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February 17, 2009
Random Science Stories
Some evidence suggests that if you increase crop yields of vegetables, you get less nutrient value per pound of vegetable grown. This would be another example of the principle: "There is no such thing as a free lunch".
Link here from the web site U.S. Food Policy
A new standard in data storage. A team at Stanford says they encoded essentially 35 bits of data into the interference patterns of electrons from essentially a single atom. The idea that you could store more than one bit of data per atom had been floating around. 1 bit per electron seemed really - really - hard. But this has been done in a lab.
Retired senior NASA atmospheric scientist, Dr. John S. Theon has publicly joined the large (and growing) group of experts who are not convinced that humans are largely responsible for the warming trends seen in global climate.
My own belief concerning anthropogenic climate change is that the models do not realistically simulate the climate system because there are many very important sub-grid scale processes that the models either replicate poorly or completely omit. Furthermore, some scientists have manipulated the observed data to justify their model results. In doing so, they neither explain what they have modified in the observations, nor explain how they did it. They have resisted making their work transparent so that it can be replicated independently by other scientists. This is clearly contrary to how science should be done. Thus there is no rational justification for using climate model forecasts to determine public policy...
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