Conspiracies, Rumors, Odd Stories and More

What Was That Spiral?

If you think you know the story of the spiral seen in Norway’s sky from December, 2009, think again. Soon after this mysterious spiral disappeared, President Obama cancelled most of the U.S. space program. The spiral was also seen on the very day that President Obama appeared in Norway to accept his Nobel Prize, and the spiral itself seemed to be stopped abruptly in its tracks by something . . . . . unknown. If you think that’s all very “normal”, it’s not. This might, believe it or not, be connected to 9/11 and the reason our space program has taken an abrupt turn into obsolescence.

Read the story of the spiral and what it might mean on the website of Richard C. Hoagland, Enterprise Institute, here. That is part II. Also check out part 1 and III which are on the same site. In a nutshell, the spiral was a sign to the Obama administration and other leaers in power that they don’t control things. Whoever or whatever this entity, according to Hoagland, is trying to tell us, it’s that they are in control of the planet, of weapons, of wars, of our space program, and maybe of the solar system.   What do they want?  No one knows.  It sounds like an extension of the “Illuminati” (something I consider a myth). What is clear is that it was not only a Russian missile test.

I know it sounds crazy, which is why you should listen to the two hours on the radio show Coast to Coast about this — where it sounds much less out there.

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01.03.2010 9/11, Astronomy, Climate Files, Future Trends, Media, climate change No Comments

Podcast — Question the EPA

I attended the EPA Townhall Meeting and asked a good question. Everyone should question the EPA. Mine was about that nasty Canadian tar sands oil and the pipeline that is spilling oil into the beautiful northern part of one of the Great Lakes states. The EPA doesn’t care very much about that, because they wouldn’t answer a simple question: how does a dirty oil pipeline fit in with the new green economy being promoted in the Great Lakes states? I like this EPA so much better than the last one, but it’s hard to believe it’s so easy to stump the EPA.

Also in this episode, what U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders said about climate change deniers, and what President Obama said about energy and climate in his speech to the business roundtable in Washington DC. Some headlines were covered too, including the exciting news about Bloom Energy, a new company making a revolutionary new type of stand-alone power station. It sounds almost too good to be true — fuel cells that run on oxygen and biomass? Yes, and it’s already being used by companies in Silicon Valley. Here is what I wrote about it on Futurism Now.

The Delta Institute website is here. The EPA video page where you can watch the entire Townhall meeting from February 23rd is here.

News covered:

You can download this episode here, or subscribe on Climate Files Radio.
Final song is by Galactic, “Heart of Steel feat. Irma Thomas” from the MPR song of the day podcast.

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25.02.2010 Climate Files, climate change No Comments

ISS Window Opens to World

I would love to be up there right now on the Colbert Treadmill looking up at the stars (or down at the earth) through the gorgeous new observation window.

ISS “Bay Window” Now Open On World.

Let There Be Light

Endeavour pilot Terry Virts opened the windows of the newly installed cupola one at a time early Wednesday, giving spacewalkers Robert Behnken and Nicholas Patrick an early look into the International Space Station’s room with a view that they had helped install.

The cupola’s fully opened windows look down on the Sahara Desert in this image that was ‘tweeted’ from space by JAXA astronaut and Expedition 22 flight engineer Soichi Noguchi.

Image Credit: NASA

This image is the first taken through a first of its kind “bay window,” a 7-pane cupola, on the International Space Station. Viewed is the Sahara Desert.

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21.02.2010 Future Trends, Space Travel, Technology, U.S. Government No Comments

Podcast: Wild Weather Wild Climate

The weather seems crazy everywhere, but what does that mean? 49 states in the U.S. got snow in the last week! It means climate change is happening right now and things are going to get much wilder. Find out how we know this and hear Todd Stern, U.S. climate envoy, talk about where the U.S. is going in dealing with climate change.

The Guardian on world-wide wild weather, article here.

Remember this? From NOAA at the end of January: December Global Ocean Temperature Second Warmest on Record. Scientists reported the combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the eighth warmest on record for December.

In this episode you can hear excerpts from the Daily Show, the Rachel Maddow show, and the Thom Hartmann show. The bottom line on our wild weather is that it is to be expected, due to a warmer ocean, and moisture and energy in the atmosphere.

But as a result of recent storms, the Utah legislature passed a resolution (HRJ012) which basically states the climate change in a conspiracy and efforts to stop it will bankrupt the nation! Obviously this is not true, but science seems to be having a strange effect on some U.S. lawmakers.

