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Another 'nother Nail In The Coffin The Anthropogenic Global Warming Theory More Science, you know, Science, facts. Not feelings and beliefs... Read on... _______________ Ocean circulation a major factor in climate change Washington: It isn't just the atmosphere, but the circulation of the oceans plays an equally important role in regulating the Earth's climate, new research shows. The study revealed that the cooling of Earth and continental ice build-up in the Northern Hemisphere 2.7 million years ago coincided with a shift in the circulation of the ocean - which pulls in heat and carbon dioxide in the Atlantic and moves them through the deep ocean from north to south until it's released in the Pacific. The ocean conveyor system changed at the same time as a major expansion in the volume of the glaciers in the northern hemisphere took place along with a substantial fall in sea levels. It was the Antarctic ice, researchers argued, that cut off heat exchange at the ocean's surface and forced it into deep water. This led to global climate change at the time and it could be said that the formation of the ocean conveyor cooled the earth and created the climate we live in now. "We argue that it was the establishment of the modern deep ocean circulation - the ocean conveyor - about 2.7 million years ago, and not a major change in carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere that triggered an expansion of the ice sheets in the northern hemisphere," said Stella Woodard, lead author and a post-doctoral researcher at Rutgers University in the US. The new findings, based on ocean sediment core samples between 2.5 million to 3.3 million years old, provide scientists with a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of climate change today. The changes in heat distribution between the ocean basins is important for understanding future climate change, the team concluded. The study was published in the journal Science. Source ___

Not Somchai the Taxi Driver? Tell me it's not true!

We let them run the country

He's wrong, he's obviously never been to church...

"You cannot shoot someone running away from you (even in your own home), let alone someone behind a closed door." "or a loved one..."

Key points - * Storms in our planet's outer radiation belt, tens of thousands of kilometres above the Earth (remember, you and I didn't cause these), generate powerful energetic electrons. * These are dumped into the polar atmosphere, causing a temporary but large loss of the ozone layer, at altitudes of up to 80km. (again, you and I didn't do this) * During winter, the flow-on effect can cause changes in wind patterns and raise or drop temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere by as much as 5C. (again, you and I didn't do this) Once upon a time the global warming folks morphed their opinions into "Climate Change", blaming extreme weather events on you and me. Here's the article: A team of leading scientists, including a Kiwi, have gazed beyond our planet to solve a mystery phenomenon tampering with winter weather patterns. In newly-published findings, the team has discovered a chain of effects that begins in space and results in changes in wind patterns that impact temperatures on Earth. They found energetic electrons from the Earth's outer radiation belt were hitting the polar atmosphere below, causing a temporary but large loss of ozone up to 80km above the Earth's surface. The team believed this could explain changes in wind patterns that had been previously shown to raise or drop winter temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere by as much as 5C. "This link between space weather, ozone loss and our own weather was not truly understood before," said Otago University space physicist Professor Craig Rodger, who authored the study with colleagues from the Finnish Meteorological Institute and British Antarctic Survey. "While the dominant effect is around the poles, those changes in turn can influence weather as far away as the sub-tropics." The variation in temperature was only seen during winter because of the complex linkages from space through to the Earth's surface. The scientists found frequent and large ozone depletions after radiation belt storms after studying data from three different satellites gathered between 2002 and 2012. The measurements suggested that heightened electron precipitation during storms lasting a few days could temporarily reduce ozone in the upper atmosphere as much as 90 per cent. The findings were exciting as they revealed how incoming electrons from space could affect ozone, and in turn polar weather systems, Professor Rodger said. Other models had already shown how variations in Antarctic weather systems helped drive New Zealand weather and climate, influencing winds, rainfall and drought. Forecasters could incorporate this new-found effect into models, possibly improving accuracy of seasonal predictions for both hemispheres. Chain Reaction * Storms in our planet's outer radiation belt, tens of thousands of kilometres above the Earth, generate powerful energetic electrons. * These are dumped into the polar atmosphere, causing a temporary but large loss of the ozone layer, at altitudes of up to 80km. * During winter, the flow-on effect can cause changes in wind patterns and raise or drop temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere by as much as 5C. Source

So old school, what you need is a TENS machine, then you can wind it up slowly, making the transition from pleasure, to screaming, howling, pain...

