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Warming Linked to Naturally Occurring Changes

A new study makes the case that human activity played very little role in the warming of the northeast Pacific Ocean over the past century or so. Naturally occurring changes in winds, not human-caused climate change, are responsible for most of the warming on land and...

Past dry periods have lasted more than 200 years

Current Events, Global Warming, Netbits

California’s current drought is being billed as the driest period in the state’s recorded rainfall history. But scientists who study the West’s long-term climate patterns say the state has been parched for much longer stretches before that 163-year...

NHS Tops in Healthcare Survey

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The NHS has been declared the best healthcare system by an international panel of experts who rated its care superior to countries which spend far more on health. The same study also castigated healthcare provision in the US as the worst of the 11 countries it looked...

Words To Live By

Current Events, Netbits

University of Texas at Austin 2014 Commencement Address – Admiral William H. McRaven

Umpires get calls wrong 14% of the time

Current Events

Umpires get ball/strike calls wrong 14% of the time, study finds… Ever wonder just how accurate major league umpires are at calling balls and strikes? They obviously aren’t as accurate as us fans sitting in the seats — after all, we’re always...

Greenpeace Co-founder and Warming Climate

Global Warming

A co-founder of Greenpeace told lawmakers there is no evidence man is contributing to climate change, and said he left the group when it became more interested in politics than the environment. Patrick Moore, a Canadian ecologist and business consultant who was a...