As Scientific American says, “No single weather event proves or disproves the fundamental science of climate change, but extreme weather is what scientists expect from global warming.”

American Progress link to the whole Todd Stern presentation here. He talks about U.S. climate policy and what happened at Copenhagen. The new government climate change website is at Climate.gov and the EPA website where you can weigh in with the new Open Government Directive.

Download this episode here or visit Climate Files Radio.com to subscribe.

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13.02.2010 Climate Files, Scientists, climate change, science No Comments

Climate Files Podcast #58 / Climate Change Science

This episode is a presentation of climate science and how we know global warming is happening. The 3 speakers are all scientists and climate experts. This was titled the Science of Climate change, and was presented last week by the Center for American Progress. You can see the entire video at the CFAP website here. You can download their slides there also. (Michael MacCracken’s slides were especially good.)

Basically, they discuss climate change science and risk management, as well as some of the finer points on how the IPCC publishes its data. There is a question and answer session at the end. They write on the CFAP site:

An overwhelming quantity of direct observations and analyses published by scientists in various disciplines around the world demonstrates that human activity has warmed the planet and altered the climate. The severity of the projected impacts of continuing on our current greenhouse gas emissions path has only increased in recent years.

The speakers are Christopher Field, of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and Professor of Biology and Environmental Earth System Science at Stanford University, and a coordinating lead author for the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment. The second is Michael MacCracken, Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs, Climate Institute, and co-author/contributing author for various chapters in the IPCC assessment reports. The event was moderated by Joe Romm, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress and prolific blogger at ClimateProgress.org.

Some of their initial points about how we know climate change is happening:

  • Average ground temperatures are going up
  • Ocean temperatures are going up
  • Sea ice cover is decreasing
  • Mountain glaciers and permafrost are melting
  • Sea level is rising
  • A lot of plant and animal species are moving
  • Arctic sea ice is retreating

You can download this episode here, or listen below or subscribe on the right.

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09.02.2010 Climate Files, climate change No Comments

The Edwards Sex Tape Exists

Andrew Young, John Edwards's Boy Toy

Apparently the Edwards Sex Tape not only exists (inducing very gross thoughts) but it’s being held in an undisclosed location.  Andrew Young, Edwards’s former Boy Toy, (former aid) is going to go retrieve the tape, it is reported today, and will be accompanied by “officials”.    (Andrew Young told at least one publication that he “fell in love” with John Edwards).

John Edwards had a cute little girl, a “love child,” with a videographer named Reille Hunter during his last ridiculous presidential campaign, as you will remember… leading to his wife Elizabeth to legally separate with him and banish him to an apartment called “the Barn”.

John Edwards is a sleazy man now and has always been a sleazy man, and anyone who voted for him should be considered warned:  be a lot more careful next time you cast a vote for man who seems sleazy, because he probably is!   What were you thinking?  (I know, at one time I thought he was acceptable as a presidential candidate too, but only because Dennis Kucinich had been eliminated from serious consideration by the time the primaries came to Minnesota….)  Keep this in mind, because it applies to women too, and Sarah Palin is going to run for president (as she told FOX Noise on Sunday).  Watch out for the sleazy Michele Bachmann too.

Elizabeth Edwards isn’t entirely together either. According to People magazine, she ordered Young to separate her children’s Legos by color and size.  And weirdest of all, he apparently did it. (That, folks, is even worse than being a secretary and fetching coffee for an arrogant old man.)

John Edwards’s political career is history.  But it’s frightening to think that if John Kerry had been elected in 2004, John Edwards would have been the Vice Presient.  Would he even have met Reille Hunter then?  Maybe not. Maybe some other cheap tart would have been his Dave Matthews Band co-lover Lover. Would you want to see the sex tape though, no matter what you think of Edwards and his sleazy affair?

News on the latest developments today.

APNewsBreak: Officer to retrieve Edwards sex tape

By Mike Baker, Associated Press Writer  |  February 8, 2010

RALEIGH, N.C. –A North Carolina judge wants a security officer to accompany a former John Edwards aide as he goes to retrieve a sex tape of the two-time presidential candidate, increasing the court’s control of the disputed video.

Superior Court Judge Abraham Penn Jones said in an order released Monday that the Orange County sheriff has appointed a security firm to help recover the video and other items. Former Edwards loyalist Andrew Young has said he has the original tape and copies stored in an Atlanta safety deposit box.

