In introducing their study of this important subject, Claeys et al. (2017)* write that “acute myocardial infarctions (AMIs) are the leading cause of mortality worldwide and are usually precipitated by coronary thrombosis, which is induced by a ruptured or eroded atherosclerotic plaque that leads to a sudden and critical reduction in blood flow,” citing the prior pertinent studies of Davies and Thomas (1985), Nichols et al.

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Liu, W., Zhong, W. and Wargocki, P. 2017. Performance, acute health symptoms and physiological responses during exposure to high air temperature and carbon dioxide concentration. Building and Environment 114: 96-105.

At its present concentration (~405 ppm), atmospheric CO2 poses no direct health threat to human or animal life. However, in a world where fake news seems to get more media exposure than the truth, unfounded rumor and false fears are spread that rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations are causing a host of human health-related maladies.

Two Fort Collins scientists want to change how the world views the connection between human activity and global warming.

However, Ned Nikolov and Karl Zeller say they’ve had a hard time getting the scientific world to hear them out, let alone take them seriously.

An exceptionally preserved dinosaur fossil has officially been identified as a new species of dinosaur. Researchers found that even with its armor-like exterior, it may have also used camouflage as a means of evading predators.

Ten years ago, our top government scientists predicted the Arctic would be ice free by 2012.

12 Dec 2007, Page 22 – Albuquerque Journal

“EU regulation madness” knows no limits

What follows is a story that really reminds us why Britain opted out of the EU: British citizen (except for some Scots) don’t want every single bloody detail of their private lives regulated by a nanny super-state. They have had it!

Pet dogs and cats are only making global warming worse, according to a University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) study.

Whenever someone asks me about outer space, I get animated.

No surprise there: I’ve made a living speaking to experts and writing about the topic for more than a decade, and have read obsessively on these topics for much longer than that.

I’ve heard a lot of peculiar “facts” over the years — and even believed and shared a few myself — that I eventually learned were totally false.

To date, astronomers haven’t seen asteroid families (that is, asteroids with a common source) in the Solar System older than about 3 billion years — well after the star system came to be 4.5 billion years ago. However, they’ll have to rethink their expectations.

Scientists have discovered for the first time that the corona of the sun is strongly linked to the 11-year solar magnetic activity cycle.

Some baby spiders can float for tens or even hundreds of miles, buoyed by strips of silk and carried aloft by the wind. But even for these resourceful youngsters, making a journey of more than 6,000 miles across choppy ocean sounds fairly improbable.

Humans are the only animal known to develop Alzheimer’s disease, and an official diagnosis requires checking off this list of three things: dementia, which is observed through screenings, and two pathologic markers—amyloid plaques (sticky bunches of misfolded proteins) and neurofibrillary tangles (tau proteins clumped together and twisted around).

A nearly Earth-size storm system was spotted near Neptune’s equator, surprising scientists because no bright clouds have ever been seen in that location.

People in India and throughout the world could potentially die within minutes from heat exposure if world leaders don’t confront global warming, according to a study published Wednesday.

Monday saw CNN’s airing of a political infomercial masquerading as a good faith information delivery endeavor, with Anderson Cooper and Al Gore joining forces to hype “climate change”; a euphemism for the narrative of anthropogenic global warming (AGW).

Below are the nearly hour-long political infomercial’s most noteworthy takeaways.

A new report found that former Vice President Al Gore’s estate near Nashville, Tennessee, used more than 21 times more energy than the average U.S. household over the past year.