I've always wondered why Yankee Cops do this, empty gun after gun full of bullets into a criminal suspect. Then I remember what an ex SAS/Armed Defender squad member once told me. When faced with shooting a suspect, he and other members of the team had a clear understanding, that they would each try and get multiple bullets into the suspect. Because, if only one bullet were found to be the cause of death, rightly or wrongly, the person who fired the bullet could end up, tied up in court for years whilst people took legal actions against the police for wrongful death and such. This could hamper or end a career for the police officer. So I guess there is some reason in this behaviour. But then we down here in Middle Earth, don't see incidents where 33 Police Officers Fire 600 Bullets into a Car. This sort of behaviour seems to imply the officers were, panicking like girls, thinking they were in a video game, or otherwise out of control.

Me, I am unable to learn a language with any level of proficiency. What little I do learn, is by mimicry. Some of us are just not wired correctly for language. On the other hand I have what I consider, high levels of understanding and empathy with Thai and Lao speakers, perhaps I am learning non-language communication unconsciously. Some of the people I know who are fluent in the languages, have more difficulty than I when communicating. Or the beer makes it easy, I'm not sure...

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"The Power of Shadows, ... which aired in 2012 ... recorded the highest ratings in the history of its network." Rape is very very very bad. If, like other countries, women are the majority of viewers of these Soaps, why do they tolerate it? I mean, if these soaps featured, constant shots of people doing motorcycle engine repairs, presumably, the women, would not watch the shows. But seemingly, put a rape in the show - strillions of women tune in to watch, why? ​Me, I'd sentence anyone found watching more than 1 hour of soaps per week, to hard labour.

There are also Khmer ruins in Laos

About 15" of copper water pipe, marbles and the stuff from the inside of firecrackers, we never hurt anyone, but we did break a window once for which I was punished... All part of growing up.

My understanding is that they were long gone, prior to the re-discovery of the Angkor complex, by various explorers several hundred years ago.

Well this is getting interesting...

No, the brain or the computer was the same, just it's content was different. i.e. 100 pages of a tabloid newspaper probably does not contain much useful information, whereas 100 pages of a journal such as 'Nature' or 'Lancet' probably contain a wealth of useful information. or: the brain of a typical guest on the Jerry Springer show, whilst the same size and structure as yours or mine, is likely to be full of absolute crap, dross and bullshit, whereas yours and mine, I can confidently say, are full of knowledge and of a high intellect. Tee hee...

The physical structure of the Human brain is analogous in computer terms to computer hard disks/memory - they all look the same, roughly, so it's not what they are, but the information that they contain that makes the difference.

If Ebola breaks out in Bangkok TOT will be selling tickets to go and see the victims...

Could you get me a souvenir? Perhaps a hat off one of those sexy marching girls?

Kong, you mean Penguin is a bird, I am sure. Dexi - what you said, sort of aligns with what I am talking about with the Mind and Soul. The idea that all a person knows and is - (a bit airy fairy that), is contained in information residing somewhere in the brain, is fairly well accepted. It may not be in there like data in a computer, 1s and 0s, but in there it is. I am not sure how far they have got, finding out what method is used for the storage of information, but once that has been ascertained, we would only need to write a translation algorithm to store said information in a computer. To then re-introduce that information into a "blank" human should theoretically be possible, assuming you can find a blank human, but that shouldn't be a problem, there's a few living down my street we can start with... I am still stuck on this idea that something else, other than the physical storage of data, is the key to the concept of Mind or Soul or that which makes us Human, If you think that, from the moment of conception, till the moment of death, each of us has a magnetic field surrounding us, due to the electrical activity going on inside us, then we start to see that there are things about us we don't yet fully understand. At the moment all we can do with magnetic fields is measure their relative strength and produce vague maps, a la the iron filings experiments, from school day science classes. What if there was understandable information contained in magnetic fields? We may not know how to access this at the moment, but in 50 years maybe we will, that is if there is anything to find. But I only use the magnetic field as an example. It could be that our individual magnetic fields affect the way light is refracted when being reflected from out physical persons. This would account for this of us whose vision is sufficiently different that they claim to see aurae surrounding people. But it may not be any of these, if could be as vague as radiation emitted or reflected by us, could be anything. These are things, that are encompassed by that greatest of all American sayings, "We don't know, what we don't know.." At once the typical idiocy of politicians and yet the most profound of intelligent inquiry. Have at it folks...

Ahhh, but.... I am not talking religion, I am talking about how to explain these things from a scientific point of view, remember, we used to think lightning was angry gods, now we know it's electricity. The Mind and Soul, in my view are the same kind of misunderstood thing, we just have to work out, how they work. And so we shall...