“Mr. Young shall take the Officer with him into the vault to obtain the lock box,” the order reads. “The Officer is to secure all items contained in the lock box in bags as is customary for evidence collection.”

Jones declared last week that Young was in contempt for not immediately turning over the tape when deputies initially went to retrieve it from him. Edwards’ mistress, Rielle Hunter, has sued Young for invasion of privacy and sought the return of what she deemed a “very private and personal” video. Young says he has a tape that shows Edwards in a sexual encounter with a woman he assumes to be Hunter.

One copy of the tape has been sent to the FBI, Young has said in an affidavit.

The officer is also to get a copy of the lock box access log, according to Jones’ order. The officer also will accompany Young and his wife to their Orange County residence to collect other items, and another security officer has been appointed to copy photos from a laptop and then scrub the photo files from the computer.

Young has written a tell-all book describing the affair between Edwards and Hunter and the lengths the presidential hopeful went to hide the matter. 

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08.02.2010 Media, Politicians No Comments

Haiti Earthquake HAARP Conspiracy

Can earthquakes be started by accident with military equipment from HAARP?  Here’s a comment I came across:

China and Russia put the blame on some screwed up experiments of US for the earthquake that happened in Haiti.   Chinese and Russian Military scientists, these reports say, are concurring with Canadian researcher, and former Asia-Pacific Bureau Chief of Forbes Magazine, Benjamin Fulford, who in a very disturbing video released from his Japanese offices to the American public, details how the United States attacked China by the firing of a 90 Million Volt Shockwave from the Americans High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) facilities in Alaska.

This does not sound very likely.  Not many conspiracy theories do.  In fact, it sounds completely impossible.  However, here is the article this person is referring to, (and probably wrote) and above is a short video on it.

Is HAARP Causing The Earthquakes, Volcanoes to Erupt and The Ice to Melt? Are these random, naturally occuring events or controlled events?

Earthquakes can be heralded by changes in the ionosphere the earths upper atmosphere on the edge of space. Just before the earthquake struck Sichuan province in China there were odd visual disturbances and they were caught on tape. One puzzle is that the colors in the Chinese clouds were upside down from a normal circumzenithal halo red pointing toward the horizon and blue to wards the Sun, instead of the other way round.

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08.02.2010 Conspiracies, Natural Disasters, U.S. Government, science No Comments

American Capitalism is Bankrupt

Obama’s budget reveals the bankruptcy of American capitalism

3 February 2010

There is one overriding message in the budget proposal released by the Obama administration last Monday: American capitalism is in decline and faces national bankruptcy.

The budget forecasts the doubling of the US national debt over the next few years, even on the assumption of a rapid recovery from the financial crisis and slump. It projects that high, long-term unemployment will become a permanent fixture of American life.

Assuming a growth rate above 4 percent, historically rare, the budget estimates that the jobless rate will still top 8 percent in 2012. Lower growth or a return to slump will mean double-digit unemployment rates as far as the eye can see.

Even the American media has been forced to take note of the historical significance of the deficit figures. A news analysis by David Sanger of the New York Times, under the headline “Huge Deficits May Alter US Politics and Global Power,” points to the long-term implications of the deficit numbers, which will persist long after such triggering events as the Bush tax cuts, two wars, the bank bailout and the recession which followed the 2008 financial crash:

“By President Obama’s own optimistic projections, American deficits will not return to what are widely considered sustainable levels over the next 10 years. In fact, in 2019 and 2020—years after Mr. Obama has left the political scene, even if he serves two terms—they start rising again sharply, to more than 5 percent of gross domestic product. His budget draws a picture of a nation that like many American homeowners simply cannot get above water.”

Sanger points to the global consequences of this protracted economic decline, which will erode US influence and its ability to conduct military operations, like the war in Afghanistan, without the approval of foreign creditors such as China.

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06.02.2010 Media, Politicians, True Confessions, economics No Comments

Climate Files 57 / Hacking the Climate

Mt. Pinatubo erupting in 1991

If climate change gets out of control and we need to resort to geoengineering the climate, who gets to decide what and how much? This and related questions were discussed at length at side events during COP15 in December. An interesting portion of one of these is played in this episode.

