The flag of Brullsen
The flag of Brullsen includes the traditional coat of arms (Brullser Wappen) on a green and white background. It is now available for purchase at a reasonable cost. Read the full article at www.brullsen.de
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20 February 2010
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17 February 2010
Das Dorf Brullsen ( The village of Brullsen )
Finally there is a fantastic website for the small village of Brullsen.
Brullsen is one of sixteen district villages of the city of Bad Münder am Deister (County of Hamelin-Pyrmont, Lower Saxony). The small village has a rural character and is situated on the highway B442 between the local centres of Coppenbrügge and Bad Münder.
The website is the work of Carsten Achilles a long term local resident. Even the mayor of Brullsen Mr Helmut Steinwedel contributed a greeting message.
Other content informs you about the local history going back many centuries as well as the current garbage pickup days. Also available is a comprehensive list of links to local websites, clubs, organisations, businesses etc. A complete one stop shop!
The site is available in english as well as the default german.
Must read!
http://www.brullsen.de/
14 February 2010
Algae to fuel US war machine
http://m.guardian.co.uk/view.m?id=322360&tid=120806&cat=None
The Guardian | m.guardian.co.uk
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13 February 2010
Magpie Goose in Narrabri
Tweet from @birdlinensw
Magpie Goose, & Great, Cattle, Intermediate & Little Egret nesting at
Narrabri Lake, near Narrabri south reported ... http://bit.ly/bQ2U94
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10 February 2010
Helicopter crash preliminary report is out
The preliminary report issued by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau report was released yesterday into the crash that killed NPWS ranger Aaron Harber on 9th December 2009 near Dorrigo, south-west of Nymboida.
The full report is here:
http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2009/aair/ao-2009-077.aspx
The chopper was destroyed in the accident.
08 February 2010
Is Global Warming Real ?
There is a motivation out there to make a profit on the global warming hypothesis hysteria.
Climate change, sea-level rise, carbon credits, fossil fuels, emissions trading, clean coal, the internet.
The mood is swinging towards a more critical view. Is there proof beyond doubt that what our government tells us is true. Can we belive the scientists?
There was once a concensus amongst scientists, the church and the governments that the earth is flat. People who would think otherwise would be either ridiculed or even punished by the laws of the day.
Is this happening again today?
further reading not my opinion.
http://globalwarminghoax.wordpress.com/
Flying Foxes
Tweet from @daily_examiner
Maclean High teachers fed up with filthy bats http://bit.ly/azpETh
One obvious solution would be to move the school to a place where
there are no trees. The nullabor springs to mind.
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02 February 2010
Water vapour caused one-third of global warming in 1990's
Experts say their research does not undermine the scientific consensus on man-made climate change, but call for 'closer examination' of the way computer models consider water vapour
A 10% drop in water vapour, 10 miles up has had an effect on global warming over the last 10 years, scientists say. Photograph: Getty
Scientists have underestimated the role that water vapour plays in determining global temperature changes, according to a new study that could fuel further attacks on the science of climate change.
The research, led by one of the world's top climate scientists, suggests that almost one-third of the global warming recorded during the 1990s was due to an increase in water vapour in the high atmosphere, not human emissions of greenhouse gases. A subsequent decline in water vapour after 2000 could explain a recent slowdown in global temperature rise, the scientists add.
The experts say their research does not undermine the scientific consensus that emissions of greenhouse gases from human activity drive global warming, but they call for "closer examination" of the way climate computer models consider water vapour.
The new research comes at a difficult time for climate scientists, who have been forced to defend their predictions in the face of an embarrassing mistake in the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which included false claims that Himalayan glaciers could melt away by 2035. There has also been heavy criticism over the way climate scientists at the University of East Anglia apparently tried to prevent the release of data requested under Freedom of Information laws.
The new research, led by Susan Solomon, at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who co-chaired the 2007 IPCC report on the science of global warming, is published today in the journal Science, one of the most respected in the world.
Solomon said the new finding does not challenge the conclusion that human activity drives climate change. "Not to my mind it doesn't," she said. "It shows that we shouldn't over-interpret the results from a few years one way or another."
She would not comment on the mistake in the IPCC report - which was published in a separate section on likely impacts - or on calls for Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman, to step down.
"What I will say, is that this [new study] shows there are climate scientists round the world who are trying very hard to understand and to explain to people openly and honestly what has happened over the last decade."
The new study analysed water vapour in the stratosphere, about 10 miles up, where it acts as a potent greenhouse gas and traps heat at the Earth's surface.
Satellite measurements were used to show that water vapour levels in the stratosphere have dropped about 10% since 2000. When the scientists fed this change into a climate model, they found it could have reduced, by about 25% over the last decade, the amount of warming expected to be caused by carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
They conclude: "The decline in stratospheric water vapour after 2000 should be expected to have significantly contributed to the flattening of the global warming trend in the last decade."
Solomon said: "We call this the 10, 10, 10 problem. A 10% drop in water vapour, 10 miles up has had an effect on global warming over the last 10 years." Until now, scientists have struggled to explain the temperature slowdown in the years since 2000, a problem climate sceptics have exploited.
The scientists also looked at the earlier period, from 1980 to 2000, though cautioned this was based on observations of the atmosphere made by a single weather balloon. They found likely increases in water vapour in the stratosphere, enough to enhance the rate of global warming by about 30% above what would have been expected.
"These findings show that stratospheric water vapour represents an important driver of decadal global surface climate change," the scientists say. They say it should lead to a "closer examination of the representation of stratospheric water vapour changes in climate models".
Solomon said it was not clear why the water vapour levels had swung up and down, but suggested it could be down to changes in sea surface temperature, which drives convection currents and can move air around in the high atmosphere.
She said it was not clear if the water vapour decrease after 2000 reflects a natural shift, or if it was a consequence of a warming world. If the latter is true, then more warming could see greater decreases in water vapour, acting as a negative feedback to apply the brakes on future temperature rise.
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/29/water-vapour-climate-change
Plenty of methane gas to burn in Narrabri - Good news for ESG & Santos
Australian coalbed methane player Eastern Star Gas (ESG) said ongoing testing had boosted proved and probable reserves at the Narrabri project in northern New South Wales at the end of last year by 152% to 1520 petajoules (about 1.43 million cubic feet) over figures release in June 2009. Of this, 988 petajoules was net to ESG, which operates the project with a 65% stake on behalf of partner Santos. ESG said in a statement that proved, probable and possible reserves at the PEL 238 licence at Narrabri had risen 43% to 2797 petajoules (1818 petajoules net) over the same period. The company reported proved reserves at Narrabri of 115 petajoules at 31 December, up from 33 petajoules in June. ESG managing director David Casey said the results had surpassed the company's target for the period of 1300 petajoules of proved, probable and possible reserves.He said the result reflected an increase in reserves in the Bohena coal seam, but also the addition of gas in the Namoi seam tapped by Bibblewindi production test pilot well. Casey said he expected reserves estimates to climb as the Bibblewindi production pilot and multi-lateral wells continued to clean up and increase production. Gas from the Narrabri project is being piped to supply the Wilga Park Power Station, owned by the ESG-Santos joint venture.
http://www.upstreamonline.com/live/article204997.ece?WT.mc_id=rechargenews_rss
Sounds like business as usual dig it up, burn it, make money, find more, dig it up, .....and so on
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