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Bees, Hornets, and Global "Warming"
Could this be why bees are disappearing?
Yesterday evening, while waiting for a bus, I noticed a bunch of bees dead on the pavement. I also noticed a hornet trying to carry away a dead bee body. Now I've seen this before so I figured that bees and hornets fight. And they do. Now I thought to myself, what if the missing bees are succumbing to a greater number or to the activity of hornets that is somehow related to global "warming". So I did a little "googling" and BINGO, a potential link. It turns out that hornets can be more active when exposed to more UV light because they stay cooler! So if greater solar activity is causing more UV light and warming, which I believe it is, it could also explain the missing bees. (See article) Any comments? http://groups.google.com/group/alt.conspiracy/topics http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/7/6/2/1 Insects stay cool with thermoelectricity 3 June 2003 Researchers in Israel have found the first evidence for natural heat pumps in living creatures. David Bergman and colleagues from Tel Aviv University used infrared imaging to show that wasps can sometimes remain much cooler than their surroundings. This is also the first time that the thermoelectric effect has been seen to play a role in the physiology of an animal (J S Ishay et al. 2003 Phys. Rev. Lett 90 218102). Some wasps and hornets live in parts of the world where local temperatures can reach 60 oC or more. 'Social' wasps live in nests and regularly go outside to forage for food. During such activities the wasp produces heat that originates in its flight muscles and then spreads throughout the rest of its body. This should make the wasps even hotter but in experiments with oriental hornets Bergman and co- workers found that the internal body temperature of the wasps could be significantly cooler than the ambient temperature. The Israeli workers argue that the insect must possess a heat pump, which works by using power generated from electrochemical reactions in its body. They believe that additional power is generated by the photovoltaic effect in the hornet's shell. This means that an electrical current is produced when the shell is exposed to sunlight - in a mechanism similar to that in a semiconductor p-n junction when irradiated with visible or ultraviolet light. "This could explain how hornets remain active even on very hot summer days," Bergman told PhysicsWeb. The researchers also took transmission and scanning electron micrographs of the shell. They observed a microstructure that was very similar to that of a practical thermoelectric heat pump - but on a different length scale (see figure). -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use mQGiBEP19MQRBAD1RSIKvwYdk0l2MsOpAO0RH0DKyVOyCq0LL5 9yrIJaSmc1rBq +lXB08XIklLkgPEU6LmNBIDxJTnVuUuGLazYWxAzNm1eqXzV/7c6fZZo5FoGHfSBoHyL4Q/ glojLo3dUsP38I1uYRt4SwEOlh0pep59kUVz8zuVjQy6o3J0QI XQCg/y+90bSj0X5S8D/ 9UAqPh0x6FJ8D/20Yk0DWr/EM8NOn91b6ldm1pydv0KOZWOJjV7hBtlHtFG +xXMN4rCoarYhZwJufa8KCqL0iD3B1gYOpHvcfpUvI6fDGPIMK k5K4hj4XvvBV +Lz9xVSBbmzxCNvunBXJvtJ3mxfA5JBO5/48p/dPJGbrAg5pYU8VBXeNm13PLKDGA/ 473vE2+X4DnZmqDka +kd4AaMxHeMADSRUbldgUrvPsB6ibyabT4pSsOPzbUZhUTyl92 bv6+FgQct353DGnUqhTjgUYL7NJzHTiU3BO/ nZZ1CDi/ pudOO5VeCuEx5yEefzATZUaf1tmF7056ZcQHKlT3ONF6AMS2VK HEJvNTLaSRbQjSHVydCA8aHVydF9iZXlvbmRfcmVwYWlyQHlha G9vLmNvbT6JAEsEEBECAAsFAkP19MQECwMBAgAKCRAD8piUhVP PKtWxAJ9akLY9bmDIDd5qxiP4bRk9+q +Y3ACfVR+PCjZ5/iguRgxfEY8429zGhk65BA0EQ/ X0xRAQAPkYoH5aBmF6Q5CV3AVsh4bsYezNRR8O2OCjecbJ3HoL rOQ/ 40aUtjBKU9d8AhZIgLUV5SmZqZ8HdNP/46HFliBOmGW42A3uEF2rthccUdhQyiJXQym +lehWKzh4XAvb+ExN1eOqRsz7zhfoKp0UYeOEqU/ Rg4Soebbvj6dDRgjGzB13VyQ4SuLE8OiOE2eXTpITYfbb6yUOF/ 32mPfIfHmwch04dfv2wXPEgxEmK0Ngw+Po1gr9oSgmC66prrNl D6IAUwGgfNaroxIe +g8qzh90hE/K8xfzpEDp19J3tkItAjbBJstoXp18mAkKjX4t7eRdefXUkk +bGI78KqdLfDL2Qle3CH8IF3KiutapQvMF6PlTETlPtvFuuUs4 INoBp1ajFOmPQFXz0AfGy0OplK33TGSGSfgMg71l6RfUodNQ +PVZX9x2Uk89PY3bzpnhV5JZzf24rnRPxfx2vIPFRzBhznzJZv 8V +bv9kV7HAarTW56NoKVyOtQa8L9GAFgr5fSI/ VhOSdvNILSd5JEHNmszbDgNRR0PfIizHHxbLY7288kjwEPwpVs YjY67VYy4XTjTNP18F1dDox0YbN4zISy1Kv884bEpQBgRjXyEp wpy1obEAxnIByl6ypUM2Zafq9AKUJsCRtMIPWakXUGfnHy9iUs iGSa6q6Jew1XrPdYXAAICEADreGrD7qrpHqnIB7GU/ l62HAv1V13XW0/Zv/miVXNqeVMGY7kUpN/ NInWv7zUZZnhcdXfhSigCkWff1UBsrm5K4Ln0qzjIsmg6QQVWK UZiQvgwszOPCOp8T23AtQ1lyFBs/ Z9N6/ S0N7UEXvYZqGpBBBX9GLszgjeR00w96K6dpotRkIsLgBeQBhjI 2LXcmXdNZf1o3C5ERslm7NKYb5wjloV9eGsJsfMlqma/ 6i61/adhGzLevSWqGSLqCenqI/Z9LRLnHTpOj/8hgFI1RaqkCbtZukqcGzYThzU +iW5qrkZykT+tL5dqVEwTsHbRhe86Yi/RnHwCa9we +0+cSF52bKxqS1Efi7UnuUm7TAYj50YSWgdy08Too6XrEXaSPQ sxmxZ/yx+O +gY6bP1eWyJWWRwkQzJcxa0t+BD/06yl5gotT9kTU3JTCSRjJ5649zW+/ iwI4DwDBMrL2ajl4c1WEFZxxrcO7ULEHQD9cwXmtXyd2r568fR pBWOu6KN7wscHb/ +uM46rokKZEuq2Ruk9T0kL4Vos92PFIAd5UrhyvUGunHk7DLHO gf4tSjnChg6ewNdTvy1w/ lNLvCPag/1WRoC3Ak61d5Sp3Ib77JqbasVOcYAsLGVWeUGAP +CU1asRtIPCmJpT2Ay1m6Kte89+sGB8BzUlJOxwlUXmVFmWMYk APwMFGEP19MUD8piUhVPPKhECiGoAoJ1ZG0W6wWzooBcqshdcm TIzhO3oAJ4/ vFLy8IjcTkJzxZm8Jgm/krZXnQ== =BXko -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- |