In his State of the Union Speech Obama last week, President Obama focused on Nukes, Offshore Drilling and Biofuels. A lot of people were bothered that he didn’t focus more on renewables. It seems that we can’t depend on the U.S. government to come to the rescue of the climate because they aren’t communicating the danger of climate change and they aren’t talking about how to stop it. In fact, they are mostly talking about jobs and the economy. So that leaves us with the same climate crisis we started with before the last election.

Ross Gelbspan is an author (his website here) and journalist who feels that it’s already too late to stop climate change. Based on his 15 years of research, he has released a recent video that tells us we need to act now and plan to adapt and survive. According to Gelbspan,

As the pace of global warming kicks into overdrive, the hollow optimism of climate activists, along with the desperate responses of some of the world’s most prominent climate scientists, are preventing us from focusing on the survival requirements of the human enterprise.

This brings up the idea of using geoengineering to help in a climate emergency. People involved in geoengineering research stress that it’s not a substitute for mitigating carbon emissions but that it’s tool of last resort. The question is, what kind of tool will it be, how can it be safely tested, and who should be making these decisions. They emphasize this is not a substitute for mitigation. Whether you think it’s good or bad, the research is expanding and growing right now.

CDR (carbon dioxide removal) and SRM (solar radiation management) are discussed in this episode according to recent articles in the journal Science. (Articles here and here). What are the risks of solar radiation management actions, which scientists feel would be potentially dangerous?

Bill Gates has been writing about climate change lately, and he’s putting his money where his keyboard is. He’s investing in stopping hurricanes with his new patent and is talking about what our climate change targets should be. (more info after the break)

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03.02.2010 Climate Files, Future Trends, Futurism Now Podcast, climate change No Comments

Hubble Photos — Primeval Galaxies

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The Hubble Telescope was going to be scrapped only a few years ago, but it was recently repaired again and is giving us stunning views into some of the earliest parts of the universe, back to only 600 million years after the Big Bang or the origin of the universe. (Whatever you want to call it, it doesn’t matter your belief in how it all started). I’ve loved astronomy my entire life and used to spend a lot of time studying it as a hobby, but lately I don’t seem to have any time for it. Yet now we have the most amazing photos that have ever been released to the public and they are telling us so much about our origins and life in the universe. At the same time, earth-like planets are being discovered nearly every week. It’s only a matter of time before life is discovered for sure out there and that will have profound implications for life here and everything that implies for our societies and cultures. I can imagine religions either adapting to the news of life elsewhere, or collapsing under the weight of their own arrogance. It will be their choice. I think there is something very life-affirming and spiritual about the thought of lots of life throughout the universe. Seeing the photos of the immense old galaxies just starting to form is beyond our comprehension. The length of time ago that these photos represent is too vast. Will we ever see the beginning point? Out there somewhere is a flash of light just waiting to be captured, where it all started.

The Hubble photos literally see light back in time, which makes these photos from a real time machine. Below are some more Hubble photos from last year, though not as recent as the galaxy photos.
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09.01.2010 Astronomy, Future Trends, Space Travel No Comments

Climate Files — Sound the Alarm

MOVING on with news and politics about global warming in the new year. Let’s forget COP15 even happened. Look ahead, what else can we do? Today Climate Files includes a recent short interview with climate scientist James Hansen largely about his book Storms of my Grandchildren.

Remember: sounding the alarm is not alarmism — it’s realism and a hope that people will listen and act on climate change. It’s our job to educate, because not everyone knows about climate change, and they may not “believe in it” for all the wrong reasons. An email exchange regarding a denier’s claims is something everyone can do (and I read mine). We have to keep educating the deniers and maybe one of these days they’ll give up the Dark Side.

News covered in this episode includes:

U.S. Car Fleet Shrinks For First Time in 50 Years, Report Says. It might be bad for business, but it’s good for the climate when people drive less and own less vehicles. Sorry, GM.

Climate Pledge Tracker Compares Nations’ CO2 Emissions Limits. You can see the new climate pledge tracker site here.

EPA is working with the Spruce No. 1 mine on their new permit, but there are a lot of problems and the mine may threaten water and over 2,000 acres of forest. Bad news, but it’s not likely to be approved. Read more here.

