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There is an "ascetic instinct" (or perhaps a "survivalist instinct") in many people that causes them to delight in going without material comforts. Monasteries and nunneries were once full of such people -- with the Byzantine stylites perhaps the most striking example. Many Greenies (other than Al Gore and his Hollywood pals) have that instinct too but in the absence of strong orthodox religious committments they have to convince themselves that the world NEEDS them to live in an ascetic way. So their personal emotional needs lead them to press on us all a delusional belief that the planet needs "saving". The blogspot version of this blog is HERE The Blogroll My Home Page Email John Ray here Other mirror sites: Dissecting Leftism For a list of backups viewable at times when the main blog is "down", see here (Click "Refresh" on your browser if background colour is missing) See here or here for the archives of this site 24 October, 2014 Oreskes, merchant of smear Fred Singer has decided not to sue over the grievous libel directed at him by Naomi Oreskes & Co. but he has suggested that his supporters reprint two articles from a few years back wherein both he and another writer have critiqued her work. What she says now is more shrill than in the past but her accusations are basically now old ones so the effort of composing a new reply would be superfluous. The two articles follow Naomi Oreskes, Conspiracy Queen By Norman Rogers Naomi Oreskes is the environmentalist Noam Chomsky. She thinks that anyone who questions environmentalist doctrine is evil. Her crusade is to expose the presumed ulterior motives of the critics. According to Oreskes, if you question the dubious studies concerning secondhand tobacco smoke, you must be in the pay of tobacco companies. If you question global warming, you must be working for a fossil fuel company. If you question the DDT ban, you must part of a right wing conspiracy to weaken faith in government regulators. Oreskes is the author of one of the silliest articles ever to appear in the journal Science. She claimed that she analyzed 928 peer-reviewed papers on global warming and 100% agreed with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concerning global warming. If you go to the website of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) you can find hundreds of peer reviewed papers that disagree with the IPCC in one way or another. Her latest book, with co-author Erik Conway, is Merchants of Doubt. In this tedious book she treats us to the details of numerous disputes between those who subscribe to normative environmental theology and those who don't. Normative environmental theology is the sort of theology that is preached by the Sierra Club or the Union of Concerned Scientists. Oreskes is a professor and an important administrator at the University of California. Like Chomsky, she cloaks her endless conspiracy theories in the machinery of scholarship. Her 343 page book has 64 pages of notes. A pig with lipstick is still a pig. Neither Oreskes nor her co-author have strong scientific educations and it shows. From her book it is obvious that she enjoyed access to many scientists, but somehow none of her scientist friends found the time to proof read Merchants of Doubt. This is not hard to understand. Merchants of Doubt is a book of unsurpassed monotony. Conspiracy theories get boring very quickly, especially when the conspiracies are all variations of a few crude plots. A number of informed critiques of Merchants of Doubt can be seen in the 1-star Amazon reviews. In the introduction to Merchants of Doubt the fact that adding CO2 to the atmosphere causes the stratosphere to cool and the troposphere to warm is explained as follows: But if the warming is caused by greenhouse gases emitted at the surface and largely trapped in the lower atmosphere, then we expect the troposphere to warm, but the stratosphere to cool. It is a bit difficult to know what this sentence means but it is clear that Oreskes hasn't the faintest idea concerning radiation and the role of greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases (mostly CO2) are not trapped in the lower atmosphere but are well mixed up to and including the stratosphere. CO2 causes the stratosphere to cool because CO2 is a good radiator of infrared radiation and thus improves the capability to exhaust stratospheric heat to space as radiation. Cooling of the stratosphere is not evidence of global warming. It is evidence of increased CO2 in the atmosphere. The distinction is important. The climategate emails are hundreds of emails among important scientists that show them to be perverting scientific protocols and practicing propaganda to promote global warming alarmism. Ben Santer is a prominent player in the climategate emails. He is most famous for saying this about the global warming skeptic scientist Patrick Michaels: "Next time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I'll be tempted to beat the crap out of him. Very tempted." Oreskes, apparently before the release of the climategate emails, said this about Ben Santer: "He's thoroughly moderate... soft-spoken, almost self-effacing ... you might think he was an accountant..."[i] Ben Santer, who may be Oreskes' favorite scientist, has been struggling for years with the skeptics concerning the relative heating of the upper troposphere. He has resorted to publishing papers with as many of 24 co-authors, apparently in an attempt to make his arguments more credible by collecting a lot of scientists willing to support him. In Oreskes' milieu, it is apparently a bad thing to be anti-communist. She attacks and psychoanalyzes the physicist Frederick Seitz for his "strident" and "unalloyed" anti-communism. She puts thoughts in Seitz's head. He thinks his colleagues are "ingrates" and he "has an uneasy time with the masses." He was "hawkish" and "superior." Another physicist, William Nierenberg, is also psychoanalyzed by Oreskes. According to her Nierenberg "hated environmentalists" and was "overconfident." Nierenberg's son Nicholas Nierenberg has been so upset by Oreskes' distortions of his father's work that he started a website to refute Oreskes. The sin of these eminent physicists for Oreskes is that they were critics of environmental extremism and strong supporters of the United States in the Cold War. Seitz and Nierenberg are both dead and thus cannot defend themselves. Fred Singer is a scientist who has been in the forefront of defending science against junk science. This is not an easy road to take. Junk science is a basic tool for groups that are pushing ideological positions. Subtle distinctions are not welcomed by the ideological groups. If you acknowledge that smoking cigarettes causes cancer, but then you dare to say that the hazard presented by secondhand smoke is exaggerated, you are tagged as a supporter of cancer. If you say that the case for man-caused global warming is full of holes you are tagged as an agent of fossil fuel companies. Very few scientists are brave enough to take the heat and personal attacks the come from standing up to junk science. Fred Singer has been doing it for a long time. In his late 80's, he is still writing scientific papers and traveling the world giving lectures. Oreskes is a promoter of junk science and for that reason cannot abide Fred Singer. Singer is her favorite punching bag. His name appears dozens of times in Merchants of Doubt. Should we be surprised that Naomi Oreskes is a professor at the University of California and has been promoted to an administrative position? After all Noam Chomsky was a professor at MIT. But Chomsky was a professor because of his work in linguistics, not because he believes in crazy conspiracies. It seems that Naomi Oreskes is successful not in spite of her love of conspiracy, but exactly because she promotes conspiracies. This makes one wonder what has happened to the intellectual climate at the University of California. The science establishment has fallen so low that it thinks it is a useful tactic to deal with its critics by accusing them of conspiracies financed by tobacco companies and oil companies. For the last 50 years, starting with DDT, we have been subjected to junk science scares. The scares were invariably false or exaggerated. Most of these scares were not more than brief media sensations, but some scares have been disruptive, diverting attention from real problems. The king of all scares is global warming. Taken seriously, it requires revamping the entire world economy and making us all poorer. The predictions of global warming disaster are deeply flawed junk science dressed up with an impressive "scientific" structure of panels, committees and organizations. The global warming scare is rapidly collapsing. Scientists outside of the global warming bubble are pointing out the flaws in the science and a coterie of well-informed bloggers is getting out the message by bypassing the establishment media where critics' voices are generally blocked. Nature is helping because the earth and the oceans are failing to warm according to script. That a conspiracist like Naomi Oreskes would be welcomed by the global warming scientific establishment and invited to speak at the December 2010 American Geophysical Union meeting is a symptom of increasing desperation. The global warming advocates have dug themselves into a deep hole and they can't seem to stop digging. Ironically Oreskes spoke at a meeting where Exxon Mobil was the biggest financial contributor[ii]. Apparently it's not a conspiracy if Exxon Mobil gives its money to the right people. SOURCE Science and Smear Merchants By S. Fred Singer Professor Naomi Oreskes, of the University of California in San Diego, claims to be a science historian. One can readily demonstrate that she is neither a credible scientist nor a credible historian; the best evidence is right there in her recent book, "Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming," coauthored with Eric Conway. Her science is faulty; her historical procedures are thoroughly unprofessional. She is, however, an accomplished polemicist, who has found time for world lecture tours, promoting her book and her ideological views, while being paid by the citizens of California. Her book tries to smear four senior physicists -- of whom I am the only surviving one. I view it as my obligation to defend the reputations of my late colleagues and good friends against her libelous charges. Oreskes is well-known from her 2004 article in Science that claimed a complete scientific consensus about manmade global warming; it launched her career as a polemicist. Her claim was based on examining the abstracts of some 900 published papers. Unfortunately, she missed more than 11,000 papers through an incorrect Internet search. She published a discreet "Correction"; yet she has never retracted her ideologically based claim about consensus. Al Gore still quotes her result, which has been contradicted by several, more competent studies (by Peiser, Schulte, Bray and von Storch; Lemonick in SciAm, etc). Turning first to the her science, her book discusses acidification, as measured by the pH coefficient. She states that a pH of 6.0 denotes neutrality (page 67, MoD). Let's be charitable and chalk this off to sloppy proofreading. Elsewhere in the book (page 29), she claims that beryllium is a "heavy metal" and tries to back this up with references. I wonder if she knows that the atomic weight of beryllium is only 9, compared to, say, uranium, which is mostly 238. A comparison of these two numbers should tell anyone which one is the heavy metal. Her understanding of the Greenhouse Effect is plain comical; she posits that CO2 is "trapped" in the troposphere -- and that's why the stratosphere is cooling. Equally wrong is her understanding of what climate models are capable of; she actually believes that they can predict forest fires in Russia, floods in Pakistan and China -- nothing but calamities everywhere -- and tells climate scientists in a recent lecture: If the predictions of climate models have come true, then why don't people believe them [see this]? Perhaps because people are not gullible. But the most amazing science blunder in her book is her hypothesis about how cigarette-smoking causes cancer (page 28). She blames it on oxygen-15, a radioactive isotope of the common oxygen-16. I wonder if she knows that the half-life of O-15 is only 122 seconds. Of course, she does not spell out how O-15 gets into cigarette smoke, whether it is in the paper or in the tobacco itself. If the latter, does she believe that the O-15 is created by the burning of tobacco? If so, this would be a fantastic discovery, worthy of an alchemist. Perhaps someone should make her aware of the difference between radioactive and "reactive" oxygen; the two words do sound similar. I am sure one would find more examples of scientific ignorance in a careful reading of the rest of the book. But why bother? Having demonstrated her scientific "expertise," let's turn to her historical expertise. Any careful historian would use primary sources and would at least try to interview the scientists she proceeds to smear. There is no trace of that in Oreskes' book. She has never taken the trouble to interview Dr. Robert Jastrow, founder of the NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and later Director of the Mt. Wilson Astronomical Observatory and founding president of the renowned George C Marshall Institute in Washington, DC. I can find no evidence that she ever interviewed Dr. William Nierenberg, director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, who actually lived in San Diego and was readily accessible. And I doubt if she ever even met Dr. Frederick Seitz, the main target of her venom. Seitz was the most distinguished of the group of physicists that are attacked in the book. He had served as President of the US National Academy of Sciences and of the American Physical Society, and later as President of Rockefeller University. He had been awarded numerous honorary degrees from universities here and abroad, as well as the prestigious National Medal of Science from the White House. Instead of seeking firsthand information in the tradition of historical research, Oreskes relies on secondary or tertiary sources, quoting people who agree with her ideology. A good example of this is her discussion of acid rain and of the White House panel (under Reagan, in 1982) chaired by Bill Nierenberg, on which I also served. Here she relies on what she was told by Dr. Gene Likens, whose research funding depends on portraying acid rain as a very serious environmental problem. It most definitely is not -- and indeed disappeared from view as soon as Congress passed legislation designed to reduce the effect. An amazing discovery: I found that Oreskes gives me credit (or blames me) for inventing "cap-and-trade," the trading of emission rights under a fixed cap of total emissions (see pp. 91-93). I had never claimed such a priority because I honestly don't know if this idea had been published anywhere. It seemed like the natural thing to suggest in order to reduce total cost -- once an emission cap had been set. My example involved smelters that emit SO2 copiously versus electric utilities that burn coal containing some sulfur. I even constructed what amounts to a "supply curve" in which the bulk of the emission control is borne initially by the lowest-cost units. Of course, Likens and some others on the panel, antagonistic to coal-burning electric utilities, objected to having my discussion included in the panel report. Nierenberg solved the problem neatly by putting my contribution into a signed Appendix, thereby satisfying some panel members who did not want be responsible for a proposal that might let some electric utilities off the hook. We have established so far that Oreskes is neither a scientist of any sort nor a careful professional historian. She is, however, a "pop-psychologist." It seems she has figured out what motivates the four senior physicists she libels in her book; it is "anti-communism." Really! This is not only stated explicitly but she also identifies them throughout as "Cold Warriors." Well, now we know at least where Oreskes stands in the political spectrum. SOURCE Global warming and African religion Does global warming affect African religion? Of course it does! Global warming affects everything! I can't say I am strongly seized by the urgency of the "problem", however. Maybe a devotion to the Lord Jesus Christ could as a result supplant African native religions, something I would applaud. At any event the paper is rubbish. It is just a series of assertions based on opinion rather than any quantified research The Impact of Climate Change on African Traditional Religious Practices By Christian NG Abstract Developing countries especially in the African continent are bearing the brunt of the impact of climate change. However, what have not been brought to the fore are the impacts of the phenomenon of climate change on African traditional religious practices. This paper, therefore attempts to critically evaluate the impact of climate change on African traditional religious practices. This study is based on two basic assumptions-first, the African traditional religion employs natural elements as mode of expression of its faith. Secondly, the African world is suffused with religion. Using a critical phenomenological method of analysis, it was found that African traditional religion has directly and indirectly been affected by the consequences of climate change in Africa. The paper, however, recommended among other things, a collective cum community adjustment approach to the realities of climate change. J Earth Sci Clim Change 5:209. Smoking Gun Of Massive Climate Fraud At NCDC And The EPA The EPA has this graph on their website, based on the NCDC Climate Extremes Index It shows that the area of the US with hot daily summer temperatures is at record levels. The graph is completely fraudulent. In fact it is inverted. Prior to 1960, the area of the US which reached 100 degrees during summer was quite a bit higher, and in 1936 seventy-five percent of stations reached 100 degrees. The percentage of the US reaching 100 degrees every year is much lower now, with 2014 close to a record low. The EPA graph shows 2012 as the hottest, when in fact it wasn’t even in the top ten. They show 1936 at 50%, when in fact it was 75%. Next is the minimum temperature graph – again in sharp disagreement with the EPA graph. This metric is not affected by TOBS or homogenization. Apparently the good people at NCDC are simply fabricating numbers, because I used their thermometer data in this analysis. SOURCE Fossil-Fueled Fiction By weather forecaster Joe Bastardi It’s been a heck of a week for hysteria in the so-called Climate War. Apparently, with all the other things going on in the world, the hysteria has to be whipped up so people actually pay attention to this trumped-up agenda. Look at this, an inconvenient truth if hysteria is your agenda: “World Disasters Report for 2013 – lowest number of catastrophies and deaths in 10 years.” That’s right. All this screaming and yelling about how bad it is, and we find that we are at a decade low in terms of catastrophes and deaths. Wait a minute – isn’t this extreme of non-extremes an extreme in itself? This lack of disasters is a disaster since it’s a sign there has to be more disasters. After all, how can there be any less? Don’t be surprised if that argument shows up. After all, only in the world of the AGW alarmists can a record-breaking amount of ice in the Southern Hemisphere and the third highest snow total for September in the Northern Hemisphere be a sign it’s getting warmer. Apparently, humans are also changing the freeze process. Perhaps water now freezes at higher temperatures and that’s the reason increases in snow and ice are a sign it’s warmer? (Sarcasm.) And then we get this from the founder of the “#ClimateSilence” and “#DontFundEvil” campaigns, Brad Johnson, who calls himself “Climatebrad”: “Dangerous, Fossil-Fueled Hurricane Gonzalo Barrels Toward Bermuda.” Is that so? Gonzalo went through the area we said in April would be primed for the strongest storms. We predicted one or two major hurricanes. Guess what? Gonzalo was the second major hurricane of the year. Apparently, this “fossil fuel” didn’t work too well. It weakened from Category 4 to Category 2 as it reached Bermuda – quite a bit different from the non-fossil fuel Hazel in October 1954 which hit the North Carolina coast as a Category 4 and caused hurricane force winds all the way into Canada. Moreover, the hurricane season this year has gone almost exactly as our non-fossil fuel-based forecast said it would when we put it out in April! Look at the tracks of the storms, where we had the two prime regions for storm. All of the hurricanes had hit maximum intensity in our two main areas. We had little activity in the deep tropics. Over 80% of the total ACE (Accumulated Cyclone Energy) index this year is in the two shaded areas. If there is any criticism, it’s that the area of highest threat should have been centered east about 300 miles. But without any of this fossil fuel nonsense, this forecast from April targeted the season we have had. We are within one now of the total number and all the hurricanes (Dolly was tropical storm) have gone through our areas. If we get a late season development later this week, it reaches the low end of the total number. The forecast had one or two major hurricanes, and we’ve had two form. As of Sunday PM, we are near 75% of total ACE. Or how about this for a headline: “Some cities try to stem the fossil-fueled flood in South Florida.” There's the strategy! Every event is fossil-fueled now. This example is from someone who could not possibly have had the life he has had, or could do what he does (this applies to all of us) without fossil fuels. Which is one of the things that bugs me so much about the whole AGW movement. Here we are, all nice and warm with our marvelous technology, and the same people and industries that help so much make it that way are now demonized and destroyed. I believe the word to describe someone that does that is “ingrate.” Just a reminder folks: The true"hockey sticks" of fossil fuel, given the fact there are tree ring studies such as Liu’s from China, are not with temperatures, but with world wide GDP and life expectancy. Temperatures from 400BC -- no hockeystick Wealth from 1500 AD. A REAL hockeystick Another real hockestick Though showing you only a couple of examples, it’s obvious the strategy of the AGW alarmists is to simply blame everything on fossil fuels. Even in the year of a lack of extreme events, they are trumpeting all weather events as evidence they are right. In a way, they are playing an “Everybody Gets a Trophy” card (no matter what we say, we are right, give me my trophy) and a victim card (the evil fossil fuel people are destroying us; never mind we are far better off than we would have been if what we are pushing was enacted from the get-go). I guess then it’s okay for me to call what they do what it is: FOSSIL-FUELED PROPAGANDA. Why not? They claim everything else is. SOURCE No apologies to Bob Carter? When Carter first drew attention to the cessation of global warming after 1998, he was roundly abused, condemned and told he was wrong. Now that even Warmists admit to what they call the "pause" in warming, is anybody apologizing to Carter and admitting that he was right after all? Certainly no Warmists are It was an Australian scientist, Bob Carter, who first drew attention to the flattening trend in an article in Britain’s The Telegraph in April 2006. Carter reviewed the official temperature records of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia for the years 1998 to 2005 and asked: “Does something not strike you as odd?” Carter’s reward for identifying the lack of global warming was to have his professional reputation trashed. When Carter repeated his suggestion in the Australian press a year later, the CSIRO felt obliged to respond. Carter had presented “an unethical misrepresentation of the facts”, wrote Andrew Ash, acting director of the CSIRO’s Climate Adaptation Flagship. “All scientists welcome honest criticism since it helps to sharpen our analyses and improve our understanding, but scepticism based on half-truths and misrepresentation of facts is not helpful.” ABC online’s The Drum refused to run his commentary. ABC Radio National’s science broadcaster Robyn Williams gave an open microphone to Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change communications director Bob Ward, who accused Carter of “desperately seeking bits of information to back up a theory”. Political scientist Robert Manne said the likes of Carter, award-winning geologist Ian Plimer and former head of the National Climate Centre at the Bureau of Meteorology William Kininmonth “have to be resisted and indeed denounced” along with the “anti-political correctness and anti-collectivist ideologues, the right-wing media and the fossil fuel corporations”. As recently as two years ago, former finance minister Nick Minchin was mocked on the ABC’s Q&A for suggesting that temperatures had plateaued. “There is a major problem with the warmist argument because we have had rising CO2 but we haven’t had the commensurate rise in temperature that the IPCC predicted,” he said. “That’s just not true Nick,” responded Anna Rose, chairwoman of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition. The University of NSW’s Matthew England joined in. “What Nick just said is actually not true. The IPCC projections of 1990 have borne out very accurately the projections now 22 years old.” As it happens, it was true. The 1990 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report predicted temperature rises of 0.3C each decade. In fact, according to the latest report global temperatures have risen only 0.14C per decade since 1978. In September last year a draft version of the fifth assessment report of the IPCC’s working group 1 that assesses the physical science of climate finally acknowledged the gap between computer projections and observed surface temperatures between 1998 and 2012. The IPCC was not so bold as to admit that its previous reports were wrong. It did accept, however, that there had been a “global mean surface temperature trend hiatus”, which amounts to the same thing. If science worked as purely as Francis Bacon suggested it should, by the application of induction and observation, climate science would have moved on by now. Experts, however, are only human. Too many professional reputations have been invested in a fixed idea for it to be simply abandoned. The heating has not stopped, we are told, it has simply “paused”. The word bristles with presumption. Despite their appalling track record in the past 20 years, climate scientists still believe they can predict how temperatures will move in the future. “The ocean is absorbing huge amounts of heat energy and then will toss it back on us further along,” Dr Karl told Delroy. Nobody suggested that temperatures should rise in a straight line, he said. “It’s much more complicated than that … there are so many factors involved, El Nino, La Nina, Pacific Decadal Oscillation, etc, that suggests that you need a 17-year window to able to look past the noise. “And here they are saying we’re looking at a nine-year window and it looks sort of not as uppity as before. Well that’s easy, it’s not a 17-year window.” [Dr Karl Kruszelnicki is ignoring facts that even Warmists now admit -- the "pause" has gone on for 18 years] SOURCE For more postings from me, see DISSECTING LEFTISM, TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC and AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Home Pages are here or here or here. Email me (John Ray) here. Preserving the graphics: Most graphics on this site are hotlinked from elsewhere. But hotlinked graphics sometimes have only a short life -- as little as a week in some cases. After that they no longer come up. From January 2011 on, therefore, I have posted a monthly copy of everything on this blog to a separate site where I can host text and graphics together -- which should make the graphics available even if they are no longer coming up on this site. See here or here 23 October, 2014 Do Italian chamois prove global warming? In the Italian Alps there are records of the weight of animals shot by hunters -- and the carcasses of chamois goats are now quite a bit lighter than they used to be. Why? The Warmist researchers below discovered that betwen 1979 and 2010 temperatures in the study area rose substantially -- by around 3 degrees. And that is the first oddity. Global temperatures over that time rose by only tenths of a degree. So there were some LOCAL effects at work on temperatures in the area. The results tell us nothing about GLOBAL warming. But do they tell us anything about what might be if the whole world warmed by the same amount? Probably not. In best Warmist style they used models to analyse their data, thus introducing possibilities of arbitrariness. And the result is that there is no clear test of whether temperature was the driver of the effects observed. And there was another clear driver -- population density. The population of animals in the study area rose during the time of the study. So if there are more goats competing for feed each goat is likely to be less well-fed. And calorie deficiency is well know to shrink body mass. So competent research would have used some type of regression analysis to remove the effect of density before temperature effects were looked for. The authors did not do that. They simply plugged in both density and temperature into their models -- leaving unanswered whether there was any statistically significant effect of temperature after the variations in density had been allowed for. Very sloppy! Goats are shrinking as a result of climate change, researchers have claimed. They say Alpine goats now weigh about 25 per cent less than animals of the same age in the 1980s. Researchers say it is a stark indication of how quickly climate change can affect animals. They appear to be shrinking in size as they react to changes in climate, according to new research from Durham University. The researchers studied the impacts of changes in temperature on the body size of Alpine Chamois, a species of mountain goat, over the past 30 years. To their surprise, they discovered that young Chamois now weigh about 25 per cent less than animals of the same age in the 1980s. In recent years, decreases in body size have been identified in a variety of animal species, and have frequently been linked to the changing climate. However, the researchers say the decline in size of Chamois observed in this study is striking in its speed and magnitude. The research, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council is published in the journal Frontiers in Zoology. Lead author Dr Tom Mason, in the School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, at Durham University, said: 'Body size declines attributed to climate change are widespread in the animal kingdom, with many fish, bird and mammal species getting smaller. 'However the decreases we observe here are astonishing. 'The impacts on Chamois weight could pose real problems for the survival of these populations.' The team delved into long-term records of Chamois body weights provided by hunters in the Italian Alps. They discovered that the declines were strongly linked to the warming climate in the study region, which became 3-4oC warmer during the 30 years of the study. The team believes that higher temperatures are affecting how chamois behave. 'We know that Chamois cope with hot periods by resting more and spending less time searching for food, and this may be restricting their size more than the quality of the vegetation they eat,' said Co-author Dr Stephen Willis. 'If climate change results in similar behavioural and body mass changes in domestic livestock, this could have impacts on agricultural productivity in coming decades.' SOURCE Environmental change and long-term body mass declines in an alpine mammal A New Documentary Profiles "Liars for Hire" The story below -- based on a book by Naomi Oreskes -- calls distinguished climate scientist Fred Singer (a man who has made enormous contributions to atmospheric physics research) a liar and a snake-oil salesman. It is as we constantly get from Warmists -- all abuse with not a single scientific datum mentioned. Logicians refer to such discourse as the "argumentum ad hominem" -- one of the classic informal fallacies of logic. But who expects logic from Warmists? By Tom HE Mason et al. Abstract Introduction Climate and environmental change have driven widespread changes in body size, particularly declines, across a range of taxonomic groups in recent decades. Size declines could substantially impact on the functioning of ecosystems. To date, most studies suggest that temporal trends in size have resulted indirectly from climate change modifying resource availability and quality, affecting the ability of individuals to acquire resources and grow. Results Here, we investigate striking long-term body mass declines in juvenile Alpine chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra), within three neighbouring populations in the Italian Alps. We find strong evidence that increasing population density and warming temperatures during spring and summer are linked to the mass declines. We find no evidence that the timing or productivity of resources have been altered during this period. Conclusions We conclude that it is unlikely that environmental change has driven body size change indirectly via effects on resource productivity or phenology [growth cycles]. Instead, we propose that environmental change has limited the ability of individuals to acquire resources. This could be due to increases in the intensity of competition and decreases in time spent foraging, owing to high temperatures. Our findings add weight to a growing body of evidence for long-term body size reductions and provide considerable insight into the potential drivers of such trends. Furthermore, we highlight the potential for appropriate management, for instance increases in harvest size, to counteract the impacts of climate change on body mass. So why the extreme abuse of a prominent and truth-telling scientist? It is the old Leftist tactic of projection -- accusing others of what is true of yourself. As I have pointed out recently, it is Naomi Oreskes who is the fraud and a liar. She published a claim that all the scientific journal abstracts she could find on global warming agreed with it. Benny Peiser, however, tried to replicate her study but got radically different results. Skepticas can PROVE who the fraud is Fred Singer has been taking advice on whether he should sue over the libels against him but there is no way he can match the deep pockets of the Greenies. If Oreskes & Co. appeal a verdict against them, the cost could run to well over a million and even if they lose the appeal Singer would still face a huge loss. In America, unlike most other jurisdictions, costs are usually not awarded against the unsuccessful party. Very few Americans can afford to contest a libel The New York Film Festival, now in its fifty-second year, is unusual in that it combines big-money extravaganzas like Gone Girl and Birdman with small, worthy films whose publicity budgets would barely cover the cost of Ben Affleck’s body waxings. Given the presence of so much of the film world in one place, the festival allows these latter movies to vastly increase their ability to secure media attention without the tens of millions of dollars that the studios devote to their superheroes. A new documentary shown twice at the festival, and scheduled to be released in March, got my attention. Merchants of Doubt is directed by Robert Kenner and based on the 2010 book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, two esteemed historians of science. The film, simultaneously entertaining, instructive and extremely important, traces the techniques through which profit-seeking corporations seek to undermine honest science in the public mind so that they might continue to make money poisoning our bodies and destroying our planet. The argument can be condensed to one simple idea: the tactics perfected by the tobacco industry, which were designed to obfuscate the cancer-causing nature of its products back in the 1950s and ’60s, are now widespread throughout corporate America. When an internal Brown & Williamson memo declared decades ago, “Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the ‘body of fact’ that exists in the mind of the general public,” it created the template for countless oil, coal, chemical, agricultural, tobacco and manufacturing companies, as well as the front groups they fund and, more than occasionally, invent. By paying off members of Congress and exploiting the structural vulnerabilities of “objective” journalism, these companies have been able to fool the public and enrich themselves through a kind of slow-motion “murder for hire” operation. The book is a first-rate piece of journalistic investigation and scientific inquiry. But we live in a culture in which the influence of books pales in comparison with that of cinema (to say nothing of television or even video games). Naomi Oreskes, who appears extensively in the film, told me that, yes, “the technical content is greatly simplified…. In the book, we had extensive but (hopefully) clear explanations of the science, including how and when scientists had come to understand the threats represented by acid rain, ozone depletion, climate change, etc. The film, however, has greater emotional impact. It’s less intellectual, but more visceral.” The pioneers in the field are not only the liars for hire employed by the tobacco industry for so many decades, but also Cold War scientists like Robert Jastrow, Fred Seitz and William Nierenberg, who initially founded the George C. Marshall Institute to promote Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars boondoggle and then switched gears to lie about climate change—a task in which they’ve been joined by scientist/snake-oil salesman Fred Singer, who also cares more about opposing all forms of corporate regulation than he does about truth. But the star of this show is the astonishingly charming rogue Marc Morano, a frequent cable-television guest who admits, “I’m not a scientist, but I do play one on TV.” Morano, the founder of ClimateDepot.com, not only spouts his nefarious nonsense about science everywhere he goes but is also in the business of ensuring the mau-mauing of genuine scientific researchers who have felt a responsibility to go public with the dangers we face. “We went after James Hansen and Michael Oppenheimer and had a lot of fun with it…we mocked and ridiculed,” Morano brags. He has also published their private e-mails, both as a means of harassment and as a warning to other scientists who might be considering doing the same thing. Where are the media in all of this? As Oreskes explains, “It was an explicit part of the strategy of merchandising doubt to use the media to create the impression of controversy. If the media are not pulled in, the strategy fails. So a large part of the story is industry courting and, where necessary, pressuring the media to give ‘equal time’ to its views. Interestingly, what we found was that overt pressure was fairly rare. The media didn’t need to be pressured.” SOURCE Some wisdom from 1884 This New York Herald article of Friday, February 1, 1884 says that climate change is not involved in the California drought of that era. It points out the cyclicity of droughts in California. So the present California drought has to be just part of a natural cycle too -- particularly as there has been no global warming for the last 18 years Climate change now 'irreversible' - claim One wonders what drives the guy to make these unfounded prophecies. The only evidence he offers is the old theory that rising CO2 levels will have catastrophic effects -- despite the fact that markedly rising CO2 levels have had NO effect for the last 18 years. He does say that CO2 for some reason takes 40 years to have an effect but that is a strange claim -- well outside the usual Warmist models. It is however a safe claim: He may well not live long enough to see his theory disconfirmed. He also thinks chemtrails are “geoengineering” the planet and that 9/11 was a controlled demolition. He also lives in a straw house in the middle of the woods surrounded by animals. A paranoid schzophrenic would be my guess The climate change message is just depressing, no matter what way you look at it. Best case scenario, we all have to change our lives dramatically, just to keep us vaguely on the right track. Worst case scenario - were all doomed. Unsurprisingly, that's a hard message for scientists to get us all to listen to, which might be why Professor emeritus Guy McPherson is a teacher of natural resources, ecology and evolutionary biology, but is also a grief counsellor on the side. Prof McPherson taught and conducted research at the University of Arizona for 20 years before leaving the university in 2009. He will be speaking about climate change in guest lectures in New Zealand from October 22 to November 1. You can catch Prof McPherson at an event co-organised by AUT's School of Social Sciences and Public Policy and the Pacific Media Centre in Auckland on October 22 at 5.30pm. Tonight on the Paul Henry Show, he explains that due to the arrogance of humans, the damage done is too far along and now irreversible. Now, the only way to help planet Earth is to "terminate industrial civilisation". SOURCE Shale Boom Helping American Consumers as Never Before Oil traders might see the 27 percent slide in global prices as a bear market. For U.S. consumers, it's more like an early holiday gift. The drop in crude has pulled retail gasoline down more than 50 cents a gallon from the year's high in April. That means annual savings of $500 for the average U.S. household, which consumes about 1,000 gallons of fuel a year, according to data from the Federal Highway Administration and Energy Information Administration. "That's like somebody putting dollars right in your pocket," David Hackett, the president of Stillwater Associates, an energy consultant in Irvine, California, said by phone on Oct. 14. "That sounds like Christmas presents, going out to dinner, being able to do something." Gasoline's slide represents the biggest benefit that U.S. consumers have seen to date from a record boom in domestic oil production, a surge that's contributing to a global crude glut and helping reduce international prices. U.S. gasoline is being exported at record levels for this time of year. More from Bloomberg.com: Monaco Murders Reveal Six Hidden Real Estate Billionaires The average retail price fell 1.9 cents to $3.144 a gallon, Heathrow, Florida-based motoring group AAA said on its website. That's down from this year's peak of $3.696 in April and the lowest since February 2011. Futures have decreased 84 cents on the New York Mercantile Exchange over the same period, signaling there may be further declines at the pump. Following Crude Gasoline is following the larger drop in the oil market. Brent crude, the global benchmark, closed at $86.16 a barrel today on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange after slipping yesterday to $82.60, the lowest level since November 2010. U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate settled at $82.75 today on the New York Mercantile Exchange, after trading below $80 yesterday for the first time since 2012. Prices are falling with U.S. oil output at the highest level since 1985 and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries producing the most in more than a year. At the same time, the Paris-based International Energy Agency lowered its estimate for global demand growth for this year and next in an Oct. 14 report. Americans are spending about $230 million a day less on gasoline than they were on July 4, based on prices and consumption, said Michael Green, a Washington-based spokesman for AAA, the country's biggest motoring group. ‘Free Money' Most consumers are paying $5 to $15 less to fill their tanks than they were around the Fourth of July, according to Green. "This is free money that people can use for savings or other spending in time for holiday shopping," he said by e-mail on Oct. 15. On top of sliding energy prices, food costs fell 0.7 percent in September, driven lower by eggs, baked goods and meat, IHS Inc., an Englewood, Colorado-based consultant, said in research note on Oct. 15. Combined, the drops stand to improve the holiday season both under the Christmas tree and on the dinner table, said Michael Montgomery, a U.S. economist at IHS. "The two most observed prices by consumers are food and energy and they play the largest role in forming consumer opinions about inflation, providing a little more room for luxuries rather than facing a squeeze from necessities," he said in the report. Retail sales over this holiday season, from November through December, are expected to be up 4.2 percent from last year, according to IHS. That excludes motor vehicles, gasoline and food purchases. Holiday Season "This holiday season -- with just about six weeks until Black Friday -- is expected to glitter in comparison to the last two years," Chris G. Christopher Jr., director of IHS's U.S. consumer economics group, said in a report on Oct. 15. "The recent news on the consumer front has been relatively favorable, especially as pump prices are falling." Black Friday, the day after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, marks the start of the holiday shopping season. It falls on Nov. 28 this year. Americans' expectations for the economy in October climbed to the highest level in almost two years. A measure tracking the economic outlook increased to 51 this month, the strongest since November 2012, from 41.5 in September, data from the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index showed yesterday. Retail Sales Retail sales slid 0.3 percent in September, following a 0.6 percent gain in August that was the biggest in four months, Commerce Department figures show. "Reconciling consumer confidence with consumer spending continues to be a challenge," said Jack Kleinhenz, the chief economist at the National Retail Federation in Washington, who described last month's retail sales as "surprisingly weak." While spending on gasoline accounts for less than 5 percent of the average person's disposable income, it has an "undue influence on consumer confidence" because of the way the fuel is sold and paid for, Christopher said Oct. 15 by phone from Lexington, Massachusetts. "When you go over to that pump, and you squeeze that liquid into your car, you're seeing the amount going higher and higher, and that's an unusual way of consuming something," Christopher said. "It's the way we purchase it. It's immediate. Gasoline is different from almost any other consumer item." SOURCE Big dam building program in Australia The Greenies will be livid PLANS for the biggest dam-building and irrigation program in decades will be unveiled today in a major policy blueprint for the future of the nation’s agricultural sector that identifies 27 water projects for potential commonwealth investment. The agricultural competitiveness green paper will outline a nation-building agenda that contemplates dam expansions, infrastructure development and greater access to ports. Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce will declare the government is moving to reinvigorate the dam-building agenda, arguing that it must recapture the vision and purpose of the post-war Snowy Mountains Scheme. “Water is wealth and stored water is a bank,’’ Mr Joyce will say. “Sometimes the biggest impediment to our nation returning to the vision and purpose that built the Snowy Mountains Scheme is ourselves ably assisted by the caveats of sacred invertebrates, amphibians and molluscs. “Chaffey Dam (in NSW) was almost stopped by the booroolong frog, Nathan Dam (in Queensland) was stopped by the boggomoss snail, yet Lake Argyle (in Western Australia) created two RAMSAR wetlands that would prevent us getting rid of that dam, not that we want to.’’ The last major greenfields dam completed in Australia was the Wyarolong Dam in southeast Queensland, finished in 2011. The pace of dam development has slowed significantly across the nation since the 1980s amid increasing opposition from environmentalists to new projects. The green paper identifies six irrigation projects in Tasmania and Victoria that could be considered for federal government investment within a year. Five of these are Tasmanian irrigation projects — Southern Highlands, Scottsdale, Circular Head, Swan Valley and North Esk — and the sixth is the southern pipeline project in the Macalister irrigation district in Victoria’s Gippsland. Four projects — the Emu Swamp dam on the Severn River near Stanthorpe in Queensland, an expansion of the Nathan Dam on the Dawson River in Queensland, the Wellington Dam Revival Project in Western Australia and the Lindenow Valley Water Security Project on the Mitchell River in Victoria — are identified as potential candidates for federal funding, pending further investigation. Another 17 projects are flagged as likely to be suitable for further consideration for assistance to accelerate feasibility studies, cost-benefit analysis or design. These include the water infrastructure components of stage three of the Ord irrigation scheme in Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Four projects in NSW have been identified, including an enlargement of the Lostock Dam in NSW’s Hunter Valley, Apsley Dam at Walcha, the Mole River Dam in northern NSW and Needles Gap on the central tablelands. A string of major water projects have been identified in north Queensland: the Burdekin Falls Dam expansion; the Fitzroy Agricultural Corridor; the Mitchell River system; Nullinga Dam near Cairns; and Urannah Dam near Collinsville. Further study is slated for a north Queensland irrigated agriculture strategy around the Flinders and Gilbert river catchments. In South Australia, upgrades to dams in the Clare Valley and the use of waste water in the northern Adelaide plains are under consideration. While emphasising not every project will get federal funding or go ahead, Mr Joyce says the government’s dams program has already started. “In the last month we have started the construction of the Chaffey Dam upgrade (in NSW) and allocated $15.9 million for the continuation of the piping and capping of the Great Artesian bores,” he says. Mr Joyce will say the nation must drive down transport costs to make the rural sector more effective and leverage the mining sector’s common interest in requiring water and the movement of bulk commodities. He will highlight the government’s $300m to start the inland rail line between Melbourne and Brisbane and say he hopes it is later extended to Gladstone. “We must work with the mining industry to see the transport capital and water capital built that is in both our interests as bulk commodity producers and users,’’ he will tell the National Farmers Federation congress in Canberra today. The green paper will argue that improving access to reliable water supplies and better managing existing water resources is essential for the continued growth of the agricultural sector. Water resources in northern Australia are less developed than in the south, meaning opportunities exist for strategic developments to support the development of water-dependent industries. About 65 per cent of Australia’s run-off occurs in far north Australia and coastal Queensland, and only 6.8 per cent in the Murray-Darling Basin. Declaring farming and “primary and overwhelming ownership” of farms by Australians to be a national good, Mr Joyce will argue that if the nation wants to increase its agricultural output, it must motivate and send the right signals to make people want to do that. This will involve cheaper and more effective ways of getting products to market. The paper will argue that while a market solution is preferable, monopolies and oligopolies must be closely monitored and a fair return to the landholder is essential to the future of the industry. The paper will back the controversial “effects test’’ supported by the chairman of the government’s competition review, Ian Harper. Mr Harper, in his interim review, backed an effects test that would prohibit business and trading conduct that would have the effect of substantially lessening competition. The 27 water projects listed in the green paper were identified after Mr Joyce chaired a ministerial working group to identity how investment in water infrastructure, such as dams and groundwater storage, could be accelerated and to identify priorities for investment. Tony Abbott put dam building on the national agenda prior to the last election, at the height of the Queensland floods in 2011. The green paper will argue that government involvement in water infrastructure development should be directed to activities that are in the national interest, deliver net economic and social benefits, and broader public benefits. But given the states and territories have primary responsibility for water resources, strong state government support for a project is also a prerequisite. SOURCE For more postings from me, see DISSECTING LEFTISM, TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC and AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Home Pages are here or here or here. Email me (John Ray) here. Preserving the graphics: Most graphics on this site are hotlinked from elsewhere. But hotlinked graphics sometimes have only a short life -- as little as a week in some cases. After that they no longer come up. From January 2011 on, therefore, I have posted a monthly copy of everything on this blog to a separate site where I can host text and graphics together -- which should make the graphics available even if they are no longer coming up on this site. See here or here 22 October, 2014 UK: Didcot fire raises risk of winter blackouts and soaring prices One more unexpected interruption to power supplies could cause a "serious" shortage and soaring prices, expert warns. "Green" Britain has shaved its safety margin to the bone in order to phase out "dirty" coal and gas power stations The fire at Didcot power station has raised the risk of Britain facing blackouts and soaring prices this winter, a leading energy analyst has warned. Just one or two more unexpected events - such as power plant closures - "could cause a serious security of supply event, and a probable surge in wholesale prices", Peter Atherton of Liberum Capital said. The fire-affected half of Didcot B, a gas-fired power station in Oxfordshire, remains offline after a major blaze on Sunday night which damaged its cooling towers. The plant has the capacity to supply about one million homes. The closure of old coal and oil-fired power plants has eroded Britain's spare capacity margins - the safety buffer between maximum capacity and peak demand - over recent years. A series of fires and safety incidents at other power plants had worsened the situation over recent months, leaving spare margins much tighter than expected this winter and leading National Grid to invoke emergency measures to stop blackouts. “The loss of this plant would not normally be a cause for concern. But UK energy policy has managed to engineer historically low reserve margins as we head into winter,” Mr Atherton said. He said that most other advanced economies would have enough spare capacity to cope with perhaps 10 unexpected events limiting supplies - but the UK's precarious situation meant it may be able to cope with just four. "Unfortunately, the UK has now seen three unexpected events before the clock change. Another one or two could cause a serious security of supply event, and a probable surge in wholesale prices," he said. Mr Atherton said the fire - which follows fires at Ironbridge and Ferrybridge in recent months - "may just be an unusual run of events, or it might suggest that the aging power station fleet is becoming more vulnerable to accidents". “The odds are still that UK will escape a security of supply crunch this winter. But the mere fact that a security of supply crisis is a material possibility is in itself a sign of huge policy failure in our view.” Didcot B is owned by Npower’s parent company RWE, which said the fire has not caused any disruption to energy supplies. The company's other power station at the site, Didcot A, was closed last year. “I’ve been reassured by National Grid that there is no risk to electricity supplies,” said Ed Davey, secretary of state for energy and climate change. SOURCE Farmer’s Harassment Claim Against Green Group to Get Airing Martha Boneta says a regional conservation group has trespassed repeatedly on her small farm in Paris, Va., about an hour outside Washington, D.C. Boneta says the group, the Piedmont Environmental Council, has attempted to drive her off the farm through overzealous zoning enforcement, unwarranted and overly invasive inspections and an IRS audit she says was instigated by one of its board members. The group argues that it has done nothing more than perform its duty to enforce a legal agreement with Boneta and decries the failure “to see eye-to-eye” with Boneta on how to do so. He Said, She Said, Court Said The dispute has had this he-said, she-said quality to it for years. But recent events have brought increased scrutiny of the actions of the Piedmont Environmental Council, which was founded in 1972 and bills itself as “one of the most effective community-based environmental groups in the country.” Among them: A court ruling scaled back the organization’s inspection rights on Boneta’s 64-acre Liberty Farm. A judge sided with a winery owner in a similar dispute with the habitat preservation group Ducks Unlimited. And documents revealed that a member of the group’s board wanted to put spy cameras on Boneta’s property. And now, the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, listed as a co-holder of the conservation easement at the center of the dispute, will afford 20 minutes each to Boneta and the Piedmont Environmental Council to explain the situation as part of its regular board meeting to be held Thursday, Nov. 6, in Richmond, Va. The Virginia Outdoors Foundation is a public agency with a board of trustees that meets at least three times per year to take up easement enforcement and policy matters, help preserve open lands and solicit private donations for preservation purposes. The foundation, created by the Virginia General Assembly in 1966, has no power to constrain the actions of the Piedmont Environmental Council or other conservation organizations and no oversight role in state law. But the fact that an agency with a stake in the easement at issue in the case of Boneta’s farm is holding a hearing to examine the actions of the other co-holder suggests a tipping point in the tussle. Bonner Cohen, senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., a pro-property rights group that has studied the dispute, said the Virginia Outdoors Foundation has “good reason to be concerned” about the environmental council’s “abuse of its … authority.” Cohen said: There is nothing in the conservation easement that gives the PEC the power to harass and humiliate Martha Boneta, as the organization has repeatedly done over the years. The only way to put an end to this outrageous behavior is to sever the PEC from any responsibility for the easement. The Piedmont Environmental Council declined comment for this story. Courts and Courts of Public Opinion Easements are agreements that landowners enter into with government, quasi-government or private conservation entities in which the landowners receive tax breaks or other benefits in exchange for foregoing development of their property. The easement on Boneta’s farm permits commercial, industrial, residential and agricultural uses. Boneta bought her farm from the Piedmont Environmental Council in 2006 with the easement attached. According to county tax records, though, she never received tax breaks for it. She has spent most of the intervening years fighting the group in court. In 2009, the group sued Boneta after an inspection for compliance with the easement compliance turned up agricultural tires and an expandable hose attachment used to wash the mud off visitors’ boots. The group claimed the hose and tires compromised the “viewshed” of the area. The matter was settled out of court. But at the time, the Piedmont Environmental Council noted Boneta had made improvements to a barn complex and a blacksmith shop called “The Smithy.” Although she is permitted under the easement to make these changes, the environmental group claimed she made them so she could install apartments and rent them as residential dwellings in violation of the easement. That claim brought two more years of litigation, which resulted in a settlement agreement reached on Oct. 11, 2011. The environmental group had to stipulate Boneta didn’t have apartments on the property, and Boneta had to agree to allow four inspections a year to ensure she didn’t build any. Last fall, Boneta filed a lawsuit in Fauquier County Circuit Court that said the environmental council and two of its members, the husband-and-wife real estate team of Phillip and Patricia Thomas, had taken another tack. Her suit said the Thomases lobbied a zoning administrator and members of the elected Fauquier County Board of Supervisors to issue citations of zoning violations against her property. That suit has not gone to trial. Zoning Changes Give Rise to ‘Boneta Bill’ Boneta has had better luck in the Virginia General Assembly. In 2013, she and others convinced lawmakers to pass legislation that came to be known as the Boneta Bill. The measure strengthens property rights and redefines what constitutes “farm activities” to prevent localities from imposing overly burdensome regulations on family farms throughout Virginia. Boneta began to rally support for the legislation in August 2012, when Fauquier County fined her for having a children’s birthday party in her barn. But the state’s protection of property rights hasn’t stopped the Piedmont Environmental Council from overzealous enforcement of the easement, Boneta says. She has claimed, and those who have visited Liberty Farm during inspections agree, that the preservation group has looked through her personal belongings and gone far beyond what was needed to measure for the size of an apartment. Boneta called the inspections “trespassing” and a “fishing expedition for which it has no basis” in her counterclaim to the group’s 2009 suit. Brett C. Glymph, executive director of the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, told The Daily Signal the foundation doesn’t authorize or condone any of the Piedmont Environmental Council’s actions at Liberty Farm, but it can’t do much about them. Glymph said: “The PEC is responsible for the building structures and the architecture, while the VOF has its own areas such as the Oak Road Forest and the land itself. We administer our part; they administer theirs.” Security Cameras Turned Down Although Glymph would not discuss the litigation between the environmental group and Boneta, she did say Boneta has caused no trouble for the Virginia Outdoors Foundation and that her organization turned down the environmental council’s entreaty to install surveillance cameras on the farm. Memoranda uncovered by The Daily Signal revealed that Heather Richards, who serves both on the environmental group’s board and as its vice president of conservation and rural programs, suggested putting in the cameras to monitor Boneta’s activities. The foundation declined, and the project did not go forward. “We have never thought that security cameras were necessary,” Glymph said. “Up until now, this is not something that has been in our toolkit, and I don’t think it’s something the VOF would employ.” A similar dispute a few miles north of Boneta’s farm, in Loudoun County, Va., indicates momentum in the courts could be in her favor. Ducks Unlimited, the waterfowl and wetlands conservation group, alleged 14 easement violations by the owner of Chrysalis Winery. A Loudoun County judge sided with the winery and ruled the easement provided ample room for “evolving” agricultural activities. If the Nov. 6 hearing does reveal the Piedmont Environmental Council has overstepped its bounds, friends of Boneta and property rights activists are poised to take action. William Hurd, a former solicitor general—or chief legal defender—of Virginia, is among those who will testify on behalf of Boneta. “We are carefully reviewing the options,” Hurd said, adding: Conservation easements can be wonderful things, but it is evident the PEC has abused its authority as an easement holder. The situation cries out for either a judicial or legislative solution. Hurd said he hasn’t settled on a remedy. But Tom DeWeese, president of the American Policy Center, a Virginia group that champions free markets and property rights, has called for a congressional investigation of the environmental council. DeWeese also proposed a change in state law to allow property owners to opt out of easement agreements after five years. “Right now the easements exist in perpetuity, and this is a problem because there is no real oversight for how they are managed,” DeWeese said. “The PEC can move the easements around to the government and other land trusts. But the landowner is stuck forever with the easement.” SOURCE Even Squid Hate Greenpeace I don’t usually side with the giant squid. Between all the tentacles, the beak and their bad breath, it’s hard to sympathize with them. But when giant squids take on Greenpeace, we all win. A rare giant squid has been caught on video attacking a Greenpeace submarine in the Bering Sea. The Greenpeace expedition is part of the organisation’s campaign to protect the sealife from industrial fishing, which Greenpeace claims is uprooting and crushing coral and sponge communities. Greenpeace’s website says. “… We must take a precautionary approach and set aside representative portions of critical habitat – such as in the Bering Sea Canyons – as an insurance policy for our future.” Or we could just dump all Greenpeace members there and let the giant squid take care of things. But it also appears that Greenpeace doesn’t actually know anything about the creatures it wants to protect as it was not a giant squid. Considering the size of the sub, if it were a giant squid, the sub would have been a tic tac. "And their attackers weren’t a squid of the giant variety, but a pair of Humboldt squids, nicknamed “jumbo squid” or “red devil” for their famed aggression and the red colour the squid turn when in hunting or attack mode. Although these squid can get pretty big — up to 6.2 ft in mantle length and up to 100 lb in weight, these guys are relatively titchy — no longer than a few feet in length, maximum. Their size, however, is no indication of courage: colored a brilliant red, they have a brave go at the sub before swimming off in a puff of ink." 6 feet is not really big. Giant squid, whose existence is still somewhat controversial, are estimated to be in the 30 to 40 feet range and have been known to attack whales. SOURCE Don't Believe Desperate Wildlife Extinction Claims Alan Caruba One thing that those of us who have been longtime observers and debunkers of the lies surrounding global warming and/or climate change have noticed is that the “Warmists” have gotten increasingly desperate after more than eighteen years in which there has been no warming. As what they call “a pause” continues, they are coming up with some of the most absurd “research” to make their case. When you consider that not one single computer model produced by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or any of the other charlatans was accurate, one can imagine their sense of panic at this point. The latest claims were made by the wildlife group, WWF, the Zoological Society of London, and other affiliated groups. On October 1st, it was reported that, based on “an analysis of thousands of vertebrate species,” populations had fallen 52% between 1970 and 2010. In 2012 the same group had claimed they had declined 28% over a similar period of time. So now we are expected to believe that within two years’ time a massive larger decline had been detected. The claims are absurd. I won’t insult you by repeating them. Suffice to say they did not begin to cover the thousands of species that share planet Earth with humans, but you can be sure that it was humans that got blamed for the alleged declines, along with the usual recommendations that we give up the use of fossil fuels and other aspects of modern life to save some furry creature somewhere. For years we have been hearing that polar bears have been in decline, but one of the leading authorities on this species, zoologist Dr. Susan Crockford, has a report, “Ten good reasons not to worry about polar bears”, posted on the website of the Global warming Policy Foundation, led by Dr. Benny Pieser, a longtime critic of those behind the global warming hoax. Dr. Crockford called polar bears “a conservation success story. Their numbers have rebounded remarkably since 1973 and we can say for sure that there are more polar bears now than there were 40 years ago. Over on CFACT’s Climate Depot.com website, similar claims about walruses were debunked by Dr. Crockford who noted that mass haulouts (areas where they congregate) of Pacific walrus and stampede deaths are not new, now due to low ice cover. “The attempts by WWF and others to link this event to global warming is self-serving nonsense,” said Dr. Crockford,, “that has nothing to do with science…this is blatant nonsense and those who support or encourage this interpretation are misinforming the public.” “The Pacific walrus remains abundant, numbering at least 200,000 by some accounts, double the number in the 1950s.” The same time I read the article about the wildlife extinction claims, an email arrived from the Sierra Club—the kind they send to thousands who support its agenda—saying “For a mother polar bear and her cubs, the ice is already melting around them. The last thing they need to contend with is an oil spill.” The claim about ice is another lie because Arctic ice has been expanding, not melting, in the same fashion as ice in the Antarctic. The real reason for the email was to protest “two massive drilling leases” and prevent access to Alaskan oil. The Sierra Club and other environmental organizations have been on the front lines to get the Obama administration to keep the Keystone XL oil pipeline from being constructed. It has been senselessly delayed for six years despite the jobs and energy independence it will provide. One wonders if the top brass at the Sierra Club actually drive cars or do they all just bike to work? In a similar fashion, in May the Union of Concerned Scientists announced that, thanks to climate change, our national landmarks such as Ellis Island, the Everglades, and Cape Canaveral will be endangered, claiming that face a serious and uncertain future in a world of rising sea levels, frequent wildfires, flooding and other natural events. Only the sea levels are rising in millimeters, not inches or feet. There have been fewer forest fires and far fewer hurricanes of late. In short, this is just one more desperate Green claim. If the Greens are so concerned for wildlife, why don’t they protest the wind power turbines that slaughter thousands of birds and bats, and are exempted from prohibitions on the killing of eagles and condors? Because they are hypocrites, that’s why. Species extinction, like climate change, is a normal, natural aspect of life on Earth. It has nothing to do with human activities. There were no humans around to blame for the Great Permian Extinction when 90% of all life on Earth was destroyed. Global warming periods and abundant carbon dioxide have never been causes of mass extinctions. Craig Rucker, president of CFACT, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, says the Warmists “actually want us to believe that global warming is responsible for the Ebola virus, the rise of ISIS, and for tens of thousands of walruses getting together to ‘haul out’ on a beach in Alaska. Attributing such things to global warming is among the most shameless tactics in the warming campaign’s playbook.” SOURCE Virtuecrats Although unannounced, there are three political parties in the United States: Democrats, Republicans and Virtuecrats. The latter is bipartisan. It includes independents and many political agnostics. What it doesn't include are skeptics. The Virtuecrats are true believers, sure that what they are doing and marching for is right. Recently 400,000 of them paraded through the streets of New York in behalf of Global Warming, Saving the Earth, Climate Control or all of the above. They believe that the science behind global warming is settled. Hence there is nothing to debate. What they are unwilling to consider is that the science to which they refer is anything but settled. If you think about it, doubt should emerge. Discerning a pattern from the past does not constitute knowledge of the future, especially if you are dealing with a variety of unpredictable and idiosyncratic events. Man-made carbon factors represent one variable in a complex equation that includes natural conditions such as volcanic eruptions and sun-spot theory. Therefore a straight line extrapolation from point A in the past to point B in the future is mere guesswork. Surely there are sophisticated records of temperatures around the world. But the recording of global temperatures over time is no different from evaluating the purchasing power of the dollar over time. What you cannot predict are the imponderables associated with human behavior. That, in no small part, explains why models designed as predictors are flawed. One might assume that the Leonardo DiCaprio's of the world would exercise caution in their claims, even open-minded skepticism. But such a stance would diminish their zealotry and zealotry is a reason for demonstrating. A Virtuecrat must be sure. He must feel good about himself for standing up against the skeptics and those who just don't get it. They know for sure that greedy capitalists are behind the plot to promote fossil fuels which ultimately pollute the atmosphere and promote global warming. Now the capitalism which they abhor not only has produced an unprecedented standard of living that many in the world would like to emulate, it also has produced the leisure time for the demonstrations they engage in. Were it not for this "dirty capitalism" Mr. DiCaprio certainly could not afford to buy a $35 million dollar apartment in lower Manhattan. Of course, there is another obvious point overlooked by the Virtuecrats: the two most populous nations on the globe, India and China, do not have any interest in pursuing fossil fuel reduction. It might well be asked of the Virtuecrats why they aren't marching on the streets of Beijing. After all, the Chinese are the world's worst offenders of environmental propriety. It might even be asked why they aren't marching in Bismark North Dakota where an oil boom has produced a bonanza of wealth for local residents. The Virtuecrats are sure they get it, when in fact they don't. They are not scientific; they are not thoughtful and they are not tolerant. Why, then, do we tolerate them? The answer lies in the psychological condition of standing by a cause that is beneficial to mankind. When you march with celebrities, you are putting yourself on the line, challenging "the system." It feels good. Unfortunately feel good propositions rarely translate into sound policy. H.L. Mencken once said "every complex idea has a simple solution, which is usually wrong." Alas, the Virtuecrats have it wrong, even if the cause makes them feel superior to everyone else. SOURCE Ed Miliband and Baroness Worthington, the most expensive man and woman in Britain’s history Who are potentially the most expensive man and woman in Britain, due over the next 36 years to cost this country £1.3 trillion, equivalent to our entire, ever-swelling National Debt? The man is Ed Miliband, who in 2008 pushed through the final version of the Climate Change Act. It made us the only country in the world legally committed between now and 2050 to cutting our emissions of CO2 by a staggering 80 per cent. Even then, the Government projected that this would cost us up to £734 billion. The latest figures from the EU and the International Energy Agency suggest that, for Britain to reach this target, it would now cost even more: £1,300 billion. Less well known, however, is the extraordinary story of how this most expensive Act ever put on the statute book originated in the first place. Google “Bryony Worthington YouTube” and you will see the video of a young climate activist, now known as Baroness Worthington, describing how she first conceived the idea of such a policy when she was campaigns director on climate change for Friends of the Earth. After David Cameron became Tory leader in 2005, bent on “remaking” his party, she put to him that he should adopt her proposal. She describes how, when David Miliband became environment secretary, desperate not to be “out-greened” by the Tories, he called on her to head a small team in his ministry tasked with urgently drafting such a Bill. When, in 2008, brother Ed took over as head of the new Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc), he raised the emissions-cut target from 60 to 80 per cent, at almost double the cost. The Bill passed the Commons by 463 votes to three, after a debate in which not a single MP asked how such an ambitious target could in practice be achieved without destroying virtually our entire economy. But this is what at last one senior politician, Owen Paterson, dared to question in his lecture last week to the Global Warming Policy Foundation. Thanks to advance coverage given to his speech in last week’s Sunday Telegraph, with its front-page headline “Let’s rip up the Climate Change Act”, Mr Paterson has at last set off a proper debate on our energy future – one that is years overdue. As I wrote last week, Paterson was able, backed by a mountain of expert research, to show how Decc’s current policy, outlined in its “2050 Pathway Analysis” –and amplified by similar statements from the European Commission – is pure make-believe. It alone might merit front-page headlines: that, within 16 years, Decc seriously contemplates closing down all our existing energy supplies from the nasty, CO2-emitting fossil fuels that currently supply 70 per cent of our electricity. Out will go all cooking and central heating by gas. Almost everything, including our transport system, will have to be powered by electricity, for which we will, by 2050, need twice as much as we currently use. This will largely be supplied by 17 times as many wind turbines as we already have, and up to 12 more monster nuclear power plants like the one proposed in Somerset, which may not produce a watt of electricity within 10 years. What has been striking about the outraged response from green zealots to Paterson’s speech is how they did not begin to understand his practical proposals for how an otherwise inevitable disaster can be averted. There was, of course, a knee-jerk howl of derision from the likes of Lord Stern and Lord Deben, along with a blizzard of personal abuse across the Twittersphere. But the more thoughtful among them, such as the BBC’s Roger Harrabin, tried instead to ride with the punch, by claiming that Decc was already looking at all the parts of Paterson’s “Plan B” for keeping our lights on. So there was really nothing new about what he was saying, despite his devastating evidence showing how Decc’s current strategy, like the Climate Change Act itself, cannot possibly work. The zealots simply cannot grasp how our energy future might be transformed by “combined heat and power”, ending the waste of almost half the energy we use to create electricity. Or how hundreds of small, wholly safe nuclear reactors could provide us with a huge new source of both electricity and heat within a decade or so. Or how sophisticated “demand management” technology could shave another huge chunk off our electricity needs, without us even noticing. And all this could achieve a far greater cut in our carbon emissions (for what that is worth) than we can hope for under Decc’s unworkable policy. When Mr Paterson’s radical proposals are properly examined, unblinkered by green make-believe, it will be seen that he has at last launched the properly informed national debate that alone might save our economy from a barely imaginable catastrophe. SOURCE For more postings from me, see DISSECTING LEFTISM, TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC and AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Home Pages are here or here or here. Email me (John Ray) here. Preserving the graphics: Most graphics on this site are hotlinked from elsewhere. But hotlinked graphics sometimes have only a short life -- as little as a week in some cases. After that they no longer come up. From January 2011 on, therefore, I have posted a monthly copy of everything on this blog to a separate site where I can host text and graphics together -- which should make the graphics available even if they are no longer coming up on this site. See here or here 21 October, 2014 Climate change 'prophets, and projectors, and half-instructed meteorologists': the press found them amusing back in 1871? THREE consecutive years of drought, while they have stimulated the inventive resources of practical agriculturalists, have had the natural effect of calling forth a plentiful crop of speculation from weather prophets, and projectors, and half-instructed meteorologists, and all the philosophic tribe of Laputa in general, to whom the periodical press now affords such fatal facilities. We have often noticed that in the tabular statements of those compilers of weather records who write to the Times, useful and welcome as their communications are, every season is sure to be “extraordinary”, almost every month one of the driest or wettest, or windiest, coldest or hottest, ever known. Much observation, which ought to correct a tendency to exaggerate, seems in some minds to have rather a tendency to increase it. The cutting is from the THE BRISBANE COURIER, TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1871. Hat-tip: Steven Goddard. Steven Goddard's blog Real Science is an excellent resource to find old press cuttings relevant to climate that would enhance many a school project by helping give the perspective which is so easily missed. The above example would grace any project quoting any of today's 'half-instructed meteorologists' such as James Hansen (an astro-physicist) or Gavin Schmidt (a computer programmer) or Al Gore (no qualifications to speak of) as they take pains to persuade us that we are seeing "extraordinary" weather thanks to their pet obsession, carbon dioxide. The press today, and now of course the broadcast media, are sure to give them 'fatal facilities' and have done so for decades, without even the sardonic challenge of the above quote. Note also the calm assurance about the three consecutive years of drought. Today, this would be amplified as a crisis, a a catastrophe, as a forerunner of doom to come. Back in 1871, they merely noted that the drought would have 'stimulated the inventive resources of practical agriculturalists'. Perhaps they were made of sterner stuff in those days. Perhaps they were less readily panicked. Perhaps we could learn from them. SOURCE CO2 Contributes Less Than 2.5% Of The Greenhouse Effect Contrary to all the BS being spewed by top climate scientists, their own models shows that CO2 has almost no impact on climate. The graph below shows the greenhouse effect during mid-latitude summer for three scenarios, calculated using RRTM – the model used by NCAR in their climate and weather models Current atmosphere No CO2 Double CO2 (Note the mid-troposphere hot spot) At the surface during mid-latitude summers, the amount of downwelling longwave radiation due to CO2 is less than 3%. Doubling CO2 would only increase the greenhouse effect by one third of one percent. Yet climate scientists blame mid-latitude summer heatwaves on this. We constantly hear BS from people like Gavin claiming that the CO2 contributes 20-30% to the greenhouse effect, but their own models show this is complete nonsense. Call this scam off – there is no science behind it. The effect is higher during high latitude winters, where there is very little water vapor. [UPDATED] I added high latitude winters at Tallbloke’s request. The proportional effect is larger there, because of a shortage of water vapor. In the tropics, the CO2 proportion of the greenhouse effect is less than 1.5% – and a doubling of CO2 has almost no effect. SOURCE The Climate Sensitivity Controversy The concept of Climate Sensitivity (CS) is a useful way to describe the effects of carbon dioxide on the climate. CS can be derived either from climate models or empirically – with the hope that the two results are concordant. Let’s look at models first. Some 30 years ago, the National Academy of Sciences set up a group under MIT meteorologist Jules Charney to study this problem. Their report arrived at a CS value of 1.5 to 4.5 degC of global climate warming for a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide. One immediately notices the huge uncertainty, a factor of 3. Yet the climate forcing of CO2 is known much more precisely. The explanation for this wide uncertainty range of CS lies in our imperfect knowledge of (1) feedback from clouds and from water vapor (WV is the most important atmospheric greenhouse gas) and (2) the radiative effects of aerosols in changing the albedo of the Earth atmosphere and thereby the amount of sunlight reaching the surface. This range of 1.5 – 4.5 degC has become canonical by now. In fact, the most recent report of the IPCC [2013] gives the same range for CS—even after 25 years and spending billions of dollars on the development of climate models. As my colleague Kenneth Haapala points out, it’s been a poor return on investment. Of course, the models have become much more sophisticated and complex. And the number of models has increased exponentially. Every self-respecting nation nowadays wants to have its own climate model; the United States already has five major ones and is considering financing yet another. But fundamentally, not much has changed. The extent of the positive feedback from water vapor, which implicitly amplifies the forcing of CO2 in all of the models, is still uncertain and so are the detailed influences of cloudiness and of various kinds of aerosols. It is well to point out that we refer here to the so-called “equilibrium climate sensitivity,” which is reached after the climate system has had time to adjust to the higher CO2 levels. One should also point out that CS refers to a doubling of pre-industrial CO2 -- assuming a value of 280ppm. Also, CO2 forcing increases only as the logarithm of CO2 concentration, although this fact is seldom explicitly recognized. Of course, the proper way to determine Climate Sensitivity (CS) is empirically -- by using the climate data. But at this point many problems arise. First, selection of the proper time interval. It is generally recognized that there has been little if any warming in the last 18 years; so presumably, the climate sensitivity of the 21st century is effectively zero. Analysts of CS have therefore concentrated their efforts on the “reported” warming of the Earth’s surface between 1975 and 2000 (which may not even be real). These analysts have published a dozen or more “best numbers” -- generally near 1.5 degC, the lower end of the CS range of the models. A dispute among skeptics All these analyses are based on the warming of the last part of the 20th century -- from about 1978 to 2000 -- the so called “satellite era.” But there is no reason at all to define climate sensitivity in terms of surface temperature. Since the best global data we have come from weather satellites, it makes sense to use their atmospheric temperatures as the base for determining CS. But the satellite data do not seem to show a warming trend -- although there is a dispute on this point even among so-called “climate skeptics.” One can illustrate this dispute by looking at the graph below. If one draws a best straight line through all of the satellite data from 1978 to 2013, one can discern a small positive (warming) trend. But is this really the best way to describe the situation? Another way is to draw a line of zero slope up to 1997, note a one-year spike in 1998 (caused by a Super El Nino), and then document a sudden increase (“jump”) around 2001 and zero trend thereafter. Clearly, if the trend is zero between 1978 and 1997, then the climate sensitivity will be close to zero also. Graph by Don Rapp, based on UAH-MSU data I happen to disagree with both methods described in the graph. I note that after the 1998 spike, temperature returns to its pre-1998 lower value -- between 1999 and 2000. I would therefore put the “jump”, the step-like increase, at around 2001-2002. We now have zero slopes both before 2000 and after 2002 -- and therefore corresponding values of CS which are close to zero. The moral of the story is that the best empirical data we have show very little influence on global temperatures from rising CO2 levels. Now there are still two puzzles: First, why is there so little post-2002 warming from carbon dioxide -- which after all is a greenhouse gas and is increasing in the atmosphere? The best answer I can think of is a negative feedback from water vapor -- not a positive feedback -- which counteracts the forcing produced by CO2. Similarly, one could argue for a negative feedback from increased cloudiness. However, it is necessary to demonstrate both of these feedback possibilities empirically by examining the appropriate data. An additional possibility may exist, namely that the forcing increase of CO2 is close to zero at just about the value that exists in the atmosphere today. Again this needs to be demonstrated by examining the appropriate data. Finally, another puzzle: If indeed the climate sensitivity is close to zero from 1978-to 2000, and again from 2002 to present, why do surface thermometers indicate a warming trend only in the first interval, but not in the second interval? What accounts for the reported warming during the period 1978-2000? All of this requires a good deal of work to investigate various plausible hypotheses, which we’ll leave for another time. Meanwhile, to quote Nobel laureate MIT professor Robert Solow: “Maybe that’s why God created graduate students.” I should note that I am somewhat out of step here with my fellow skeptics. Few of them would agree with me that the climate sensitivity (CS) is indeed close to zero. I will have to publish the analyses to prove my point and try to convince them. Of course, nothing, no set of facts, will ever convince the confirmed climate alarmists. SOURCE Oil price fall won't break shale industry's back Competition from shale has forced traditional oil producers to accept lower prices. But could prices go too low for shale to be viable? The downward spiralling oil price has led to growing tensions between the powerful Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil cartel and the US shale industry, but analysts reckon prices need to fall even further to hurt American producers. