadmium sulphide

Scientists have created bacteria covered in tiny semiconductors that generate a potential fuel source from sunlight, carbon dioxide and water. The so-called “cyborg” bugs produce acetic acid, a chemical that can then be turned into fuel and plastic.

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What is Carbon Pollution?

Written by Hans Schreuder

An increasingly shrill climate alarmist crusade has told us that ‘carbon pollution’ is a great danger to our planet. To ‘prove’ their point they show images of black smoke. The inference being that carbon dioxide (CO2) is dirty and foul. It isn’t. Every breath we exhale is carbon dioxide. It is neither black and dirty nor dangerous to life. Co2 is  pumped into greenhouses to promote healthy plant growth.  In fact, the more CO2 we emit, the greener the earth becomes.

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Where does quantum uncertainty come from?

Written by Ethan Siegel

“In the future, maybe quantum mechanics will teach us something equally chilling about exactly how we exist from moment to moment of what we like to think of as time.” –Richard K. Morgan

If you want to know where something is, you just measure it to greater and greater accuracy. Rulers can give way to calipers, microscopes, and even individual particles of light of ever-shorter wavelength.

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Journalism & Science Quality Falls to New Low

Written by Tony Heller

Last year, experts announced that the Arctic would be ice-free in 2017.

During the winter, they announced that the ice was melting at -30C, and had shrunk to a record low.

Cold air has set in over the Arctic, and there isn’t going to be much more melting this year. It looks like the area of ice in the Arctic will end up about the size of Texas, like it has been in all recent years.

Charctic Interactive Sea Ice Graph | Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis

Whatever climate scientists tell the press, it is safe to assume the exact opposite is happening.

Expert: Arctic polar cap may disappear this summer_English_Xinhua

North Pole May Be Ice-Free for First Time This Summer

Star-News – Google News Archive Search

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013’

Gore: Polar ice cap may disappear by summer 2014

The Argus-Press – Google News Archive Search

Read more at Real Climate Science

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2.7-million-year-old ice core pulled from Antarctica

Written by Bob Virka

A team of researchers from Princeton University, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the University of Maine and Oregon State University has drilled and retrieved a 2.7-million-year-old ice core from a spot in Antarctica. The team presented their findings at this year’s Goldschmidt Conference in Paris.

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AGU’s “Climate Change: Believe It Or Else” Prize

Written by Dr Duane Thresher

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has lots of prizes; they are very fond of congratulating themselves.

One of these is the Climate Communication Prize, which is in recognition for the “communication of climate science”, including “clarity of message and efforts to foster respect and understanding of science-based values”. This was initially funded by Nature’s Own, a company which wrenches fossils and minerals from the earth to sell to tourists.

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A lesson on basic physics for climate alarmists

Written by Hans Schreuder

Many climate ‘scientists’ and believers in the man-made global warming scare story argue that the trace gas, carbon dioxide (CO2) is our climate’s thermostatic control knob. They want us to accept that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are currently at ‘dangerous levels.’ How wrong they are!

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