Storing CO2 in basalt is a new idea but not a very practical one, at least not now. Read the article here at Futurism Now. The study I mentioned is actually two studies. Here is an excerpt from FN news:

A July 2008 study by the same researchers found that 208 billion metric tons could be stored in the offshore basalt formations of the U.S. Northwest’s Juan de Fuca tectonic plate — that is as much as 150 years’ worth of U.S. emissions. . . . . In a study released Monday, ABI Research predicted that new CCS projects will keep 146 million tons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Their estimates are based on markets for carbon emissions allowances encouraging firms to seek out technologies like CCS to limit their emissions.

The problem with that claim is that the U.S. emits about 7.1 billion metric tons carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) of greenhouse gases per year, (my estimate of 5.7 billion metric tons in the podcast was low) and that means only about 34 years of U.S. emissions could be forced into basalt, if the procedure even works.

The CIA is sharing data with climate scientists. Australia is baking hot this summer! All of this and more is discussed in this episode. download this episode here
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06.01.2010 Climate Files, Future Trends, Futurism Now Podcast, science No Comments

From Business Week, some Enviro News

Uploaded by www.cellspin.net

China goes green and South Korea sells nukes to the UAE.

I posted this using Cellspin and my Blackberry. To people who know of my love of Macs, no I don’t have an iPhone. The reason I don’t have an iPhone is because they use AT&T. If they used T-Mobile I’d have one (maybe), but AT&T offers only spotty and bad service, which is its karmic due, because of its cooperation with the Bush administration in data mining and wiretapping American’s phone calls. So to hell with AT&T, they will never see business from me. They are fascists for wiretapping us all without a warrant, as far as I’m concerned.

Meanwhile, I love the Blackberry and I like Cellspin, but I wish it would automatically post the text of a blog post with the upload of an audio file. Looks like I have to do that in two separate steps. Unless anyone else knows how to do that . . .

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05.01.2010 Future Trends, Media, Technology No Comments

Avatar 3D Review

“. . . . at its core, Avatar’s philosophy is not new; it is ancient, profound, and liberating.” *

Most people who love movies and like pondering the future need to see Avatar, and see it in 3D.  This movie is James Cameron’s masterpiece. It puts his work in the masterpiece category of other artists.   It’s a stunning movie that costs a bit more than regular movies (in 3D at least), but it’s easily worth it.  I have never seen a more beautiful movie.  As for the plot and messages, these are themes I have thought about for years, so they were nothing new to me, but worth seeing how a master puts them all together for public consumption.  With a movie so amazing, and so beautiful, it’s easy to forget you are absorbing much the same messages of other movie makers, perhaps even of a certain controversial documentary film maker.

This movie needs to be seen in 3D, because in 3D it envelopes you.  You feel you are a part of the movie and right there on the planet, doing things along with the characters in the movie. It’s really astounding.  And the 3D glasses are not like the old cheap bendy ones, they are in plastic frames with some type of polarized lens that is not colored.  (They also fit over regular glasses, in case anyone is wondering.)

I wondered about some of the messaging in this movie.  It’s obviously against wars fought for resources.   At some point the disabled Marine that the movie centers around, Jake Scully, says something like (paraphrase):  “We find something we want, the natives won’t let us have it, so they become our enemy and then we have an excuse to go to war with them. That’s how it works”.  Obviously this is an allegory to Iraq and probably Afghanistan.   The other theme that was clear was the perception of native people being “savages” as seen by the military and the Corporate Man, and in fact the Na’Vi  were a far-advanced people who knew more about everything compared to the invaders.  This is obviously also an allegory to the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan.  But modern day wars can’t even take place unless the “enemy” is dehumanized, sub-humanized, or labeled something.  Anything war-like will do:  “insurgent” or “militant” transforms regular people who want the invaders out  (like the Na’Vi did) into an Enemy.  It’s a simple PR labeling trick.  It works because Americans are gullible, (“You’re like a baby!”)  so we buy it without even thinking about it.

That’s the definition of patriotism after all — blind devotion, or picking sides with your eyes and mind closed.

I also wondered about the subliminal messaging in this movie, if there actually is any.  I thought I detected some.  The People for instance, are called “the People” to ultra-humanize them, and also by their real name which is “Na’Vi” (na-VEE) which, come on, is almost exactly like the word Navy.  James Cameron has always had military or police people featured prominently in his movies, usually as heroes.  Aliens was the pinnacle of his love of the Marines.  Terminator was his love of the police, but also their ineffectiveness.  Titanic, well who knows.  Cameron has always both liked and disliked people in roles of ultimate authority in his movies.  In Aliens, the way he felt about the Marines was clear:  “Abso-lutely BAD ASS”.