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Bees, Hornets, and Global "Warming"
On May 5, 10:07 am, Hurt wrote:
Could this be why bees are disappearing? Yesterday evening, while waiting for a bus, I noticed a bunch of bees dead on the pavement. I also noticed a hornet trying to carry away a dead bee body. Now I've seen this before so I figured that bees and hornets fight. And they do. Now I thought to myself, what if the missing bees are succumbing to a greater number or to the activity of hornets that is somehow related to global "warming". So I did a little "googling" and BINGO, a potential link. It turns out that hornets can be more active when exposed to more UV light because they stay cooler! So if greater solar activity is causing more UV light and warming, which I believe it is, it could also explain the missing bees. To bad that your Googleing didn't find this: Over the last 29 years direct, not proxy, measurement of the Sun's output has shown no long term growth large enough to explain the warming of the Earth, only an 11-year cycle is noticed: http://www.pmodwrc.ch/pmod.php?topic.../SolarConstant http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Ch...rming_999.html |
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Bees, Hornets, and Hanson Helped Kill 36 Human Beings with Global Warming
Hanson Helped Kill 36 Human Beings with Global Warming
Heat wave in Orissa, 36 dead Jajati Karan http://www.ibnlive.com/news/india/05...ead-39594.html Bhubaneshwar: The heat wave in Orissa has claimed the lives of 36 people though official figures put the toll at six. With temperature rising over 43 degrees Celsius particularly in western part of the state, there is no respite in sight for the people of Orissa. For 44-year-old Birendra Mahasuara, a priest at the Kedar Gouri temple in Bhubaneswar, an early morning bath in the temple pond is a daily ritual. But with temperatures crossing 43 degrees Celsius, it is not a ritual any more but a compulsion. "I am a priest; I cannot afford AC in my house. So by bathing at least four times in a day I try to keep my body cool," says Birendra Mahasuara. The state government has already initiated some measures to combat the heat like changing the working hours for labourers and school timing for children. Even the Meteorological department in Bhubaneswar says the heat wave will not abate soon. "There is some sea breeze in coastal Orissa but that does not reach western Orissa due to North westerly hot winds flowing there. So it's becoming very hot out there," Director of Meteorological department (Bhubaneswar) SC Sahoo says. So far in Orissa the highest temperature has been 50.1 degree Celsius recorded at Titlagarh in 2003. The people in Orissa have already experienced such extreme weather in the past and that is why they have also learnt the art of beating the heat. |
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Bees, Hornets, and Hanson Helped Kill 36 Human Beings with Global Warming
Anyone who thinks that nut cases actions was caused by Global Warming needs
to go to Bad Water Death Valley and sit there in the full sun during the middle of the summer time. I'm sure their bodys would turned into food for a lot of bugs. I also cut out the stupid cross posting. -- The Lone Sidewalk Astronomer of Rosamond Telescope Buyers FAQ http://home.inreach.com/starlord Sidewalk Astronomy www.sidewalkastronomy.info The Church of Eternity http://home.inreach.com/starlord/church/Eternity.html AD World http://www.adworld.netfirms.com/ "Hanson the Trained Dancing Monkey" wrote in message ups.com... Hanson Helped Kill 36 Human Beings with Global Warming Heat wave in Orissa, 36 dead Jajati Karan http://www.ibnlive.com/news/india/05...ead-39594.html Bhubaneshwar: The heat wave in Orissa has claimed the lives of 36 people though official figures put the toll at six. With temperature rising over 43 degrees Celsius particularly in western part of the state, there is no respite in sight for the people of Orissa. For 44-year-old