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godamn! they're huge *shudder*

I thought this was interisting http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/7726.html

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/8083.html

Posted on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:08:00 GMT | Author Darya Zarin WASHINGTON - Analysts in United States have cautioned that unless corn planting is expanded drastically, the country could be facing corn shortage by as early as 2008. Even as the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated the first forecast of the fall harvest of the corn crop to be at 10.98 billion bushels, which is the third biggest harvest ever, the amount of corn consumed by U.S. ethanol manufacturers, food makers and livestock feeders could well lead to the corn stockpiles being depleted within two years. Mark McMinimy, analyst at Stanford Washington Research, said, "There's definitely need for more corn. Especially with the ethanol industry growing bigger and hungrier each year". Analysts say that even if the Agriculture Department's prediction turns out to be right, it will only postpone the corn supply crisis by a year. They estimate that around 85 million acres of corn should be planted next year, as they would need an extra 800 million to 900 million bushels of corn in 2007. As per the current consumption rates, analysts predict that stockpiles would go down by nearly 40 percent to 1.23 billion bushels by next fall. With the oil price increasing every week, motorists in US have been turning to ethanol, which is produced from renewable resources such as corn, sugar and soybeans. US ethanol consumes as much as 2.15 billion bushels of corn, which is about 18 percent of the total crop produced. http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/8103.html

Statistical tests say warming atmosphere raising sea surface temperatures By Ker Than Staff Writer Updated: 6:33 p.m. ET Aug. 15, 2006 The increase in the intensity and duration of Atlantic hurricanes in recent decades is due to temperature increases in the atmosphere caused by global warming, and not by natural variations in ocean temperature, according to a new study. Recent studies have linked rising sea surface temperatures, or SSTs, in the Atlantic Ocean to climate change caused by human activities. Warmer SST's means the ocean is capable of storing more energy — energy that is converted into wind power during tropical storms. However, other scientists blame a decades-long natural variation in ocean temperature, called the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, or AMO, for the rising SST trend. Both camps agree that rising SSTs are contributing to increasing hurricane strength, but until now, the connection between air temperature and SST was unclear. Do rising atmospheric temperatures cause sea surface temperatures to rise? Or is it the other way around? Now, James Elsner, director of the Hurricane Center at Florida State University, says he has broken the deadlock using a statistical test that determines causality. His conclusion: that a warming atmosphere is raising sea surface temperatures, causing hurricanes to become stronger. Elsner's finding is detailed in the current issue of the journal Geophysical Letters. X predicts Y, but not vice versa Elsner looked at the connection between average global near-surface air temperatures and Atlantic SSTs and the effect of each on hurricane intensities over the past 50 years. He found that the average air temperatures during the hurricane season months of July to November could predict sea surface temperatures but that the opposite was not true: SST could not be used to predict average air temperature. Elsner says this supports recent studies linking rising SSTs to global warming. "If natural variability of oceans were the driving force, you'd expect that you'd be able to predict the air temperatures from the sea surface temperatures, but you can't do that," he told LiveScience. To conduct his study, Elsner used satellite data collected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for air temperature information from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for Atlantic SST records. However, the reliability of such tropical cyclone databases was recently questioned by a group of scientists that included hurricane specialist Chris Landsea of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida. Questionable data? Landsea cited changes in satellite technology in recent decades, differences in operational standards at tracking stations around the world and gaps in official records as reasons to question the use of cyclone databases for evaluating hurricane strengths over long periods of time. Elsner says these problems do not apply to his study because he looked at year-to-year variations instead of trends over several years. "The trend analysis is more susceptible to the changes in instrument records than is the type of regression analysis that I did," he said. Elsner says his findings cannot be generalized to other oceans around the world and only applies to the Atlantic basin, and even then, only during the summer months. "It could be that the ocean is actually forcing the atmosphere at other times of the year," Elsner said. "But during the hurricane season, it appears that it's going the other way — it's the atmosphere that's forcing the ocean." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14365061/ yeah.. real big suprise

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/16/scared.sheep.ap/index.html Interisting but I also doubt the animals are in a constant state of panic

from cnn http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/08/15/prehistoric.kangaroos.reut/index.html

Skypiea was the goggles and YES definatly hot

Kanami Chidori X'D

The Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia, Canada is the largest intact, unprotected coastal temperate rainforest left in the world. Home to culturally rich First Nation communities, 1000-year-old red cedars, grizzly bears and the rare white "Spirit" bear. For years, heavy logging cut holes in its beauty and cast doubt on its future. http://www.savethegreatbear.org/

damn! I'll have to get pics of my wild garden Black eyed susan, sweet pea, spirament and chineese lantern took over everything

http://forums.ancientclan.com/showthread.php?t=2579 http://www.windscar.com/gallery/categories.php?cat_id=56

Sakura was pretty pathetic until Tsunade started training her.

I love kabuto in that 3rd panel X'D

*sigh*

buy music? ppl still do that? X'D I recently aquired 4 Non Blondes Bigger Better Faster More and Buckcherry 15

Sledge and his upgrades nice sig!

I love this but its so sad Chopper http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=980445781&n=2 and to cheer you up after that Jango! http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=706485957&n=2

poor whales did ya know they have the most complex language/communication of any animal on earth including humans

One Piece does Pirates of the Caribbean X'D http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=677380703&n=2

he he he Luffy goes to 2nd gear http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=997018741&n=2

Its cute

It wasnt as wow as I hoped but hey what do you expect w/ real science It was pretty interisting