Daily Archives: 15 Apr 01

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Warm water. Because thermal transfer to the oceans has been hard to model, climate scientists until recently focused for evidence of global warming on the atmosphere, and failed to find that its higher levels have warmed significantly. This discrepancy cast doubts on the doomsayers’ scenarios. But now a new model can account for the heat absorbed by the world’s oceans. This reveals that the waters of the earth are indeed “the dominant part ofthe Earth’s climate system for storing heat,” according to the NOAA scientist who led the study. The observed rise in the oceans’ temperature over the past four decades ‘matches greenhouse predictions better than the smaller heat sink of the atmosphere’ and ‘adds up to “strongest evidence to date” that humans are causing global warming.’ New Scientist

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Hearing is Believing: The blind writer describes his aurally-based awareness.

“Those of us who are born blind discover, as we grow up, that we can tell a
great deal about our environment. Usually at about seven or eight years
old we begin to put this knowledge into practice. When we tell sighted
people about this skill they usually misunderstand and often think we
possess some remnant of sight. When I was a small child I was guided by
my mother, my aunts, and occasionally my dad, who was less comfortable
with the task. Before long I began to notice that I could tell certain things. I
could tell when I was passing a car, when there was an open space near
me, when I was heading straight for a wall, or when there was a big
obstacle like a truck in my path—and I could tell all these things without
knowing how.” bent