| UN: Climate funds shouldn't divert poverty aid By 2010-09-02T11:22:52ZGENEVA (AP) -- The U.N.'s climate chief says poor countries are right to expect that any funding they receive to combat global warming be kept separate from development aid or poverty relief.... hosted.ap.org |
Richard Dawkins' unedited speech at 'Protest the Pope' march in London Richard Dawkins takes the piss out of Pope Ratzinger in London on SaturdayIf you, like I, could not attend the "Protest the Pope" rally in London this past weekend, you'll want to see this. This amateur video captures Richard Dawkins' short but empassioned response to Pope Ratzinger's weak attempt to confuse the public by claiming that Hitler was an atheist, and it was his supposed atheism that led to the Holocaust. Of course, Ratzinger conveniently ignores the fact that Hitler made no secret of his Roman Catholicism and in fact, Hitler used remarkably Catholic-sounding arguments to defend his indefensible actions.GrrlScientistguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
Mystery Bird: Eurasian collared dove, Streptopelia decaocto | GrrlScientist What is this Old World species doing in southern California? My friends at BirdNote Radio answer this questionEurasian collared dove, Streptopelia decaocto, sometimes hyphenated as Eurasian collared-dove or known simply as the collared dove, photographed in San Dimas, Los Angeles county, southern California, USA. Image: Steve Duncan, 19 April 2009. [how about looking at this bird with binoculars?]Question: If you can identify this mystery bird, then I have a question for you: what is it doing in southern California?Response: This is a Eurasian collared dove, Streptopelia decaocto, hanging around in southern California. What is this Old World species doing there, so far from home? Embedded below is a 2 minute podcast of the popular radio programme BirdNote Radio, by some of my Seattle birding pals. In this episode, they talk about the Eurasian collared dove and answer this question:If you have bird images, video or mp3 files that you'd like to share with a large and appreciate audience, feel free to email them to me for consideration.GrrlScientistguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
Whale of a Trip: Humpback makes record migration By RAPHAEL G. SATTER 2010-10-13T22:03:15ZLONDON (AP) -- It wasn't love. It could have been adventure. Or maybe she just got lost.... hosted.ap.org |
[news] Initialization of ice-sheet forecasts viewed as an inverse Robin problem To begin any forecast of how the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica will contribute to sea level, we first need to know the present-day shape and flow of the ice. This provides a starting point for computer models that predict how the ice will flow in future. This approach is similar in spirit to short-term weather forecasting, where an assessment of the present-day weather patterns forms the ... antarctica.ac.uk |