A New Zealand woman accused of destroying a Buddha statue at the ancient Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia has admitted doing it because it "didn't belong in the temple". Willemijn Vermaat, 40, of Wellington, was detained by authorities early on Friday morning but was later released. Cambodian authorities earlier said there was no direct evidence that Ms Vermaat was responsible for destroying the statue but she confirmed to APNZ today that she had. The woman reportedly destroyed a Buddha statue at the Bayon temple - an intricately decorated Khmer shrine, believed to have been built in the late 12th century. Ms Vermaat told APNZ today: "I did push over Buddha." "I had been travelling in Laos and Cambodia for three and-a-half, four weeks, so I visited many of the temples and met a lot of beautiful Laos people who are Buddhist so it's not [like] me to discredit somebody else's religion. "That night some strange things happened and I don't know, maybe I can just bring it down to being possessed by something and although I still remember everything as well....I was aware but I wasn't completely the person in charge so to say. "Walking through it, I was drawing to go towards the centre of the temple, so I put down my bag at the entrance where I would meet my tuk-tuk driver and I went in and from that moment on I felt really strange. "The temple is not a Buddhist temple, it belongs to a goddess called Inanna - and this is not something I knew, this is something they told me - one of the things that she hates...is rubbish and she feels that her temple has been used for the wrong things." Ms Vermaat, who returned to Wellington last night, said she apologised to Unesco for damaging the site. The site is described by Unesco as "one of the most important archaeological sites in South-East Asia". Cambodian authorities alleged Ms Vermaat destroyed the statue after she went missing inside the Bayon temple last Thursday night. A statement from the Apsara Authority said her tuk-tuk driver had asked the local tourist police service for help finding her. She was found early on Friday morning. Ms Vermaat was detained by police for questioning but was later released, the Cambodia Daily reported. Shortly afterwards, authorities found the 1m-high Buddha statue had been broken into four pieces at the Bayon temple. The Apsara Authority then sought to take her back into custody, but she had already left the country. The Cambodia Daily said the statue dated back to the reign of Jayavarman VII, in the 12th century. It was already broken into several pieces when it was discovered, and was restored in 1988 to be displayed at Bayon. However, the Phnom Penh Post reported the statue was a replica dating back to 1988. The paper said the temples at Angkor Wat were filled with replicas due to widespread looting and war. Ms Vermaat said she spent her night in the temple cleaning it by candlelight. "One of the last things I had to do is - I had to sit and meditate...I first tried to sit on Buddha's lap which was really uncomfortable and so they said 'no, no, no, you have to sit where Buddha sits'. "So then I basically had to push him over because he's a big statue...so that I could sit there. "Really, I felt so bad...I apologised to Buddha and then I pushed him over and then I sat there [and meditated]." Ms Vermaat said she had been travelling alone and spoke local police after leaving the temple, who later let her go because after explaining her story they didn't believe what she had done was wrong, she said. "I apologised that I pushed Buddha over and broke the Buddha. I told them, 'this is a really strange story, nobody will believe what happened'." Ms Vermaat said she believed that the statue should be replaced, but not in that temple. "It doesn't belong in that temple." I am amazed what women of a certain age, can do and justify as being right and appropriate... "I first tried to sit on Buddha's lap" really? what was the first thing that came up?

All right then, what about this one: Assuming there is a Soul, or a Mind, in a human being and these two things need not be mutually exclusive, what would they look like and where and how would they reside? It may help to define some things first. And or think about possibilities. I'll start I reckon that the Soul is the Minds way of describing feelings we have, like guilt and love. So the Soul could be a subset of the Mind. So what is the Mind. It's not the storage of information, otherwise my iPad would have a Mind. Consider the following scenario: Imagine that the Polar icecaps with all their frozen molecules of water represented stored information, and the Aurorae Borealis and Australis by their nature, effected subtle changes in the way we perceive the information contained in the icecaps. If we were solely focussed on the reading and wiring of data at the ice cap level, and we could not imagine the existence the Aurorae, the subtle changes in the way we view the information in the ice caps are inexplicable. And therefore, we are thinking about the information in different ways, based on no knowable influence. This, if transposed to our Mind concept, could be a working hypothesis. What do you think? How am I going so far?

Yes sorry, I meant Exo. And duck quacks, like all sound will echo if there's a surface for them to echo off, of.