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil has slumped close to 20 per cent since June this year to $US83.18 per barrel, while Brent crude oil has spiralled more than 23 per cent lower to $US86.46 per barrel. Many OPEC members, led by Saudi Arabia, refuse to curtail production for fear of losing market share to the growing US shale liquids industry. "In the face of falling global and US crude oil prices, a key question becomes: how low would WTI prices have to go to meaningfully slow down US shale production growth?" Citi analyst Eric Lee said. WTI oil prices at $US70 per barrel could begin to reduce new well production in the US, by up to 30 per cent if costs are at the high end of estimates, but by close to zero if costs are at the low end of estimates, Mr Lee said. "To bring US shale production growth to zero – that is, to reduce new-well production to only just cover legacy well declines – might need prices ranging from $US40-60 per barrel," Mr Lee said. There is a diverse range of breakeven prices across the US shale industry, even if fringe production output is cut, productivity gains could offset any price support. "A 40 per cent reduction in rigs or more might be needed to completely flatten production growth but this is based on modelled reductions of average wells, not the least productive wells. Productivity gains can also offset this further. In any case, at $US70 WTI, this is a slowdown, not a halt, in production growth," Mr Lee said. International Energy Agency executive director Maria van der Hoeven estimated 98 per cent of oil and condensates produced in the US had a breakeven price of less than $US80 a barrel, and 82 per cent has a breakeven price of $US60 or lower. CLSA head of Asian oil and gas Simon Powell said that the recent correction in oil prices wasn't only related to North American liquid production. Rather it was driven by a culmination of factors which also included extra production in the Middle East, Libya returning to the market and Iraq producing despite the insurgence threat there, as well as easing Asian demand creating a supply glut. "The world is in oversupply right now. But, [northern hemisphere] winter is just around the corner. The Saudis and the rest of OPEC are likely to signal production cuts prior to their next meeting in late November, Mr Powell said. "The Saudis saying that they wouldn't cut was just sending a message to the rest of OPEC saying 'why should we be the only ones who have to cut?'." The market is also wrongly assuming that US shale production can "continue into the stratosphere" Mr Powell said. "Production costs for shale liquids in America will rise because the nice and easy stuff has been got at. It'll still be good, but I think the rate of liquid production growth in the US will slow." SOURCE Britain needs political climate change to cut soaring energy bills Targets for renewables are unattainable, futile – and will cost Britons trillions of pounds Owen Paterson, the former environment secretary, has described the renewable energy targets as “the single most regressive policy we have seen in this country since the Sheriff of Nottingham” It is surprisingly common for our main political parties and policy-makers to agree about something. When they do, they are usually wrong; the longer they agree, the wronger they get. Few important people dare challenge them. Forty years ago, all three parties thought that you could control inflation only by having prices and incomes policies. The government, businesses and trade unions negotiated the levels of both. The guru economist JK Galbraith announced that such policies would “last forever”. Then Mrs Thatcher questioned them. By the turn of the century, no free country in the world had prices and incomes policies. Some time in this century, we reached a similar state of clever-silly unanimity over green policies, especially carbon emission controls and renewables targets. All parties (except five brave Tories voting against) voted for the second reading of the Climate Change Act in 2008. I have just re-read the environmental sections of the three main party manifestoes at the last general election. Although they lay in to one another (“Labour have said the right things about climate change, but these have proved little more than warm words”), they are comically interchangeable. They all want the same policy – answering 15 per cent of energy demand from renewables by 2020, and making the British economy “carbon-neutral” by 2050. The latter target is agreed by all EU states, but only Britain, in that Act, actually made it law. In any subject involving “science”, we voters still respond more deferentially than we do to ordinary political discourse. So, for some years, we humoured the climate-change lobby, and nodded our heads gravely when experts told us we must help save the planet. But most of us behaved like churchgoers listening to boring sermons. We accepted what we were told, on the unspoken assumption that it wouldn’t make much difference to anything and because the vicar (originally the Rev T Blair) seemed quite a nice chap. This began to change for at least two direct reasons – rising electricity bills and sprouting wind-farms. We started to wonder whether it was true, as environmentalists argue, that conventional energy costs must inevitably rise and so a green levy would miraculously cut our bills in the end. We began to notice that in the United States, thanks to the shale revolution, prices have fallen dramatically and so have carbon emissions. Today, we observe that coal, gas and oil prices are falling too. As for wind farms, it seemed a bit strange that an innovation designed to save our beautiful world wreaked unique havoc on the best landscape. When we learnt that wind power needed vast amounts of conventional power back-up because of intermittency, we started to see it as the greatest physical folly in our island story. Yet no mainstream political party engaged with this. You could tell that they were worried about the symptoms of their own policies – hence Ed Miliband’s call for an energy price freeze. But none wanted to discuss the causes. Owen Paterson, then the environment secretary, was the only minister who dared raise doubts. He annoyed what he calls the “green blob”. David Cameron duly sacked him this summer. In the Global Warming Policy Foundation lecture on Wednesday, Mr Paterson said of wind farms that “this paltry supply of onshore wind, nowhere near enough to hit the 2050 targets, has devastated landscapes, blighted views, divided communities, killed eagles…” When this was quoted on the BBC News, he was saying no more than millions of ordinary people have been saying for years. Yet it was very striking to hear it in public, because no other elected person charged with these responsibilities had said anything like this before. It would have been better still if the BBC had completed the Paterson sentence. He went on to say that wind turbines had devastated “the very wilderness that the 'green blob’ claims to love, with new access tracks cut deep into peat, boosted production of carbon-intensive cement, and driven up fuel poverty, while richly rewarding landowners”. This, Mr Paterson also said, is “the single most regressive policy we have seen in this country since the Sheriff of Nottingham”. He is right, and because his party, and the Liberal Democrats, and Labour, have all agreed to the sheriff’s extortions, they are letting Nigel Farage play Robin Hood. As the theme song of the TV version used to say, “He cleared up all the trouble on the English country scene, and still found plenty of time to sing”. Mr Paterson’s argument is that there are much better ways to get cleaner energy. He talks about shale, Combined Heat And Power, “small modular nuclear” and the interesting things that NHS hospitals and others who have their own generators can do to “shave the peaks off demand”. Being no expert, I cannot tell whether he is right here, though these ideas seem to accord with his desire to bring common sense to the subject. He also raises a bigger point, which is that what we have set ourselves is unattainable. The wind power needed for the EU to hit the 2050 targets would have to rise from the current 42,000 turbines to 500,000. For this you would need, Mr Paterson calculates, an area which would “wall-to-wall carpet Northern Ireland, Wales, Belgium, Holland and Portugal combined”. According to International Energy Agency figures broken down into national components, target fulfilment would cost Britain £1.3 trillion. That is roughly the size of our national debt. So obviously Mr Paterson is right to say that we should invoke the clause in the Climate Change Act which allows for its suspension. But, despite his notable trenchancy, I would say he is being quite cautious about what is really happening. Even if Britain and the whole of the EU were to stick to our emissions targets (which we surely won’t), and to hit them (which, actually, we can’t), we would still not come anywhere close to what we are told is needed to save the planet. This is for a very simple reason: the rest of the world won’t do it. Last year, carbon emissions per head in China exceeded those of Britain for the first time, and China has more than 20 times as many heads as we do. The EU is responsible for less than 10 per cent of global emissions, so when we set our targets we knew – and said – that we were in no position to stop global warming. The point was to set a lead which others would follow. They haven’t. Since the debacle of the Copenhagen Summit of 2009 when the developed world failed to persuade the developing one to join our saintly masochism, this has been obvious. There is a “second commitment period” of the process started by the Kyoto Protocol. New Zealand has withdrawn from it. Canada has repudiated Kyoto altogether. The only two non-European countries still in the second period are Kazakhstan and Australia, and Australia is now reviewing its commitment. Europe’s gesture has proved futile, and is getting ever more expensive, in taxes, bills and jobs. Even the European Commission has spotted this, and is beginning to tiptoe away from the policy. But not the British parties and policy elites. In August 1914, Sir Edward Grey famously said, “The lamps are going out all over Europe”. He was speaking of the war we had inflicted on ourselves. A century later, we are threatening to put them out again, with different motives, but equal folly. Everywhere else, the lamps are staying on. Isn’t it rather extraordinary that no mainstream party has dared to point any of this out? Don’t they know there’s an election on? Is it surprising that voters think “They’re all the same”? SOURCE GREENIE ROUNDUP FROM AUSTRALKIA Three current articles below ‘Degrees in activism’ put brake on growth AUSTRALIA’S largest resources companies have warned green activists campaigning for an end to fossil fuels are destroying jobs and fast becoming one of the greatest challenges to growth. Andrew Smith, the chairman of the Australian arm of Anglo-Dutch company Shell, yesterday led the debate against what he labelled university students with “degrees in activism”, arguing that they were spreading misinformation and manipulating communities to slow the pace of development. “Challenging decisions will face more effective campaigns of public outrage, some of it based on confected outrage whipped up by university graduates armed with degrees in activism,” Mr Smith said. “But we cannot allow these dynamics to halt Australian progress.” Activism courses are being taught in legal, politics and humanities departments at several universities and are often focused on political theory and understanding the role of activism in democracy. Aidan Ricketts, a law lecturer at Southern Cross University in Lismore, runs a course named Public Interest Advocacy. Its blurb says it provides “skills for successfully advocating for public interest concerns”. Mr Ricketts described it as an “advanced form of citizenship education”. The lecturer, himself an activist against the use of coal-seam gas, said it was “nonsense” to suggest that universities were preparing students to confect outrage and manipulate information. “That is a cheap swipe at other people’s opinion’s that Shell don’t agree with,” Mr Ricketts said. Rio Tinto’s energy chief executive, Harry Kenyon-Slaney, knows the impact activists can have on projects, after his company’s expansion of its Warkworth coalmine in NSW was halted by opposition groups, putting 1300 jobs at risk. “This is a mine that has been part of the Hunter Valley community for 30 years and provides work for 1300 people, but we’ve spent five years so far trying to secure its future in the face of opposition from activist groups such as The Australia Institute,” Mr Kenyon-Slaney said. “People at the extreme end of the debate who would like to see all coal exports cease are willing not only to destroy jobs here in Australia, but also the social and economic development that cheap and abundant energy brings around the world.” Whitehaven Coal has been a constant target of green activists determined to frustrate the development of its Maules Creek coalmine in NSW. Its chairman, Mark Vaile, former head of the Nationals party, said activists had zero accountability for their actions. “The information the green activists put out is never tested,” Mr Vaile said. The Australian National University has come under attack after its recent decision to divest its holdings in seven companies — including Santos, Newcrest Mining and Iluka Resources — because it said the companies had a poor record on environmental responsibility. “What is the next thing that the so-called ethical investors and university funds withdraw from?” Mr Vaile said. “Are they now, if they stick to their principles, going to withdraw from all investment in the agricultural industries in Australia, as they are also significant emitters of greenhouse gases?” Mr Vaile, who recently returned from South Korea, said Australia was now viewed with concern as an investment destination because of the uncertainty in terms of the timing of projects. “Prospective investors are looking at the fact that approved projects are being challenged in court by some organisation who are unaccountable,” he said. “We have the government promoting Australia as an investment destination, negotiating FTAs, yet at a state level you have regulations that can be used and abused by green activists.” Ahri Tallon, a former student of Mr Ricketts, said that in addition to legal skills the course had taught him how to organise meetings and demonstrations and engage with the media. “Real Australian progress is an active and participatory democracy where decisions are transparent, accountable and debated,” he said. SOURCE ANU decision to sell fossil fuel company holdings not enough: students An Australian National University (ANU) decision to sell off about $16 million worth of its investments in seven fossil fuel companies does not go far enough, a students' group says. ANU said it would divesting itself of shares in Newcrest Mining, Iluka Resources, Oil Search and Santos, among other companies. Vice-chancellor Professor Ian Young said it was important that the university did not invest in companies that are doing some form of social harm. "Essentially the criteria which we look at looks at their environmental emissions and any social issues associated with them," he said. "For instance it many look at their position on Indigenous affairs and also the governance." It is wrong for ANU to continue to profit from these industries that are responsible for the wreckage of the planet. But Louis Klee from the group ANU Fossil Free said while it was a big achievement for the university, the decision did not go far enough. He said the ANU still had major holdings in BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Woodside Petroleum. "It is wrong for ANU to continue to profit from these industries that are responsible for the wreckage of the planet," he said. However, Professor Young, who us an environmental researcher, said there was nothing wrong with investing these companies. "These are major Australian companies, they're resources companies," he said. "Resources are a major part of the Australian economy that underpins our whole society. "This is not a case of simply saying the university will not invest in resources companies. We do. "In fact, it would be very difficult to structure a meaningful portfolio in Australia that didn't." Professor Young said there should be an orderly transition from fossil fuels to alternative energies. "The reality is that this is a process that is going to take decades to occur," he said. The University introduced a socially responsible investment policy earlier this year. SOURCE Let them divest, but not with taxpayers cake The response to the Australian National University's decision to divest itself of holdings in certain [fossil fuel] companies has been way out of proportion to the importance of the decision - and both sides of the debate are long on rhetoric and short on facts. The argument has focused on whether the industries represented by the companies being divested are important for Australia's economy, especially the contributions from Infrastructure Minister Jamie Briggs and the Treasurer. This argument is overdone. The ANU holds about $16 million in shares in the seven companies (disclosure: the managing director of one of the seven, Iluka Resources, is on the board of the CIS). That $16 million is about 1% of the university's total investment holdings, and the revenue from the entire portfolio was barely 5% of the university's total revenue. The ANU's holdings represent less than 0.05% of the combined market capitalisation of those companies which approaches $40 billion. These investments are not financially significant for the university or the companies, so the impact on the economy as a whole will almost certainly be negligible. Which makes the overreaction from politicians, up to and including the Prime Minister, puzzling. At a time when the government is trying to encourage greater financial independence among universities, it seems very odd to try and micromanage their investment decisions. Unless the ANU's new strategy mentions an exciting new investment in magic beans, if it's not imposing greater costs on the taxpayers then it really shouldn't be the business of government. The government's interest here is limited to protecting taxpayers by ensuring the ANU exercises due diligence and care with taxpayers' funds. In the absence of evidence that this investment policy will materially impact ANU's revenue the government should be cautious about interfering. Divestment can be an expression of free speech. In fact it is one of the more valuable aspects of speech because people are a lot more honest with their money than they are with their slogans (as the failure of 'buy Australian' industry policy continually demonstrates). The problem is when supposed social responsibility transfers costs to taxpayers. Too many non-government organisations and other rent-seekers want to have their public funded cake and eat their private progressive values too. By all means, use your free speech to criticise industries you don't like and divest any shares you hold, but don't think this entitles you to extra taxpayer money if it leaves you out of pocket. SOURCE For more postings from me, see DISSECTING LEFTISM, TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC and AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Home Pages are here or here or here. Email me (John Ray) here. Preserving the graphics: Most graphics on this site are hotlinked from elsewhere. But hotlinked graphics sometimes have only a short life -- as little as a week in some cases. After that they no longer come up. From January 2011 on, therefore, I have posted a monthly copy of everything on this blog to a separate site where I can host text and graphics together -- which should make the graphics available even if they are no longer coming up on this site. See here or here 20 October, 2014 Eclipse of the solar farms: British Environment Secretary tells farmers 'no more handouts for ugly fields of glass...grow veg!' Taxpayers’ handouts to massive ‘ugly’ solar farms which scar the countryside are to be axed by Environment Secretary Liz Truss. She will tell farmers tomorrow to stop pocketing public funds by carpeting large parts of the landscape with the black panels – and go back to growing fruit, vegetables and crops instead. The move, to take effect from January, is the latest part of David Cameron’s attempt to move away from green politics. Ms Truss said: ‘I want Britain to lead the world in food and farming and to do that we need enough productive agricultural land. ‘I’m very concerned that a lot of our land is being taken up with solar farms. We’ve already got 250 of them and we’ve got 10,000 football pitches worth of new solar farms in the pipeline. ‘They are ugly, a blight on the countryside, and villages are pushing production of meat and other traditional British produce overseas. ‘Food and farming is our number one manufacturing industry, the whole food chain represents £100 billion in our economy, and it is a real problem if we are using productive agricultural land for solar farms. ‘I’m not against them per se – they’re fine on commercial roofs and school roofs – but it’s a big problem if we are using land that can be used to grow crops, fruit and vegetables. We import two-thirds of our apples, and using more land for solar panels makes it harder to improve that.’ The boom in solar farms in recent years has been fuelled by big grants from Whitehall and Brussels that have seen landowners pocket up to £50,000 a year. It has led to claims that they are becoming ‘the new onshore wind’ after growing criticism of giant wind turbines. Ms Truss’s initiative comes amid claims by Tory officials that the party is to dump the colour green from its official leaflets. A green doodled oak tree logo replaced the Conservatives’ traditional torch in 2006, a year after Cameron became leader, in an attempt to give them an eco-friendly image. However, the Prime Minister’s enthusiasm for ‘green power’ has dimmed with growing scepticism about the speed of climate change and a growing backlash against the appearance and energy efficiency of wind turbines and solar farms. Mr Cameron, who once vowed to lead the ‘greenest government ever’, publicly promised to ‘roll back’ green taxes, which add more than £100 a year to average fuel bills. And, to the horror of environmental campaigners, his message in private is said to have been more blunt. He reportedly told a colleague: ‘We’ve got to get rid of all this green c**p.’ The Tory mantra of the early days of Cameron’s leadership – ‘Vote blue, go green’ – has rarely been uttered by Ministers in recent months. The solar power industry costs the taxpayer an estimated £600 million a year. Some of the subsidies are funded by channelling money from household fuel bills, prompting claims that ordinary families are bankrolling wealthy landowners. Ms Truss is to end grants of £2 million a year available via her department from the European Union’s Common Agriculture Policy. The grants are worth up to £100 an acre. Ministers at the Department of Energy and Climate Change announced earlier this year that solar- farm grants from their budget will also be slashed. There has been huge growth in large solar projects since 2012. Two years ago there were just 46, but the total has soared to about 200 this year, with another 200 awaiting planning permission. The Tories have already promised not to subsidise any new onshore wind farms if they win next year’s Election with an outright majority. SOURCE Plastic Bag Ban Hurts California's Economy Research demonstrates enormous direct and indirect costs to consumers California just became the first state to ban plastic shopping bags at grocery stores, convenience stores and many other businesses when Gov. Jerry Brown signed the law this week. More than 100 cities and counties in the state had already passed their own bag bans. Even if you don’t use the common, convenient, lightweight plastic grocery bag, you should be concerned about the state ban. Proponents of the ban claim it will benefit the environment. But a comprehensive analysis recently undertaken by Reason Foundation, which looked at the impact of plastic bag bans on the environment, found these claims don’t stand up to scrutiny. Indeed, the ban is likely to do more harm than good both to the environment and to people’s pocketbooks. Lightweight plastic bags constitute less than 1 percent of all visible litter, represent only 0.4 percent of all municipal solid waste and are not a major cause of blocked storm drains. Banning them has practically no impact on the amount of litter generated, the amount Californians pay for waste disposal, or the risk of flooding. In fact, when plastic bags were banned in San Francisco, the county’s own studies showed that litter actually increased. Lightweight plastic bags have not caused a giant “garbage patch” in the North Pacific, nor are they a significant threat to marine animals or birds. Rather, the real culprit of untimely marine animal death is cast-off fishing gear. A bag ban might catch a school of red herrings but it won’t save any real marine life. For our study, we calculated that an average consumer using only lightweight plastic bags would be responsible for consuming less energy and water and generate fewer greenhouse gas emissions than someone using alternative bags. The main proposed alternative is five times heavier than the current bag and is responsible for the consumption of far more resources, energy and water. Paper bags also consume more resources, including five times more water over their lifecycle than lightweight plastic bags. Further, the Department of Public Health has warned, “During the warmer months, the increased temperatures can promote the growth of bacteria that may be present on [reusable] bags.” They encourage users to wash their reusable bags “frequently.” This of course consumes water – and if the advice were followed rigorously, “reusable” bags would consume as much as 40 times more water than lightweight plastic bags. Some dismiss this advice, bragging that they never wash their bags. In those cases, they are putting themselves and other consumers at risk as bacteria spreads easily in shopping carts and at checkout counters. Additionally, our research demonstrated enormous direct and indirect costs on California’s consumers. If California’s 12.4 million households spend five minutes each week cleaning their shopping bags to get rid of germs and bacteria, the annual opportunity cost would be more than $1.5 billion. The bag ban is likely to disproportionately burden the working poor and those households on a tight budget. A dollar spent on 10 paper bags is a dollar not available for other purchases. And while it’s easy to place all the blame on the Legislature, grocery chains sponsored the plastic bag bill and may reap hundreds of millions of dollars charging the consumer more for a paper bag than it cost them to procure them wholesale. Opponents of the bag ban say they’ll try to gather enough signatures to give voters the chance to repeal the plastic bag law. In the meantime, it’s clear leaders in Sacramento passed another feel-good measure that hurts working people and the state economy. SOURCE Hey, Defense Department: Focus on ISIS, not Climate Change As world leaders remain locked in on the threat of ISIS, the U.S. Department of Defense laid out its plan to fight a different battle: ice caps. In a new report, DOD argues that climate change poses “immediate risks to U.S. national security” because of warmer temperatures, rising sea levels, changing precipitation patterns and more frequent and intense storms. There are just two small problems with such an assertion. One, none of these climate challenges are actually occurring in amounts that would present an immediate risk. Two, the administration’s economy-crushing carbon regulations that would choke off affordable energy sources wouldn’t make a difference even if climate change did pose a threat. Let’s go through them one by one. Accelerated warming? Not so much. October 2014 marks the 18th year that there’s been no trend in global warming during a time when global carbon emissions have increased and climate models predicted accelerated rates of warming. No immediate risk there. Rising sea levels? That’s happening, but it comes nowhere near posing an immediate risk and in fact, has slowed in recent years. A recent paper published in Nature Climate Change found that “since the early 1990s, sea level rose at a mean rate of 3.1 millimeters per year. Over the last decade, this rate slowed by about 30 percent. Indeed, the 3.1-millimeter-per-year increase is actually on par with the past century’s level of rising sea levels and it has since slowed down. Furthermore, climatologist Judith Curry says “It is clear that natural variability has dominated sea level rise during the 20th century, with changes in ocean heat content and changes in precipitation patterns.” DOD warns us that “in places like the Hampton Roads region in Virginia, which houses the largest concentration of U.S. military sites in the world, we see recurrent flooding today, and we are beginning work to address a projected sea-level rise of 1.5 feet over the next 20 to 50 years.” That’s 457.2 millimeters of sea level rise over the next 20 to 50 years. That’s an increase of either 22.86 millimeters per year for 20 years or 9.1 millimeters per year for 50. Neither projection is anywhere close to climate reality, which tends to be the theme of the DOD report. How about more frequent and intense storms? DOD argues that with more hurricanes, floods and droughts, the Department of Defense will have to spend money and deploy resources differently. More frequent and intense storms could cause problems such as “increased dust generation during training activities” or “increased inundation, erosion and flooding damage. And there could be threats to food and water supplies and the need for more resources for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. That may sound reasonable if any trends actually existed for increased natural disasters. But even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which the Obama administration hails as the magnum opus, concludes these threats do not exist or are not immediate. IPCC says, “Current data sets indicate no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the past century, and it remains uncertain whether any reported long-term increases in tropical cyclone frequency are robust, after accounting for past changes in observing capabilities.” Droughts aren’t a problem, either, according to the IPCC: “In summary, the current assessment concludes that there is not enough evidence at present to suggest more than low confidence in a global-scale observed trend in drought or dryness (lack of rainfall) since the middle of the 20th century.” IPCC drew similar conclusions on floods: “In summary, there continues to be a lack of evidence and thus low confidence regarding the sign of trend in the magnitude and/or frequency of floods on a global scale.” The climate is changing, and the extent to how much manmade emissions are contributing is highly debated. But what is clear is that climate change is not imposing the immediate risk that the DOD purports. Even more troubling, the regulations restricting America’s energy use to combat climate change will do nothing but reduce economic growth and resources available for either humanitarian efforts or to grow international economies. Moreover, the DOD using resources to address non-problems reduces the department’s ability to address real national security threats such as ISIS or ebola. Additionally, the gradual occurrence of climate change will provide DOD plenty of time to adjust any changing conditions and humanitarian efforts. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel remarked that “Climate extremes in Australia are worrying leaders there.” Well, they apparently aren’t too worried because the Australian government, recognizing the economic hardship its carbon tax imposed on its families and businesses, decided to repeal it. Military preparedness for changing climates and different circumstances that our armed forces must face is one thing. But to pose climate change as an immediate risk when evidence suggests otherwise is nothing short of fear-mongering, woeful ignorance and politicization. SOURCE Despite Administration’s Efforts, Voters Give Climate Change Low Priority in New Poll Despite the administration’s high-priority focus on climate change, the issue is at the bottom of a list of 13 concerns that are most pressing for registered U.S. voters in next month’s midterm election, according to a new Gallup poll. Only 40 percent of respondents identified climate change as either “very important” or “extremely important” to their votes. By contrast the list was topped by the economy (88 percent), followed by the availability of good jobs (86 percent), the way the federal government is working (81 percent), and Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria (78 percent). Registered voters next viewed as very or extremely important to their vote the issues of equal pay for women (75 percent), the federal budget deficit (73 percent), foreign affairs (69 percent) and taxes (69 percent). Further down in order of importance were immigration (65 percent), Obamacare (64 percent), income and wealth distribution in the U.S. (64 percent), abortion and access to contraception (50 percent) – and then climate change (40 percent). Spearheaded by longtime global warming campaigner Secretary of State John Kerry, the administration has given significant attention to climate change, an issue Kerry said recently may be “the most serious challenge we face on the planet.” President Obama unveiled his Climate Action Plan in June 2013, introducing limits on carbon emissions from new and existing power plants and measures to raise energy efficiency standards. Kerry says he unfailingly brings up the topic with foreign counterparts in meetings at home and around the world, and on the sidelines of high-level U.N. meetings in New York last month he hosted the first ever meeting on the subject at a foreign minister-level. High on the administration’s agenda is a U.N. megaconference planned in Paris, France late next year, where leaders are meant to adopt a new global agreement on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The Gallup poll suggests that the administration faces an uphill battle in getting Americans to ascribe the level of urgency to the issue that it does. The poll also examined which party stands to benefit from the respective levels of importance voters give to the 13 issues, asking respondents whether they think Republicans or Democrats in Congress would do a better job of dealing with each. On five of the six issues viewed as most important, Gallup found that Republicans hold leads over Democrats ranging in size from significant to small – the federal budget deficit (a 20-point GOP advantage), Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria (19 points), the economy (11 points), how the federal government is working (8 points), and the availability of good jobs (1 point). Further down the list of issues of importance, Republicans held the advantage over Democrats in foreign affairs (13 points), taxes (10 points) and immigration (5 points). The area of greatest strength for Democrats in Congress, the pollsters found, was that of equal pay for women (a 38-point advantage). Democrats also scored well on the two issues which respondents indicated were least important to their vote in November – abortion and access to contraception (13 points), and climate change (20 points). On the remaining two issues, income and wealth distribution and Obamacare, Democrats held advantages of 2 and 10 points respectively. SOURCE 2 German Scientists Calling For Climate Modelling Moratorium: So Far Only “Failures, Flops And Fumbles”! Two German scientists describe the history of what many western governments have been basing their energy and environmental policies on. It’s not pretty. What follows is *an excellent review* of climate modeling so far What’s great about science is that one can think up really neat models and see creativity come alive. And because there are many scientists, and not only just one, there are lots of alternative models. And things only get bad when the day of reckoning arrives, i.e. when the work gets graded. This is when the prognoses are compared to the real, observed measurements. So who was on the right path, and who needs go back to the drawing board? When models turn out to be completely off, then they are said to have been falsified and thus are considered to have no value. The validation of models is one of the fundamental principles of science, Richard Feynman once said in a legendary lecture Failed hypotheses have been seen very often in science. A nice collection of the largest scientific flops is presented at WUWT. Unfortunately the climate sciences also belong to this category. Roy Spencer once compared an entire assortment of 73 climate models to the real observed temperature development, and they all ended up overshooting the target by far: And already yet another model failure has appeared: In August 2009 Judith Lean and David Rind made a daring mid-term climate prognosis in the Geophysical Research Letters. They predicted a warming of 0.15° for the five-year period of 2009 to 2014. In truth it did not warm at all during the period. A bitter setback. Over the last years it has started to dawn on scientists that perhaps something was missing in their models. The false prognoses stand out like a sore thumb. Not a single one of the once highly praised models saw the current 16-year stop in warming as possible. In September 2011 in an article in the Journal of Geophysical Research Crook & Forster admitted that the superficial reproduction of the real temperature development in a climate model hardly meant the mechanisms were completely understood. The freely adjustable parameters are just too multifaceted, and as a rule they are selected in a way to fabricate agreement. And just because there is an agreement, it does not mean predictive power can be automatically derived. What follows is an excerpt from the abstract by Crook & Foster (2011): "In this paper, we breakdown the temperature response of coupled ocean-atmosphere climate models into components due to radiative forcing, climate feedback, and heat storage and transport to understand how well climate models reproduce the observed 20th century temperature record. Despite large differences between models’ feedback strength, they generally reproduce the temperature response well but for different reasons in each model.” In a member journal of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), Eos, Colin Schultz took a look at the article and did not mince any words: "Climate model’s historical accuracy no guarantee of future success To validate and rank the abilities of complex general circulation models (GCMs), emphasis has been placed on ensuring that they accurately reproduce the global climate of the past century. But because multiple paths can be taken to produce a given result, a model may get the right result but for the wrong reasons.” Sobriety in the meantime has also spread over to IPCC-friendly blogs. On April 15, 2013, in a guest post at Real Climate Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Francisco Doblas-Reyes, Sybren Drijfhout and Ed Hawkins made it clear that the models used in the 5th IPCC report were completely inadequate for regional climate prognoses: "To conclude, climate models can and have been verified against observations in a property that is most important for many users: the regional trends. This verification shows that many large-scale features of climate change are being simulated correctly, but smaller-scale observed trends are in the tails of the ensemble more often than predicted by chance fluctuations. The CMIP5 multi-model ensemble can therefore not be used as a probability forecast for future climate. We have to present the useful climate information in climate model ensembles in other ways until these problems have been resolved.” Also Christensen and Boberg (2012) were critical about the AR5 models in a paper appearing in the Geophysical Research Letters. The scientists presented their main results: – GCMs suffer from temperature-dependent biases – This leads to an overestimation of projections of regional temperatures – We estimate that 10-20% of projected warming is due to model deficiencies” In January 2013 in the Journal of Climate Matthew Newman reported in an article “An Empirical Benchmark for Decadal Forecasts of Global Surface Temperature Anomalies” on the notable limitations of the models: "These results suggest that current coupled model decadal forecasts may not yet have much skill beyond that captured by multivariate red noise.” In the prognosis time-frame of multiple decades, they do not perform better than noise. An embarrassment. Also Frankignoul et al. 2013 expressed serious concerns in the Journal of Climate because of the unimpressive performance of the climate models. They graded the models plainly as “unrealistic” because they did not implement the role of ocean cycles correctly. In July 2013 Ault et al. looked at a paper in the Geophysical Research Letters and at the models for the tropical Pacific region. They made an awful discovery: Not one of the current models is able to reproduce the climate history of the region during the past 850 years. Excerpts from the abstract: "[…] time series of the model and the reconstruction do not agree with each other. These findings imply that the response of the tropical Pacific to future forcings may be even more uncertain than portrayed by state-of-the-art models because there are potentially important sources of century-scale variability that these models do not simulate.” Also Lienert et al. (2011) found problems with the North Pacific. And in July 2014 in an article in Environmetrics, McKitrick & Vogelsang documented a significant overestimation of the warming in the climate models for the tropical region over the past 60 years. In March 2014 Steinhaeuser & Tsonis reported in Climate Dynamics on a comparison of 23 different climate models and the extent to which they were able to reproduce temperature, air pressure and precipitation over the 19th and 20th centuries. The surprise was great when the scientists found that the model results deviated widely from each other and were unable to give a correct account of reality. A more detailed discussion is available at The Hockey Schtick. In a press release from September 17, 2012, scientists of the University of Arizona complained that as a rule climate models failed when looking at periods of three decades and less. Also attempts at prognoses for regional levels were unsuccessful: UA Climate Scientists put predictions to the test "A new study has found that climate-prediction models are good at predicting long-term climate patterns on a global scale but lose their edge when applied to time frames shorter than three decades and on sub-continental scales.” In October 2012 Klaus-Eckart Puls at EIKE warned that up to now the temperature prognoses of the climate models have been false for every atmospheric layer: "For some decades now climate models have been projecting trends (“scenarios”) for temperature for different layers of the atmosphere: near surface layer, troposphere, and stratosphere. From the near surface layer all the way to the upper troposphere it was supposed to get warmer according to the AGW hypothesis, and colder in the stratosphere. However meteorological measurements taken from all atmospheric layers show the exact opposite!” So what is wrong with the models? For one they still have not found a way to implement the empricially confirmed systematic impact of the ocean cycles into the models. Another problem of course is that the sun is missing in the models as its important impact on climate development continues to be denied. It’s still going to take some time before the sun finally gets a role in the models. But there are growing calls for the taking the sun into account and recognition that something is awry. In August 2014 in the Journal of Atmospheric Sciences a paper by Timothy Cronin appeared. It criticized the treatment of solar irradiance in the models. See more on this at The Hockey Schtick. The poor prognosis-capability of climate models is giving more and more political leaders cause for concern. Maybe they should not have relied on the model results and developed far-reaching plans to change society. To some extent they have already began to implement these plans. Suddenly the very credibility of the climate protection measures finds itself at stake. The best would be a moratorium on models. Something needs to be done. It is becoming increasingly clear that the present wild modeling simply cannot continue. It’s time to re-evaluate. The climate models so far are hardly distinguishable from computer games on climate change where one sits comfortably on the couch and shoots as many CO2 molecules out of the atmosphere as he can and then reaps the reward of a free private jet flight with climate activist Leonardo di Caprio. SOURCE Crop devastation update: Ideal weather brings bumper English apple harvest On the 250-acre Broadwater farm, near West Malling in Kent, dense clusters of red Braeburn apples cling to the trees, like bunches of oversized grapes. Amid the fruit is farm manager Peter Checkley, who has been growing apples for decades and is reflecting on the end of the harvest. “I don’t ever remember having a better growing year,” he says. “We could have the best we ever had. But it’s been the same all over Europe, which is why they are worth next to nothing.” The weather has been kind to apple growers this last year. A cold winter gave the trees a good rest, then plenty of rain – especially in August – helped plump up the fruit, and then a dry September allowed the picking to get started early. But the resulting apple bonanza has made the financial climate decidedly gloomy, along with the impact of supermarket price wars and the more exotic fruit that tempts British shoppers these days. “I am prepared for a loss this year. It is inevitable with prices the way they are,” says Checkley. But producing a highest-ever crop only to be faced with rock-bottom prices does not frustrate him, he says: “You learn to live with it. All businesses go up and down and we are no different.” The apple business has certainly been in flux. As recently as a decade ago, families could picnic between 45ft-tall trees, whilst pickers scaled ladders. “It has changed to almost factory-like production,” says Checkley, whose father was also a life-long apple grower in Kent. Now the trees are staked and wired to just over head-height and run in long straight rows. A crab apple is sited every 10 trees, to ensure good cross-pollination when the bee hives were brought in back in April and May. But Checkley is not mourning a past age. “I don’t miss the old days – it was bloody hard work,” he says. “The mechanisation now makes it a damn sight easier. I am a great believer of moving with the times.” Moving times also means almost all the pickers are foreign – there are 18 different nationalities on Broadwater farm. Checkley says it is near-impossible to get locals for the minimum-wage job. Over at nearby Hononton farm, James Simpson, is delighted with this year’s apple yield: “Walking into an orchard like this, I get quite a buzz, seeing a fantastic crop.” Simpson is managing director of Adrian Scripps Ltd, which owns Hononton and other farms and is one of the UK’s largest apple growers. “The Braeburn crop is the largest we’ve ever grown,” he says, as is the Gala crop. “It’s not like it looks in the television cider ads, is it?” he says, surveying the long rows of staked-and-wired apple trees that are up to a kilometre long at Hononton and look pristine amid the short grass and irrigation hoses. “Orchard hygiene is a big thing for us,” says Simpson. “A lot of growers have had a lot of scab and canker [due to damp weather], but as you can see we have not had a problem.” The orchards are swept out four times a year, he says, so the fungal infections can’t bloom on fallen apples and leaves and then infect the fruit. Hononton still uses seven to 10 pesticide sprays during the growing season. But is reducing use by deploying other substances, such as the pheromone of the female coddling moth, the pest that puts maggots on apples. “The males all end up trying to mate with other males,” he says. Despite the bounty of his orchards, Simpson says prices for Gala, now the UK’s top variety, and Bramley cooking apples, are significantly down: “We are getting very close to only covering our costs.” Simpson says a major pressure on English apple growers is the strength of the pound against the Euro, making imports cheaper. But he also says the UK is slowly losing its appetite for apples, as more exotic fruit crowds supermarket shelves. “Grapes have been phenomenal in the last few years,” says Simpson. “Producing both red and green seedless grapes was a huge step forward for them.” SOURCE For more postings from me, see DISSECTING LEFTISM, TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC and AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Home Pages are here or here or here. Email me (John Ray) here. Preserving the graphics: Most graphics on this site are hotlinked from elsewhere. But hotlinked graphics sometimes have only a short life -- as little as a week in some cases. After that they no longer come up. From January 2011 on, therefore, I have posted a monthly copy of everything on this blog to a separate site where I can host text and graphics together -- which should make the graphics available even if they are no longer coming up on this site. See here or here 19 October, 2014 Are eco-friendly bulbs BAD for the environment? LEDs attract 50% more insects and could damage ecosystems Blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have been receiving positive attention after its inventors were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics last week. They use around 90 per cent less energy than incandescent bulbs and last for 100,000 hours compared with 1,000 hours for tungsten filament light bulbs. But while they may be good for the environment, a new study claims that the discovery may a problem for insects, which are more strongly attracted to the LED spectrum of light. The research, by New Zealand-based institute Scion, found traps placed near LEDs captured 48 per cent more insects than traps near sodium-vapour lights. Sodium vapour bulbs, which emit yellow light, are commonly used in street lighting as they are more efficient than pre-LED lights. Insects are attracted to both white and yellow light, but it seems they are even more attracted to blue light which is generated by LED bulbs. Overall, the researchers caught and labelled more than 20,000 insects, with moths and flies were the most group of bugs. They claim the attraction can be fatal, causing flies to be thrown off their usual path and into the jaws of predators, disrupting the food chain. SOURCE You guessed it! Ebola caused by climate change The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service posted on its website an article that claims Ebola is a “direct consequence” of manmade climate change. The article also stated that the virus specifically threatens conservation efforts focused on ape and monkey populations in Africa, including those in Guinea, one of the countries experiencing an Ebola outbreak and where the U.S.-run Chimpanzee Conservation Center is located. “The larger conservation connection, however, is perhaps less obvious: Ebola appears to be a direct consequence of deforestation and human disturbance,” the article stated. “Outbreaks are linked to long dry seasons (a consequence of deforestation and climate change), during which there is scarcity of food in the forest and all the animals, including fruit bats, feed on the same remaining fruit trees, usually fig trees,” it added. “Human development, including logging and mining, road construction and agriculture, is increasingly cutting back on forest habitat and bringing animals and humans in closer contact, which can facilitate disease transfer,” the article stated. “Some even speculate that the illegal trade in apes may be the actual culprit behind the current Ebola outbreak,” it stated. The article also referred to apes and monkeys as “some of our oldest living relatives” and said protecting animals being hunted for food is a “major conservation concern.” The article has a link to a blog written by Estelle Raballand, director of the Chimpanzee Center, that said while the Ebola virus may be protecting some monkeys and apes that were hunted for food before the latest outbreak, the virus is now threatening fish in the Niger River, and some people are killing monkeys and apes, because they are seen as having Ebola. “While Ebola may protect some animal species from being hunted for bushmeat, illegal fishing is becoming in some areas a larger and more serious conservation issue. In some areas primates are also being targeted because they are perceived as carriers of Ebola,” Raballand wrote. “As the director of the CCC, I hope that more education regarding Ebola both in Guinea and abroad will help to put an end to some of the false information that is leading to panic and unfounded fear in Europe and the United States, and to the targeting of primates in some regions of Africa.” SOURCE NOAA Says Global Warming Not Linked to Extreme Weather Contrary to claims often repeated by environmental radicals, global warming is not responsible for extreme weather events, according to a new report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Explaining Extremes of 2013 from a Climate Perspective, NOAA’s new report, examined claims global warming was behind various droughts, floods, unusually cold weather and blizzards, cyclones, etc. – and found no identifiable connection between them and rising greenhouse gas emissions. In California, for example, a prolonged drought has been blamed by climate alarmists on global warming. The liberal Center for American Progress and media outlets including the Washington Post and Associated Press have published stories claiming global warming caused or worsened the California drought. NOAA’s scientists beg to differ, writing, “[F]or the California drought, which was investigated by three teams from the United States, human factors were found not to have influenced the lack of rainfall.” It would seem President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, who regularly cite the California drought as evidence of man’s fiery influence on climate, need to follow the research more closely, since their own scientists disagree with their take on the matter. Environmentalists follow their own talking points and not the science again when they claim global warming is responsible for extreme cold, surprising blizzards, or heavy snowfall. NOAA could find no evidence linking such events to global warming. NOAA reported, “Analysis of UK cold spring showed the probability of occurrence may have fallen 30-fold due to global warming.” In other words, global warming decreased the likelihood of extreme winter storm events. This was true when looking at the tragic Colorado floods of September 2013, as well. The NOAA report found global warming may be making such tragic events less likely. If anything is truly alarming in the discussion of global warming, it is the widening gap between what the science finds and what the media, backed by alarmists, report. SOURCE Must not mention Greenie money in politics Billionaire Tom Steyer gives millions to Greenie causes This is hilarious: Scott wrote here about a video contest sponsored by far-left MoveOn and MAYDAY.US. Announcing the contest, MoveOn urged applicants to “make a 30-second ad to wake up America to the crisis of big money in our politics.” The public could vote on the contest entries. The conservative group American Commitment took MoveOn at its word. They made this terrific video about Tom Steyer, the biggest hypocrite on the current political scene, and entered it in the contest: (www.youtube.com/embed/UG9H0o2Sr-8) Then a funny thing happened: conservatives flocked to to the contest site and voted for American Commitment’s video. Sure enough, American Commitment’s video was winning the contest. So what did the leftists who are running the contest do? They changed the rules! They have, in effect, wiped out all of the votes cast so far, and they are starting the voting over, as of today. Phil Kerpen documents the change on Twitter. The contest originally was supposed to terminate on October 16, now it begins on October 16. Not only that, voting will last for only 24 hours: Is that pathetic, or what? But it’s not too late. Voting continues, under the new rules, until tomorrow at 5 p.m., Eastern time. You can vote here for the American Commitment video. Of course, no matter how many votes it gets, MoveOn’s far left panel of “judges” will no doubt award the prize to someone else. But still, making the Tom Steyer video the number one vote-getter is worthwhile. We did it once, we can do it again! UPDATE: A representative of American Commitment wrote us earlier today: "American Commitment’s Tom Steyer ad about money and politics is absolutely trouncing the competition with 15 times more votes as its nearest competitor with only 4 hours remaining under the original contest rules… The most amazing thing is how they are willing to go to extraordinary lengths to prevent a video about the country’s largest political donor by far from winning a contest about money in politics. Because he’s a liberal." SOURCE A new one! Concrete's life span is shortened by global warming I live in a warm part of the world and concrete lasts perfectly well here Climate change may reduce concrete's durability, with long-term consequences for buildings, roads and bridges constructed with the common material, according to a recent study. Matthew Eckelman and Mithun Saha of Northeastern University focused their research on how infrastructure in Boston will be affected by the most extreme climate change scenarios. They predict about 60 percent of Boston's buildings will have some structural deterioration by 2050. Eckelman and Saha published their study results in the journal Urban Climate. "Starting in 2025 is when [we expect] to see the concrete cover on buildings start to fail, assuming they were built to code," Eckelman said. Concrete is considered one of the most solid structures humans have engineered. Modern concrete structures and roads are further reinforced with steel bars to make the material less brittle. However, over time both carbon dioxide and chloride ions seep into the concrete and corrode the steel bars, called rebar. This corrosion expands the concrete, destabilizing it. Eventually, the damage becomes visible when the facade of a building cracks or chunks of concrete break off. The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is expected to increase with climate change, and Boston in particular is vulnerable to chloride because of its proximity to salt water. Under current building codes in the United States, buildings' concrete coverings have to be about an inch and a half thick for the structures to last three-quarters of a century. However, the researchers noted that these building codes don't take into account how climate is likely to change over that amount of time. When climate change is considered, buildings built today will likely last between 50 and 60 years, roughly 25 years less than if temperatures remained the same, the researchers said. Eckelman and Saha said the biggest effect will likely be higher construction costs to reduce corrosion, like adding 3 to 12 millimeters of thickness to buildings' concrete cover. This could increase building costs by between 2 and 4 percent. The buildings most at risk in the near term are those built in the 1950s and '60s because they are built with weaker concrete. The American Concrete Institute, which provides guidelines for setting building codes, is going over its standards while taking into account global warming SOURCE The EPA is a major reason why Americans aren’t feeling Obama’s ‘vigorous recovery’ President Obama is trying, according to CNN, to “convince voters of a vigorous recovery that a majority still doubts.” Describing comments the president made on October 2 at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in Chicago, CNN calls his attempt, the “political problem inherent in having to describe an economic recovery that many Americans still aren’t feeling.” The coverage points to polling data that shows the public still sees that the economy is “poor” — with 56 percent disapproving of how Obama has handled the economy. Perhaps people are beginning to sense what a new documentary makes clear. We may not officially be in a recession, as some numbers have ticked slightly up, but people, as CNN pointed out, aren’t feeling it. What are they feeling? Higher electricity rates at home, plant closures, and jobs being sent overseas, while few new jobs are being created at home. On a recent radio interview, a caller told me that companies shouldn’t be allowed to move their business — and the jobs previously held by Americans—overseas. He wanted laws passed that prevented closing an American plant and reopening in China, hiring the locals. I believe laws can be passed that would slow, what Ross Perot called, the “giant sucking sound”—the sound of jobs and economic growth being sucked from America to Mexico, China, or some other country that makes it easier to do business. Instead of controlling whether or not a company can do what is best for its bottom line, wouldn’t it be better to make America the best business environment? Current government policy is actually the cause of that “giant sucking sound,” the reason people aren’t feeling a supposed economic recovery. These policies, in the form of regulations — especially those from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), are keeping people from living the American dream and are even lowering the standard of living from that of our parents. While we may not technically be in a recession, we are in a regcession — an economic decline caused by excessive regulations. The cost of complying with the regulations makes it virtually impossible to meet them and remain competitive or make a profit. The result of these regulations: Americans lose their jobs, as businesses close or move to more hospitable countries. Released on October 7, a new documentary (on YouTube): “Regcession: The EPA is Destroying America” boldly posits that regulations are actually causing more world-wide pollution, destroying American jobs, and even putting America itself at risk. Citing President Abraham Lincoln: “If America is to be destroyed, it will be from within,” Regcession makes a strong case illustrating Lincoln’s wisdom. Regcession proclaims: “Instead of standing up to regulatory insanity, companies have taken the path of least resistance and sent jobs to China.” Detroit is one such example. President Obama proudly claims the bailout of General Motors (GM) as one of his great successes. We taxpayers had no say in the $49.5 billion we funded to keep GM afloat—supposedly saving jobs and saving Detroit. Yet, as Obama-appointed GM CEO Dan Akerson (2010-2014) said during a 2011 visit to China’s Shanghai Auto Show: “Our commitment to working in China, with China, for China remains strong and focused on the future.” He called the eleven joint ventures with China “eleven keys to success” and bragged that seven out of ten cars GM makes are made outside the U.S. Only one-third of GM’s workers are in America. We bailed out GM. China’s economy is booming, while Detroit became the largest municipal bankruptcy in history. GM sells more cars in China than in the U.S., while American’s can’t pay their mortgage — let alone buy a new car. Regcession points out that Americans are increasingly driving older cars. “China’s unregulated industry and underpaid workers, combined with free trade policies make it impractical for American corporations to keep American jobs in America,” states Regcession. The film features Senator Mike Johanns (R-NE) saying: “This administration has generated nothing short of a mountain of red tape — hundreds of new regulations. Of these, at least 219 have been categorized as significant. What that means is that they will cost more than $100 million a year.” It shows TV host John Stossel, author of Give Me a Break and No they Can’t, surrounded by boxes — the 160 thousand pages of new regulations. Yet, the EPA keeps proposing more regulations. “Anything that hurts the economy, hurts the American worker,” Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D., Principal Research Scientist, University of Alabama in Huntsville, states. “Environmental regulations in general, while originally well intended to try to protect the environment, end up going overboard and ultimately destroying jobs.” Since the Clean Air Act was revised in 1990, demand for electricity in the U.S. — along with the American lifestyle — has dropped. Concurrently, China’s demand for electricity — and its lifestyle — has gone up. A growing economy requires more electricity, not less. America used to manufacture goods that the world wanted. But manufacturing is messy and regulations sent industry away. We now send China, for example, our coal and our lumber. Due to regulations and free-trade laws, it is cheaper and easier for companies to use these American raw materials and manufacture products there and then ship the finished goods to the U.S. America loses the jobs, economic growth, increased property values, and the taxes that would have been generated through the entire process. China puts our cash in its pocket. Using mitigating human-caused climate change as the excuse, EPA regulations increasingly ratchet down on American industry and electricity generation. Hundreds of billions of dollars have already been spent to remove sulfur, mercury, and particulates from emissions — only to have new regulations force those same factories and power plants to shut down over new carbon dioxide regulations. Jobs go overseas, electricity rates rise for the average American, global pollution goes up. Don Blankenship, Regcession Executive Producer, explained to me, that with the debt trajectory, the U.S. will be broke — thanks to excessive regulations — long before the planet’s projected warming takes place. Yet, the business community is afraid to fight, as regulators have punitive power. Industrial chemist Chris Skates, author of Going Green, explains it this way: “If we have an amalgam filling in our mouth for a cavity, there’s enough mercury vapor in the vapor of our breath to contaminate the sample. My question is, if the levels we are testing for are that low, who cares?” Regcession concludes: “The American dream is being eroded by abusive overregulation, corporate greed, union misrepresentation, environmentalists, and a president whose priority is supposed to be protecting and improving lives of Americans, yet is instead hurting Americans.” But all is not lost. Americans can end the regcession, by abandoning the doomsday-based regulations and instead have practical, meaningful regulations that give American workers a chance to compete. Dumping bad regulations would be an economic shot-in-the-arm, a true “vigorous recovery.” President Reagan said we needed to do whatever it took to protect the last bastion of freedom that is America — it is too big, too important to fail. Let’s protect America, not change it. Stand up for America. Stand up for American jobs. Stand up against over-regulation. SOURCE For more postings from me, see DISSECTING LEFTISM, TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC and AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Home Pages are here or here or here. Email me (John Ray) here. Preserving the graphics: Most graphics on this site are hotlinked from elsewhere. But hotlinked graphics sometimes have only a short life -- as little as a week in some cases. After that they no longer come up. From January 2011 on, therefore, I have posted a monthly copy of everything on this blog to a separate site where I can host text and graphics together -- which should make the graphics available even if they are no longer coming up on this site. See here or here 17 October, 2014 Projected sea level shrinks Al Gore warned of a 20ft rise in sea level so the latest bit of Warmism is interesting. The MAXIMUM estimated sea level rise is now down to 6ft. It's all based on Warmist assumptions and modelling but it's some progress, I suppose. I reproduce the journal abstract below. Note the words I have highlighted. Unusual humility! Upper limit for sea level projections by 2100 By S Jevrejeva et al. Abstract We construct the probability density function of global sea level at 2100, estimating that sea level rises larger than 180 cm are less than 5% probable. An upper limit for global sea level rise of 190 cm is assembled by summing the highest estimates of individual sea level rise components simulated by process based models with the RCP8.5 scenario. The agreement between the methods may suggest more confidence than is warranted since large uncertainties remain due to the lack of scenario-dependent projections from ice sheet dynamical models, particularly for mass loss from marine-based fast flowing outlet glaciers in Antarctica. This leads to an intrinsically hard to quantify fat tail in the probability distribution for global mean sea level rise. Thus our low probability upper limit of sea level projections cannot be considered definitive. Nevertheless, our upper limit of 180 cm for sea level rise by 2100 is based on both expert opinion and process studies and hence indicates that other lines of evidence are needed to justify a larger sea level rise this century. SOURCE UK: Ex-minister attacks green obession at heart of Whitehall: Owen Paterson accuses ministers of raising energy prices for the poor The former Environment Secretary attacked a so-called ‘green blob’ at the heart of Government yesterday – accusing Whitehall officials and ministers of raising energy prices for the poor. Owen Paterson said their support for flawed wind and solar power cost billions and made electricity and gas needlessly expensive. He said the ‘green blob’ included civil servants and quangos in thrall to the climate change and environmental lobby. He claimed it had blocked him from prioritising shale gas exploration as a more efficient way to secure energy for the future. Mr Paterson, who was removed as Environment Secretary in July, said the only way to ‘keep the lights on’ was to scrap the Climate Change Act, which requires the UK to use more renewable energy and is backed by civil servants. He warned claims of impending environmental disaster were ‘widely exaggerated’, and accused a series of energy secretaries – including the Lib Dem incumbent Ed Davey – of being ‘Sheriffs of Nottingham’ by taking from the poor. He said: ‘It amazes me that our last three energy secretaries, Ed Miliband, Chris Huhne and Ed Davey, have merrily presided over the single most regressive policy we have seen in this country since the Sheriff of Nottingham: the coerced increase of electricity bills for people on low incomes to pay huge subsidies to wealthy landowners and rich investors.’ The former minister also said he was disgusted by rich film stars who fly to Africa to preach against the burning of fossil fuels there. His reference to the ‘green blob’ follows former Education Secretary Michael Gove’s description of the teaching establishment as the ‘blob’. Speaking to the Global Warming Policy Foundation think tank, Mr Paterson claimed the effects of climate change had been ‘consistently and widely exaggerated’, and policies to encourage onshore wind farms will cost £1.3trillion by 2050. He said wind turbines had ‘devastated landscapes, blighted views, divided communities, killed eagles, carpeted the countryside and the very wilderness that the “green blob” claims to love with new access tracks cut deep into peat, boosted production of carbon-intensive cement, and driven up fuel poverty – while richly rewarding landowners’. Current energy policy, he said, was a ‘slave to flawed climate action’, adding: ‘It neither reduces emissions sufficiently nor provides the energy we need as a country.’ Offshore wind farms were ‘proving a failure’, hydro-electric power was ‘maxed out’ and solar power was an ‘expensive red herring’. He condemned solar farms as a ‘futile eyesore, and a waste of land that could be used for other activities’. He urged greater investment in shale gas – pointing out that 40 per cent of Britain’s coal was from Russia and adding: ‘It is better to burn Lancashire shale gas than Putin’s coal. ‘We must be prepared to stand up to the bullies in the environmental movement and their subsidy-hungry allies.’ SOURCE Greenpeace condemned by its original founder as 'evil' and being guilty of 'losing its humanitarian roots' Greenpeace is mainly a club for men who like messing around in boats. They've even got their own submarine now! Greenpeace has been branded an 'evil organisation' which has 'lost concern for humans' in an astonishing attack by its own co-founder. Ecologist Dr Patrick Moore, who quit Greenpeace in 1986, has launched a scathing criticism of the activist group, which he insisted has lost its humanitarian roots. His attack on the organisation he helped create comes as former Environment Secretary Owen Paterson campaigns against the 'self-serving' and 'highly-paid' network of environmental pressure groups he calls the 'green blob'. Dr Moore told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme: 'My problem with Greenpeace is they have lost any humanitarian roots they had. 'When we started Greenpeace it was to stop nuclear war and the destruction of human civilisation, that of course is the "peace" in Greenpeace. 'The "green" is the environment and that's good as well, but they lost the concerns for humans... They have turned, basically, into an evil organisation.' He gave the example of so-called 'golden rice', a crop enriched with vitamin A which supporters say would help millions of the world's poorest people improve their diet. Dr Moore said the fact that Greenpeace opposed the idea showed that they no longer care about people. Dr Moore helped found Greenpeace in 1971 while PhD student in ecology, but he later left the group, claiming it had become more interested in politics than science. He is now a proponent of nuclear energy and is sceptical about sole human responsibility for climate change. Dr Doug Parr, chief scientist at Greenpeace, later shrugged of the criticisms made of his organisation. He said: 'When we do campaigns, we look at influence, we look at impact and we are very, very mindful to incorporate social and economic issues into what we do, because otherwise campaigns won't work. 'There's not going to be some kind of green dictatorship which imposes these decisions on anybody.' The row comes after Pascal Husting, Greenpeace International’s Programme Director, was exposed earlier this year as having commuted the 250 miles between Luxembourg and Amsterdam by plane since 2012. Each trip is believed to have cost Greenpeace £200 and would have generated 142kg of carbon dioxide emissions, it was said. Dr Parr said Mr Husting's behaviour was 'a mistake' and 'should never have happened'. On the organisation's position of golden rice, he said: 'The thing about golden rice is it's a least-favourable option and it doesn't actually exist yet, it's been many years in proposal and... it doesn't work. 'The real solution to this is a proper, balanced diet like the home gardening initiatives in Bangladesh have achieved.' SOURCE Prominent Canadian geologists wax skeptical by Nick Eyles and Andrew D. Miall What is patently obvious from reviewing Canada’s ancient history is that scientists still do not have an adequate understanding of Earth’s complex systems on which to base sound economic and environmental policy. From the upper reaches of the atmosphere to the depths of the oceans onwards to the deep interior of the planet our knowledge of complex earth systems is still rather rudimentary. Huge areas of our planet are inaccessible and are little known scientifically. There is still also much to learn from reading the rock record of how our planet functioned in the past. In so many areas, we simply don’t know enough of how our planet functions. And yet…… Scarcely a day goes past without some group declaring the next global environmental crisis; we seemingly stagger from one widely proclaimed crisis to another each one (so we are told) with the potential to severely curtail or extinguish civilization as we know it. It’s an all too familiar story often told by scientists who cross over into advocacy and often with the scarcely-hidden sub-text that they are the only ones with the messianic foresight to see the problem and create a solution. Much of our science is what we would call ‘crisis-driven’ where funding, politics and the media are all intertwined and inseparable generating a corrupting and highly corrosive influence on the scientific method and its students. If it doesn’t bleed it doesn’t lead is the new yardstick with which to measure the overall significance of research. Charles Darwin ushered in a new era of thinking where change was expected and necessary. Our species as are all others, is the product of ongoing environmental change and adaption to varying conditions; the constancy of change. In the last 15 years or so however, we have seemingly reverted to a pre-Darwinian mode of a fixed ‘immutable Earth’ where any change beyond some sort of ‘norm’ is seen in some quarters as unnatural, threatening and due to our activities, usually with the proviso of needing ‘to act now to save the planet.’ Honest scientific discourse and debate is often rendered impossible in the face of the ‘new catastrophism.’ Trained as geologists in the knowledge of Earth’s immensely long and complex history we appreciate that environmental change is normal. For example, rivers and coastlines are not static. Those coasts, in particular, that consist of sandy strand-plains and barrier-lagoon systems are continually evolving as sand is moved by the waves and tides. Cyclonic storms (hurricanes), a normal component of the weather in many parts of the world, are particularly likely to cause severe erosion. When recent events such as Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy cause catastrophic damage, and spring storms cause massive flooding in Calgary or down the Mississippi valley, and droughts and wildfires affect large areas of the American SW these events are blamed on a supposed increase in the severity of extreme weather events brought about by climate change. In fact, they just reflect the working of statistical probability and long term climate cyclicity. Such events have happened in the past as part of ongoing changes in climate but affected fewer people. That the costs of weather and climate-related damage today are far greater is not because of an increased frequency of severe weather but the result of humans insisting on congregating and living in places that, while attractive, such as floodplains, mountain sides and beautiful coastlines, are especially vulnerable to natural disasters. Promises of a more ‘stable future’ if we can only prevent climate change are hopelessly misguided and raise unnatural expectations by being willfully ignorant of the natural workings of the planet. Climate change is the major issue for which more geological input dealing with the history of past climates would contribute to a deeper understanding of the nature of change and what we might expect in the future. The past climate record suggests in fact that for much of the Earth’s surface future cooling is the norm. Without natural climate change Canada would be buried under ice 3 km thick; that is it normal state for most of the last 2.5 million years with 100,000 years-long ice ages alternating with brief, short-lived interglacials such as the present which is close to its end. It is self-evident to us that the public debate concerning environmental change largely lacks an understanding of natural variability. Since the last Ice Age ended, some 12,000 years ago, Earth has been through several periods lasting hundreds of years and possibly longer when it was either warmer or colder than at present. Several earth scientists have suggested that a study of natural variability over recent geologic time should be completed in order to provide a baseline against which anthropogenic change may be evaluated, but this important history has not been introduced fully into the public debate, and is a long way off. It has to be said that the natural variability of the last few thousand years or hundreds of years or tens of years has formed almost no part in the ongoing discussion of climate change which in some circles assumes that any change since 1940 is largely man-made. This opinion is uninformed by geologic science. The way forward, it strikes us, is for more scientific honesty and less politics, less grandstanding. ‘We don’t know’ is an honourable credo for scientists. In this regard, we need more science to be directed to the environment, particularly toward better planning of the world’s communities to make them more resilient in the face of change. And it is an increasingly urban face that our planet presents. The many large supercities of the rapidly-approaching future world will be absolutely massive consumers of resources and producers of wastes; they will be the biggest determinants of our global environmental footprint; and it is surely there that much of our effort should be spent. Today, the rate of change of some parts of the world, especially in regard to urbanization and the ‘rush to the city’ is taxing our abilities simply to map and assess the environmental repercussions of transforming a natural environment to a built landscape. There is no simple technological fix either. Satellite and other monitoring data for example still has to be collected, interpreted, ground truthed, and acted on; steps available only to wealthier countries. In large areas of the planet the lack of human and financial resources, equality and personal freedoms and political choices trump any global environmental concerns and hobble international co-operation. To these people our obsession with saving the environment must ring hollow. The onus here is on the wealthiest nations with the largest scientific academies to put forward credible notions of how our planet is changing and to discuss the possible origins in an intellectual environment where data gaps are fully acknowledged free of catastrophic overtones. SOURCE Ecofascists Hijack EPA Ozone Regulations The Environmental Protection Agency will release its new standards regulating ozone in December. Even while the old ozone standards have not been fully implemented and studied, environmental groups have hijacked the EPA to enact new regulations on the nation’s energy and manufacturing economy. And in the estimation of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), “This would be the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the American public.” The Supreme Court recently declined to hear the case of Utility Air Regulatory Group, a conglomerate of coal companies, which argued the 2008 ozone rules were too strict. Even after six years, states like Connecticut, New Jersey, Texas and especially California did not reach the ozone production levels set in 2008. While the EPA has not released the details of the new regulations – they’re waiting until after the election for that – the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee recommended to the agency in June to push the ozone standard from 75 parts per billion (ppb) down to 70ppb, or even as low as 60ppb. That level “would certainly offer more public health protection than levels of 70ppb or 65ppb and would provide an adequate margin of safety,” committee chair Dr. H. Christopher Frey wrote. Well heck, if we’re talking health protection here, 0ppb would be ideal, but also against the laws of nature. Ozone, a.k.a. smog, can form naturally, but manufacturing and burning coal can also create ozone. So ecofascist groups like the Environmental Defense Fund label it a “harmful air pollutant” because it allegedly exacerbates respiratory conditions like asthma. In July, the DC Circuit Court ruled the EPA violated the Clean Air Act when it did not pass tougher ozone standards in 2008 (under the Bush administration, the greenies like to point out). The EPA stalled on passing stricter ozone regulations until 2011. But then, Barack Obama told then-EPA Director Lisa Jackson to withdraw the proposed rules, saying, “I have continued to underscore the importance of reducing regulatory burdens and regulatory uncertainty, particularly as our economy continues to recover.” Surely stricter ozone regulations weren’t too tough even for Obama to stomach. Perhaps he wasn’t yet emboldened, as it was only his first term. However, the July regulation made environmentalists happy that they finally forced the Obama administration to act. “Smog sickens and even kills some plants and trees, even in America’s national parks, which are supposed to have the cleanest air in the country,” said Mark Wenzler, vice president of conservation programs at the National Parks Conservation Association. “The Obama administration now has an opportunity to follow the Science™ and not play politics with protecting our national parks and forests from air pollution damage.” The administration would never play politics. Perhaps Wenzler meant a court-ordered opportunity. These new ozone rules go beyond executive fiat. These regulations were pushed forward by ecofascists with deep pockets and sharp lawyers. It’s rule by legal suit, baby. And while the new regulations may make Sequoias and Redwoods happy, the rules would cut down American industry faster than a bald eagle going through a wind turbine. NAM released a study in July concluding new ozone rules “could cost $270 billion per year and place millions of jobs at risk.” That breaks down to costing households $1,570 per year, according to NAM. Furthermore, a 60ppb standard would make every state noncompliant with ozone regulations, with few exceptions – mostly swaths of Montana and North Dakota. “Based on the way the EPA interprets the Clean Air Act,” the NAM report concludes, “it is virtually ensured that the agency will recommend a stricter standard every five years. Yet, ozone levels are getting so low that a rapidly growing share of even urban areas' ozone concentration now comes from either naturally occurring ozone or from ozone that has been transported from other states or countries. We have reached the point at which significant further reductions simply cannot be accomplished in any cost-effective manner. Absent recognition of this fact from the EPA, it is time for Congress to modernize the Clean Air Act.” Right now, an act of Congress may be the only thing that will reform the EPA because the courts have weighed in. The bottom line is the environmentalists have won their court battles; America’s manufacturers and coal industry have lost theirs. Meanwhile, every American has the right to petition the government, but environmentalist groups seem to have an extra-special right to petition the EPA. According to Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), newly revealed emails between Gina McCarthy, the current EPA administrator, and David Doniger, a policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, suggest collusion. Vitter said, “These emails clearly demonstrate their beyond-cozy relationship and force the question: Who is working for whom?” The emails show McCarthy working with Doniger to craft the recently passed greenhouse gas regulations. In the emails, McCarthy tells Doniger in 2011, “I will never say no to a meeting with you.” How many coal companies have such a relationship? And in 2010, McCarthy tells him, “I appreciate your support and patience. This success is yours as much as mine.” This was the same woman in July who welcomed public comment on the greenhouse gas regulations and with the same breath described economic arguments against EPA regulation as “tired, false and worn out criticism.” But that was greenhouse gas regulation. When the EPA deviated from the ecofascist line on ozone, the environmentalists' lawsuit reminded the EPA just who is in charge. SOURCE Australia: Coal is 'good for humanity', says Tony Abbott at mine opening Prime Minister Tony Abbott says Australia's coal industry has a "big future, as well as a big past" and predicted it will be the world's principal energy source for decades to come. Mr Abbott also heaped praise on Japan in comments that come just days after China slapped harsh new tariffs on coal imports and will be noted in Beijing as negotiations on a China-Australia Free Trade Agreement move towards conclusion. Industry has estimated the new tariffs could cost Australia's economy hundreds of millions of dollars annually, though it will be some time before exact estimates can be made. "Let's have no demonisation of coal," Mr Abbott said on Monday. "Coal is good for humanity, coal is good for prosperity, coal is an essential part of our economic future, here in Australia, and right around the world." The Prime Minister's comments, which angered the environmental movement, came at the opening of the $US3.4 billion ($3.9 billion) Caval Ridge Mine in Central Queensland, a joint venture between BHP and Mitsubishi. The mine will produce 5.5 million tonnes annually of metallurgical coal and employ about 500 people. "This is a sign of hope and confidence in the future of the coal industry, it's a great industry, we've had a great partnership with Japan in the coal industry," Mr Abbott said. "Coal is essential for the prosperity of the world." "Energy is what sustains our prosperity, and coal is the world's principal energy source and it will be for many decades to come." The Coalition had affirmed its faith in the coal industry by abolishing the carbon tax and mining, Mr Abbott said, but if there was a change of government at the next election both of those taxes could come back. "If you want to sustain the coal industry, if you want to sustain the jobs, if you want to sustain the towns that depend on the coal industry you have got to support the Coalition, because we support coal, we think that coal has a big future as well as a big past." Mr Abbott's comments about coal having a bright future are in conflict with the United Nations' top climate official Christiana Figueres, who has warned most of the world's coal must be left in the ground to avoid catastrophic global warming. Less than two weeks ago, a lead adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel lashed the Abbott government's championing of the coal industry as an economic "suicide strategy". Climate Institute chief executive John Connor said the Prime Minister was "taking a higher and higher stakes gamble by putting all the chips on coal". Earlier on Monday, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said that Australia risked being seen as the climate sceptic capital of the world ahead of the G20 meeting in November. "We've got the G20 coming up. Most nations in the world at the G20 are dealing with climate change. Yet we're the climate sceptics capital of the world," he said. "The rest of the world is moving towards taking real action on climate change, yet we've got a government who's slammed the nation into reverse gear and retreating away from action." Over the weekend, Mr Shorten told Fairfax Media that Labor would take a carbon price - thought not a tax - as policy to the next election. And he has previously left open the possibility of some form of resources tax, though he has promised to first consult with business over such an impost. SOURCE For more postings from me, see DISSECTING LEFTISM, TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC and AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Home Pages are here or here or here. Email me (John Ray) here. Preserving the graphics: Most graphics on this site are hotlinked from elsewhere. But hotlinked graphics sometimes have only a short life -- as little as a week in some cases. After that they no longer come up. From January 2011 on, therefore, I have posted a monthly copy of everything on this blog to a separate site where I can host text and graphics together -- which should make the graphics available even if they are no longer coming up on this site. See here or here 16 October, 2014 Those moving goalposts again Warmists are good at moving the goalposts. Catastrophe (runaway warming) was once slated to strike once atmospheric CO2 levels reached 400 ppm. We are now there with NO change in the temperature. So do they say "Sorry. We were wrong"? No way. They are just more vague about when warming will strike. And there were LOTS of bad things that were supposed to happen by 2014 which have not happened. Still no sign of penitence. They just don't name dates much anymore. So rather a lot of laughs in the report below. The authors claim to have shown that sea levels suddenly started rising 150 years ago. So is that evidence of man-made global warming? It certainly runs counter to the usual Warmist claim that manmade global warming got going only in the second half of the 20th century. So the finding must contradict Warmism, right? It must show that sea-level was rising long before the industrial upsurge of the postwar era? Not on your Nelly! We read below that 150 years ago was "the same time humanity began to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels". The onset of manmade global warming has suddenly been shunted back by around 100 years! VERY mobile goalposts! And a small niggle. In the journal abstract also reproduced below the number of readings they took is given as ~1,000. Note the tilde (~), meaning "approximately". Don't they know how many records they used? Amazingly sloppy data processing if so. But the whole enterprise is a nonsense. Present-day readings of sea level are difficult enough without thinking you can do it accurately 6,000 years back. See here where it shows that the sea level rise since 1970 has been 4.7 inches in Boston and 8.02 inches in Atlantic city. The rise in Atlantic city has been double what it was in Boston! So which is the true sea level? The obvious answer is that there is no such thing. So what these authors measured was just one sampling of sea levels which may tell us nothing about any general sea-level over the last 6,000 years Melting glacial ice and ice sheets have driven seas to levels unmatched in the past 6,000 years, says a study out this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers studied examples of past sediments in Australia and Asia that dated back 35,000 years and found that overall, the planet's sea level was fairly stable for most of the past 6,000 years. Things began to go haywire about 150 years ago, the same time humanity began to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. "There's something going on today that wasn't going on before," said Kurt Lambeck of the Australian National University, who was lead author of the study, in an interview with the Australia Broadcasting Corp. He said the sea level rise is affected by increasing temperatures. As the Earth's temperature warms, so do the seas. Heat-trapping greenhouse gases cause more land ice (glaciers and ice sheets) to melt and water to expand. Lambeck told the Guardian that the sea level increase of the past 100 years is "beyond dispute." Sea level has risen nearly 8 inches worldwide since 1880, but it doesn't rise at the same level. In the past century or so, it has climbed about a foot or more in some U.S. cities such as Charleston, Norfolk and Galveston because of the added influence of ocean currents and land subsidence. Global sea level will rise 1 to 3 feet around the world by the end of this century, according to this year's Fifth Assessment Report by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. SOURCE Sea level and global ice volumes from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene By Kurt Lambeck et al. Significance Several areas of earth science require knowledge of the fluctuations in sea level and ice volume through glacial cycles. These include understanding past ice sheets and providing boundary conditions for paleoclimate models, calibrating marine-sediment isotopic records, and providing the background signal for evaluating anthropogenic contributions to sea level. From ~1,000 observations of sea level, allowing for isostatic and tectonic contributions, we have quantified the rise and fall in global ocean and ice volumes for the past 35,000 years. Of particular note is that during the ~6,000 y up to the start of the recent rise ~100?150 y ago, there is no evidence for global oscillations in sea level on time scales exceeding ~200 y duration or 15?20 cm amplitude. Abstract Several areas of earth science require knowledge of the fluctuations in sea level and ice volume through glacial cycles. These include understanding past ice sheets and providing boundary conditions for paleoclimate models, calibrating marine-sediment isotopic records, and providing the background signal for evaluating anthropogenic contributions to sea level. From ~1,000 observations of sea level, allowing for isostatic and tectonic contributions, we have quantified the rise and fall in global ocean and ice volumes for the past 35,000 years. Of particular note is that during the ~6,000 y up to the start of the recent rise ~100?150 y ago, there is no evidence for global oscillations in sea level on time scales exceeding ~200 y duration or 15?20 cm amplitude. SOURCE The Global Warming Statistical MeltdownMounting evidence suggests that basic assumptions about climate change are mistaken: The numbers don’t add upBy Judith Curry (Curry is a "lukewarmer". Probably for the sake of her standing among other academics, she accepts that CO2 can have a non-trivial effect on temperature. I would think that the 18 year "pause" is evidence that it cannot. But she at least gives a low estimate for the magnitude of its potential effect) At the recent United Nations Climate Summit, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that “Without significant cuts in emissions by all countries, and in key sectors, the window of opportunity to stay within less than 2 degrees [of warming] will soon close forever.” Actually, this window of opportunity may remain open for quite some time. A growing body of evidence suggests that the climate is less sensitive to increases in carbon-dioxide emissions than policy makers generally assume—and that the need for reductions in such emissions is less urgent. According to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, preventing “dangerous human interference” with the climate is defined, rather arbitrarily, as limiting warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial temperatures. The Earth’s surface temperatures have already warmed about 0.8 degrees Celsius since 1850-1900. This leaves 1.2 degrees Celsius (about 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) to go. In its most optimistic projections, which assume a substantial decline in emissions, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects that the “dangerous” level might never be reached. In its most extreme, pessimistic projections, which assume heavy use of coal and rapid population growth, the threshold could be exceeded as early as 2040. But these projections reflect the effects of rising emissions on temperatures simulated by climate models, which are being challenged by recent observations. Human-caused warming depends not only on increases in greenhouse gases but also on how “sensitive” the climate is to these increases. Climate sensitivity is defined as the global surface warming that occurs when the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere doubles. If climate sensitivity is high, then we can expect substantial warming in the coming century as emissions continue to increase. If climate sensitivity is low, then future warming will be substantially lower, and it may be several generations before we reach what the U.N. considers a dangerous level, even with high emissions. The IPCC’s latest report (published in 2013) concluded that the actual change in 70 years if carbon-dioxide concentrations double, called the transient climate response, is likely in the range of 1 to 2.5 degrees Celsius. Most climate models have transient climate response values exceeding 1.8 degrees Celsius. But the IPCC report notes the substantial discrepancy between recent observation-based estimates of climate sensitivity and estimates from climate models. Nicholas Lewis and I have just published a study in Climate Dynamics that shows the best estimate for transient climate response is 1.33 degrees Celsius with a likely range of 1.05-1.80 degrees Celsius. Using an observation-based energy-balance approach, our calculations used the same data for the effects on the Earth’s energy balance of changes in greenhouse gases, aerosols and other drivers of climate change given by the IPCC’s latest report. We also estimated what the long-term warming from a doubling of carbon-dioxide concentrations would be, once the deep ocean had warmed up. Our estimates of sensitivity, both over a 70-year time-frame and long term, are far lower than the average values of sensitivity determined from global climate models that are used for warming projections. Also our ranges are narrower, with far lower upper limits than reported by the IPCC’s latest report. Even our upper limits lie below the average values of climate models. Our paper is not an outlier. More than a dozen other observation-based studies have found climate sensitivity values lower than those determined using global climate models, including recent papers published in Environmentrics (2012),Nature Geoscience (2013) and Earth Systems Dynamics (2014). These new climate sensitivity estimates add to the growing evidence that climate models are running “too hot.” Moreover, the estimates in these empirical studies are being borne out by the much-discussed “pause” or “hiatus” in global warming—the period since 1998 during which global average surface temperatures have not significantly increased. This pause in warming is at odds with the 2007 IPCC report, which expected warming to increase at a rate of 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade in the early 21st century. The warming hiatus, combined with assessments that the climate-model sensitivities are too high, raises serious questions as to whether the climate-model projections of 21st-century temperatures are fit for making public-policy decisions. The sensitivity of the climate to increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide is a central question in the debate on the appropriate policy response to increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Climate sensitivity and estimates of its uncertainty are key inputs into the economic models that drive cost-benefit analyses and estimates of the social cost of carbon. Continuing to rely on climate-model warming projections based on high, model-derived values of climate sensitivity skews the cost-benefit analyses and estimates of the social cost of carbon. This can bias policy decisions. The implications of the lower values of climate sensitivity in our paper, as well as similar other recent studies, is that human-caused warming near the end of the 21st century should be less than the 2-degrees-Celsius “danger” level for all but the IPCC’s most extreme emission scenario. This slower rate of warming—relative to climate model projections—means there is less urgency to phase out greenhouse gas emissions now, and more time to find ways to decarbonize the economy affordably. It also allows us the flexibility to revise our policies as further information becomes available.SOURCEComedy Gold: Coal plant protest deflated by miserable failure of renewable energy (www.youtube.com/embed/2Fs5v6NHTHg) Madison, Wisconsin: Demonstrators gathered outside the Public Service Commission to protest against a requested rate structure change by the local utility company, Madison Gas and Electric (MG&E). During the protest, they decried the use of "dirty coal" and called for more renewable energy. To make their point, they had a blow-up coal power plant that was running on a fan powered by wind and solar charged batteries. Before the protest was over, however, the batteries died and their solar panel could not produce enough energy to keep the power plant standing upright. They couldn’t even get their renewable energy sources to keep their puny inflatable coal plant upright, but they don’t want coal to supply the power their city. This is the “logic” that drives the anti-coal (frankly, anti-science) left. I love how visibly embarrassed the inflatable operator was. He should be. His “renewable energy” lasted a paltry 45 minutes. Apparently he neither understands electricity nor economics. SOURCE Senator: Emails Reveal EPA, Green Group in ‘Beyond Cozy’ Relationship Republican lawmakers say the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency enjoys a “beyond cozy” relationship with a liberal environmental action group that seeks to reshape national energy policies in a way that would hurt American businesses and families. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., the top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, told The Daily Signal that the Natural Resources Defense Council played an “absolutely inappropriate” role in drafting the EPA’s new carbon emissions plan. “The EPA has been one of the least transparent agencies I have ever seen, but it’s become apparent that their lack of transparency is to hide the influence that an organization so heavily focused on undermining U.S. businesses and families has at EPA,” Vitter said. Vitter and House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., have directed staff to look into whether the EPA broke federal law in developing the carbon emissions regulations. Newly released emails between the EPA and the green group, Vitter said, show that the agency didn’t push to “consider all stakeholders’ opinions equally.” He added: While both sides have denied NRDC’s improper influence over the EPA’s development of the carbon rule, these emails clearly demonstrate their beyond-cozy relationship and force the question: Who is working for whom? Vitter was referring to the EPA’s rebuttal of allegations by GOP lawmakers that the Natural Resources Defense Council, a New York-based international environmental organization, had an outsized influence on the agency’s proposed rule to limit carbon emissions at existing power plants. The emails surfaced after a joint request last month to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy by Vitter, Issa and four other Republican lawmakers. Nick Loris, a Heritage Foundation economist who focuses on energy and the environment, calls the Obama administration’s new carbon rules “nothing short of an attack on affordable, reliable energy.” Claiming 1.4 million members and online activists, the Natural Resources Defense Council lobbies and litigates for “curbing global warming” and “creating the clean energy future,” among other issues. The organization, founded in 1978, has received $1.9 million in EPA grants since January 2009. Allegations of the environmental group’s undue influence arose July 6 when The New York Times reported on the EPA’s close relationship with three of the organization’s principals—lawyers David Doniger and David Hawkins and scientist Daniel Lashof. “The three were as seasoned and well connected as Washington’s best-paid lobbyists because of their decades of experience and the relationships they formed in the capital,” reporter Coral Davenport wrote. The trio’s 110-page proposal, focused on cutting carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants, was “widely viewed as innovative and audacious,” the article said, adding: “On June 2, President Obama proposed a new Environmental Protection Agency rule to curb power plant emissions that used as its blueprint the work of the three men and their team.” In a July 10 email obtained by Politico, EPA chief McCarthy scoffs at the suggestion of an inappropriately close relationship with the green group. On Sept. 4, two days after Vitter and Issa pressed their questions in their letter to McCarthy, the Natural Resources Defense Council denied in a blog post that it had influenced the actions of the EPA “outside of the normal regulatory process.” But the emails between EPA chief McCarthy and Doniger, the green group’s policy director for climate and clean air, reveal close communications dating back to 2010. McCarthy was assistant administrator at the EPA from 2009 to July 2013, when the Senate confirmed Obama’s nomination of McCarthy as administrator after a four-month confirmation battle in which Vitter posed more than 500 questions. Of her agency’s announcement just before Christmas 2010 of amendments to the mandatory reporting of greenhouse gases, McCarthy emailed Doniger, “this success is yours as much mine.” In 2011, email correspondence produced as the result of the congressional inquiry show at least five meetings between McCarthy and representatives of the green group regarding Section 111, which Loris describes as the “meat” of the Obama administration’s climate change regulations. In June 2011, Doniger emailed McCarthy a copy of the organization’s “Technical and Legal Framework for Power Plant Carbon Emissions Standards Under Clean Air Act Section 111,” requesting a meeting on the environmental group’s proposal. McCarthy’s response to Doniger includes the words: “I would never say no to a meeting with you.” In their Sept. 2 letter to McCarthy, six GOP lawmakers — including Vitter and Issa — demanded release of documents and information regarding the environmental group’s involvement in drafting the EPA’s proposed rules. They wrote: "The fact that an ideological and partisan group drafted a rule that places a tremendous cost on everyday Americans through increased electricity prices is harmful and outrageous. Accordingly, these practices must cease immediately." Also signing the letter were Sen. Jim Inhofe R-Okla., Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Rep. James Lankford, R-Okla. Paul J. Larkin, a senior legal research fellow at The Heritage Foundation, said the emails don’t appear to show anything “unlawful” about the EPA’s relationship with the Natural Resources Defense Council, but stressed that the agency has a responsibility to independently assess outside recommendations. Larkin said: "There is nothing inherently unusual or unlawful about a private organization, such as the NRDC, contacting a government agency, such as the EPA, in an attempt to influence public policy. In fact, the First Amendment expressly guarantees every person the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Nor is there anything inherently unusual or unlawful in the EPA’s willingness to listen to what an organization like the NRDC has to say. At the same time, every government official, whether employed by the EPA or elsewhere, is obligated to use his or her best judgment to decide what policy best serves the public, not the interests of a private organization. That is where the rubber meets the road." Citing the extent to which the EPA’s policies affect Americans across the country, Vitter called the environmental group’s influence “absolutely inappropriate.” “When EPA’s policies affect the whole spectrum of American businesses and families, which they do, it is absolutely inappropriate for one outside organization to have excessive influence on those policies, and this is not how our federal government should be run,” the Louisiana Republican told The Daily Signal. “In order to have a fair regulatory process, EPA should consider all stakeholders’ opinions equally. These emails show how that’s not the case,” he said. Warning that the EPA’s carbon plan would increase the cost of energy and most goods for American families, Vitter called it the Obama administration’s attempt to impose in America the failed climate policies that have been a disaster in Europe: "This carbon plan would mean a permanent stagnant economy with limited growth potential that will kill hundreds of thousands of jobs and projects all across the country. It will decrease electricity reliability the same as in Europe, and it will be a crushing blow to the poor and elderly as energy poverty becomes a new normal just like what we’re seeing in Europe." The Daily Signal sought comment Oct. 10 from the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA replied hours later with a blog just posted by Associate Administrator Tom Reynolds, who heads the agency’s Office of Public Affairs. Reynolds’ blog attacks Vitter, Issa and other Republican lawmakers for pushing a “flawed, cherry-picked narrative that simply ignores the well-documented and widely reported and recognized sweep and range of the agency’s engagement with the public, states and stakeholders over the past 14 months.” Of the idea that the EPA “inappropriately” collaborated with the Natural Resources Defense Council, Reynolds writes: "Our proposal, announced in June, was developed through extensive public outreach—one that reached tens of thousands of people across the country. EPA consulted with states, power companies, local communities, environmental groups, associations, labor groups, tribes, and many more. Before we put out the proposal, EPA met with more than 300 stakeholders, to gather their thoughts and ideas." The agency’s public counterpunch appeared unlikely to impress Vitter. “The difference between most organizations and NRDC is that most organizations are actually trying to create jobs and provide opportunity for their fellow Americans,” Vitter said, adding: This particular organization has advocated relentlessly to harm our energy and manufacturing sector, and EPA providing this organization an outsized role in the regulatory process is incredibly unfair to American families that rely on a healthy economy to sustain their livelihoods.SOURCE Environmentalists Halt Obama Administration Plan to Cut Trees in Alaska A family-owned timber firm that operates the last significant sawmill in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest has won a momentous U.S. Forest Service contract: the Big Thorne Project, which will allow the harvest of nearly 150 million board feet of wood. The Obama administration’s decision marks the transition away from old-growth timber and toward a sustainable forest industry based on young growth. More than a quarter of the trees in the contract are regrowth on previously logged sites, to be nurtured for a sustainable future. But winning bidder Viking Lumber Company can’t begin the transition because at least five environmental groups are suing to “stop this massive old-growth clear cutting on public lands.” For years, environmentalists have tried to stop logging in old-growth forests—lands that are economically valuable because they have been growing for over a century. Kirk Dahlstrom, a Viking co-owner, told The Daily Signal he, his three brothers, and a partner moved to Alaska in 1994 “to escape old-growth lawsuits,” particularly the notorious Audubon Society spotted owl litigation. Dahlstrom said, “The owl lawsuit took away the high-quality old growth we used for doors, framing and molding products” in their Hoquiam, Wash., sawmill. Audubon’s lawsuit cost 22,654 logging and mill jobs in California, Oregon and Washington, according to final surveys. The Oregon Natural Resources Council’s Andy Kerr called the unemployed “collateral damage”—a despised underclass bloodied without consequence or conscience. How “massive” is Viking’s Big Thorne contract? Tongass Forest Supervisor Forrest Cole gave The Daily Signal some perspective: “Big Thorne is a five-year project with a mix of 6,186 acres of old growth to help local businesses through the transition stage, and 2,299 acres of young growth.” The young growth, Cole said, will be thinned to enhance wildlife habitat—mostly for deer—and to provide growing space for the best trees for tomorrow’s re-tooled young growth sawmills. The Tongass is America’s largest national forest—at 17 million-acres, it is bigger than Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts combined. It spans 500 miles of scenic Pacific Coast Range mountains, 300 miles of it fringed with the Alexander Archipelago’s 1,100 islands that shelter the iconic Inside Passage. Forests cover 10 million Tongass acres, and its 5.7 million acres of untouchable wilderness are bigger than New Jersey and Delaware together. The Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, National Audubon Society and others are blocking a sustainable future over Big Thorne’s “massive” 6,186 acres of old growth. (That’s about half the size of Washington’s Dulles International Airport.) But this time they’re not attacking a marginalized minority. The Obama administration itself ordered Big Thorne’s old-growth logging. In a July 2, 2013, memorandum, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack ordered the Forest Service “to supply sufficient old growth ‘bridge timber’ while the industry re-tools for processing young growth. The first step is the Big Thorne timber sale.” Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell, a Republican, was furious at “irresponsible lawsuits by environmental groups to stop all logging,” and had the state file motions in federal court challenging them, saying, “We will help defend the sale against those who want to kill Alaska’s jobs and shut down our traditional timber communities.” U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, an Alaska Democrat facing a tough reelection, urged the Forest Service to monitor Viking’s wood supply “and take whatever steps are necessary to supply timber until such time as Big Thorne is available.” Big Thorne, with its transitional mix of old growth and young growth, has become an incipient Beltway brawl. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s top Republican, David Vitter of Louisiana, has taken note and asked his committee staff to track the forest industry nationwide, with good reason. The staff recently reported on a “Billionaire Club” systematically designing and funding large numbers of environmental group campaigns attacking many industries. For example, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund gives millions to shut down Canada’s oil sands; Gordon Moore’s Intel-rich private foundation pays an Alaska group to “permanently” stop Tongass logging and much more. Vitter told The Daily Signal, “Instead of finding a middle ground that promotes responsible forestry and jobs, these litigation-happy organizations are solely focused on shutting down the forestry industry and completely disregard the potential environmental benefits.” Perhaps this time the Billionaire Club’s hubris will be the collateral damage and a sustainable forest industry will emerge. Wisdom says keep your eye on the prize.SOURCE Australia: People Power Victoria - No Smart Meters Party Campaign Launch People Power Victoria – No Smart Meters (PPV) campaign launch for the 2014 Victorian election will be held as follows: Saturday 11th October, 3:00 pm sharp, Oakleigh Grammar Community Conference Centre, 77-81 Willesden Rd, Oakleigh (Hughesdale) PPV will run in every Upper House seat and selected Lower House seats. As a newly registered party, PPV has been formed in response to growing public unrest with how Victorians are being treated by essential service corporations and government departments, and in particular, disdain towards our right to cost-effective, safe, and privacy-protected services. “The Party provides a focal point for voters who are frustrated by the lack of political action and feel strongly that much more needs to be done through our parliamentary system to protect the human and democratic rights of Victorians. It is a party based on consumer rights and protection,” said Marc Florio, PPV spokesperson. PPV is centred on opposing the mandated rollout of wireless smart meters for electricity, gas and water, and on the commitment to re-establish a healthy environment for Victorians. “The community's experience with rising essential services’ costs and disregard of our rights and wellbeing is epitomised by the incompetent and aggressive rollout of the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (smart meters) program.” “Many Victorians have already been adversely affected by the compulsory rollout, be it financially or via deteriorating health as a direct result of exposure to radiation from smart meters. Many also see it as a gross invasion of their privacy,” he said.SOURCE ***************************************For more postings from me, see DISSECTING LEFTISM, TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC and AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Home Pages are here or here or here. Email me (John Ray) here. Preserving the graphics: Most graphics on this site are hotlinked from elsewhere. But hotlinked graphics sometimes have only a short life -- as little as a week in some cases. After that they no longer come up. From January 2011 on, therefore, I have posted a monthly copy of everything on this blog to a separate site where I can host text and graphics together -- which should make the graphics available even if they are no longer coming up on this site. See here or here 15 October, 2014 The Myth of Carbon Pollution On October 15, 2014, Dr. William Happer, Chairman of the George C. Marshall Institute, will discuss "The Myth of Carbon Pollution." "Carbon pollution" is a propaganda slogan for the campaign against carbon dioxide (CO2). It is not science. Atmospheric CO2 is not a pollutant but is essential for plant growth. Current CO2 levels are far below optimum for most plants, and far below norms of geological history, when CO2 concentrations averaged several times higher than present values. A substantial fraction, about 15%, of current world food production is due to the higher levels of CO2 compared to preindustrial values. Contrary to unambiguous computer predictions, there has been no statistically significant surface warming in at least 15 years. It is now clear that the warming potential of CO2 has been exaggerated by a large amount, and it is unlikely to be much more than 1oC for doubling of CO2. There is not the slightest evidence that more CO2 has caused more extreme weather or accelerated sea level rise. Nor is there the slightest support for the notion that government control of CO2 will "stop climate change." Many real environmental issues need attention, smog, waste disposal, short-sighted suburban development, adequate clean water, public health, etc. These are being overshadowed by the phony issue of "carbon pollution." Dr. William Happer is Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics (emeritus) at Princeton University, a long-term member of the JASON advisory group, and former director of the Department of Energy's Office of Science. In addition to being a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Alfred P. Sloan fellowship, the Alexander von Humboldt award, the Herbert P. Broida Prize and the Thomas Alva Edison patent award. Place: 2325 Rayburn House Office Building, Independence Ave. & South Capitol St., SW Washington, D.C. Via emailClimate change is being slowed by plants far more than expected, researchers revealSo much for "settled science". But this is a report of CO2 effects, not climate change. The two have been unrelated for at least 18 years and probably millennia Plants are slowing the effects of climate change far more than expected, researchers have found. They said the impact of rising CO2 levels on plant growth has been underestimated by 16 per cent, as they thrive with more of the gas in the atmosphere. And as plants absorb CO2, this has led to overestimates of how much of the greenhouse gas is left in the atmosphere. In a separate study, reported in the same journal, scientists artificially elevated CO2 levels in a US prairie grasslands ecosystem for eight years. They found that the added carbon had increased the overall volume of the plants and promoted the ecosystem's stability by reducing the growth of normally dominant plant species. The study was conducted by climate and earth scientists at the University of Texas at Austin and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. It says a 16 per cent 'correction' would be 'large enough to explain the persistent overestimation of growth rates of historical atmospheric CO2 by earth system models'. 'Our study will lead to improved understanding and modelling of carbon–climate feedbacks,' the paper says. Lianhong Gu, from the Climate Change Institute at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States, said most carbon-cycle models had over-predicted the growth rate. Dr Gu said the growth rate of carbon levels had been over-predicted by 17 per cent over a 100-year period. The study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences focusses on the slow diffusion of CO2 in plant leaves, with particular attention to the mesophyll or their inner tissue. It concludes: 'Carbon cycle models that lack explicit understanding of mesophyll diffusion will underestimate historical and future terrestrial carbon uptake. 'Consequently, they will overestimate historical and future growth rates of atmospheric CO2 concentration due to fossil fuel emissions, with ramifications for predicted climate change.' Professor Peter Cox, Professor of Climate System Dynamics at the University of Exeter, said even if the study was correct, the effect will be 'relatively small' compared to uncertainties about how much carbon will be absorbed by plants and soil. He said: 'Avoiding 2C of global warming is a huge challenge for humanity even if this effect is taken into account.' Prof Richard Betts, Head of Climate Impacts Research at the Met Office and Chair in Climate Impacts at the University of Exeter, said: 'This is a very interesting paper adding to our understanding of plant physiology. 'The authors remark on the potential importance of their results for global carbon cycle modelling, and this is indeed relevant, but as a priority for improving carbon cycle modelling there are other processes which current models treat either very simplistically or not at all. 'Fire disturbance, for example, is not included in some of the models examined here – its inclusion could be more important than any improvements in modelling CO2 fertilization, as it seems likely to be an important feedback on climate change. 'Changes in global soil respiration at the global scale are also poorly understood. 'So while this is an interesting and useful contribution, it should be put into context with the bigger picture – disturbance mechanisms as well as physiological processes are important.'SOURCE'Absolutely ridiculous': Joe Hockey denies Australia is dirtiest greenhouse gas emitter in OECDAustralia is very large (3 million sq. miles) so it has a large animal population (both wild and domestic) which emits various gases. The human population is however small (22 million) so blaming all the animal emissions on people and their activities is absurd Treasurer Joe Hockey has been bombarded with questions on climate change, the economy and Australia's relationship with China during an interview on the BBC World News airing at 2:30pm and 7.30pm on Tuesday. Hockey has denied that Australia is the highest greenhouse gas emitting country in the OECD per capita, telling a British journalist the statement is "absolutely ridiculous". He has also refused to explicitly back the democracy movement in Hong Kong, and says Australia's free trade negotiations with China will not be damaged by China's shock move last week to introduce new tariffs on imports of Australian coal. On his first trip to London since becoming treasurer, Mr Hockey has also told an audience at the Institute of Economic Affairs that Australia's Reserve Bank has only a "limited capacity" to stimulate economic growth and Australia can no longer afford a "she'll be right" approach if it wants to avoid recession or high unemployment. On the BBC's Hardtalk program recorded overnight, Mr Hockey faced tough questions about Prime Minister Tony Abbott's views on coal, Clive Palmer's recent explosive appearance on the ABC's Q&A during which he called the Chinese government "mongrels who shoot their own people," and Labor leader Bill Shorten's criticism that Australia is now seen as the climate change sceptic capital of the world. He told BBC host Stephen Sackur that Europeans had a "fundamental misunderstanding" of Australia's economic ties with Asia, particularly China, and the view that Australia had a "massive reliance and dependence" on China for exports was a "complete misread". He also laughed at the suggestion that Australia was "one of the dirtiest most greenhouse gas-emitting countries in OECD group of developed countries". "The comment you just made is absolutely ridiculous," Mr Hockey told Sackur. "We've got a small population and very large land mass and we are an exporter of energy, so that measurement is a falsehood in a sense because it does not properly reflect exactly what our economy is," Mr Hockey said. "Australia is a significant exporter of energy and, in fact, when it comes to coal we produce some of the cleanest coal, if that term can be used, the cleanest coal in the world." His comments contradict the Garnaut Climate Change Review, which says Australia was the highest per capita emitter of greenhouse gas emissions in the OECD, even without exports of energy. "Australia's per capita greenhouse gas emissions are the highest of any OECD country and are among the highest in the world," the review says. "Australia's per capita emissions are nearly twice the OECD average and more than four times the world average." When asked on the BBC program, which will air in full on BBC World News on Tuesday evening, about China's surprise decision last week to introduce 3 per cent and 6 per cent tariffs on coal imports, Mr Hockey said Australia had no political problem with China at the moment. But he would not say if negotiations with China on a free trade agreement would end if there was no agreement by the end of this year.SOURCEJust Say NO to a Carbon Tax By S. Fred Singer I am against instituting a carbon tax, but my reasons are rather different from the conventional ones. I see three major problems with any proposed carbon tax: It irrationally discriminates against some forms of energy and subsidizes others. It ignores the considerable benefits of atmospheric carbon dioxide in promoting the growth of plants, advancing agriculture, and lowering the cost of food for a growing world population. Focusing on a carbon tax emphasizes the idea that Carbon Dioxide is a pollutant -- a claim that is rapidly becoming scientifically unacceptable. Assuming we can maintain a revenue-neutral tax stream, I favor an energy tax (BTU tax) over a carbon tax, and will explain why. Consumption taxes A carbon tax is of course a consumption tax that raises the price of all manufactured goods and their transportation. Its burden falls most heavily on households in lower income brackets, which spend a larger fraction of their income on essential goods and services. Yet many economists favor a consumption tax as a more effective way of financing government operations and promoting economic growth than other forms of taxation, like taxes on income or capital. Many politicians have favored a consumption tax from time to time. A good example was presidential candidate Herman Cain, who proposed a consumption tax when he ran for the Republican nomination in 2012. Economists who favor such a tax often insist that it must be revenue-neutral, by reducing some other taxes so as to keep total revenue constant. This means it is not superimposed on other taxes -- although in the current political environment there’s no guarantee this will happen. But let’s first discuss the drawbacks of alternatives, such as a VAT (Value-Added Tax) or a Federal sales tax. As is the case for all consumption taxes, these are all regressive; some adjustments will have to be made to protect low-income households. Aside from that, we should compare the four methods in the matter of efficiency and the cost involved in running such a tax. A VAT is the most invasive of all of these taxes, involves large amounts of bookkeeping, inspections, control, and other costs. European experience with VAT has shown that it must be at least 15% of the value of goods to make any sense. A Federal sales tax has some of the same problems as a VAT. In addition, one can visualize a large amount of cheating going on -- especially if the tax is 10% or greater and provides incentives for such behavior. And there are always the problems of defining exemptions for certain goods and for particular classes of users. Collecting the Energy Tax An energy tax is the simplest because it can be applied at a small number of choke points: at oil refineries and at electric power stations. In other words, instead of being collected at millions of points like a VAT or a sales tax, collections take place at only several hundred points and can be just as effective. We already have a Federal tax on gasoline -- so it will be only a matter of increasing its amount; a federal tax on electricity does not appear to present much of an administrative problem. The major advantage of an energy tax over a tax on emitted carbon dioxide is that it does not discriminate against coal, our cheapest and most plentiful fuel for electric power. Nor does it provide an implicit subsidy for hydro, nuclear, solar, and wind. Once it is recognized that CO2 is not a pollutant (in the sense of having adverse effects on climate), it can be seen that an energy tax is much preferable to a CO2 tax. Note: We’ve had suggestions of an energy tax before; it was often known as a BTU tax. It must be realized that there will be some forms of energy that will avoid being taxed under the proposed collection scheme. It then becomes necessary to see if it is worthwhile to capture such a form of energy or whether to ignore it because it’s so small. Neutrality of Tax Revenues Returning to the main theme of revenue-neutrality, I’m sure that tax experts can figure out which tax to reduce to compensate for an energy tax. Many would favor lowering the corporate income tax, as Herman Cain suggested in 2012. (In a properly operating competitive market, corporate profits are really an indicator of increased efficiency of operation.) There are a number of advantages to such a proposal. It will make US corporations more competitive on the international market and avoid the problem of “leakage” of corporate headquarters to countries with lower tax rates. In the final analysis, a corporate income tax is somewhat perverse; since a corporation is not a person, it does not consume goods. It may transform them, but it does not consume them as a person would. Instead, corporations should be encouraged to distribute their profits to their shareholders, who are now suffering from double taxation: first, when corporate profits are taxed, and later, when dividends are taxed as part of a shareholders’ personal income. Motor-fuel tax and Environmental concerns A quick word about the advantages of (what amounts to) an increase in the Federal tax on motor fuels; the last such increase was imposed during the Reagan Administration. The various States would remain free to collect whatever their voters approve. But with fuel efficiency of vehicles rising, revenues derived from current State and Federal taxes are woefully inadequate to maintain highways and repair bridges. Also, a significant portion of federal and state gasoline taxes have been diverted to other uses such as local rail transit; according to a study by NCPA, only 60% of the federal fuel tax revenue goes to highways, bridges, etc. Raising the cost of driving will also reduce traffic accidents, air and noise pollution, as well as traffic congestion -- although road and bridge tolls may be the best way to fight congestion. Last but not least, environmental activists have always campaigned for an increased tax on gasoline --considering cars and trucks as enemies of an equitable global climate. Although evidence for any significant influence of CO2 on climate is rapidly evaporating, a tax on fuels (and reduced use of motor vehicles) is bound to gain the support of the Greens and the media -- and of a sizable fraction of the public. Gradually also, it has become clear that increased levels of CO2 are not only not harmful, but positively benefit the growth of plants worldwide – contributing to global agricultural prosperity. The publication of NIPCC’s (Non-governmental International Panel on Climate Change) Climate Change Reconsidered, by the Heartland Institute in 2014, of a massive compendium of relevant biological research, underlines these beneficial effects. So to sum up, a carbon tax NO; an energy tax, MAYBE. A lowering of taxes overall, YES.SOURCEHow donuts cause global warmingWhat they fail to mention is that food firms use palm oil because food freaks have demoninized first saturated fats and then trans fats. Palm oil is what is left. So it is the do-gooders who have created the demand for palm oil -- and the resultant cutting down of native trees to grow the trees that produce the palm oil. So it is clear who is to blame for any adverse effects McDonald's, Burger King, Yum Brands (Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut) and other members of the fast food industry are often the focus of negative attention for the effect on our heath, but did you know they are also having a big effect on our climate? America's top fast food brands use palm oil, an ingredient linked to climate change and deforestation, in their products. As tropical forests are cleared to make way for palm oil plantations, carbon is released into the atmosphere, driving global warming and shrinking habitats for endangered species. Tropical deforestation currently accounts for about 10 percent of the world's heat-trapping emissions. The good news is that two of the country's largest fast food chains, Krispy Kreme and Dunkin' Brands (who owns both Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins), just pledged to buy deforestation-free palm oil. The rest of the fast food industry should also set the bar high and make a firm commitment to use only deforestation-free palm oil. SOURCEPentagon Declares War on Climate ChangeJust speculation U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, in South America for a six-day trip leading up to the Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas in Arequipa, Peru, will talk about how climate change has become an increasingly urgent issue for the military and what it plans to do to address it. Hagel spoke at a news conference in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, previewing the gist of his remarks, according to a Pentagon press release “Climate Change Can Effect Security Environment.” At the news event, he said that rises in the sea level bring new potential security threats. “When there is any natural disaster event that occurs, there always is some element of a security risk—law and order, individuals attempting to take advantage of those catastrophes, adjusting to shifts in security requirements,” said Hagel. He also pointed to the increased competition for natural resources leading to conflict. “We see an Arctic that is melting, meaning that most likely a new sea lane will emerge,” he said. “We know that there are significant minerals and natural deposits of oil and natural gas there. That means that nations will compete for those natural resources. That’s never been an issue before. You couldn’t get up there and get anything out of there. We have to manage through what those conditions and new realities are going to bring in the way of potential threats.” According to the Pentagon, he will amplify on these remarks today, talking about how meeting military challenges need to be rethought in light of climate change. It’s not the first time Hagel has spoken about the military challenges related to climate change. Last spring he met with defense ministers from southeast Asian countries to talk about meeting “non-traditional” security challenges created by climate change and natural disasters. He also addressed the issue at the Halifax International Security Forum in Nova Scotia in November 2013. “Climate change does not directly cause conflict, but it can add to the challenges of global instability, hunger, poverty, and conflict,” said Hagel at that event. “Food and water shortages, pandemic disease, disputes over refugees and resources, more severe natural disasters—all place additional burdens on economies, societies and institutions around the world.” He pointed to efforts already being undertaken by the military, such as Afghan combat posts using tactical solar gear, keeping 20 millions gallons of fuel off battlefield, developing more efficient routes, and investments in renewable energy on military installations.SOURCEBritain needs to generate an energy revolution After years of dithering, negotiations and reviews, it finally looks like a new nuclear power plant will be built in the UK – the first since Sizewell B on England’s east coast started generating power in 1995. But the news is cause for relief, not celebration. The new plant, to be built on the site of two existing stations at Hinkley Point, will cost nearly £25 billion to build and won’t start generating power until well into the 2020s. The plant’s operators, EDF, have been guaranteed a price for electricity that is roughly double the current price, a guarantee that will last at least 35 years. Even now, having got the go-ahead from the EU, Hinkley Point C may be blocked by objections from other EU countries over excessive state aid. But even this much-delayed and wildly expensive power station is still a step forward. Maybe next time, the UK government will learn to negotiate a better deal. If it can’t, Hinkley Point could be the start and end of the nuclear revival. The pressing need for new nuclear power stations was confirmed earlier this week, when it was reported that cracks had been found in two of the 3,000 graphite bricks in the core of one of the reactors at the Hunterston B nuclear power plant in Scotland. The news has led to suggestions that Britain’s ageing gas-cooled nuclear reactors, which have had as many career revivals as Bruce Forsyth, may not keep going as long as hoped, possibly exacerbating a supply crunch. But it’s the cracks in UK energy policy that we should really be worried about. Britain is already facing an uncomfortable few years where peak energy demand will be only marginally smaller than peak energy supply. For the past few years, and for some time to come, Britain will be closing power stations rapidly. Some are nuclear power stations that are coming to the end of their lives, but others are fossil-fuel stations that are being closed because they don’t meet emissions standards. The EU’s Large Combustion Plant Directive (LCPD) means coal- and oil-fired power stations must strict meet (non-carbon) pollution standards. Many of these plants could have been upgraded, but in any event, the UK has already committed to producing 15 per cent of all energy requirements from renewable sources by 2020 – which in effect means 30 per cent of electricity will need to come from renewables. The result is that many older coal and gas stations would be out of business even if what came from their chimneys was scrubbed clean. One consequence of all these commitments and plant closures is that, this coming winter, the gap between peak demand and peak generation will be small. By next winter, the gap will be as little as four per cent. Given that currently four power stations are out of action, the risk of shortfalls is substantial. However, the lights are unlikely to go out in our homes thanks to a series of emergency measures, which include the ability to bring mothballed coal and gas plants back online, and paying companies to not use electricity – a facility for which National Grid will have to pay those firms fairly handsomely. Moreover, the UK government is investing in more connectors with continental Europe so that shortfalls can be made up with French nuclear power, for example. The problem has been years of indecision on the part of politicians, combined with an excessive obsession with climate change. The three fundamental requirements of an energy system are that the power is reliable, abundant and as cheap as possible. However, environmental concerns have muddied the waters. A simple way to square the circle on climate change would have been to push for a mix of energy supply including a new wave of nuclear power stations, combined with increased use of gas and renewables. But for years, building new nuclear stations was ruled out on environmental grounds. (In Scotland, the SNP government is still committed to blocking new nuclear plants.) Eventually, kicking and screaming, new nuclear stations like the one planned at Hinkley Point, have been approved – but given the weak negotiating position that the government has with energy companies, the government has, to recycle an old quote from postwar Labour politician Nye Bevan, ‘stuffed their mouths with gold’. In all this, realism and ambition have been absent. Realism, in the sense that the only way in which Britain could hope to cut greenhouse-gas emissions while maintaining security of supply was to generate a substantial proportion of power from nuclear. Renewables are too expensive and too unreliable, and require backup from gas-powered stations for those times when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine. Ambition, because there seems to be little drive to produce energy cheaply and abundantly. For the economy to grow and for society to develop materially, we are going to need a lot more energy and at as low a cost as possible. Instead, planning for the future has been obsessed with producing only as much energy as necessary, with as few emissions as possible, while trying to force us to be as energy efficient as possible. While nuclear might finally be getting somewhere, the production of shale gas using fracking – which could be the simplest and cheapest way to get lower-carbon energy – is now being delayed by endless, mostly specious concerns from scaremongering protesters. While solar and wind, in the right conditions, can and will make a useful contribution to energy supply in the future, they also have fundamental problems of unreliability that need to be solved. What we really need to do is to invest in researching technologies that could make really dramatic leaps forward in energy production. Yet the nearest thing to such an attempt right now – the ITER project to build a nuclear fusion power plant in France – has been bedevilled by delays, poor management and politicking. Let’s put the holy trinity of cost, reliability and abundance back at the heart of energy policy, stop panicking about global warming (we can’t solve the problem overnight and we don’t need to) and start thinking long-term about revolutionising energy production – and the possibilities that could open up for society.SOURCE ***************************************For more postings from me, see DISSECTING LEFTISM, TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC and AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Home Pages are here or here or here. Email me (John Ray) here. Preserving the graphics: Most graphics on this site are hotlinked from elsewhere. But hotlinked graphics sometimes have only a short life -- as little as a week in some cases. After that they no longer come up. From January 2011 on, therefore, I have posted a monthly copy of everything on this blog to a separate site where I can host text and graphics together -- which should make the graphics available even if they are no longer coming up on this site. See here or here 14 October, 2014 The history of environmentalism starts in Germany History shows that elitism has always been central to environmentalism -- and it also shows what that elitism leads to Nietzsche belonged to a reactionary school of German thought which became known as the ‘Volk’ movement. The historian Professor George Mosse wrote a brilliant account of Volkish thought in 1964 (The Crisis of German Ideology – Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich). The movement acquired its name because its adherents were constantly harking back to a more authentic golden age when the German people were not just people who happened to live in Germany and speak German, but were, in a deeper, mystical sense, a ‘Volk’ (or‘Folk’). A famous (and typical) Volkish work was Land und Leute (Places and People), written in 1857 when the serfs had just won their freedom in Germany, and the feudal reactionaries were reeling from the great change. Its author, Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl (says Mosse), sought to turn back the clock and rebuild ‘the web of ancient custom, which once had determined every man’s place in society – and should do so again. The respective positions of lord and peasant had been fixed by time-honoured customs as clearly as nature had divided field from forest. Riehl viewed peasantry and nobility as the two estates which still lived according to the prescribed customs and which were furthermore, an integral part of the landscape out of whose soil they drew their living.’ From the start, Volkish ideology had what we would recognise today as a Green tinge. The Volkish writer Friedrich Ratzel, said, ‘As different from each other as plants, animals and human beings may be, they all stand and move on the same soil. They came to life on the same soil … Life is always bound to the earth … and cannot, partially or as a whole, be separated from the earth and its soil.’ The ‘Volk’ (the people) had a deep, mystical, essential bond with each other and the earth. They said the true Volk society was connected with the soil (volksboden), it was organic and natural (organisirtes naturproduct), determined by nature (naturbedingtheit), shaped by earthly forces and conditions (bodenständigkeit), inseparable from the earth itself (erdgebundenheit). The landscape had formed the people, and their culture was part of the landscape (kulturlandschaft). The Volkists spoke of a healthy society’s ‘rootedness’ (verwurzelung). In Nietzsche we find the usual Volkish green simpering about Nature: ‘Remain faithful to the earth’ demands Zarathustra, we must ‘re-animalise man’ and ‘return to nature’. As Professor Mosse observes, ‘The word “rootedness” occurs constantly in their vocabulary. They sought this in spiritual terms, through an inward correspondence between the individual, the native soil, the Volk and the universe … Rural rootedness served as a contrast to urban dislocation, or what was termed “uprootedness”.’ Volkish thinkers like Riehl, Paul de Lagarde, Heinrich von Treitschke and others, ‘looked back to the earlier Germans with nostalgia for their ordered social and economic life. These olden days had been times of rootedness, when the nation, composed of craftsmen and nobles, warriors and tillers of the soil, enjoyed its labors and prospered under the benefits of a settled hierarchy.’ Of course it is no accident that this sudden enthusiasm for social ‘rootedness’ appears immediately after serfdom is abolished. The yearning for ‘rootedness’ was nothing other than the desire to keep the peasants tied to the land. ‘Rootedness’ was a perfect description of feudal society. The nobles were rooted to the land … they even derived their names from their feudal domains: the Baron or Earl of this, and Duke or Count of that. And of course their serfs were legally tied to them, and to the land. It was forbidden for serfs or their children to leave their lord’s land (or indeed to marry without the lord’s permission, and so on). They were ‘rooted’ in a very real, (very unpleasant) way. The serfs stayed serfs from generation to generation – it was in their ‘blood’ (keep your eye on that word ‘blood’). Their status was inherited and legally enforced. And the aristocrats stayed noble from one generation to the next, no matter how inept or imbecilic. Their privileges were a blood-right. A lord was as different to a peasant as a horse was to a dog. The age-old social order seemed to them as natural as the trees. The Volkist H. S. Chamberlain said that society, and our respective class positions within it, had evolved and were therefore natural: ‘nobody acquainted in detail with the results of animal breeding can doubt that the history of mankind before us and around us obeys the same law.’ Volkish anti-capitalism was not on the side of the masses. Quite the opposite. The Volkists saw capitalism (rightly) as the great liberator of the masses. It was this liberation which was ‘unnatural’ to them. As one of them put it, ‘Nature is a many-splendored thing, but one aspect will not be found in nature: equality.’ In his great work, The Destruction of Reason, written in 1952, the philosopher Georg Lukács pointed out that the idealisation of ‘nature’ and the ‘organic’ was, from the very beginning, political. It was, he pointed out, an attempt to defend ‘naturally grown’ feudal privileges, ‘Biologism in philosophy and sociology has always been a basis for reactionary philosophical tendencies … it cannot permit of any essential change, let alone progress …. Oppression, inequality, exploitation and so forth were presented as “facts of nature” or “laws of nature” which, as such, could not be avoided or revoked.’ Society was ‘naturally’ hierarchical. Nietzsche even insisted, ‘In the last resort there exists an order of rank of states of soul’ and there is no point of aspiring to achieve a higher rank because, ‘one has to be born or, expressed more clearly, bred for it.’ One is superior ‘by virtue of one’s origin; one’s ancestors, one’s blood.’ People in different classes had different ‘blood’. They were indeed a different race. For Volkish thinkers the terms ‘race’ and ‘class’ amount to the same thing. Nietzsche grieved over ‘Europe of today, the scene of a senselessly sudden attempt at radical class – and consequently race – mixture’. He talked of the ‘semi-barbarism into which Europe has been plunged through the democratic mingling of classes and races.’ Professor Mosse says that for the Volkists, ‘Even within the race, the most promising stock was to be encouraged and the inferior left behind … Aryan nobles and warriors were to be formed, as they had always been, by selection and selective propagation. Social division, a special class, indeed a caste system, was thus essential.’ Hitler said he aimed for ‘a racial quality fashioned on truly noble lines.’ As Lukács observes, ‘The ancient racial theory was extremely simple; indeed we can hardly call it a theory at all. It proceeded from the thesis that anyone could tell an aristocrat. For, as an aristocrat, he was of pure stock and descended from the superior race.’ It was, says Lukács, ‘a pseudo-biological defence of class privileges.’ The Volk movement turned the ‘class struggle into a racial struggle “ordained by nature”’ ... It was out of these struggles that racial theory sprouted.’ The Volk movement viewed the advent of capitalism with dismay. As serfs, the masses had been charming. As ‘proletarians’ they were threatening. The proletariat, says Mosse, was ‘the unfortunate product of modernisation, which itself entertained an anti-Volkish malevolence.’ He says, ‘The big city and the proletariat seemed to fuse into an ominous colossus which was endangering the realm of the Volk: “dominance of the big city will be equivalent to the dominance of the proletariat”.’ Because of capitalism, the serfs, instead of being “rooted” to the land, were now physically and socially mobile. The money economy - market capitalism - had shaken lose the old feudal bonds, as it had done in England, and the great commercial centres – the cities - were seen as driving this change. As one Volkish writer put it, ‘Cities are the tombs of Germanism.’ Professor Mosse tells us, ‘the city came to symbolize the industrial progress and modernity that all adherents to the Volkish ideology rejected. It was the very opposite of rootedness in nature and, therefore, antithetical to the spirit of the Volk. Worse still, it represented the accomplishments of the proletariat; it was the concrete expression of proletarian restlessness. The fear of urban centers became synonymous with apprehension over the alarming rate at which the proletariat increased in numbers and asserted itself.’ If the proletariat was to be feared, said the Volkists, capitalism and the bourgeoisie was to be blamed. ‘The bourgeoisie, by raising the cry of liberty, equality, fraternity,’ says Mosse, ‘had ignored the natural difference between the strong and weak, the clever and the stupid – in short, the “natural” contrast between master and servant.’ For Riehl, says Mosse, ‘the bourgeoisie was a disruptive element that had challenged the “genuine” estates … this new element was composed mainly of merchants and industrialists who had no close connection with nature.’ And the people singled out for special culpability were the Jews. For, as Professor Mosse, says, ‘the Jews were not a Volk, had no peasants, and owned no land, but were only traders and parasites.’ ‘The Jews were identified with modern industrial society’, they were ‘weaving a net of business and trade’ around innocent Germans, and they were essentially un-green: ‘the rootlessness of the Jew was contrasted with the rootedness of the Volk.’ So, ‘to oppose the Jews meant to struggle against the champions of the materialistic world view as well as the evils of modern society.’ We must make the point here that Volkish and Nazi hatred of Jewish people was not religious. The Volkists and Nazis hated Christianity, at times almost as much as they despised Judaism, and they tried to establish a State pagan religion to replace it (see the laughable librettos of Wagner’s turgid operas for a list of rehabilitated gods). No, the Jews were hated because they were visibly non-rural and capitalistic, and in particular they were pre-eminent in the world of finance (the greens have always hated bankers). Of course the Jews had, historically, ended up in those roles precisely because they had been expelled from the land in much of Europe and had been forced to find occupations on the fringes of feudal society. That abused group of people had been punished once, and now they would be punished again. (We might mention here that one of the marked features of the declining feudal nobility in Europe was its tendency to get into debt and thereby lose control of its land. Law after law was passed to stop feudal domains from slipping into private hands and entering the world of commodity exchange. But such was the desire of lavish but useless aristocrats to have money, and such was their inability to make it, that they were constantly borrowing, and then selling land to repay the loans. They nobles were prepared to entertain Jewish bankers when they needed the stuff, but loathed them with a passion when it came to paying it back). As Professor Mosse describes, ‘Economic prejudices were always prevalent in anti-Semitism and they attained academic respectability with Werner Sombart’s Die Juden und des Wirtshaftsleben (Jews and Capitalism, 1910). This eminent economic historian linked the growth of capitalism to the role played by the Jews. As usurers in the Middle Ages and entrepreneurs in modern times, the Jews had been a vital force in building the capitalist system … The stock-exchange jobber, the corpulent banker, these were the stereotypes of the Jew that were widely accepted and disseminated through popular literature. The stock exchange in particular became the symbol of the nightmarish capitalism that had been fostered on the Germans by the Jews.’ For Adolf Hitler, in Mein Kampf, it was the Jews who had dissolved the Volkish feudal bonds and brought capitalism to Germany. It was ‘the Jew’ says Hitler, who ‘included landed property among his commercial wares and degraded the soil to the level of a market commodity. Since he himself never cultivated the soil but considered it as an object to be exploited.’ It was the Jews, he said, who had brought to Germany all those devilish democratic modern ideas, ‘bubbling over with “enlightenment”, “progress”, “liberty”, “humanity”, etc.’ For the Volkish right-wing anti-capitalists, the ‘bourgeoisie’ and ‘proletariat’ merged into one urban, industrial, commercial enemy. Mosse says that Volkish thinkers ‘feared that the “world bourgeoisie” and the “world proletariat” would recognize their mutual compatibility and exercise a suzerainty over a world in which all that was natural had been destroyed, especially the estates.’ The proletariat and the bourgeoisie was a common enemy. They shared a world-view which was commercial and extended beyond borders. (In this respect, Volkish right-wing anti-capitalism was a more accurate portrayal of reality than its Marxist offshoot). Just as today’s greens idealise pre-capitalist society, so did the Volkists and the Nazis. Their ‘blood and soil’ racism was wholly the product of this backward fantasy. It was nothing more than the desire to cling onto the world as it was before. As with the Nazi’s demonization of Jewish people, it was an expression of their fear and loathing of the physical and social mobility which came with capitalism. Like Nietzsche and the Volkists, Hitler and the Nazis hated the Enlightenment. They rejected its humanism just as they spurned the human-centered morality of the Judeo-Christian tradition. They despised the moral restraints of civilisation, and embraced the romance of pagan savagery as more ‘authentic’. They held bourgeois liberal tolerance and internationalism (or globalisation) in contempt. These were all features of the despised new capitalist order. The Volkist deep hatred of capitalism extended to all the trappings of industrial and urban development. As Mosse says, ‘These sick individuals [the bourgeoisie and proletariat] had subsequently stamped their surroundings with diseased characteristics. The result was an unhealthy, “degenerate” landscape marked by smoking factories, overcrowded cities and insatiable natural resource exploitation.’ The Volkists hated advertising billboards and hydro-electric dams and railway lines. They hated modern farming techniques and the mass production of food. They idealised peasant life. In short, the Volkists and Nazis were green. In 1934, a year after the Nazis took power, as Professor Thomas Lekan describes, they ‘declared that the Third Reich had ushered in a new era of environmental stewardship … They foresaw a new era of ‘organic’ land use planning that stressed long-term sustainability over short-term profitability.’ The leading Nazi Walther Schoenichen declared that the German countryside was to be purified of the ‘un-German spirit of commerce.’ The same year they passed a law ‘Concerning the Protection of the Racial purity of Forest Plants’, and the following year the wide-ranging Reichsnaturschutzgesetz (Reich Nature Protection Law). Hitler appointed his most trusted general Herman Göring supreme commissioner for nature conservancy, and made him Reichforstmeister (Reich master of forestry) whose job it was to promote waldgesinnubg (forest-mindedness) and the close-to-nature ideals of the dauerwald (eternal forest). Göring’s Reichsforstamt (Reich Forest Office) oversaw the Reichstelle für Naturschutz (Reich Nature Protection Office). He declared ‘The people are a living community, a great organic, eternal body’, which was echoed in the Nazi slogan, ‘Ask the trees, they will teach you how to become National Socialists!’ As Mosse says, ‘In Volkish thought the image of the tree was constantly used to symbolize the peasant strength of the Volk, with roots anchored in the past while the crown aspired to the cosmos and its spirit.’ Walter Darré, head of the SS Race and Settlement Office was made Reichsbauerführer (Reich peasant leader). He led the Nazi campaign described by one author as ‘the Nazification of the countryside’. A new Nazi law attempted to re-impose feudal relations on peasant land, forbidding inherited land from being bought, sold or mortgaged. Needless to say, this met with resistance from the peasants. The peasants also resented production quotas and other forms of state interference. Nevertheless, hundreds of thousands of Polish peasants were reduced to serfdom once more. The Nazis attempted (unsuccessfully) to re-establish a Volkish peasantry by distributing free plots of land to workers, and it was this that sent the German army into Poland, and beyond, in search of lebensraum (living space), made available by the mass slaughter of east Europeans. It was Darré, who said he wanted to breed a new rural nobility, who coined the chilling slogan ‘blood and soil’ (blut und boden). Of course the green policies of the Nazis, like the policies of the greens today, were riddled with contradictions. They wanted organic, peasant farming, but discovered very quickly that it would not produce nearly enough food (though a special supply of organic food was secured for the SS). Likewise, though they despised capitalism and industry and commerce, they also needed it. The sprawling Nazi State bureaucracy was a ravenous parasite that needed a host (we will deal with Nazi economics in another article). But the fact that the absurd green fantasies of the Nazis were impractical did not seem to disturb them, as indeed it seems not to disturb greens today. Perhaps this was because every bit of green legislation justified and involved a further extension of planning and state intervention. As Professor Lekan politely puts it, ‘The discourse of organic planning meshed well with Naziism’s corporatist approach to economic intervention.’ But is important to note that environmentalism and the appeal to Nature was at the heart of Nazi belief. As Adolf Hitler insisted in Mein Kampf: ‘Man’s effort to build up something that contradicts the iron logic of nature brings him into conflict with those principles to which he himself exclusively owes his existence. By acting against the laws of nature he prepares the way that leads to ruin … Our planet has been moving through spaces of ether for millions and millions of years, uninhabited by men, and at some future date may easily begin to do so again – if men should forget that wherever they have reached a superior level of existence, it was not the result of following the ideas of crazy visionaries but by acknowledging and rigorously observing the iron laws of nature.’ As Dr. Mark Bassin says (in the useful book How Green Were the Nazis?), ‘The very appeal to the authority of organicist-ecological principles for guidance in interpreting society and political organization was seen as a fundamental aspect of what fascism was all about.’ There are those greens who insist that the environmental movement started in 1962 when Rachel Carson published her misguided rant against DDT, Silent Spring. But this is clearly nonsense. To emphasise our point, let us look at the writings of Martin Heidegger, the famous Nazi philosopher who still exerts a powerful influence on Western intellectuals. Heidegger’s appointment to rector of his University of Freiburg was celebrated with Nazi flags and songs, his lectures were accompanied by Nazi salutes, he destroyed the careers of rival academics by reporting them to the Gestapo and he remained a member of the Nazi party to the end. (I will quote at length, lest I am accused of cherry-picking). Heidegger contrasts wonderful peasant life, which involved ‘dwelling’, with horrid footloose capitalism which involves ‘homelessness’. He says, ‘The Old High German word for building, bauen, means to dwell. This means to remain, to stay in place … The old word bauen, which however, also means at the same time to cherish and protect, to preserve and care for. Specifically to till the soil and cultivate the vine.’ His feudal Eden has been destroyed by capitalism, ‘Bridges and hangars, stadiums and power stations are buildings but not dwellings; railway stations and highways, dams and market halls are built, but they are not dwelling places … The truck driver is at home on the highway, but he does not have his lodgings there; the working woman is at home in the spinning mill, but does not have her dwelling place there; the chief engineer is at home in the power station, but he does not dwell there. These buildings house man. He inhabits them but he does not dwell in them.’ Heidegger contrasts the crass modern machine-powered technology that disturbs nature with the healthy use of tools by handicraftsmen, which involves a ‘revealing and unconcealment’ of nature. Industrial capitalism, says Heidegger, ‘challenges’ nature in a way that primitive peasant society does not, “The work of the peasant does not challenge the soil of the field. In sowing grain it places seed in the keeping of the forces of growth and watches over its increase. But even the cultivation of the field has come under the grip of another kind of setting-in-order, which sets upon nature … Agriculture is now the mechanized food industry.’ He says, ‘To save the earth is more than to exploit it or even wear it out. Saving the earth does not master the earth and does not subjugate it, which is merely one step from boundless spoliation.’ Into Heidegger’s imagined rural idyll, the poison of market forces is seeping, ‘The forester who measures the felled timber in the woods and who to all appearances walks the forest path in the same way his grandfather did, is today ordered by the industry that produces commercial woods.’ Heidegger argues against the ‘monstrous’ building of hydroelectric dams on the Rhine and sings the praises of wind power: ‘modern technology is a challenging, which puts to nature the unreasonable demand that it supply energy which can be extracted and stored as such. But does not this hold true for the old windmill as well? Its sails do indeed turn in the wind; they are left entirely to the wind’s blowing. But the windmill does not unlock the energy from the air currents in order to store it.’ Heidegger lambasts production of ‘the maximum yield at minimum expense.’ He deplores the fact that “The coal has been hauled out of some mining district … it is on call, ready to deliver the sun’s warmth that is stored in it … to deliver steam whose pressure turns the wheels that keep a factory running.’ How can anyone read the Nazi Heidegger, or the writers of the Volk movement, or indeed Mein Kampf, and say, with a straight face, that environmentalism started with Rachel Carson? The Nazi Martin Heidegger is to the tips of his fingers, a romantic anti-capitalist. He is, to the toes of his fascist jack-boots, an environmentalist. Should we be at all worried about any of this? After all, modern environmentalism, to many people, seems so innocent. But in the words of Bruggemeier, Cioc and Zeller (editors of How Green Were the Nazis?), ‘The green policies of the Nazis were more than a mere episode or aberration in environmental history at large. They point to larger meanings and demonstrate with brutal clarity that conservationism and environmentalism are not and have never been value-free or inherently benign enterprises.’ We should heed the warning of Lukács, that, ‘fascist demagogy and tyranny was only the ultimate culmination of a long process which initially had an “innocent” look’. Green thinking was not a side-line for the Nazis. The idealisation of nature and the organic, the nostalgia for the Middle Ages, the anti-capitalism, the hatred of bankers, the hatred of cities and industry, the idealisation of peasant life … all this defined their poisonous ideology. It was the green attempt of the Nazis to recreate a peasant society which led them to invade Poland in search of ‘living space’. It was their green nostalgia for the Middle Ages which led to their ‘blood and soil’ racist ideology. It was their green anti-capitalism and loathing of bankers which led them to hate Jewish people. It was their green rejection of the Judeo-Christian tradition and of the Enlightenment and its humanist values, and their green return to pagan animal-worship - their idealisation of pre-civilised barbarism as more ‘authentic’ - that led to them to treat humans as worthless creatures with no more claim on our sympathies than viruses and pests. Green ideology was at the core of National Socialism. When we wonder what diseased thinking could motivate people to turn on the gas taps at Auschwitz, this is where we must look. More HERE We need some regulatory patriotism! President Obama condemns tax inversions, but pillages America with his regulatory agenda Paul Driessen It’s no mystery why American companies have stockpiled over $2 trillion of overseas earnings in foreign bank accounts. If they bring it to the United States, the IRS would grab 35% of it. That’s the US corporate tax rate – the highest in the developed world, double the average in EU nations. Medtronic found a creative way to repatriate its cash, allowing it to bring money to the USA subject to just a 12.5% tax. The company acquired Covidien, another, smaller medical device firm in Ireland and will establish its formal headquarters in Dublin, thereby slashing its tax rate by two-thirds, and leaving it with far more cash for plants and equipment, innovation, hiring and keeping workers, and tapping new markets. Pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare and other companies have concluded or are pursuing similar “tax inversion” strategies. The actions have outraged the White House, “progressive” activists and many Democrats in Congress – except when President Obama’s BFF Warren Buffett engineered Burger King’s acquisition of Canada’s Tim Horton café and bakery chain. The President says the practice is “unpatriotic” and “immoral,” calls the companies “corporate deserters,” and says businesses must start acting like “good corporate citizens.” Congressional Democrats have issued similar denunciations and want inversions prohibited or punished. They’re barking up the wrong tree. The proper solution is comprehensive tax reform. However, Republicans want to address both corporate and individual tax issues, Democrats insist that only corporate taxes on the table, and Mr. Obama is typically not inclined to do the hard work of forging bipartisan compromises. Instead, he wants his IRS and Treasury Department to review “a broad range of authorities for possible administrative actions” and ways to “meaningfully reduce the tax benefits after inversions take place,” as one Treasury official put it. Companies, workers and investors are bracing for the coming executive fiats. The diktats epitomize a huge problem that neither Congress nor the courts have been willing to address, but which continues to drag our nation’s economy and employment into the abyss: an out-of-control federal bureaucracy that is determined to control virtually every aspect of our business and personal lives – at great cost, for few benefits, and with little or no accountability for mistakes or even deliberate harm. Of course we need taxes, laws and regulations, to set norms and guidelines, safeguard society, punish miscreants and pay for essential government programs. No one contests that. The question is, How much? What we need right now is regulatory patriotism – and Executive Branch morality, citizenship, and fealty to our Constitution and laws. The federal behemoth today is destructive, and unpatriotic. * The confiscatory 35% corporate tax rate is embedded in a Tax Code that’s 74,000 pages long, counting important cases and interpretations. It totals some 33 million words (compared to 788,280 in the King James Bible) and is loaded with crony corporatist provisions and complex, indecipherable language. * A 906-page, 418,779-word (un)Affordable Care Act that has already metastasized into more than 10,000 pages of complex, often contradictory regulations, with more interpretations and clarifications to come. * The 2,300-page Dodd-Frank law has already spawned over 14,000 pages of banking and financial rules. * Over 175,000 pages in the Code of Federal Regulations are coupled with more than 1.4 million pages of tiny-type Federal Register proposed and final rules published just since 1993, at the rate of over 71,000 pages per year. Doctors, patients, insurers, businesses large and small – much less average citizens – cannot possibly read, comprehend or follow this onslaught. * At least 4,450 federal crimes are embedded in those laws and regulations (with some 500 new crimes added per decade) – often for minor infractions like failing to complete or file precisely correct paperwork for selling orchids or importing wood for guitars. Neither inability to understand complex edicts, lack of knowledge that they could possibly exist, nor absence of intent to violate them is a defense, and the “crime” can bring military swat teams through doors, and land “violators” in prison for months or years. * Production Tax Credits and other sweetheart “green” energy subsidies and grants total some $40 billion a year – for ethanol producers and folks like Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Mr. Tom Kiernan, who is both CEO of the American Wind Energy Association and treasurer of the League of Conservation Voters, which gives millions to mostly Democratic candidates to perpetuate the arrangements. * American businesses and families must pay $1.9 trillion per year to comply with these mountains of regulations. That’s one-eighth of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product; it’s almost all the corporate money now held overseas: $5,937 a year for every American citizen – and far more than the $1.6 trillion in direct economic losses that re-insurer Munich Re blames on weather-related disasters between 1980 and 2011. * $353 billion of these regulatory costs are inflicted by the Environmental Protection Agency alone, say Competitive Enterprise Institute experts who prepared the $1.9 trillion regulatory costs analysis for 2013. Even worse, these criminal complexities and costs are being imposed by increasingly ideological, left-of-center, anti-business “public servants” who target conservatives and are intent on advancing President Obama’s agenda of “fundamentally transforming” the United States. They are determined to redistribute wealth, pit economic and ethnic groups against each other, close down coal-fired power plants, ensure that electricity prices “necessarily skyrocketing,” and stop drilling, mining, ranching, fracking and pipelines. Poll after poll finds Americans focused on jobs and the economy, and on ISIL, terrorism and Ebola. Not so our federal government. Secretary of State John Kerry says climate change is “the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction,” posing “greater long-term consequences” than terrorism or Ebola. For EPA the biggest issues are global warming, “environmental justice” and “sustainable development.” How is the US economy responding to these policies? Median household income is down $2,000 since Obama took office, while costs of living continue to rise. Despite the subsidies, electricity prices have soared 14-33% in states with the most wind power. Some 45 million Americans now live below the poverty line – a 50% increase over the 30 million in poverty on inauguration day 2009. While the official unemployment rate is now under 6% for the first time in six years, University of Maryland economist Peter Morici puts the real jobless rate at closer to 20% – which includes the millions who have given up looking for work, those who want to work full-time but must settle for part-time, and students enrolled in graduate school because their employment prospects are so bleak. The labor force participation rate now stands at 62.7 percent, the lowest level in 36 years, with over 92 million adults not working. Over the past six years, one million more Americans have dropped out of the labor force than have found a job. Indeed, a hallmark of the Obama recovery is its unique ability to convert three full-time jobs with benefits into four part-time positions with no benefits – and then say unemployment is declining. It’s hardly surprising that dozens of senators and congressmen who voted with Mr. Obama 90-99% of the time now want to be seen as “moderate independents” – and do not want to be seen with the President. But as President Obama told Northwestern University students October 2, “Make no mistake, [my] policies are on the ballot, every single one of them.” He’s absolutely right. So are his economic and employment records. Time will tell how many people remember that when they vote November 4. Via email Dumb, Dumber, and Banning Plastic Bags California must have solved all the problems of its state government. On Tuesday, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a ban on single-use plastic shopping bags. “This bill is a step in the right direction — it reduces the torrent of plastic polluting our beaches, parks and even the vast ocean itself,” Brown said. “We’re the first to ban these bags, and we won’t be the last.” Actually, the mandate harms the environment, conservative environmentalists contend. “Consumers widely reuse plastic shopping bags for many different types of uses and recycle them at the end of their use,” said James M. Taylor, senior fellow for environmental policy at the Heartland Institute. “The term ‘Reduce, reuse, recycle’ is a perfect description of how people use plastic shopping bags. “Coercing people to use cloth shopping bags will subject people to unnecessary health risks caused by festering bacteria from prior food purchases contaminating newly bought food. “The only way to avoid this is to wash the cloth bags after every use. The environmental consequences of this will be more water depletion in a largely arid state and more detergents polluting waterways.” Plastic bags are safe, reusable and cheap. Banning them makes no sense, but then much of what state government in California does makes little sense. SOURCE GAO Report Confirms: States Better Fracking Regulators than EPA A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) confirms what many small-government environmentalists have been saying for years: States are more effective at regulating the disposal of wastewater from hydraulic fracturing operations than is the Environmental Protection Agency. Hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking,” has led to a surge in oil and natural gas production in the United States. The process uses water, sand, and a few chemical additives to create fissures in oil- and gas-bearing rocks thousands of feet underground, allowing these resources to flow up to the surface. Each hydraulically fractured well typically requires 2 to 4 million gallons of water, with 15 to 50 percent of this water flowing back to the surface after the process is complete. This water is typically briny, and it contains remnants of the sand and chemical compounds used to fracture the well. This water must be disposed of or recycled. Disposal typically means injecting the wastewater into deep, underground wells regulated by EPA under the Underground Injection Control (UIC) program. GAO concluded EPA’s injection-well safeguards sufficiently protect drinking water: Few allegations of drinking water contamination, and fewer confirmed cases of groundwater contamination, have been reported. However, GAO’s report stressed EPA has failed to be proactive regarding emerging challenges, such as induced seismicity (manmade earthquakes) and excessive pressurization of rock formations. GAO urged EPA to update its regulations to reflect state laws. EPA cannot help enforce state regulations unless they are incorporated into federal rules, which is why GAO is urging EPA to update its rules to reflect the superior wastewater-injection protections adopted by states. Amazingly, EPA responded by stating, “Incorporating changes into federal regulations, particularly through the rulemaking process, was burdensome and time-consuming.” This is the same EPA that is seeking to expand its authority (and therefore its control over your everyday life) by creating rules to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and micromanaging prairie potholes and the puddles that form in your driveway after a summer rain. Yet it considers its current duties “too burdensome.” Claiming protection of the environment is “too burdensome” is not an option for state regulators, which is why they are more effective than federal regulators on these matters. For example, Ohio passed regulations allowing the state’s chief of the Division of Oil and Gas to require a number of tests or evaluations to address potential induced seismic risks for companies seeking permits for brine injection wells in Ohio. Other state regulations considered “too burdensome” for EPA adoption include on-site inspection for all injection wells to review the condition and operation of the wells. California, Colorado, and North Dakota require monthly reporting on injection pressure, injection volume, and the type of fluid being injected. It makes little sense to entrust EPA to handle more responsibility when it has been incapable of fulfilling the responsibilities it already has. This is especially obvious when the responsibility involves essentially copying the example already implemented by state agencies. EPA claims it does not have the resources to implement this program properly, but EPA’s budget request for 2014 was $8.153 billion, more than the entire annual budgets of 20 percent of states nationwide ... yet these states, which have fewer resources at their disposal, manage to get the job done just fine. It is time to seriously consider replacing EPA with a Committee of the Whole of the 50 state environmental protection agencies, an idea suggested by Jay Lehr, science director and senior fellow at The Heartland Institute, where I serve as research fellow. According to the GAO, we might as well do so, since the states seem to be doing all the heavy lifting already. SOURCE New paper finds global temperature data trend prior to 1950's "meaningless" & "artificially flattened" A correspondence published today in Nature Climate Change is a damning indictment of the updated HADCRUT global temperature database, which is used as the basis of all of the other land-based temperature databases including GISS and BEST. The correspondence demolishes the claim of Ji et al that "the global climate has been experiencing significant warming at an unprecedented pace in the past century" as well as the reliability of the HADCRU database to determine global temperature trends of the past 164 years. According to the authors, conclusions about global temperature change cannot be reliably determined prior to the 1950's due to the poor spatiotemporal coverage prior to the 1950's and trends determined from the early HADCRU data are "meaningless and "artificially flattened." Likewise, all climate model "tuning" based on the "meaningless" global temperature trends prior to the 1950's are therefore "meaningless" GIGO as well. According to the authors: "Ji et al present a methodology to analyse global (excluding Antarctica) spatiotemporal patterns of temperature change, using mean monthly temperatures obtained from the updated Climate Research Unit (CRU) high-resolution gridded climate database. Their analysis fails to take into account several key characteristics of the CRU database, seriously compromising the conclusions regarding the spatiotemporal patterns of global warming during the twentieth century. Consequently, the temporal auto-correlation of such time series is artificially high, and the climatic variability they portray for the early decades of the record is meaningless. "...strongly suggests the absence of a trend over the first half of the 20th century in many tropical and Arctic regions can be attributed to the lack of climatic information and the corresponding flattened time series..." "...we suggest that it is very likely that the spatiotemporal temperature patterns described in Ji et al are strongly contaminated by the spatial and temporal heterogeneities of the CRU database." "...this problem affects the whole analysis." "artificially flattened trends in the early 20th century will reflect slower warming trends than observed trends in the latter 20th century." [i.e. imply false acceleration] "If the aim is global coverage, the optimal period should not start before the 1950's, although this would compromise the authors' aim to capture long-term trends." Excerpts from the Nature Climate Change, followed by 2 posts from StevenGoddard.wordpress.com, which illustrate the problems the authors are referring to in the HADCRU record, such as Phil Jones' and HADCRU ridiculous extrapolation of a single thermometer in Tasmania at the beginning of the HADCRU record in 1850 as representing the entire Southern Hemisphere, and with one-thousandth of a degree precision! More HERE (See the original for links, graphics etc.) Sens. Paul, Grassley challenge climate group’s spending on lobbying, alcohol and parties The Washington Post reports that a climate research group got caught partying and boozing on taxpayer funds in a draft audit, but what’s worse, the National Science Foundation and Defense Department officials are under investigation because they signed off on it. A whistleblower leaked the sordid story, and now two US Senators are investigating. They warn that this may be a widespread practice because NSF documents show the foundation knew what the expenses were but still paid them. Two senators are investigating whether the National Science Foundation and Defense Department auditors skirted federal laws by signing off on a nonprofit organization’s use of taxpayer money for “unallowable expenses,” including alcohol, lobbying and extravagant parties. Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) said the practice came to his attention earlier this year when a whistleblower provided him with a draft audit that showed a climate change group used federal funds to pay $112,000 for lobbying, $25,000 for an office Christmas party, and $11,000 for “premium coffee services” and an unspecific amount on French hotels. The partiers were the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) — who received $90 million this year from the NSF. On its Web site, NEON says it will collect data on the impacts of climate change, land use change and invasive species on natural resources from 106 sites across the nation over a 30-year period. The sites where scientists will collect their data are still largely under construction, and NEON says it will not be in full operation until 2017. From 2009 to 2013, NEON classified all the expenses that Grassley and Paul are questioning as a “management fee.” But it’s the cover up that is even uglier: Internal documents show that the NSF was told by NEON that it was having a difficult time covering the costs because it had little in the way of private funds. Not once but twice: According to Grassley’s staff, the auditor said two levels of supervisors signed off on his work. However, he told the senator’s staff that he said he believes the audit had stalled because DCAA management was concerned about spark a controversy for the high-profile program, the foundation, and the defense department. Grassley’s staff said the auditor came forward because he believed the audit was going to be “whitewashed.” SOURCE For more postings from me, see DISSECTING LEFTISM, TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC and AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Home Pages are here or here or here. Email me (John Ray) here. Preserving the graphics: Most graphics on this site are hotlinked from elsewhere. But hotlinked graphics sometimes have only a short life -- as little as a week in some cases. After that they no longer come up. From January 2011 on, therefore, I have posted a monthly copy of everything on this blog to a separate site where I can host text and graphics together -- which should make the graphics available even if they are no longer coming up on this site. See here or here 13 October, 2014 The documentary "Merchants of Doubt" Below is a review of a Warmist film based on the work of an old hag named Naomi Oreskes -- who some years ago did a literature survey that showed 100% agreement in the academic journals on the reality of global warming. The test of any scientific claim, however, is replication and when Benny Peiser attempted to repeat the Oreskes results using her methods, he found radically different results. For instance: "Of all 1117 abstracts, only 13 (or 0.1%) explicitly endorse the 'consensus view'". Oreskes is just an ugly old lady seeking attention. She is a fraud. So anything based on her work is on very shaky ground. Some excerpts from a review of the film below that will surprise no skeptic. It's just the usual Warmist boilerplate. Paragraph 3 below does however make the surprising claim that (unidentified) media pundits have made death threats against Warmists. I am sure we would all like to hear details of that! It would seem that the reviewer is as imaginative as Naomi Note that the review is just the usual rage-filled smears one expects from those who have no chance of surviving a debate based on facts. As usual, there is of course no mention of a single climate datum or of arguments from the skeptic side UPDATE: Oreskes can actually be amusing. She is by training a geologist and has worked on scientific methods, in particular model validation in the Earth sciences. So why have we not heard from her about the repeatedly invalidated models used by Warmists? Surprising answer. She says: "Verification and validation of numerical models of natural systems is impossible... Models can only be evaluated in relative terms, and their predictive value is always open to question". But no sign from her of climate skepticism, despite the total reliance on models by Warmists "Merchants of Doubt," a new documentary which had its U.S. premiere Wednesday at the New York Film Festival, is a film that will likely sow despair in anyone who would like to believe that truth always wins in the end, or that the rational sides of peoples' (or even Congressional members') brains -- when choosing between the facts that will protect us and the misinformation intended to protect special interest -- will go with the facts every time. Sadly, they don't. And certainly not in a world with 24 hours of cable news airtime filled with gladiatorial battles of sound bites and screaming Cassandras. Directed by Robert Kenner (the Oscar-nominated 2008 documentary, "Food, Inc."),"Merchants of Doubt" is inspired by the 2010 book of the same name by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, which explored the plethora of media pundits consistently throwing sand in the gears of action on climate change. These pundits -- many with no scientific training or experience -- trumpeted the existence of scientific discord over climate change when there was none. They slandered climate scientists as socialists, and attacked them with death threats. They skewed the contents of leaked emails to suggest climate data number-crunchers were cooking the books. And even if they do bend to admit that climate change IS real (hard not to after Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy), they dig their heels in by denying a causal relation to human industrial activity, and scare the populace with dire warnings of lost jobs and government overreach. To them, reducing coal and oil = Big Brother. The film points to the origins of this pundit class in the late 1950s, within the PR efforts of the tobacco companies, whose secret documents (revealed by whistleblowers or as evidence in lawsuits) detailed the playbook that a company peddling a hazardous product should follow to avoid financial ruin: cast doubt upon medical research (or even produce studies of your own); warn against the economic impacts in terms of job losses; rail against regulations as government overreach impinging upon people's liberties (it doesn't hurt to liberally throw the terms "Socialist" or "Communist" around); and make the culprit in any public health issue the consumer, as a matter of "personal responsibility." Fred Singer, of the Heartland institute (a libertarian think tank funded in part by Exxon), is a well-known climate change denier who for years has called scientific evidence of a warming planet a lie. He proudly displays the publications his group produces that mimic actual scientific publications but which are meant to confuse Congressmen. Also interviewed is Marc Morano, a former producer for Rush Limbaugh and staffer for James Inhofe (a major climate change denier in the Senate), who specializes in spin. He proudly tells Kenner about his role in "creating chaos" through on-air debates with actual scientists; and he shows no remorse for the public attacks he launched against NOAA scientist James Hansen, who was among the first to warn of the dangers of CO2 pollution to irreversibly affect the Earth's climate. Morano laughs off having sent or encouraged threats of violence to Hansen, saying he's entertained by reading the threats he receives. SOURCE Kentucky Democrat Staff Caught on Hidden Camera: She’s Lying About Support for Coal Industry: "It's a lying game" U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes is lying about her support for the state’s coal industry according to Kentucky Democrats, including members of her campaign team, who were captured on a hidden camera video. The video, produced by conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe, shows five employees of the Grimes campaign and local Democratic Party affiliates speculating that the Democratic challenger to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) is only professing her support for the industry out of political expediency. “If we can get her elected do you think she is going to do the right thing and she’s gonna try to wipe out that coal industry and go for better resources?” asks an undercover videographer in one segment of the video. “I absolutely think she is,” responds Fayette County Democratic Party operative Gina Bess. The video’s release comes as Grimes works to salvage a campaign that has consistently trailed in public polling and which, according to Nate Silver’s election model, has just a 12 percent chance of victory in November. “Let me set it straight for you Mitch McConnell. I am the pro-coal candidate in this race,” Grimes declared at a recent campaign event with former President Bill Clinton. Grimes has used that type of rhetoric in attempts to distance herself from President Barack Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency, which has enacted regulations on coal-fired power plants that coal companies and supporters say are taking a heavy toll on the industry. Support for such regulations is a political albatross in coal-heavy Kentucky, and Grimes campaign staffers featured in O’Keefe’s video recognize that fact. “She’s saying something positive about coal because she wants to be elected,” said Ros Hines, a staffer in Grimes’ Lexington campaign office. “And in the state of Kentucky, if you are anti-coal, you will not get elected, period, end of conversation.” Some Grimes supporters captured in the hidden-camera video likewise suggest that Grimes is lying about her support for the industry in order to get elected. “She has to say that,” remarked Juanita Rodriguez of the Warren County Democratic Party. “But you know what? Politics is a game. You do what you have to do to get [elected]. It’s a lying game unfortunately.” Rodriguez speculated that Grimes does not in fact support the industry to the extent that she has declared publicly. “I really don’t think her heart is 100 percent in backing coal. But she has to say she is because she will not get a high number of votes in this state if she doesn’t. But she’s got to get in there first and she’s gonna say whatever she has to say or do. And that’s the way the political game is played.” Like Grimes, McConnell routinely criticizes the EPA’s attempts to crack down on the coal industry. McConnell has also introduced legislation to stymie those efforts. However, Senate Democrats have stymied McConnell’s efforts. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) blocked action this summer on a McConnell bill that would block EPA power plant regulations unless the agency certified that it would not eliminate jobs or increase electricity prices. McConnell’s staff seized on O’Keefe’s video to blast Grimes’ purported dishonesty on the coal issue. “It is absolutely shocking that Alison Lundergan Grimes’ own staff now admits that she has no intention of protecting the coal industry,” campaign spokeswomen Allison Moore wrote in an emailed statement. “The level of deception that Alison Grimes and her campaign engages in to appear pro-coal despite virulent opposition is both disturbing and dangerous.” SOURCE A lament from West Virginia West Virginians pay, on average, $106 a month for electricity, according to Electricity Local, which tracks such things. That reflects having the second-lowest electric rates in the nation, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency. Only Washington state with its hydroelectric power stations has a lower average rate. The national average rate is 39 percent higher than what West Virginians pay. Get ready to pay 39 percent more, if the Democratic Party gets its way. The party’s second in command, Vice President Joe Biden, told supporters in 2008 that an Obama administration would get rid of coal. Reporters called it a gaffe. Six years later, that is coming true. President Obama’s administration has targeted coal. From ripping up perfectly good permits to build coal mines to imposing unnecessary restrictions on coal-burning electric plants, Democrats have attacked coal. Then they stepped back and said it is market forces when Democratic rules force utilities to switch to natural gas. It’s cynical and hypocritical. And for what? Global warming? Everything the people pushing this junk science predicted has been wrong. And as Nobel laureate and physicist Richard Feynman said, “If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.“ For example, in testimony before Congress in 1988, James Hansen, then the global warming guru of NASA, forecast what to expect in 20 years. “The West Side Highway (which runs along the Hudson River) will be under water,” Hansen said. “And there will be tape across the windows across the street because of high winds. “And the same birds won’t be there. The trees in the median strip will change. “There will be more police cars.” Why? “Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.” But 26 years later, none of that is true. Crime actually fell by 42 percent. Global warming is what Feynman would call a cargo cult science. Weather is cyclical. The globe has warmed in general for 12,000 years. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently admitted that global warming stopped 18 years ago; the IPCC calls it a pause. Killing the coal industry will cause much pain with no gain. Paying the national average for electricity would raise the average bill in West Virginia to $145 a month. We can either fork over $145 a month to Appalachian Power, or reduce our use. Goodbye air conditioning. Hello heat strokes. Paying more for electricity might be OK if West Virginians earned the national average. But, for every dollar of income the average American enjoys, West Virginians get 77 cents, according to the Census Bureau. After 80-plus years of Democratic Party control of the state, the state’s economy is in a shambles. Paying unemployment benefits to strikers told employers all they needed to know about this state. Decades of trial lawyer domination of the courts also helped run off the businesses that provide the jobs. Democrats drove the post-coal economy away. The chemical industry employed 15,000 people in the Kanawha Valley when I moved here 30 years ago. Democrats helped reduce the industry. Companies did not modernize their plants or invest in new lines. Coal is why we have an aluminum plant in Ravenswood. There is no aluminum-rich bauxite ore to mine here. But the production of aluminum requires energy. Lots of it. Coal provides it cheap. Now the Democratic Party wants to kill coal. Natural gas is next. Democrats in New York state already banned hydraulic fracturing. The average residential electric rate for New York is double that of West Virginia. Enjoy. SOURCE Oil & Gas surge The American oil and gas industry has saved our collective bacon On July 3, 2008, oil closed at $145.29 a barrel. Demand was strong. Inventories were low. And production was inelastic. A few weeks ago, headlines screamed that U.S. and Gulf State aircraft had target Syrian oil installations under ISIS' control in an attempt to degrade its ability to fund its operations. Did oil find a new high in the face of yet another round of Middle East jitters? It did not. In fact, oil closed yesterday at $87.75 per barrel and that was an increase of 44 cents from the day before. What has changed? How have we gone from wildly swinging oil prices in the face of even a hint of a wind storm in Eastern Saudi Arabia to ho-hum over potentially major supply interruptions? We're producing more oil right here in the good ole U.S. of A. That's how. New York Times reporter Clifford Krauss wrote in Tuesday's editions about a tanker that "set sail with little fanfare from the port of Galveston, Tex., on July 30, loaded with crude oil destined for South Korea." Krauss reported, that represented the first represented the first "unrestricted export of American oil to a country outside of North America in nearly 40 years. That would take us back to 1974. Jimmy Carter. The Arab Oil Embargo. Gas lines. According to the Energy Information Agency oil production in the U.S. hit its peak in 1970 at 9.6 million barrels per day. By 2008 that number was about five million barrels a day. We were using about the same amount (until the recession hit full blast) but out production had fallen by nearly half. We were importing about 10 million barrels a day from OPEC and were paying a terrible price in U.S. treasure and blood to protect those supplies. Domestic oil production is back up to 8.7 million barrels a day according to Krauss and "with domestic oil production growing month after month, many oil experts predict that the country's output will rise to as much as 12 million barrels a day over the next decade." Since this renaissance of oil and gas production has hit the market, we have reduced our OPEC imports by about half. The same thing has happened to oil production in the U.S. as happened to natural gas: New technologies were developed and improved to get oil and gas out of shale deposits in quantities and at costs that were previously unattainable. "Fracking," it's called, even though that has become as pejorative a word on the Left as "compromise" is on the Right, hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling have changed the nature of oil production, distribution, and utilization throughout the world. The Enviro-Liberals hate fracking because it has done exactly the opposite of what they have been lobbying for: It has made oil (and gasoline) cheaper so we use more of it. Or, at least, we aren't flying into a blind rage every time we go to a gasoline pump. Liberals want to Europeanize gasoline prices so we will drive smaller, more fuel-efficient cars until we can switch all 250 million cars and light trucks in the U.S. to battery power. As of September 29, here was a representative sample of gasoline prices per gallon (in U.S. dollars): Belgium - 7.38 France - 7.15 Germany - 7.52 Italy - 8.28 Netherlands - 8.25 All is not rosy with even a small resumption of oil exports. There is an argument to be made that we should look for ways to utilize domestic oil right here at home. If we have the cheapest energy in the world, we should look for ways to bring manufacturing back on shore and utilize it. For natural gas, as you've read for years, Boone Pickens wants to use it to fuel heavy trucks (that batteries can't move) instead of imported diesel to further reduce our need for OPEC oil. For an industry that has been vilified, taxed, regulated, and reviled; oil and gas producers are exerting a powerful positive force on the U.S. economy. They should stand up and take a bow. SOURCE Scrap the Climate Change Act to keep the lights on, says former British Environment Secretary Britain will struggle to “keep the lights on” unless the Government changes its green energy policies, the former environment secretary will warn this week. Owen Paterson will say that the Government’s plan to slash carbon emissions and rely more heavily on wind farms and other renewable energy sources is fatally flawed. He will argue that the 2008 Climate Change Act, which ties Britain into stringent targets to reduce the use of fossil fuels, should be suspended until other countries agree to take similar measures. If they refuse, the legislation should be scrapped altogether, he will say. The speech will be Mr Paterson’s first significant intervention in the green energy debate since he was sacked as environment secretary during this summer’s Cabinet reshuffle. In his address, he will set out an alternative strategy that would see British homes serviced by dozens of small nuclear power stations. He will also suggest that home owners should get used to temporary power cuts — cutting the electricity to appliances such as fridges for two hours at a time, for example — to conserve energy. Mr Paterson will deliver the lecture at the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a think tank set up by Lord Lawson of Blaby, a climate-change sceptic and former chancellor in Margaret Thatcher’s Cabinet. In the speech, entitled “Keeping the lights on”, he will say that Britain is the only country to have agreed to the legally binding target of cutting carbon emissions by 80 per cent by 2050. Campaigners fear that this will bring a big increase in the number of wind farms. They say that to hit the target Britain must build 2,500 wind turbines every year for 36 years. Mr Paterson will say that the scale of the investment required to meet the 2050 target “is so great that it could not be achieved”. He will warn that Britain will end up worse off than if it adopted less ambitious but achievable targets. Mr Paterson voted for the 2008 Climate Change Act in opposition and loyally supported it when he was in power. However, since he left office he has considered the effect of the legislation and has decided that Britain has to change course. He will argue this week that ministers should exercise a clause in the Act that allows them to suspend the law without another vote of MPs. In his speech, on Wednesday night, Mr Paterson will state that, without changes in its current policy, large-scale power cuts will plunge homes across the country into darkness. “Blind adhesion to the 2050 targets will not reduce emissions and will fail to keep the lights on,” he will say. “The current energy policy is a slave to flawed climate action. “It will cost £1,100?billion, fail to meet the very emissions targets it is designed to meet, and will not provide the UK’s energy requirements. “In the short and medium term, costs to consumers will rise dramatically, but there can only be one ultimate consequence of this policy: the lights will go out at some time in the future. “Not because of a temporary shortfall, but because of structural failures, from which we will find it extremely difficult and expensive to recover.” He will say that the current “decarbonisation route” will end with the worst of all possible worlds. The Government will have to build gas and coal power stations “in a screaming hurry”. Britain’s energy needs are better met by investing in extracting shale gas through fracking and capturing the heat from nuclear reactors, Mr Paterson will argue. He proposes a mix of energy generation based on smaller “modular” nuclear reactors and “rational” demand management. This would see dozens of small nuclear power stations, using reactors that are already fitted into submarines, being built around the country. Home owners would also have to get used to timed power cuts using special switches that would cut electricity used by appliances. “Let us hope we have an opportunity to put it into practice,” he will say. “We must be prepared to stand up to the bullies in the environmental movement and their subsidy-hungry allies. “What I am proposing is that instead of investing huge sums in wind power, we should encourage investment in four possible common sense policies: shale gas, combined heat and power, small modular nuclear reactors and demand management. “That would reduce emissions rapidly, without risking power cuts and would be affordable. What’s stopping this programme? Simply, the 2050 target is.” Mr Paterson has spent the past few months visiting rural Tory seats — he visited six in the week after he was sacked by David Cameron in July. He said he was appalled at the damage to the countryside from new pylons to take electricity from remote onshore wind farms. This week’s speech will be Mr Paterson’s first intervention since he lost his job in the Cabinet reshuffle in the summer. He is to make another speech on Europe before Christmas as he seeks a more active role on the Right. Mr Paterson has already set up a think tank called UK2020 to consider new policies on personal taxation, immigration and the economy. However, his intervention was dismissed last night by Edward Davey, the Liberal Democrat Energy and Climate Change Secretary. Mr Davey said: “Ripping up the Climate Change Act would be one of the most stupid economic decisions imaginable. “The overwhelming majority of scientists agree that climate change exists while most leading British businesses and City investment funds agree with the Coalition that taking out an ‘insurance policy’ now will protect the UK against astronomical future costs caused by a changing climate. “The majority of European countries are ready to implement proposals that would see [them] adopt targets similar to our Climate Change Act in a deal the Prime Minister should seal later this month. “With the USA, China and India also now taking the climate change threat seriously, the global marketplace for green technology is increasingly strong.” SOURCE Australia: Labor Party leader says Labor wants to 'tackle carbon pollution', but rules out return of carbon tax Labor will not bring a carbon tax to the next election but a market mechanism is still the best way of dealing with emissions, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says. While urging the government to address China's recently introduced tariff on Australian coal, Mr Shorten said the Australian people had spoken on the carbon tax at the last election, which saw Labor lose office. "We will not have a carbon tax, the Australian people have spoken and Labor is not going to go back to that," Mr Shorten told reporters in Sydney on Saturday. Fairfax Media earlier reported Mr Shorten had confirmed Labor would take a carbon price, although not a tax, to the election. "Labor doesn't support a carbon tax, but in terms of real and effective action on climate change I do support a market-based system to set a price and that's where the rest of the world's going," Mr Shorten told Fairfax. On Saturday he said it was "important we use the market ... to help set a priority in terms of tackling climate change. "So we will have a sensible policy on climate change. We do want to tackle carbon pollution, but we won't be going back to what you saw in the past." Mr Shorten also urged the government to "sort out" China's surprise decision during free trade talks to impose tariffs on Australian coal. The decision is a blow to Australian producers dealing with China, the second biggest market for coal, and comes as free trade negotiations continue with an agreement expected later this year. "This is a new obstacle in the path of Australian coal," Mr Shorten said. "I think the government looks silly when it talks about negotiating a free trade agreement with China, the very people it says it's making new progress in negotiations with. "The government needs to sort this issue out." Mr Shorten praised the industry for making real efforts to remain competitive, but said mineral producers on the east coast of the country were doing it tough. Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Friday described China's decision as a hiccup. "This is the kind of hiccup in our biggest and most important trading relationship that we just don't want or need," the prime minister told reporters in Canberra on Friday. "I think that we will work with the Chinese to get to the bottom of what seems to have happened overnight." Environment minister Greg Hunt is expected to address Mr Shorten's comment's on the carbon tax at a press conference on Saturday afternoon. SOURCE For more postings from me, see DISSECTING LEFTISM, TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC and AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Home Pages are here or here or here. Email me (John Ray) here. Preserving the graphics: Most graphics on this site are hotlinked from elsewhere. But hotlinked graphics sometimes have only a short life -- as little as a week in some cases. After that they no longer come up. From January 2011 on, therefore, I have posted a monthly copy of everything on this blog to a separate site where I can host text and graphics together -- which should make the graphics available even if they are no longer coming up on this site. See here or here 12 October, 2014 Dana Nuccitelli and The Guardian are at it again Nuca is always the same. He gives lots of links in support of his assertions but if you follow those links back they always lead to dubious claims by fellow Warmists. Below is the first part of a hit-piece that he has just done in The Guardian on some prominent skeptics. I have not reproduced his links but you can get them from the original. Follow them through and you never get to any proof of anything -- just theories, models and speculation. Warmists have nothing else. I have by the way seen an email from Fred Singer saying that most of what Nuca says about him is false Nuca accuses a skeptic of a "Gish gallop". There could be few better examples of one of those than the 50+ "explanations" offered by Warmists for the non-heating over the past 18 years. That there are so many of them indicates that they are all insubstantial and that nothing in fact has been established by them The old "fossil fuels" accusation is an amusing one. Big oil actually gives a lot more to environmental groups than to skeptics. So are Greenies "in the pay" of fossil fuel interests? It would seem so by Nuca's logic DeSmog UK has found that libertarian banker Lord Leach is a likely funder of the anti-climate political advocacy group Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). In May of 2009, Lord Leach gave a long speech in Parliament detailing his beliefs about global warming. The speech was full of inaccuracies, myths, and misinformation. Known as a Gish Gallop, the sheer number of false claims in the speech would require tremendous effort to debunk. Most telling were the sources that Lord Leach relied upon to support his statements. For example, Probably the best climatologist in the world is Professor Lindzen and another good one is Professor Singer. While Richard Lindzen is a climate scientist, he’s also the climate scientist who’s been the wrongest, longest. Throughout his climate science career, Lindzen consistently took positions that were contrary to the climate science mainstream. For example, Lindzen claimed that global warming over the 20th century was minimal, that humans have an insignificant impact on global temperatures, and that water vapor will act to dampen global warming. All of these claims and many more have proven to be completely wrong. In another contrarian position, Lindzen has disputed the link between secondhand smoke and lung cancer. So has the other source Lord Leach cited in the above quote, Fred Singer. Unlike Lindzen, Singer doesn’t conduct climate science research. Instead, Singer is essentially a professional contrarian. On behalf of various industries, Singer has disputed the links between ultraviolet radiation and skin cancer, between chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and ozone depletion, between passive smoking and lung cancer, and of course between human activity and global warming. As with Lindzen, Singer has been proven wrong on every point. Political advocacy are another commonality between the two. Fred Singer is affiliated with numerous fossil fuel-funded political think tanks, including the Heartland Institute and Cato Institute. When he retired from academia last year, Richard Lindzen likewise joined the Cato Institute. Their lifelong contrarianism, history of being consistently wrong, and affiliation with political organizations should make anyone question their climate credibility, let alone relying on them exclusively or claiming they’re the world’s best climatologists. More HERE Happy To Oblige Australia's BOM Neville Nichols says: An independent inquiry into the Bureau of Meteorology? Bring it on Maurice Newman, chair of the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Council, has called for an independent review of the Bureau of Meteorology’s climate data, following a stream of recent articles in The Australian newspaper attacking the Bureau’s methods. I support his call for an open and public inquiry into the Bureau’s climate data and the techniques that the Bureau’s scientists have used to reduce the influence of changes in instrumentation, exposure, and weather station location on its climate records. I support it because I don’t think the Bureau gets enough opportunities to demonstrate to the public its scientific integrity, hard work, and valuable results. An independent inquiry into the Bureau of Meteorology? Bring it on I’m happy to bring it on. Nicholls used the graph below, purporting to show that BOM surface data closely matches UAH satellite data. But he did a little nature trick – he expanded the scale of the satellite data (right side) to make it appear to match,the surface data! A realistic adjustment would be to do the opposite and shrink the satellite scale, because the troposphere should warm faster than the surface Next, let’s compare the BOM data from Nicholls graph above to all 1,655 GHCN (Global Climatology Historical Network) stations in Australia. The GHCN data shows no net warming since 1880, but the BOM (Bureau of Meteorology) data shows a hockey stick since 1950, and hides all temperatures before 1910. NOTE: 1880 temperature higher than 2014 This is not a perfect comparison, because the GHCN data skews towards temperatures in the populated areas near the coasts, and under counts temperatures in the interior. But at a minimum, it shows that there has been little or no net warming over a large swath of Australia, and a strong disagreement with the BOM data. The BOM anomalies were calculated relative to a 1940-1980 baseline, and the GHCN anomalies were calculated as the differences of each monthly average from the 1940-1980 baseline for that month. SOURCE What Nichols really means is that he thinks any enquiry can be nobbled. And he has just shown one way how -- JR Keystone Be Darned: Canada Finds Oil Route Around Obama So you’re the Canadian oil industry and you do what you think is a great thing by developing a mother lode of heavy crude beneath the forests and muskeg of northern Alberta. The plan is to send it clear to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast via a pipeline called Keystone XL. Just a few years back, America desperately wanted that oil. Then one day the politics get sticky. In Nebraska, farmers don’t want the pipeline running through their fields or over their water source. U.S. environmentalists invoke global warming in protesting the project. President Barack Obama keeps siding with them, delaying and delaying approval. From the Canadian perspective, Keystone has become a tractor mired in an interminably muddy field. In this period of national gloom comes an idea -- a crazy-sounding notion, or maybe, actually, an epiphany. How about an all-Canadian route to liberate that oil sands crude from Alberta’s isolation and America’s fickleness? Canada’s own environmental and aboriginal politics are holding up a shorter and cheaper pipeline to the Pacific that would supply a shipping portal to oil-thirsty Asia. Instead, go east, all the way to the Atlantic. Thus was born Energy East, an improbable pipeline that its backers say has a high probability of being built. It will cost C$12 billion ($10.7 billion) and could be up and running by 2018. Its 4,600-kilometer (2,858-mile) path, taking advantage of a vast length of existing and underused natural gas pipeline, would wend through six provinces and four time zones. It would be Keystone on steroids, more than twice as long and carrying a third more crude. Its end point, a refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick, operated by a reclusive Canadian billionaire family, would give Canada’s oil-sands crude supertanker access to the same Louisiana and Texas refineries Keystone was meant to supply. As well, Vladimir Putin’s provocations in Ukraine are spurring interest in that oil from Europe and, strange as it seems, Saint John provides among the fastest shipping times to India of any oil port in North America. Indian companies, having already sampled this crude, are interested in more. That means oil-sands production for the first time would trade in more than dribs and drabs on the international markets. With the U.S. virtually its only buyer, the captive Canadians are subject to price discounts of as much as $43 a barrel that cost Canada $20 billion a year. And if you’re a fed-up Canadian, like Prime Minister Stephen Harper, there’s a bonus: Obama can’t do a single thing about it. “The best way to get Keystone XL built is to make it irrelevant,” said Frank McKenna, who served three terms as premier of New Brunswick and was ambassador to the U.S. before becoming a banker. So confident is TransCanada Corp., the chief backer of both Keystone and Energy East, of success that Alex Pourbaix, the executive in charge, spoke of the cross-Canada line as virtually a done deal. “With one project,” Energy East will give Alberta’s oil sands not only an outlet to “eastern Canadian markets but to global markets,” said Pourbaix. “And we’ve done so at scale, with a 1.1 million barrel per day pipeline, which will go a long way to removing the specter of those big differentials for many years to come.” The project still faces political hurdles. U.S. and international greens who hate Keystone may not like this any better. In Quebec, where most new construction will occur, a homegrown environmental movement is already asking tough questions. Still, if this end run around the Keystone holdup comes to fruition, it would give a lift to Canadian oil and government interests who feel they’re being played by Obama as he sweeps aside a long understood “special relationship” between the world’s two biggest trading partners to score political points with environmental supporters at home. This Canada-only idea surfaced in the days after Obama’s surprise Nov. 10, 2011, phone call informing Prime Minister Harper that Keystone was on hold. Harper, who had vowed to turn his nation into an energy superpower, responded with a two-track strategy: Get in Obama’s face on Keystone and identify other ways out for Canada’s land-locked oil sands, which, at 168 billion proven barrels, contain the third-largest reserves in the world. Keystone remains bogged down, awaiting the outcome of litigation in Nebraska. Last year, Obama gave a speech at Georgetown University and said he wouldn’t approve Keystone if it would significantly exacerbate carbon dioxide emissions. The pipeline to the Pacific, known as Northern Gateway, looks increasingly iffy due to opposition from aboriginal groups. TransCanada is thus expected to file an application to build Energy East with Canada’s National Energy Board in the coming days, according to people familiar with the plan. Approval may come in early 2016. “This is almost certainly the most important project TransCanada has right now in our portfolio,” said Pourbaix. While Republicans continue to make Keystone approval an issue of the mid-term congressional elections, its fate has become less fraught for Canadians. Make no mistake –- they still want it approved under the theory that oil sands reserves are so vast that it will require multiple large pipelines to develop them properly. In the interim, they have already begun to deploy alternatives to get Alberta oil to market, moving 160,000 barrels a day to the U.S. by rail. Reflecting this new post-Keystone mood, Harper told a British business audience in September that the U.S. “is unlikely to be a fast-growing economy for many years to come” and after a hundred years of trying to maximize exports south, it’s time for “a real shift in the mindset of Canadian business culture.” Which is what Energy East represents. Yet before it emerged as a standard bearer of this shift, it had to survive a rough gestation. Harper himself was slow to warm to it. Others declared it “stranger than science fiction.” And then there were the mutual suspicions of the oil producers of the west and the refiners of the east to overcome. The inside story of how this developed into an unusually broad political consensus was put together after interviews with more than 50 industry and government executives who have been in and around the often tense negotiations. SOURCE Lost Electricity Generation Capacity 7X Higher Than EPA Estimates Power plants generating 72 gigawatts (GW) of electricity in 37 states have either closed or are scheduled to shut their doors to comply with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations, according to the Institute for Energy Research (IER). The loss of generating capacity is “over seven times the amount originally predicted by EPA modeling,” IER’s updated report, released October 7, noted. “Originally, EPA calculated that only 9.5 GW of electrical generating capacity would close as a result of its MATS (Mercury and Air Toxics Standard) and CSAPR (Cross State Air Pollution Rule) rules,” the report stated. “Before President Obama’s newly proposed [carbon dioxide] regulations on existing power plants even begin to take effect, however, it is clear that actual number will now be much higher,” the report continued, adding that the closures will take “enough electrical generation capacity to reliably power 44.7 million homes – or every home in every state west of the Mississippi, excluding Texas” off the grid. Over 94 percent of the closures involve coal-fired power plants, which currently provide one-fifth of the nation’s electricity, even though coal was the only fuel that was able to keep up with the higher demand during last January's polar vortex. The result will be higher utility prices and lower reliability, IER warned. “This past winter demonstrated in real time the value of the existing coal fleet. During the winter of 2014, coal was the only fuel with the ability to meet demand increases for electricity, providing 92 percent of incremental electricity in January/February, 2014 versus the same months in 2013,” the IER report stated. “Americans were harmed as the relentless cold indicated that prudent utility practices require large, baseload coal plants to stabilize the grid, keep society functioning, and maintain electricity availability.” “An unprecedented amount of planned generation retirements driven largely by environmental regulations... places upward pressure on prices,” according to PJM’s 2015/16 power auction report, which noted that the wholesale cost of electricity will go up next year for its 61 million customers living in 13 Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern states and the District of Columbia. PJM Interconnection manages 62,566 miles of high-voltage transmission lines in “all or parts of Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.” Coal accounts for the majority (41 percent) of the fuel generated for PJM's section of the grid, followed by nuclear (18 percent), natural gas (16 percent), and oil (6 percent). Last Tuesday, members of the United Mine Workers of America protested the EPA regulations at the agency’s headquarters in Washington because they said closure of the coal-powered power plants will decimate coalfield communities. SOURCE Kerry: 'Life as You Know It on Earth Ends' If Climate Skeptics Are Wrong What a blowhard! "Life as you know it on Earth ends" if climate change skeptics are wrong, Sec. of State John Kerry declared Thursday. But, even if climate alarmists are wrong, nothing bad can come of enacting their taxes, restrictions and regulations, Kerry said in a speech at the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center: "I'd just say to all of you here that people need to feel the pressure from you. You all know what politics is about. I'm not in it now, but I'm dependent on it to help make the right decisions so that we move in the right direction. A clean energy future is not a fantasy. Changing course and avoiding the worst impacts of climate change is not a fantasy. And supporting healthier communities and ecosystems and driving economic growth and job creation - none of that is a fantasy. "And for those people who still stand in the way, for those people who even still today want to try to question whether or not their science is effective or not, I'd just ask you - ask a simple question: If we're wrong about this future, what's the worst that could happen to us for making these choices? "The worst that could happen to us is we create a whole lot of new jobs, we kick our economies into gear, we have healthier people, healthier children because we have cleaner air, we live up to our environmental responsibility, we become truly energy independent, and our security is stronger and greater and sustainable as a result. That's the worst that happens to us." But, if skeptics are wrong and the temperature rises even seven degrees, life on Earth will end, Kerry claimed: "What happens if they're wrong? If they're wrong - catastrophe. Life as you know it on Earth ends. Seven degrees increase Fahrenheit, and we can't sustain crops, water, life under those circumstances." Editor's Add-On: Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) disputes Kerry's claim that only good can come from enacting environmentalists' climate agenda, telling MRCTV that it'll destroy millions of jobs and drive up energy costs. SOURCE Antarctic ice hits ALL TIME RECORD HIGH: We have more to learn, says boffin Four standard deviations above average! Climate scientists have confessed they are baffled – yet again – by another all-time record area of sea covered by ice around the Antarctic coasts. "What we're learning is, we have more to learn," said Ted Scambos, lead scientist at the US National Snow and Ice Data Center, announcing the latest annual sea ice maximum for the austral continent. According to the NSIDC: "Sea ice surrounding the Antarctic continent reached its maximum extent on September 22 at 20.11 million square kilometers (7.76 million square miles). This is 1.54 million square kilometers (595,000 square miles) above the 1981 to 2010 average extent, which is nearly four standard deviations above average. Antarctic sea ice averaged 20.0 million square kilometers (7.72 million square miles) for the month of September. This new record extent follows consecutive record winter maximum extents in 2012 and 2013. The reasons for this recent rapid growth are not clear. Sea ice in Antarctica has remained at satellite-era record high daily levels for most of 2014." Climate scientists have been puzzled by the behaviour of the southern ice for many years now. The most commonly used models say that its steady growth should not be happening in a warming world (though the warming of the world is also in doubt, as air temperatures have been steady for the last fifteen years or more - and it turns out that deep ocean temperatures are not increasing either, leaving the "mystery" of the apparent end of global warming "unsolved"). This failure of reality to match up with climate modelling has, as some eminent climate scientists have noted, had the effect of "limiting confidence in the predictions" of severe warming and associated disasters this century. Meanwhile at the other end of the planet the Arctic sea ice has covered lesser areas in recent times. The lowest Arctic area seen in the era of satellite measurements was in 2012, but the three consecutive record-high Antarctic maxima of 2012, 2013 and now 2014 have resulted in global sea ice levels this year and last year coming out pretty much normal. SOURCE For more postings from me, see DISSECTING LEFTISM, TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC and AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Home Pages are here or here or here. Email me (John Ray) here. Preserving the graphics: Most graphics on this site are hotlinked from elsewhere. But hotlinked graphics sometimes have only a short life -- as little as a week in some cases. After that they no longer come up. From January 2011 on, therefore, I have posted a monthly copy of everything on this blog to a separate site where I can host text and graphics together -- which should make the graphics available even if they are no longer coming up on this site. See here or here 10 October, 2014 Conservatives ask: What would Milton Friedman do about warming? Really? Friedman would put a price on carbon dioxide -- a harmless, odorless chemical that is essential for plant growth? Friedman spent most of his life defying the consensus so the present semi-consensus is unlikely to have impressed him. But Milt was a clever guy and good at making people think. He might therefore have said that what they should do is what Ross McKitrick says - set the price of carbon based on the rate of warming. If the late free-market economist Milton Friedman were alive today, he'd probably support pricing carbon. That was the argument made by two economists on a panel today at the University of Chicago, where Friedman taught for more than 30 years. Steve Cicala of the university's Harris School of Public Policy and Michael Greenstone, a former adviser to President Obama who holds a chair named for Friedman, argued that the anti-regulatory economist would have supported government policies aimed at protecting and compensating victims of man-made warming. Friedman, who died in 2006, would have viewed climate change as a negative externality associated with burning fossil fuels and would have believed that society was entitled to recover its losses from those who emit carbon to advance their economic interests, they said. While there is a market for the products that are associated with greenhouse gas emissions -- like electricity, fuel and steel -- there is no market for the pollution inflicted by their manufacturers on the public. "It is theft," said Cicala. "That's a loaded term, but if someone else has a better term for taking something from someone without their consent and without compensating them, I'd be happy to hear it." "We do have a climate policy, and it's just that it's fine to pollute," said Greenstone, who now directs the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. The way to internalize greenhouse gas emissions is for the government to create a market for emissions and then get out of the way, he said. The cost to emit should track with a rigorous estimate of the social cost of carbon -- the incremental cost to society of each additional metric ton of CO2 emissions. The Obama administration's often-controversial figure is $37 per metric ton. The panel was moderated by former Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.), whose stance on climate change contributed to his 2010 loss in the Republican primary. He now heads the Energy and Enterprise Initiative at George Mason University. Inglis, who still describes himself as a conservative, argues that his colleagues on the right would be more receptive to the issue of climate change if there were a conservative policy model to address it. His initiative proposes a revenue-neutral carbon tax, which would return all the revenue from a levy on emissions to the public in the form of other tax cuts. Inglis said any carbon tax that could garner support from conservatives like himself would have to include border protections to keep emissions from relocating overseas and would have to be revenue neutral. Cicala said the key was to give high-emitting industries in other countries an incentive to reduce their emissions rather than just hitting them with a border adjustment cost that might spark a trade war. While it may be difficult to persuade developing companies to tax their fossil fuels resources, he said, taxing consumption in wealthy countries will cover most emissions for the simple reason that rich countries consume more. More HERE The false prophet Bay Area radio evangelist Harold Camping was properly excoriated throughout both the legacy media and the Blogosphere for his prediction that the world would end on May 21st, 2011. How many not-so-final countdowns are the gnostic high priests of climate allowed to issue before being similarly called out as false prophets? SOURCE Obama misleads students about climate and energy Climate change actually has little to do with energy choices Bob Carter and Tom Harris In his October 2 address on the economy at Northwestern University, President Barack Obama told students, “If we keep investing in clean energy technology, we won’t just put people to work assembling, raising and pounding into place the zero-carbon components of a clean energy age. We’ll reduce our carbon emissions and prevent the worst costs of climate change down the road.” But what does climate change have to do with energy supply? Almost nothing. Climate change issues involve environmental hazards, whereas energy policy is concerned with supplying affordable, reliable electricity to industries and families. So where is the relationship to climate? Until the 1980s, there was none. That one is now perceived testifies to the effectiveness of relentless lobbying by environmentalists and commercial special interests towards the idea that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from hydrocarbon-based power-generation will cause dangerous global warming. So far, that has not happened. It has now been 18 years with no measurable planetary warming. However, this warming disaster idea has become so entrenched that even prime ministers and presidents now misuse “carbon” as shorthand for “carbon dioxide,” and often call this plant-fertilizing gas a pollutant. For example, during his 13-minute address at the UN’s Climate Summit 2014 in New York City September 23, Mr. Obama referenced “carbon pollution” seven times and “carbon emissions” five times. That’s almost one misnomer per minute. In reality, CO2 is environmentally beneficial. It is the elixir of life for most of our planetary ecosystems. Without it, life as we know it would end. No evidence exists that the amount humans have added to the atmosphere is producing dangerous warming or, indeed, any climate or weather events noticeably different in frequency, duration or intensity from human experience over the past couple of centuries. Many negative consequences flow from wrongly connecting energy and global warming issues. Foremost among them has been a lemming-like rush by governments to generously subsidize what are otherwise uneconomic sources of energy, solar and wind power in particular. The International Renewable Energy Agency reports that worldwide investment in renewables (not counting large hydropower) amounted to an incredible $214 billion in 2013 alone! IRENA insists that these expenditures need to more than double by 2030, to achieve the impossible goal of restricting average global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. However, results to date show that those investments have brought few benefits, and much harm. European studies have found that expensive, unreliable wind and solar power kills two to four jobs for each “renewable” energy job this heavily subsidized industry creates. Mr. Obama paints alternative energy sources as environmentally virtuous, because they supposedly reduce CO2 emissions and provide renewable and clean sources of power. This too is highly misleading. Wind and solar energy are certainly renewable – when the wind blows and the sun shines. But there is no power otherwise, so it’s tough luck if that’s when a hospital needs electricity for emergency surgery. Such intermittency also makes these sources entirely unsuitable as major contributors to national energy grids, to power factories, schools, businesses and families. The use of wind and solar power also increases the cost of electricity dramatically. Moreover, these sources are assuredly not renewable when you consider the enormous amounts of land, mining, energy and raw materials required to build the wind and solar facilities, the extremely long transmission lines required to carry their electricity to urban centers, and the backup fossil-fuel generators needed the 80-90% of the time the renewable sources aren’t working. Alternative energy sources are also far less environment-friendly than the President would have us believe. Wind turbines kill millions of birds and bats every year, and some rare species will undoubtedly be vulnerable to extinction if wind power continues to expand near important wildlife habitats. Massive solar installations have a disastrous effect on desert ecosystems and incinerate important bird species. And yet the wind and solar generators are typically exempt from environmental laws that are used to block many other activities. These problems are becoming apparent even to the European Union, once the world’s green energy leader. EU Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger recently said European energy policies must change, from being climate driven to being driven by the needs of industry, and job preservation. He could have included families, because millions of European households can no longer afford to heat their homes properly, due to soaring energy prices. All nations need to return to the historic separation that previously existed between energy policy and climate policy. They must analyze and plan for both, in accord with their own distinct requirements and resources, and based on defensible environmental, technological, and economic analyses. This means abandoning Mr. Obama’s naïve mantra that our energy choices affect global climate. Via email Lizard defeated “When the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard (DSL) was being considered for listing under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), significant parts of the Texas economy were placed at risk,” Chris Bryan, agency spokesman for the Texas Comptroller, told me when I asked about the recent decision from a United States District Court that dismissed a lawsuit filed by environmental groups. On September 30, District of Columbia District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras ruled against the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Defenders of Wildlife. The groups brought charges in the hopes of requiring the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to reverse its 2012 decision not to list the DSL as endangered. The 2012 decision was the first time that community engagement successfully beat back a proposed ESA listing — a stinging defeat that environmental groups didn’t take kindly. (Writing and speaking about the DSL, I was an active part of that effort. My work earned me a nasty press release from the CBD.) The groups responded with the lawsuit, likely confident of success in the courts — after all, with more lawyers on staff than biologists, legal victories have been the benchmark. In August 2013, Texas Comptroller Susan Combs was granted intervenor status in the case. In October, several regional and national oil-and-gas associations — including the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association and the Permian Basin Petroleum Association—joined Combs. The DSL story is important because it represents a new chapter in ESA compliance — a successful chapter that allows conservation and human economic activity to coexist. Previously, presence of an ESA listed species would shut down activity with harsh consequences for landowners and communities. The spotted owl history is the trophy of bad ESA policy. More than 20 years ago, the spotted owl was listed as an endangered species. As a result, virtually the entire logging industry in the Pacific Northwest has been shut down—leaving thousands unemployed and hundreds of communities decimated. Fifty percent of the nation’s forestry jobs lost from 1990 to 2009 were in just two states: Oregon and Washington. Yet, the listing did not stop the decline of the spotted owl. And, as a result of the listing, forest management in the West changed — leaving thousands of acres overgrown, unhealthy, and susceptible to the devastating wildfires we see today. Texas decided to do it differently. Aware that the DSL was an ESA target, conservation efforts started in 2008. About 46 percent of the DSL habitat is private land in the Permian Basin of West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico—an area that produces 15 percent of U.S. oil and 5 percent of the nation’s natural gas and is a prime ranching and farming region. The locals were very worried that if the DSL were listed, the regulations would seriously impact their operations and impose substantial costs. Bryan told me: “This listing had the potential to dramatically curtail economic activity in the Permian Basin—which accounts for approximately 57 percent of Texas’ total crude oil production and supports roughly 47,000 oil-and-gas-related jobs. The oil-and-gas industry has a very high economic ‘multiplier,’ stemming from the fact that companies buy tremendous amounts of equipment, material and services in Texas, in addition to the direct jobs they create in the oil patch itself.” Historically, the ESA’s excessive legal and literal penalties have discouraged landowners from engaging in conservation efforts. In hope of keeping the regulatory authorities from showing up, the mantra when an endangered species is found on your property was: “shoot, shovel and shut up.” Illustrating the devastating results of finding an ESA-listed species on your land, a new report on ESA reform from the Reason Foundation tells the story of Craig Schindler, a Missouri farmer, whose property includes caves containing the grotto sculpin — which just received ESA listing: Based on an economic impact analysis carried out for Fish and Wildlife, the 18 acres Craig estimates he will have to sacrifice for the sculpin is worth some $90,000 and produces approximately $7,000 in crops annually. “They’re cutting my living down,” Craig told the local Perryville News, “I have cattle and grow crops, but if you take 18 acres away from a guy, that’s quite a bit.” Fish and Wildlife also proposed to place buffer zones around sinkholes that lead to caves with sculpins. Under the listing, Craig could face up to $100,000 and/or a year in jail for killing or injuring just one sculpin, or even harming its habitat. So, in addition to losing the use of 18 acres, he will have to spend thousands of dollars to fence the buffer zone in order to prevent livestock on the rest of his ranch from inadvertently harming the sculpin. “I’m going to have to pay for this fence out of my pocket, and lose the ground for cattle to graze on,” he said. But even that will not immunize him from prosecution under the ESA because local Fish and Wildlife personnel have the power to decide if his uses of other land, such as fertilizing crops and grazing livestock, harm the sculpin. With the proposed listing of the grotto sculpin, Craig Schindler discovered the upside-down world of the ESA. In return for harboring rare wildlife, he was to be punished by having his property turned into a de facto federal wildlife refuge but paid no compensation. To add insult to injury, if the grotto sculpin were to be listed under the ESA, Craig would still have to pay taxes on the land he would not be able to use. Stories such as Schindler’s and histories like the spotted owl’s prompted the Texas State Legislature to pass a bill creating the Interagency Task Force on Economic Growth and Endangered Species to help municipalities and regional governmental bodies cope with the ESA through technical assistance; help formulating and implementing species-conservation initiatives and plans; assessing the economic impact of federal, state and local endangered-species regulations; and creating advisory committees to help the Task Force. Additionally, the Comptroller’s Office provided funds to survey the DSL habitat — which revealed 28 more Texas DSL populations, in addition to the three known populations. The 2011 surveys were possible because of a special provision the legislature passed in 2011 that allowed DSL population locations to remain confidential. Without the force of state law, landowners are resistant to cooperating in conservation efforts out of fear, that like Schindler, their property would be rendered unusable. By being proactive, Texas was able to enact voluntary conservation programs that brought about the 2012 FWS decision not to list the DSL. Addressing the Texas approach, in a thorough review of the September 30 ruling, Brian Seasholes, director of the Endangered Species Project at the Reason Foundation, says: “the Texas Conservation Plan (TCP) for the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard is based on a number of provisions, including a robust scientific process; beneficial and measurable conservation outcomes; participation by a wide range of stakeholders from the state and federal levels, the regulated community, and academia; effective monitoring and oversight by independent third parties; regular reporting on the plan’s progress and implementation; and a highly innovative habitat mitigation mechanism called the Recovery Credit System.” Seasholes sees that the Texas approach protects landowners from the ESA and the federal government, while finding a balance between economic activity and species conservation. Comptroller Combs is elated with the court’s decision, especially considering the pushback she received when she took a risky stand and embarked on an experimental plan to forge an innovative, flexible and successful conservation plan for the DSL. Responding to the court ruling, Combs said: “It supports our basic belief that the TCP provides appropriate conservation for the lizard and reaffirms that the research conducted by Texas A&M University about the DSL helped to provide Fish and Wildlife the best scientific data available to make the decision not to list the species as endangered.” New Mexico Congressman Steve Pearce, who spearheaded much of the public education on the potential impacts the DSL listing would have on communities in his district, was, likewise, pleased with the court’s decision: “It is about time the courts stood up for private landowners over radical environmental groups that continually use sue-and-settle tactics to exploit taxpayer money to pay lawyers and fund themselves instead of recovering species. This decision ensures that sound conservation efforts are carried out in Eastern New Mexico without sacrificing the economic activity that the area depends on. The plan itself is a great example of how cooperative conservation efforts between private industry, state officials, landowners, and the federal government are more than adequate to protect species. This decision differs from the Fish and Wildlife’s listing of the lesser prairie chicken in March that severely hindered a successful cooperative conservation effort. I hope the Fish and Wildlife Service along with the courts continue to allow future efforts like this to succeed.” Hopefully, now that they can see Texas’ proactive efforts — such as those engaged to protect the DSL — can withstand legal challenge, other states will take similar legislative and conservation actions that will prevent environmental groups (under the guise of conservation) from using lawsuits to block economic growth in the United States. SOURCE Environmental Researcher: Wind Industry Riddled with 'Absolute Corruption' James Delingpole A Mexican ecologist has blown the whistle on the corruption, lies and incompetence of the wind industry - and on the massive environmental damage it causes in the name of saving the planet. Patricia Mora, a research professor in coastal ecology and fisheries science at the National Institute of Technology in Mexico, has been studying the impact of wind turbines in the Tehuantepec Isthmus in southern Mexico, an environmentally sensitive region which has the highest concentration of wind farms in Latin America. The turbines, she says in an interview with Truthout, have had a disastrous effect on local flora and fauna: "When a project is installed, the first step is to "dismantle" the area, a process through which all surrounding vegetation is eliminated. This means the destruction of plants and sessilities - organisms that do not have stems or supporting mechanisms - and the slow displacement over time of reptiles, mammals, birds, amphibians, insects, arachnids, fungi, etc. Generally we perceive the macro scale only, that is to say, the large animals, without considering the small and even microscopic organisms... After the construction is finalized, the indirect impact continues in the sense that ecosystems are altered and fragmented. As a result, there is a larger probability of their disappearance, due to changes in the climate and the use of soil" Then there is the damage caused by wind turbine noise: "There is abundant information about the harm caused by the sound waves produced by wind turbines. These sound waves are not perceptible to the human ear, which makes them all the more dangerous. They are also low frequency sound waves and act upon the pineal and nervous systems, causing anxiety, depression (there is a study from the United States that found an elevated suicide rate in regions with wind farms), migraines, dizziness and vomiting, among other symptoms." But the wind turbine operators are able to get away with it because the system is so corrupt. "What happens is absolute corruption. I have to admit that generally there are "agreements" behind closed doors between the consultants or research centers and the government offices before the studies are conducted. They fill out forms with copied information (and sometimes badly copied), lies or half truths in order to divert attention from the real project while at the same time complying with requirements on paper. Unfortunately, consultants sometimes take advantage of high unemployment and hire inexperienced people or unemployed career professionals without proper titles. Sometimes the consultants even coerce them into modifying the data. Research centers, pressured by a lack of funding, accept these studies. It is well known that scientists recognized by CONACYT (National Counsel on Science and Technology) accept gifts from these companies, given that they need money to buy equipment for their laboratories and to fill their pocketbooks to maintain their lifestyles. This is the extent of the corruption. Upon reviewing these studies, it is clear that the findings are trash, sometimes even directly copied from other sources online. These studies tend to focus on the "benefits of the project" and do not include rigorous analysis. The Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) does follow-up to the studies, but everything can be negotiated. The bureaucrats have the last word." Though Professor Mora is talking specifically about Mexico, what she says applies equally well to supposedly more transparent democracies such as Britain, Australia, the US, Canada and Denmark. The wind industry is necessarily one of the most corrupt enterprises on earth because it depends for its entire existence on government favours, backhanders, dishonest environmental impact assessments and on regulators turning a blind eye to the known health problems caused by wind turbine noise. Without crony capitalism, the wind industry simply would not exist. Here are some links to a few of Breitbart's hits on the subject. As I can personally testify from a decade spent covering this scandal, there are few forms of life on the planet lower than those parasites who make their fortune out of bird-chomping, bat-slicing eco-crucifixes. SOURCE Greens fear loss of Senate firewall Green groups are fearful of Republicans winning the Senate majority in November, predicting it could lead to a “whittling away” of environmental regulations at the hands of GOP leaders. While environmental groups are spending millions of dollars trying to save the Senate for Democrats, they acknowledge the possibility that they could be forced to play defense against an all-Republican Congress in 2015. “I think that the wholesale repeal of environmental legislation, repealing [Environmental Protection Agency] greenhouse gas authority, things like that, that’s unlikely to happen,” said Ben Schreiber, director of the climate program at Friends of the Earth. “It is much more the painful whittling away [regulations] by attaching things to must-pass legislation,” he said, referring to policy riders that could be attached to legislation funding the government. Republicans feel bullish about their chances of gaining the six seats they need to win Senate control. That outcome could elevate Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), a staunch opponent of Obama’s environmental policies, to majority leader, provided he wins his own tough reelection race. McConnell has begun to talk about the agenda that Republicans would pursue in the majority, placing a heavy emphasis on energy and environmental issues. He has promised to bring up a bill that would force the federal government to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, and vowed action on measures to overturn EPA pollution rules. The GOP has done all it can to stop many of Obama’s environmental regulations, and the House has voted dozens of times to roll back his authority. “Americans have seen a barrage of regulations and red tape from the president’s Environmental Protection Agency, strangling the coal industry, one of my home state’s most important sources of jobs and economic development,” McConnell said recently on the Senate floor. “The regulations and lack of certainty in the coal industry that this administration has caused have contributed to a loss of 7,000 Kentucky jobs in that industry since the year President Obama took office,” he added. Even if Republicans do triumph at the polls, they are not expected to come anywhere close to the 60-vote majority that would be needed to break filibusters by Democrats. That means votes from centrists Democrats — many of whom hail from energy producing states — could be decisive in whether any of the GOP bills reach President Obama’s desk. Daniel J. Weiss, who leads the campaign activities for the League of Conservation Voters (LCV), said he fears that Republicans would seek to block the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, which it has been able to do since a 2007 Supreme Court ruling. “Mitch McConnell has made it clear that if he’s the majority leader, one of his top priorities is to block EPA from doing its job and forcing the Clean Air Act on cutting carbon — which is the biggest step the country has ever taken to cut pollution,” Weiss said. “And he has made it clear, he’s suggested he’s willing to shut down the government to block EPA, and we want to make sure doesn't happen,” he said. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) predicted that a Republican-controlled Senate would be an “environmental nightmare.” He said the GOP-led House has voted twice as many times to weaken environmental rules as it has to overturn ObamaCare. “They’re a wholly-owned subsidiary right now of the polluting industries, and they’re going to do what they’re told,” he said. “The only limit on them is if the American public, I think, has really had it with that.” Schreiber said the GOP House offers a good model of what a Republican Senate would do. “We have an idea of what they’re going to do, because we’re seeing it in the House right now,” he said. “Drilling everywhere, anytime, any place. More subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. Attacks on renewable energy. Attacks on EPA.” Schreiber said his worst fear would be if the Senate acted to remove the EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. But that drastic of a move would be unlikely, he said. Environmental advocates say they take comfort in the fact that President Obama will retain the veto pen no matter what happens in the election. “It’s a challenge to pass any legislation, and certainly climate is in that same place,” said Alan Rowsome, a senior director of government affairs for the Wilderness Society. “But I think the president is going to continue to move forward and be a leader on that.” The Wilderness Society focuses a large part of its advocacy on conservation, which Rowsome said gets more bipartisan support than climate change rules. “These issues transcend the parties in many instances. There is a lot of support across the aisle for many conservation measures, and we’re going to focus on those opportunities to really find common ground,” he said. Schreiber said his group would also work to find common ground with the GOP. “All that we can do is educate the public about our issues, like we always have, and talk to members of Congress and educate them about our issues as well,” he said. SOURCE For more postings from me, see DISSECTING LEFTISM, TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC and AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Home Pages are here or here or here. Email me (John Ray) here. Preserving the graphics: Most graphics on this site are hotlinked from elsewhere. But hotlinked graphics sometimes have only a short life -- as little as a week in some cases. After that they no longer come up. From January 2011 on, therefore, I have posted a monthly copy of everything on this blog to a separate site where I can host text and graphics together -- which should make the graphics available even if they are no longer coming up on this site. See here or here 9 October, 2014 Big woe! The heat's not in the oceans either The deep ocean may not be hiding heat after all, raising new questions about why global warming appears to have slowed in recent years, said the US space agency on Monday. Scientists have noticed that while greenhouse gases have continued to mount in the first part of the 21st century, global average surface air temperatures have stopped rising along with them, said Nasa. Some studies have suggested that heat is being absorbed temporarily by the deep seas, and that this so-called global warming hiatus is a temporary trend. But latest data from satellite and direct ocean temperature measurements from 2005 to 2013 "found the ocean abyss below 1 995m has not warmed measurably," Nasa said in a statement. The findings present a new puzzle to scientists, but co-author Josh Willis of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said the reality of climate change is not being thrown into doubt. "The sea level is still rising," said Willis. "We're just trying to understand the nitty-gritty details." A separate study in August in the journal Science said the apparent slowdown in the Earth's surface warming in the last 15 years could be due to that heat being trapped in the deep Atlantic and Southern Ocean. But the Nasa researchers said their approach, described in the journal Nature Climate Change, is the first to test the idea using satellite observations, as well as direct temperature measurements of the upper ocean. "The deep parts of the ocean are harder to measure," said researcher William Llovel of Nasa JPL. "The combination of satellite and direct temperature data gives us a glimpse of how much sea level rise is due to deep warming. The answer is - not much." SOURCE Antarctic sea ice hits record levels as it reaches 20 MILLION square kilometers for first time since records began in 1979 But ice is caused by warming, as any Warmist will tell you -- in one of the amazing mental gymnastics that Leftists specialize in. A bit of light fisking below Sea ice surrounding Antarctica has reached a new record high. Nasa says it now covers more of the southern oceans than it has since scientists began a long-term satellite record to map sea ice extent in the late 1970s. They say that even though Antarctic sea ice has been increasing, 'the planet as a whole is doing what was expected in terms of warming.' [They lie. There is no warming going on] Since the late 1970s, the Arctic has lost an average of 20,800 square miles (53,900 square kilometers) of ice a year; the Antarctic has gained an average of 7,300 square miles (18,900 sq km). On Sept. 19 this year, for the first time ever since 1979, Antarctic sea ice extent exceeded 7.72 million square miles (20 million square kilometers), according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The single-day maximum extent this year was reached on Sept. 20, according to NSIDC data, when the sea ice covered 7.78 million square miles (20.14 million square kilometers). The upward trend in the Antarctic, however, is only about a third of the magnitude of the rapid loss of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. The new Antarctic sea ice record reflects the diversity and complexity of Earth's environments, said NASA researchers. Claire Parkinson, a senior scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, has referred to changes in sea ice coverage as a microcosm of global climate change. Just as the temperatures in some regions of the planet are colder than average, even in our warming world, Antarctic sea ice has been increasing and bucking the overall trend of ice loss. 