Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat is a cold fusion reactor able to convert few grams of nickel powder and a small amount of high pressure hydrogen into heat for many months. — [VIDEO]

Someone has translated in English the Italian documentary on Andrea Rossi’s cold fusion reactor:

For background story, click on the tags, “Andrea Rossi“, “E-cat“, or “LENR“.

ADDENDUM:

Solar activity and cosmic rays drive the Earths climate.

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Global warming due to human-produced CO2 is the biggest scientific imposture of all times.

Henrik Svensmark &#8211- The Cloud Mystery (French version):

Richard Lindzen:

Vincent Courtillot (in French, alas):

Climate Stats = Sausage Making

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How to Make Your Own Hockey Stick &#8211- Required reading for our good friend Caveat Bettor.

More info on &#8220-climategate&#8221- at Memeorandum

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Every time the global temperature data gets revised and homogenized, the trends keep increasing.

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One scientist investigated data from one source:

What this does show is that there is at least one temperature station where the trend has been artificially increased to give a false warming where the raw data shows cooling. In addition, the average raw data for Northern Australia is quite different from the adjusted, so there must be a number of … mmm … let me say “interesting” adjustments in Northern Australia other than just Darwin.

And with the Latin saying “Falsus in unum, falsus in omis” (false in one, false in all) as our guide, until all of the station “adjustments” are examined, adjustments of CRU, GHCN, and GISS alike, we can’t trust anyone using homogenized numbers.

More at Memeorandum

COLD FUSION: The purpose of this post is to give you the scientific explainer link I forgot to publish (at inception) in my previous post.

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InTrade’s sudden and puzzled interest in… alchemy…!!!

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An Inconvenient Truth – Al Gores movie

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I just saw the DVD &#8212-and so did George Tziralis&#8217- brother.

An Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore’s movie

The main points:

  1. The Keeling curve, measuring CO2 from the Mauna Loa Observatory. [See chart below.]
  2. The retreat of numerous glaciers is shown in before-and-after photographs (see Retreat of glaciers since 1850).
  3. A study by researchers at the Physics Institute at the University of Bern and the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica presenting data from Antarctic ice cores showing carbon dioxide concentrations higher than at any time during the past 650,000 years.
  4. Temperature record since 1880 showing that the ten hottest years ever measured in this atmospheric record have all occurred in the last fourteen years.
  5. A 2004 survey by Naomi Oreskes of 928 peer-reviewed scientific articles on global climate change published between 1993 and 2003. The survey, published as an editorial in the journal Science, found that every article either supported the human-caused global warming consensus or did not comment on it.

Keeling Curve

Real Climate:

[…] How well does the film handle the science? Admirably, I thought. It is remarkably up to date, with reference to some of the very latest research. Discussion of recent changes in Antarctica and Greenland are expertly laid out. He also does a very good job in talking about the relationship between sea surface temperature and hurricane intensity. As one might expect, he uses the Katrina disaster to underscore the point that climate change may have serious impacts on society, but he doesn&#8217-t highlight the connection any more than is appropriate [].

There are a few scientific errors that are important in the film. […]

For the most part, I think Gore gets the science right, just as he did in Earth in the Balance. The small errors don&#8217-t detract from Gore&#8217-s main point, which is that we in the United States have the technological and institutional ability to have a significant impact on the future trajectory of climate change. This is not entirely a scientific issue — indeed, Gore repeatedly makes the point that it is a moral issue — but Gore draws heavily on Pacala and Socolow&#8217-s recent work to show that the technology is there [].

I&#8217-ll admit that I have been a bit of a skeptic about our ability to take any substantive action, especially here in the U.S. Gore&#8217-s aim is to change that viewpoint, and the colleagues I saw the movie with all seem to agree that [Al Gore] is successful.

In short: this film is worth seeing. It opens in early June.

External Link: Al Gore&#8217-s critics.

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