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Research based on over 100 independent expert studies points to a cooling Earth climate at least until 2030. Author, Dr. Theodor Landscheidt of the Schroeter Institute for Research in Cycles of Solar Activity points to failures by climatologists to account for solar variation in their projections.

Man oh man. What is happening to our society? Where are all of these people coming from all of the sudden? People parking in Handicapped spots that walk completely fine and then pull down the placard as they drive away. Ignorant people that cut in line at the deli, amusement park or shows. Parents on cell phone calls as their crazed kids run around uncontrollably. I ain't perfect, nor am I one of those people that said "when I was young..." Because I feel a lot of these teens have more "manners" than most adults and younger kids. WTH is...

We got over 226 comments when we asked you, "What's the most frugal thing your dad ever did?" You guys have some really crafty pops. Your stories were humorous, heartfelt, and inspiring. I seriously got misty reading some of them. Others made me fearful for how our generation of young men will ever live up to what these heroes of frugality and grit did on a daily basis. Here are 16 of the best. 1. "My Dad would melt down the last part of the deodorant stick from multiple different deodorants to create a deodorant Frankenstein of sorts..." - PhiTauBill...

Oil dives to 4-month low as emergency stocks unleashed By Matthew Robinson 37 mins ago NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices tumbled 6 percent on Thursday after the world's biggest consumers released emergency oil reserves for the third time ever, a surprise intervention to aid the struggling global economy. Oil hit the lowest since February after the International Energy Agency said it would inject 60 million barrels of government-held stocks in the global market, immediately increasing world supply by some 2.5 percent for the next month. The move -- only the third in history -- shocked traders who had been...

SOLAR FLARE: Sunspot 1158 has just unleashed the strongest solar flare of the year, an M6.6-category blast @ 1738 UT on Feb. 13th. The eruption appears to have launched a coronal mass ejection (CME) toward Earth. It also produced a loud blast of radio emissions heard in shortwave receivers around the dayside of our planet. Stay tuned for updates! BEHEMOTH SUNSPOT 1158: Sunspot 1158 is growing rapidly (48 hour movie) and crackling with M-class solar flares. The active region is now more than 100,000 km wide with at least a dozen Earth-sized dark cores scattered beneath its unstable magnetic canopy....

Santa brought us a new Sunspot prediction to be added to NASA’s incredibly high series of at least five ill-fated predictions starting in 2006. NASA’s latest peak Sunspot Number for Solar Cycle #24 (SC24) is down 60% from their original, but it still seems a bit too high, judging by David Archibald’s recent WUWT posting that analogizes SC24 and SC25 to SC5 and SC6 which peaked around 50, during the cold period (Dalton minimum) of the early 1800′s. According to Yogi Berra “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” Team leader Dr. Mausumi Dikpati of NASA’s National Center...

US Navy Physicist warns of possibly 'several decades of crushing cold temperatures and global famine' By Retired U.S. Navy Physicist and Engineer James A. Marusek 2 Apr 09 – Excerpts: “The sun has gone very quiet as it transitions to Solar Cycle 24. “Since the current transition now exceeds 568 spotless days, it is becoming clear that sun has undergone a state change. It is now evident that the Grand Maxima state that has persisted during most of the 20th century has come to an abrupt end. “(The sun) might (1) revert to the old solar cycles or (2) the...

I saw a anti-Zero bumper sticker on a car and it had in big letters SOL on it. Is this a refernce to Sol Alinsky or something else? Thanks.

<p>The Washington Post put ClimateGate on the front page, top left in Saturday’s edition. It’s also the top story at washingtonpost.com. The headline is "In e-mails, science of warming is hot debate." The website summary: "E-mails stolen from British research center show climate-change leaders noting flaws in their own data and seemingly scheming to muzzle critics."</p>

Scientists at Queen's University have made a finding that will help us to understand more about the turbulent solar weather and its effect on our planet. Along with scientists at the University of Sheffield and California State University, the researchers have detected giant twisting waves in the lower atmosphere of the Sun.*******************The twist applied to magnetic field lines in the solar atmosphere induce an upward propagating Alfvén wave. (Credit: Image courtesy of Queen's University Belfast)

LONDON: Scientists have detected vast turbulent waves in the sun's lower atmosphere that at a time spew the energy equivalent of 10 billion nuclear warheads. Queen's University Belfast (QUB) scientists with researchers from the Universities of Sheffield and California State, have shed some light on why the corona, the region around the sun, has a much higher temperature than its surface - something of a puzzle to scientists. Their discovery has revealed the existence of a new breed of solar waves, called the Alfven wave, known to transport energy into the corona. The surface of the sun, known as the...