In this movie, it’s not so clear.  He seems now to portray the Marines as both good souled (in Jake) and also as horribly corporate and evil, when they pair up with Big Corporations.  So maybe Cameron now likes the Navy better, (given his obvious obsession with all things military) and is giving the audience a subliminal message:  join the Navy instead of the Marines if you need a job.  At least the people in the Navy are safer and rarely kill people, at least directly.

The other weird subliminal name I caught in the movie was that of the god of the Na’Vi.  Their god is “everything” connected, or One Being, which they call Ai’wa.  Now think in terms of the military theme.  Could Ai-wa be AWOL?  There is one line in the movie (which I can’t remember exactly of course) where someone says, the answer is the “Ai-wa”.  There is another scene where something huge and important (trying not to spoil it for people here) and one of the pilots sent to destroy this thing stops and says forget this, “I didn’t sign up for this shit”.   I thought to myself that James Cameron was telling the audience with this  movie all of these things:  Respect native people.  And if you are going to join the military, join the Navy.  If you are in battle, stop fighting, stop killing people.  Don’t follow orders.  (Hardly anyone in Avatar follows orders). And if you are a Marine, or killing people, go AWOL, — leave the fighting.  It’s the right thing to do. I’d like to know if anyone else caught these messages or interpreted them differently.

Or are the names purely a coincidence?

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03.01.2010 Entertainment, Politicians, War and Peace No Comments

Life Now, Life Later?

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Does Death Exist? New Theory Says ‘No’

Many of us fear death. We believe in death because we have been told we will die. We associate ourselves with the body, and we know that bodies die. But a new scientific theory suggests that death is not the terminal event we think.

One well-known aspect of quantum physics is that certain observations cannot be predicted absolutely. Instead, there is a range of possible observations each with a different probability. One mainstream explanation, the “many-worlds” interpretation, states that each of these possible observations corresponds to a different universe (the ‘multiverse’). A new scientific theory – called biocentrism – refines these ideas. There are an infinite number of universes, and everything that could possibly happen occurs in some universe. Death does not exist in any real sense in these scenarios. All possible universes exist simultaneously, regardless of what happens in any of them. Although individual bodies are destined to self-destruct, the alive feeling – the ‘Who am I?’- is just a 20-watt fountain of energy operating in the brain. But this energy doesn’t go away at death. One of the surest axioms of science is that energy never dies; it can neither be created nor destroyed. But does this energy transcend from one world to the other?

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10.12.2009 Future Trends, Scientists No Comments

The Climate Change Olympics Begin

First of all, visit these great websites:  DeSmogBlog, who get a big thank you for sending me their great new book which is selling like crazy.  It’s about the conspiracy to hide global warming science from the public and/or to plant doubt in the minds of the public. The book is called Climate Cover-Up and it’s available now on Amazon.com  and other book stores online.  Here’s a link to more about it.

Also visit Futurismnow.com and FuturismNowRadio.com, where you can find podcasts on climate change, global warming, energy and other things related to the environment.  This week it’s about Hackergate, the Copenhagen climate conference and the EPA.

Here is the latest podcast blast from Futurism Now.

GreenProtestersCopenhagenweb The Copenhagen climate summit COP15 has begun, and it seems like most of the world is there.

That’s the biggest news. Coinciding with that, the EPA has passed an endangerment finding under the Clean Air Act. Could we ask for anything more? Yes, a binding legal treaty to reduce emissions, in Copenhagen. That’s what we really need. But now we know that if Congress doesn’t act on climate change legislation quickly enough, the EPA now has an obligation to regulate or otherwise stop harmful GHG emissions from hurting the health of Americans.

The finding was time to strengthen the U.S. negotiating position in Copenhagen. Good for them. In this episode you can hear two introductory press conferences on days 1 and 2 of the climate conference and also the U.S. delegate, John Pershing, stating the U.S.’s preliminary positions. They all also smack down the climate scientist emails that were illegally obtained, stating that it just won’t make any difference. There is an enormous amount of scientific data in the U.S. and from all over the world that has been independently arrived at and supports global warming claims. Watch the EPA announcement video here and you can download the Finding’s segments there too.

The mysterious Danish Text story. If you have better information please contact FN through the contact form here.

LinkTV climate change videos are here.

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09.12.2009 Future Trends, Media, Politicians, Scientists, climate change, science No Comments

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