| Climate change skeptics can pack – Ice loss is collossal Posted: I’m talking at the University of Queensland next week so I thought I might use Skeptical Science to test-drive a new visual metaphor. Sometimes in the climate debate, we get a bit lost in the data and statistical analysis, forgetting the sheer scale of the impact we’re having on our climate. A vivid example is [...]  |
| BP earns £463 a second… as motorists suffer record petrol prices Posted: Motorists paying record prices at the pumps reacted with fury at news of a 135per cent rise in profits by oil giant BP – earning a massive £463 a second. BP said on Tuesday that profits hit £3.6 billion ($US5.6 billion) in the first three months of 2010 – more than double the level [...]  |
| How To: Risk World War III, and Blow Billions Doing It Posted: The Pentagon's plan to fire ballistic missiles at terrorists isn't just a nuclear Armageddon risk. It's a ludicrously expensive way to accidentally start World War III: each weapon could cost anywhere from a few hundred million to $1 billion. The Defense Department wants to spend about $240 million next year on the controversial "prompt global strike" [...]  |
| India has more cell phones than toilets: UN report Posted: Far more people in India have access to a mobile phone than to a toilet, according to a UN study on sanitation. India's mobile subscribers totalled 563.73 million at the last count, enough to serve nearly half of the country's 1.2 billion population. But just 366 million people – around a third of the population – had [...]  |
| US cooks up “Bin Laden” joke aimed at raising support for Iran attack – Deja Vú? Posted: New Evidence: Bin Laden in Iran as of 2007 Bin Laden in Iran, Documentary Claims A new documentary film premiering at the prestigious Tribeca film festival in New York this week presents stunning new evidence that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is living in Iran, where the Iranian regime is sheltering him. The film, "Feathered Cocaine," began as [...]  |
| Lawmakers: Military could quell Chicago violence Posted: By The Associated Press April 25, 2010 “Washington Post” — CHICAGO — Two Illinois lawmakers say violence has become so rampant in Chicago that the National Guard must be called in to help. Chicago Democratic Reps. John Fritchey and LaShawn Ford made a public plea to Gov. Pat Quinn on Sunday to deploy troops. The request comes amid [...]  |