HEAT WAVEThe Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope captured this image of an approximately 8,000 kilometer by 8,000 km region on the sun’s surface. Scientists observed Alfvén waves oscillating from the bright spot near the middle of the image, a highly magnetized area.D. JessMagnetic waves theorized to transfer heat from the surface of the sun to its atmosphere have been directly observed for the first time, researchers report in the March 20 Science. Astrophysicists have long puzzled over why the sun’s atmosphere is millions of degrees hotter than the surface of the sun itself. “It’s counterintuitive — when you hold your...

WASHINGTON: The key architects of U.S. economic policy have spent much of their lives studying the mistakes blamed for the Great Depression, and they are determined not to repeat them. For Ben S. Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, and Christina D. Romer, the White House economic adviser — two leading scholars on what went wrong in the 1930s — the biggest lessons include: ‘‘Don’t scrimp on revitalizing the economy’’ and ‘‘Don’t close the lending or spending taps until recovery is firmly in place.’’ That thinking may shed some light on why the United States has pushed so aggressively in...

<p>Sunspots have been more common in the past seven decades than at any time in the last 8,000 years, according to a new historic reconstruction of solar activity.</p> <p>Many researchers have tried to link sunspot activity to climate change, but the new results cannot be used to explain global warming, according to the scientists who did the study.</p>

Scientists Issue Unprecedented Forecast of Next Sunspot Cycle March 6, 2006 The next sunspot cycle will be 30 to 50 percent stronger than the last one, and begin as much as a year late, according to a breakthrough forecast using a computer model of solar dynamics developed by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo. The research results, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and NASA, were published on-line on March 3 in the American Geophysical Union journal Geophysical Research Letters. Scientists now predict that the next cycle, known as Cycle 24, will produce...

Hartford City, IN — The Indiana Homeland Security department was notified about the cell phone purchases. Two men have been questioned in Hartford City, Indiana. 22-year-old Bilal Muhamed Mustafa and 29-year old Sultan Allah Muhammond came to the Alco discount store looking to buy a particular model Nokia Trac phone in bulk. Terrorism experts say Tracphones can't be traced and are known to be used by terrorists as detenators for bombs. "Oh I was suspicious," said Alco Store Manager, Kenny Mazelin. " They always said after 9/11 be vigilant with cell phones sales and that we should contact somebody." That's...

The Family Foundation of Virginia Defending Faith, Family, and Freedom Across the Commonwealth Victoria Cobb, Director of Legislative Affairs Wednesday, July 21, 2004 Action Alert: Summer Homework for Parents-- What Are They Teaching Your Children? Over a decade ago, public schools in Virginia began teaching "Family Life Education" (FLE), a euphemism for sex education. The Virginia Board of Education dutifully invented standards of learning (SOL) and curriculum guidelines in the teaching of Family Life Education, including: the value of postponing sexual activity until marriage (abstinence education); human sexuality; human reproduction and contraception, including the benefits of adoption as a positive...

<p>"It's headed straight for us like a freight train," said John Kohl, a solar astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. "This is the real thing."</p> <p>Predictions are it could strike Earth's magnetic field by midday Wednesday.</p>

<p>The District's schoolchildren are the worst writers in the country, a national report says a month after the same students were ranked the nation's worst readers.</p> <p>D.C. fourth-graders scored 18 points below the national average of 153 points on writing assessments last year, with more than one-fourth lacking even basic writing ability, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) said in "The Nation's Report Card: Writing 2002."</p>

Bob Pittman is back. Literally. Last Friday, AOL Time Warner's co-COO reclaimed the same fifth-floor corner office in northern Virginia that he left just over a year ago when, riding high as a key architect of America Online's stunning buyout of Time Warner, he moved to New York City's Rockefeller Center. You could call it a homecoming. But it's not a happy one for Pittman, who last week took the reins of AOL from its former head, Barry Schuler. Since Pittman joined AOL Time Warner's upper ranks last year, the division has seen declining advertising revenue and sagging subscriber growth,...