Who'd have thought it - the newest form of low cost battery is to powered by, well, urine. It seems that scientists in Singapore have worked out a way to generate energy from human pee! Makes you wonder what these scientist boffins get up to in the privacy of their Labs! Hat-tip to Abe at Don't Let me Stop You!
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August 31, 2005
KATRINA AND THE WAVES
Like most people, I am shocked and feel so sorry for all those people unfortunate enough to live in the path of Hurricane Katrina as it cut a fearsome swathe through the Southern parts of the USA. Once again we witness the majestiy but awesome rage of nature. However I was then sickened to read that this tragedy provided Sir David King, the British Government's chief scientific adviser and pet propagandist, with the opportunity to warn that global warming may be responsible for the devastation reaped by Hurricane Katrina.
"The increased intensity of hurricanes is associated with global warming," Professor King told Channel 4 News yesterday. "We have known since 1987 the intensity of hurricanes is related to surface sea temperature and we know that, over the last 15 to 20 years, surface sea temperatures in these regions have increased by half a degree centigrade. So it is easy to conclude that the increased intensity of hurricanes is associated with global warming."
Yeah- easy to conclude if you have abandoned any pretence of scientific objectivity, Sir David.
I'm with William Gray, a Colorado State University meteorologist who is considered one of the fathers of modern tropical cyclone science, who has said worldwide weather records were too inadequate for a thorough examination of trends. He told The Los Angeles Times:
"The people who have a bias in favour of the argument that humans are making the globe warmer will push any data that suggests humans are making hurricanes worse, but it just isn't so ... These are natural cycles."
Yes, but it's harder to get lucrative Governmenr research grants if you actually suggest that..ahem.....Nature may be to blame for nature.
TIGHTENING THE NOOSE
The Zimbabwean thuggocracy run by Marxist Robert Mugabe just gets worse and worse! Comes the news today that his Government has passed changes to the Constitution allowing his administration to take whatever farmland they want by removing the legal right of farmers to challenge such a move. In essence, he is institutionalising theft. In addition, Mugabe has also ensured that anyone who is deemed a threat to the State will have their passports confiscated. In essence he is removing the possibility of criticising his regime. Finally, all private schools are being abolished and brought under State control.
We are witnessing the systematic creation of a totalitarian hellhole in Zimbabwe and yet, where is the outcry from that mighty "Rainbow Nation" South Africa - Mugabe's neighbour? There is NO outcry, instead, as reported previously here on ATW, there is instead a subtle admiration for the zest with which Mugabe dismantles democracy. And people wonder why Africa is dysfunctional.....!!
BEYOND OUR KEN....
The BBC's candidate for the leadership of the Conservative Party, Ken Clarke, has once again announced he intends to stand to be elected Leader of the Conservative Party. I listened to the BBC's fawning coverage of this on their "Today" programme on Radio 4 this morning and was greatly amused by the wittering of another BBC much loved Tory, Ann Widdecombe, who suggested that Ken is the man that the Conservative Party needs at the helm.
A lot has been said about his age - he is 65 now and would thus be approaching 70 at the time of the next election. So what? It's not his AGE that disturbs me, it's the fact that he is a committed Europhile who is merely finessing his views on the European Union for current political advantage, it's the fact that he has sat alongside TONY BLAIR urging him on to sell out UK sovereignty. It's the fact that he is committed to the UN, opposed the liberation of Iraq, has said damn all to indicate that he has any strong views on fighting terrorism that makes him, all in all, useless. But hey, he likes Jazz, he's an amiable kinda guy, and that's why he's the BBC's candidate for leadership. He will lose however, for the third time in a row. The Conservative grass roots have him sussed even if those liberals in the media just luuvveee Ken.
PATRIOTISM AND THE LIBERAL MEDIA
Here's a question, answer it honestly. Do YOU know who Forest Jostes was?
No? I didn't either. Cpl Forest Jostes was a 22 year old US soldier who died on 4 April 2004 in Iraq. Still no bells ringing? OK - He died beside Casey Sheehan. They both served in the 1st Battalion 82nd Field Artillery Regiment. Here is what Forest's parents said about the tragic loss of their son alongside Cindy Sheehan's son in Iraq.
"We both lost sons in the same battle, but the similarities pretty much end there. Cindy Sheehan has a right to protest, wave signs, march or whatever, a right she wouldn't have had it not been for men like our sons. My son gave his life for the freedom we enjoy in this country; I hope that the Iraqi people have that someday. We feel sympathy for Mrs. Sheehan, but we're angry because she presumes to speak for so many. I resent the fact that she says she 'speaks for the millions' and is the face of the Gold Star families. That is not so."
With views like that, you can understand WHY you haven't heard of Forest Jostes. Rancid liberal media bias. Read more in this great article by Mark Alexander over on Townhall.com
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