Birendra Mahasuara, a priest at the Kedar Gouri temple in Bhubaneswar, an early morning bath in the temple pond is a daily ritual. But with temperatures crossing 43 degrees Celsius, it is not a ritual any more but a compulsion. "I am a priest; I cannot afford AC in my house. So by bathing at least four times in a day I try to keep my body cool," says Birendra Mahasuara. The state government has already initiated some measures to combat the heat like changing the working hours for labourers and school timing for children. Even the Meteorological department in Bhubaneswar says the heat wave will not abate soon. "There is some sea breeze in coastal Orissa but that does not reach western Orissa due to North westerly hot winds flowing there. So it's becoming very hot out there," Director of Meteorological department (Bhubaneswar) SC Sahoo says. So far in Orissa the highest temperature has been 50.1 degree Celsius recorded at Titlagarh in 2003. The people in Orissa have already experienced such extreme weather in the past and that is why they have also learnt the art of beating the heat. |
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Bees, Hornets, and Global "Warming"
Over the last 29 years direct, not proxy, measurement of the Sun's output has shown no long term growth large enough to explain the warming of the Earth, only an 11-year cycle is noticed: You're like a parrot; over and over again with the same squawk. Very well. For the benefit of those who might be swayed by your misery. Those satellites only measure radiation from ~200nm to 2000nm. The Sun is most variable in the UV portion of the spectrum. It also emits large quantities of microwaves during coronal mass ejections. Plus there is always the ever present galactic microwave background radiation through which our solar system is passing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:M...irradiance.jpg http://www.google.com/search?q=coron...ion+microwaves http://www.google.com/images?q=coronal+mass+ejection |
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Bees, Hornets, and Global "Warming"
schrieb im Newsbeitrag ups.com... Over the last 29 years direct, not proxy, measurement of the Sun's output has shown no long term growth large enough to explain the warming of the Earth, only an 11-year cycle is noticed: You're like a parrot; over and over again with the same squawk. Very well. For the benefit of those who might be swayed by your misery. Those satellites only measure radiation from ~200nm to 2000nm. The Sun is most variable in the UV portion of the spectrum. It also emits large quantities of microwaves during coronal mass ejections. Plus there is always the ever present galactic microwave background radiation through which our solar system is passing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:M...irradiance.jpg http://www.google.com/search?q=coron...ion+microwaves http://www.google.com/images?q=coronal+mass+ejection Total solar irradiance (TSI) variations may be small, but weren't it those AGWs who claim that small changes in their models might have an excessive change in the resulted output? Furthermore TSI is not all, what sun is providing. Sun is modulating CRF, that again is reversely modulating LACC and therefore cooling. This effect can be much more stronger than any CO2 GH effect can ever be. http://www.phys.huji.ac.il/~shaviv/a...ensitivity.pdf http://www.john-daly.com/solar/solar.htm http://www.schulphysik.de/klima/elnino/sun-enso.htm |
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Bees, Hornets, and Global "Warming"
On May 5, 12:22 pm, wrote:
Over the last 29 years direct, not proxy, measurement of the Sun's output has shown no long term growth large enough to explain the warming of the Earth, only an 11-year cycle is noticed: You're like a parrot; over and over again with the same squawk. Very well. For the benefit of those who might be swayed by your misery. Those satellites only measure radiation from ~200nm to 2000nm. The Sun is most variable in the UV portion of the spectrum. It also emits large quantities of microwaves during coronal mass ejections. Plus there is always the ever present galactic microwave background radiation through which our solar system is passing. None of that crap means a dam. The ozone lay sops up the UV. RED HERRING. If a solar Coronal Mass Ejection with the equivalent mass of 7,000 battleships moving at 1/3rd the speed of light ever hits the Earth, that's the end of life as we know it. Fortunately it never happened in 3 billion years of Earth life history. Looking from Earth towards the sun the disc in the sky is a small spot even though the sun is 1000s of times larger than Earth -- looking back from the sun outwards the Earth is the size of the period on the end of this sentence, a very small target. It's a RED HERRING. Solar Microwaves don't mean a damn, and neither does the background microwaves. When cell phones stop operating you'll know there are extra microwaves more than the kind there has been for billions of years. ANOTHER RED HERRING. You are just another Republican God-Damned Liar. |
