Reed Irvine is the chairman of Accuracy in Media (AIM), a media watchdog group based in Washington, D.C. His provocative article about a recent TWA 800-type explosion, brought down by friendly fire in the Ukraine, was published in WorldNetDaily.com.
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Black smog is reversing the effects of global warming in India, according to Veerabhadi Ramanathan of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. Pollution across the Indian subcontinent is shielding the sun and lowering the winter temperature several degrees.
Scientists say the smog particles are cooling the land by absorbing solar radiation before it reaches the surface. But the bad news is that the particles could be redistributing that heat to other parts of the earth, warming nearby regions of Asia and beyond.
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Passengers on packed trains could be exposed to electromagnetic fields far higher than those recommended under international guidelines when large numbers of commuters all using their mobile phones at the same time. This can happen in buses, subway cars and elevators, and in other closed environments, such as offices, as well.
Tsuyoshi Hondou, a physicist from Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, says Japanese commuter trains are often packed with people surfing the web on their cellphones. He decided to find out what effect this has on the electromagnetic radiation in a train car.
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Although Earth and Venus are very similar in size, mass and density, Venus is covered in a thick layer of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid that traps heat in and leads to extreme warming, which has made the planet much hotter. Average temperatures on Venus average about 800 degrees Fahrenheit. These inferno-like conditions have led some to call it “Earth’s evil twin.”
“Venus and Earth have taken different paths,” says Larry Esposito, a planetary astronomer at the University of Colorado. “But human activity is leading Earth in the same direction [as Venus]. If we can understand Venus history better, we can fine tune our models for Earth.”
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