'The planet as a whole is doing what was expected in terms of warming. 'Sea ice as a whole is decreasing as expected, but just like with global warming, not every location with sea ice will have a downward trend in ice extent,' Parkinson said. Since the late 1970s, the Arctic has lost an average of 20,800 square miles (53,900 square kilometers) of ice a year; the Antarctic has gained an average of 7,300 square miles (18,900 sq km). [But sea ice extent in the Arctic was 1.65 million square kilometers (637,000 square miles) ABOVE the record low monthly average for September that occurred in 2012] A warming climate changes weather patterns, said Walt Meier, a research scientist at Goddard. Sometimes those weather patterns will bring cooler air to some areas. And in the Antarctic, where sea ice circles the continent and covers such a large area, it doesn't take that much additional ice extent to set a new record. 'Part of it is just the geography and geometry. With no northern barrier around the whole perimeter of the ice, the ice can easily expand if conditions are favorable,' he said. Researchers are investigating a number of other possible explanations as well. One clue, Parkinson said, could be found around the Antarctic Peninsula – a finger of land stretching up toward South America. There, the temperatures are warming, and in the Bellingshausen Sea just to the west of the peninsula the sea ice is shrinking. [Due to volcanic activity] Beyond the Bellingshausen Sea and past the Amundsen Sea, lies the Ross Sea – where much of the sea ice growth is occurring. That suggests that a low-pressure system centered in the Amundsen Sea could be intensifying or becoming more frequent in the area, she said – changing the wind patterns and circulating warm air over the peninsula, while sweeping cold air from the Antarctic continent over the Ross Sea. This, and other wind and lower atmospheric pattern changes, could be influenced by the ozone hole higher up in the atmosphere – a possibility that has received scientific attention in the past several years, Parkinson said. 'The winds really play a big role,' Meier said. Melting ice on the edges of the Antarctic continent could also be leading to more fresh, just-above-freezing water, which makes refreezing into sea ice easier, Parkinson said. Or changes in water circulation patterns, bringing colder waters up to the surface around the landmass, could help grow more ice. Snowfall could be a factor as well, Meier said. Snow landing on thin ice can actually push the thin ice below the water, which then allows cold ocean water to seep up through the ice and flood the snow – leading to a slushy mixture that freezes in the cold atmosphere and adds to the thickness of the ice. This new, thicker ice would be more resilient to melting. 'There hasn't been one explanation yet that I'd say has become a consensus, where people say, 'We've nailed it, this is why it's happening,' Parkinson said. For Antarctica, key variables include the atmospheric and oceanic conditions, as well as the effects of an icy land surface, changing atmospheric chemistry, the ozone hole, months of darkness and more. 'Its really not surprising to people in the climate field that not every location on the face of Earth is acting as expected – it would be amazing if everything did,' Parkinson said. 'The Antarctic sea ice is one of those areas where things have not gone entirely as expected. [Understatement] 'So it's natural for scientists to ask, 'OK, this isn't what we expected, now how can we explain it?' SOURCE UN temperature target is a poor guide - study An amusing admission from a died-in-the-wool Warmist highlighted below A temperature goal set by almost 200 governments as the limit for global warming is a poor guide to the planet's health and should be ditched, a study said on Wednesday. The world's environment ministers agreed in 2010 to cap a rise in average surface temperatures at 2°C above pre-industrial times as the yardstick to avoid more floods, heat waves, droughts and rising sea levels. "Politically and scientifically, the 2°C goal is wrong-headed", David Victor and Charles Kennel, both professors at the University of California in San Diego, wrote in the Nature article entitled "Ditch the 2°C Warming Goal". Among objections, they said the goal was "effectively unachievable" because of rising greenhouse gas emissions, led in recent years by China's strong economic growth. And they said the target was out of line with recent trends. Temperatures have risen about 0.85°C since about 1900 but have been virtually flat since about 1998 despite higher emissions from factories, power plants and cars. They said that blood pressure, heart rate or body mass were all vital signs of health for a person, not just temperature. "A similar strategy is now needed for the planet", they wrote. The study urged a shift to other yardsticks to gauge the planet's health, such as concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere or changes in the heat content of the oceans. Some other scientists said the 2°C target was still the best goal to guide UN talks on a deal to limit climate change, due to be agreed by governments in late 2015 at a summit in Paris. "Their arguments don't hold water", said Stefan Rahmstorf, a scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. He said that a shift to tracking carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere, for instance, would not help because no one knows exactly how far rising carbon concentrations affect temperatures. And he said that 1998 was an exceptionally hot year, warmed by a powerful El Nino event in the Pacific Ocean. The period since then was not typical of long-term trends. A German group of experts, climate analytics, also defended the 2°C goal. "Whilst no one is in doubt about the difficulty of limiting warming below 2°C, it is incorrect to claim that achieving this goal is infeasible", they wrote. The UN's panel of climate experts said in March that it was still possible to keep temperatures below 2°C at a moderate annual cost of about 0.06 percent of economic output. The panel says it is at least 95% probable that man-made greenhouse gas emissions, rather than natural swings in the climate system, are the main cause of global warming since 1950. SOURCE Greenie fraud was powered by lies, bribes and deceit How unsurprising The Broadway critics are raving over “Love Letters,” starring Mia Farrow and Brian Dennehy — particularly over Farrow. The New York Times says her “remarkable performance . casts a heartbreaking spell.” Several thousand miles away, however, people in Ecuador are raving about another Mia Farrow performance this year — one they found “heartbreaking,” but not in a good way. And Farrow is trying desperately to ignore these reviews. This Farrow role was billed as a trip to “show her support for indigenous people” in a massive lawsuit that accused the US oil company Chevron of polluting the jungle and poisoning locals. The highlight of the dramatic visit featured Farrow reaching into the ground and, with world media present, holding up a dirty, oil-drenched hand. The Farrow visit was part of a campaign centered on an Ecuadorian court ruling that found against Chevron and ordered it to pay more than $9 billion in compensation, the largest civil penalty in history. But, as Farrow knows from her other performances, there is often a final twist that can turn the story on its head. And so it is with her Ecuadorian jaunt and the Chevron suit. A few months ago, a New York court found the Chevron judgment was obtained by fraud and bribery — mostly masterminded by Manhattan-based attorney Steven Donziger. The fraud was so outrageous that the judge found the Ecuadorian lawsuit was the equivalent of organized crime extorting money from Chevron. The RICO laws, normally used against organized crime, are now being applied to Donziger and his associates. The case was so corrupt, it’s impossible to list here all the outrages. Basically the court found that the plaintiffs had bribed everyone in Ecuador from “independent” experts to the judges, and also corrupted or lied to US lawyers and scientific groups. (You can read all the inglorious details in Paul Barrett’s recent book, “Law of the Jungle.”) But none of this sleaze had rubbed off on Mia Farrow. At worst, she seemed a naïve pawn — an artist who’d been altruistically trying to help peasants against the rich and powerful. That is, until news broke that the Ecuadorian government had secretly paid her $188,000 to go there and hype the case against Chevron. Her “oily hand seen around the world” may have been the most lucrative gig of her acting career. The truth leaked after the US company that acted as the conduit for the payment was forced (under fear of prosecution) to disclose that it had been secretly working for the Ecuadorian state. The average salary in Ecuador is around $300 a month; Farrow’s $188,000 payday is an absolute fortune there. So the response from journalists and citizens on social media has been excoriating. SOURCE Union Miners Rally At EPA To Protest New Emissions Standards The United Mine Workers of America came to Washington on Tuesday with a message for the Obama administration: We will not be forgotten. The union miners, who came by bus from Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, held a rally outside the Environmental Protection Agency's headquarters in protest of new regulations on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that the agency proposed in June. The rules are part of the Obama administration's plan to curb the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing the planet to heat up. Members of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers also attended the rally. "We are fighting for our livelihood," James Gibbs, an at-large vice president at UMWA, told the crowd. "We have to let the president know, we need to let both parties know that we will support candidates that support us." Organizers said about 700 people made it to Washington for the protest, and another 50 or so were on a bus that arrived late. They carried signs that read "EPA Rules Destroy Good Jobs" and "EPA Rules Put Seniors At Risk," and some wore shirts that said "Stop The War On Coal." UMWA leaders expressed frustration that the union had worked on behalf of progressive causes like improved labor laws and fair wages, and had committed money and manpower to elect Obama in 2008. (The group did not endorse either candidate in 2012.) "We fought for those progressive causes, and there are people today in the progressive movement who have forgotten us," Daniel Kane, UMWA's secretary-treasurer, told the gathered crowd. "If you try to foist this devastation on Appalachia, on our brothers and sisters, we will remember." UMWA President Cecil Roberts accused the EPA of essentially passing a new "law" without the approval of Congress. "What's going on now is the EPA is passing laws, and we all have to abide by them," said Roberts. "These rules could not pass a vote in the United States Congress." "These are the best jobs in Appalachia," said Roberts. "No bureaucrat has the right to do this." He also argued that the U.S. should not go forward with emissions regulations while countries like China don't have similar limits in place. Roberts is probably right that Congress, as it is currently constituted, could not pass a new law to deal specifically with greenhouse gas emissions. The House passed such a law in 2009, when Democrats were in control, but it never passed in the Senate. Instead, the new rules were issued under the Clean Air Act of 1970 in response to a Supreme Court ruling in 2007 that determined that EPA had the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the existing law. Under the draft rules, the EPA would set an emissions limit for each state based on its energy mix, and each state would develop its own plan to meet those standards. While the number of coal-mining jobs has declined steeply in recent decades, those trends were underway before the EPA drafted its new regulations. Mechanization of mining operations and the shift from underground to surface mining operations have been major factors, as has the lower price of natural gas. A recent report from the liberal Center for American Progress looked at the economic factors affecting coal jobs, beyond EPA's new rules. But many of the miners at Tuesday's rally blamed the EPA rules for continued job losses. "They have too much power, that's what I think," Tom Powell, a 59-year-old retired underground miner from Crooksville, Ohio, told The Huffington Post. Mike Mallernee, a 69-year-old retired miner from the UMWA's Local 1188 in Zanesville, Ohio, left home at 3 a.m. to attend the rally. He said he was there to support the union, and because he felt the EPA rules were "too strict." "If you shut down all the coal-fired power plants now, what would you use for electricity in the U.S.?" said Mallernee. The EPA defended its new rules Tuesday, arguing that coal will not be eliminated from the U.S. electricity sector. "Coal will remain a critical part of America's energy mix for the foreseeable future. In 2030, it will represent a third of our nations' energy mix," said EPA press secretary Liz Purchia in a statement to HuffPost. "EPA's carbon pollution proposal provides each state with enormous flexibility in determining how to meet its pollution reduction goals, and does not mandate the retirement of any coal plants." Purchia said that many retirements for coal-fired power plants are already happening, not because of the new rules, but "because of ongoing economics -- regardless of this plan, largely as a result of aging equipment and market forces, including greater energy efficiency and cheap natural gas." She added that the average U.S. coal plant is 42 years old, and plants have adapted to pollution limits in the past by finding "new ways to innovate." The EPA said it has already received more than 1 million comments on the proposed rules, and recently pushed back the deadline for comments to Dec. 1 in order to give parties more time to weigh in. SOURCE “Greenhouse Gases” DO Have A Profound Effect On The Climate The article below by Carl Brehmer is very comprehensive so is rather long. Carl makes all his points very well however so I have reproduced it in full “Greenhouse gases” have a profound effect on the climate as can be seen in every climate system that has a high concentration of water vapor (H2O) and carbon dioxide (CO2)—the two “most potent ‘greenhouse gases’”. Here are some photos: The climate change that water vapor brings, far from being catastrophic, is quite the opposite. Water vapor brings an otherwise dead biosphere to life and makes it lush and green and, as we will see, even cools it down somewhat. What about carbon dioxide? Take a look: It is such a scientific certainty that higher concentrations of carbon dioxide promote robust plant growth that commercial gardeners pump carbon dioxide into their greenhouses up to levels > 3 times higher than is currently present in the open atmosphere. “In general, carbon dioxide supplementation of 1,000 ppm during the day when vents are closed is recommended [to bring the total concentration up to 1,300.]” Carbon Dioxide In Greenhouses, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. If we were to look at pictures that compare the Arabian Desert to Bangladesh or the Nairobi Desert to the Congo the result would be the same. It is incontrovertible that water vapor and carbon dioxide bring life into a climate system as can be seen in the lush eco-systems of New Zealand, Bangladesh and the Congo compared to the deserts in Nevada, Saudi Arabia and Nairobi and it is no mystery as to why. Water vapor in high enough concentrations condenses into clouds, which produce rain that drenches the soil. Plants, using the sun’s energy, pull carbon dioxide out of the air and water out of the soil to create carbohydrates and oxygen—the food that animals eat and the air that they breathe. Photosynthesis: 6CO2 + 6H2O +(Sun)light energy -----> C6H12O6 + 6O2 Where: CO2 = carbon dioxide H2O = water C6H12O6 = carbohydrate O2 = oxygen The “carbo” in carbohydrate comes from the word “carbon”—the base element of the food chain. That is why the flora and fauna of the eco-system of which we are a part are called “carbon-based” life forms. In Mass. vs. EPA (2007) the US Supreme Court bizarrely decided to call carbon dioxide—the foundation of all organic life—a pollutant! The fact is, what makes a desert devoid of abundant life is not its temperature; rather it is a lack of a sufficient quantity of water vapor—referred to by the IPCC in its AR5 report as “the primary greenhouse gas in the Earth’s atmosphere.” Without sufficient water vapor in the air clouds cannot form and without clouds there is no rain. Here is a picture of the Raven Golf Course in Phoenix, Arizona. To compensate for the Arizona desert’s lack of the “greenhouse gas” called water vapor and the consequent inadequate rainfall, the golf course installed an elaborate sprinkler system. As you can see, with adequate water available the temperature becomes irrelevant and the desert comes alive. Of course you already know all of this because you learned about photosynthesis in elementary school and you have experience the life-giving affect of humidity within your own climate system. You already know that without sufficient water vapor and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere the entire land-based Eco-system of the Earth would die—without water vapor and carbon dioxide all plant life would die and without plant produced carbohydrates to eat and plant produced oxygen to breathe all animal life would die as well. In the face of the incontrovertible truth that these two potent “greenhouse gases” bring profoundly beneficial changes to climate systems worldwide, one is puzzled by the conclusion drawn by the IPCC in its recent AR5 report. On the IPCC web site there is a video called Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis and in this video Thomas Stocker, a climate modeler and Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group I, makes this odd statement, “ . continued ‘greenhouse gas’ emissions cause further climate change . Therefore we conclude limiting climate change requires substantial and sustained reductions in “greenhouse gas” emissions.” Based on the actual “climate change” that water vapor and carbon dioxide cause in the real world what he is actually saying is, “ . continued ‘greenhouse gas’ emissions cause further [proliferation of plant and animal life] . Therefore we conclude limiting [this proliferation] requires substantial and sustained reductions in [the] emission [of the airborne plant fertilizer carbon dioxide in the hopes that this will reduce the amount of water vapor that is available for photosynthesis].” Why on Earth would anyone want to limit the proliferation of plant and animal life? How can the IPCC on the one hand claim to be concerned about the Earth’s biosphere yet on the other hand intend to limit the concentration of the two gases that give it life, i.e., carbon dioxide and water vapor? If you dig into the AR5 report you find that the premise upon which this life-destroying policy recommendation is based is the notion that these “greenhouse gases” threaten to cause catastrophic global warming of which 66-75% is projected to come from water vapor. “Water vapour is the primary greenhouse gas in the Earth’s atmosphere. The contribution of water vapour to the natural greenhouse effect relative to that of carbon dioxide (CO2) depends on the accounting method, but can be considered to be approximately two to three times greater.” (AR5 chapter 8, FAQ 8.1) There is simply no way around the fact that all of the IPCC’s prophecies of doom about the coming climate catastrophe are dependent upon the warming that they expect to happen because of an increase in global humidity, because of what they call “positive water vapor feedback”. So, when you hear a prediction that the Earth’s temperature might be 4 °C warmer by the end of the 21st century, know that 3 °C of that projected warming is expected to be the doing of humidity, i.e., water vapor. They are quite literally asserting that higher levels of global humidity will cause irreparable damage to the Earth’s ecosystems along with “substantial species extinction!” “Global climate change risks are high to very high . and include . substantial species extinction.” IPCC, AR5 Can one conceive of any notion that is more disconnected from reality than the idea that an increase in global humidity will cause “substantial species extinction” when one can see with ones own eyes that those climate systems that are the most humid are also the climate systems that have the most abundant and diverse life? Let’s take a look at the effect that humidity actually has on the global climate systems: This is a picture of the correlation that exists between high humidity and abundant life within the various climate systems around the globe. Where ever the humidity is high life flourishes in abundant diversity. Wherever the humidity is low life struggles to exist. The IPCC would have you not believe your own eyes, but rather believe them when they tell you that higher global humidity levels, “the primary greenhouse gas in the Earth’s atmosphere,” threatens to kill almost everything unless we do what they say. And what is it that they say we must do? Primarily abandon using fire as an energy source, i.e. stop “burning” hydrocarbons, because doing so produces the potent airborne plant fertilizer called carbon dioxide. They have issued this global command even though they acknowledge “there is a wide range of possible adverse side-effects . from climate policy that have not been well-quantified.” IPCC, AR5 Imagine that! * Your impoverishment is just a “side-effect” of their climate policy. * Your loss of dependable, low cost electricity is just a “side-effect” of their climate policy. * Your loss of independent travel in a private vehicle is just a “side-effect” of their climate policy. * Your loss of plentiful food to eat is just a “side-effect” of their climate policy (most agricultural production in the world today requires the use of hydrocarbon energy; beyond that enough food is currently being converted to biofuels to feed tens of millions of people each year.) * Your inability to continue heating your home in the winter and air-conditioning it in the summer is just a “side-effect” of their climate policy. * Your loss of dependable modern health care is just a “side-effect” of their climate policy (modern hospitals are dependant upon the stable electrical grid that burning hydrocarbons provide.) * Therefore, the likelihood that you will die younger is just a “side-effect” of their climate policy. This, of course, would be just all right with some of the leading advocates of the IPCC’s “climate policy”. Ted Turner, ”There are too many people; that's why we have global warming.” David Rockefeller laments the 20th century drop in the infant mortality rate and the increase in life expectancy because these have resulted in “over population”. ”The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary eco-systems is becoming appallingly evident.” David Attenborough, ”Today we are living in an era where the biggest threat to human well being, to other species and to the earth as we know it might well be ourselves . Human population density is [at the root] of every environmental problem that I have encountered [including] the relentless increase in atmospheric pollution [i.e., carbon dioxide].” In the paper Too Many People: Earth’s Population Problem the group Population Matters wrote, ”At a 1990 per capita emission rate of about four tones of carbon dioxide per person per year, the world's theoretically environmentally optimum population level would not be much higher than two billion, living at an average 1990 lifestyle, in order to stabilize carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere.” ”to reduce climate impacts it helps to reduce the number of climate changers.” So there you have it. In the eyes of the advocates of the IPCC’s “climate policy” your children and grandchildren are no longer “human beings”; they are just little “climate changers” and it would have been better for the Earth if they had not been born. What is most unsettling is that your little “climate changers” only have less than a 30% chance of surviving the population reduction that needs to occur to ”stabilize carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere!” The truly strange thing about the superstitious belief that water vapor causes global warming is that it is contrary to observed reality. Not only do higher levels of humidity bring more abundant and more diverse life to the biosphere, the mean temperature in very humid climates is predictably lower than it is in very arid climates along the same latitude. It is an observed phenomenon that when nature takes the moisture out of the air, either in a desert or during a drought, the mean air temperature goes up—not down! As such “heat waves” are most often associated with droughts rather than with periods of high humidity. 1) The Great North American heatwave of 1936 was brought on by the “Dust Bowl” drought that “came in three waves, 1934, 1936, and 1939–40, but some regions of the High Plains experienced drought conditions for as many as eight years.” “Drought: A Paleo Perspective – 20th Century Drought”, National Climatic Data Center 2) Marble Bar heatwave, 1923-24: “In the summer of 1923-1924 the monsoon stayed further north and no cyclones occurred anywhere in Australia that year, a truly unusual year. During its record-breaking heat wave only 79 mm of rain fell on Marble Bar in the form of 2 brief storms, and only 12 mm of rain fell before the next wet season began in December of 1924. The tropical section of Western Australia experienced a severe drought in 1924, with no cloud cover to relieve the seemingly endless days of extreme heat.” Australia: The Land Where Time Began All that one has to do to observe this reality is to go outside and take a look at actual, real-world temperature vs. humidity readings: All of the above graphs were produced by simply looking at publicly available temperature and humidity readings and as you can see the presence of water within a climate system cools it down via well-established and thoroughly studied processes such as latent heat transfer, increased albedo from the increased cloud cover, enhanced intra-atmospheric radiative heat transfer, the cooling affect of precipitation, a lowering of the lapse rate, etc. For example, northern Arizona where I live has a dry season and a wet season. In June when the humidity is very low the temperature is very high. In July when the “Monsoons” come the humidity goes up sharply. Not only does this result in a marked drop in daily mean temperatures, it also causes the countryside to turn green—a welcome climate change indeed! Let’s be clear, it is not that water vapor doesn’t cause as much warming of surface-level air temperatures as the “greenhouse effect” hypothesis predicts—it causes zero warming of surface level air temperatures and is actually associated with lower temperatures and quite literally causes deserts to bloom! Why on Earth would the IPCC want to demonize this “water of life” by suggesting that if global humidity levels rise irreparable damage will be done to the biosphere? The fact is, the only places where water vapor causes a 22-25 °C temperature increase in the global surface-level air temperatures by causing a “greenhouse effect” is within the imagination of certain people, within computer models, within certain peer-reviewed scientific papers and within IPCC Assessment Reports. In the real world, no such water vapor mediated warming exists (very high confidence). SOURCE For more postings from me, see DISSECTING LEFTISM, TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC and AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Home Pages are here or here or here. Email me (John Ray) here. Preserving the graphics: Most graphics on this site are hotlinked from elsewhere. But hotlinked graphics sometimes have only a short life -- as little as a week in some cases. After that they no longer come up. From January 2011 on, therefore, I have posted a monthly copy of everything on this blog to a separate site where I can host text and graphics together -- which should make the graphics available even if they are no longer coming up on this site. See here or here 8 October, 2014 Australia: The crooked BOM again Canberra Thermometer Is Carefully Sited Next To A Huge Parking Lot They are frantic Warmists at the Bureau of Meteorology so will do anything to pump the official temperature up. This is a classic example of an urban heat island effect I have heard that the station has finally been moved to a more reasonable location so it would be interesting to see what "adjustments" accompany that. Adding a constant to the new measurements would be my guess but they are unlikely to tell us. Like all Warmists they are secretive SOURCE Feminist/Warmist outs herself as an airhead Author Naomi Wolf has been accused of being 'disrespectful' after suggesting footage of hostages being beheaded by ISIS militants isn't real. The 51-year-old American writer made a series of controversial statements questioning the authenticity of the footage in a number of messages on her Facebook page. The initial post in which the feminist activist questions where the terror group are 'getting all these folks from' was deleted. In another post, she also said that the Obama administration was sending troops to West Africa to confront the Ebola outbreak so they could return with the deadly infection - justifying a military takeover of Africa. Social media users quickly rounded on her with some suggesting her theories were 'crazy' while others said her views were 'harmful' and had disrespected the victims' families. A video released on Friday appeared to show British hostage Alan Henning being beheaded by Jihadi John. He is the fourth person to have been brutally murdered at the hands of the extremists, and a fifth, former Army ranger Peter Kaggis, has been threatened as the next victim. After making the controversial statements over the weekend, Wolf defended her actions saying she was criticizing the reporting of the story - suggesting the video had not been properly confirmed by two sources. The post, that was later taken down, said: 'OK two of the hostages just happened to go from long careers into the military to... sudden humanitarian work (same was true of the latest British hostage). Where are they getting all these folks from? 'If someone is abducted there is a record with Amnesty and with Reporters without Borders. Can someone please confirm that these organizations have any record of this person having been abducted? 'The NYT (New York Times) yesterday ran a depressingly sloppy editorial claiming that all the ISIS beheading videos must be real because 'there are so many of them on youtube'. 'THAT's journalism? They also called ISIS 'evil' many times - which is not langauge of a news analysis, it is a theological category for some faiths and a Global War on Terror talking point... this may all be true but it takes five people to stage an event like this - two to be 'parents' - two to pose for the cameras... one in a ninja outfit... and one to contact the media that does not bother checking who ANY of these four other people are...' During the social media backlash, Mark Boothroyd said: 'Don't insult these people who have given their lives for humanitarian work. 'The activities of all these people have been well documented over the years. They are known people with families and friends who have supported them. Stop spreading conspiracy theories.' SOURCE Climate change lies exposed -- in 2010 report (below) A high-level inquiry into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found there was “little evidence” for its claims about global warming. It also said the panel had emphasised the negative impacts of climate change and made “substantive findings” based on little proof. The review by the InterAcademy Council (IAC) was launched after the IPCC’s hugely embarrassing 2007 benchmark climate change report, which contained exaggerated and false claims that Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035. The panel was forced to admit its key claim in support of global warming was lifted from a 1999 magazine article. The report was based on an interview with a little-known Indian scientist who has since said his views were “speculation” and not backed by research. Independent climate scientist Peter Taylor said last night: “The IPCC’s credibility has been deeply dented and something has to be done. It can’t just be a matter of adjusting the practices. They have got to look at what are the consequences of having got it wrong in terms of what the public think is going on. Admitting that it needs to reform means something has gone wrong and they really do need to look at the science.” Climate change sceptic David Holland, who challenged leading climate change scientists at the University of East Anglia to disclose their research, said: “The panel is definitely not fit for purpose. What the IAC has said is substantial changes need to be made.” The IAC, which comprises the world’s top science academies including the UK’s Royal Society, made recommendations to the IPCC to “enhance its credibility and independence” after the Himalayan glaciers report, which severely damaged the reputation of climate science. It condemned the panel – set up by the UN to ensure world leaders had the best scientific advice on climate change – for its “slow and inadequate response” after the damaging errors emerged. Among the blunders in the 2007 report were claims that 55 per cent of the Netherlands was below sea level when the figure is 26 per cent. It also claimed that water supplies for between 75 million and 250 million people in Africa will be at risk by 2020 due to climate change, but the real range is between 90 and 220 million. The claim that glaciers would melt by 2035 was also rejected. Professor Julian Dowdeswell of Cambridge University said: “The average glacier is 1,000ft thick so to melt one at 15ft a year would take 60 years. That is faster than anything we are seeing now so the idea of losing it all by 2035 is unrealistic.” In yesterday’s report, the IAC said: “The IPCC needs to reform its management structure and strengthen its procedures to handle ever larger and increasingly complex climate assessments as well as the more intense public scrutiny coming from a world grappling with how to respond to climate change.” The review also cast doubt on the future of IPCC chairman Dr Rajendra Pachauri. Earlier this year, the Daily Express reported how he had no climate science qualifications but held a PhD in economics and was a former railway engineer. Dr Pachauri has been accused of a conflict of interest, which he denies, after it emerged that he has business interests attracting millions of pounds in funding. One, the Energy Research Institute, is set to receive up to £10million in grants from taxpayers over the next five years. Speaking after the review was released yesterday, Dr Pachauri said: “We have the highest confidence in the science behind our assessments. “The scientific community agrees that climate change is real. Greenhouse gases have increased as a result of human activities and now far exceed pre-industrial values.” SOURCE The Case for Recycling Nuclear Waste Climate activists love to champion solar and wind power, but few have kind words for the most potent source of renewable energy: nuclear power. Although today’s critics point to calamities such as Fukushima and Chernobyl, opposition to nuclear power goes back decades earlier, even before the Three Mile Island accident in 1979 helped popularize the anti-nuke sentiment. One common criticism involves the problem of radioactive waste. But that problem is not wholly intractable—it’s largely caused by reversible choices that our political leaders have made, according to economist and Independent Institute Research Director William F. Shughart II. Indeed, France and Great Britain are two countries that deal with nuclear waste in a manner diametrically opposite the path chosen by American politicians. Whereas U.S. law prohibits the recycling of nuclear waste—and thereby makes the disposal problem exclusively one of long-term storage—France and England permit nuclear waste to be recycled. France, for example, allows its 58 nuclear power plants to send spent fuel rods to a recycling facility on the Normandy coast, where after a three-year cooling period the waste is turned into mixed-oxide fuel. Strangely, the Savannah River nuclear site in western South Carolina will be allowed to make the same mixed-oxide fuel from surplus plutonium of U.S. weapons stockpiles, but not from nuclear waste. This double standard makes no sense. If the U.S. government were to let nuclear power-plant operators recycle their waste, climate activists would get two of their wishes: the country could obtain more energy using less fossil fuel, and the storage-space needed for nuclear waste would fall—by more than 50 percent, according to Shughart. Moreover, fewer local political battles over where to put long-term storage sites would break out. “Instead of requiring a political consensus on multiple repository sites to store nuclear plant waste,” Shughart writes, “one facility would be sufficient, reducing disposal costs by billions of dollars.” SOURCE Fracking Could Save the Planet President Barack Obama raised a lot of eyebrows last week when he declared in his United Nations climate change speech: “Over the past eight years, the United States has reduced our total carbon pollution by more than any other nation on Earth.” That’s absolutely true. And it’s remarkable because we as a nation didn’t ratify the Kyoto Treaty, pass a carbon tax, or enact Mr. Obama’s cap and trade agenda. It’s all the more remarkable because Americans have been scolded nearly every day for being a major source of all these satanic gases that are allegedly burning up the planet. Instead, since 2005, our emissions are down by roughly 10 percent and almost twice that amount on a per capita basis. Not bad. How did that happen? If you think the answer is that we’ve transitioned to green energy, you are completely wrong. The game-changer for the U.S. has been the shale oil and gas revolution over the past six years brought about through new smart drilling technologies. The U.S. is now the largest natural gas producer in the world. And as America has produced more natural gas, we have shifted away from coal. This, according to the Energy Information Administration, accounts for more than 60 percent of the carbon emission reductions in the United States. Mr. Obama never mentioned that. Here’s the real stunner: if we want to reduce carbon emissions further, investing in natural gas is a far more efficient strategy than going all in for so-called “green renewable energy” sources. Over the last seven years, the U.S. government has spent almost $70 billion in tax, regulatory, and spending subsidies to the renewable energy sector. But wind and solar energy after this avalanche of government support account for only about three percent of electricity production. By contrast, the shale gas explosion has been almost entirely devoid of subsidies – yet its output has exploded. That’s great news for the environment because natural gas emits only about half the carbon as coal, even though coal is much cleaner than it once was. So one would think the climate change marchers who descended on Washington last week and all their green allies would be beating the drum for shale gas and hydraulic fracturing as an environmental godsend. The one common theme of the green marchers these days is they hate fracking, even though it has done more to reduce greenhouse gases than all the government subsidies to wind and solar power combined. The Sierra Club and other environmental groups which once saw natural gas as a valuable “bridge” fuel to the future, now denounce this wonder fuel. A new study making the rounds on the Internet says natural gas “won’t do much to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and might even raise them slightly.” This is bad economic and environmental advice. Shale gas is a wonder fuel because it is clean-burning, abundant, domestically produced, and cheap. The price of natural gas has fallen by more than half over the last six years and we have at least 150 years of supply in the Marcellus Shale and elsewhere. The Left’s unhinged objections to natural gas exposes their real aspirations. They aren’t fighting to stop global warming or the rise of the oceans; they’re fighting to stop growth itself. Americans better wake up to that reality, before the greens actually succeed. SOURCE Kill Australia's Kyoto Liabilities The Kyoto Protocol was dreamed up by the Climate Jet-set in Kyoto, Japan in 1997. One of the first decisions of born-again-green PM, Kevin Rudd, was to commit Australia to Kyoto Phase 1 in 2007. This treaty required signatories to reduce production of carbon dioxide to 5% below 1990 levels by 2012. As a late joiner, Australia got a lower target, involving no actual cuts. And they achieved that easy target by robbing Australian landowners - they stole carbon credits from landowners by imposing tree clearing bans. That larcenous trick can’t be pulled twice. Ironically, the death notice for the Kyoto misadventure was posted by Japan, the birthplace of Kyoto, when they announced at Cancun in 2010 that Japan would not agree to any further targets. Japan was shocked at the billions in liabilities they had accumulated by not meeting Kyoto 1 target cuts. Undeterred by this warning, another ALP/Green government agreed to Kyoto 2 in 2012 – 5% below 2000 levels by 2020. This target, agreed to without due diligence, is dreamland stuff for Australia. Once the growing population is taken into account, this target would require Australians in 2020 to maintain industries and create new jobs using 30% less hydro-carbon energy per capita than was used in 2000. Mining and mineral processing, agriculture, manufacturing, transport, tourism, electricity generation, cement, forestry and fishing are the backbone industries of Australia. Not one of these industries could maintain production while also significantly reducing their production of carbon dioxide, unless Australia embarks on a crash program of building new hydro and/or nuclear power stations. The chance that green regulators or politicians will allow either of these options any time soon is zero. The use of carbon fuels, more than any other indicator, measures the growth and health of modern economies. The only way to kill carbon is to kill the economy – close industries or send them overseas. The Global Financial Crisis probably did more to reduce the use of hydro-carbon fuels than Kyoto will ever do. Japan’s exit from Kyoto obligations was soon followed by Canada and Russia. USA never signed, nor did China, India, South Africa or Brazil. Thus the four biggest economies in our region (USA, China, Japan and India) are not burdened by Kyoto. Nor are our big competitors - Brazil (iron and beef), Indonesia (coal), Chile (copper) and Canada (wheat). We only have the Kiwis and the faraway Europeans sharing the sinking Kyoto ship. The Kyoto Agreement is a failure. Australia repealed the costly carbon dioxide tax. Next we should get rid of Kyoto liabilities. SOURCE For more postings from me, see DISSECTING LEFTISM, TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC and AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Home Pages are here or here or here. Email me (John Ray) here. Preserving the graphics: Most graphics on this site are hotlinked from elsewhere. But hotlinked graphics sometimes have only a short life -- as little as a week in some cases. After that they no longer come up. From January 2011 on, therefore, I have posted a monthly copy of everything on this blog to a separate site where I can host text and graphics together -- which should make the graphics available even if they are no longer coming up on this site. See here or here 7 October, 2014 The time's up, boys A lineup of global warming heavyweights said in 2011 that a 17 year period in the temperature record was needed to evaluate the theory. That time has now passed with no warming -- so the theory is plainly wrong. Journal abstract below Separating signal and noise in atmospheric temperature changes: The importance of timescale B. D. Santer, C. Mears, C. Doutriaux, P. Caldwell, P. J. Gleckler, T. M. L. Wigley, S. Solomon, N. P. Gillett, D. Ivanova, T. R. Karl, J. R. Lanzante, G. A. Meehl, P. A. Stott, K. E. Taylor, P. W. Thorne, M. F. Wehner, and F. J. Wentz Abstract We compare global-scale changes in satellite estimates of the temperature of the lower troposphere (TLT) with model simulations of forced and unforced TLT changes. While previous work has focused on a single period of record, we select analysis timescales ranging from 10 to 32 years, and then compare all possible observed TLT trends on each timescale with corresponding multi-model distributions of forced and unforced trends. We use observed estimates of the signal component of TLT changes and model estimates of climate noise to calculate timescale-dependent signal-to-noise ratios (S/N). These ratios are small (less than 1) on the 10?year timescale, increasing to more than 3.9 for 32?year trends. This large change in S/N is primarily due to a decrease in the amplitude of internally generated variability with increasing trend length. Because of the pronounced effect of interannual noise on decadal trends, a multi-model ensemble of anthropogenically-forced simulations displays many 10-year periods with little warming. A single decade of observational TLT data is therefore inadequate for identifying a slowly evolving anthropogenic warming signal. Our results show that temperature records of at least 17 years in length are required for identifying human effects on global-mean tropospheric temperature. Citation: Santer, B. D., et al. (2011), Separating signal and noise in atmospheric temperature changes: The importance of timescale, J. Geophys. SOURCE Does CO2 "hurtle"? Transcript below of the words of wisdom uttered by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) at the recent anti-capitalist march in NYC. He seems to think CO2 is a physical object rather than a gas. If he had known what he was talking about he might have said "entering" "We need to stop CO2 from hurtling into the atmosphere. We need do it, we need to work for climate change both globally and locally. Globally, the whole UN is here. Globally, all the leaders of the the world should get together and maybe begin raising consciousness and doing so. Locally, we have to act on our own. We can’t wait for the leaders of the world. Today Mayor DeBlasio did a very good thing by saying he’s going to greatly increase the efficiency of buildings. That’s important." SOURCE Green taxes DO harm the British economy, prominent Liberal admits Vince Cable has launched an astonishing broadside against the party’s green agenda, saying that it imposes too high a cost on industry. The Business Secretary said industries with high energy costs such as steel, are struggling against their international competitors because of soaring electricity costs. Chancellor George Osborne has given £250million compensation to ‘energy intensive’ industries, but Mr Cable admitted this ‘doesn’t go the whole hog’. It is a surprise admission from a Liberal Democrat, because the party is passionate about renewable energy which is funded by levies on households and businesses. His party colleague, Energy Secretary Ed Davey, clashed with the Conservatives last year when they blocked his attempt to set an even more ambitious green energy target for 2030. But Mr Cable told a conference fringe event last night: ‘We do have an issue which should concern us as Lib Dems because of our very strong environmental commitments. Many of our manufacturing companies and exporters – particularly in areas like steel and cement and others which consume lots of electricity – are struggling against international competition because of the cost of energy.’ He said his party had to recognise that forcing businesses abroad would simply ‘export pollution’ to other countries and not benefit the environment. Mr Cable was talking about why, despite the economic recovery, Britain’s exports have stalled. He said the main reason is that half of UK exports go to the eurozone which is still emerging from the financial crisis. They have also been battered by the growing strength of the pound against the euro. But another reason is green energy. ‘They [firms] argue that because we are trying to be green we are imposing costs on them which their competitors don’t have,’ he said. ‘Now of course a lot of that is unfair, and we have now introduced compensation schemes to offset some of those costs, but... it doesn’t go the whole hog by any means. 'There’s an issue here about the extent to which we are willing to tolerate the export of pollution because of our own system of taxing and charging industries which have a high energy content.’ Jeremy Nicholson, director of the Energy Intensive Users Group, representing heavy industry which directly employs 200,000 people and contributes £15billion a year to the economy, said: ‘The penny is dropping.’ Britain’s revenue from green taxes was £43billion in 2013 – the second highest in Europe. SOURCE A Rare Debate on the “Settled Science” of Climate Change Steve Goreham In 1997 during the Kyoto Protocol Treaty negotiations in Japan, Dr. Robert Watson, then Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was asked about scientists who challenge United Nations conclusions that global warming was man-made. He answered, “The science is settled…we’re not going to reopen it here.” Thus began one of the greatest propaganda lines in support of the theory of human-caused global warming. On June 19 this year, the University of Northern Iowa held a debate on climate change titled, “Climate Instability: Interpretations of Scientific Evidence.” Dr. Jerry Schnoor of the University of Iowa presented an effective case for the theory of man-made warming and I presented the case for climate change driven by natural causes. The video contains 30 minutes of presentation by each side and then 30 minutes of questions and rebuttal, presented to a small audience of faculty and students. (www.youtube.com/embed/EFYZ9dKAuNc) Formal debates on the theory of human-caused warming are somewhat rare in our society today. Former Vice President Al Gore stated on the CBS Early Show on May 31, 2006: "…the debate among the scientists is over. There is no more debate. We face a planetary emergency. There is no more scientific debate among serious people who’ve looked at the science… Well, I guess in some quarters, there’s still a debate over whether the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona, or whether the earth is flat instead of round." EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson declared to Congress in 2010, “The science behind climate change is settled, and human activity is responsible for global warming.” Even President Obama in his 2014 State of the Union address said, “But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.” The Los Angeles Times announced last year that they will not print opinions that challenge the concept that humans are the cause of climate change. The BBC has taken a similar position. Many of our universities will not allow an open debate on climate change. The Department of Meteorology and Climate Science at San Jose State University posted an image last year of two professors holding a match to my book. In contrast to the “no debate” positions of our political leaders, news media, and many universities, the event at the University of Northern Iowa was a breath of fresh air. Thanks to Dr. Catherine Zeman and the Center for Energy and Environmental Education at UNI for their sponsorship of an open debate on the “settled science” of climate change. SOURCE Children of the Global Warming Scare: coming of age with no global warming over their lifetimes Children born 18 years ago have lived their lives without any of the 'global warming' with which some people have been intent on scaring them witless. At school, they would have seen those graphs of relentless rising CO2 levels and rising temperatures in the last decades of the 20th century. They might well have seen propagandists such as Al Gore up a stepladder declaiming how one caused the other. They might have heard of a Dr Hansen who on a hot day in 1988 warned the world of those relentless rises. They could well have seen the MBH hockey stick plot of temperatures published in 1998, and widely promoted by campaigners including the IPCC for some years. It was a contrivance of no scientific merit other than serving the PR needs of those intent on scaring politicians, as well as children, about how rising CO2 was dominating our climate. Well, the CO2 has continued to rise - at rates well above some of the projections used by such as the aforementioned Dr Hansen. But here's the thing, the global mean temperature, once so widely display in reports, textbooks, press conferences, leaflets, presentations and videos, has not risen along with it. The temperature rise turned out to be not so relentless after all. A cause of much rejoicing you might suppose? Far from it. Catastrophe-talk has been so advantageous for so many people jumping on the global warming bandwagon, that they will not give up on it so easily, Merely being contradicted by the data is only something that decent scientists would be troubled by. As Feynman for example has pointed out, when your theory is contradicted by the data, your theory is wrong. But decent scientists are few, and self-serving followers of the climate catastrophe cult are many, and they don't really care about the science. Here are some illustrations of that: 'We've got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing, in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.' - Timothy Wirth, former US senator 'No matter if the science is all phony, there are collateral environmental benefits . Climate change provides the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.' - Christine Stewart, former environment minister in Canada Another key insight for eco-activists is this related one: 'It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.' - Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace John Christy, one of the world's decent climate scientists has noted this disgraceful and unscientific view out there: 'there is still a strong belief system that greenhouse gases control the climate, and so if that is your belief system, then it doesn’t really matter what the evidence shows.' It encourages this sort of thing: 'The Communist Party USA’s environmental program “presents a viable plan to carry out on the long march to socialism.”' - Havel Wolf, Seattle Audubon Society And this sort of thing: 'Are you interested in reducing your carbon footprint? How about playing a part in the survival of a virgin rain forest and the numerous species found within? Are you interested in making extra income and helping OURF raise funds in the process? If so, you can get involved in the worldwide effort to combat global warming by participating in the global carbon credit market.' - Oppor Tunistic, a fundraiser typical of many. And even this sort of thing: I wonder what she will be angry about eight years from now? Her parents? Her lost childhood? The harm and suffering caused by renewables? The frequent powercuts? Rotten teaching? The nightmares she had about global warming? Meanwhile, alarmers are busy promoting more satisfactory totems for their purposes now that global mean air temperature near the surface has so badly let them down. Lubos looks more deeply into fatuous temperature targets. They are stupid targets but my goodness they served the alarmists well for decades by giving the impression we could decide on planetary temperatures merely by destroying our civilisation. 'Stupid' is too good a word for such people. Children of the Warming Scare will have been harmed by them. Perhaps as adults, they will be able to think more for themselves more, and begin to develop a calmer, more rational, and more optimistic view of their future. SOURCE Climate Change ‘Reforms’ Would Hurt People United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recently designated actor Leonardo DiCaprio as a “U.N. Messenger of Peace” for climate change, touting him as a “credible voice in the environmental movement.” Can a Hollywood actor be a credible source when it comes to something as complex as climate science? Perhaps. However, simply being a popular Hollywood actor does not, in and of itself, make one an expert on climate change. In fact, it should raise a lot of red flags when people start turning to Hollywood for credible information. The truth is the dire predictions that were once made by climate change alarmists haven’t come to fruition. Data simply does not show that the climate has been getting warmer, wetter or wilder at the accelerating pace some predicted it would. All the climate summits in the world and all the marches and rallies may ironically increase the collective carbon footprint, but they won’t change reality. However, drastic measures taken to combat climate change could harm economic growth. Increased environmental regulations, carbon taxes and cap-and-trade schemes all harm the economy. Where is the indignation from Hollywood over the harm these policies and others like them inflict on people who struggle simply to afford electricity and other sources of needed energy? Increased economic activity is one of the ways to improve quality of life for people in America and across the globe, but there will be less access to jobs, hospitals, schools and businesses if excessive carbon emissions regulations and other such schemes are enacted. Perhaps this is why the top leaders of countries such as China and India are skipping the summit. These countries have some of the largest populations, segments of which do not have reliable access to energy, and emit much of the world’s carbon. Their absence from this week’s Climate Summit is telling. Instead of being a “Messenger of Peace,” DiCaprio should aim to be a Messenger of the Market. The free market can improve peoples’ lives, create opportunity and prosperity and simultaneously help with stewarding the environment. That idea probably wouldn’t mesh well with DiCaprio’s progressive inclinations, but it would actually help people live better lives. SOURCE For more postings from me, see DISSECTING LEFTISM, TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC and AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Home Pages are here or here or here. Email me (John Ray) here. Preserving the graphics: Most graphics on this site are hotlinked from elsewhere. But hotlinked graphics sometimes have only a short life -- as little as a week in some cases. After that they no longer come up. From January 2011 on, therefore, I have posted a monthly copy of everything on this blog to a separate site where I can host text and graphics together -- which should make the graphics available even if they are no longer coming up on this site. See here or here 6 October, 2014 WHO should now declare a public health emergency (?) The boilerplate article below by Fiona Godlee writing in the BMJ is no great surprise. BMJ is only partly an academic medical journal and has long been Left-leaning. And her "bold" call for a declaraton by WHO won't frighten the horses either. The WHO is often wrong and often ignored. Godly FiFi is basically a twit. Her tame and ill-informed declaration is a quite strange foundation for the claim by Warmists that Climate Change is a Bigger Health Emergency Than Ebola When The BMJ started publishing articles on climate change, some readers told us to stick to our knitting. “What did this have to do with medicine?” they asked. And wasn’t climate change a myth, a result of natural climatic variation, nothing to do with human activity? There were surely more immediate challenges that The BMJ and its readers should be focusing on. We listened politely but carried on, convinced of the threat to human health and survival. With others we set up the Climate and Health Council (climateandhealth.org). We published editorials and articles (thebmj.com/content/climate-change), co-hosted conferences and seminars, lobbied funders, talked to policy makers and politicians, and worked with the BMA, the royal colleges, and their equivalents in other countries, all the time worrying that this was not enough. Our hope was to encourage doctors and other health professionals to take a lead in tackling climate change. Now we have gone a step further, with the publication of an article that contains no medicine or healthcare at all. “The science of anthropogenic climate change: what every doctor should know” is pure climate science.1 Why? Because if we doctors are to become effective advocates against climate change, a better understanding of the science will help us. As most readers will know, the news is not good. With a high degree of certainty the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded in its fifth report that the world is getting hotter and that human activity is mainly to blame. Global average temperatures have risen by about 0.5°C in the past 50 years and by 0.8°C from pre-industrial times. The effect of these higher temperatures on weather systems is already being felt. The IPCC reports that it is highly likely that global warming is causing climate change, characterised by more frequent and intense temperature extremes, heavier rainfall events, and other extreme weather events. Sea levels are rising as a result of the thermal expansion of the oceans and the melting of polar icecaps and glaciers. The headlines should come as no surprise, but the detail may prove instructive. Higher seas mean more frequent and extreme tidal surges, coastal flooding, and the salination of vital fresh water supplies. Warmer air carries more moisture, leading to more extreme rainfall events. But warmer air also reduces the amount of moisture in the soil, contributing to soil erosion and flash flooding. As for the main underlying cause, the IPCC is clear: it is the accumulation of anthropogenic carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Other gases and aerosols are also to blame, especially methane and nitrous oxide, and particulate black carbon. But carbon dioxide is long lived. Once released into the atmosphere it stays around for centuries. Deforestation makes this worse.... WHO has shown important leadership on climate change but has stopped short of declaring a global public health emergency. This may be understandable with Ebola raging. But it is what WHO should now do. Deaths from Ebola infection, tragic and frightening though they are, will pale into insignificance when compared with the mayhem we can expect for our children and grandchildren if the world does nothing to check its carbon emissions. And action is needed now. More of the usual Warmist blah HERE FiFi wouldn't know how to be original to save her life. Studies fault warming in much of 2013 wild weather The article below is just an example of people living inside a little bubble of belief and operating only on its assumptions. How COULD global warming be responsible for wild weather when there has been NO global warming for many years? Something that doesn't exist can't be responsible for anything, can it? And the report is based on very limited data anyway. I was amused by this: "The influence on Australia's hottest year in more than a century is glaring". That may be true of the limited time-frame they used but what if we go back over 200 years? How do they explain the huge heat-wave in Australia of 1790? There was NO fossil fuel being used in Australia at that time and there weren't even any sheep farting. And Steve Goddard draws our attention to the clipping below, with the question: "I wonder what caused the "wild weather" of 1927"? Scientists looking at 16 cases of wild weather around the world last year see the fingerprints of man-made global warming on more than half of them. Researchers found that climate change increased the odds of nine extremes: Heat waves in Australia, Europe, China, Japan and Korea, intense rain in parts of the United States and India, and severe droughts in California and New Zealand. The California drought, though, comes with an asterisk. Scientists couldn't find a global warming link to an early South Dakota blizzard, freak storms in Germany and the Pyrenees, heavy rain in Colorado, southern and central Europe, and a cold British spring. Organized by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, researchers on Monday published 22 studies on 2013 climate extremes in a special edition of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. "It's not ever a single factor that is responsible for the extremes that we see," said NOAA National Climatic Data Center director Tom Karl said. "Natural variability is always part of any extreme climate event." For years, scientists said they could not attribute single weather events — like a drought, heat wave or storm — to man-made global warming. But with better computer models and new research, in some cases scientists can see how the odds of events increase — or not — because of climate change. Other researchers question the usefulness and accuracy of focusing on single extreme events. The editors of the 108-page compilation of studies wrote that people and animals tend to be more affected by extreme weather than changes in averages, so they pay attention to it. The public often connects extreme events to climate change, sometimes wrongly, so scientific analysis like this "can help inform the public's understanding of our changing environment." The report seeks to find how much and how man-made warming has influenced the weather, said NOAA research meteorologist Martin Hoerling, an editor of the report. The influence on Australia's hottest year in more than a century is glaring, the report's editors said. "It's almost impossible" to explain Australia's hot 2013 without climate change, said Peter Stott of the United Kingdom's meteorology office, another report editor. The most complicated issue is the California drought, the only extreme that has continued into this year. Three teams studied that state's record drought in different ways. Two teams couldn't find a link to global warming and water and air temperatures, but the third from Stanford University looked at high pressure patterns in the air and found a connection. A high pressure system parks over the northern Pacific during California's winters, which is normally when it gets rain. Higher atmospheric pressure usually means less storms and rain. The pressure was so strong last year that study lead author Daniel Swain called it "a ridiculously resilient ridge." The Stanford team ran computer models with and without man-made warming from the burning of coal, oil and gas. The warming from greenhouse gases showed that the rain-blocking ridge of high pressure was more than three times more likely with man-made factors than without, Swain said. "There's definitely a climate change signal," Swain said. Earlier peer-reviewed studies looking at atmospheric patterns have also connected California's drought to climate change. However, the editors of the journal's special edition said that with the studies in Monday's report that couldn't find a man-made signal in California and the indirect nature of the Swain report, it is unclear whether a global warming connection can be pinned on California's drought. Hoerling said there were still questions about the Swain study. Other scientists said Swain's study was convincing. "The report as a whole is a reflection that more and more future climate extremes around the globe will be attributed to human-caused climate change," said University of Arizona climate scientist Jonathan Overpeck, who wasn't part of the research. In two extreme events — the British cold spring and the September northern Colorado rains — the report found global warming actually decreased their likelihoods and yet they happened. SOURCE Climate change could shrink chocolate production(?) The article below is pure speculation and prophecy and it also omits something important. Rising levels of CO2 are not affecting temperatures but they ARE affecting plant growth. CO2 is plant food so higher levels of it make all things green more vigorous, including the trees from which cocoa beans are obtained. So it is no surprise that "Ivory Coast just posted a record harvest and the government increased its minimum price to farmers". So rising CO2 is doing no harm but it is doing some good -- probably including INCREASED availablity of chocolate Scientists say climate change will eventually claim many victims -– including, according to a new report, chocolate. As temperatures increase and weather trends change, the main growing regions for cocoa could shrink drastically, according to new research from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture. Ghana and the Ivory Coast –- which produce more than half of the global cocoa supply –- could take a major hit by 2050. Currently, the optimal locations to grow the crop are about 330 feet to 820 feet above sea level, with temperatures of about 72 degrees Fahrenheit to 77 degrees. That range will soar to 1,500 feet to 1,640 feet in four decades to compensate for hotter weather. Cocoa production, which reached about $9 billion from 2008 to 2009 and accounts for 7.5% of the Ivory Coast’s gross domestic product and 3.4% of Ghana’s, could be in for a heavy slide. Peter Gleick, a MacArthur fellow and chief executive of the Pacific Institute, bemoaned the potential decline of the sweet treat last week in an open letter to climate change skeptics in Forbes. Many farmers will need to find alternative crops such as cashews and cotton. But researchers pointed out that as temperatures phase out some fields, others could become prime growing spots. “Climate change brings not only bad news but also a lot of potential opportunities,” according to the report. “The winners will be those who are prepared for change and know how to adapt.” SOURCE RFK Jr. as a Greenie priest driving out the Devil I commented on the ludicrous Robert F. Kennedy Jr yeterday but statistician Briggs has some more good comments below on that unhappy man. In case anybody is inclined to take seriously Kennedy's wild and unsubstantiated accusations of a vast oil-company-led conspiracy to shout down meek little Warmists, there is a comprehensive demolition of such claims here: No, this isn’t a shooting-fish-in-a-barrel take-down of yet another bug-witted politician who has stayed long past his expiration date. We’re after something deeper today. Here in a piece (“What States’ Attorneys General Can Do About Climate Deniers”) under his name at the ultra-left Huffington Post (running a curiously old picture of the man), is Kennedy’s opening: "Hysterics at the right-wing think tanks and their acolytes at The Washington Times, talk radio and the blogosphere, are foaming in apoplexy because I supposedly suggested that “all climate deniers should be jailed.”… Of course, I never said that. I support the First Amendment which makes room for any citizen to, even knowingly, spew far more vile lies without legal consequence." Well, technically he’s right. He never said “all”, but here is a link to a video which has him (at the People’s Climate March) calling for the invention of new laws, and prosecution under old ones, including “treason”, of so-called deniers. Depends on all the meanings of all, I suppose. He continues: "I do, however, believe that corporations which deliberately, purposefully, maliciously and systematically sponsor climate lies should be given the death penalty. This can be accomplished through an existing legal proceeding known as “charter revocation.” State Attorneys General can invoke this remedy whenever corporations put their profit-making before the “public welfare.” He slips in “death penalty”, allowing his dimmer readers (this is the Huffington Post) to infer he means it in its literal, cut-their-throats sense. Only later does he reveal it’s a euphemism for some obscure law which has the power to unincorporate corporations. So not real death, but slow asphyxiation by the removal of the means of livelihood. After this legalese is forgotten, he slips in at the end with, “The notion that a State Attorney General might actually execute one of these villains is not a pipe dream.” His charge: "For over a decade, petroleum industry behemoths led by Koch Industries and ExxonMobil, have waged a successful multi-million dollar propaganda blitz to mislead the public about global warming using the same techniques honed by Big Tobacco in its campaign to hoodwink the public about smoking." It never does any good to tell people that you get nothing or next to nothing for your work in skeptical climate science (my total, from all sources, is fast reaching double digits). They don’t believe it. No, it’s worse than that. It’s like telling a UFO hunter that the government isn’t engaged in a secret cover-up. Of course you would deny the cover-up! That means there’s a cover-up! Next week, in a review of Alex Epstein’s forthcoming The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, we’ll learn the opposite of Kennedy’s charge is true: that oil companies have done everything except abandon oil in order to conform publicly to Kennedy’s religion. And how much money does Big Green—Greenpeace, Sierra Club, the federal government through the EPA, USDA, etc.—pump into the system? I’ve seen many estimates, but by any count the amount dwarfs what skeptics receive. Kennedy mentions some “culprits”, like Cato and Heartland, and says: "Like the Tobacco Institute and CTR, these front groups are snake pits for sociopaths. Run by venomous carbon industry toadies, they stable a craven menagerie of propaganda wizards, slick biostitutes, tobacco scientists, snake oil hucksters, voodoo economists and other so-called “experts” employed to publish beguiling studies, appear on TV and radio, and write deceptive articles critiquing the “flawed science” predicting climate change." I have to admit liking that last sentence, though I haven’t any idea what a “biostitutes” is. We have seen time and again that “believers” like Kennedy have almost no understanding of climatology. They couldn’t define, say, a sigma coordinate system to save their lunches, let alone their lives. There is complete mystification over what convective available potential energy could mean. To them, the satellite inverse problem sounds like a vague oxymoron. But it doesn’t matter. Belief is all they are after, and belief is what they get. Their belief is raw, primal. We’ve seen enough to know that environmentalism is pure religion, based on the false and ridiculous idea that Nature somewhere exists in its pristine, non-human state. This is why questions are heresy, why Kennedy can foolishly call for his enemies to be jailed or executed. This deluded man isn’t the only one. Here is an abbreviated list of enviro-worshippers full of bloodlust: here, here, here, here. Nature—a living god—must be appeased. So the real question for discussion is, not the state of Kennedy’s sanity, but how this religion will progress. Ideas? SOURCE Scientists to 'fast-track' evidence linking extreme weather to climate change in sign of panic that they're losing PR battle to the sceptics Since there hasn't been any climate change for a long time, they're going to have a job linking it to ANYTHING. How can you link to something that doesn't exist? Environmental scientists want to introduce a new system to prove that adverse weather events are directly linked to climate change to counter global warming sceptics. Under the new plan, a heatwave or major storm will be linked scientifically to man made climate change immediately after the event to prevent critics from blaming it on natural variations in the weather. Scientists want to be able to provide proof of whether an event was caused by climate change within three day rather than the current system which can take up to a year. Experts claim that such a long wait for proof means that the general public have broadly forgotten the event and are no longer interested with it. Dr Friederike Otto of the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University said: 'We want to clear up the huge amounts of confusion around how climate change is influencing the weather, in both directions. For example the typhoon in the Philippines that dominated the UN climate change talks in Warsaw last November and that many people put down to climate change - it turned out it had no detectable evidence. And the same goes for Hurricane Sandy.' Dr Otto told The Independent there were many cases where scientists have proved that events have either been triggered or exacerbated by climate change. She said last year's heatwave in Australia and record flooding in Britain earlier this year. Dr Heidi Cullen, chief scientist with Climate Central at Princeton. She said:'It's very much like the kinds of risks we see in the health sector, with different levels of confidence in the role played by climate change depending on the situation. 'It's like a weather autopsy. We know from rigorous scientific testing that smoking increase the likelihood of cancer and work out the conditional probability accordingly.' The group of scientists hope to have their new system operational within the next twelve months. [Should be fun] SOURCE Martini Meltdown Leaky Jonathan is still at it By Dr Klaus L.E. Kaiser The Sunday Times has reached a new height of incoherence with its science editor’s, (Jonathan Leake) column on Arctic ice cap in ‘death spiral.’ Nothing could be further from the truth. The ice cover in the Antarctic has recently reached a new all-(recorded)-time extent and the ice cover in the Arctic appears to be on a similar path. No wonder as the frost-free days in the Arctic, above 80 N have been fewer in the last two summers and the last winter in North America was brutally cold and long. Danish Records The best records of temperature in the Arctic are those by the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) in Copenhagen. That’s not surprising as Greenland belongs to Denmark and they have a vital interest in knowing the facts about temperature and ice there. You can find their daily records, open and free at ocean.dmi.dk. Of particular interest are their daily records of the temperature at the latitude above 80 N, from 1958 onwards and their sea ice extent with a 30% minimum coverage and excluding coastal zones. Especially the latter clearly shows that the Arctic sea ice extent is anything but dwindling. See for yourself in the plot below (the thick black line refers to 2014): Arctic sea ice extent Clearly, that graph shows rather an average to high ice extent, not a “polar ice meltdown.” Perhaps the Sunday Times’ science editor was reminiscing about the ice cubes in his martini when he penned that column rather than sea-ice in the Arctic. That ice ain’t melting and the polar bears are thriving. SOURCE For more postings from me, see DISSECTING LEFTISM, TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC and AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Home Pages are here or here or here. Email me (John Ray) here. Preserving the graphics: Most graphics on this site are hotlinked from elsewhere. But hotlinked graphics sometimes have only a short life -- as little as a week in some cases. After that they no longer come up. From January 2011 on, therefore, I have posted a monthly copy of everything on this blog to a separate site where I can host text and graphics together -- which should make the graphics available even if they are no longer coming up on this site. See here or here 5 October, 2014 RFK Jr. has a new target for his boiling hate And see below how it boils! Now he wants companies banned. Even if someone took up his idea, they would be unlikely to succeed before the courts. Meanwhile his accusation that skeptical groups are "snake pits for sociopaths" sounds actionable to me. A big damages award against a Kennedy would be fun. The Koch Bros. would have standing to sue Hysterics at the right-wing think tanks and their acolytes at The Washington Times, talk radio and the blogosphere, are foaming in apoplexy because I supposedly suggested that "all climate deniers should be jailed." Last week, that canard leapt from the wingnut echo chamber into New York magazine, which reported, under Jonathan Chait's byline, that "Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. shares the opinion that climate denial should be criminalized." Chait was quoting the National Review's Kevin Williamson who made that outlandish claim at one of Heritage Foundation's annual "Conference for Kooks." Of course, I never said that. I support the First Amendment which makes room for any citizen to, even knowingly, spew far more vile lies without legal consequence. I do, however, believe that corporations which deliberately, purposefully, maliciously and systematically sponsor climate lies should be given the death penalty. This can be accomplished through an existing legal proceeding known as "charter revocation." State Attorneys General can invoke this remedy whenever corporations put their profit-making before the "public welfare." In 1998, New York State's Republican Attorney General Dennis Vacco successfully invoked the "corporate death penalty" to revoke the charters of two non-profit tax-exempt tobacco industry front groups, The Tobacco Institute and The Council for Tobacco Research (CTR). The two groups Vacco annulled were creatures of a decade long campaign funded principally by tobacco giant, Brown & Williamson to avoid costly health regulations that would diminish the profit margins of an industry that was killing one out of five of its customers. "Doubt is our Product," explained B&W's notorious 1969 memo outlining the reptilian communications strategy that hatched its front groups. Vacco complained that these companies were "[feeding] the public a pack of lies in an underhanded effort to promote smoking so as to addict America's kids." Attorney General Vacco seized their assets and distributed them to public institutions. Laws in every state maintain that companies that fail to comply with prescribed standards of corporate behavior may be either dissolved or, in the case of foreign corporations, lose their rights to operate within that state's borders. These rules can be quite expansive and, in contrast to the U.S. Supreme Court's recent rulings on campaign finance law, companies, under state laws, enjoy far less protection than human beings. New York, for example, prescribes corporate death whenever a company fails to "serve the common good" and "to cause no harm." Just as Big Tobacco funded the now moribund C.T.R. and the Tobacco Institute to systematically deceive the public about the perils of cigarettes, the carbon cronies, with far larger profits at stake, have funded an army of front groups to persuade the public that global warming is a hoax. For over a decade, petroleum industry behemoths led by Koch Industries and ExxonMobil, have waged a successful multi-million dollar propaganda blitz to mislead the public about global warming using the same techniques honed by Big Tobacco in its campaign to hoodwink the public about smoking. In their efforts to impede state, national and international efforts to protect humans from the destructive climate chaos, both companies have engaged in massive spending sprees purchasing phony "junk" science devised to undermine the overwhelming scientific consensus on global warming. Between 1997 and 2013, ExxonMobil, pumped over 29.9 million dollars into an elaborate network of over 75 front groups to manufacture skepticism about the oncoming climate catastrophe. At the same time, Koch Industries has piped at least $67,042,064 to over fifty groups that play central roles in the Koch-funded offensive against climate science. Two decades after Brown & Williamson's notorious "Doubt is our Product" memo, the oil industry launched its own anti-science juggernaut replicating Big Tobacco's and utilizing many of the same corrupt scientists and PR firms. Two secret memos dictated the blueprint for Big Carbon's anti-science offensive. The American Petroleum Institute -- lobbyist for ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Shell and ConocoPhillips -- was the spear tip of a multi-million dollar campaign to confound American citizens about climate science by manipulating the media. On April 3, 1998, API laid out its "Global Climate Science Communications Action Plan," the detailed blueprint of "tactics and strategies" for deceiving the American people and press by sewing doubts about climate science. The API team would create front groups and "educate" editorial boards and corporate CEOs to challenge "prevailing scientific wisdom." Under "recruiting and training," API outlines its plan for tapping neophyte -- "read malleable" -- scientists and tame journalists ( "e.g. John Stossel," the memo suggests) to bamboozle the public. "Victory will be achieved," API promises, "when average citizens and the media recognize uncertainties in climate science; recognition of uncertainties becomes part of the 'conventional wisdom.'" Four years later in 2002, conservative pollster Frank Luntz in an influential memo to President George Bush and oil patch lawmakers, applauded the industry for the success of the API campaign. "Voters believe that there is no consensus about global warming within the scientific community." Nevertheless, he warned Big Carbon's indentured servants on Capitol Hill "the science [is closing against us] but is not yet closed." He advised, "therefore, you need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate." Over the next dozen years, a string of front groups conducted the deceptive anti-science campaign outlined in the API's 1998 plan and Luntz's 2002 memo and funded primarily by ExxonMobil and Koch. Among the groups that have received millions from Exxon and Koch Industries are The Cato Institute, The Heritage Foundation, the Cooler Heads Coalition, the Global Climate Coalition, The American Enterprise Institute (ALEC), Americans for Prosperity, Heartland Institute, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), George C. Marshall Institute, the State Policy Network, The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Like the Tobacco Institute and CTR, these front groups are snake pits for sociopaths. Run by venomous carbon industry toadies, they stable a craven menagerie of propaganda wizards, slick biostitutes, tobacco scientists, snake oil hucksters, voodoo economists and other so-called "experts" employed to publish beguiling studies, appear on TV and radio, and write deceptive articles critiquing the "flawed science" predicting climate change. They broadcast zany theories to bolster policies that encourage increased energy consumption, torpedo renewable energy, attack pollution rules, maintain Big Carbon's obscene government subsidies, and, in general provide the philosophical underpinnings for a system of cushy socialism for the "dirty energy" tycoons and bitter, savage capitalism for the rest of mankind. For example, CEI, which describes itself as being "a leader in the fight against the global warming scare," spent years denying that warming was real, and then, as the tsunami of evidence made that position untenable, pivoted to the more defensible posture that human beings are not causing it. CEI has more recently beat its final retreat to the terminal default position that global warming is great because it will "create a milder, greener, more prosperous world." The floods, fires, drought, rising oceans, disappearing ice caps, melting glaciers, drowned cities and refugees have not exactly been "mild." But things have been prosperous and "green" -- if one means greenbacks -- for the Koch Brothers and ExxonMobil, who are enjoying the biggest profits in world history. "You're Welcome, Planet Earth!" AEI, one of the richest and most influential think tanks in the United States -- and the high priest of climate denial -- offered a $10,000 bounty in 2006 to any scientist or economist who could produce an article undermining the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ("IPCC") Report. The IPCC report was the most comprehensive review yet of climate change science representing the scientific consensus among thousands of climate scientists comprising the leading and most prestigious and scientific stars from over 130 participating nations. Any State Attorney General with the will, resolve and viscera to stand to up to the dangerous and duplicitous corporate propagandists, has authority to annul the charters of each of these mercenary merchants of deceit. An Attorney General with particularly potent glands could revoke the charters not just oil industry surrogates like AEI and CEI, he or she could also withdraw state operating authority from the soulless, nation-less oil companies that have sponsored "Big Lie" campaigns and force them to sell their in-state assets to more responsible competitors. Koch Industries and ExxonMobil have particularly distinguished themselves as candidates for corporate death. No other companies have worked harder or spent more money to impede the government from taking action on global warming to safeguard public welfare. Both companies have employed artifice on a massive scale and spent tens of millions of dollars to purchase fraudulent junk science. The greedy, immoral, anti-social pathology behind ExxonMobil and Koch's mendacious crusade is even starker given the open acknowledgment since 2007 by the other major oil companies including Shell, Chevron and BP, that burning oil is causing climate change. Though they like to invoke patriotic themes and drape themselves in the flag, the oil barons have persistently demonstrated their enthusiasm for putting corporate profits ahead of the public welfare. "I'm not a US company," Exxon's legendary former CEO, Lee Raymond told his board, "and I don't make decisions on what is good for the US." These companies are not friends to America. They are enemies of mankind. The notion that a State Attorney General might actually execute one of these villains is not a pipe dream. State Attorneys General have historically shown a willingness to stand up to American democracy's biggest corporate bullies including, Wall Street, Big Tobacco, coal-burning utilities and the oil titans even in eras, like the present, when corporate money has subverted our democracy and extracted the spinal cords from most politicians. It was 46 courageous State Attorneys Generals who brought down the cigarette companies. It was nine northeastern State Attorneys General who sued the coal-burning utilities for damages to their citizens from airborne pollutants. And it was State Attorneys General in New York, Ohio and Texas who, during the Gilded Age, dismantled the Standard Oil octopus, and restored economic democracy to America. That deadly Frankenstein monster, now reassembled and resurrected as ExxonMobil, poses an even greater threat today to our historical values and quality of life. Let's all hope for and vote for a home state Attorney General candidate who promises to stand up against carbon's duplicitous proxies and fight for truth, justice and democracy and to provide our children with safe, healthy, dignified and wholesome communities and the prosperity that should not be exclusive to the Koch Brothers and ExxonMobil. SOURCE The churches bear some responsibility too -- for failing to speak out about the genocidal Green religion Compassion is a hollow pretence for the Green/Left. Mass deaths have never bothered them I posed some simple questions a number of articles back and I’d like to begin this piece by asking them again, because they’re fundamental. Don’t they know how many of our own poor can no longer afford to heat their homes? Don’t they know how many millions die in the developing world from malaria because we won’t allow them access to DDT? Don’t they know that a million children a year die or are simply blinded for life by withholding the distribution golden rice? Don’t they know how many lives could be saved by supplying the poor with drought and disease resistant GM seeds? Don’t they know that switching from growing food staples to growing biofuel crops for cars only the rich can afford has more than doubled prices of basic foods? Don’t they know about the people killed in the food riots? Do they actually know anything? Do they care anyway? There’s no oily sophistry about those questions, no sophistication, no tricky debating traps, no guile, no hidden agenda but always an essential inhumanity to the silence or uneasy evasiveness with which they’re met. I’ve raised an impolite subject. The truth is people are not dying, they’re being killed and we’re the ones through inaction doing the killing. I make no apology for being so blunt because they’re needed questions, simple questions, brutal even, and yet there’s always that awkward silence in response to them. There really isn’t a party line on the moral dilemmas which are at the very heart of those questions, because morality is no longer about people or ones behaviour towards them, but simply about what’s good for the Earth or not. All else is subordinate to that consideration. In a deeper sense though, any wider altruistic morality is now about nothing more than projecting a good image of oneself rather than any notion of common humanity. What we’re talking about are the lives of the most vulnerable being needlessly sacrificed atop a green altar, because of an almost automatic obeisance to a new and terrible earth goddess called Gaia. You might think those questions were addressed at the real climate fanatics, those who’re absolutely determined to save the Earth even if that means over the megadeath, rigour-mortised and stacked-high burning corpses of humanity, but you’d be wrong because as must be obvious by now, those zealots simply don’t care about such collateral damage. After all, a smaller, more “sustainable” number of people on the Earth is one of their oft expressed aspirations. Humanity is a plague on the Earth, to quote David Attenborough. Those questions were originally directed at the religious bodies of our rich developed world but with the sure and certain expectation of nothing in reply, not only because they were rhetorical but because the churches are by now in denial or wilfully blind to the moral issues presented by those questions. They’ve fallen so far down into the abyss of the governing elite’s unquestioned dogma, which puts the Earth before the human cost of protecting it, that they now effectively worship a graven but green image in their desert of moral desolation. They’ve lost touch with that most basic imperative of all religions – the duty of care we all have towards the poor and vulnerable. Common decency, if you will. Those questions, like this article, are now being addressed to the footsoldier clergy of those churches; the priests and the pastors, the imams and the rabbis, the holy men, the human beings representing their respective faiths and trying to make a difference in the lives of their local congregations. This issue is not about science, since climate science has long ago allowed itself to become a compliant and willing harlot to politics. Like the great whore of Babylon, it sucks greedily on the teat of notoriety and all integrity has long since fled. Political sentiment can be changed because it’s driven by the fickle beast of popular opinion, which you still have a measure of influence over. What can’t be changed is that this is at heart a basic moral issue and morality is an invariant which should never be subject to the passing vicissitudes of fashion or alarmed public opinion. The killing of the innocents is wrong, standing idly by when that’s done for nothing better than a mistaken idea grown into a well-intentioned but homicidal monster or for a quick buck, is wrong. Don’t delude yourself, the moneylenders are busy at work in your temples, doing brisk business under the righteous cloak of that false goddess Gaia but in reality serving nothing other than their own god Mammon. Your silence is helping them. I’ll pose some new questions just for you, but I’m going to help you out by giving you the answers to them. Will you ever read this article? Probably not. Will you ever read past the first page of Google’s reassuring results from various well-heeled green NGOs about any of the above questions? Will you ever stop to wonder how we eradicated malaria in the developed world using DDT and still have plenty of birds and the bees? Will you ever try to calculate how many lives have been saved by us being malaria-free for over half a century? Will you think about why we’ve spent 800 billion dollars to fight global warming when the Earth’s temperature hasn’t risen in nearly two decades? Will you consider the effect that amount of money could have had on poverty relief around the world? Will you at least admit that standing idly by and not speaking out means there’s some blood on your hands? Just a touch, a smidgen even? You are this very day in the midst of a silent ongoing genocide, a slowmo invisible annihilation, a new shoah of such dimensions as to put the Nazis to shame and yet you will not acknowledge it or speak out about it. You do nothing. Nothing, nada, nada and nada every time. It’s Hemingway’s prayer and that’s the prayer of those who not only believe they’ve been abandoned by God, but have ceased to believe there can even be such an entity. “Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.” Can there actually be a god? What sort of god could countenance such needless cruelty, suffering and callous waste of innocent lives? Deus irae? An angry god? Is there a reason? Do you have a reason? An excuse? Anything? All those millions of preventable deaths are the direct result of political policies driven by nothing more than fashionable ideas about what our relationship with the Earth should be. In the midst of it all, you ignore the pressing issues, preferring instead to hotly debate schismatic irrelevances like female or gay priests. It’s no wonder that whole sections of churches in the developing word are considering decoupling themselves from what they consider to be out of touch mother churches in the developed nations, who simply won’t engage with real problems. You plant saplings in your leafy suburbs doing your bit to save the Earth while the poor in the developing countries are running out of shrubs to burn to keep themselves alive. You talk about living in harmony with God’s good green Earth to your plump congregations while the world’s poor can do nothing more than lay damp towels over their dying children and hope for the fucking best. Tell me, who exactly needs your God’s forgiveness there? All my tears outside the walls of Babylon have long ago been wept; there’s nothing left in me now but an abiding anger towards you. You are a part of the problem when you should by any decent notion of religious conviction be a major part of fixing it. I am nothing and nobody, a small man with a small voice who long ago despaired of any faith in some sort of god. And yet I beseech you in the name of whatever god you follow to do something, or at least speak out. Like the Nazarene, you will not be rewarded for telling the simple truth. Don’t tell me why god allows such things because there can be no reason, don’t bother debating god’s existence with me or his mysterious ways, just tell me why as a human being and a supposed man of god with some influence, you aren’t standing in your pulpit at every opportunity, raging and thundering to your congregation against such an obscene and preventable waste of human life and worse still, allowing that inhumanity to grind on day after pitiless day without doing a single thing about it. SOURCE Greenpeace crying censorship? Please… A censorship row has erupted between Greenpeace and the Indian government after Ben Hargreaves, a Greenpeace representative, was turned away by immigration officials at Delhi airport and sent back the UK despite having a valid visa. Hargreaves’ deportation follows the Indian government’s ban in June on donations from Greenpeace International being transferred to Greenpeace India. This, in turn, came after a leaked Indian intelligence report earmarked Greenpeace as ‘a threat to national economic security’, arguing that the campaign group’s protests against nuclear and coal plants were causing an annual reduction in India’s GDP of as much as three per cent. Greenpeace officials are furious at what they are calling a ‘systematic clampdown’ on their activities in India. Samit Aich, executive director of Greenpeace India, told the Guardian: ‘We have seen for the past couple of months a definite move to scuttle Greenpeace’s work in India by various ways and means.’ While a government clamping down on groups they disagree with should be of concern of anyone who values free speech, Greenpeace hardly has a great track record in that regard. It has long been known for its allergy to debate and its preference for silencing and discrediting its own critics rather than engaging with them. In February 2014, Greenpeace launched a petition calling on UK prime minister David Cameron to oust his then environment minister Owen Paterson, because he happened to query some climate-change claims. In July, Greenpeace was one of eight NGOs who called on president-elect of the European commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, to scrap the role of chief scientific adviser to the president of the commission because the incumbent, Anne Glover, was a supporter of GM crops. It’s hard not to have some sympathy for the Indian government’s position on Greenpeace. Not only does the NGO work to stymie the sort of industrial progress that is helping lift India out of poverty, but it also remains an unelected institution that still holds a fair amount of influence in world affairs. Nevertheless, censorship is never the answer to political problems. And this is a lesson Greenpeace, as well as the Indian government, should learn. SOURCE More Bad News for Some Californians: Mayor Wants to Introduce Yet More Climate Regulations Nicolas Loris, an economist, focuses on energy, environmental and regulatory issues as the Herbert and Joyce Morgan fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Read his research. You stay green, San Diego. But it’s going to cost you. San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer has introduced what would be a costly, aggressive climate plan in a state that already has some of the most egregious climate regulations on the books. Faulconer’s plan consists largely of forcing expensive and intermittent renewable energy sources on Californians, using taxpayer dollars to promote alternative forms of energy and transportation and taking choices away from families by forcing them to reduce their energy and water consumption. Faulconer’s climate plan aims to cut the city’s greenhouse gas emissions from 2010 (when the economy was slumping and emissions were already low) in half by 2035. Specifically, the plan would set a 100 percent renewable power generation goal and ambitious targets to increase the amount of people that walk, bike or use mass transit to commute. Also included in Faulconer’s plan are aggressive energy efficiency targets to reduce “electricity consumption in apartments and condominiums by 50 percent, by 53 percent in commercial properties and by 40 percent in city buildings” as well as cutting water use down by 9 gallons per capita per day. To give you an understanding of the line of thinking here, one of the earlier versions of the plan even included a mandate that required property owners to make energy efficiency improvements on their homes before they could sell it. And the plan broadly would “give the city a backbone of sorts when future development controversies arise. In the past, the city has quickly caved to neighborhood concerns over new housing or transit projects – if the plan becomes law, the city could argue it’s legally required to support environmentally friendly urban growth principles.” Now maybe that doesn’t sound that bad. Walking’s good for you, reducing energy and water could save you some bucks and increased renewable energy generation sounds okay. And in a free market where individuals made those choices about commuting habits and energy consumption and producers invested in renewable energy because they saw an opportunity, those decisions are fine. There is nothing wrong with more renewable energy or alternative fuels replacing conventional resources of energy, but if that shift occurs, it should be driven by market forces, not dictated through government policy. But Faulconer’s climate plan is a bureaucratic, centrally-planned re-engineering of San Diego’s energy economy that’s going to force pricier electricity on ratepayers and force residents into consuming the amount of energy their government wants them to consume. Billed as an environmental jobs plan, Faulconer’s climate agenda is neither. Sure, the government can spend money on politically preferable sources of energy generation and “create” jobs in those sectors. But government expenditures are not free. Instead, they merely shift resources from one sector to another and they use labor and capital much less efficiently than the private sector To make matters worse, the increases in energy prices would disproportionately eat into the income of the poorest American families. The climate benefits of the plan should be called into question as well. Even if the United States as a whole reduced its greenhouse gas emissions 83 percent below 2005 levels by 2050, it would only reduce global temperatures by two-tenths of a degree Celsius by the end of the century because of the contributions of warming from developing countries. And that’s assuming the climate models accurately project carbon dioxides contribution to warming, which has proven not to be the case. One city’s costly climate plan would avert even less warming. Much like the administration’s climate action plan, Faulconer’s proposal is all economic pain for no climate benefit. SOURCE Australia: Brainless sea-level report fails to take account of local factors There is no uniform sea-level Summary In July 2014, Whitehead & Associates Environmental Consultants, in consultation with Coastal Environment and with funding from the NSW Government, produced a report for Eurobodalla Shire Council and Shoalhaven City Council titled “South Coast Regional Sea Level Rise Policy and Planning Framework, Exhibition Draft.” The conclusion of the following commentary and analysis is that this report does not provide reliable guidance to the complicated issues of measuring, forecasting, and responding to sea-level rise. The image below presents the unmistakeable pattern of wide variations in rates of tectonic uplift (points above the red zero baseline) and subsidence (points below) in different locations around the world at particular times. In such circumstances, no effective coastal management plan can rest upon speculative computer projections regarding an idealised future global sea-level, such as those provided by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Coastal management must instead rest upon accurate knowledge of local geological, meteorological and oceanographical conditions, including, amongst other things, changes in local relative sea level. For the central and southern New South Wales (NSW) coast of Australia, this requires basing management policies on the range of long-term rates of sea-level rise of 0.63-0.94 mm/yr that have been measured at the nearby Sydney (Fort Denison) tidal gauge. The implied 6.3-9.4 cm of rise in the next hundred years is similar to the rise which occurred during the preceding hundred years. This did not require, nor receive, any policy formulation over and above the application of historic 20th century coastal planning regulations. SOURCE The question of accountability By Prof. Don Aitkin, writing from Australia A correspondent has informed me that the ACT Government has awarded Aspen Island Theatre Company $18,793, to assist with costs of the creative development of a new theatre work, ‘Kill Climate Deniers’. Since in some quarters I am thought to carry the marker of ‘climate denier’ (one of the stupidest epithets of our time) I was naturally alert, and alarmed as well. Perhaps the play is to be a comedy. Who knows. Maybe I’ll wear a disguise and go to see it. But it raised for me once again the question of accountability. There is a lot of dire warning of ‘climate change’ about, and a lot of abuse of sceptics. In what sense are the Cassandras and abusers accountable for their actions? David Suzuki has asserted that politicians who don’t ‘take action’ on climate change should be jailed. Robert Kennedy Jnr has described such people as committing ‘treason’. The doom-laden utterances of Professor Flannery are familiar to all of a sceptical bent. What if they’re wrong — quite wrong? If people have acted in particular ways because of what these people have said, and it all proves nugatory — and expensive — what then? Suppose, just suppose, that we are in for a long cooling spell. After all, the Antarctic ice sheet is now at the largest level ever witnessed (though that’s only thirty years or so). Do any of us have redress? Anthony Watts’ website has run a thoughtful piece on accountability by Tim Ball, whose work I have mentioned before. Ball points out that engineers, in order to practice, must belong to a professional organisation, and that they are responsible for the quality of what they do and produce. So do lawyers and doctors. But not scientists, and especially not climateers. Vaclav Klaus, the former President of the Czech Republic, and the only outspokenly sceptical national leader there has been in the past fifty years, wrote in his book, Blue Planet in Green Shackles: "Environmentalism is a political movement that originally began with the intent to protect the environment – a humble and perhaps even legitimate goal – but which has gradually transformed itself into an ideology that has almost nothing to do with nature. This ideological stream has recently become a dominant alternative to those ideologies that are consistently and primarily oriented towards freedom. Environmentalism is a movement that intends to change the world radically regardless of the consequences (at the cost of human lives and severe restrictions on individual freedom). It intends to change humankind, human behavior, the structure of society, the system of values – simply everything." The great assertion of the climateers is that humans have caused a problem that threatens the whole planetary eco-system. It is a belief for which the evidence is tenuous and ambiguous, but those who believe it do so passionately. Who decided that humans are the cause of the ‘problem’? Ball says that the climateers did, using scientific methods that are clearly wrong because the predictions are wrong. It is a classic circular argument. "There are leading environmentalists in every country who practice political abuse of environmentalism, as Klaus defined it. These individuals and their organizations have done great social and economic damage with environmental misinformation and false claims, for a political agenda of total government control under the guise of saving the planet. They are effectively a green fifth-column, the enemy within. Sadly, their exploitation and misuse of environmentalism is putting the entire paradigm in jeopardy, as people stop believing anything they’re told." Worse, many of these organisations bare defined as charities, and are thus exempt from income taxation. And the big ones seem to be very wealthy indeed. I know that I’ve said all this before. But this time I want to raise the question of redress. What if they are all completely wrong, both about warming, and about the human contribution to it? How can they be held to account? Dr Ball devotes much of his essay to the question of salmon fishing and farming in British Columbia, where once again the David Suzuki Foundation has been an aggressive foe of the industry, making (according to Ball) completely false statements about, for example, sea lice, climate, global warming and the rest. David Suzuki himself referred to farmed salmon as ‘poison’. We seem to be in a repetitive cycle. A small minority makes a great fuss about something, and call on ‘science’ as its witness. Pressure grows in the media for the government to ‘do something’. Something is done, but there is little interest in the broad consequences. In the case of climate action in Australia, one outcome was the carbon tax, which cost most people a good deal of money, and had no effect whatever on carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, let alone on global temperature. Yes, the Abbott Government has now repealed the tax, and a smidgin of money is being returned to us by energy companies. But who is to be held accountable for the mess in the first place? There is no enquiry, as with pink batts. And the doomsayers keep preaching disaster. It’s a hard one, because so much of the doom is about what will happen at the end of the century, when few of us will be around. Oliver Wendell Holmes, speaking about the right of free speech, pointed out that no one had the right to call out ‘fire!’ in a crowded theatre: there needed to be also a sense of responsibility to go with the right. Most days it is clear to me that the climateers see the notion of personal responsibility as almost laughable. They are SURE, and we must BELIEVE. It is so like the evangelist Christian revivalists of my youth, Canon Bryan Green, Billy Graham, and that ilk. SOURCE For more postings from me, see DISSECTING LEFTISM, TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC and AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Home Pages are here or here or here. Email me (John Ray) here. Preserving the graphics: Most graphics on this site are hotlinked from elsewhere. But hotlinked graphics sometimes have only a short life -- as little as a week in some cases. After that they no longer come up. From January 2011 on, therefore, I have posted a monthly copy of everything on this blog to a separate site where I can host text and graphics together -- which should make the graphics available even if they are no longer coming up on this site. See here or here 3 October, 2014 Did climate change cause ebola? Some nitwit had to make that link but it's a monumentally stupid thing to claim. Since there has been no climate change for 18 years, it cannot have caused ebola. Something that does not exist cannot cause anything In a report on a mysterious virus causing paralysis in children that aired on “CBS This Morning” earlier this week, Dr. David Agus, a medical contributor for CBS News and a University of Southern California medical professor, discussed a so-called enterovirus that is believed to behind paralysis and muscle weakness in nine Colorado children. The virus, known as Enterovirus D68, had spread throughout the country. Agus urged parents that suspect their child may be infected with this virus to keep their children home from school. However, “CBS This Morning” co-anchor Charlie Rose asked how that particular virus, in addition to the Ebola virus, have been able to spread in recent weeks. “Well, the world is flat,” Agus explained. “Right now, anybody can get on a plane and end up anywhere in this country and spread these viruses. And we have to be aware of it. We don't know exactly why there was a dramatic spread this year. But something is happening now. We have multiple viruses. And together with global climate change, things are changing in the virus world and we have to pay attention.” SOURCE Satellite Data: No Global Warming For Past 18 Years The Earth’s temperature has “plateaued” and there has been no global warming for at least the last 18 years, says Dr. John Christy, professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center (ESSC) at the University of Alabama/Huntsville. “That’s basically a fact. There’s not much to comment on,” Christy said when CNSNews.com asked him to remark on the lack of global warming for nearly two decades as of October 1st. The "plateau" is evident in the climate record Christy and former NASA scientist Roy Spencer compiled using actual raw temperature data collected from 14 instruments aboard various weather satellites. CNSNews.com asked Christy why the United Nations’ climate models, which all predicted steeply rising temperatures over the past two decades, were all proven wrong. “You’re going back to a fundamental question of science that when you understand a system, you are able to predict its behavior. The fact that no one predicted what’s happened in the past 18 years indicates we have a long way to go to understand the climate system,” Christy replied. “And that the way the predictions were wrong were all to one direction, which means the predictions or the science is biased in one direction, toward overcooking the atmosphere.” Christy added that basing government policy affecting millions of Americans on “very poor” climate models that have been shown to be inaccurate is “a fool’s errand.” “Our ignorance is simply enormous when it comes to the climate system, and our understanding is certainly not strong and solid enough to make policy about climate because we don’t even know what it’s going to do, so how can we make a policy that says ‘I want to make the climate do something' when we don’t know what makes the climate do what it does?” he asked. “A policy is supposed to have a goal. Well, if you don’t know how the system works, that means you don’t know how to make it go toward that goal. And that’s certainly the case now, since none of the climate models are able to tell us what the future is going to be. They’ve certainly failed in the past. And so the policy is really a fool’s errand at this point.” However, he noted that “there is still a strong belief system that greenhouse gases control the climate, and so if that is your belief system, then it doesn’t really matter what the evidence shows.” Christy said he has “no idea” if the Earth’s temperature will go up again in the future. “I’m a climatologist, which means I’m driving the car and looking in the rearview mirror, not out the front windshield, so I don’t try to forecast,” he told CNSNews.com. But earlier predictions that the El Nino will drive up temperatures this year were off the mark, he says. “There was a big pulse in what was a precursor to the El Nino back in May, and so it looked like it was going to be a very strong El Nino, but that pulse of warm water in the ocean – the heat content, actually – just faded away, basically. And so this wasn’t going to be a 1997/98 El Nino again. I don’t think they’re going to see the big spike in temperature” that was originally predicted. “But you know, El Ninos come and go, and they shouldn’t be factored in what the overall temperature does over decades.” Christy countered claims by some climatologists that the satellite data doesn’t show an increase in surface temperature because the "missing heat" was absorbed by the oceans. “That would require a change in wind speeds. It also means the climate models don’t have the oceans right,” he pointed out. “The other alternative is that the heat never was stored in the climate system, and that it escaped into space. That is just as plausible.” "I predicted this in 1999," Dr. Don Easterbrook, a climate scientist and glacier expert from Washington State, said of the 18-year period with no global warming. "My prediction has now happened." "The same year the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) models were predicting that the Earth would warm by one degree per decade, I was predicting that the Earth would cool for the next three decades," he noted. "They were way off the mark, while my prediction is still on target." Easterbrook added that with the sun entering a period known as a Grand Minimum, "it's a sure thing it's going to get cooler. It's just difficult to tell how much. It looks like it may get one degree cooler and maybe more," he said. "That may not seem like a lot, but it only warmed up one degree during the entire last century." SOURCE Walrus panic a lot of bunkum The October 1, 2014 Associated Press article linking the walrus gathering to melting sea ice, lacks historical perspective and contains serious spin that would lead readers to erroneous conclusions about walruses and the climate. [Update: Zoologist Dr. Susan Crockford weighs in: "Mass haulouts of Pacific walrus and stampede deaths are not new, not due to low ice cover - 'The attempts by WWF and others to link this event to global warming is self-serving nonsense that has nothing to do with science...this is blatant nonsense and those who support or encourage this interpretation are misinforming the public." First off, walruses are not endangered. According to the New York Times, “the Pacific walrus remains abundant, numbering at least 200,000 by some accounts, double the number in the 1950s.” The AP article titled, “35,000 walrus come ashore in northwest Alaska”, claims “the gathering of walrus on shore is a phenomenon that has accompanied the loss of summer sea ice as the climate has warmed.” The AP even includes the environmental group World Wildlife Fund, to ramp up climate hype. “It’s another remarkable sign of the dramatic environmental conditions changing as the result of sea ice loss,” said Margaret Williams, managing director of the group’s Arctic program, by phone from Washington, D.C. The media and green groups are implying that walrus hanging out by the tens of thousands is a new phenomenon and due to melting Arctic ice. But dating back to at least the 1604, there have been reports of large walrus gatherings or haulouts. Excerpt: “Walruses became only really known in Europe after the 1604 expedition to the Kola Peninsula of the ship “Speed” of Muscovy Company, commanded by Stephen Bennet. On the way back to England the Speed reached what some years before a Dutch expedition had named “Bear Island”. The crew of the Speed discovered a haulout numbering about a thousand walruses on the island’s northern coast.” According to a National Geographic article in 2007, walrus populations were not endangered. See: “While scientists lack a firm population estimate for the species, researchers have encountered herds as large as 100,000 in recent years” Even the green activists group, the WWF, admits walrus ‘hangouts’ of tens of thousands are not unprecedented. A 2009 WWF blog report noted: “WWF Polar Bear coordinator Geoff York returned on 17 September from a trip along the Russian coast and saw a haul out there with an estimated 20,000 walruses near Ryrkaipiy (on the Chukchi Peninsula).” Are 35,000 walruses gathering in “haulouts” on the shoreline with many be stampeded to death really that unusual? The answer is No! The AP reported on 40,000 walruses in a haulout just 7 years ago in a single location. See: AP 12/14/2007: “40,000 in one spot” – “As a result, walruses came ashore earlier and stayed longer, congregating in extremely high numbers, with herds as big as 40,000 at Point Shmidt, a spot that had not been used by walruses as a “haulout” place for a century, scientists said.” Walrus stampede deaths drop dramatically from 3000 to 50? The October 1, 2014 AP article notes with obvious concern for the walrus species: “Observers last week saw about 50 carcasses on the beach from animals that may have been killed in a stampede…” Fifty walrus carcasses? That number is a significant improvement from 2007 when there were a reported 3000 dead walruses discovered from the late summer and fall on the Russian side of the Arctic, according to the AP’s own earlier reporting. See: 2007: ‘3,000 walruses die in stampedes tied to Climate’ Are walrus stampede deaths declining in recent years? It is difficult to say based on reports, but a high of 3000 deaths in 2007 (for a whole season) to a low of 50 deaths in 2014 for a single location, but it does not appear to be an alarming trend. Why does the AP fail to put any historical perspective on their climate scare stories, especially when the AP’s own reporting from 7 years ago calls into question their claims? The next issue is whether or not sea ice extent is critical to walruses in late summer and fall. According to this report, ice extent is not critical. As Nelson noted in 2007: “When I read this in the (2007) ‘walrus’ Wikipedia entry, I’m also not convinced that lack of summer ice is necessarily a big deal.” 2007 Wikipedia entry: “In the non-reproductive season (late summer and fall) walruses tend to migrate away from the ice and form massive aggregations of tens of thousands of individuals on rocky beaches or outcrops.” [Note: This line has been omitted from the Wikipedia entry in 2014] Walrus stampede deaths benefit polar bears In addition, a 2007 WWF post inadvertently noted that the carcasses of stampeded walruses may actually be a great benefit to polar bears. “Last fall some 20,000-30,000 animals were piled up there. No one has actually counted them all, but the Vankarem residents are certain the number is growing… In early winter, when the ice is re-forming and walruses leave the beach, up to 100 carcasses remain behind. These blubbery animals offer a perfect meal for wandering and hungry polar bears… In mid-November, a truck driver alerted the patrol to bear tracks on the beach. The wave had begun. For the next three weeks, bears making their way along the coast stopped to graze on the carcasses at this so-called “feeding point” instead of proceeding to the village. At one time alone, Sergey and his team counted 96 bears feeding on the walrus. In total they estimated that 185 bears had been circulating with a six mile radius around the village.” The stampeded remains of 100 walruses fed up to 185 polar bears! But despite the easily accessible historical data on walruses, the WWF and the AP and other media in 2014, continue to spin the haulouts as evidence of “climate change.” SOURCE Could living near a wind farm make you DEAF? Low frequency 'hum' could damage the inner ear, experts warn Wind farms could cause people living nearby to go deaf, a new study claims. The barely audible low frequency hum emitted by turbines harms ‘the exquisite mechanics of our inner ears’, scientists say. A study of 21 healthy young men and women who were exposed to such sound, revealed that most experienced changes in cells in the cochlear - a spiral shaped cavity essential for hearing and balance. Researchers measured the changes by analysing Spontaneous Otoacoustic Emissions (SOAEs), which are the faint sounds produced in the ear that can detect changes to its physiology. Dr Marcus Drexel, of the University of Munich, said man-made sources of low frequency noise have spread dramatically in recent years and are also generated by thermal power stations, ventilation and air conditioning systems. ‘The dogma of “what you can’t hear, won’t hurt you” is deeply rooted in society and governs the current health and safety regulations,’ he said. ‘However, while even loud low frequency sounds are not perceived as obtrusive, our findings show such sounds affect the exquisite mechanics of our inner ears in a significant manner. ‘Our study identifies a mechanism in our hearing system, which can contribute to explain conditions associated with low-frequency sound emissions.’ Scientists found that most of the healthy adults who they exposed to the sound - a low frequency wavelength of 30Hz - experienced changes in cells in the cochlea. In the study, the participants were exposed to a low frequency wavelength of 30Hz for 90 seconds, to mimic the noise generated a wind turbine. The noise was well below health and safety regulations, according to the paper, which was published in the journal Royal Society Open Science. Humans can have a hearing range of between 20 and 20,000Hz. Dr Drexel said: ‘Most interestingly, 17 of the 21 subjects revealed an overall of 56 new SOAEs, which had not been measurable before low frequency stimulation.’ For decades, experts thought that sound lower than 250Hz largely bypassed the inner ear even at intense levels, because thresholds are relatively high. But this could be incorrect. Dr Drexel said: ‘The current data show in humans, active cochlear mechanics, as assessed by SOAE measurements, are significantly affected by low frequency stimulation. ‘To the best of our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive study focusing on the effect of low frequency sound on level and frequency of human SOAEs.’ Wind farms have also been linked with a greater risk of heart disease, panic attacks and migraines. The farms are said to cause ‘wind turbine syndrome’, the symptoms of which include tinnitus, vertigo and sleep deprivation. It is thought that thousands of people are super sensitive to low frequency sounds which are produced by factory machinery and transport as well as household items such as fridges and boilers. The wind industry has been accused of ignoring the damaging impact of the intermittent noise from turbines for 25 years. A 1987 research paper for the US Department of Energy showed the ‘annoyance’ caused by them to nearby residents was ‘real not imaginary’. SOURCE EPA: Hurting poor families most News for low-income households facing another brutal winter in New England is again bleak. One of the largest energy providers in the region announced recently that energy costs for a typical household could top $150 a month this winter — a 37 percent increase over just last year. For many poorer families, that $40 per month increase will force a choice between purchasing enough food to feed a cold family or warming the bedrooms they return to — malnourished, or suffering otherwise from a lack of household resources to fund Obama’s jihad on affordable energy. Yet not a sentence of concern has been uttered from the environmental alarmists in the Obama administration and its radical EPA as the poor disproportionately carry the burden of “green energy.” “Green energy,” named for invoking images of green in nature, is defined by the EPA as energy “whose generation has zero/negligible environmental impacts.” But the human toll for the “zero/ negligible environmental impacts” of this energy is yet uncharacterized. Perhaps images of the inefficient energy options that force blue-lipped children to sleep in unheated bedrooms would be more aptly labeled “blue energy.” EPA head — and, ironically enough, Massachusetts native — Gina McCarthy has presided over the Obama administration’s assault on New England’s poor. Under McCarthy, regulations have killed the future of affordable coal-fired energy, inexpensive natural gas development is at risk, and once-alternative options are now more limited than ever before in recent memory — highlighted by the 80 percent of traditional wood stoves (as in, burning wood for heat … if it gets more “green” than that, let me know) now banned by the EPA from production and sale in the United States. I write this as a transplanted New England native, who grew up three miles down a dirt road in a log home with a wood stove (that’s now illegal to manufacture) to supplement home heating expenses. The neighbors who already struggle through the winter months to make ends meet now face the unnecessary, expensive consequences of Obama’s policies. It is on the backs of these New England families the EPA is pursuing its radical mission to kill efficient energy production, masked by the unproven, abstract goal of clean air and cool temperatures — both things New Englanders actually possesses in excess. But, realistically, who actually cares? New Englanders vote reliably with the party of environmental radicalism and the poor families suffering most couldn’t afford to scratch a check to a Super PAC or take a Saturday to campaign if they wanted to. If energy prices are ever to stop increasing year over year, the people of New England and the rest of the American people must decide if they’re willing to make abundantly clear to those holding elected office that the well-being of families comes before any political agenda — and that statement must start now. Martha Coakley and Mike Michaud, the Democrat candidates for Governor in Massachusetts and Maine respectively, each hold long, uncompromised records supporting Obama’s “blue energy” agenda, along with dozens of candidates from each state. If the people of New England and the United States want to send a message about the well-being of themselves and their neighbors to Washington and state capitols like Boston and Augusta, the loudest megaphone opens at 7:00 a.m. on November 4. SOURCE California drought and climate warming: Studies find no clear link Global warming contributed to extreme heat waves in many parts of the world last year, but cannot be definitively linked to the California drought, according to a report released Monday. The third annual analysis of extreme weather events underscored the continuing difficulty of teasing out the influence of human-caused climate change on precipitation patterns. One of three studies examining the California drought in 2013 found that the kind of high-pressure systems that blocked winter storms last year have increased with global warming. But another study concluded that a long-term rise in sea surface temperatures in the western Pacific did not contribute substantially to the drought. And researchers noted that California precipitation since 1895 has "exhibited no appreciable downward trend." Overall, the report editors concluded that the papers didn't demonstrate that global warming clearly influenced the drought, which is one of the worst in the state record. In the report, published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 20 research teams explored the causes of 16 extreme weather events recorded in 2013, including torrential downpours in Colorado, heat waves in Korea and Australia and a blizzard in South Dakota. The studies overwhelmingly showed that human-caused climate change played a role in the heat waves, in some cases making them 10 times more likely. But the report editors wrote that "natural variability likely played a much larger role in the extreme precipitation events," whether it was flooding in India, deep snow in the Spanish Pyrenees Mountains or the California drought. Last year's exceedingly dry winter in California was largely the result of a stubborn high pressure system parked over the northeastern Pacific Ocean. Nicknamed the Ridiculously Resilient Ridge, by Stanford University researcher Daniel Swain, the system shunted winter storms far to the north, off their normal path to California. Those sorts of high-pressure systems "are considerably more likely to occur” with global warming, said Swain, lead author of one of the three California papers. “It suggests an increased likelihood of the kinds of large-scale atmospheric conditions that are conducive to drought in California,” he added. But Marty Hoerling, co-editor of the climate report and a research meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, noted that high-pressure systems have increased everywhere. What drives storms is the difference in atmospheric pressure over the north and south Pacific, he said, and that was not examined in the Swain paper. Researchers concluded in a third paper that while long-term warming contributes to storm-diverting high-pressure systems over the northeast Pacific, that is countered by an increase in atmospheric humidity that can promote wetter weather in California. Comparing the periods of 1871-1970 with 1980-2013, the authors wrote that there was "no appreciable long-term change in the risk for dry climate extremes over California since the late 19th century." SOURCE For more postings from me, see DISSECTING LEFTISM, TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC and AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Home Pages are here or here or here. Email me (John Ray) here. Preserving the graphics: Most graphics on this site are hotlinked from elsewhere. But hotlinked graphics sometimes have only a short life -- as little as a week in some cases. After that they no longer come up. From January 2011 on, therefore, I have posted a monthly copy of everything on this blog to a separate site where I can host text and graphics together -- which should make the graphics available even if they are no longer coming up on this site. See here or here 2 October, 2014 The persistent perchlorate panic The Greenies have been struggling for some time to produce evidence of harm from the ingestion of small quantities of perchlorate. But various official enquiries have found nothing convincing. Below however we have a new study which does indeed show a strong effect. But it is not a study of normal people. It is a study of people who already have serious thyroid dysfunction. How that generalizes to normal people is therefore anyone's guess. As the authors of the original journal article themselves conclude: "These results require replication in additional studies, including in the euthyroid population". Where the "euthyroid population" is normal people A chemical used in rocket fuel that is found in some regions' drinking water has been linked to significantly lower IQ's in the children of mothers exposed while they were pregnant, a new study has found. Perchlorate, which is also found in fireworks, explosives and is a byproduct of using fertilizers, may cause this by disrupting the thyroid's normal hormone production. 'Our report highlights a pressing need for larger studies of perchlorate levels from the general pregnant population and those with undetected hypothyroidism,' the authors wrote. The study, which was published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, identified pregnant women in Cardiff, Wales and Turin, Italy who had iodine deficiency and thyroid dysfunction. Researches then tested their perchlorate levels. Three years later they tested their children's IQ. They found that women with the highest 10 percent of perchlorate levels were over three times more likely to have children with an IQ score in the lowest 10 percent. Perchlorate is found in around 4 percent of the U.S. public drinking water, according to Scientific American. That affects 5 to 17 million people. Perchlorate is most prevalent in the Western U.S., specifically near Las Vegas and Southern California. A Canadian survey released in May reported that all samples of fresh fruits and vegetables, dairy products and infant formulae analyzed for perchlorate were safe for consumption. The CFIA tested a total of 611 samples, including 433 fresh fruit and vegetable, 89 dairy product , and 89 infant formula samples, collected from Canadian retail stores. The 2010-2011 study found that 65 percent of fresh fruit and vegetable, 87 percent of dairy product, and 63 percent of infant formula samples analyzed were found to contain very low levels of perchlorate, in the range of 2 to 540 parts per billion. EPA officials have long gone back and forth as to whether to cap the amount of perchlorate allowable in drinking water. In 2002, an EPA draft risk assessment found that 1 part per billion should be considered safe. Six years later, the Bush administration decided not to regulate the chemical, instead recommending that concentrations not exceed 15 parts per billion. At the time, federal scientists estimated that 16.6 million Americans could be exposed to unsafe levels through their drinking water. California and Massachusetts in the meantime have set state-level drinking water standards. Currently, the EPA plans to unveil new standards for perchlorate in water in summer 2015. SOURCE Maternal perchlorate levels in women with borderline thyroid function during pregnancy and the cognitive development of their offspring; Data from the Controlled Antenatal Thyroid Study Is global warming weakening Earth’s gravity? Satellite finds variations where ice is melting fastest in Antarctica "Exact figures of the shift in gravity are miniscule". Typical of Warmist data. If the figures mean anything, they mean that an ice mass contributes to the gravity above it, which is not much of a surprise. And the correlation discovered is just a correlation. And correlation is not causation Peter N Taylor et al. Abstract Objective: Thyroid dysfunction is associated with impaired cognitive development. Perchlorate decreases thyroidal iodine uptake, potentially reducing thyroid hormone production. It is unclear whether perchlorate exposure in early life affects neurodevelopment. Design: Historical cohort analysis. Patients: During 2002–2006, 21,846 women at gestational age less than 16 weeks recruited from antenatal clinics in Cardiff, UK and Turin, Italy were enrolled in the Controlled Antenatal Thyroid Screening Study (CATS). We undertook a retrospective analysis of 487 mother-child pairs in mothers who were hypothyroid/hypothyroxinemic during pregnancy and analyzed whether first trimester maternal perchlorate levels in the highest 10% of the study population were associated with increased odds of offspring IQ being in the lowest 10% at age 3 years. Main Outcome Measures: Maternal urinary perchlorate, offspring IQ. Results: Urine perchlorate was detectable in all women (median 2.58?g/liter); iodine levels were low (median 72?g/liter). Maternal perchlorate levels in the highest 10% of the population increased the odds of offspring IQ being in the lowest 10% OR=3.14 (95%CI 1.38, 7.13) p=0.006 with a greater negative impact observed on verbal OR=3.14 (95%CI 1.42, 6.90) p=0.005 than performance IQ. Maternal levothyroxine therapy did not reduce the negative impact of perchlorate on offspring IQ. Conclusions: This is the first study using individual-level patient data to study maternal perchlorate exposure and offspring neurodevelopment and suggests that high-end maternal perchlorate levels in hypothyroid/hypothyroxinemic pregnant women have an adverse effect on offspring cognitive development, not affected by maternal levothyroxine therapy. These results require replication in additional studies, including in the euthyroid population. SOURCE An Esa satellite has found an unusual consequence of the melting of ice in Antarctica. While rising sea levels and changing global temperatures are already known to be a consequence of alleged manmade climate change, the GOCE satellite - which was not intended to study the effects of a warming climate - has found that gravity is weakening where ice is melting the fastest. The results show that the thinning ice sheet from November 2009 to June 2012 caused local variations in gravity, measured by the satellite. The GOCE satellite burned up in Earth’s atmosphere as planned in November 2013 after four years in orbit. During its mission it measured Earth’s gravity in unprecedented detail, detailing where it was weakest and strongest on the surface. But recently, the high-resolution measurements from GOCE over Antarctica between November 2009 and June 2012 were analysed by scientists from the German Geodetic Research Institute, Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Scientists found that the decrease in the mass of ice during this period was mirrored in GOCE’s measurements of gravity, even though the mission was not designed to detect changes over time. The findings were made by combining GOCE’s high-resolution measurements with information from the Nasa-German Grace satellite, designed to measure change in ice mass. The fluctuations observed are minute, however, and not enough for a living organism to sense. The measurements from GOCE correlate with the Grace satellite and show how much ice is being lost each year. While exact figures of the shift in gravity are miniscule, the results show how some parts of the West Antarctic ice sheet are losing up to 67 gigatones of ice per year. This is contributing to a 0.51 mm per year sea level rise in the Amundsen Sea Sector. And they found that that the loss of ice from West Antarctica between 2009 and 2012 caused the dip in the gravity field over the region. In addition, GOCE data could be used to help validate satellite altimetry measurements for an even clearer understanding of ice-sheet and sea-level change in the future. The high-resolution measurements from the satellite are further evidence of how manmade climate change will affect the planet in unknown ways. SOURCE California Becomes First State to Ban Plastic Bags Thus igniting a war on trees, as paper bags replace plastic ones. Greenies are no tree-huggers California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Tuesday that makes the state the first in the country to ban single-use plastic bags. The ban will go into effect in July 2015, prohibiting large grocery stores from using the material that often ends up as litter in the state’s waterways. Smaller businesses, like liquor and convenience stores, will need to follow suit in 2016. More than 100 municipalities in the state already have similar laws, including Los Angeles and San Francisco. The new law will allow the stores nixing plastic bags to charge 10 cents for a paper or reusable bag instead. The law also provides funds to plastic-bag manufacturers, an attempt to soften the blow as lawmakers push the shift toward producing reusable bags. San Francisco became the first major American city to ban plastic bags in 2007, but the statewide ban may be a more powerful precedent as advocates in other states look to follow suit. The law’s enactment Tuesday marked an end to a long battle between lobbyists for the plastic bag industry and those worried about the bags’ effect on the environment. California State Senator Kevin de Le?n, a co-author of the bill, called the new law “a win-win for the environment and for California workers.” “We are doing away with the scourge of single-use plastic bags and closing the loop on the plastic waste stream, all while maintaining—and growing—California jobs,” he said. SOURCE Hershey Bars, Global Warming and Deforestation: a Sweet New Policy Below is a sermon by a Warmist in praise of the Hershey company. And if the Hershey company are indeed going to reduce the clearing of tropical forest, I will praise them too. Greenies, with their love of paper bags etc., are the big motivators behind trees being cut down. And that is true in this case too. Palm oil is widely used in food products now because Greenies and their ilk demonized saturated fat -- which is now known to be harmless. It is the demand for palm oil created by Greenie and food-freak pressure that led to the removal of native forest and its replacement by palm oil plantations. And the claim that palm oil plantations increase global warming is amusing. If that is so, how come that there has in fact been no global warming for 17 years? As I rode on the train back to Washington today, The Hershey Company announced its strengthened commitment to zero deforestation for all the palm oil it uses. This is another of the welcome corporate statements, over the last several months and indeed the last few days, that have recognized business’ responsibilities to reduce the damage that they cause to the climate. I’m particularly glad to see this one, for several reasons: because it’s a strong policy by almost every criterion; because UCS has been working with The Hershey Company for nearly a year, urging energetic and scientifically rigorous action; and because I’ve liked their chocolate bars for an awfully long time. The policy that The Hershey Company announced puts it among the leaders in the industry in terms of eliminating deforestation, peat clearing and other kinds of climate damage from its supply chain. It applies to all its products in all its markets worldwide. It includes a commitment to tracing its raw materials back to their sources. It uses the High Carbon Stock (HCS) terminology, which clearly differentiates degraded land from forests that need to be preserved. It provides for monitoring of its progress by TFT, an independent third-party verifier. And it has specific target dates, in the relatively short term, for achieving these goals. UCS—particular our Palm Oil Outreach Coordinator, Miriam Swaffer—has been talking with The Hershey Company for nearly a full year about this policy. We urged them to follow the science and the lead of the most advanced consumer goods companies, including competitors of theirs like Nestle and Unilever. And they have. This has been another exciting week of important commitments by companies to end deforestation and protect the climate, including zero deforestation commitments from two major fast food brands, Dunkin and Krispy Kreme. Forty corporations (as well as UCS) are among the 150 signatories of yesterday’s New York Declaration on Forests, committing to cutting deforestation in half by 2020 and ending it by 2030. With 10% of global warming pollution coming from tropical deforestation, decoupling the production of commodities like palm oil from tropical forest destruction is one of the most efficient ways to address climate change. We’ve said before that the tide is turning against deforestation in corporate supply chains, and today that’s even more evident. The Hershey Company can still improve its policy by committing to tracing all its palm oil, from all its suppliers, to the plantation where it was grown (the current statement goes most of the way there, tracing palm oil considered most at risk to this level). But it has taken an important step forward, leading consumer goods companies toward a new relationship with our climate. Now it’s time for companies that are still lagging—for example, McDonald’s, Burger King and Yum! Brands—to move quickly to catch up. Tell McDonald’s, that for the sake of our atmosphere, tropical forests and endangered species – the time to act is now. SOURCE Latest Climate Idiocy: Global Warming Created ISIS In recent weeks the Obama administration has blamed President Bush and/or the intelligence community for the creation of ISIS, others have blamed President Obama and his reluctance to get involved in another Middle East conflict, but apparently both positions are wrong. According to a recent article in the Huffington Post, the reason why ISIS was able to form and grow so fast was global warming (note: do not check your calendar it's September not April fools day. They really believe this). The authors of the piece; Charles B. Strozier Professor of History, The City University of New York; and Kelly A. Berkell Attorney and research associate, Center on Terrorism at John Jay College of Criminal Justice believe that ISIS formed because of a severe drought in Syria from 2006-2010 and that drought happened because of---you guessed it---Climate Change. "As the Obama administration undertakes a highly public, multilateral campaign to degrade and destroy the militant jihadists known as ISIS, ISIL and the Islamic State, many in the West remain unaware that climate played a significant role in the rise of Syria's extremists. A historic drought afflicted the country from 2006 through 2010, setting off a dire humanitarian crisis for millions of Syrians. Yet the four-year drought evoked little response from Bashar al-Assad's government. Rage at the regime's callousness boiled over in 2011, helping to fuel the popular uprising. In the ensuing chaos, ISIS stole onto the scene, proclaimed a caliphate in late June and accelerated its rampage of atrocities including the recent beheadings of three Western civilians. While ISIS threatens brutal violence against all who dissent from its harsh ideology, climate change menaces communities (less maliciously) with increasingly extreme weather. The drought that preceded the current conflict in Syria fits into a pattern of increased dryness in the Mediterranean and Middle East, for which scientists hold climate change partly responsible. Affecting 60 percent of Syria's land, drought ravaged the country's northeastern breadbasket region; devastated the livelihoods of 800,000 farmers and herders; and knocked two to three million people into extreme poverty. Many became climate refugees, abandoning their homes and migrating to already overcrowded cities. They forged temporary settlements on the outskirts of areas like Aleppo, Damascus, Hama and Homs. Some of the displaced settled in Daraa, where protests in early 2011 fanned out and eventually ignited a full-fledged war." Although I am not a climate scientist (actually neither are the authors) it is easy to strike down their theory, both from a political and a scientific point of view: ISIS did not form in Syria it formed in Iraq. In fact one of the reasons each party has been able to blame the other for the rise of the terrorist group is that ISIS used to be al Qaeda in Iraq. They were thrown out of the Bin Laden group because the ISIS leaders did not play nice with the al Qaeda leaders. Perhaps the single most important factor in ISIS' recent resurgence is the conflict between Iraqi Shias and Iraqi Sunnis. ISIS fighters themselves are Sunnis, and the tension between the two groups is a powerful recruiting tool for ISIS. The Shia government of Iraq refused to share power with the Sunnis (who held power under Saddam Hussein). The Shia/Sunni fight began as a fight over who got to take power after the Prophet Muhammad's death and has been going on for almost 1400 years--way before ISIS. Most observers believe ISIS was able to grow because American troops pulled out of Iraq too early and didn't help out in Syria until it was too late. Unless the drought happened in Washington DC, it couldn't have had any influence on the President's decision. Droughts? science states there has been no increase in droughts world-wide. In other words if you believe the world is going to hell in a hand basket due to global warming, that climate change is not increasing the number of droughts in in the world. "It is misleading and just plain incorrect to claim that disasters associated with hurricanes, tornadoes, floods or droughts have increased on climate timescales either in the United States or globally,” Professor Roger Pielke Jr. said in his testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. In May of 2014 Professor Pielke published a graph that shows the intensity of the planet's droughts from 1982 to 2012. The graph shows that neither droughts nor their intensity have seen a growth trend during that 30-year period. It's not getting warmer. Its incredible that almost every day the global warming hoaxers come up with another example of how the earth is being destroyed due to their hypothesis like the one being explored here. The truth is as of Sept. 1 the Earth hasn't warmed in the last 17 years and 11 months (new numbers, through October 1 will be out in a few days). Another way to look at it is the warming stopped approximately ten years before the drought in Syria...making it difficult for there to be a connection. It is interesting that the authors contend "ISIS threatens brutal violence against all who dissent from its harsh ideology" which is true, ISIS not only threaten violence but they follow through with their threats. Also true is that the climate change proponents threaten violence. Thankfully they do not follow through with it, but they do attack people who question their unproven hypothesis as science haters and deniers of truth. Perhaps if they examined the facts instead of desperately trying to prove their hypothesis true climate change enthusiasts would realize the holes in their arguments. Climate change helping to create ISIS is now #49 on the "official list," of stupid things global warming enthusiasts have blamed on their failed theory SOURCE Wind farms 'kill confused bats': New study Endangered bats are being killed by wind turbine blades because the air currents are similar to those near tall trees, a study shows. It’s feared the legally protected mammals are dying while hunting insects that are attracted by the heat generated by the spinning blades. Thousands of bats have been killed by wind turbines causing a population decline that could cost the farming industry billions each year. The nocturnal creatures are welcomed by farmers across the world as they eat large numbers of insects that usually damage crops. This reduces the amount that farmers have to spend on pesticides and saves millions of new plants that could be obliterated by the creepy crawlies. Over 600,000 bats were killed by wind turbines across the U.S. in 2O12 alone and in the UK the number of bats in areas where they are put up have fallen by 54 per cent. The researchers say tree-roosting bats suffer higher fatality rates at the sites than other species and peak during low wind conditions. They used thermal surveillance cameras situated on the ground, near-infrared video, acoustic detectors and radar to monitor bat behaviour at a wind farm in Indiana over several months. During periods of low wind more bats were sighted near turbines than during gales. The frequency with which they approached from a downwind direction increased with increasing wind speeds - but only when the blades turned slower than normal. When the blades moved freely the bats approached less frequently from a downwind direction as wind speeds increased. The results published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggest bats orient toward turbines by sensing air currents. Around three quarters of British bat species are known to roost in trees. The remaining species tend to favour human-made structures because of a lack of suitable and available tree habitat. Trees provide shelter and attract a diverse range of insect species for bats to feed on. Since bats are not able to bore holes or make nests they use whatever gaps are available. The researchers believe tree-roosting bats are attracted to turbines because air currents are similar to those around tall trees that harbour insects on their downwind sides or provide sheltered roosting sites. The findings could explain why they are more vulnerable to wind farms than non-tree-roosting species. Dr Paul Cryan, of Fort Collins Science Centre in Colorado, and colleagies said: 'Bats are dying in unprecedented numbers at wind turbines but causes of their susceptibility are unknown. 'Fatalities peak during low-wind conditions in late summer and autumn and primarily involve species that evolved to roost in trees.' He added: 'We discovered previously undescribed patterns in the ways bats approach and interact with turbines suggesting behaviours that evolved at tall trees might be the reason why many bats die at wind turbines.' SOURCE For more postings from me, see DISSECTING LEFTISM, TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC and AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Home Pages are here or here or here. Email me (John Ray) here. Preserving the graphics: Most graphics on this site are hotlinked from elsewhere. But hotlinked graphics sometimes have only a short life -- as little as a week in some cases. After that they no longer come up. From January 2011 on, therefore, I have posted a monthly copy of everything on this blog to a separate site where I can host text and graphics together -- which should make the graphics available even if they are no longer coming up on this site. See here or here 1 October, 2014 Fascism Is Efficient, Says Andres Duany, Leading Proponent of “Sustainable Development” At last a Greenie admits where he is coming from. Fascism is of course NOT efficient, but it does suit those who want to control others It goes by many names: “sustainable development,” “smart growth,” “transit-oriented development,” to name a few. But development projects built under the banner of “sustainability” share the same elements: high-density residential housing and high-intensity commercial space (so-called mixed use) clustered near capital-intensive mass transit lines surrounded by government-owned “open space” and, increasingly, government-imposed “urban growth boundaries.” Regardless of where a sustainable-development project is located in the world, each tends to apply these elements. There is nothing wrong with high-density housing or non-automobile mobility per se. The problem is that sustainability advocates use government to force their vision of tomorrow on others and, equally important, use government to restrict or eliminate alternative visions from being adopted. Individual private-property rights and local decision making give way to the priorities of international, national, state, and regional governmental bodies influenced by urban planners who believe their vision of the next 50 to 100 years is the correct vision and the only vision worth pursuing. Anyone who thinks differently, according to the planners, is wrong, selfish, wasteful, or all three, and must be silenced. If you think this description is exaggerated, watch this chilling video of Andres Duany speaking to the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council on why it should support his Seven50 plan. Mr. Duany is the chief architect of Seven50, the proposed 50-year regional development plan for seven counties in Southeast Florida, including Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties. Mr. Duany is a leading urban planner, author of The Smart Growth Manual, and a founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism, which seeks to end suburban sprawl. After watching this video ask yourself: Do I want to support the so-called “smart-growth” approach and empower Andres Duany and people like him to rule over me and my community using government force? Or do I want to strengthen my private property rights and ensure local control over housing, land use, and transportation issues? (www.youtube.com/embed/O3rGwpyNwnY) SOURCE Global Warming Zealot McCarthy Of EPA Plays Race Card You can't argue with global warming zealots: Whatever the thermometer reads, they're right and you're wrong. Whatever the short-term, intermediate or long-term data suggest, all these eco-radicals see is additional proof of their distorted worldview. Hot summers? Mild winters? That's global warming. Mild summers? Frigid winters? That's global warming, too. You see, if you're a disciple of climate change, it all makes perfect sense — every measurement is further validation, and every validation is an excuse to impose costlier obligations on taxpayers (and more onerous restrictions on what's left of our free market). Responding to an unseasonably cool summer in New England (and predictions of a colder-than-usual winter), columnist Tom Keane of the Boston Globe assured his liberal readers that "climate change proceeds apace." "We're like a guy with his head in the refrigerator while his house is burning down, thinking nothing's wrong," Keane wrote. Never mind that satellite data released this spring by NASA showed no statistical change in the Earth's temperature over the past 17-1/2 years. Trapped In Ice Or that a leaked report to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last year revealed that Earth was headed for a period of sustained cooling over the next few decades. Or that as of last fall, the Antarctic sea ice extent was at record-high levels. In fact, the research vessel Akademik Shokalskiy — which was dispatched to the South Pole last December ostensibly to document melting polar ice caps — instead found itself trapped in frozen seas. And yes, the boat's top researcher blamed his crew's ironic predicament on "global warming." "We were just in the wrong place at the wrong time," he said, insisting climate change caused ice up to 10 feet thick to envelop his fossil fuel-powered boat, making it impossible for fossil fuel-powered ice breakers to get within 10 miles of the ship (forcing the crew to be rescued by a fossil fuel-powered Chinese helicopter). If you missed that story, you're not alone: Most mainstream media outlets refused to cover it. Of course, when the head of Barack Obama's Environmental Protection Agency — avowed eco-radical Gina McCarthy — played the race card in an effort to pressure lawmakers into adopting harsher anti-free market regulations, her pronouncements were broadly disseminated and treated as gospel. "Carbon pollution standards are an issue of justice," McCarthy said recently. "If we want to protect communities of color, we need to protect them from climate change." SOURCE It’s Time to Stop the Climate Scare Stories India Prime Minister Narendra Modi sensibly refuses to attend yet another climate summit – this one called by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in New York for September 23, under the auspices of the United Nations, which profits handsomely from the much-exaggerated climate scare. Environmentalists have complained at Mr. Modi’s decision not to attend. They say rising atmospheric CO2 will cause droughts, melt Himalayan ice and poison lakes and waterways in the Indian subcontinent. However, the UN’s climate panel, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has already had to backtrack on an earlier assertion that all the ice in the Himalayas would be gone within 25 years, and the most comprehensive review of drought trends worldwide shows the global land area under drought has fallen throughout the past 30 years. Mr. Modi, a spiritual man and thus down-to-earth, knows that a quarter of India’s people still have no electricity. His priority is to turn on the lights all over India. In Bihar, four homes in five are lit by kerosene. Electric power is the quickest, surest, cheapest way to lift people out of poverty and so to stabilize India’s population, which may soon overtake China’s. The Indian-born Nobel laureate in economics, Professor Amartya Sen, recently lamented: “There would appear to be an insufficient recognition in global discussion of the need for increased power in the poorer countries. In India, for example, about a third of the people do not have any power connection at all. Making it easier to produce energy with better environmental correlates (and greater efficiency of energy use) may be a contribution not just to environmental planning, but also to making it possible for a great many people to lead a fuller and free life.” The world’s governing elite, however, no longer cares about poverty. Climate change is its new and questionable focus. In late August the Asian Development Bank, for instance, based on UN IPCC rising carbon dioxide (CO2) scenarios, predicted that warmer weather would cut rice production, rising seas would engulf Mumbai and other coastal megacities, and rainfall would decline by 10-40% in many Indian provinces. Droughts and floods have occurred throughout India’s history. In the widespread famine caused by the drought of 1595-1598, “Men ate their own kind. The streets and roads were blocked with corpses, but no assistance can be given for their removal,” a chronicler in Akbar’s court reported. Every Indian knows that too much (or too little) monsoon rainfall can bring death. That is why the latest computer-generated doom-and-gloom scenario by the Asian Development Bank is not merely unwelcome – it is repugnant. Garbage in, gospel out. In truth, rice production has risen steadily, sea level is barely rising and even the UN’s climate panel has twice been compelled to admit that there is no evidence of a worldwide change in rainfall. Subtropical India will not warm by much: advection would take most additional heat poleward. Besides, globally there has been little or no warming for almost two decades. The models did not predict that. The UN’s climate panel, on our advice, has recently all but halved its central estimate of near-term warming. Sea level is rising no faster than for 150 years. From 2004-2012 the Envisat satellite reported a rise of a tenth of an inch. From 2003-2009 gravity satellites actually showed sea level falling. Results like these have not hitherto been reported in the mainstream news media. More than 2 centuries of scientific research have failed to make the duration or magnitude of monsoons predictable. Monsoons depend on sea and surface temperature and wind conditions in the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans, timing of El Niños in the equatorial Pacific, variations in Eurasian and Himalayan winter snow cover, even wind direction in the equatorial stratosphere. Earlier this year, the Indian Meteorological Department predicted a 1 in 4 chance that the 2014 monsoon rainfall would be below the long-term average, leading to a year of drought The prediction was wrong. Widespread floods in northwestern India and Pakistan have killed several hundred people. Many environmentalists and governmental officials are now insisting that rising atmospheric CO2 is the culprit. Yet the one cause of the recent floods that can be altogether ruled out is global warming, for the good and sufficient reason that for 18 years there has not been any warming. Worse still for CO2 alarmists: 20th and 21st century warming did not occur in the western Himalayas, and paleo-temperature records from for the last millennium confirm no exceptional recent warming in this region, although the Medieval Warm Period was warmer than today almost everywhere else. Regardless of the numerous political manipulations of fact and reality, the scientific problems of forecasting monsoon self-evidently remain unsolved. In 1906 the forecasts depended on 28 unknowns. By 2007 scientists from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology were using 73. So insisting that just one variable – CO2 concentration – will drive future monsoons is unscientific. Professor Nandakumar Sarma, vice-chancellor of Manipur University, recently confirmed that “even supercomputers cannot predict what will happen due to climate change within 10-20 years, since there are millions of variable parameters.” Models said monsoons would become more intense. Instead, they have weakened for 50 years. As for the floods in the north-west, a study of three major rivers floods in Gujarat by Dr. Alpa Sridhar confirmed that past floods were at least 8 to 10 times worse than recent floods such as that of 1973. CO2-based climate models have been unable to “hindcast” or recreate those floods. Models also fail to replicate the 60-yr and 200-yr cycles in monsoon rainfall linked to solar cycles detected by studies of ocean sediments from the Arabian Sea. A new study led by Professor K.M. Hiremath of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics shows the strong, possibly causative correlation between variations in solar activity (red curve) and in monsoon rainfall (blue curve) in Figure 1. The red curve is actually the result of a simulation of the Indian monsoon rainfall for the past 120 years using solar activity as a forcing variable. The sun is visibly a far more likely influence on monsoon patterns than changes in CO2 concentration. Governments also overlook a key conclusion from the world’s modelers, led by Dr. Fred Kucharski of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics: “The increase of greenhouse gases in the twentieth century has not significantly contributed to the observed decadal Indian monsoonal rainfall variability.” Not one climate model predicted the severe Indian drought of 2009, followed by the prolonged rains the next year – up by 40% in most regions. These natural variations are not new. They have happened for tens of thousands of years. A paper for Climate Dynamics co-authored by Professor Goswami, recently-retired director of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, shows why the models relied upon by the UN’s climate panel’s recent assessments predict monsoons inaccurately. All 16 models examined had the same fatal flaw: they made rain too easily by artificially elevating air and water masses in the atmosphere. Models are not ready to predict the climate. Misusing computers to spew out multiple “what-if” scenarios is unscientific. Most fundamental problems in our immature understanding of climate have remained unresolved for decades. Some cannot be resolved at all. The UN’s climate panel admitted in 2001 what has been known for 50 years: because the climate is a “coupled, non-linear, chaotic object,” reliable long-term climate prediction is impossible. Misuse of climate models as false prophets is costly in lives as well as treasure. To condemn the poorest of India’s poor to continuing poverty is to condemn many to an untimely death. Mr. Modi is right to have no more to do with such murderous nonsense. It is time to put an end to climate summits. On the evidence, they are not needed. SOURCE Earth-Friendly Energy Is Anything But Environmentalists worship solar energy and wind power as Earth-friendly answers to their ecological prayers. Tortoises, bats, butterflies, and bald eagles beg to differ. Perhaps because solar panels and industrial wind farms lack emissions, they seem "clean." Despite their pristine appearance, however, these "green" electricity sources hammer Mother Nature - often fatally. Consider the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in southern California's Mojave Desert. As Carolyn Lochhead wrote on September 7 in the San Francisco Chronicle, Ivanpah occupies 3,500 previously untouched federal acres. It features 300,000 mirrors that focus sunlight on three 40-story towers of power. Inside, 900-degree temperatures yield steam, propel turbines, and generate electricity for140,000 homes. Ivanpah's environmental toll is stunning: BrightSource Energy, the project's owner, could have rehabilitated a brownfield, an abandoned commercial site, or a decommissioned military base. Instead, BrightSource developed 5.5 square miles of virgin desert. Lochhead reports that "scientists now say desert soils contain vast stores of carbon that are unleashed by construction of solar facilities." Tortoises native to that area became refugees once BrightSource relocated them en masse. Kit-fox dens were flattened during construction. Monarch butterflies and birds should avoid Ivanpah at all costs. Those who traverse its highly concentrated sunbeams oftenignite. Center for Biological Diversity ecologist K. Shawn Smallwoodtoldthe California Energy Commission last July that Ivanpah will roast an estimated 28,380 birds annually. Ivanpah cost $2.2 billion, including a $1.6 billion federal loan. For its next trick, BrightSource envisions a bigger installation near Joshua Tree National Park - within a migratory path for protected peregrine falcons, golden eagles, and some 100 other bird species. Meanwhile, environmentalists call wind power as benign as a summer breeze. In fact, wind farms have become avian killing fields. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service reports that "wind turbines may kill a half a million birds a year." Wind blows away another 600,000 bats annually, primarily through lung hemorrhaging. While these "flying vampires" look scary, most are insectivores and vegetarians. Bats actually serve mankind by pollinating crops and devouring mosquitoes. Fewer bats mean more mosquitoes. Swell. USF&WS explains also that "eagles appear to be particularly susceptible. Large numbers of golden eagles have been killed by wind turbines in the western states," as have smaller numbers of bald eagles. Team Obama - which could not care less about America's beautiful, majestic national symbol - almost never prosecuteswind companies for violating the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. Even worse, Obama is granting wind-farm operators 30-year federal eagle-killing permits, to continue their mayhem - all in the name of "clean" energy. On this matter, Obama's unvarnished callousness is staggering. Long before windmills are installed - which itself consumes open fields - they abuse the Earth. To evaluate any energy technology, "we must remember that it's a process, starting with mining the materials necessary for the machines," Alex Epstein notes in his forthcoming Penguin book, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels. Epstein observes that manufacturing wind turbines requires "hazardous substances like hydrofluoric acid in order to get usable rare earth elements." The Daily Mail's Simon Parry toured Baotou, China, a source of neodymium, the main ingredient in wind turbines' electromagnets. He discovered "a five-mile wide ‘tailing' lake. It has killed farmland for miles around, made thousands of people ill, and put one of China's key waterways in jeopardy." Parry added: "This vast, hissing cauldron of chemicals is the dumping ground for seven million tons a year of mined rare earth after it has been doused in acid and chemicals and processed through red-hot furnaces to extract its components. The lake instantly assaults your senses. Stand on the black crust for just seconds and your eyes water and a powerful, acrid stench fills your lungs. For hours after our visit, my stomach lurched and my head throbbed. We were there for only one hour, but those who live in Mr. Yan's village of Dalahai, and other villages around, breathe in the same poison every day." Environmentalists should stop hallucinating about "sustainable" power sources that unleash puppies and rainbows at no cost to air, water, habitat, and wildlife. "Clean energy" hurts nature. Those who believe otherwise live in Fantasyland. SOURCE Why the Buzz About a Bee-pocalypse Is a Honey Trap Populations of the pollinators are not declining and a ban on neonic pesticides would devastate U.S. agriculture On June 20 the White House issued a presidential memorandum creating a Pollinator Health Task Force and ordering the Environmental Protection Agency to "assess the effect of pesticides, including neonicotinoids, on bee and other pollinator health and take action, as appropriate." Why the fuss over bees? Is the U.S. in the midst of a bee-pocalypse? The science says no. Bee populations in the U.S. and Europe remain at healthy levels for reproduction and the critical pollination of food crops and trees. But during much of the past decade we have seen higher-than-average overwinter bee-colony losses in the Northern Hemisphere, as well as cases of bees abruptly abandoning their hives, a phenomenon known as "colony collapse disorder." Citing this disorder, antipesticide activists and some voluble beekeepers want to ban the most widely used pesticides in modern agriculture—neonicotinoids ("neonics" for short)—that account for 20% of pesticide sales world-wide. This would have disastrous effects on modern farming and food prices. What are neonics? Crafted to target pests that destroy crops, while minimizing toxicity to other species, neonics are much safer for humans and other vertebrates than previous pesticides. But citing supposed threats to honeybee populations, the European Union imposed a two-year ban in December 2013, and activists are trying to convince regulators in Canada and the U.S. to follow suit. Yet there is only circumstantial or flawed experimental evidence of harm to bees by neonics. Often-cited experiments include one conducted by Chensheng Lu of the Harvard School of Public Health that exposed the insects to 30-100 times their usual exposure in the field. That does poison bees, but it doesn't replicate real-world colony collapse disorder, which in any case seems now to be declining. According to University of Maryland entomologist Dennis vanEngelsdorp, no cases have been reported from the field in three years. The reality is that honeybee populations are not declining. According to U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization statistics, the world's honeybee population rose to 80 million colonies in 2011 from 50 million in 1960. In the U.S. and Europe, honeybee populations have been stable—or slightly rising in the last couple of years—during the two decades since neonics were introduced, U.N. and USDA data show. Statistics Canada reports an increase to 672,000 honeybee colonies in Canada, up from 501,000, over the same two decades. In February, the Australian government issued a report on bee health from the only continent unaffected by the Varroa destructor mite, a pathogen of bees. It found that, "Australian honeybee populations are not in decline, despite the increased use of [neonicotinoids] in agriculture and horticulture since the mid-1990s." In April the EU released the first Continent-wide epidemiological study of bee health in Europe, covering 2012-13 (before the EU's neonic ban went into effect). Seventy-five percent of the EU's bee population (located in 11 of the countries surveyed) experienced overwinter losses of 15% a year or less—levels considered normal in the U.S. Only 5% of the EU's bee population (located in six northern countries) experienced losses over 20%, after a long, severe winter. A ban on neonics would not benefit bees, because they are not the chief source of bee health problems today. Varroa mites are, along with the lethal viruses they vector into bee colonies. If neonics were dangerous, how to explain that in Canada, Saskatchewan's $19 billion canola industry depends on neonics to prevent predation by the ravenous flea beetle—and those neonic-treated canola fields support such thriving honeybee populations that they've been dubbed the "pastures for pollinators." A neonic ban would, however, devastate North American agriculture and the communities that depend on it. Neonics are the last line of defense for Florida's citrus industry against the Asian citrus psyllid, an insect that spreads a devastating disease of citrus trees called huanglongbing, or HLB. They're also the first line of defense in Texas and California, where HLB is beginning. Without neonic protection, tomatoes in Florida and vegetable crops in Arizona, California and the Pacific Northwest would be imperiled. If whitefly infestations weren't kept in check with neonics, much of the U.S. winter vegetable production would be lost. Grape-growing in California and the Pacific Northwest could be devastated by the viral scourges of leaf-roll and red blotch without neonic pesticides to control the leafhoppers that spread them. Without neonic protection against thrips in cotton, water weevil in rice and grape colaspis in soybeans, yields in the mid-South could be so damaged that farmers would either go out of business or turn to already abundant crops like corn. The knock-on effect wouldn't stop there. The production of citrus and tomatoes in Florida and rice and cotton in the mid-South and elsewhere is tied to processing plants, refrigerated warehouses, packing houses, cotton gins, rice mills, and a transportation and shipping infrastructure that supports agriculture. If the crops processed by these support industries were to become economically nonviable without crop protection, rural counties across the southeastern U.S. would be decimated. All this would be painful for consumers, who would see their food costs rise significantly. And by making farm exports more expensive and less competitive, it would damage the U.S. economy. All reasons to worry about unleashing the EPA in a fight in which activists who have the ear of regulators constantly misrepresent the science. SOURCE The elusive Michael Mann More than six months have elapsed since climate science data-fraudster Michael Mann’s multi-million dollar legal team bullishly announced the climate science trial of the century would be underway “shortly.” Oh, how the internet makes liars of them. What has transpired since? Answer: Nothing. In February the world’s only truly independent science association dedicated to exposing government-funded junk research (Principia Scientific International) broke the news that the former golden boy of global warming “science” is down and out in a courtroom battle not seen since the famous Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925. As our story went viral Mann’s legal team, led by top Canadian libel expert, Roger McConchie, swiftly counter-punched issuing their own press release retorting: “The Mann lawsuit is currently in the discovery phase, with further examinations for discovery (depositions) of the defendants to be scheduled shortly, following which I will either set the action for trial by jury in the usual manner, or bring a summary trial application.” We foretold Mann would either face bankruptcy upon Dr. Ball’s stunning victory, or his deep-pocketed backers (including David Suzuki) would be liable for costs in the millions. But weasel words from McConchie proclaimed: "The review of Tim Ball’s new book by Hans Schreuder and John O’Sullivan makes preposterous statements..." Our "preposterous statements" are backed by the shocking revelations in Dr. Ball's astonishing publication, ‘The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science’ exposing the science fraud of the century. Literally hundreds of climate science papers are based on Mann's fraudulent work. When Ball wins, all alarmist climate science loses. Game over. But as we move deeper into the fourth year of this shameful attempt to misuse the courts to stifle public debate - while there has been no further global warming for 17 years despite relentless rises in atmospheric CO2 - the public sees clearly what “climate science” is really all about. These are tough times for the beleagured climate alarmists in the United Nations, self-serving governments and their "scientists." All have failed in their bid to dupe the world's citizenry that man-made global warming poses a real threat to life on Earth. It hurt them badly that our report that Mann’s once trumpeted libel suit against popular skeptic climatologist, Dr Tim Ball, had withered and Mann had lost his mojo. It all really began to unravel badly for Mann in 2009 when those leaked 'Climategate' emails first exposed him as an egotistical bully boy trashing any scientists who disagreed with him. For example, upset that Harvard University researchers were successfully arguing that solar variance rather than carbon dioxide emissions are the most likely primary cause of recent global temperature fluctuations, Mann sent out an email seeking to coordinate action to pressure Harvard to rebuke or discipline the researchers. “If someone has close ties w/ any individuals there [at Harvard] who might be in a position to actually get some action taken on this, I’d highly encourage pursuing this,” writes Mann to fellow scientist-activists. Now Mann is further shamed as the bully/coward shying away from the Vancouver courtroom he once brazenly chose as his battleground. You see, Mann simply won’t permit courtroom examination of his withheld calculations (those damning r2 regression numbers) of his infamous ‘hockey stick’ graph made an iconic image of the UN and climate alarmists worldwide since 1999. And secret science is not science you or I can trust. So with the last vestige of Mann’s credibility (and his lawyer's) in the toilet we thought it apposite to now publicly prod them once more over their shameless abuse of the court system. As we all know, last week the world’s media was busy hyping the latest climate protests hullaballoo in New York and London. We had the obligatory wealthy Hollywood stars, Leonardo DiCaprio (the new "UN Climate Change Envoy") and Emma Thompson (‘Nanny McFee’) out and about shilling for the cause. Thompson told the London rally that climate change is the human rights issue of our time and that: "No more are we the grungy hippies sitting in trees. We are the voice of the future - if there is to be a future." And revelations suggested that "grungy hippies" at the New York event were being paid $50 a head. But science isn’t showbiz and theatrics. It is about empirical evidence – proving your case openly to the public and the wider scientific community. And that is something Michael Mann cannot do without exposing the extraordinarily corrupt basis of the widest and most coordinated scientific fraud known. Again, if it still needs repeating – Michael Mann is a crook, his "science" is fraudulent and the cause promoted by DiCaprio and Thompson and other useful idiots is anti-science and anti-truth and the sooner Mann and other climate cronies face criminal prosecutions the better! SOURCE For more postings from me, see DISSECTING LEFTISM, TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC and AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Home Pages are here or here or here. Email me (John Ray) here. Preserving the graphics: Most graphics on this site are hotlinked from elsewhere. But hotlinked graphics sometimes have only a short life -- as little as a week in some cases. After that they no longer come up. From January 2011 on, therefore, I have posted a monthly copy of everything on this blog to a separate site where I can host text and graphics together -- which should make the graphics available even if they are no longer coming up on this site. See here or here This site is in favour of things that ARE good for the environment. That the usual Greenie causes are good for the environment is however disputed. Context for the minute average temperature change recorded: At any given time surface air temperatures around the world range over about 100°C. Even in the same place they can vary by nearly that much seasonally and as much as 30°C or more in a day. A minute rise in average temperature in that context is trivial if it is not meaningless altogether. Warmism is a money-grubbing racket, not science. By John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.), writing from Brisbane, Australia. WISDOM: "The growth of knowledge depends entirely on disagreement" -- Karl Popper "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman "The desire to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it" -- H L Mencken 'Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action' -- Goethe “Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” -- Voltaire Lord Salisbury: "No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe soldiers, nothing is safe." Calvin Coolidge said, "If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you." He could have been talking about Warmists. Some advice from long ago for Warmists: "If ifs and ans were pots and pans,there'd be no room for tinkers". It's a nursery rhyme harking back to Middle English times when "an" could mean "if". Tinkers were semi-skilled itinerant workers who fixed holes and handles in pots and pans -- which were valuable household items for most of our history. Warmists are very big on "ifs", mays", "might" etc. But all sorts of things "may" happen, including global cooling Bertrand Russell knew about consensus: "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.” There goes another beautiful theory about to be murdered by a brutal gang of facts. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld, French writer and moralist (1613-1680) "Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate" -- William of Occam "In science, refuting an accepted belief is celebrated as an advance in knowledge; in religion it is condemned as heresy". (Bob Parks, Physics, U of Maryland). No prizes for guessing how global warming skepticism is normally responded to. "Almost all professors of the arts and sciences are egregiously conceited, and derive their happiness from their conceit" -- Erasmus "The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin." -- Thomas H. Huxley Time was, people warning the world "Repent - the end is nigh!" were snickered at as fruitcakes. Now they own the media and run the schools. "One of the sources of the Fascist movement is the desire to avoid a too-rational and too-comfortable world" -- George Orwell, 1943 in Can Socialists Be Happy? The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts -- Bertrand Russell “Affordable energy in ample quantities is the lifeblood of the industrial societies and a prerequisite for the economic development of the others.” -- John P. Holdren, Science Adviser to President Obama. Published in Science 9 February 2001 The closer science looks at the real world processes involved in climate regulation the more absurd the IPCC's computer driven fairy tale appears. Instead of blithely modeling climate based on hunches and suppositions, climate scientists would be better off abandoning their ivory towers and actually measuring what happens in the real world.' -- Doug L Hoffman Something no Warmist could take on board: "Knuth once warned a correspondent, "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Prof. Donald Knuth, whom some regard as the world's smartest man "To be green is to be irrational, misanthropic and morally defective. They are the barbarians at the gate we have to stand against" -- Rich Kozlovich ABOUT: This is one of TWO skeptical blogs that I update daily. During my research career as a social scientist, I was appalled at how much writing in my field was scientifically lacking -- and I often said so in detail in the many academic journal articles I had published in that field. I eventually gave up social science research, however, because no data ever seemed to change the views of its practitioners. I hoped that such obtuseness was confined to the social scientists but now that I have shifted my attention to health related science and climate related science, I find the same impermeability to facts and logic. Hence this blog and my FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC blog. I may add that I did not come to either health or environmental research entirely without credentials. I had several academic papers published in both fields during my social science research career Update: After 8 years of confronting the frankly childish standard of reasoning that pervades the medical journals, I have given up. I have put the blog into hibernation. In extreme cases I may put up here some of the more egregious examples of medical "wisdom" that I encounter. Greenies and food freaks seem to be largely coterminous. My regular bacon & egg breakfasts would certainly offend both -- if only because of the resultant methane output Since my academic background is in the social sciences, it is reasonable to ask what a social scientist is doing talking about global warming. My view is that my expertise is the most relevant of all. It seems clear to me from what you will see on this blog that belief in global warming is very poorly explained by history, chemistry, physics or statistics. Warmism is prophecy, not science. Science cannot foretell the future. Science can make very accurate predictions based on known regularities in nature (e.g. predicting the orbits of the inner planets) but Warmism is the exact opposite of that. It predicts a DEPARTURE from the known regularities of nature. If we go by the regularities of nature, we are on the brink of an ice age. And from a philosophy of science viewpoint, far from being "the science", Warmism is not even an attempt at a factual statement, let alone being science. It is not a meaningful statement about the world. Why? Because it is unfalsifiable -- making it a religious, not a scientific statement. To be a scientific statement, there would have to be some conceivable event that disproved it -- but there appears to be none. ANY event is hailed by Warmists as proving their contentions. Only if Warmists were able to specify some fact or event that would disprove their theory would it have any claim to being a scientific statement. So the explanation for Warmist beliefs has to be primarily a psychological and political one -- which makes it my field And, after all, Al Gore's academic qualifications are in social science also -- albeit very pissant qualifications. A "geriatric" revolt: The scientists who reject Warmism tend to be OLD! Your present blogger is one of those. There are tremendous pressures to conformity in academe and the generally Leftist orientation of academe tends to pressure everyone within it to agree to ideas that suit the Left. And Warmism is certainly one of those ideas. So old guys are the only ones who can AFFORD to declare the Warmists to be unclothed. They either have their careers well-established (with tenure) or have reached financial independence (retirement) and so can afford to call it like they see it. In general, seniors in society today are not remotely as helpful to younger people as they once were. But their opposition to the Warmist hysteria will one day show that seniors are not completely irrelevant after all. Experience does count (we have seen many such hysterias in the past and we have a broader base of knowledge to call on) and our independence is certainly an enormous strength. Some of us are already dead. (Reid Bryson and John Daly are particularly mourned) and some of us are very senior indeed (e.g. Bill Gray and Vince Gray) but the revolt we have fostered is ever growing so we have not labored in vain. SOME POINTS TO PONDER: Climate is just the sum of weather. So if you cannot forecast the weather a month in advance, you will not be able to forecast the climate 50 years in advance. And official meteorologists such as Britain's Met Office and Australia's BOM, are very poor forecasters of weather. The Met office has in fact given up on making seasonal forecasts because they have so often got such forecasts embarrassingly wrong. Their global-warming-powered "models" just did not deliver Here's how that "97% consensus" figure was arrived at A strange Green/Left conceit: They seem to think (e.g. here) that no-one should spend money opposing them and that conservative donors must not support the election campaigns of Congressmen they agree with To Greenies, Genghis Khan was a good guy, believe it or not. They love that he killed so many people. Greenie antisemitism After three exceptionally cold winters in the Northern hemisphere, the Warmists are chanting: "Warming causes cold". Even if we give that a pass for logic, it still inspires the question: "Well, what are we worried about"? Cold is not going to melt the icecaps is it?" It's a central (but unproven) assumption of the Warmist "models" that clouds cause warming. Odd that it seems to cool the temperature down when clouds appear overhead! To make out that the essentially trivial warming of the last 150 years poses some sort of threat, Warmists postulate positive feedbacks that might cut in to make the warming accelerate in the near future. Amid their theories about feedbacks, however, they ignore the one feedback that is no theory: The reaction of plants to CO2. Plants gobble up CO2 and the more CO2 there is the more plants will flourish and hence gobble up yet more CO2. And the increasing crop yields of recent years show that plantlife is already flourishing more. The recent rise in CO2 will therefore soon be gobbled up and will no longer be around to bother anyone. Plants provide a huge NEGATIVE feedback in response to increases in atmospheric CO2 Every green plant around us is made out of carbon dioxide that the plant has grabbed out of the atmosphere. That the plant can get its carbon from such a trace gas is one of the miracles of life. It admittedly uses the huge power of the sun to accomplish such a vast filtrative task but the fact that a dumb plant can harness the power of the sun so effectively is also a wonder. We live on a rather improbable planet. If a science fiction writer elsewhere in the universe described a world like ours he might well be ridiculed for making up such an implausible tale. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A "HEAT TRAPPING GAS". A gas can become warmer by contact with something warmer or by infrared radiation shining on it or by adiabatic (pressure) effects but it cannot trap anything. Air is a gas. Try trapping something with it! Greenies are the sand in the gears of modern civilization -- and they intend to be. The Greenie message is entirely emotional and devoid of all logic. They say that polar ice will melt and cause a big sea-level rise. Yet 91% of the world's glacial ice is in Antarctica, where the average temperature is around minus 40 degrees Celsius. The melting point of ice is zero degrees. So for the ice to melt on any scale the Antarctic temperature would need to rise by around 40 degrees, which NOBODY is predicting. The median Greenie prediction is about 4 degrees. So where is the huge sea level rise going to come from? Mars? And the North polar area is mostly sea ice and melting sea ice does not raise the sea level at all. Yet Warmists constantly hail any sign of Arctic melting. That the melting of floating ice does not raise the water level is known as Archimedes' principle. Archimedes demonstrated it around 2,500 years ago. That Warmists have not yet caught up with that must be just about the most inspissated ignorance imaginable. The whole Warmist scare defies the most basic physics. Yet at the opening of 2011 we find the following unashamed lying by James Hansen: "We will lose all the ice in the polar ice cap in a couple of decades". Sadly, what the Vulgate says in John 1:5 is still only very partially true: "Lux in tenebris lucet". There is still much darkness in the minds of men. The repeated refusal of Warmist "scientists" to make their raw data available to critics is such a breach of scientific protocol that it amounts to a confession in itself. Note, for instance Phil Jones' Feb 21, 2005 response to Warwick Hughes' request for his raw climate data: "We have 25 years or so invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it?" Looking for things that might be wrong with a given conclusion is of course central to science. But Warmism cannot survive such scrutiny. So even after "Climategate", the secrecy goes on. Most Greenie causes are at best distractions from real environmental concerns (such as land degradation) and are more motivated by a hatred of people than by any care for the environment Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that "liberals" will defend to the death regardless of the evidence showing its folly. Evidence never has mattered to real Leftists ‘Global warming’ has become the grand political narrative of the age, replacing Marxism as a dominant force for controlling liberty and human choices. -- Prof. P. Stott Comparing climate alarmist Hansen to Cassandra is WRONG. Cassandra's (Greek mythology) dire prophecies were never believed but were always right. Hansen's dire prophecies are usually believed but are always wrong (Prof. Laurence Gould, U of Hartford, CT) The modern environmental movement arose out of the wreckage of the New Left. They call themselves Green because they're too yellow to admit they're really Reds. So Lenin's birthday was chosen to be the date of Earth Day. Even a moderate politician like Al Gore has been clear as to what is needed. In "Earth in the Balance", he wrote that saving the planet would require a "wrenching transformation of society". For centuries there was a scientific consensus which said that fire was explained by the release of an invisible element called phlogiston. That theory is universally ridiculed today. Global warming is the new phlogiston. Though, now that we know how deliberate the hoax has been, it might be more accurate to call global warming the New Piltdown Man. The Piltdown hoax took 40 years to unwind. I wonder.... Motives: Many people would like to be kind to others so Leftists exploit that with their nonsense about equality. Most people want a clean, green environment so Greenies exploit that by inventing all sorts of far-fetched threats to the environment. But for both, the real motive is generally to promote themselves as wiser and better than everyone else, truth regardless. Policies: The only underlying theme that makes sense of all Greenie policies is hatred of people. Hatred of other people has been a Greenie theme from way back. In a report titled "The First Global Revolution" (1991, p. 104) published by the "Club of Rome", a Greenie panic outfit, we find the following statement: "In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill.... All these dangers are caused by human intervention... The real enemy, then, is humanity itself." See here for many more examples of prominent Greenies saying how much and how furiously they hate you. The conventional wisdom of the day is often spectacularly wrong. The most popular and successful opera of all time is undoubtedly "Carmen" by Georges Bizet. Yet it was much criticized when first performed and the unfortunate Bizet died believing that it was a flop. Similarly, when the most iconic piece of 20th century music was first performed in 1913-- Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" -- half the audience walked out. Those of us who defy the conventional wisdom about climate are actually better off than that. Unlike Bizet and Stravinsky in 1913, we KNOW that we will eventually be vindicated -- because all that supports Warmism is a crumbling edifice of guesswork ("models"). Al Gore won a political prize for an alleged work of science. That rather speaks for itself, doesn't it? Jim Hansen and his twin Getting rich and famous through alarmism: Al Gore is well-known but note also James Hansen. He has for decades been a senior, presumably well-paid, employee at NASA. In 2001 he was the recipient of a $250,000 Heinz Award. In 2007 Time magazine designated him a Hero of the Environment. That same year he pocketed one-third of a $1 million Dan David Prize. In 2008, the American Association for the Advancement of Science presented him with its Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award. In 2010 he landed a $100,000 Sophie Prize. He pulled in a total of $1.2 million in 2010. Not bad for a government bureaucrat. See the original global Warmist in action here: "The icecaps are melting and all world is drowning to wash away the sin" I am not a global warming skeptic nor am I a global warming denier. I am a global warming atheist. I don't believe one bit of it. That the earth's climate changes is undeniable. Only ignoramuses believe that climate stability is normal. But I see NO evidence to say that mankind has had anything to do with any of the changes observed -- and much evidence against that claim. Seeing that we are all made of carbon, the time will come when people will look back on the carbon phobia of the early 21st century as too incredible to be believed Meanwhile, however, let me venture a tentative prophecy. Prophecies are almost always wrong but here goes: Given the common hatred of carbon (Warmists) and salt (Food freaks) and given the fact that we are all made of carbon, salt, water and calcium (with a few additives), I am going to prophecy that at some time in the future a hatred of nitrogen will emerge. Why? Because most of the air that we breathe is nitrogen. We live at the bottom of a nitrogen sea. Logical to hate nitrogen? But probable: Maybe. The Green/Left is mad enough. After all, nitrogen is a CHEMICAL -- and we can't have that! UPDATE to the above: It seems that I am a true prophet The intellectual Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) must have foreseen Global Warmism. He said: "The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." The Holy Grail for most scientists is not truth but research grants. And the global warming scare has produced a huge downpour of money for research. Any mystery why so many scientists claim some belief in global warming? For many people, global warming seems to have taken the place of "The Jews" -- a convenient but false explanation for any disliked event. Prof. Brignell has some examples. Global warming skeptics are real party-poopers. It's so wonderful to believe that you have a mission to save the world. There is an "ascetic instinct" (or perhaps a "survivalist instinct") in many people that causes them to delight in going without material comforts. Monasteries and nunneries were once full of such people -- with the Byzantine stylites perhaps the most striking example. Many Greenies (other than Al Gore and his Hollywood pals) have that instinct too but in the absence of strong orthodox religious committments they have to convince themselves that the world NEEDS them to live in an ascetic way. So their personal emotional needs lead them to press on us all a delusional belief that the planet needs "saving". The claim that oil is a fossil fuel is another great myth and folly of the age. They are now finding oil at around seven MILES beneath the sea bed -- which is incomparably further down than any known fossil. The abiotic oil theory is not as yet well enough developed to generate useful predictions but that is also true of fossil fuel theory Help keep the planet Green! Maximize your CO2 and CH4 output! Global Warming=More Life; Global Cooling=More Death. The inconvenient truth about biological effects of "Ocean Acidification" Cook the crook who cooks the books The great and fraudulent scare about lead Green/Left denial of the facts explained: "Rejection lies in this, that when the light came into the world men preferred darkness to light; preferred it, because their doings were evil. Anyone who acts shamefully hates the light, will not come into the light, for fear that his doings will be found out. Whereas the man whose life is true comes to the light" John 3:19-21 (Knox) Against the long history of huge temperature variation in the earth's climate (ice ages etc.), the .6 of one degree average rise reported by the U.N. "experts" for the entire 20th century (a rise so small that you would not be able to detect such a difference personally without instruments) shows, if anything, that the 20th century was a time of exceptional temperature stability. Recent NASA figures tell us that there was NO warming trend in the USA during the 20th century. If global warming is occurring, how come it forgot the USA? Warmists say that the revised NASA figures do not matter because they cover only the USA -- and the rest of the world is warming nicely. But it is not. There has NEVER been any evidence that the Southern hemisphere is warming. See here. So the warming pattern sure is looking moth-eaten. The latest scare is the possible effect of extra CO2 on the world’s oceans, because more CO2 lowers the pH of seawater. While it is claimed that this makes the water more acidic, this is misleading. Since seawater has a pH around 8.1, it will take an awful lot of CO2 it to even make the water neutral (pH=7), let alone acidic (pH less than 7). In fact, ocean acidification is a scientific impossibility. Henry's Law mandates that warming oceans will outgas CO2 to the atmosphere (as the UN's own documents predict it will), making the oceans less acid. Also, more CO2 would increase calcification rates. No comprehensive, reliable measurement of worldwide oceanic acid/base balance has ever been carried out: therefore, there is no observational basis for the computer models' guess that acidification of 0.1 pH units has occurred in recent decades. The chaos theory people have told us for years that the air movement from a single butterfly's wing in Brazil can cause an unforeseen change in our weather here. Now we are told that climate experts can "model" the input of zillions of such incalculable variables over periods of decades to accurately forecast global warming 50 years hence. Give us all a break! If you doubt the arrogance [of the global warming crowd, you haven't seen that Newsweek cover story that declared the global warming debate over. Consider: If Newton's laws of motion could, after 200 years of unfailing experimental and experiential confirmation, be overthrown, it requires religious fervor to believe that global warming -- infinitely more untested, complex and speculative -- is a closed issue Scientists have politics too -- sometimes extreme politics. Read this: "This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism... I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion. A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman, and child." -- Albert Einstein The "precautionary principle" is a favourite Greenie idea -- but isn't that what George Bush was doing when he invaded Iraq? Wasn't that a precaution against Saddam getting or having any WMDs? So Greenies all agree with the Iraq intervention? If not, why not? A classic example of how the sensationalist media distort science to create climate panic is here. There is a very readable summary of the "Hockey Stick" fraud here The Lockwood & Froehlich paper was designed to rebut Durkin's "Great Global Warming Swindle" film. It is a rather confused paper -- acknowledging yet failing to account fully for the damping effect of the oceans, for instance -- but it is nonetheless valuable to climate atheists. The concession from a Greenie source that fluctuations in the output of the sun have driven climate change for all but the last 20 years (See the first sentence of the paper) really is invaluable. And the basic fact presented in the paper -- that solar output has in general been on the downturn in recent years -- is also amusing to see. Surely even a crazed Greenie mind must see that the sun's influence has not stopped and that reduced solar output will soon start COOLING the earth! Unprecedented July 2007 cold weather throughout the Southern hemisphere might even have been the first sign that the cooling is happening. And the fact that warming plateaued in 1998 is also a good sign that we are moving into a cooling phase. As is so often the case, the Greenies have got the danger exactly backwards. See my post of 7.14.07 and very detailed critiques here and here and here for more on the Lockwood paper and its weaknesses. As the Greenies are now learning, even strong statistical correlations may disappear if a longer time series is used. A remarkable example from Sociology: "The modern literature on hate crimes began with a remarkable 1933 book by Arthur Raper titled The Tragedy of Lynching. Raper assembled data on the number of lynchings each year in the South and on the price of an acre’s yield of cotton. He calculated the correlation coefficient between the two series at –0.532. In other words, when the economy was doing well, the number of lynchings was lower.... In 2001, Donald Green, Laurence McFalls, and Jennifer Smith published a paper that demolished the alleged connection between economic conditions and lynchings in Raper’s data. Raper had the misfortune of stopping his analysis in 1929. After the Great Depression hit, the price of cotton plummeted and economic conditions deteriorated, yet lynchings continued to fall. The correlation disappeared altogether when more years of data were added." So we must be sure to base our conclusions on ALL the data. In the Greenie case, the correlation between CO2 rise and global temperature rise stopped in 1998 -- but that could have been foreseen if measurements taken in the first half of the 20th century had been considered. Relying on the popular wisdom can even hurt you personally: "The scientific consensus of a quarter-century ago turned into the arthritic nightmare of today." 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View Full Version : Ishrana, zdravlje i dobar zivot Malo je ljudi koji ne zele dobro jesti i piti ali da je svaka hrana, svako pice dobro za nas organizam? Mnogi kazu da nije i da treba dobro paziti sta jedemo i sta pijemo, da bi sacuvali svoje zdravlje i produzili ovaj zivot ma kakav on bio. Eto, pod ovim naslovom mozemo prezentirati neke tekstove, svoja misljnjea, bolje receno korisne savjete, bilo da ih procitamo u knjigama, novinama ili da prepricavamo brice nasih nena i djedova. Hrana za ljepši izgled http://static.nacional.hr/img/3fc21961baa046da51a005ac5dac7242_medium.jpg S godinama koža počinje gubiti elastičnost i svježinu. Doduše, neki znakovi starenja su uistinu neizbježni, no to ne znači da se trebate predati. Da biste sačuvali mladolik izgled lica nisu vam potrebni skupocjeni tretmani u kozmetičkim salonima. Neželjenih bora možete se riješiti i određenim namirnicama! Soja Osim što je jedan od najboljih saveznika u borbi s kilogramina, soja poboljšava izgled kože, naročito u menopauzi. Ukoliko povećate konzumaciju ove namirnice spriječiti ćete nestajanje kolagena a uslijed tog procesa, bore će postepeno nestajati. Losos Znanstvenici su otkrili da ova vrsta ribe usporava starenje. Losos sadrži astakanthin, karotenoida koji poboljšava elastičnost kože pa ćete imati manje neprijatnih linija na licu. Špinat Špinat je lako probavljiva namirnica niske energetske vrijednosti koja obiluje vitaminima, mineralima, dijetalnim vlaknima i vodom. Dakle, upravo špinat će vam pomoći da kožu dovedete do savršenstva. Borovnice Su odličan izvor vitamina C, bioflavonida, folne kiseline, kalija, kalcija i željeza. Osim toga, borovnice sadrže visok postotak vlakana pa pozitivno utječu na kvalitetnu probavu. Listovi borovnice koriste se protiv povraćanja, proljeva, kašlja i dijabetesa. A povećate li unos borovnica u organizam, obrazi vam neće biti spušteni. http://www.nacional.hr/clanak/102174/hrana-za-ljepsi-izgled-4-namirnice-koje-smanjuju-bore Citam da jedemo najskuplji hl*** u regionu, a sto je skupo to je i dobro. Sta ce nam sta vise :D. almond eyes Citam da jedemo najskuplji hl*** u regionu, a sto je skupo to je i dobro. Sta ce nam sta vise :D. Kod nas je sve skupo,hrana pogotovo. Ova tema mi je malo futuristicka za nasu zemlju.Bolje bismo znanje pokazali u snalazenju po supermarketima,kako kupiti jeftinije,gdje ugrabiti popust ili ko ce prije ugledati iz daljine da ima nesto gratis na kraju police:) Nemamo ti mi vremena misliti o zdravlju i produljivanju zivota:-?? plivadon Jedi sine spinat da ti obrazi dobiju malo boje . Sta ce mi zeleni obrazi ? mermaid Kod nas je sve skupo,hrana pogotovo. Ova tema mi je malo futuristicka za nasu zemlju.Bolje bismo znanje pokazali u snalazenju po supermarketima,kako kupiti jeftinije,gdje ugrabiti popust ili ko ce prije ugledati iz daljine da ima nesto gratis na kraju police:) Nemamo ti mi vremena misliti o zdravlju i produljivanju zivota:-?? Grah je veoma zdrav i svima pristupaćan. Radujem se kada ga imam za ručak, jednostavno ga volim :). GRAH – MOĆNO POVRĆE http://www.amoic.hr/img/ArticleImages/14897.jpg Grah je sjeme biljke iz porodice mahunarki koje je osebujan izvor vlakana, a na taj način poboljšava probavu i dokazano suzbija rak debelog crijeva te sadrži značajne količine željeza. Šalica kuhanog graha ima 250 kcal. Grah sadrži mnogo bjelančevina, ali su one fiziološki nepotpune, što znači da im nedostaju aminokiseline koje su za ljudski organizam neophodne. Ovaj nedostatak se lako nadoknađuje sa uporabom žitarica u ishrani. GRAH SNIŽAVA KOLESTEROL Sve vrste graha, od zelenčeka i trešnjevca do crvenog i crnog graha, sadrže vrlo malo masnoća i kalorija, a odličan su izvor vlakana koja snižavaju kolesterol. Vlakna iz graha sprečavaju nagli porast šećera u krvi nakon obroka, zbog čega se osobito preporučuje dijabetičarima, ali i svima koji žele smršavjeti. Grah također smanjuje rizik od srčanih bolesti za 82 posto. Iznimno je bogat mineralima, osobito bakrom, željezom, fosforom i manganom. Grah je dobar je izvor vitamina B skupine, a u kombinaciji s kiselim kupusom ili povrćem sjajno se nadopunjuje. Naime, grah je siromašan vitaminom C, dok ga kiseli kupus ima u obilju. Kombinacije graha sa cjelovitim žitaricama, tijelu daju gotovo sve potrebne bjelančevina, pa su odlična hrana za vegetarijance. ŠTO GRAH ČINI ZDRAVIM? Grah je zaista super-hrana! Sadrži niz hranljivih tvari koje pomažu da tijelo ostane zdravo i da se bori protiv bolesti. Svako malo zrno graha sadrži moćnu i jedinstvenu kombinaciju bjelančevina, vlakana, vitamina i minerala. • Grah je dobar izvor bjelančevina koje su potrebne organizmu. Osim toga, za razliku od drugih izvora bjelančevina, grah ima malo masti, te ne sadrži zasićene masti i kolesterol. To čini grah odličnim izborom za vegetarijance, kao i za ljude koji žele smanjiti unos masnih mesnih proizvoda. • Grah je odličan izvor dijetalnih vlakana. Jedna porcija graha osigurava 20% i više dnevnih potreba za vlaknima. Dijetalna vlakna imaju mnoge koristi poput toga da doprinose osjećaju sitosti nakon jela, održavaju nivo šećera u krvi stabilnim, te poboljšavaju probavu. • Grah je dobar izvor vitamina i minerala poput folne kiseline, kalija, željeza i magnezija. Istraživanja su pokazala da osobe koje jedu grah dobivaju više ovih ključnih hranljivih tvari od osoba koje ga ne konzumiraju. Pošto neke vrste graha sadrže toksine, preporučuje se da na nekoliko sati prije kuhanja potopite grah u vodi, a zatim vodu odstranite i još jednom ga isperete. Potapanje graha u nekoliko voda će također smanjiti količinu tvari u grahu koje uzrokuju nadimanje nakon jela. I JOŠ ZDRAVIJIM? Ako želite zrna graha učiniti još zdravijim, možete se potruditi da na vlažnom i toplom mjestu u kući napravite klice graha. Klice općenito predstavljaju nutricionistički najgušću hranu na svijetu (količina hranljivih materija po kaloriji). Klice možete napraviti od mahunarki, sjemena ili orašastih plodova, te ih možete, recimo, svježe posuti po salati. mermaid Leća:), asocira me na ratno vrijeme, pa sam je dugo izbjegavala u svojoj kuhinji, ali čitajući o njenoj hranljivoj vrijednosti, ponovo se našla na mom stolu: Da li je leća zaista savršena namirnica? Izvor: Sarajevo - X Nizak postotak kardiovaskularnih bolesti kod stanovnika Španije i Italije direktno je povezan sa sa prehranom bogatom lećom, piše Telegraph, a leća pomaže i u gubljenju kilograma budući da sadrži jako malo kalorija. http://www.balkaniyum.tv/picture/news/2009/07/02/28922_35720.jpg Leća se ubraja u grupu zrnatih mahunarki, zajedno s grahom, graškom, bobom i slanutkom. Poznato je oko četrdesetak sorti, koje se razlikuju bojom, veličinom i oblikom. Leća se uzgajala još od kamenog doba, a pretpostavlja se da potiče iz jugozapadne Azije, odakle se putem Sredozemlja proširila u Europu. Inače se smatra da je leća bila prva namirnica koju je čovjek počeo uzgajati. Prije 8000 godina pronađena je na arheološkim nalazištima Bliskog Istoka, a pronađena je i u grobnicama egipatskih faraona. Uzgajali su je i stari Grci i Rimljani, a spominje se i u Bibliji. Leća je vijekovima uz ječam i pšenicu bila osnovna ljudska namirnica. Leća je, što je najbitnije u vremenima ekonomske krize veoma jeftina. Puna je proteina i vlakana (100 g suhe leće osigurava 48% proteina i 46% vlakana od preporučenih dnevnih potreba), a i ostale mahunarke su najbolji izvor proteina u biljnom svijetu. Ljekovita svojstva leće su mnogobrojna. Ova mahunarka ne sadrži zasićene masnoće, kao ni štetni holesterol, a izvanredan je izvor topivih i netopivih vlakana.Topiva vlakna snižavaju razinu glukoze i kolesterola u krvi,dok netopiva vlakna ubrzavaju metabolizam probavu i skraćuju vrijeme zadržavanja hrane u probavnom sustavu, te na taj način smanjuju rizik od raka debelog crijeva. Leća sadrži i visok postotak vitamina B-kompleksa što povoljno utiče na nervni sistem, te zdravlje kože i kose, dok visoki sadržaj željeza pomaže u sprječavanju slabokrvnosti. Prilikom pripreme stavite leću u vrelu vodu jer će tako biti brže skuhana. U zavisnosti od vrste leće kuhanje traje od 20 do 40 minuta, a služi se kao varivo, kao dodatak salatama, kao prilog uz meso i ribu. mermaid Slanutak, isto vrlo korisna i zdrava namirnica. Mislim da je kod nas vrlo malo ili nikako zastupljena u prehrani. Ja ga koristim za spravljanje vrlo ukusnog namaza u zamjenu za paštete, a može poslužiti i kao prilog nekom jelu :). Slanutak http://www.mojdoktor.hr/userfiles/image/LISTOPAD2009/Chickpea_pods.jpgSLANUTAK NA NAŠ STOL Slanutak, čič, naut, slani grah, nohut, graj, leblebija (lat. Cicer arietinum, engl. Chick peas) je povrtna kultura naših istočnih i južnih krajeva (Makedonija, Dalmatinska zagora) iako je rasprostranjen na gotovo svim kontinentima, jer uspijeva čak i na visinama od 2900 metara. U svijetu se najviše uzgaja u Aziji, (Indija, Pakistan, Kina, Afganistan, Iran, Sirija), u Europi je najcijenjeniji u Španjolskoj, a na američkom kontinentu njegov najveći proizvođač je Meksiko. Naime, podrijetlo slanutka sa sigurnošću nije utvrđeno, no smatra se da potječe iz zapadne Azije i da su ga u Europu prenijeli Turci koji ga i danas nazivaju nohut. U tim je zemljama poznat kao delikatesna i visokohranjive i vrijedne namirnice, a uzgaja se kao povrtna kultura. Dapače u nekim zemljama je delikatesna namirnica radi izrazito visoke cijene!! Botanički rod Cicer, kojem pripada slanutak, obuhvaća još 21 vrstu divljih biljaka. Zanimljivo je da je slanutak jedini pripadnik tog roda koji je čovjek priveo kulturi. Najbliži mu je tzv. Cicer judaicu, koji se i danas susreće u Palestini, pa mnogi vjeruju da je pradomovina slanutka Palestina. Sjeme slanutka je od davnina često korištena mahunarka. Izgledom sliči plodu graška osim što je slanutak malo veći i nema baš pravilan kuglast oblik. Nedozrelo sjeme ljušti se iz mahuna i priprema kao mladi grah ili grašak. U istočnim zemljama se od slanutka ili mješavine s ostalim žitaricama u određenim omjerima radi brašno te peku izvrsna peciva i kruh. Boja sjemenki može biti krem, žuta, smeđa, zelena ili crna. Najpoznatije su 2 vrste sjemenki i to Kabuli (sjemenke svijetle boje, uspijevaju u umjerenom pojasu) i Desi (sjemenke tamije boje, uspijevaju u suptropskom pojasu). Zanimljivo je spomenuti da je najpopularniji orijentalni specijalitet osoljeno zrno slanutka preprženo na tavici koje se prodaje na ulicama kao „zanimacija“ , kao kod nas kokice od kukuruza ili pak koštice od bundeve! Slanutak ima također jednu prednost pred ostalim mahunarkama, a to je da se prepržen i samljeven može upotrebljavati kao zamjena za kavu. Kuhan se koristi za razne salate, juhe, variva, od njega se spremaju popečci, palačinke, te paštete i razni namazi koji su odlična zamjena za maslac. http://www.mojdoktor.hr/userfiles/image/LISTOPAD2009/cicer_arietinum_4.jpgPrehrambena vrijednost Slanutak ima visoku prehrambenu vrijednost jer je bogat proteinima, koji su lako probavljivi, mononezasićenim i polinezasićenim masnim kiselinama, željezom, kalcijem, vitaminima B kompleksa, prehrambenim vlaknima i lecitinom a ujedno ima i nizak glikemički indeks – GI 30. Radi nižeg glikemičkog indeksa (u odnosu na ostale mahunarke - npr. grah) preporučuje se u prehrani dijabetičara!! Za ljudsku prehranu koristi se svježe lišće, sjemenke i klice. Lišće se priprema kao i špinat a bogato je vitaminima i mineralima. Sjemenke se mogu kuhati, pržiti, ili se melju u brašno a mogu se koristiti i kao zamjena za kavu. Brže će se skuhati ako ga večer prije namočite u hladnoj vodi. Od slanutka se rade brojna jela (poznat je pire), a dobar je s pirjanim povrćem. Nutritivna vrijednost 100 g slanutka je 314 kcal. Osušeno zrno sadržava: 23% bjelančevina, do 63% ugljikohidrata, 5,5% biljnog ulja, 3,3% celoloznih vlakana, 3,4 % mineralnih sastojaka,te 180 mcg betakatorena (što je sjemenka žuća)! http://www.mojdoktor.hr/userfiles/image/LISTOPAD2009/3252092775_ab4e310b0e.jpgZdravstvene blagodati Zbog relativno visokog sadržaja prehrambenih vlakana, slanutak može pomoći u zaštiti od pojave raka debelog crijeva i konstipacije. Novije studije pokazuju da je slanutak, zbog visokog sadržaja saponina, najbolja mahunarka za sniženje kolesterola. Redovito konzumiranje snižava kolesterol za 7% pa se tako smanjuje rizik od kardiovaskularnih bolesti! Mljevene sjemenke koriste se kao maske za lice i za liječenje prhuti. Također se vjeruje da slanutak ima i afrodizijska svojstva. Lišće slanutka primjenjuje se u liječenju bronhitisa i kod uganuća zglobova. U najnovije vrijeme ispituje se mogućnost da slanutak zamjeni široko primjenjivanu soju, čiji su proteini prisutni u 60% procesirane hrane te u velikom broju farmaceutskih preparata. Razlog tome je sve veći porast alergija na proteine soje te velika upotreba GM soje.Izvod podataka: Knjiga „Vegetarijanska kuhinja", SNL, Zagreb 1989. Recept po kojem ja spremam namaz od slanutka: 400 g slanutka 2 kašike tahin paste (pasta od sezama), ali možete staviti i obično biljno ulje 2 kašike limunovog soka 1 češanj češnjaka 3 kašike nasjeckanog peršinovog lišća sol, papar mljevena crvena paprika maslinovo ulje Ako koristite slanutak iz konzerve, ocijedite ga. Sačuvajte malo tekućine. Ako koristite svježi slanutak namočite ga preko noći u hladnu vodu. Sutradan ga kuhajte 45-60 min. Kuhani slanutak ocijedite (sačuvajte malo tekućine) i ostavite da se ohladi. U multipraktik stavite slanutak, tahin pastu ili ulje, limunov sok, sitno nasjeckani češnjak, peršinovo lišće i malo soli i papra. Usitnite sve sastojke da dobijete glatku kremu. Ako je krema previše suha ili gusta možete dodati malo sačuvane tekućine ili bistre supe. Po potrebi dodajte još soli ili papra. Kremu stavite u odgovarajuću posudu i po želji nakapajte s malo maslinovog ulja i posipajte s malo crvene paprike. Poslužite s raznim svježim povrćem i raznim vrstama kruha. http://i56.tinypic.com/2cqjgjt.gif Ljudi masovno piju ove napitke iako znaju da to nije dobro. Ja se upak ustrucavam, cak i kafu pijem bez kofeina. Energetski napici opasni su poput duhana i alkohola http://www.ekapija.com/dokumenti/energetski_napitak_250909.jpg Potencijalne štete, izazvane uglavnom zbog previše kofeina ili sličnih sastojaka, uključuju ubrzano lupanje srca, napade, moždane udare i čak iznenadnu smrt, naveli su autori u medicinskom časopisu Pediatrics. Oni su koristili podatke vlade i interesnih skupina, znanstvenu literaturu, izvješća o pojedinim slučajevima i članke u medijima, prenosi Hina. U izvješću se navodi da neke limenke energetskih napitaka imaju četiri do pet puta više kofeina nego osvježavajuća pića, a ima djece koja ih znaju popiti i do pet dnevno. Autori izvješća, dr. Steven Lipshultz i njegovi kolege s katedre za pedijatriju medicinskog fakulteta Sveučilišta Miami, kažu kako žele da pedijatri upozore roditelje protiv davanja energetskih napitaka djeci. Oni ističu da energetski napitci često sadrže sastojke koji pojačavaju učinak kofeina na živce, te mogu izazvati i druge nuspojave, poput mučnine, proljeva, halucinacija, iritacije i povišenog tlaka, Mišljenja su da bi ih trebalo regulirati strogo kao duhan, alkohol ili lijekove na recept. "Za većinu djece, adolescenata i mladih odraslih osoba, sigurne razine konzumacije nisu utvrđene", navodi se u izvješću. Od svoje pojave prije više od 20 godina, energetski napitci danas su najbrže rastuće tržište pića u SAD-u, s očekivanom prodajom većom od 9 milijardi dolara u 2011. prema jednom istraživanju. Jedna trećina tinejdžera i mladih odraslih osoba u SAD-u redovito konzumira energetske napitke. Američka Uprava za hranu i lijekove (FDA) nedavno je uputila upozorenje proizvođačima energetskih napitaka s alkoholom, koji su u SAD-u sve popularniji, a nekoliko saveznih država zabranilo je njihovu prodaju. Izvješće u listu Pediatrics bavi se samo s bezalkoholnim energetskim napitcima, ali upozorava da je njihovo konzumiranje zajedno s alkoholom opasno. Američki savez centara za kontrolu trovanja (AAPCC) prošle je godine donio proceduru za praćenje slučajeva predoziranja enegetskim napitcima i nuspojava kod njihove uporabe na nacionalnoj razini. Od listopada do kraja prosinca 2010. godine zabilježeno je 677 slučajeva, a od početka ove godine 331. Većina slučajeva trovanja s energetskim napitcima u 2011. uključuje djecu i tinejdžere, a četvrtinu od više od 300 takvih slučajeva čine djeca mlađa od 6 godina, prema podacima AAPCC-a. http://metro-portal.hr/energetski-napici-opasni-su-poput-duhana-i-alkohola/55371 almond eyes Grah je veoma zdrav i svima pristupaćan. Radujem se kada ga imam za ručak, jednostavno ga volim . Nisi me bas razumjela. Nije mi bio cilj reci da od jeftine hrane nema nista zdravo:) Avokado - ukusno tropsko voće u službi zdravlja Ovo tropsko voće obiluje sastojcima koji jačaju imunitet. Dakle, tijekom zimskih mjeseci trebao bi postati nezaobilazna namirnica kod osoba podložnih prehladama http://static.nacional.hr/img/c723868e444e9a38092f39b0d5203732_medium.jpg (http://static.nacional.hr/img/c723868e444e9a38092f39b0d5203732_700x550.jpg)Zbog svojih sastojaka avokado, između ostalog pozitivno utječe na očuvanje ljepote i mladenačkog izgleda kože. Ovo tropsko voće odgovara svim tipovima kože, a posebno suhoj, oštećenoj i zreloj koži. Međutim, to je samo jedna u nizu ljekovitih svojstava ove namirnice! Bolesti srca Avokado sadrži vitamin E, folnu kiselinu i antioksidanse koji smanjuju rizik od bolesti srca. S obzirom da sadrži puno kalija, pomaže u regulaciji krvnog tlaka. Koža Osim što poboljšava izgled kože, avokado je jedan od najvećih neprijatelja celulita. Dakle, ukoliko se nikako ne možete riješiti neželjene narančine kore, pojačajte unos ove namirnice. Seks Avokado baš kao i cimet jedan je od najvećih podizaća energije. Ukoliko imate problema u bračnoj postelji, opskrbite frižider ovim tropskim voćem. Imunitet Ovo tropsko voće obiluje sastojcima koji jačaju imunitet. Dakle, tijekom zimskih mjeseci trebao bi postati nezaobilazna namirnica kod osoba podložnih prehladama. Još nekoliko savjeta: Avokado smanjuje rizik od raka dojke. Poboljšava vid. Posebno se preporuča osobama s dijabetesom. Izvor:Nacional Svi volimo cokoladu a da li je bas ovako korisna kao sto pise, ostaje da sami prosudimo, jer ne znamo negativne ucinke? Ovo morate znati: 5 najvećih zabluda o čokoladi http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT1Hbei_w3q5SdA14zZz9Cn9C3VQ8Z0w uCy9jZGc8yCjZ6q8pZ3pBeebg Unatoč visokoj kalorijskoj vrijednosti, čokolada obiluje mnogim ljekovitim sastojcima. Ova ukusna slastica pobjeđuje stres, smanjuje rizik od srčanih bolesti, jača imunitet, djeluje antidepresivno... Ukoliko i vi ne možete odoljeti ovoj namirnici, šalica kakaa dnevno ili jedna pločica čokolada uvijek je dozvoljena. Akne i karijes Niti jedno istraživanje nije dokazalo da čokolada povećava broj akni. Dakle, ne mora značiti da je čokalada jedini uzročnik nepravilnosti na licu, prenosi Zdrav život (http://zdravzivot.com.hr/clanak/428/najvece-zablude-o-cokoladi). Što se tiče karijera, također ne postoje nikakvi znanstveni dokazi da ova ukusna slastica uzrokuje njegovo pojavljivanje. Kofein Čokolada sadrži malene količine kofeina za razliku od kave, coca - cole i sličnih napitaka. Masne naslage Povećana konzumacija bilo koje namirnice potiče debljanje, a ništa drugačija situacija nije niti s čokoladom. Naime, nekoliko kockica dnevno neće nikome naštetiti. Kolesterol Unatoč visokozasićenim masnoćama čokolada ne podiže razinu kolesterola. Svojedobno istraživanje na Sveučilištu Harvard u kojem je sudjelovalo osam tisuća ispitanika pokazalo je kako čokolada produljuje život. http://www.nacional.hr/clanak/102550/ovo-morate-znati-5-najvecih-zabluda-o-cokoladi almond eyes Cokolada podize raspolozenje,i to je jako vazno:) Cokolada podize raspolozenje,i to je jako vazno:) i meni cokolada digne :drool:raspolozenje mislim Oprez ne skodi? Jafa keks povučen iz prodaje u Sloveniji http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQam05nRnN1dQEUoPGdRlA6qNR5BrwlZ 7jIMHcvuA68uIEdLHblGIwLiEg LJUBLJANA - U Sloveniji je iz prodaje povučen "Jafa keks" koji proizvodi "Crvenka" iz Gornjeg Milanovca u Srbiji, jer je utvrđeno da kartonska ambalaža sadrži materije opasne za zdravlje. Odluku je donio Institut za sigurnost zdravlja Slovenije nakon što je utvrdio da kartonska ambalaža sadrži visoke vrijednosti fotoinicijatora benzofenona i 4-metilbenzofenona, koji se kroz plastičnu foliju lako izlučuju na proizvod. Savez potrošača Slovenije savjetovao je kupcima da ne konzumiraju "Crvenkine" kekse ukoliko su ih već kupili, javlja slovenački portal "Dnevnik.si". http://www.nezavisne.com/posao/trziste/Jafa-keks-povucen-iz-prodaje-u-Sloveniji-80552.html mermaid Med je lijek za mnoge bolesti... Med i cimet kao lijek http://zena.hr/images/clanci/101_big.jpg Otkriveno je da mješavina meda i cimeta liječi mnoge bolesti. Proizvodnjom meda bavi se većina zemalja svijeta. Ayurvedska i Yunani medicina koriste med kao glavni lijek već stoljećima. Znanstvenici danas također prihvaćaju med kao vrlo efikasan lijek za sve vrste bolesti. Med se može koristiti bez sporednih efekata za sve vrste bolesti. Današnja znanost kaže da med, iako je sladak, ako se uzme u pravoj dozi kao lijek ne šteti dijabetičarima. Poznati magazin po imenu Weekly World News koji je objavljen u Kanadi 17. siječnja 1995. godine dao je listu bolesti koje se mogu liječiti medom i cimetom u skladu sa istraživanjima zapadnih znanstvenika. Artritis (upala zglobova) Uzeti jedan dio meda na dva dijela mlake vode, te dodati malu čajnu žlicu cimetovog praha, napraviti masu i polako masirati na bolne dijelove tijela Primijećeno je da se bol smanjuje u roku od jedne do dvije minute Ili, osobe koje boluju od artiritisa mogu ujutro i navečer uzeti jednu šalicu vruće vode sa dvije žlice meda i jednom malom čajnom žlicom cimetovog praha Ako se pije redovito, čak i kronični artritis može biti izliječen U nedavnom istraživanju Univerziteta u Kopenhagenu, otkriveno je da su doktori tretirali svoje pacijente sa mješavinom jedne žlice meda i pola čajne žlice cimetovog praha prije doručka. Rezultat je bio da je u roku od tjedan dana od 200 ljudi koji su tretirani, njih 73 bilo totalno oslobođeno bola, a u roku od jednog mjeseca skoro svi pacijenti koji nisu mogli hodati ili se kretati zbog artritisa su počeli da hodaju bez bolova. Gubitak kose Oni koji pate od gubitka kose ili ćelavosti mogu primijeniti masu od vrućeg maslinovog ulja, jedne žlice meda i jedne čajne žlice cimetovog praha prije kupanja i držati otprilike 15 minuta, a nakon toga oprati kosu Vrlo je učinkovito ako se drži čak i 5 minuta Infekcije mokraćnog mjehura Popiti dvije žlice cimetovog praha i jednu čajnu žlicu meda u čaši mlake vode To uništava klice u mokraćnom mjehuru Zubobolja Napraviti masu od jedne čajne žlice cimetovog praha i pet čajnih žlica meda te staviti na bolni zub. Ovo možete ponavljati 3 puta dnevno dok vam traje zubobolja Kolesterol Ako se pacijentu koji ima povišen kolesterol daju dvije žlice meda i tri čajne žlice cimetovog praha pomiješane sa 4,5 dcl čaja, to će smanjiti nivo kolesterola u krvi za 10% u roku 2 sata Kao što je navedeno za pacijente koji boluju od artritisa, ako se uzima 3 puta dnevno, liječi se bilo koje kronično povišenje kolesterola Što se tiče informacije iz spomenutog magazina, uzimanje čistog meda dnevno uz hranu smanjuje žalbe u vezi kolesterola Prehlade Oni koji pate od uobičajenih ili ozbiljnih prehlada trebaju uzeti 3 dana po jednu žlicu mlakog meda sa čajne žlice cimetovog praha dnevno Ovaj proces će izliječiti većinu kroničnih kašljeva, prehlada te iščistiti sinuse Nervoza i bolovi u trbuhu Med uzet sa cimetovim prahom liječi bolove u trbuhu te također otklanja čireve u korijenu Nadutost : u skladu sa studijama provedenim u Indiji i Japanu, otkriveno je da se, ukoliko se uzme med sa cimetovim prahom, smanjuje nadutost Bolesti srca Napraviti masu od meda i cimetovog praha i mazati na kruh umjesto želea ili marmelade i jesti redovno za doručak To smanjuje kolesterol u arterijama i spašava pacijenta od srčanog udara Također, oni koji su već preživjeli srčani udar miljama su daleko od slijedećeg udara, ako primijene ovaj proces dnevno Redovna upotreba navedenog smanjuje gubitak daha i jača otkucaje srca U Americi i Kanadi različiti domovi za brigu tretirali su svoje pacijente uspješno i našli da su arterije i vene koje gube svoju elastičnost i postanu začepljene starenjem bile revitalizirane Imunološki sistem Dnevna upotreba meda i cimetovog praha jača imunološki sistem i štiti tijelo od bakterija i napada virusa Znanstvenici su pronašli da med sadrži različite vitamine i željezo u velikim količinama Konstantna upotreba meda jača bijela krvna zrnca u borbi sa bakterijama i virusnim bolestima Probava Kada se cimetov prah posut u dvije žlice meda uzme prije jela, to smanjuje kiselinu i pomaže u probavi čak i “najtežih” jela Gripa Znanstvenik iz Španjolske je dokazao da med sadrži prirodni sastojak koji ubija klice početka gripe i sprječava da pacijent dobije gripu Dugovječnost Kada se redovito uzima čaj napravljen sa medom i cimetovim prahom to produžava dugovječnost Uzeti 4 žlice meda, 1 žlicu cimetovog praha i 3 šalice vode te prokuhati i napraviti u obliku čaja Popiti 1 šalice, 3 do 4 puta dnevno. To održava kožu svježom i nježnom te sprječava starenje Životni vijek se također povećava tako da čak i osoba stara 100 godinu počne obavljati rutinske poslove nekoga mlađeg 20 godina Prištevi Od tri žlice meda i jedne čajne žlice cimetovog praha napravi se masa Primijeniti ovu masu na prišteve prije spavanja i oprati ujutro toplom vodom Ako se to radi svaki dan, u roku dva tjedna prištevi će nestati Infekcije kože Ekcemi, lišajevi te sve vrste kožnih infekcija se liječe primjenom meda i cimetovog praha u jednakim dijelovima na oboljela mjesta Mršavljenje Svako jutro, pola sata prije doručka, na prazan želudac i navečer prije spavanja popiti 2 žlice meda i 1 čajnu žlicu cimetovog praha prokuhano u jednoj šalici vode Ako se uzima redovno, smanjuje težinu čak i najdeblje osobe Također, uzimanje ove mješavine redovno ne dozvoljava masnoćama da se akumuliraju u tijelu čak i ako je osoba na visokokaloričnoj dijeti Rak Nedavno istraživanje u Japanu i Australiji otkrilo je da se uspješno liječi uznapredovani rak želuca i kostiju Pacijenti koji boluju od ovih oblika raka trebaju dnevno uzimati jednu žlicu meda sa jednom čajnom žlicom cimetovog praha 3 puta dnevno u toku jednog mjeseca Umor Nedavne studije su pokazale da je šećer sadržan u medu više koristan nego štetan za snagu tijela Ljudi srednje dobi koji uzimaju med i cimetov prah u jednakim dijelovima su pokretljiviji i fleksibilniji Milton koji je radio istraživanje kaže da uzimanje pola žlice meda u jednoj čaši vode sa posutim cimetovim prahom, ujutro te nakon tri sata popodne kada vitalnost tijela počinje da opada, povećava vitalnost tijela u roku tjedan dana Loš zadah Ljudi u Južnoj Americi, ujutro prije svega grgljaju (ispiraju grlo) jednu čajnu žlicu meda i cimetovog praha pomiješane u toploj vodi, tako njihov dah ostaje svjež tokom cijelog dana Gubitak sluha Svakog jutra i večeri uzimanje jednakih dijelova meda i cimeta vraća sluh Slazem se da je med dobar za ishrnu ljudi, samo se moze postaviti pitanje, da li mi danas imamo pravog meda.Naime, varoa je toliko prisutna u kosnicama, da mnogi pcelari a posebno oni koji imaju velik broj kosnica, koji pcelarstvo dozivljavaju kao biznis, preko cijele godine drze sredstva protiv varoe u kosnicama.Med je poznat kao dobar upijac otrova, pa se postavlja pitanje, kakav med mi kupujemo ne samo od privatnika nego i od kompanija koje se bave prozivodnjom meda. http://www.pcelinjak.com/images/stories/easygallery/thumbs/54/1194203410_bosjak1.jpg Ovo govorim zbog toga jer sam svojevremeno ima 12 kosnica i to bas zbog malo prije recenog.Druzio sam se sa mnogim pcelarima, posjecivao njihove pcelnjake, naravno zajedno sa njima i rijetko kad nisam primjetio stapice sa otrovom protiv varoe izmedju okvira. Iz tog razloga preporucujem i drugim da pcelarstvo izaberu kao hobi, bas zbog gore navedenog, jer po meni nema boljeg hobije.Ovo govorim zbog toga, jer sam imao persijsku macku, imao sam kao odrasla osoba dobermana a kasnije velikog crnog snaucera, pa ipak nekako sam ostao najvise privrzen pcelarstvu. I danas mi je zao, sto nemam mogucnost da se organizrano bavim pcelarstvom, da imam svoj pravi i zdravi med i da uzivam baveci se tim hobijem. Slazem se da je med dobar za ishrnu ljudi, samo se moze postaviti pitanje, da li mi danas imamo pravog meda. Hile u pravi si. Neki dan kupim na pijaci galon meda a kad ono sami secer. Nakon 15 dana morao baciti. mermaid Hile u pravi si. Neki dan kupim na pijaci galon meda a kad ono sami secer. Nakon 15 dana morao baciti. Nisi trebao baciti:). Samo se pravi med može ušećeriti, surogati ne mogu. A i rizićno je med kupovati na pijaci. Kada izvrcamo med on je u tecnom stanju.Ako ga ostavimo da odstoji u hladnoj prostoriji on ce se stisnuti-uzrnciti.I to je dobar med narocito za dorucak, jer se lako namaze na kriske.Naravno, ovo govorim za med bez onih otrovnih dodataka kojima ubijamo varou u kosnicama. http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTVI7RZGgNeil9z7iNwgj-zAHp6Nved9-P1Z-Uajeo0qd8DpH-CeuQz9v4 U ljeto kad nema dovoljno hrane za pcele na nekim prostorima BiH, mnogi pcelari kupuju secer, najcesce onaj smedji jer je jeftini.Taj secer pcele prerdjuju u med. Takav med kad se uzrnci-stisne, razlicit je od onog pravog meda. Pravi med izma sitna a ovaj nesto krupnija zrnca, pa ja u takvim prilikama kazem prozivodjacu, da mu je med supljikav. Svako ko ima bilo kakvo parce zemlje van grada, sto dalje od komsija, treba da postavi nekoliko kosnica i da proizvodi med za sebe.To sam cinio ja iz potrebe a moja potreba je kasnije presla u najdrazi hobi. almond eyes Kad si spomenuo da se bavis pcelarstvom @hile,ako mozes da objasnis kakav okolis je najbolji za uzgoj pcela? Dobar je svaki okolis. Ljudi cak u Njujorku na vrh solitera postave kosnice i proizvode med koji Njujorcani rado kupuju. To je med od cvijeca iz parkova ali i bacenih sokova itd U Bosni mozes drzati pcele u ravnici i tada ces imati livadski med, mozes ih drzati na nekom proplanku gdje ima raznih trava i tu ces imatiu mijesani med.Mozes ih drzati u planini i tada ces imati sumski med. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Delovi_kosnice.png/523px-Vazno je da pcele budu na osami, da nikom ne smetaju, jer znaju dok prelijecu komsin vrt ponekada ubosti komsiju ili njegovu zenu pa i djete koje se igra u dvoristu ili dok osoba radi u basti, narocito u vrijeme slabe pase. Ja bih se najradije opredijelio za neki proplanak gdje ima malo borove sume.Tu bih napravio jednu drvenu vikendicu i pcelnjak.Tebi Almice to preporucujem ako imas mogucnosti da se tim bavis. Prvo kupio neku knjigu o pcelarsvu.Upoznaj se sa kosnicama, nacinom rada sa njima a onda nabavi 1 ili dva roja i pocni. Jedasn svajet. Ako vas ili vase dijete pcela ubode, uzmite samo sibicu-drvce i onaj fosforni dio nakvasite vodom ili pljuvackom a onda protrljajte po mjestu uboda.Otoka nece biti.Sigurno i provjereno. almond eyes Moji roditelji zive u Sarajevu i nedavno kad sam bila u posjeti predlozim im da nabave kosnice,ali tata veli da nemaju gdje ici na ispasu,kao nema tu blizu vocnjaka i sl.Pa me bas zanimalo da li kosnice bas moraju biti na livadi ili u sred vocnjaka. Moji roditelji zive u Sarajevu i nedavno kad sam bila u posjeti predlozim im da nabave kosnice,ali tata veli da nemaju gdje ici na ispasu,kao nema tu blizu vocnjaka i sl.Pa me bas zanimalo da li kosnice bas moraju biti na livadi ili u sred vocnjaka. U Bosni sam naseljen na seoskom podrucju i imam priliku vidjeti pcelare koji se bave pcelarstvom. Mislim , kao sto ce ti Hile najbolje potvrditi, jer imam utisak da se momak zaista razumije u pcelarstvo, da nije odlucujuce da se pcele direktno u vocnjaku drze. Pcele su ti kao nomadi, lete prilicno daleko od njihovih kosnica uburati cvijetne plodove. Vozeci se do carsije uvjek rado se zadrzim kod pcelara ispod Konjuha, na proplancima Konjuha ima ca. 50 rojeva pcela ili sanduka, valjda jedan roj odgovara prosjeku jednog sanduka. Direktno na tim proplancima u planini ima te rojeve bez blizine vocnjaka. Najblizi vocnak se nalazi na udaljenosti od 1 km. Rado smo kod njega kupovali sumski crni med,nevjerovatno ukusan, i rado smo po par kilograma nosili sa sobom u Njemacku. U zadnje vrijeme, nisam bas siguran, ustanovio sam da da je med izgubio zeljeni kvalitet, moguce da godina sa ispasom za pcele nije bila dobra pa se posluzio ubacivanjem secera u med ili je pcele sa puno secera hranio, tako da je kvalitet prirodnog meda opao ali moguce da smo se i suvise zasitili sa medom. Almice, ne moraju kosnice biti u vocnjaku.Kao sto rece predhodni komentator, pcele lete do ispase.Vazno je fino mjesto, ali ne u dolini gdje nema sunca i gdje je vlazno. Mali proplanak ili uzvisenje, podgodno je mjesto za pcele. Vazno je da ih niko ne uznemirava izuzev pcelar kad pregleda kosnice, da u blizini nema usjeva koje vlasnici prskaju pesticidima.Bas iz tog razloga vocnjak nije pogodan za pcelnjak. Ja sam imao vocnjak od 100 stabala, pa sam breskve pocupao jer ih stalno treba prskati zbog kovrdzavosti lista.Ostale vocke prskao sam samo u februaru ili kad pocnu pupati i vise ne, pa nek rodi koliko rodi a i zbog pcela. http://www.pcela.hr/forum/download/file.php?avatar=2800_1266837908.jpg Dakle, nadji fino mjesto, kupi nekoliko blokova od cigle ili siporeksa i na njih postavi kosnice ili preko tih elemenata postavi dvije grede i na njih redaj kosnice po preporuci iz knjige. Do rojenja ima jos vremena, pa iskoristi to vrijeme da procitas nesto o pcelama.Kad budem imao vremena preporucit cu ti knjigu. Ako je nema u knjizarama ima u biblioteci. Prije nekoliko dana dobio sam ovu poruku. Mislim da ja vazna za sve nas, pa je prezentiram i vama, jer nije na odmet znati ovo o cemu se govori u ovom tekstu. Istina, radi se o upozorenju gradjanima Srbije ali to moze biti vazno i za gradjane BiH. JABHO yПOЗOPEЊE ГPAЂAHИMA CPБИJE yпoзopaBaMo rpaђaHe Cpбиje дa cy ce Ha HaшeM TpжишTy пojaBили пpexpaMбeHи пpoизBoди oпacHи пo жиBoT и здpaBљe oбeлeжeHи зHakoM пиpaMидe и иMeHoM CodexAlimentarius.HaBeдeHи пpoизBoди cy ce пojaBили Ha TpжишTy Cpбиje HeзakoHиTo, jep reHoцидHи Codex Alimentariusy CpбиjиHиje ycBojeH, Hиje ,,yckлaђeH”, HиTи MoжeбиTи, jep cy oдpeдбe Codex Alimentarius-a y cyпpoTHocTи ca PoTepдaMckoM и KoпeHxaшkoM koHBeHциjoM, чиja je Cpбиja пoTпиcHицa и koje иMajy Beћy cHary oд билo kor зakoHa. 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Збor Tora je y HииpHбepry 1945. roдиHe ocyђeH збor злoчиHa пpoTиB чoBeчHocTи.ЗaTo yпoзopaBaMo rpaђaHe Cpбиje, yMecTo Bлaдe Cpбиje и pecopHиx MиHиcTapcTaBa koja cy yByчeHa y koлo reHoцидa Haд coпcTBeHиM HapoдoM, HE KyПyJTE HAMИPHИЦE CA ЗHAKOM ПИPAMИДE yЗ KOJИ CTOJИ HAЗИB CODEX ALIMENTARIUS, JEP TAJ ЗHAK ПPEДCTABЉA HAДГPOБHИ CПOMEHИK HAШEM ЗДPABЉy И БyДyЋHOCTИ.OбeлeжeHe HaMиpHицe збor шTeTHиx cacTojaka y ceби koд kopиcHиka и пoToMaka Mory дa изaзoBy MaлиrHa oбoљeњa, cTepилиTeT, шeћepHy бoлecT, aTpoфиjy Moзra,иMпoTeHциjy и joш 60 HajTeжиx oбoљeњa. Дoбpo зarлeдajTe пpoизBoдe пpи kyпoBиHи, бeckpyпyлoзHи пpoизBoђaчи cy Beћ дoбили зeлeHo cBeTлo oд oдroBopHиx пoлиTичapa и oпиcaHи зHak cTaBили Ha cBoje пpoизBoдe, kao Ha пakoBaњa Bиpшли y MecapaMa ,,MaTиjeBић”. БojkoTyjTe Te пpoизBoдe, зaoбилaзиTe TakBe пpoдaBHицe, a ako ckиHy зHak ca пpoизBoдa и HacTaBe ca пpoдajoM oTpoBa, cyдићeMo иM! ДиpekTop Hиkoлa Aлekcић, Svako ima mogucnost da sam odluci.Na internetu ga neki preporucuju, neki opet kude, pa ti sad znaj, sta je istina a sta ne. almond eyes Hvala na pojasnjenju. Samo me zanimalo mogu li se kosnice drzati i u gradu. Tesko Almice, jer smetaju ljudima.Ne vole svi ljudi pcele a ni med.Ako imas neki plac van grada, onda nema poroblema, u gradu posebnio Sarajevu to je nemoguce. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrEpUohtl3Y&feature=related Ali jos malo o vocnjaku i pcelama. Prije su ljudi drzali pcele u vocnjaku, jer smo imali svoje autohtone sorte:jabuka, krusaka, sljiva, dunja musmulja , orha itd. Sad tih sorti gotovo da i nema. Sad imamo one nove koje sam ima i ja, srednje bujne ili smabo bujne. Te vocke moras prskati , pa bas iz tig razloga pcele i ne mogu biti u vocnjaku.Nije dobro da pcele prelijecu vocnjak koji je prskan. Inace med od behara vocaka nije dobar.On sluzi pcelama samo da ishrane legla, da drustva ojacaju ali za jelo nije bas dobar. almond eyes Tesko Almice, jer smetaju ljudima.Ne vole svi ljudi pcele a ni med.Ako imas neki plac van grada, onda nema poroblema, u gradu posebnio Sarajevu to je nemoguce To je to,guzva,buka i sl jednostavno ce ubiti pcele:( Almice, ne moraju kosnice biti u vocnjaku.Kao sto rece predhodni komentator, pcele lete do ispase.Vazno je fino mjesto, ali ne u dolini gdje nema sunca i gdje je vlazno. Mali proplanak ili uzvisenje, podgodno je mjesto za pcele. Vazno je da ih niko ne uznemirava izuzev pcelar kad pregleda kosnice, da u blizini nema usjeva koje vlasnici prskaju pesticidima.Bas iz tog razloga vocnjak nije pogodan za pcelnjak. Ja sam imao vocnjak od 100 stabala, pa sam breskve pocupao jer ih stalno treba prskati zbog kovrdzavosti lista.Ostale vocke prskao sam samo u februaru ili kad pocnu pupati i vise ne, pa nek rodi koliko rodi a i zbog pcela. http://www.pcela.hr/forum/download/file.php?avatar=2800_1266837908.jpg Dakle, nadji fino mjesto, kupi nekoliko blokova od cigle ili siporeksa i na njih postavi kosnice ili preko tih elemenata postavi dvije grede i na njih redaj kosnice po preporuci iz knjige. Do rojenja ima jos vremena, pa iskoristi to vrijeme da procitas nesto o pcelama.Kad budem imao vremena preporucit cu ti knjigu. Ako je nema u knjizarama ima u biblioteci. Heli, vidim razumijes oko pcela. Zamolio bi te ako mozes da mi objasnis zasto pece nekada pobjegnu od kuce? Moj otac nije nikada drzao pcele ali sam to vidjeo od komsija. Hvala Neki kazu da pcele pobjegni iz kosnice ako u kosnici ima isuvise mnogo varoe.To se obicno dogadja kod onih pcelara koji ne tretiraju pcele protiv ovog parazita ili se tretiranje provodi neadekvatnim lijekovima, lijekovima kojima je istekao rok, pa je ucinak takvih lijekova zanemarljiv itd. Drugi kazu da pcele napuste kosnicu ako u nju udje mis, koga pcele odmah ubiju a onda oblijepe voskom ali neugodan mirs od misa vjerovatno ostaje jedno vrijeme i pcele napuste takvu kosnicu. http://l.yimg.com/g/images/spaceball.gifhttp://www.srebrnavoda-maxlab.com/images/article_images/pcela.jpg Neki opet tvrde da mjesto na kome je postavlkena kosnica nije najbolje, bilo da u blizini nema hrane ili imaju neka zracenja, sto pcele ne podnose i napustaju kosnicu. Ako pcelar ne konbtrolise brojnost pcela u kosnici a pcele napadne npr. americka kuga-unistava leglo pcela, pcelar jednog dana primijeti da u kosnici nema pcela. Stare pcele umiru, novih nema jer su legla bolesna-pcele se ne obnavljaju, pa takav pcelar obicno kaze "pobjegle mu pcele". Kazu da je jako lijepo izmati zdrave zube.Malo nasledje, malo svakodnevna urednost, redovna kontrola kod stomatologa i eto lijepi i zdravi zubi. Uzročnici karijesa - zubne naslage prepune bakterija http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcThcDx1T5ZWZLzkaowBNXwEh39R6weht tp://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTTOEDSdlobXJPcGlaol9g2gbknQuPLS FHqNi8srP3MIf7jBSpUbD64W6I Američki znanstvenici otkrili su dosad nepoznatog uzročnika karijesa. Radi se o bakteriji imena "scardovia wiggsiae" koja se najčešće javlja u kombinaciji sa streptokokom iz mutans skupine, ali može i sama stvoriti neželjene rupe u zubima. Otkriće je važno jer omogućuje razvoj terapija protiv karijesa koje su usmjerene na specifične uzročnike, piše Anne Tanner s Harvarda u stručnom časopisu "Journal of Clinical Microbiology". Zubni karijes je infektivna bolest. Uzrokuju je bakterije koje razgrađuju šećer i pritom proizvode kiselinu koja napada zube. Dobra vijest je da se karijes može izbjeći ispravnom higijenom i uravnoteženom prehranom. Karijes je posebno opasan za djecu jer kroz mliječne zube napada i stalne zube. Mit prema kojem djeca ne trebaju brinuti o oralnoj higijeni pošto će im mliječni zubi ionako otpasti time pada u vodu. Streptococcus mutans najčešći je uzročnik karijesa, ali ne i jedini. Znanstvenici su u sklopu istraživanja pregledali zube 82 djece između dvije i šest godina. Karijes je pronađen u 42 slučaja, dok su preostala djeca imala zdrave zube. Zubne naslage djece potom su kultivirane u posebnim laboratorijskim uvjetima, a analize su pokazale da se u njima nalazi preko 5100 različitih bakterija. Znanstvenici posebno ističu bakteriju "scardovia wiggsiae" protiv koje u drugoj fazi istraživanja pokušavaju pronaći odgovarajuće tvari koje bi se mogle djeci davati za prevenciju u sklopu tableta ili paste za zube. Metro-portal.hr Za mene veoma interesantno, za vas??? Germanska Nova medicina - sve su bolesti izlječive, pa i rak http://www.mojaskola.me/files/mjesovita-zb/images/Mozak__.jpg Germanska Nova medicina obuhvaća sva medicinska područja i temelji se na pet empirijsko utvrđenih bioloških pravila. Nije povezana s dogmama nego počiva na razumljivim i logičnim pretpostavkama koje pomažu u liječenju ljudi, biljka i životinja, tvrdi osnivač dr. med. Ryke Geerd Hamer. Za Novu medicinu ne postoje neizlječive bolesti jer je svaka bolest dio dvofaznog "korisnog biološkog izvanrednog programa prirode (SBS)". Smatra se da je uzrok oboljenja biološki konflikt, odnosno dramatičan događaj (DHS) te da se tijelo može samo ponovno izliječiti ukoliko se konflikt riješi. Osnivač Nove medicine, dr. Hamer, i sam je obolio od raka testisa. Godine 1978. na rukama mu je preminuo sin koji je slučajno pogođen metkom u Italiji, a Hamer je uvjeren da je upravo zbog tog tragičnog događaja teško obolio od raka. Počeo je proučavati slučajeve drugih pacijenata i zaključio da svi imaju zajednički nazivnik - pacijenti su uoči bolesti pretrpjeli šok kojem se nisu nadali. Vrstu šoka koja dovodi do bolesti po sinu je nazvao "Dirk-Hamer-Syndrom" (DHS) - radi se o biološkom konfliktu koji nas je pojednostavljeno rečeno uhvatio "na krivoj nozi". Veza psiha-mozak-organ Psiha je u Novoj medicini izjednačena s moždanim i tjelesno-organskim procesima. Mozak je računalo organizma koje povezuje i koordinira sve procese, dok je psiha programer, a organi hardver. "Školska medicina na bolest gleda kao na borbu dobra i zla. Bolesti su pogreške, nedostaci i kazne. Stanice raka i mikrobi su vojska zla koja se bori s vojskom dobra poput imunološkog sustava, lijekova, doktora, operacija i tako dalje. Upravo se zbog takvog pogleda mnoge bolesti ne mogu izliječiti. Za Novu medicinu neizlječive bolesti ne postoje. Sve bolesti paralelno se odvijaju na tri razine: psihi, mozgu i organu", tvrdi Hamer čija medicina počiva na pet bioloških pravila: Željezno pravilo raka - uzrok bolesti je šok (DHS) kojeg pojedinac doživljava dramatično, a očituje se u psihi, organu i mozgu. Šok je pritom unutarnji konflikt u čovjeku i nije izravno povezan s tragičnim događajem. Kada do njega dođe pacijent ima hladne ruke i noge, danonoćno misli na konflikt, ne može spavati, gubi apetit i mršavi. Navedeni šok je ostavlja trag na mozgu (Hamer foci) i mjerljiv je pomoću CT-a. Ukoliko konflikt s vremenom jača, snažnije šteti organima, dok rješavanje konflikta dovodi do ozdravljenja na sve tri razine. Pacijent koji je riješio konflikt ulazi u drugu fazu SBS-a. Dvofazna priroda bolesti - pacijent koji je riješio konflikt ulazi u drugu fazu i osjeća se toplo, ima temperaturu i apetit ali se osjeća umorno i bezvoljno. Rješenje konflikta dovodi do ozdravljenja. Sve su bolesti po prirodi dvofazne, a točka preokreta je rješenje konflikta. Ontogenetski sustav bolesti - mozak kontrolira napredak bolesti "starim mozgom" (moždano deblo i mali mozak) ili "novim mozgom" (velikim mozgom). Stari mozak je povezan s preživljavanjem, odnosno disanjem, prehranom i reprodukcijom, dok novi mozak upravlja osobnim i društvenim problemima. Konflikti koji se javljaju vidljivi su i mjerljivi u starom ili novom mozgu, bilo da se radi o diobi stanica u aktivnoj fazi ili destrukciji tumora u fazi ozdravljenja. Ontogenetski sustav mikroba - mikrobi ne uzrokuju bolesti nego ih tijelo koristi a mozak koordinira za optimizaciju procesa liječenja. Mikrobi na taj način koriste organizmu te ih se ne smije uklanjati kao što predviđa klasična medicina. Sami se povlače kada se konflikt riješi. Kvintesencija (suština) - aktivna konfliktna faza i faza ozdravljenja tvore poseban biološki program prirode koji živim bićima pomaže da se nose s teškim situacijama. Prema tome, prave bolesti ne postoje i ono što medicina smatra bolešću zapravo je samo izvanredan prirodni proces (od AIDS-a preko tumora do karijesa itd.). Hamer sve zdravstvene probleme objašnjava navedenim zakonima i fazama, a kemoterapiju i lijekove smatra opasnima po život. Kritika i progon Nova medicina službeno nikad nije priznata. Hameru je zbog ilegalnog prakticiranja i promocije oduzeta licenca te je nekoliko puta završio u zatvoru u Njemačkoj i Francuskoj. Njegov najkontroverzniji poznati slučaj je šestogodišnja pacijentica Olivia Pilhar čiji su roditelji 1995. odustali od klasičnih metoda liječenja i dijete prepustili Hameru. Oliviji je dijagnosticiran tumor na bubregu, a roditelji su se protivili operaciji i kemoterapiji te s djetetom pobjegli u Španjolsku kako bi se liječila kod dr. Hamera. Klasičnoj medicini je podvrgnuta tek nakon što je roditeljima oduzeto skrbništvo nad djetetom koji su potom dobili i osmomjesečnu uvjetnu zatvorsku kaznu. Hamer slučaj objašnjava teorijama zavjere i tvrdi da ga se progoni jer njegova medicina ne koristi nikakve lijekove te je stoga neprofitabilna za cijelu jednu gospodarsku granu. Njegova metoda je uspješno demonstrirana i priznata 8. i 9. rujna 1998. na Sveučilištu Trnava u Slovačkoj. Metro-portal almond eyes Najzanimljiviji mi je posljednji dio:) Da li je ista uspio izlijeciti kod djevojcice od koje su roditelji svjesno napravili pokusnog kunica? Pretpostavljam da nije cim je poslije toga morala biti podvrgnuta klasicnom lijecenju. Jos da dodam da je uvjetna kazna preblaga za takve roditelje. Da li je bas sve ovako kako pise? Iako sam pristalica prirodne medicine, sumnjam, da ce nas ovoh devet biljak izlijeciti od svake bolesti. Pomoci hoce kod nekih bolesti ali ne kod svih. Tako bar ja mislim. Devet biljki koje mogu izliječiti gotovo sve http://www.zdravljeizprirode.hr/userfiles/image/nb-rhodiola_rosea.jpg *Rhodiola rosea Sustavno liječenje ljekovitim biljem, barem u Europi, započelo je kad je grčki liječnik Dioskorid, koji je živio u prvom stoljeću n. e., napisao enciklopediju De materia medica (O ljekovitim tvarima). Ta je enciklopedija idućih 1 600 godina bila glavni farmakološki priručnik. Do 21. stoljeća upoznali smo se i s biljem iz udaljenih područja, a na metro-portal.hr izdvojili su 9 koje liječe gotovo sve naše boljke. Zlatni korijen (Rhodiola rosea) - biljka koja prirodno raste u sjevernoj Aziji, a u medicinske svrhe koristi se njezin korijen. Ima višestruke koristi, kao što su povećanje izdržljivosti, kondicije, poboljšava mentalnu bistrinu i koncentraciju, imunološki sustav, kao i seksualne funkcije. Povijest korištenja u medicinske svrhe duža joj je od 2000 godina. Kineski carevi slali bi ekspedicije u planine kako bi nabavili rhodiolu za potrebe kraljevske palače. Kasnih 1980-ih značajno je porasla potražnja za preparatima R. rosee. Došlo je do pretjeranog prikupljanja divljeg biljnog materijala, te je kvaliteta i efektivnost preparata počela opadati. Znanstvena istraživanja otkrila su da se u izradi preparata koriste druge vrste roda Rhodiola (koje također sadrže salidrozide) i na taj način su se patvorili preparati R. rosee. Bobice goji (Lycium barbarum) - travari Kine, Tibeta i Indije koristili su ovu biljku tisućama godina. Smatra se da bobice goji produžuju život i poboljšavaju zdravlje. Bogate su antioksidansima, poboljšavaju imunitet i cirkulaciju te štite jetru. U tradicionalnoj kineskoj medicini bobice se jedu sirove, piju kao čaj ili tekući ekstrakt. Odoljen ili valerijana - osnovne tvari važne za biološko djelovanje su valepotrijati koji se nalaze u podzemnim dijelovima biljke. Aktivne tvari u biljci djeluju umirujuće, te pomažu kod nesanice, nemira, tjeskobe. Pacijenti koji su uzimali ekstrakt korijena ove biljke brže su tonuli u san, rjeđe su se budili u toku noći, a ujutro nakon ustajanja nisu se osjećali umorno i omamljeno. Odoljen ublažava simptome stresa, razdražljivost, nervozu, preveliku psihičku aktivnost. Pomaže osobama koje se teško isključuju od svakodnevnih briga. Čaj od odoljena uspješno se koristi kod svih živčanih bolesti. Isusova kruna ili pasiflora - za liječenje se koristi cijeli nadzemni dio biljke za vrijeme cvatnje. Pomaže kod nesanice, prenapornog intelektualnog rada, neurastenije i drugih živčanih poremećaja te uspješno pomaže liječenju alkoholizma jer izvrsno smiruje. Osim nesanice, djeluje kod psihičke prenadraženosti, brige, neraspoloženja. Pasiflora poboljšava cirkulaciju, regulira visoki krvni tlak izazvan psihogenim uzrocima te ublažava simptome PMS-a i probleme u menopauzi jer otklanja grčeve i spazam glatke muskulature. http://www.zdravljeizprirode.hr/userfiles/image/nb-pasiflora.jpg * Isusova kruna ili pasiflora Kopriva - raste u Europi, Africi, Aziji i Sjevernoj Americi. Kopriva se još u Grčkoj koristila za masažu protiv reumatskih bolova, pa odatle u narodu udomaćeno neobaziranje na njeno žarenje prilikom nasumičnog dodira. Kopriva utječe na izmjenu tvari i u organizmu potiče izlučivanje probavnih sokova te olakšava metabolizam masti. Sadrži puno klorofila, minerala (kalcija, kalija, željeza i fosfora) i vitamina (C i A). Flavonoidi koje sadrži pozitivno djeluju na naš organizam, ekstrakt korijena koristi se protiv opadanja kose, a zbog količine željeza ima pozitivan učinak na stvaranje crvenih krvnih zrnaca. Osim toga dobra je i za prostatu. Kava kava - biljka kava-kava sve više privlači pozornost zbog svojega dobrog anksiolitičkog učinka. O njoj se govori kao o super-biljki jer bi možda mogla zamijeniti benzodiazepine. Naime, dok benzodiazepini mogu izazvati ovisnost, dovesti do smetnja pamćenja i pogoršati depresiju, dotle kava-kava otklanja anksioznost, poboljšava raspoloženje i kognitivne funkcije, a sve to bez razvoja ovisnosti. Istraživač na otoku Fiji, Levin, još je davne 1884. godine zapazio da kava-kava "bistri um i izoštrava mentalne sposobnosti". Naime, korijen biljke kava-kava na pacifičkim se otocima tisućljećima rabi za pripremu napitka uz tradicionalni religiozni obred koji umiruje i opušta. Cimet - ovaj poznati začin ne popravlja samo okus hrane. Studije su pokazale da cimet ima slična svojstva kao inzulin, stoga pomaže regulaciji i stabilizaciji šećera u krvi. Otkriveno je da mješavina meda i cimeta liječi mnoge bolesti. Po ajurvedskim tradicijama, cimet se također koristi za poboljšanje probave i cirkulacije te za olakšanje simptoma prehlade. Konopljika (Eupatorium cannabinum) - Ova biljka osobito je korisna za ženske probleme. Konopljika ne sadrži hormone, a njeno djelovanje se temelji na smanjenju lučenja prolaktina putem dopaminergičkih neurona, čime uspostavlja ravnotežu progesterona i estrogena u menstrualnom ciklusu - smanjuje estrogen, FSH i prolaktin, a povećava progesteron. Drugim riječima pomaže prilikom pms-a, menstrualnih ciklusa, a neki čak smatraju da liječi neplodnost kod žena. Vražja kandža - iz južnoafričkih pustinja dolazi biljka Vražja kandža (lat. Harpagophytum procumbens) čiji je korijen mnogim ljudima ublažio tegobe s kostima i zglobovima. U 19 st. kolonijalisti su je donijeli u Europu, gdje je postala popularno sredstvo protiv artritisa. Istraživanjem njezinih aktivnih sastojaka utvrđeno je da sadrži tvar harpagozid koja smanjuje upalne procese u zglobovima na način da potiče uklanjanje toksina nakupljenih oko zglobova. Za razliku od antireumatika koji se često koriste u liječenju artritisa i osteoartritisa s ciljem smanjenja bolova ali koji isto tako mogu i oštetiti hrskavicu te uzrokovati nadražaj crijeva i krvarenje, vražja kandža štiti hrskavicu, podmazuje zglobove te također smanjuje bolove i povećava pokretljivost zglobova i to bez nuspojava. Redovitom primjenom vražje kandže potreba za lijekovima protiv bolova se smanjuje. Napomena: Kao što je to slučaj sa svim preparatima koji se koriste u medicinske svrhe, tako i ljekovito bilje treba koristiti pažljivo, uz stručan savjet i, naravno, u razumnoj mjeri. Osim toga, imajte na umu da za neke bolesti zasad nema lijeka. Nije lose probati. I bez savremenih lijekova ljudi su naslazili nacin da razrijese neke zdravstvene probleme.Nije lose sve probati. Zašto je dobro imati senf u kući? http://wertzu.net/wp-content/themes/StudioPress_Red/images/senf.jpg Senf nije samo ukusan nego i vrlo svestran. Jeste li znali da pomaže kod bronhitisa, bolova u zglobovima i visokog tlaka? Senf ulja imaju antibakterijsko djelovanje i navodno usporavaju rast tumora. Stoga i ne čudi da su stari Grci koristili senf u medicinske svrhe i prije nego što su otkrili njegove začinske prednosti. Senf se dobiva iz sjemenki biljke gorušice koja je usko povezana s kupusom i rotkvom. Od 500.000 sjemenki može se proizvesti kilogram senfa, a postoje tri osnovne vrste: 1. blagi žuti (sinapis alba), 2. ljuti smeđu (brassica juncea) i 3. ljuti crni senf (brassica nigra). Tipični sastojci senfa su sjemenke, sol, ocat, voda i začini ovisno o recepturi. Sjemenka senfa sama po sebi nema privlačan okus. Eterična ulja u njoj počinju se oslobađati tek kada se istuče ljuska, a sjemenka dođe u kontakt s vodom. Ulja u zrnu odlična su za zdravlje. Pitagora je tvrdio da senf oštri um, a istraživanja su pokazala da ubrzava metabolizam te da ima antibakterijsko djelovanje, što znači da se uspješno bori protiv bakterija i raznih uzročnika bolesti u organizmu. Oblozi od senfa Senf ne djeluje samo iznutra nego je učinkovit i izvana. Ako vas muče artritis, reumatske bolesti i bolovi u mišićima, pripremite si oblog od mješavine senfa i vode. Četiri žlice brašna gorušice (prodaje se u ljekarnama) pritom pomiješajte s malo mlake vode, a ako na raspolaganju nemate brašno, poslužit će i običan, jestivi senf. Smjesu ravnomjerno rasporedite po papirnatoj maramici te krpom zamotajte na bolno mjesto i držite do pet minuta (oprez: kod osoba s osjetljivom kožom može doći do težih opeklina). Oblog od senfa grije pogođeno područje i potiče prokrvljenost. Bol se smanjuje, a upala se polako povlači. Oblozi (od ulja) se mogu primijeniti i kod upale sinusa i gornjih dišnih puteva. Ulje senfa razgrađuje sluz i ubija bakterije, a oblozi se stavljaju na prsa ili leđa (zbog opeklina nije preporučljivo za osobe s osjetljivom kožom i djecu ispod šest godina). Senf protiv migrena i tumora Kod prehlade i glavobolje pomaže kupka za noge od brašna senfa (dvije žlice, 15-20 minuta). Pozitivno djelovanje senfa pritom se osjeća u cijelom tijelu, a kupka navodno rješava i probleme s nesanicom i depresijom, piše Bayerischer Rundfunk. Senf se posljednjih godina sve više spominje u kontekstu prevencije raka. Znanstvenici sa Sveučilišta Freiburg otkrili su da redovita konzumacija senfa smanjuje rizik od nastanka tumora. Ispitanici su dnevno jeli 20 grama senfa, a njihova krv kasnije je u laboratoriju "bombardirana" kancerogenim tvarima. Uspostavilo se da se krv ispitanika koji su redovito jeli senf bolje nosila s opasnim tvarima od ispitanika koji senf nisu konzumirali na dnevnoj bazi. Metro-portal Dakle, ono sto smo ranije tvrdili nije tacno. Sumnjam, moglo bi biti tacno i ovo ali i ucestale teske stresne situacije. Glavni razlozi srčanog udara nisu ni naporna tjelovježba ni stres http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcThRuF-F98_gDWcLGT9mncfRcEJj-http://zdravlje-prehrana.