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Bees, Hornets, and Global "Warming"
http://www.john-daly.com/solar/solar.htm Wow, that's great. Read 3. and 4. Precisely what I've been saying. I visited this site before and never even saw this page. |
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Bees, Hornets, and Global "Warming"
"Hanson the Trained Dancing Monkey" wrote On May 5, 12:22 pm, wrote: Over the last 29 years direct, not proxy, measurement of the Sun's output has shown no long term growth large enough to explain the warming of the Earth, only an 11-year cycle is noticed: You're like a parrot; over and over again with the same squawk. Very well. For the benefit of those who might be swayed by your misery. Those satellites only measure radiation from ~200nm to 2000nm. The Sun is most variable in the UV portion of the spectrum. It also emits large quantities of microwaves during coronal mass ejections. Plus there is always the ever present galactic microwave background radiation through which our solar system is passing. None of that crap means a dam. The ozone lay sops up the UV. RED HERRING. Liar. Didn't the AGWs claim that the ozone hole is excessively increase? Soping up UV? If a solar Coronal Mass Ejection with the equivalent mass of 7,000 battleships moving at 1/3rd the speed of light ever hits the Earth, that's the end of life as we know it. Fortunately it never happened in 3 billion years of Earth life history. Looking from Earth towards the sun the disc in the sky is a small spot even though the sun is 1000s of times larger than Earth -- looking back from the sun outwards the Earth is the size of the period on the end of this sentence, a very small target. It's a RED HERRING. Solar Microwaves don't mean a damn, and neither does the background microwaves. When cell phones stop operating you'll know there are extra microwaves more than the kind there has been for billions of years. ANOTHER RED HERRING. They had cellphones for billions of years? Who? Anyway... Liar! http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2...ec_cycle24.htm |
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Bees, Hornets, and Global "Warming"
"Hurt" schrieb im Newsbeitrag oups.com... http://www.john-daly.com/solar/solar.htm Wow, that's great. Read 3. and 4. Precisely what I've been saying. I visited this site before and never even saw this page. Unfortunately there is not a steady link validation on John Dalys page. Many links are invalid or moved. But with the help of some great scientists I'm in contact I found them. |
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Peter Muehlbauer and Antarctica
Peter Muehlbauer wrote:
with the help of some great scientists I'm in contact I found them.\ From the guy who thought the Antarctic was a floating ice raft : http://groups.google.com/group/sci.e...6af3645?hl=en& Quoting Peter Muehlbauer : Antarctica IS SEA ICE, nothing else. There is no landmass below antarctica... idiot! -- Get A Free Orbiter Space Flight Simulator : http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/orbit.html |
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Bees, Hornets, and Global "Warming"
"Hurt" schrieb im Newsbeitrag oups.com... http://www.john-daly.com/solar/solar.htm Wow, that's great. Read 3. and 4. Precisely what I've been saying. I visited this site before and never even saw this page. BTW about bees: My parents an grandparents were beekeepers. There is no sign of disappering bees here in Germany. No bee club and not even the ministry of agriculture know something about disappering bees here. Must be a local problem of US. The biggest rumors I've heard (only rumors!) as to this was a notice about genetically modified corn, or minor changes in earths magnetic field (bees use it as a kind of GPS to find home in addition to the orientation by sun). Might be there is a point. |
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Theodor Landscheidt : German Judge, Astrologer and Amateur Climatologist.
