Soot Identified as Major Contributor to Global Warming Hillary Mayell for National Geographic News (February 12, 2001) Soot, a prime culprit in smog and the bane of inner-city dwellers, has been fingered as perhaps the second-largest contributor to greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. "Soot—or black carbon—may be responsible for 15 to 30 percent of global warming," says Mark Jacobson, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University. The incr...

In the news: Condi refuses to testify publically about 9/11. That's a shame because she knows what went down on September 11, 2001. Why doesn 't this surprise me? " I can't understand why these elected officials, particularly the president and vice president, aren't willing to come before the American public and testify," said Kristen Breitweiser of New Jersey, whose husband, Ronald, died in the World Trade Center. "That raises a concern they're hiding something." You could s...

Can you imagine setting up a communal blog? I thought it'd be cool_varied opinions all given a forum, under the blanket of one big blog run by our host here at the JU site. I guess the ideologues on board this site have Ways of dealing with pesky pro-choice, anti-murder people...Kinda'akin to spamming a CNN poll to favor you malicious radical conservatives. Or singling out someone via fRepublic.com and making their life miserable because they dare to oppose your white -is -black, blac...

Inspired by Bakerstreets thoughtful and shortsighted, as usual,commentair on an old-whipping post... Perhaps, in the US it is anti social, even illegal, to utter a cruel word about Israels behavoiur towards its neighbour as a so-called Democratic, although I'd question this claim,State. I don't know am not in the US but in NL. Israel's actions beg more than just " harsh words"or" advisory opinions" because so-far nothing is working. Tear it down, Mr Sharon. I do not subscribe...

Americans killed because George Bush is a Liar Take a look at what the US gov't would rather ignore. America needs to get the fuck out of Iraq_pay someone else to clean up their mess and leave. Americans are not improving things there_they just make it worse because they have no understanding or empathy for Iraqi people. Over here we're used to Mulims peoples. They are integrated in our societies here. Americans are just to xenophobic to deal with Arabs_because they are just to narrow-mi...