Hurt wrote:
http://www.john-daly Theodor Landscheidt (born in 1927 in Bremen, Germany, died on May 20, 2004) was a German judge, astrologer and amateur climatologist. In 1983 he founded the Schroeter Institute for Research in Cycles of Solar Activity in Lilienthal, near Bremen. The Institute (for which Landscheidt appears to have been the only active researcher) later moved with him to Nova Scotia, Canada. -- Get A Free Orbiter Space Flight Simulator : http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/orbit.html |
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Bees, Hornets, and Global "Warming"
Solar Microwaves don't mean a damn, and neither does the background microwaves. When cell phones stop operating you'll know there are extra microwaves more than the kind there has been for billions of years. ANOTHER RED HERRING. http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...ne_020306.html Next time your cell phone drops a call, don't rush to blame your service provider. The culprit may well be an angry Sun. A new study of 40 years of solar data shows that during peaks in activity, bursts of energy from the Sun can potentially cause dropped calls for some cell phone users across wide areas twice per week. The problem is caused when radio waves associated with the bursts hit cell phone towers, creating static that overwhelms the signal at the tower, where calls are relayed. The result, for you, may often be sudden silence. These flashes of radio energy arrive at the speed of light, roughly 8 minutes from the Sun to Earth. "There's absolutely no warning," said Dale Gary, a physicist at New Jersey Institute of Technology and leader of the study. Confusion In a telephone interview, Gary explained that the problem has to do mostly with the fact that cell phone towers need to face the horizon in order to communicate with users and other towers.Those that face east or west look directly into the Sun at sunrise or sunset.If a burst occurs then, the tower sustains a direct hit and is unable to sort out wireless calls from unwanted signals. Which, for commuters, could mean isolation during drive-time. The events can last anywhere from a few minutes to a couple of hours. "If you have poor service normally, you'll have worse service when there's an event like this going on," Gary said, adding that there is no way for you to know if your calls are cut off due to spotty service or an solar event. Gary and his colleagues studied four decades of solar data provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A paper on their work will be published March 7 in the journal Radio Science, published by the American Geophysical Union. The Sun's activity runs in roughly 11-year cycles, and the study covered four peaks in this cycle. During peaks, the Sun has more sunspots and spits out more hot gas in the form of solar flares and coronal mass ejections, along with the increased radio emissions. The researchers found that, on average, bursts powerful enough to disrupt wireless communications occur 10-20times per year. Or maybe more In a follow-up study that has yet to be published, however, Gary and his colleagues looked deeper into the data and found hints of more events that were missed by an evolving monitoring system that dates back to 1960. Gary said the newer study shows that during peaks of solar activity, when bursts are much more likely, potentially disruptive radio spikes can strike every 3.5 days. During the years- long lullsin the solar cycle, as many as one disruption every 18.5 days might occur. The most recent peak in the solar cycle -- a stretch of time that actually last for months -- occurred in July 200, but NASA scientists say a second peak surprisingly cropped up in recent months. Gary said there's little chance of solving the problem soon. Future reception might be improved, though. Towers could be positioned to point anywhere but east and west, he said. And cellphones might be designed to handle higher levels of noise. But that means making them more powerful, raising possible health concerns. The research team also included Louis Lanzerotti of Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs, along with Bala Balachandran and David Thomson, who were at Bell Labs when the research was done. |
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Bees, Hornets, and Global "Warming"
The biggest rumors I've heard (only rumors!) as to this was a notice about genetically modified corn, or minor changes in earths magnetic field (bees use it as a kind of GPS to find home in addition to the orientation by sun). Might be there is a point. There you go. The bees get disoriented, wander into hornet territory, and become roadkill. Sounds simplistically funny but it might be just that simple. |
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