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/srcani-udar-300x199.jpg Najveći je krivac zagađenje zraka, tvrdi se u novom istraživanju objavljenom u magazinu The Lancet. Vrijeme koje provedemo u saobraćaju, bilo kao vozač ili kao pješak, na vrhu je popisa rizika koji dovode do srčanog udara. Zagađeni zrak sadrži čestice prašine i čađu, čiji je promjer manji od 10 mikrona (jedan mikron je milioniti dio metra), koje dospijevaju u pluća i uzrokuju upale, piše Net. Jon Ayres, profesor okolišne i respiratorne medicine na Univerzitetu Birmingham, kaže: "Čestice iz zraka povećavaju rizik od respiratornih problema, a čini se i da pogoršavaju krvnu sliku. U slučaju da imate srčanu bolest ovo može dovesti do srčanog udara." Zagađenje zraka nije samo povezano sa moždanim i srčanim udarima te rakom – bitno utiče i na one koji pate od respiratornih problema. Ako je nekih dana zagađenje veće, astmatičari imaju veću šansu dobiti napad. Kako smanjiti štetu i disati s lakoćom U saobraćaju Krećite se sporednim ulicama u kojima je manji saobraćaj. U velikom gradu šećući glavnom saobraćajnicom za samo 48 minuta pješak udahne zagađenje jednako onome kao da je popušio cigaretu. Dizelski motori posebno su opasni jer ispuštaju vrlo sitne čestice. Izbjegavajte tunele i ceste koje su okružene visokim zgradama jer se tu zagađenje duže zadržava i s vremenom postaje sve veće. U kući i na poslu Kupite kućne biljke jer one pročišćavaju zrak. Ovo je vrlo važno jer većina ljudi provede 90 posto vremena u zatvorenom prostoru. Ali, nivo zagađenja unutra može biti dva do pet puta veća nego vani. Ne koristite osvježivače zraka, sintetičke tepihe i namještaj od prerađenih materijala. Najbolje je koristiti pravo drvo, vunu, pamuk i druge prirodne materijale. Mnogi umjetni materijali s vremenom ispuštaju opasne plinove koji se povezuju sa pojavom raka. Osim toga, kod djece okružene namještajem sintetičkog porijekla ili napravljenim uz korištenje ljepila veća je vjerovatnost da obole od astme. Umjesto osvježivača zraka jednostavno otvorite prozor i prozračite. Fotokopirni aparati emituju veliku količinu opasnih sastojaka. Sjedite li blizu pomaknite stol ili fotokopirni aparat prebacite u hodnik, odnosno zasebnu sobicu. (24sata.info almond eyes Sjetih se ,dok citam ovaj gore post o senfu,davno mi je jedna apotekarka preporucila kad dijete ima temperaturu da je dobro namazati mu tabane senfom.navodno da skida temperaturu.nije mi se nikad dalo eksperimentisati,tako da ne mogu tvrditi je li bas uspjesno. mermaid Ide nam proljeće, a sa njim i jagode. One su nam dobro osvježenje za organizam poslije dugog zimskog perioda. Jagodama protiv celulita i proljetnog umora http://www.sheportal.net/pictures/b9202195566b49cc2755bac9d8bc5518.jpg Žene koje imaju problema s cirkulacijom trebaju jesti puno jagoda, jer osim što smanjuju proljetni umor, ubrzavaju cirkulaciju i čiste krv, odličan su izvor vitamina C značajnog u borbi protiv slobodnih radikala i celulita Žene koje imaju problema s cirkulacijom trebaju jesti puno jagoda, jer osim što smanjuju proljetni umor, ubrzavaju cirkulaciju i čiste krv, odličan su izvor vitamina C značajnog u borbi protiv slobodnih radikala i celulita Kada je riječ o celulitu važno je znati i njegovu relaciju s slobodnim radikalima. Slobodni radikali su oksidacijske jako nestabilne i agresivne molekule koje napadaju i oštećuju vitalne stanične strukture. Oni se stalno formiraju u našem organizmu kao nusprodukti uslijed kemijskih reakcija u našem tijelu i uzrokuju stanična oštećenja. Oštećenja su povezana i sa starenjem organizma. Na nastajanje slobodnih radikala utječe: pušenje, neumjerno konzumiranje alkohola i kofeina, stres, konstipacija, različite bolesti, ali i starenje. Isto tako i prehrana bogata mastima, kao i sveopće pretjerivanje u jelu pridonosi stvaranju slobodnih radikala. Prebrzo sagorijevanje masnoća također uzrokuje otpuštanje tih oštećenih molekula, a to je ujedno i dobar razlog da se misao o brzom gubljenju težine napusti. Napokon, slobodni radikali napadaju kolagen. Posljedice toga je - prerano starenje i degeneracija kolagena. Kolagen je najvažnija komponenta vezivnog tkiva, a sudjeluje u izgradnji hrskavice, tkiva, krvnih žila, kostiju, zubi i čini 25% ukupne mase bjelančevina u tijelu. Naš organizam ga asimilira samo u hidroliziranom obliku uz prisustvo dovoljnih količina vitamina C Izlaganje suncu ( sunčanje) je drugi glavni izvor nastajanja slobodnih radikala. UV - zrake uništavaju kolagen i elastin u koži; dakle sunčanje ubrzava starenje. Dugotrajno sunčanje treba izbjegavati i zbog otežane cirkulacije kod žena koje boluju od celulita. Antioksidanti - vitamini A, C i E su vitamini koji uništavaju slobodne radikale. Oni neutraliziraju oštećenja stanica i čine ih ponovno bezopasnim. Kompleks ACE (tzv. ?pušački vitamini?) štite stanice tijela od oštećenja i podržava imunološki sustav. Dakle, žene koje imaju problema s celulitom svakako trebaju uzimati dostatne količine antioksidanata!. Jagode kao lijek Tu valja spomenuti da vitamin C ( askorbinska kiselina) osim što smanjuje loše posljedice cigaretnog dima i jača obrambenu sposobnost organizma protiv zaraze, pomaže u borbi protiv stresa, jer potiče sintezu nekih hormona ( steroida). Zapamtite, stres i celulit su kolinearni. Iz toga je vidljivo kako je suplementiranje prehrane s vitaminom C izuzetno potrebno. Osim što ćete prehranu suplementirati kvalitetnim odabirom vitamina i minerala predlažemo vam da iskoristite i prirodne izvore vitamina C kao npr. jagoda koje su posljednjih dana preplavile naše tržnice. Ako još niste upoznali ljekovito lice jagode (pogotovo šumske jagode) učinite to sada: jagoda smanjuje proljetni umor, ubrzava cirkulaciju,pročiščava i pomlađuje jetru, liječi "lijena" crijeva, ublažava infekcije grla i urinarnog trakta, pojačava izlučivanje mokraće, čisti krv i detoksicira organzam, pomaže u borbi s celulitom Proljetna detoksikacija s kurom jagoda: 1 kg jagoda Priprema: U pet obroka tijekom dana pojesti po 200 g jagoda s mlijekom (kravlje, sojino ili rižino) ili sa sokom limuna. Ritam sami odredite. Kuru bi trebalo provoditi najmanje pet tjedana, ali će već i jedan dan u tjednu biti djelotvoran. Ostale namirnice koje sadrže vitamin C (50 mg) su: 30 g crnog ribizla 25 g kivija 50 g sirove paprike 25 g peršina 70 g potočarke 80 g sirovog crvenog kupusa 100 g agruma 200 g jetre ili bubrega Važni izvori vitamina A (retinola) su:mrkva, špinat, jetra, ulja raznih riba, mlijeko Važni izvori vitamina E (tokoferola) su: ulje kukuruzno, pamučno, suncokretovo, sojino, pšenične klice, margarin, jaja, mlijeko, maslac, zeleno povrće Važni izvori vitamina C (askorbinske kiseline) su: zeleno lišće i ovojnice od voća ,krumpir, šipak, jagode, agrumi, zeleno povrće I ja sam ga trazio u srijedu ali ga nema ni u jednoj apoteci ili supermarketu.Inace, se prodaje bez recepta.Ono sto mnogi ne znaju, doze ovog lijeka treba uzimati po savjetu lijecnika a nikako po svojoj volji, jer moze negativno uticati na rad srca.~o) Panika zavladala: Amerikanci požurili po antiradijacijske pilule http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQIJsCLuV88XSvvtCINumAaHEiONY9To 86SPqs90qQJh8http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQYIC7cJI3VTGMCAD-DX-p54u2QttvGB42C1jaTp5D0YJ2KG0CvEDaNAA Kriza u oštećenoj japanskoj nuklearki Fukushima Daiichi izazvala je strah od radioaktivnog zagađenja u Sjedinjenim Državama, iako stručnjaci kažu da je to vrlo malo vjerovatno, kao i masovnu potražnju za antiradijacijskim pilulama koje proizvode dvije male američke firme. Prestrašeni stanovnici u zapadnim državama kao što su Kalifornija, Washington i Oregon, preplavili su zdravstvene službe sa tjeskobnim pitanjima o nuklearnoj opasnosti, a neke od lokalnih vlasti počele su objavljivati podatke o praćenju radioaktivnosti zraka, saopštio je The Washington Post, prenosi Hina. "Otvorili smo telefonsku liniju i primili stotine poziva od zabrinute javnosti", rekao je Michael Sicilio iz kalifornijskog Zavoda za javno zdravstvo. Dvije američke firme koje proizvode kalijev jodid, koji može smanjiti rizik od raka štitnjače kod izloženosti radioaktivnom jodu-131, pretpane su zahtjevima za lijekove od pojedinaca, apoteka, bolnica, vrtića i drugih. "Ljudi su užasnuti", rekao je Alan Morris, predsjednik uprave firme Anbex Inc. iz Williamsburga u Virginiji, koja prodaje pakovanje sa 14 tableta kalijeva jodida za 10 dolara. "Primamo pozive od ljudi koji plaču i govore stvari poput: 'Molim vas. Možete li mi pomoći? Možete li mi išta poslati? ", dodao je. Obje firme, zajedno sa državnim i saveznim funkcionerima i nezavisnim stručnjacima za zračenje, pokušavaju uvjeriti građane kako su izgledi da značajne količine radioaktivnog zračenja stignu iz Japana u Sjedinjene Države zanemarivi, što takve mjere opreza čini nepotrebnima. "Sve dostupne informacije naznačuju da neće biti nikakvih štetnih nivoa radioaktivnosti u SAD-u. Tu apsolutno nema razloga za zabrinutost." rekao je Scott Burnell, glasnogovornik američke Nuklearne regulatorne komisije. Agencija za zaštitu okoliša (EPA) je saopštila da će za Zapadnu obalu staviti na raspolaganje dodatnu opremu za motrenje, kako bi se ojačale mogućnosti otkrivanja bilo kakvog zračenja u zraku. Međutim, hiljade ljudi traži kalijev jodid. Lanac apoteka CVS je tokom vikenda online rasprodao svoje zalihe. Dostupan bez recepta, kalijev jodid blokira nakupljanje radioaktivnog joda u štitnjači, gdje on može izazvati rak. Nakon černobilske katastrofe 1986., zabilježene su hiljade slučajeva raka štitnjače, prije svega među onima koji su u vrijeme te nuklearne katastrofe bili djeca i pili mlijeko kontaminiranih krava. "To je bilo ludilo, jedino tako to mogu opisati", rekla je Deborah Fleming Wurdack, suvlasnica firme Fleming Pharmaceuticals u St. Louisu, koja prodaje tekuću verziju kalijevog jodida u boci sa kapaljkom za 13,25 dolara, koja sadrži 135 doza za odrasle. "Fielding ima stotine poziva. Ljudi dolaze na vrata. Zvali su nas iz Singapura, iz Japana, iz Koreje. Zvali su nas u ime država uz naručivanje velikih količina", rekla je Fleming. Firma očekuje da će iscrpiti svoje zalihe od 50.000 boca do kraja dana u srijedu, ali se priprema za nastavak proizvodnje i zapošljavanje radnika na određeno vrijeme. (24sata.info almond eyes Strah i panika mogu napraviti vise stete nego ista. mary-ann Sjetih se ,dok citam ovaj gore post o senfu,davno mi je jedna apotekarka preporucila kad dijete ima temperaturu da je dobro namazati mu tabane senfom.navodno da skida temperaturu.nije mi se nikad dalo eksperimentisati,tako da ne mogu tvrditi je li bas uspjesno. Neces vjerovati, ali je zaista uspjesno.:) almond eyes Neces vjerovati, ali je zaista uspjesno.:) Vjerujem da jeste.Kad mi se djeca razbole i dobiju temperaturu nemam volje da mazuckam senf,a kad uzbuna prodje onda se korim sto nisam probala:sakomuglavu: mermaid Prehranom protiv glavobolje Dokazano je kako neke namirnice mogu izazvati jaku i iznenadnu glavobolju jer sadrže tvari koje šire krvne žile i tako prouzrokuju bol. Za prevenciju glavobolje jako je bitna pravilna prehrana. Preporučuje se uporaba ljute paprike, jer sadrži kapsacin, supstancu koja regulira cirkulaciju krvi i smanjuje produkciju supstanci koje uzrokuju bol. Preporučuju se i namirnice koje sadrže magnezij, mliječni proizvodi, kruh, riba i med. Osobe koje dobivaju napade glavobolje trebaju izbjegavati alkohol, kafu, čokoladu, mesne prerađevine, konzerviranu hranu, masne sireve i pretjeranu uporabu soli. mermaid Još nešto o ljekovitosti meda... Med je vrlo koncentrirana otopina šećera koju proizvode medne pčele. Uobičajeno se koristi kao zamjena za šećer ili zbog pojačavanja okusa. Ali osim toga, med je također učinkovit kao tretman za opekline i rane i u tu se svrhu koristi već stoljećima. Sada je poznato da tajna meda leži u njegovim antibakterijskim svojstvima. Kako med može zaustaviti infekciju? Svi znamo da bakterije vole šećer, ali zašto većina bakterija i mikroorganizama ne može rasti ili se razmnožavati u medu? Evo razloga: Kiselost – med je kiselkast, a kiselina spriječava rast bakterija. Hidrogen peroksid – kada se med nanese kao lijek za ranu, otapa se sa tekućinom iz rane i spaja ju sa enzimima koje mu daju pčele kreirajući hidrogen peroksid, antiseptik kakav možete kupiti u ljekarni. Tako otopljeni med služi kao odličan antiseptik, jer prirodno stvoreni hidrogen peroksid neće naštetiti tkivu i neće ostaviti ožiljke. Korištenje meda kao oblog za rane Uobičajeno, 20 ml meda (25 - 30 g) je dovoljno za oblog veličine 10 cm X 10 cm. Oblog od meda treba izrezati na veličlinu koja malo prelazi preko rubova rane. Kako bi spriječili da med iscuri iz obloga, potrebno je koristiti vodootporne obloge. Ne preporučuju se upotreba obloga koji upijaju, jer će med tako biti manje učinkovit. Ljepljive vrpce ili flasteri mogli bi pridržati oblog na mjestu. Najboljeje prvo namazati med na oblog i zatim položiti na ranu, umjesto razmazivanja na samu ranu. Ako postoji gnoj u ozlijeđenom područuju, premažite ga medom prije postavljanja obloga, tako će med sasvim doći u dodir sa ozljedom i moći će ju zaliječiti. Količina meda koja je potrebna za ranu ovisi o količini tekućine koja se vadi iz nje. Med će postati beskoristan ako se razrijedi sa velikom količinom tekućine. Također, redovitost promjene obloga ovisi o tome koliko brzo tekućina razrjeđuje med. Za dublje infekcije, potrebno je više meda koji će proizvesti antibakterijski učinak. Možda će biti potrebno mijenjati oblog do 3 puta tijekom dana. Iscijeđivanje tekućine moglo bi se smanjiti nakon prvih dva dana korištenja mednog obloga. Nakon tog vremena potrebno je manje mijenjati oblog. Med korišten u medicini Ovdje su neki uobičajeni problemi koje se jednostavno može spriječiti upotrebom meda: Alergije – sirovi med je odličan tretman za 90% alergija. Anemija – med je odličan za obogaćivanje krvi. Što je med tamniji, to bolje. Uzmite 1 zrelu bananu sa 1 žlicom meda, 1-2 puta tijekom dana. Apetit – med poboljšava apetit kod djece koja boluju od gubitka apetita. Konjunktivitis – otopite malo meda u jednakoj količini tople vode. Kad se ohladi, namažite na područje oko oka kao losion ili kao očnu kupku. Umor i iscrpljenost – med je najbolji sastojak za uklanjanje umora, jer je vrlo brzo upija u krv. Otopite 1 žličicu meda u toploj vodi ili malo veću količinu meda u šalici vode koju ćete zatim čuvati u hladnjaku. Glavobolje i migrene – uzmite 2 žličice meda u vrijeme obroka za spriječavanje glavobolje. Kod migrena, uzmite jednu desertnu žličicu meda otopljenu u pola čaše tople vode. Ponovite za 20 minuta ako migrena potraje. Bolesti srca – med se može biriti protiv kolesterola. Čisti med konzumiran svakodnevno umjesto šećera oslobađa kolesterol iz tijela. To je odlična pomoć za starije osobe, posebno one koje pate od dijabetesa, srčanih bolesti, visokog krvnog tlaka i slično. Visoki krvni tlak – pomiješajte 1 žličicu meda, 1 žličicu đumbirovog soka i 1 žličicu kumina u porahu i konzumirajte to 2 puta tijekom dana. Nesanica – uzmite 1 žličicu meda pomiješanu sa mlakom vodom ili mlijekom i popijte prije spavanja. Loša probava – pomiješajte jednake količine meda i jabučnog octa i otopite sa malo tople vode. Koža – med je odličan za hidratizaciju. Također pomaže kod rješavanja problema kao što su akne i prištići. Suho grlo – ostavite 1 žličicu meda u ustima da se polako otapa i klizi niz grlo. Bol u stomaku – konzumirajte 1 žličicu meda, sok iz pola limuna i čašu što toplije vode odmah nakon jutarnjeg buđenja. Zubi – iako med jest sladak, on pomaže u održavanju zdravih i zaštićenih zubi. Važna napomena: Med sadrži određene bakterije koje mogu biti opasne za dijenčad; nikada ga ne smijete davati djeci mlađoj od godinu dana. Tada može dovesti do otrovanja hranom. Sada znate da med kad je pravilno nanešen na ranu može dovesti do zacjeljenja ponekad i bolje od lijekova ili liječničkih obloga. Također je odličan preventivan medikant za uobičajene boljke. almond eyes Kad sve lijepo procitam,pa neka je i pola ovo sve tacno(a,jeste i vise)zapitas se zasto se med tako slabo koristi u odnosu na ono sve dobro sto bi nam donio:( Vecinom mi svi uzmemo ujutru ili uvece kasicicu meda i to je to,eventualno zasladimo caj ili mlijeko. Producent Jos jedna velika prednost i korist koju covjek moze imati od MEDA. Osobe koje su alergicne na polenov prah,koji dolazi sa prvim beharima i imaga sve do kraja 7.mj. morale bi tokom cjele godine unositi u organizam po jednu kasiku(obicna,za supu),ako bi zelili da se rjese te vrlo nezgodne a i neprijatne alergije.Ta alergija posebno tesko pogadja starije ljude,osobe sa bronhitisom kao i sa astmom. Ovaj vid terapije je najbezbolniji i najefikasniji. Michaela Napitak od meda za mrsavljenje Pola kašičice cimeta preliti šoljom ključale vode, poklopiti i ostaviti da odstoji 30 minuta. Kad se ohladi, dodati kašiku meda. Pola šolje popiti neposredno pred spavanje, a drugu polovinu poklopiti i ostaviti u frižider. Ujutru, na prazan stomak, popiti preostalu količinu napitka, ali ga ne podgrevati, uzeti ga hladnog ili ostaviti da se ugreje na sobnoj temperaturi. almond eyes Jos jedna velika prednost i korist koju covjek moze imati od MEDA. Osobe koje su alergicne na polenov prah,koji dolazi sa prvim beharima i imaga sve do kraja 7.mj. morale bi tokom cjele godine unositi u organizam po jednu kasiku(obicna,za supu),ako bi zelili da se rjese te vrlo nezgodne a i neprijatne alergije.Ta alergija posebno tesko pogadja starije ljude,osobe sa bronhitisom kao i sa astmom. Ovaj vid terapije je najbezbolniji i najefikasniji. Za ovo nisam znala,je li zbilja djeluje? Moj muz je alergican na polen,trave i sl.,cim proljece podje kihati,smrcati,oci ga bole.Vecinom koristi neke kapi,koje imaju slab rezultat. Producent Alma-nemoj da koristi sprejove za nos,opasni su.Najbolje neke jace kapi ako moze da dodje do njih?:) almond eyes Koristio je prije Dexamethason kapi,a od prosle godine neke novije,zaboravila sam kako se zovu.A,ove godine vidjecemo,pratim i reklame,a kad bas zagusti knjizicu u ruke i pravac Dom zdravlja. Producent Ako nenadje nesto adekvatno,javi se:) Za sve one koji imaju problem sa prosirenim venama.Kroz razmjenu misljnjenja, mozda spoznamo i vise. Bolest prosirenih vena Bolest proširenih vena je jedna od najčešćih u civiliziranom svijetu, Zahvaća gotovo 50% žena, ali i samo nešto manji postotak muškarca, jer su oni do sada te probleme skrivali ili nisu obazirali na njih pažnju. U današnje vrijeme, kada i muškarci posvećuju svom zdravlju, tijelu i izgledu puno pozornosti, sve više muškaraca s venskim problemima vidim u svojoj praksi. Svi Vi koji imate problem s venama pitate se zašto ih imam, od čega, je li to genetski, vezano za posao itd....? Proširene (varikozne) vene su široke, vijugave, okom vidljive površne vene na nogama. Gotovo su uvijek izazvane oštećenjem zalistaka vena koji kontroliraju tijek krvi od periferije ka srcu i plućima gdje krv dobije kisik i preko arterija se vraća u tkiva. Ako ovi zalisci (ventili) ne funkcioniraju dobro onda krv ne ide samo prema srcu već se dio vraća u niži dio vene izazivajući, logično, njezino proširenje, nepravilnosti u zidu vene itd. Uzroci proširenih vena su: prvenstveno genetski, pojavljuju se i pogoršavaju u trudnoći, tijekom uzimanja kontracepcijskih tableta, trauma, udarac, debljina, visoke potpetice i uska obuća jer smanjuju rad „mišićne pumpe“ ozljede kralješnice, spuštena stopala duže sjedenje i stajanje. Prikaz normalne venske anatomije noge. Sve prikazane vene su površinske (osim femoralne vene), i često mogu biti zahvaćene varikoznim promjenama i zahtjevati liječenje. http://www.arithera.hr/clip_image002.jpg Obično imate neke od simptoma: bolove u nogama, nelagodu, svrbež, oticanje gležnjeva, osjećaj težine u nogama, noćne grčeve, umor. Usto se vide proširene vene. Tijek bolesti proširenih vena ide kroz 6 faza i ne može se zaustaviti ako se ne liječi. Te faze mi ocjenjujemo prema CEAP skali (od C0-C6). Ukratko, ako imate C0 imate gore navedene simptome ali vene još nisu proširene, ako ste ocijenjeni sa C1 imate venektazije, proširene, paučinaste vene vidljive ispod kože, ono što se popularno zove „ kapilare“. C2 znači da imate vidljive proširene vene koje Vas smetaju estetski, ponekad bole, posebno kad je toplo, C3 znači da su noge već otečene povremeno ili stalno, C4 da postoje promjene boje kože obično smeđe na potkoljenicama ili bjeličaste uz ostale simptome oticanja nogu, bolova, težine u nogama. C5 znači da ste već imali ranu na nozi, obično s unutrašnje strane gležnja, a C6 znači da imate otvorenu ranu na nozi koja ne cijeli. Nemojte se zapustiti i doći do ovih zadnjih faza koje se također mogu liječiti, ali je uspjeh veći u ranijim fazama. Često me pitate kako možete spriječiti razvoj proširenja vena. Iskreni odgovor je teško. Vježbe koje postoje su slabog učinka, elastične čarape smanjuju simptome ali samo odgađaju rješenje problema, lijekovi su najčešće neučinkoviti. Svakako pomaže smanjenje tjelesne težine što je vrijedan uspjeh Vaše snažne volje, ali ga je teško postići, zbog načina života, stresa, i najčešće se nažalost izgubljeni kilogrami vrate, uostalom debljina samo pogoršava stanje vena, ali ih sama ne uzrokuje. Osobe s prekomjernom težinom mogu metodom UGFS jednako dobro izliječiti vene kao i oni sa umjerenom težinom. Promjena radnog mjesta u ono koje neće zahtjevati duže stajanje ili sjedenje je u stvarnom svijetu gotovo „nemoguća misija“. Prekid hormonalne terapije je učinkovit, ali kako ih ne uzimate bez razloga, onda imate drugi problem, čime ih zamijeniti http://www.zdravstveni.com/krv/varikozne_ili_prosirene_vene.jpg ŠTO RADITI AKO IMATE OVE SIMPTOME? Ako imate neki od ovih simptoma vrijeme je da se temeljito pregledate. Neophodan je pregled specijaliste za vene koji radi i klinički pregled i doplersko snimanje vena. Color doplerom se uočavaju promjene na venama, njihova funkcija i protok krvi te se tako otkriva uzrok problema i na temelju njega se odredjuje liječenje. Pažljivo izvođenje doplera je od iznimne važnosti jer brzim i površnim pregledom se mogu napraviti grube pogreške (kao što znate u bolnicama je zbog velikog broja pacijenata vrlo teško obaviti temeljit pregled). Liječnik mora pregledati sve vene (venska mapa), naći mjesta na kojima su ventili popustili da bi upravo ta mjesta bile liječena. Optimalno je da pregled radi stručnjak koji se bavi i dijagnostikom i liječenjem vena jer on najbolje zna uočiti bitne elemente Vaše bolesti. Nakon temeljitog pregleda, potrebno je ocijenti kako Vam se najbolje može pomoći. Doplerski kriteriji za izvođenje zahvata su vrlo precizni i treba ih poštivati. Ukoliko imate proširene vene morate ih liječiti jer ste izloženi većem riziku duboke venske tromboze, te plućne embolije, krvarenju iz varikoziteta, i u nezbježnoj konačnici rani na nozi! Danas je najprihvaćenija metoda liječenja injiciranje specijalne pjene pod ultrazvukom u točno određeno mjesto koja dovede do sljubljivanja zidova te vene i njenog postupnog nestajanja kroz 2-3 mjeseca (UGFS). Pritom je iznimno važno odrediti točno mjesto injiciranja, koncentraciju, količinu i niz drugih elemenata zbog čega svaki liječnik koji radi ovaj zahvat bi trebao imati diplomu o osposobljenosti za njega (pitajte ga!). Kod nas u Poliklinici Arithera zahvat izvodi autor ovog teksta sa svojim timom. Ako se liječnik koji radi zahvat ne pridržava svih pravila propisanih od strane EU eksperata rezultat neće biti dobar i mogu se javiti komplikacije. Bit ove metode je u tome što treba liječiti uzrok nastanka lošeg rada ventila a ne, kako što se nažalost kod nas radi, početi liječenje vene na mjestu na kojem se vide. Takav postupak, injicanje vene koja se vidi može izvesti svatko i on rezultira često ožiljcima i još gorim stanjem nego što je bilo. Dobro izveden zahvat je gotovo bezbolan i traje 20-30 minuta. Vi ležite na krevetu, nakon zahvata postave se elastični zavoji na nozi koje nosite nekoliko dana. Već nakon 24 sata možete raditi svakodnevne poslove. Doći ćete na kontrolu u određeno vrijeme. gdje će se provjeriti kako proces cijeljenja vene napreduje. Metoda je uspješna u 90-95% slučajeva, kada je radi iskusan i educiran liječnik i gotovo da nema komplikacija. U malom broju slučajeva neuspjeha, ili djelomičnog uspjeha, što znači da vena nije sasvim ili djelomično nestala, zahvat se bez problema ponovi nakon nekog vremena (za 2 tjedna npr.) Vrlo mali broj ljudi nije prikladan za ovaj zahvat što se utvrdi tijekom pregleda i savjestan liječnik u tim slučajevima nikad neće raditi zahvat nego će uputiti pacijenta na neko drugo riješenje (npr. kod alergije na sredstvo, simptomatskog otvorenog foramen ovale itd.) http://www.mojezdravlje.ba/slike/novosti/AAA%20MOJE%20ZDRAVLJE/WEB%20ORDINACIJA/vene5.jpg Mi u Aritheri smatramo da smo u stanju riješiti svaki Vaš problem s venama: Ako vam noga spontano ili nakon nekog udarca otiče, boli, postaje zagasito crvena, moguće je da imate duboku vensku trombozu koja je sama po sebi opasna, ali ne koliko plućna embolija koja može nastati samo tako da se komad ugruška iz tromba u veni odvoji i ide u pluća. Plućna embolija je najčešći uzrok smrti u civiliziranom svijetu, a ne infarkt kao što se obično misli. Ako imate simptome oticanja i boli noge, obratite se našoj poliklinici gdje ćete u najkraćem vremenu biti pregledani od strane kompetentnog stručnjaka i ako imate duboku vensku trombozu bit ćete upućeni u bolnicu bez čekanja i onih poznatih administrativnih problema, te ćete biti odgovarajuće liječeni od stručnjaka za liječenje tromboza. Ako Vam se pojavi plavičasta tvrda traka na ruci ili nozi ili napipati kvrgu u tijeku vene, uz crvenilo i bol najvjerojatnije imate površinsku vensku trombozu. Povremeno nastaju na ruci kao posljedica intravenskih injekcija. Nazovite telefon Poliklinike Arithera gdje će ljubazna sestra odmah pozvati eksperta koji se bavi bolestima vena koji će dijagnosticirati i liječiti Vaše stanje. Napominjem da se tromboza površnih vena ranije olako tretirala, međutim prema Smjernicama svjetskog udruženja eksperata za vene od 2008. godine terapija je sasvim drukčija tako da pojavu ovih simptoma ne smijete zanemariti. Ako imate probleme arterijske cirkulacije, dijabetes, aterosklerotske promjene na ekstremiteta, bolove u nogama u hodu bit ćete pregledani od strane našeg stručnjaka za bolesti krvnih žila te će Vam biti određen najbolji mogući tretman. Upute za riješenje problema proširenih vena sam već iznio u gornjem tekstu. Pacijenti koji idu na neki od ortopedskih zahvata ili fizijatrijskih terapija trebaju prekontrolirati stanje vena jer ih zahvat može pogoršati, ili samo postojanje bolesnih vena može smanjiti uspjeh terapije. Posebno želim naglasiti 2 stvari: Metoda UGFS (ultrazvučno uklanjanje vena pjenom) je od strane najvećeg stručnjaka za vene u svijetu Johna Bergana proglašena 2008. godine za metodu izbora liječenja vena, jer je efikasna i ima vrlo malo nuspojava. Kirurški zahvati na venama koji su se radili destljećima u 70% slučajeva dovede do ponovne pojave vena, pa se danas napuštaju. Da ne spominjemo rezove, boravak u bolnici, višetjedna previjanja. Vaskularni kirurzi koji su ih radili desetljećima priznaju da je vrijeme tih operacija prošlo. S obzirom da već „guglate“ ovu metodu moram Vas upozoriti da Vas lako mogu zbuniti različite metode, kratice, LVET, radiofrekventna ablacija, laser i slične. Sklerozacija vena tekućinom je danas uglavnom napuštena Ova metoda UGFS se primjenjuje već desetak godina, ali stalno se rafinira i poboljšava tehnika primjene, način aplikacije pjene, sastav i priprema pjene. I konačno je 2008. godine od strane najeminentnijih stručnjaka proglašena najboljom. Nadalje, posebno je važno da Vi nakon zahvata dobijete broj mobilnog telefona liječnika koji je radio zahvat i uvijek ga možete nazvati ako imate bilo kakvih problema ili Vam je potrebno dodatno objašnjene. Bez oklijevanja nazovite i dobit ćete adekvatan odgovor. Znači, nakon zahvata niste sami, prepušteni sebi i povremenim unaprijed zakazanim kontrolama već uvijek imate mogućnost nazvati svog liječnika. To vrijedi i za druge pacijente Poliklinike Arithera sa venskim ili arterijskim bolestima koji imaju pravo dobiti u najkraćem mogućem vremenu savjet svog liječnika. Autor: Prim. dr.sc. Nikša Vučić, Interna klinika Sveti Duh, Znanstveni suradnik Medicinskog Fakulteta, Konzultant Poliklinike Arithera Michaela HRANOM SE MOZE ZAUSTAVITI IZBIJANJE RAKA Tomas Selers, direktor centra za prevenciju raka na Floridi, izjavio je da 70% svih tumora prouzrokuje stil zivota. On daje sest saveta kako se moze spreciti izbijanje bolesti raka, kada je covek genski predestiniran za tu bolest. Po njemu, tajna je u koristenju pravilne ishrane: IZBACITI ŠEĆER Secer i gustin ubrzavaju procese vrenja i time aktiviraju celije raka. Ovim celijama treba 20-30 puta vise secera, nego jednoj zdravoj celiji. Zato se savetuje ogranicenje konzumiranja hleba (pre svega belog hleba i zemicki), rezanaca, princa, krompira i samog secera. SMANJITI KISELINU Savetuje se uzimanje jogurta i magnezijum citrata u cilju smanjenja kiselina u zeludcu. VITAMIN D Studije raka grudi, creva i prostate pokazuju, da dovoljan nivo vitamina D u krvi, poseduje zastitnu ulogu od raka. Posebno bogate vitaminom D su masne ribe, puter i zumance. UZIMATI CINK Cink igra vaznu ulogu kod jacanja imunog sistema. Govedje meso, bademi, zeleno povrce i posebno brokoli i kelj, imaju dovoljno cinka u sebi da pruze ovu zastitu. PITI VODU Ona omogucava biohemijske procese u telu i podupire ciscenje organizma. Ko se ne bavi sportom i ne znoji se puno, treba da uzima vodu sa niskom kolicinom minerala u sebi, jer ona lakse ispira nepozeljne soli iz tela. KAFA STITI Mnoge studije potvrdjuju da kofein poseduje dejstvo sprecavanja izbijanja celija raka. Pet soljica kafe dnevno snizavaju rizik od pojavljivanja tumora i efektivnije su od caja koji sadrzi daleko manju kolicinu kofeina. almond eyes KAFA STITI Mnoge studije potvrdjuju da kofein poseduje dejstvo sprecavanja izbijanja celija raka. Pet soljica kafe dnevno snizavaju rizik od pojavljivanja tumora i efektivnije su od caja koji sadrzi daleko manju kolicinu kofeina Ne zna covjek vise sta bi vjerovao,prije par godina caj su dizali u neslucene visine,a danas sasvim obrnuta situacija. Jest da ej najljepse se zdravo hraniti ali imamo li mogucnosti za to??? almond eyes Jest da ej najljepse se zdravo hraniti ali imamo li mogucnosti za to??? Naravno da nemamo bas onoliko koliko bi trebalo,ali da se ponesto uciniti.Evo pocinju se saditi bastice,ko ima nesto zemlje neka sve iskoristi,sta god nikne zdravo je i dobro za organizam:) Samo se cuvajte onoga uvoznog zelja,k'o da gledam da je direkt iz Japana. Svježe ubran limun ubija ćelije raka Smatra se da je limun antimikrobski agens širokog spektra protiv bakterijskih infekcija i gljivica, da je efikasan protiv internih parazita i crva, da reguliše veoma visoki krvni pritisak i nervne poremećaje i djeluje antidepresivno Cijel članak može se pročitati ovdje :http://www.revijad.co.me/index.php?nivo=3&rubrika=0&datum=2011-02-02&brojms=449&clanak=1716 U zadnje vrijeme dosta se govori o vitaminu B17 kao o pouzdanom lijeku za rak. Ko ima vremena neka pogleda, neće se pokajati. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLwKiT0krNg Ne pijem ovu kafu jer mi ne godi.[-X Instant kava - što se sve skriva iza ovog proizvoda? Prema statistikama 2,5 milijardi šalica kave popije se dnevno u svijetu http://metro-portal.hr/img/repository/2011/03/medium/instant_kava_wi.jpg Uglavnom se radi o instant kavi. Popularno piće osmislio je švedski kemičar Max Morgentaller, a kao temelj su mu poslužili eksperimenti japanskog kolege Satorija Kate, koji je izumio tehnologiju za proizvodnju čaja u prahu. Datum rođenja instant kave je 24. srpanj 1938. Ipak, u to vrijeme ni stručnjaci ni potrošači nisu cijenili okus, aromu i uvjerljivost instant kave. Trenutno u svijetu postoji mnogo kompanija koje proizvode različite varijante instant kave. Kavu možete nabaviti u prahu, granulama, osušenu ili kupiti vrećice "3 u 1". Glavna razlika među njima jest tehnologija proizvodnje. Imajte na umu da niti jedna tehnologija obrade kave u željenu supstancu nije potpuna bez procesa grijanja koji ubija sva korisna svojstva kave. Postoji nekoliko različitih načina pakiranja kave. Limenka obično sadrži jeftiniju kavu, a okus čak može biti i metalan. Kvalitetna instant kava, koja je obično osušena i u granulama, pakira se u staklenke, jer se na taj način bolje čuva aroma i okus. Sadržaj zrna kave u instant kavi je minimalan. Kao pravilo, radi se o udjelu od 15%. Osim toga, kvaliteta tih zrnaca može biti prilično upitna. Mnoge tvornice kave koje su se specijalizirale za proizvodnju kave od punih zrnaca, loša zrna jeftino prodaju proizvođačima instant kave. Iako mnogi proizvođači tvrde kako za instant kavu koriste sortu Arabica, zapravo koriste jeftiniju varijantu Robustu, s obzirom da Arabica nije ekonomična. Uz to, ova varijanta sadrži mnogo više kofeina. Kofein napušta tijelo nakon nekoliko sati. Ista doza kofeina koja se nalazi u instant kavi bit će oslobođena nakon otprilike 10 sati, dok željeni efekt traje samo 2-3 sata. Regularna konzumacija instant kave može lako dovesti do predoziranja kofeinom, što šteti zdravlju. Mnogi vjeruju kako je bezkofeinska instant kava manje štetna, no ovo nije točno. Ovaj proizvod doprinosi taloženju bubrežnih kamenaca. Sama kava je jak stimulator želučanih sokova, a instant kava sadrži kiseline. Zbog toga ljudi koji pate od probavnih smetnji nebi trebali piti kavu na prazan želudac. Također se ne preporučuje ljudima s kardiovaskularnim problemima pretjerana konzumacija instant kave. Liječnici preporučuju ženama da se suzdržavaju od instant kave jer konzervansi u njoj negativno utječu na metabolizam, uslijed čega dolazi do pojave celulita. Znanstvenici su složni oko jednoga: ukoliko na poslu postoji izbor između instant kave i čaja, izaberite čaj. treba dobro paziti sta jedemo i sta pijemo, da bi sacuvali svoje zdravlje i produzili ovaj zivot ma kakav on bio. Život je suviše kratak da vrijeme trošimo na to kako ga produžiti.:D almond eyes Život je suviše kratak da vrijeme trošimo na to kako ga produžiti.:D Zivotni vijek ljudi je i produzen zadnjih desetljeca jer se ljudi vise i bolje brinu o svo zdravlju i vode kvalitetniji zivot:) Ovo bar nije tesko primijeniti a ucinak????? 'Četiri jabuke dnevno smanjuju kolesterol za jednu četvrtinu' http://static.nacional.hr/img/4dbdaf9869f61dd0c433c7b447921196_medium.jpg (http://static.nacional.hr/img/4dbdaf9869f61dd0c433c7b447921196_700x550.jpg) IlustracijaZnanstvenici su otkrili da četiri jabuke dnevno pomažu u smanjenju kolesterola čak za jednu četvrtinu, prenosi Rezultati istraživanja Državnog sveučilišta na Floridi su pokazali da je ženama koje su šest mjeseci dnevno jele 750 grama sušenih jabuka razina lošeg kolesterola LDL-a opala za gotovo jednu četvrtinu. Dobri kolesterol, HDL, porastao je za oko četiri posto, a žene su izgubile i oko 1,3 kilograma u šest mjeseci unatoč tome što su uzimale dodatnih 240 kalorija dnevno jer su grickale jabuke. Znanstvenici tvrde da je utjecaj na kolesterol rezultat djelovanja antioksidansa u jabuci, a gubitak težine rezultat je utjecaja nekih sastojaka koji smanjuju apetit. Liječnik Bahram Arjmandi tvrdi da nisu očekivali ovakve rezultate i da svi mogu imati koristi od jedenja jabuka. Izvor:Nacional Ovo bar nije tesko primijeniti a ucinak????? Sve je to lijepo, samo treba voditi računa kakve jabuke. Ove koje se sada prodaju su veći otrov od otrova. Tako da, logički, treba jesti samo domaće, ne prskane jabuke a ove druge izbjegavati jer se broj prskanja penje i na 20+ Svojevremeno sam na svom placu imao 100 stabala voca.Godinu dana sam citao knjige o vocu.Kad sam otisao u Podgradce da kupim sadnice i kad sam ispricao sta trazim, koje podloge, sorte itd,prodavac mi kaze "ti si jedini koji kupujes i znas sta kupujes.Obicno ljudi dodju i kazu, daj mi 3 sadnuce jabuka 2 krusaka krusaka i 5 sljiva. Ne pominje ni sortu ni podlogu, ni kad sorta prispijeva, kakve su boje i velicine plodovi itd. Breskve sam nakon 3 godine pocupao.Jednostavno nisam mogao da obavim sva prskanja iako sam imao motornu ledjnu prskalicu. Jabuke sam prskao dva puta. Zimsko prskanje i jos jedno poslije bahara.Vise nisam prskao ali sam opet imao jabuka, krusaka itd. http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSGhkzusAyH9Lf8s2F42P8UnYYB0F_ht tp://i39.tinypic.com/dcsbcm.jpg Nase autohtone sorte su puno bolje. Otporne su, ne treba ih prskati, pa su samim time zdravije.Dobar vocar treba samo da ih u jesen okopa, nadjubri stajnjakom i prije pocetka vegetacije na vrijeme obreze.Medjutim, sa ovim novim sortama nije tako.Ono zimsko prskanje je najopsanije.Imao sam odijelo, masku ali tamo gdje je bar malo koza bila nezasticena, osjecao sam neko peckanje. Kad bih sada pocinjao sa vocnjakom, nastojao bih zasaditi samo nase autohtone sorte.Citao sam da negdje kod Maoce ima covjek koji kalemi razne autohtone sorte jabuka, kusaka, dunja, kajsija itd.Dakle, iz svog iskustva preporucujem mladjima da sade autohtone sorte jabuka, krusaka, visanja, tresanja pa i sljiva iako je nasa autohtona sorta sljive na izmaku zbog neotpornosti na bolest lista pod nazivom sarka. Upravo to i govorim. Domaće je domaće, ali, opet samo za domaću upotrebu (al ga iskomplikova :P ) Na policama velikog tržnog centra mora da stoji krupna, okrugla jabuka, sjajne kore i lijepe boje. Sve moraju biti iste veličine... A kada je uzmeš u ruku, ona masna od nekog sranja u koje natapaju da duže bude svježa... Ironično. I kada to veliki tržnicentri traže, tako se mora i proizvesti. Jedan, po jedan i stvori se čitava vojska tih koji proizvode za potrebe tržišta. Na drugoj strani ostaju oni koji gaje samo za svoje potrebe. Tu možeš kontrolisati šta i kako radiš da bi znao šta ćeš ti i tvoja djeca pojesti. Ta jabuka će biti zdrava, lijepog mirisa, pita od njih će stvarno ličiti na pitu s jabukama... ali neće imati "karoseriju" kao one u velikim marketima i samim tim neće biti poželjna na policama. A čim nije poželjna na policama, ne isplati se saditi velike voćnjake... Prosta računica... zakon ponude i potražnje. Zato, svako ko može i ima gdje, treba sebi posaditi koje stablo, neka se nađe.A ja još kad bih našao kakvu divlju jabuku... Prosirene vene i hemoroidi veoma prisutne bolesti danas kako kod muskaraca tako i zena. Hemoroidi – stop neugodnoj pošasti (http://biologija.com.hr/modules/AMS/article.php?storyid=8355) Autor : Jelena Likić (http://biologija.com.hr/userinfo.php?uid=2) http://biologija.com.hr/uploads/img4da2a8c5f1e88.jpgPrema procjenama, tijekom svog života čak preko dvije trećine ljudi u svijetu vodi bitku s hemoroidima, bolesti proširenih krvnih žila unutar i oko anusa te donjeg dijela rektuma. Na hemoroide nije imun nitko, pa tako podjednako pogađaju i muškarce i žene i mlade i stare. Iako su uglavnom bezopasni, mogu biti prilično neugodni zbog područja kojeg zahvaćaju. Hemoroidi su najčešće posljedica dugog sjedenja ili stajanja pa su vrlo rašireni među poslovnim ljudima koji većinu dana provode u uredu. Čimbenici koji povećavaju mogućnost pojave hemoroida su pretilost, zatvor, naprezanje pri pražnjenju crijeva, kronični proljev, trudnoća i podizanje teških tereta. Lako prepoznavanje Specifične simptome hemoroida teško je zanemariti. Osjetljivo područje anusa intenzivno svrbi, a moguća je i pojava žarenja i boli različitog intenziteta. Pojava svijetle krvi i sluzi na stolici, simptom je koji obično ozbiljno zabrinjava oboljele, osobito ako krvarenje prati osjet čvorića unutar i oko analnog otvora. Iako nimalo ugodni, u zdravstvenom smislu ne predstavljaju veliku opasnost, osim što učestalo i dugotrajno krvarenje može uzrokovati anemiju zbog gubitka željeza. Ključ je u prevenciji Najbolji pristup borbe protiv hemoroida je prevencija njihovog nastanka. Pri tome je, uz izbjegavanje dizanja teškog tereta i dugotrajnog sjedenja ili stajanja, pravilna prehrana najučinkovitiji saveznik. Svakako organizmu valja osigurati dovoljno prehrambenih vlakana unosom obilja integralnih žitarica, voća i povrća. Prehrambena vlakna, naime, imaju sposobnost upijanja vode i bubrenja, čime se povećava volumen stolice olakšavajući pražnjenje crijeva. http://biologija.com.hr/uploads/img4da2a9302488e.jpgPosljedično, smanjuje se tlak u crijevima, koji kada je povišen pogoduje nastanku hemoroida. Redovitosti defekacije pridonosi i adekvatan unos tekućine, stoga je pijenje najmanje osam čaša vode i biljnih čajeva dnevno temelj prevencije nastanka hemoroida. Dodatno, voće bogato flavonoidima poput bobičastog voća je neprocjenjivo u borbi protiv hemoroida, budući da obiluje bioflavonoidima koji jačaju vene i time umanjuju nabreknutost krvnih žila. Uz brigu o prehrani, neophodna je i redovita higijena. Primjena u praksi Slijedi nekoliko prehrambenih savjeta koji nisu samo korisni u prevenciji nastanka, već omogućuju i brži oporavak od hemoroida: • Neka mekinje, jabuke, kruške, repa, kupus, brokula, mahunarke i cjelovite žitarice čine sastavni dio vašeg jelovnika budući da obiluju neprobavljivim prehrambenim vlaknima • Svakog dana konzumirajte pet ili više porcija voća i povrća • Pijte svaki dan obilje vode, bez obzira osjećate li žeđ ili ne • Ukoliko hemoroidi krvare, posegnite za namirnicama bogatim vitaminom K poput zelenog lisnatog povrća, a ako je krvarenje obilno i dugotrajno potražite dodatak prehrani koji osigurava željezo • Izbjegavajte „okidajuće" namirnice u nastanku hemoroida poput crvenog mesa, mesnih prerađevina, procesiranih proizvoda i čokolade • Izbjegavajte kavu i alkohol (posebice crno vino) • Svaki dan pojedite barem jedan kuhani obrok, tim bolje ako obrok sadrži i juhu • Agresivni začini poput papra ili crvene paprike mogu pogoršati stanje, stoga ih je poželjno izbjegavati • Svakodnevna umjerena tjelovježba dobar je put ka životu bez hemoroida Izvor: Vitamini (http://www.vitamini.hr/8135.aspx) Iako ispustaju otrovne tvari UN traze njihovo uvodjenje u cijelom svijetu.Naravno to ce biti u "korist" zdravlja ljudi. Štedne žarulje ispuštaju otrovne tvari http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQLSST-AMXX3ahQiUqlP8b0tdQNmvGvnAYAuftR2SplHysrXaFUhMcQtK d1 Već je poznato da štedne žarulje mogu biti opasne jer sadrže 2,8 miligrama žive. U slučaju pogrešnog rukovanja, živa može oštetiti bubrege te predstavlja opasnost za trudnice, djecu i kućne životinje (http://metro-portal.hr/uzrokuju-li-stedne-zarulje-rak/21182). No, žarulje koje su dobre za okoliš nisu opasne samo ako se razbiju, javlja njemački NDR u svom magazinu "Markt". Testiranja koja su provedena za potrebe reportaže pokazala su da upaljene žarulje "ispuštaju" otrovne tvari. U laboratorijskim istraživanjima otkriveno je da štedne žarulje pojedinih proizvođača sadrže fenol koji može djelovati kancerogeno. Fenol se iz žarulja oslobađa kada je ona upaljena, a u organizam dospijeva disanjem. Ukoliko je koncentracija u zraku visoka, javljaju se iritacija sluznice te problemi sa srcem i dišnim putovima. Proizvođači tvrde da se fenoli u štednim žaruljama nalaze u ljepilu i pojedinačnim komponentama gdje imaju ulogu omekšivača. Fenol nije jedini otrov kojeg "ispuštaju" štedne žarulje. Međutim, proizvođači i tijela koja bi trebala regulirati proizvodnju naglašavaju da vrijednosti ne premašuju "zakonom propisane granice". Plan Europske unije je da se do 2016. u zemljama članicama zauvijek ugasi sadašnjih 3,5 milijardi klasičnih žarulja. Alternativa koju birokrati zagovaraju upravo su štedne žarulje. UN poziva na uvođenje štednih žarulja u cijelom svijetu (http://metro-portal.hr/un-poziva-na-uvodjenje-stednih-zarulja-u-cijelom-svijetu/52080). Metro portal mermaid Koliko smo sposobni i zdravi da kontrolišemo svoju ličnost i svoje nagone..mislim da treba pročitati i korisno je znati, jer psiha je pokretač čovjeka..kako u pozitivnom, tako i u negativnom smjeru.. Kad nagon vlada voljom nastaju poremećaji ličnost. Poremećaji ličnosti uzrokuju brojne smetnje i probleme u radnom i društvenom funkcioniranju. Mogu se ublažiti, ali ne i izliječiti. Zdravom ličnošću psihijatri smatraju onu koja nema smetnje u prilagođavanju okolini te uspostavljanju skladnih odnosa sa osobama koje ih okružuju. Zdrava ličnost ima i sposobnost usklađivanja svojih želja i ustremljenja. Ona je ustrajna u radu i postizanju ciljeva i uspješno se nosi sa stresom i neuspjehom. Jedna od karakteristika zdrave ličnosti je i sposobnost samostalnog donošenja odluka. Tolerancija, strpljivost, kritičnost, dosljednost i uvažavanje također su odlike zdrave ličnosti. Ličnost? Što je to? Definirati ličnost nije jednostavno, tako postoji mnoštvo definicija kao i teorija ličnosti. Sam naziv ličnost dolazi od latinske riječi „persona“ što je nekad označavalo masku koju su nosili glumci u staroj Grčkoj. Maska je ono što daje izraz licu i karakter ulozi pa pojam ličnosti u tom kontekstu označava ono po čemu se razlikujemo jedni od drugih. Eysenek, poznati engleski psiholog govori da je ličnost manje-više čvrsta i trajna organizacija karaktera, temperamenta, intelekta i fizičke konstitucije pojedinca koja određuje njegovo specifično prilagođivanje okolini. Suvremeno shvaćanje pojma ličnosti jest da je ličnost skup osobina, crta i aspekata jedne organizacijske cjeline, a koji su trajne prirode, čime uvjetuju manje ili više postojano ponašanje i u vrlo različitim situacijama. Zajednička karakteristika svih važnijih definicija ličnosti je da su funkcionalne jer se bave pitanjima koja su povezana s motivacijom i adaptacijom organizma. Može se reći da su osnovne funkcije ličnosti osjećati, percipirati, misliti i raditi. Ipak, kako je čovjek aktivno biće čija je ličnost također u neprestanoj dinamici, mogu se javiti poremećaji ličnosti o kojima smo razgovarali sa psihijatricom Danicom Romac iz Poliklinike za psihijatriju Pet Plus. Što su uopće poremećaji ličnosti? - Poremećaji ličnosti označavaju stanja ili oblike ponašanja koji otkrivaju karakteristični životni stil pojedinca i način na koji on komunicira sa drugima – objasnila nam je psihijatrica Romac. Poremećaji ličnosti se manifestiraju stalnim, nepromjenjivim i neprilagođenim ponašanjem pojedinca, bilo prema sebi ili prema okolini. Oni uzrokuju brojne smetnje i probleme u radnom i društvenom funkcioniranju. Kada se javljaju poremećaji ličnosti? - Poremećaji ličnosti najčešće se javljaju u adolescentskoj dobi. Oni se nastavljaju tijekom odrasle dobi, a u srednjim i kasnim godinama mogu se ublažiti iako nikada u potpunosti ne iščezavaju – tvrdi Romac. Psihijatrica nam je ispričala kako se neki simptomi poremećaja ličnosti mogu javiti već u djetinjstvu i to u vidu nemira, poremećaja pažnje, agresivnosti i laganja. - Tijekom školovanja mogu se javiti smetnje pri učenju, konflikti, smanjena radna produktivnost i ne prihvaćanje pravila – rekla je psihijatrica Romac. Isto tako, osobe s poremećajem ličnosti teško uspostavljaju trajnije veze jer su često sebične i egocentrične, zbog čega ne mogu odložiti zadovoljavanje svojih želja čak i kada su svjesni da sami sebi nanose štetu. - Bitno je manja vjerojatnost da osobe s poremećajem ličnosti imaju sretan i uspješan brak, da budu uspješni roditelji, da zadovoljavajuće funkcioniraju kao dio tima. Ipak s vremenom, dobi i životnim iskustvom, volja, emocije i rasuđivanje se razvijaju pa takve osobnosti postupno sazrijevaju – tvrdi Romac. http://dalje.com/slike/slike_3/r2/g2007/m09/x134149619067362913.jpg (http://javascript  :otvori_prozor2("http://dalje.com/fotocl.php?id=http://dalje.com/slike/slike_3/r1/g2007/m09/x134149619067362913.jpg&t1=&t2=", "clSlVe", 710, 513, "no", "no")) Kakvih sve poremećaja ličnosti ima? Poremećaji ličnosti su manja ili veća odstupanja od psihički normalnog ponašanja. Ona nisu posljedica duševne ili neke druge bolesti, već nastaju zbog specifičnog devijantnog ponašanja ličnosti, a obuhvaćaju čitav spektar varijacija ponašanja. - Postoji nekoliko tipova poremećaja ličnosti kao što su paranoidni, antisocijalni, granični, histrionski, narcistički, inhibirani, ovisni, opsesivno-kompulzivni i pasivno-agresivni poremećaj ličnosti – rekla nam je Danica Romac. Zajedničko svima njima je podređivanje volje i razuma nagonima čije je djelovanje izraženije nego kod osoba koje nemaju poremećaj ličnosti. - Zdrav čovjek je sposoban svojim razumom i voljom upravljati vlastitim nagonima i usmjeriti ih prema nekim ciljevima istovremeno poštujući društvene norme. Osobe koje imaju poremećaj ličnosti često krše norme i propise i ne trude se uskladiti vlastite prohtjeve s interesima zajednice u kojoj žive. Njima pritom nedostaje osjećaj krivnje, a također ne uče na vlastitom iskustvu – pojasnila nam je psihijatrica Romac. Kako se liječi poremećaj ličnosti? - Za liječenje poremećaja ličnosti ne postoji ni jedna specifična i provjereno djelotvorna metoda, a ni sami pacijenti najčešće nisu previše motivirani. Psihoterapijski pristup obuhvaća različite tehnike. Terapiju treba usmjeriti na probleme svakodnevnog života i nužno je povezana s njihovim rješavanjem. Cilj psihoterapije je, u početku, uspostaviti kontrolu ponašanja, a poslije se usmjeruje na korekciju neprimjerenog ponašanja i učenje skladnijeg ponašanja – ispričala nam je Romac. (Dalje.com) "Zdravom ličnošću psihijatri smatraju onu koja nema smetnje u prilagođavanju okolini te uspostavljanju skladnih odnosa sa osobama koje ih okružuju. Zdrava ličnost ima i sposobnost usklađivanja svojih želja i ustremljenja". Fino receno ali tesko ostvarljivo. Mozes biti bas ovakav ali i tvoje okruzenje treba biti slicnu.Medjutim u svakoj grupi ima onih koji na neki nacin odstupaju od ovih pravila, tako da oni pocinju narusavati skladne odnose, bilo da se pokusavaju isticati - skretatanjem paznje na sebe. Evo jedan primjer. Ako sjedis u drustvu manje ili vece grupe ljudi, budi pazljiv slusalac.Nece proci dugo vremena a pojedinci ce poceti pricati ono sto najbolje znaju a to je vezano za njihovu profesiju.Tako ces ubrzo saznati cim se ko bavi a da nikog nista nisi pitao.Nekad to bude i zabavno a ponekad i dosadno. Istina nema veze sa ishranom i zdravljem ali onako uzgred kao napomena. Jedimo jagode kad su tako zdrave.To svako moze imati u svojoj basti, pa i na balkonu. Jagode protiv razvoja ćelija raka http://www.nezavisne.com/slika/slikac.php?slika=20110501135028.jpg MOSKVA - Američki naučnici G. Stouner i N. Seram, koji su izučavali uticaj ishrane na razvoj onkoloških bolesti, ukazali su da su eksperimantalna ispitivanja u posljednjih 10-15 godina pomogla dobijanju ubjedljivih dokaza da najobičnije jagode mogu pomoći u profilaksi raka. Pokazalo se da su jagode i sastojci u njima u stanju da spriječe razvoj ćelija raka u oglednoj kulturi ćelija in vitro utičući na gene povezane sa razvojem raka, objavio je moskvski dnevnik "Izvestija". Ubjedljivo je, osim toga, dokazano da uvođenje sušenih jagoda u ishranu životinja znatno smanjuje razvoja malignih tumora kod njih. Najnoviji statistički podaci govore da ljudi, u čijoj su ishrani takođe zastupljene jagode, rjeđe. Nezavisne novine almond eyes Licno i nisam bas luda za jagodama,ali ih djeca vole pa smo ih mnogo posadili.Bude ih toliko i bas se zasitimo do kraja ljeta. Takodje bih voljela imati zasad onih pravih sumskih jagoda,sitnijih ali ukusnijih.Samo ne znam kako bi one uspijevale u bastici:) mermaid O mlijeku... Dvije čaše mlijeka za savršeno tijelo http://www.lijep.ba/images/stories/04/66184_mleko1_f.jpg Žene koje svakog dana piju dvije velike čaše mlijeka imaju jače mišiće i brže tope masti od žena koje tokom programa vežbanja piju energetska pića, pokazalo je istraživanje naučnika sa Univerziteta "Mekmaster". Ta studija je pokazala da kombinacija redovnih treninga snage i konzumacije mlijeka poboljšava ženin fizički izgled i zdravlje Mlijeko izgrađuje mišićnu masu, a stručnjaci kažu da je to jedna od najboljih namirnica za snažne mišiće jer se mliječni protein sastoji od 80 odsto surutke i 20 odsto kazeina. Oboje su visokokvalitetni proteini, ali surutka je posebno bitna s obzirom da sadrži "brzi protein", koji se brzo apsorbuje u krvotok što je veoma korisno posle bavljenja fizičkom aktivnošću. Kazein se dosta sporije vari, pa je idealan za osiguravanje zaliha proteina u dužem vremenskom periodu - između obroka ili dok spavate. Blagodeti mlijeka vide se kod žena koje vježbaju kako bi ojačale svoje mišiće, a jedna je prethodna studija pokazala da mlijeko utiče na pojačani gubitak masti i kod muškaraca. Naučnici još nisu sigurni koji je uzrok dobrobiti mlijeka za žene, ali vjerovatno se radi o kombinaciji kalcijuma, visokokvalitetnih proteina i vitamina D u mlijeku. Izvor:Vesti online almond eyes Djecu neumorno tjeram da piju mlijeko,ali sebe nikako da natjeram:D mermaid Djecu neumorno tjeram da piju mlijeko,ali sebe nikako da natjeram:D Pijem mlijeko, ali ne tako redovno..ali od kako sam ovo pročitala natjeraću se da slijedim ove upute...:) almond eyes Ma,kako da se natjeram:( Nisam ljubitelj i dzaba,malo pihnem,ali popiti danas dvije case,cijele:rolleyes: mermaid Ma,kako da se natjeram:( Nisam ljubitelj i dzaba,malo pihnem,ali popiti danas dvije case,cijele:rolleyes: Almica, onda pokušaj napraviti kakao ili bijelu kafu...pa nije puno dvije čaše..ujutro i pred spavanje..a toplo mlijeko lijepo uspavljuje.. almond eyes Almica, onda pokušaj napraviti kakao ili bijelu kafu...pa nije puno dvije čaše..ujutro i pred spavanje..a toplo mlijeko lijepo uspavljuje.. Ja zaspim i bez mlijeka,ne sjecam se ni kako glavu spustim na jastuk:),a inace pijem puno kafe tako da nisam probala praviti kakao,ne mogu ga ugurati u raspored:sakomuglavu: almond eyes Sve više mladih ima zdravstvene probleme zbog računara Decrease font Enlarge font Glavnih uzrok tih bolova je ne zauzimaju pravilnog položaj tokom rada Sve više mladih ima problema sa bolovima u leđima, vratu i ramenima zbog dugotrajnog sjedenja za računarima, prije svega prenosivim, upozorili su naučnici s Univerziteta u Bostonu. Njihovo istraživanje je pokazalo da više od 50 odsto studenata već pati od bolova vezanih za korištenje računara. Svaki sedmi student je izjavio da bolove osjeća već nakon samo sat vremena provedenog ispred ekrana, prenijeli su francuski mediji. Glavnih uzrok tih bolova je, kako smatraju stručnjaci, to što korisnici računara, prije svega prenosivih, ne zauzimaju pravilan položaj tokom rada. Istraživači savjetuju da se za rad više koriste miševi nego sistem "tačped" za upravljanje računarom prstima koji može dovesti do pritiska u ruci i ručnom zglobu. Oni ističu i da miš treba da bude postavljen u visini lakta, ne predaleko od računara, kao i da su ekrani često postavljeni prenisko, zbog čega osoba mora da se naginje naprijed, što može izazvati bolove u leđima i vratu. Zato je, kako preporučuju naučnici, važno tokom dana povremeno protegnuti vrat i zglobove. Naučnici su, međutim, naveli i da ljudi koji se bave nekom fizičkom aktivnošću imaju znatno manje problema sa bolovima vezanim za korištenje računara mermaid Limun - saveznik našeg zdravlja Limun je lijek za sve. Konzumirajte ga cijele godine i uživajte u dobrom zdravlju... Od limuna se ne baca apsolutno ništa – sok, "meso", kora – sve ima ljekovitu svrhu. Liječi od prehlade i plućnih bolesti, te suzbija reumatične tegobe. Limun je na samom vrhu namirnica koje sadrže najviše antioksidansa. Zahvaljujući limunskoj kiselini, on neutralizira toksine i njihovo djelovanje, ubrzava razgradnju masti i poboljšava asimilaciju hranjivih sastojaka. Limun sadrži selen i vitamine C i B, te povećava imunološki sustav i usporava starenje. http://www.ordinacija.hr/repository/images/_variations/5/2/521f4fd9c03da94f7813393b90b94b66_content_medium_no aspect.jpg Popijte čašu limunade čim se probudite i spriječit ćete zimske bolesti i popraviti raspoloženje. Ako je "čista" limunada ipak prekisela za vaš ukus, pomiješajte ju s malo soka od naranče, ili dodjate šećer. Limun možete koristiti kao zamjenu za ocat. Salate će živnuti uz ovaj citrus, a limun možete dodavati i u razne umake za tjesteninu. Najpoznatija je upotreba limuna u ribljim specijalitetima. Sok od limuna voćnoj salati miris daje poseban okus, a narezano voće dulje održava svježim. Ne zaboravite: limun se uvijek cijedi u posljednjem trenutku i na tanjur stavlja neposredno prije posluživanja jela. Tako zadržava sve vitamine i minerale koji su inače osjetljivi na zrak i svjetlost. Koru limuna nemojte bacati jer sadrži puno dragocjenih sastojaka. Flavonoidi, koji joj daju boju, jačaju kapilare i olakšavaju protok kisika u organizmu. Kora limuna sadrži eterična ulja, kao što je limonin, i djeluje antiseptički. U aromaterapiji se ulje limuna koristi se za poboljšanje raspoloženja i koncentracije pri radu. (Ordinacija hr.) mermaid Ako imate višak kilograma, istopićete ih sokom od limuna... Limun sadrži pet posto limunske kiseline, što je sasvim dovoljno kako bi se zadovoljile dnevne potrebe za vitaminom C. Od svih vrsta voća, limun je najbolji izbor kada želimo utažiti žeđ i pobijediti visoke temperature. U isto vrijeme, ovaj je citrus pravi rudnik vitamina C koji sa sobom povlači nekoliko dokazanih dobrobiti za zdravlje, ali i za vaš struk. Naime, uz sok od limuna ćete lakše istopiti suvišne kilograme i spriječiti njihovo nagomilavanje na krivim mjestima, tvrde stručnjaci. Za najbolje rezultate, sok od limuna pijte ujutro prije obroka, jer ćete tako potaknuti metabolizam, a kalorije se neće lijepiti za kritične zone. http://www.ordinacija.hr/repository/images/_variations/c/9/c9de98f999b8a321cfbd4777015d4bf1_content_medium_no aspect.jpg Osim što dobro utječe na želudac, pomaže kod zatvora i olakšava probavu, i vaša koža će biti blistava, sjajna, svježa i bez mrlja ako u nju utrljate polovicu svježeg limuna. Upravo je zato čest sastojak mnogih kozmetičkih preparata sa tzv. anti-ageing učinkom koji pomlađuju kožu i brišu s nje godine. Limun sadrži pet posto limunske kiseline, što je sasvim dovoljno kako bi se zadovoljile dnevne potrebe za vitaminom C. Također je bogati izvor minerala kao što su kalcij, fosfor i magnezij, te vitamina B kompleksa. Ako se često konzumira, limun će čuvati zdravlje krvnih žila, srca i smanjiti rizik razvijanja srčanih bolesti, s obzirom na bioflavonoide koje sadrži. Kako je prošlo proljeće, tako se polagano budimo iz zimskog sna i svjesni smo nekoliko kilograma viška koji su se nakupili, a koje pak treba istopiti. Ovdje će limun doći u pravi čas – stručnjaci preporučuju sok od limuna pomiješan s toplom vodom i zaslađen medom. Samo pazite da ne pretjerate sa zaslađivanjem. Ovim ćete receptom pročistiti crijeva, riješiti se mogućeg zatvora, međutim, topla voda s limunom također djeluje dobro i na glavobolju i mučninu. Ako vam treba brzinsko buđenje ili poticaj za početak vježbanja, umiješajte sok od limuna u čašu vode, dodajte sol i šećer. Ovako nećete dehidrirati, a tijelo ćete opskrbiti potrebnom količinom soli. Horvat Sve treba podrediti zdravlju dok ga imamo Krevetom do zdravlja: Položaj spavanja može pomoći kod zdravstvenih tegoba http://static.nacional.hr/img/0a406b35b50ce22688254ce15f9a20ff_medium.jpg (http://static.nacional.hr/img/0a406b35b50ce22688254ce15f9a20ff_700x550.jpg) Položaj fetusa dobar je za bolove u leđima i kralježniciLjudi u prosjeku prespavaju oko jednu trećinu života i za dobro zdravlje je potrebno dovoljno sna, no nije samo količina i kvaliteta spavanja bitna za zdravlje, nego i položaj u kojem spavamo. Svaki položaj ima svoje dobre i loše strane, uzrokuje ili pomaže kod neke zdravstvene tegobe, prenosi Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1385301/Is-sleep-position-giving-heartburn-headaches-asthma.html). Položaj oporavka Kod ovog položaja se spava na boku s nogama lagano skvrčenim i rukama ispruženim ispred sebe, a zove se poza oporavka jer se tako obično namještaju ozlijeđeni ili onesviješteni, kako bi se spriječilo da se uguše sa sadržajem svog želuca. Ovaj položaj je dobar ako imate problema sa podizanjem kiseline iz želuca, koja kroz jednjaka može doći sve do usta. Negativne posljedice ove poze su bore. Ovakvo spavanje stvara pritisak na dio lica koji se proteže od kutova nosa do kutova usta, pa spavanje na boku može stvarati jače izražene bore, jer se lice pri takvom položaju "gužva" pritisnuto na jastuk. Liječnici za ove probleme preporučuju da se gornji dio tijela još više podigne jastucima prilikom spavanja u ovoj pozi, kako bi se postigao još bolji učinak kod problema sa želučanom kiselinom, a kako bi se spriječio nastanak bora, neki preporučuju svileni jastuk. Položaj trupla Ovo je položaj spavanja na leđima i dobar je za one koji pate od artritisa i bolova u zglobovima, jer se ovim položajem težina tijela ravnomjerno raspoređuje po tijelu, bez opterećenja samo pojedinih dijelova tijela. No, ova poza je poznata i po tome što uzrokuje hrkanje jer se mišići vilice i jezika opuste i padnu pod utjecaj gravitacije. Zbog ovoga se grlo suzi, što dovodi do nepravilnog strujanja zraka koje stvara vibracije i hrkanje. Ovo je posebno izraženo kod pretilih jer masnoća iz prednjeg dijela vrata jače pritišće grlo. Od hrkanja je opasnija apneja kod koje se grlo potpuno zatvara pa se stvaraju pauze u kojima se ne diše i koje mogu trajati i do 10 sekundi i više. Kod ove poze se smanjuje i razina kisika u krvi što nije dobro za srčane i plućne bolesnike. Za one kojima ovaj položaj stvara probleme liječnici preporučuju da stave tvrđi jastuk pod gornji dio leđa, zbog čega će spavanje na leđima biti neudobno pa će tijekom spavanja promijeniti položaj tijela na stranu ili na trbuh. Položaj fetusa Ovo je položaj ležanja na boku sa nogama skvrčenim prema prsima. Ovaj položaj je dobar za bolove u leđima i kralježnici jer spavanje u ovoj poziciji "otvara" leđa smanjujući pritisak na diskove kralježnice. No ova poza može uzrokovati bolove u vratu jer ako je vrat previsoko ili prenisko u usporedbi sa kralježnicom može doći do istezanja vratnih mišića i živaca što može uzrokovati bol u vratu i glavobolje. Liječnici preporučuju postavljanje jastuka koji će ispuniti prazninu između ramena i vrata i tako spriječiti istezanje vrata, bolove u vratu i glavobolje. Također može pomoći i jastuk među koljenima. Bitno je da kralježnica bude poravnata sa vratom i bokovima. U zagrljaju Riječ je o položaju kad dve osobe leže na boku i jedna zagrli drugu dok joj je druga osoba okrenuta leđima. Ovaj položaj je dobar za stres, jer fizički dodir, čak i tijekom sna, smanjuje stres i kod muškaraca i kod žena. Nedostatak ovakvog spavanje je što se može pojaviti bol u leđima, ramenima ili vratu. Preporuka je da si pronađete ugodan položaj prije nego vas partner zagrli, makar tako bili i malo udaljeni jedno od drugog. Položaj za sunčanje Radi se o položaju spavanje na trbuhu, koje je idealno riješenje problema hrkanja jer nema pritiska na grlo, no loš je ako imate problema sa škrgutanjem zubi tijekom spavanja. Kod ovog položaja donja vilica je gurnuta naprijed više nego obično, što kod osoba koje škrguću zubima stvara dodatan pritisak na donje zube. A premalo ili previše jastuka može vrat i kralježnicu staviti u nejednak položaj što može dovesti do pritisaka na živce i bolove i tupost u rukama i prstima, pogotovo kod starijih osoba. Liječnici za ovo preporučuju madrace od pjene koji će se prilagoditi položaju tijela, a neće biti kruti kao normalni madraci sa federima. Može pomoći i stavljanje jastuka pod tijelo po dužini od trbuha do ramena. Izvor.Nacional Sarajka100% :kokice: Sve treba podrediti zdravlju dok ga imamo Hile svaka cast,meni spavanje mnogo znaci,ja imam svoj tempo i na sve ovo nikad ne bih mijenjala.San i odmor mnogo znaci taman da je odmor od pola sata ja se osjecam preporodzenom.:loler::loler:Vecinom polozaj je fetusa ,ali ponekad i oporavka zavisi kako mi je ugodnije.:):) almond eyes Kako zastiti kicmu kod djece:) Prevencija bolova kicme pocinje jod od malih nogu,s tim sto je skolsko razdoblje posebno osjetljiv period.Dijete vise vremena provodi sjedeci,a ne treba zanemariti ni preteske skolske torbe. Preporucuje se u slobodno vrijeme sto vise baviti sportom,setati i provoditi vrijeme u prirodi.Takodje mnogo se moze postici i odabirom ruksaka.Treba da je dovoljno visok i da mu je dno u visini zadnjice. Sto manje sjediti pred kompjuterom,a i podsjetiti dijete sto cesce na pravilno drzanje tijela. Mogu biti i gladan ali ne mogu biti bez sna. Imam neki red u zivotu. Sve mi je isplanirano unaprijed. Neki kazu kako to nije dobro, da se tim i previse opterecijem. Medjutim, ja to ne dozivljavam tako.To je postalo sastavni dio mene i takav sam o malih nogu. Rad, odmor i san.Sve ima svoje vrijeme. Danas nam mnogi nude zdravu ishranu, organik hranu.Da li je organik ili nije hajde znaj.Danas citam o lubenicama koje same eksplodiraju, dobro ili ne, zdrava hrana ili ne? Na plantažama lubenica u istočnoj Kini zabilježena je čudna pojava masovnih "eksplozija" ovog voća http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSQ-5vhEVLGw9j_4ISfTV_Os6LSDSgNVenEJdXxFXiRtvs0CdVaasb juuM Tokom ispitivanja je utvrđeno da se to događa zbog prekomjerne upotrebe hemikalija za rast. Uzgajivači lubenica koriste velike količine sredstva koje pospješuje rast voća kako bi plod iznjeli na tržiste prije sezone i zaradili više novca, ali na ovaj način samo gube velike količine ove kulture, javila je Kineska centralna televizija. AP navodi da Kina pokušava da suzbije prekomjernu upotrebu pesticida, đubriva i aditiva, kao što su boje i zaslađivači, koji se sve više koriste kako bi se poboljšala prodaja. Izvor 24 sata Dakle, obicni sapun najbolja garancija. 4 opasne činjenice o pranju ruku antibakterijskim sapunima Triclosan, sastojak većine antibakterijskih sapuna, osim bakterija, ubija i ljudske stanice,a osim loših, ubija i dobre bakterije IlustracijaSve je više upozorenja koji preporučaju izbjegavanje korištenja antibakterijskih sapuna i ostalih antibakterijskih proizvoda, jer doprinose razvoju bakterija otpornih na antibiotike. No, to nije jedina loša posljedica korištenja antibakterijskih sapuna. Postoje četiri opasne činjenice vezane za pranje ruku antibakterijskim sapunima, prenosi Aol News (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mercola/hand-washing-dangers_b_861614.html). Antibakterijski sapun ne štiti bolje od zaraze od običnog sapuna Pranje ruku je prva linija obrane od zaraznih bolesti, no za to je dovoljan običan, ne antibakterijski sapun. Nekoliko studija, poput one iz 2007.objavljene u časopisu Clinical Infectious Diseases, je otkrilo da antibakterijski sapuni ne doprinose zaštiti od zaraza više od običnih sapuna. Ispravna tehnika pranja ruku Dobro je znati temeljito i na pravi način oprati ruke. Ruke je potrebno prati toplom vodom i oko 20 sekundi sapunati sve do zglobova. Nasapunati treba cijelu površinu ruku, uključujući područje između prstiju, sa gornje strane ruku i oko noktiju. Nakon pranja ruke treba dobro isprati i osušiti. Ruke je potrebno prati prije pripremanja hrane, pogotovo ako rukujete sa mesom i prije jela, zatim prije i nakon diranja otvorenih rana ili diranja bolesnih ili ozlijeđenih osoba, prije stavljanja kontaktnih leća, odlaska na wc, diranja smeća i životinja i brisanja nosa. Nuspojave pretjerane upotrebe antibakterijskih sapuna Jedna od loših nuspojava je što pretjerana upotreba antibakterijskih proizvoda pridonosi razvoju novih, otpornijih bakterija. Triclosan, sastojak većine antibakterijskih sapuna, osim bakterija, ubija i ljudske stanice,a osim loših, ubija i dobre bakterije. Djeca odrasla u okolišu u kojem nema nikakvih bakterija neće razviti jak imunosni sustav i bit će bojažljivija kad odrastu. Antibakterijski sapun je loša kombinacija sa kloriranom vodom Kad se triclosan pomiješa sa kloriranom vodom dobije se kloroform koji je prema američkoj Agenciji za zaštitu okoliša (EPA) klasificiran kao kancerogen i opasan za ljudsko zdravlje. rije stavljanja kontaktnih leća, odlaska na wc, diranja smeća i životinja i brisanja nosa. Nuspojave pretjerane upotrebe antibakterijskih sapuna Jedna od loših nuspojava je što pretjerana upotreba antibakterijskih proizvoda pridonosi razvoju novih, otpornijih bakterija. Triclosan, sastojak većine antibakterijskih sapuna, osim bakterija, ubija i ljudske stanice,a osim loših, ubija i dobre bakterije. Djeca odrasla u okolišu u kojem nema nikakvih bakterija neće razviti jak imunosni sustav i bit će bojažljivija kad odrastu. Antibakterijski sapun je loša kombinacija sa kloriranom vodom Kad se triclosan pomiješa sa kloriranom vodom dobije se kloroform koji je prema američkoj Agenciji za zaštitu okoliša (EPA) klasificiran kao kancerogen i opasan za ljudsko zdravlje. Oni koji upotrebljavaju viagru trebaju znat. Viagra dobra za 'prepone', ali loša za uši http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT2JBHi3LQw4Ei0Lgfv9MXqEwgkWehTK LXxpfhttp://www.jokesnwisdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/viagra-150x150.gif Viagra će vam nakratko povratiti muškost, ali to može imati neugodnu cijenu - moguće je da privremeno ili trajno oglušite. U posljednje su vrijeme Viagra i ostale pilule za spolnu potenciju povezane sa stotinjak slučajeva gubitka sluha diljem svijeta. Američki stručnjaci su već upozoravali na to da ove pilile mogu izazvati probleme sa sluhom, a britanski specijalisti, koji su i izjavili rečenicu s početka ovoga teksta, također napominju svojim zemljacima da budu oprezni prilikom korištenja ovih medikamenata. Kako stoji u časopisu Laryngoscope, istraživači iz bolnica Charing Cross, Stoke Mandeville i Royal Marsden, zatražili su od mjerodavnih institucija u Europi, SAD-u, istočnoj Aziji i Australiji da im se jave u slučaju da kod pacijenata zabilježe neugodne slušne nuspojave korištenja Viagre i sličnih sredstava. Ukupno je zabilježeno 47 slučajeva senzorineuralnog ili zamjedbenog gubitka sluha - naglog gubitka sluha u jednom ili oba uha - koje je povezano s uzimanjem Viagre, Cialisa i Levitre. Osam slučajeva je bilo iz Velike Britanije. Ubrzo su zabilježena još 223 slučaja samo u SAD-u, ali kako je bilo poznato malo detalja, zanemareni su. Prosječna dob pogođenih ovim problemom bila je 57 godina, no dva su muškarca imala tek 37 godina. Nije posve jasno koliko dugo su problemi trajali, ali ova vrsta gubitka sluha, koja najčešće nastaje zbog infekcija ili izlaganja prevelikoj buci, obično uzrokuje trajna oštećenja u jednoj trećini slučajeva. ako imate ili ste imali sličnih problema, odmah prestanite s uporabom Viagre i drugih takvih sredstava i otiđite na konzultacije s liječnikom. Nažalost, britanski stručnjaci ne znaju sa sigurnošću na koji način Viagra djeluje na sluh, ali pretpostavljaju da dolazi do specifičnog niza kemijskih reakcija koje Viagra pokreće a koje imaju ošamućujući učinak na unutarnje uho. Metro portal Sve treba probati a da li je ucinkovito ostaje da vidimo? Brzim hodanjem protiv raka prostate http://static.nacional.hr/img/067988a0cfff2fb564e0ed382dea506e_medium.jpg (http://static.nacional.hr/img/067988a0cfff2fb564e0ed382dea506e_700x550.jpg) Muskarcima kojima je nedavno dijagnosticiran rak prostate u borbi protiv te bolesti moglo bi pomoći brzo hodanje, tvrde znanstvenici. Kako prenosi BBC, kalifornijski znanstvenici otkrili su da tri sata brzog hodanja na tjedan može upola smanjiti brzinu širenja raka nekoliko godina nakon dijagnoze. Šetanje nema isti učinak, po članku objavljenom u časopisu "Cancer Research". No, američki stručnjaci upozoravaju da se rezultati trebaju interpretirati s oprezom jer muškarci koji brzo hodaju obično su mlađi, mršaviji i nisu pušači, što bi također moglo objasniti uzroke za sporije napredovanje bolesti. Znanstvenici s Kalifornijskoj sveučilišta u San Franciscu u studiji su dvije i pol godine pratili 1455 muškaraca u 60-im godinama života kojima je dijagnosticiran "lokaliziran" rak prostate, što znači da se još nije počeo širiti. Ustanovljeno je da je muškracima koji su hodali rak napredovao dvostruko sporije od onih koji to nisu činili. "Izgleda je brzo hodanje nakon tim pacijentima odgodilo ili čak zaustavilo napredovanje bolesti", rekla je voditeljica istraživanja Erin Richman. "Korist je odgovarala brzini hodanja. Šetanje nije imalo učinka", dodala je. Napomenuvši kako su potrebna dodatna ispitivanja kako bi se ova teorija sa sigurnošću potvrdila, Richman je rekla da hodanje aktivnost koja ima dobar učinak na svačije zdravlje. Izvor:Nacional almond eyes http://www.dnevniavaz.ba/globus/eu/37829-evropa-se-trese-zbog-spanskih-krastavaca.html Ne znam je li iko od vas zabrinut zbog ovoga sto se desava u Evropskim zemljama,da li kod nas ima ovih sumnjivih namirnica i da li smijemo kupovati gdje smo i do sad kupovali? Kod nas jos nema oboljelih,a niko od nadleznih jos nista nije saopstio. mermaid http://www.dnevniavaz.ba/globus/eu/37829-evropa-se-trese-zbog-spanskih-krastavaca.html Ne znam je li iko od vas zabrinut zbog ovoga sto se desava u Evropskim zemljama,da li kod nas ima ovih sumnjivih namirnica i da li smijemo kupovati gdje smo i do sad kupovali? Kod nas jos nema oboljelih,a niko od nadleznih jos nista nije saopstio. Almice, saopštiće kada bude bilo oboljelih...:(. Evo šta kažu nadležni, pa prema ovom saopštenju nikada se ne zna porijeklo odakle nam je šta stiglo, iz koje države i da li je bilo posrednika. Pitam se kako? Rekla bih da je sretan onaj ko ima svoju baštu i svoj proizvod. Iz Španije rijetko uvozimo Vladimir Usorac, predsjednik Udruženja poljoprivrednih proizvođača i stočara RS, kazao je da oni nemaju informaciju da je na teritoriju BiH uvezen zaraženi krastavac iz Španije. "Inače se iz Španije povrće uvozi veoma rijetko ili gotovo nikako, ali nikad se ne zna jer postoji mogućnost da je iz druge zemlje uvezeno u našu", rekao je Usorac. Međutim, on je kazao da se krastavac u BiH uvozi, kao i svako drugo voće i povrće, ali prije svega iz Egipta i tako koristimo ono što je izvan svih klasa i što ne može proći na evropskom tržištu. Zbog neradnog dana juče nismo mogli doći do informacija iz nadležnih inspekcija RS i FBiH o mogućem uvozu zaraženog krastavca. Mojportal almond eyes Rekla bih da je sretan onaj ko ima svoju baštu i svoj proizvod. Jeste,samo sto povrce treba malo sacekati da sazrije,ali bolje i sacekati nego razmisljati o opasnoj bakteriji.Ja evo citav dan o tom mislim:( mermaid Jeste,samo sto povrce treba malo sacekati da sazrije,ali bolje i sacekati nego razmisljati o opasnoj bakteriji.Ja evo citav dan o tom mislim:( A kako ide sa plastenicima, da li se tu čeka duže ili može da se ubire i prije sezone? Nemoj razmišljati toliko..jednostavno prestani da kupuješ dok ne saznamo pravo stanje. A baš volim krastavce, one male potočarke i mislila sam sutra da idem u jednu veću nabavku voća i povrća, a između uostalog i te male krastavce da kupim. Volim ih u salati, volim ih prerazati po dužini na 4 dijela, pa posloiti i onako ih samo jesti a volim i da ih izerendam i pomješam sa pavlakom...:) :loler: almond eyes A kako ide sa plastenicima, da li se tu čeka duže ili može da se ubire i prije sezone? Nemoj razmišljati toliko..jednostavno prestani da kupuješ dok ne saznamo pravo stanje. A baš volim krastavce, one male potočarke i mislila sam sutra da idem u jednu veću nabavku voća i povrća, a između uostalog i te male krastavce da kupim. Volim ih u salati, volim ih prerazati po dužini na 4 dijela, pa posloiti i onako ih samo jesti a volim i da ih izerendam i pomješam sa pavlakom...:) :loler: Ja sam danas dobila pola frizidera paradajza i krastavaca i paprika,a sta cemo,sto kaze @josip dobro oprati i valjda ce biti dobro. Plastenici su posebna prica,naravno da ranije sazrije,samo nema ih svako.Vecinom se sve kupuje dok u basti ne sazrije. Nesto bez geaga sad ne mozemo. WHO potvrdio: uporaba mobitela može povećati rizik od raka[/B] Tim od 31 znanstvenika iz 14 zemalja, uključujući SAD, donio je odluku nakon pregleda recenziranih studija o sigurnosti mobitela. Tim je pronašao dovoljno dokaza da kategorizira osobnu izloženost zračenju mobitela kao "vjerojatno kancerogenu za ljude", izvijestio je CNN. http://m-stil.covermagazin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/mobitel-nokia-e72.jpg Zračenje iz mobitela bi moglo izazvati rak, objavila je u utorak Svjetska zdravstvena organizacija (WHO) koja je uporabu mobitela sada stavila u kategoriju "karcinogene opasnosti" zajedno s olovom, ispušnim plinovima motora i kloroformom. Prije objave u utorak, WHO je uvjeravala korisnike da nikakvi štetni učinci za zdravlje nisu utvrđeni. Tim od 31 znanstvenika iz 14 zemalja, uključujući SAD, donio je odluku nakon pregleda recenziranih studija o sigurnosti mobitela. Tim je pronašao dovoljno dokaza da kategorizira osobnu izloženost zračenju mobitela kao "vjerojatno kancerogenu za ljude", izvijestio je CNN. To znači da do sada nije provedeno dovoljno dugoročnih studija kako bi se jasno zaključilo da je zračenje iz mobitela sigurno, ali ima dovoljno podataka koji pokazuju moguću povezanost da bi potrošači trebali biti upozoreni. "Najveći problem koji imamo je u tome što znamo da za većinu čimbenika iz okoliša treba nekoliko desetljeća izlaganje prije nego što stvarno vidimo posljedice", rekao je dr. Keith Black, predstojnik odjela neurologije u medicinskom centru Cedars-Sinai u Los Angelesu. Vrsta zračenja koja dolazi iz mobitela naziva se neionizirajućim. To nije poput rengenskog zračenja, već više kao zračenje mikrovalne pećnice niske snage, navodi CNN. "Ono što mikrovalno zračenje čini, pojednostavljeno govoreći, slično je onome što se događa s hranom u mikrovalovima, u biti kuha se mozak. Dakle, osim što dovodi do razvoja raka i tumora, tu bi mogao biti cijeli niz drugih učinaka kao što su funkcije kognitivne memorije, budući da je memorija u temporalnom režnju mozga, gdje držimo naše mobitele", dodao je dr. Black. Glasovi koji potrošače pozivaju na oprez u posljednjih su nekoliko godina postali glasniji. Europska agencija za okoliš (EEA) radila je pritisak za više istraživanja, navodeći da bi mobiteli mogli biti veliki javno-zdravstveni rizik kao što su pušenje, azbest i olovni benzin. Čelnik uglednog Instituta za istraživanje raka na Sveučilištu u Pittsburghu poslao je dopis svim zaposlenicima pozivajući ih da ograniče korištenje mobitela zbog mogućeg rizika od raka. "Kada pogledate na razvoj raka, posebno raka mozga, treba dugo vremena da se razvije. Mislim kako je to dobra ideja da se javnosti da neka vrsta upozorenja da dugoročno izlaganje zračenju iz mobitela bi moglo izazvati rak", izjavio je dr. Henry Lai, profesor istraživač na fakultetu bioinženjerstva Sveučilišta Washingtonu, koji proučava zračenje dulje od 30 godina. Rezultati najveće međunarodne studije o mobitelima i raku, objavljene 2010., pokazali su da sudionici u istraživanju koji su koristili mobitele 10 ili više godina imaju udvostručenu stopu glioma mozga, tipa tumora. Do danas, nije bilo dugoročne studije o učincima uporabe mobitela među djecom. "Dječje lubanje i skalpovi su tanji. Dakle, zračenje može prodrijeti dublje u mozak djece i mladih. Njihove se stanice dijele bržim tempom, tako da utjecaj zračenja može biti puno veći", kazao je dr. Keith Black. Proizvođači mnogih popularnih mobitela već upozoravaju potrošače da drže svoj uređaj dalje od tijela. Priručnik za korisnike Appleova uređaja iPhone 4, kaže da "izloženost radijaciji ne prelazi smjernice američke savezne agencije FCC". "Pri uporabi iPhone-a u blizini svog tijela za glasovne pozive ili za bežični prijenos podataka preko mobilne mreže, držite iPhone najmanje 15 mm daleko od tijela", stoji u priručniku. BlackBerry Bold savjetuje korisnicima da, "drže BlackBerry uređaj najmanje 25 mm od tijela kada BlackBerry uređaj emitira". Izvor:Nacional Eh sta sve ne rade farmaceutske kuce samo da odiju do novca. Svake godine nam serviraju nove viruse iz svojih laboratorija. Da to kojim slucajem radim ja kao pojedinac vec bih bio iza resetaka ali kad to rade farmaceutske kuce onda svi sute. Da li su bosovi tih farmaceutskih kuca toliko mocni da za njih ne vaze zakoni kao za sve ostale ljude Izgleda da su oni izvan zakona. Dok je tako bit ce superbakterija u mlijeku, krastavcima, paradajzu paprikama itd. Bakterija koja jede meso otkrivena u kravljem mlijeku KEMBRIDŽ - Potpuno novi soj na lijekove otporne MRSA superbakterije je utvrđen u kravljem mlijeku i kod ljudi u Britaniji i Danskoj, ukazuje danas objavljena britanska studija. http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQUc2Fcmvy39jPdvnzzaq9nY3kJ-http://www.mleko.com.pk/images/pic_1.jpg "Dosad neviđena varijanta te bakterije potencijalno predstavlja problem za javno zdravlje", ističe Mark Holms, viši predavač preventivne veterinarske medicine na Univerzitetu Kembridž, a prenosi AFP. U studiji se ističe da novootkrivena MRSA ne predstavlja opasnost za konzumente pasterizovanog mlijeka i mliječnih proizvoda, ali da bi ljudi koji rade sa stokom mogli da budu izloženi riziku. Nazvana "bakterijom koja jede meso", na meticilin rezistentna stafilokoka aureus (MRSA) pojavila se kao velika prijetnja u bolnicama širom svijeta, predstavljajući potencijalnu smrtnu opasnost ako se njome zaraze rane pacijenata. Zasad još ne može da se kaže da li su u ovom slučaju krave zarazile ljude ili su ljudi zarazili krave, ističe Holms, dodajući da je bezbjedno piti pasterizovano mleko ili jesti govedinu, kao i da se u procesu pravljenja sira "u principu uništava većina bakterija". Holms navodi da najveću brigu izaziva mogućnost da novi soj MRSA bakterije bude tradicionalnim genetskim testiranjem pogrešno identifikovan kao podložan liječenju antibioticima, što znači da bi ljudi mogli da dobiju pogrešne lijekove. Britanski tim se suočio s novom MRSA bakterijom istražujući mastitis - ozbiljno oboljenje koje pogađa i mliječne krave. Utvrdili su MRSA bakteriju s istim mutiranim genom u 13 od 940 uzoraka iz 450 stada jugozapadne Engleske. Testiranjem na ljudima liječenim od MRSA bakterije, otriven je isti novi soj u 12 slučajeva u Škotskoj, 15 u Engleskoj i 24 u Danskoj. Izvor:Nezavisne mermaid Trešnje imaju pozitivan učinak na zdravlje, pa s obzirom da je vrijeme trešanja treba ovo vrijeme maksimalno iskoristiti..:) Jesu li trešnje čudotvorno voće? http://zena.hr/images/clanci/300_big.jpg Znanstvenici sve više govore o izuzetnim učincima trešanja na zdravlje Još od davnina trešnje su bile na dobrom glasu. Ovim ukusnim plodovima pridavao se čitav niz ljekovitih svojstava, od lijeka za giht i artritis, do hrane za dobar san. Do nedavno sve se to smatralo narodnom medicinom, no istraživanja su dala i znanstveni temelj svim tim pričama. Nismo daleko od dana kada će vam liječnik reći «Uzmi 10 trešanja i nazovi me ujutro.» Iako su jako dobar izvor vitamina, ipak ne sadrže toliko C vitamina kao jagode, ali prisutnost antioksidanata i drugih korisnih sastojaka čini ih izuzetno zdravim voćem. Trešnje sadrže vitamine C, B i A, bioflavonoide, elagičnu kiselinu, antocijanin, melatonin. Ovi sastojci pomažu u borbi protiv raka, u prevenciji srčanih bolesti, ublažavaju bolove uzrokovane artritisom i gihtom, te glavobolju, ublažavaju simptome povezane sa fibromijalgičnim sindromom. Trešnje pomažu da nam tijelo proizvodi melatonin na siguran i zdrav način, te poboljšavaju fiziološke i mentalne funkcije. Svježe trešnje su dobre za otklanjanje fizičke i umne iscrpljenosti, a kisele trešnje poboljšavaju rapoloženje. Vrlo slična zdravstvena svojstva imaju i višnje. Pozitivan učinak trešanja na zdravlje Istraživanja su pokazala da konzumiranje trešanja može pomoći u sprečavanju srčanih bolesti i raka, te ublažiti bolove i poboljšati zdravlje kostiju. Za ovo su najvjerojatniji zaslužni antioksidanti koje možemo pronaći u trešnjama, od kojih su najzdraviji flavonoid anticijanin i kercetin. Prevencija srčanih bolesti Prema znantvenim istraživanjima, flavonoid koji možemo naći u trešnjama (kercetin) ima antikancerogena svojstva, te pomaže u sprečavanju srčanih bolesti. Trešnje se u nutricionističkom smislu smatraju važnim izvorom kercetina, jer sadrže velike količine po obroku. Prevencija raka U košticama trešnje nalazi se mala količina amigdalina, nazvan još i vitamin B17 ili laetril, za kojeg se smatra da pozitivno utječe na smanjenje tumora i spriječava daljnje širenje raka, te pomaže kod ublažavanja bolova uzrokovanih kancerogenim procesima. Neki narodi, poput Hunza u Pakistanu, oduvijek su u prehrani koristili amigdalin i nisu obolijevali od raka, što je znanstvenike navelo na vjerovanje da se radi o hrani koja spriječava razvoj pojave raka. Napravljeni su laboratorijski pokusi na miševima, koji su to potvrdili. No ova istraživanja su prilično kontroverzna budući da amigdalin sadrži cijanidnu komponentu koja je otrovna. Ublažavanje bolova Antocijanini koji se nalaze u trešnjama blokiraju upalne enzime i smanjuju bolove. Zapravo, 20 trešanja je 10 puta učinkovitije od aspirina, te ima pozitivne učinke na giht i bolove od artritisa. Bubrežni kamenac Nije samo plod trešnje zdrav – od peteljki trešnje možete napraviti čaj za poboljšano izlučivanje mokraće pri pojavi kamenca u bubrezima. Za pripremu čaja stavite rukohvat peteljki u litru vrele vode i kuhajte 2 minute, te ostavite 15 minuta da se ohladi. Čaj ocijedite i pijte u gutljajima tijekom dana. Zdravlje kostiju Trešnje se smatraju izvrsnim izvorom bora, (sadrže 396 ug/100g), što u kombinaciji sa kalcijem i magnezijem izuzetno povoljno utječe na zdravlje kostiju. Trešnje pomažu kod mršavljenja Trešnje sadrže malo kalorija, nemaju masnoća, a imaju visoki udio vode. Istraživanja su pokazala da povećan unos vode u organizam povećava razinu energije i pomaže u ubrzanju metabolizma. Mnogi ljudi koriste prednosti konzumiranja voća bogatog vodom poput trešanja za mršavljenje. Poput većine voća, trešnje imaju mnogo kalija, a malo natrija, što pomaže kod izlučivanja vode iz organizma. Trešnje su jedno od voća sa najnižim glikemičnim indeksom Trešnje sadrže kombinaciju anti-aging antioksidanata, bogate su vlaknima, vitaminima A, B i C, sadrže mnogo minerala, osobito kalcija, željeza i kalija. Svaka trešnja ima samo 4 kalorije (1 šalica sadrži oko 90 kalorija), imaju jednake količine ugljikohidrata i proteina, a uopće nemaju masnoća! Trešnje su poznate i po tome da pročišćavaju krv i podižu energiju. Dovoljno dugo su se koristile za pripremu kolača i deserata, sad je vrijeme da uzmemo u obzir i ovu drugu, zdravu stranu tog voća! Zato opskrbite se trešnjama sada kada je sezona kako bi bili zdraviji, izgledali mlađe i osjećali se bolje. (žena hr.) Nije tesko bilo zakljuciti ko je proizvodjac nove bakterije.To su oni koji to cine svake godine, pa ni ova godina ne moze biti izuzetak.Znam, da ce neki kazati "nova teorija zavjere" ali to je surova istina sa kojom moramo zivjeti. Teorija zavjere ili surova istina: Opasnu bakteriju ECEH stvorile su farmaceutske kompanije?! http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT_v8XJIHD8GoJnl_rgq0bus5UBFTxB2 8mF69http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSsQwSavS0bp4Ixt8LXBXV9zclIFWP-http://static.vesti.rs/downloads/Lijek-sa-Romanije-Travar-svinjsku-gripu-lijeci-za-24-sata.jpg Njemački su naučnici ustanovili da je bakterija otporna na osam razreda antibiotika koji se koriste u većini bolnica Super otporni virulentni soj bakterije E.coli (ECEH) još uvijek puni bolnice, a malo ko postavlja pitanje kako je moguće da je E.coli magično preko noći postala otporna na osam različitih razreda antibiotika i da je još uz to završila u hrani. Jedan od onih koji su pokušali naći odgovor je i Mike Adams, urednik portala o zdravom životu NaturalNews.com. On je u svom je tekstu tumačio upravo to pitanje. Iako na prvi pogled zvuči kao još jedna teorija zavjere, Adamsovi argumenti su prilično logični. Bakterija otporna na sve antibiotike Bakteriju koja je izazvala pošast u Evropi, njemački su naučnici su identifikovali kao EHEC koji pripada virulentnom soju O104:H4. A Adams tvrdi kako „bakterije iz soja O104 gotovo nikad nisu otporne na antibiotike, barem ne u normalnim okolnostima“. „Da bi bakterije postigle ovu otpornost potrebno ih je višestruko izlagati antibioticima kako bi se potakla mutacija koja ih naposljetku čini otpornima na lijek“, tvrdi Adams. Reverzibilnim inženjeringom genetskog koda ovog soja E.coli njemački su naučnici ustanovili da je otporna na osam razreda antibiotika koji se koriste u većini bolnica. Osim toga ovaj O104 soj ima sposobnost proizvodnje posebnih enzima koji joj daju određena svojstva koje bi mogli nazvati "bakterijskim supermoćima". I kao da to nije dovoljno, ovaj soj E.coli sadrži dva gena, TEM-1 i CTX-M-15, koji već dugo vremena zabrinjavaju liječnike. Zabrinjavaju ih jer su tako opasni da kod mnogih ljudi zaraženih bakterijom koja nosi takve gene dolazi do zatajenja organa, a samim time i smrti. U ovom trenutku, Adams se pita kako nastaje bakterijski soj koji je otporan na desetke antibiotika, ima razvijen "superenzim" i sadrži dvije smrtonosne genske mutacije? On tvrdi kako postoji isključivo jedan način da do toga dođe, a to je učestalo i kontrolisano izlaganje bakterije tim antibioticima. To je dug i komplikovan proces stvaranja genski najizdržljivijih sojeva bakterije. Sličan proces genetske selekcije rabi se u razvoju biološkog oružja u američkim laboratorijima. Adams smatra da je praktično nemoguće da se takav proces odvije sam od sebe u prirodnim uslovima. S obzirom na to da povrće ne sadrži antibiotike malo je vjerovatno da je bakterija svoju otpornost stekla na taj način. Jedino logično rješenje je, tvrdi Adams, laboratorij. Španija žrtva Adamsova teorija sugeriše da je ovaj opasni soj E.coli umjetno stvoren bioinženjeringom, a zatim je "pušten" u zalihe hrane sa vrlo specifičnim ciljem, a to je kontrola svjetskog tržišta hranom. Klasični poučak problem - reakcija - rješenje apsolutno je primjenjiv na ovu situaciju. Problem je što je svježa hrana zatrovana s E.coli. Reakcija je panika zbog teških bolesti koje izaziva konzumacija takvog povrća. Rješenje je zabrana i stigmatizacija svježe hrane i kontrola nad svjetskom opskrbom hrane. Adams smatra da nije zanemarivo što se sve ovo događa u trenutku kad je EU zabranio upotrebu ljekovitog bilja i prirodnih suplemenata u medicini. Po njemu, konzumacija svježih i prirodnih proizvoda razvija imunološki sustav i štiti od bolesti, za razliku od GMO hrane koja izaziva određene mutacije koje zahtijevaju permanentnu medicinsku pomoć i ovisnost o lijekovima. On smatra kako nije slučajno špansko povrće prvo bilo okrivljeno, jer su podaci koje je ranije objavio WikiLeaks pokazali kako se Španija bunila i opirala uvođenju GMO-a u svoj agrarni sistem. Čak i ako teoriju da je ovaj soj E.coli proizveden bioinženjeringom, ostaje pitanje ko je to učinio. Adams će prstom prvo pokazati na velike farmaceutske tvrtke. Smatra kako je najrealnija mogućnost da one stoje iza ove zavjere, jer imaju i sredstva da izvedu takvo nešto, kao i ogroman motiv. Era bio-rata Čak i kad bi na trenutak pomislili kako je sigurno riječ o teoriji zavjere, i kako se takvo nešto možda moglo dogoditi slučajno, Adams tvrdi da bi to bilo još gore od namjernog kreiranja superbakterije. To bi značilo da je moguće da virusi i bakterije ekstremnih svojstava mogu nastati u prirodnim uslovima, bez da imamo ikakve spoznaje o njihovim karakteristikama. Adams na kraju zaključuje kako su smrtni slučajevi koje je izazvala E.coli mogli biti izbjegnuti, ali su posljedica nemara i neznanja. Ono što, prema njemu, treba izazvati bojazan jest da bi ova epidemija mogla biti pokazatelj da smo ušli u eru bio-rata. Rata u kojem će se kontrola nad svjetskom populacijom provoditi kroz ponudu i potražnju hrane lijekova. U Njemačkoj 23 žrtva bakterije Epidemija novim sojem baterije E. coli uzela je svoju 22 žrtvu Njemačkoj i 23 ukupno, prenosi njemački Bild. Iako bakterija EHEC-a i dalje odnosi ljudske žrtve, njemačke vlasti nisu blizu pronalaska izvora zaraze. Dosad se nagađalo kako izvor zaraze dolazi iz biljnog izvora, a kad se činilo da su njemačke vlasti suzile potragu na jednu farmu nadomak Hamburga, rezultati testiranja klica graha s te farme pokazali su kako tamo nema EHEC-a. Izvor:Avaz albertf Znam, da ce neki kazati "nova teorija zavjere" ali to je surova istina sa kojom moramo zivjeti. Je li mozda imas i neki dokaz za to sto tvrdis, ili su dokazi sazeti u izjavi "surova istina" i isto toliko jakom autoritetu Mike Adams-a? Za dokaze pitas? Vrati svoje razmisljanje godinu po godinu unazad i izvedi zakljucak, ko nam kakve bolesti servira svake godine. Osim toga ozbiljnije procitaj prilozeni tekst, kako je nastala ova opasana bakterija. Nemoj cekati da ti drugi serviraju rjesenje problema, zakljucak itd.Pokusaj sam doci do nekih saznanja. almond eyes Nije moguce na osnovu razmisljanja i vracanja filma unazad izvesti pravilne i valjane zakljucke. Svake godine imamo i razne tipove gripe i sl.bolesti koje se periodicno javljaju. Evo,ove godine imamo pravu epidemiju zausnjaka u tri kantona. Sta mislis zasto:) Ne mislim na vec uobicajene djecije bolesti koje se javljaju svake godine ili periodicno, nego mislim na nove viruse koji se javljaju svake godine kako mutacija nekih od ranije poznatih virusa, pticiji, svijnjski grip i mutacije ovog ili onog virusa gripe. U pocetku nema lijeka za taj novi virus ali kasnije farmaceutske kuce naprave novi lijek-vakcinu i na taj nacin zgrcu pare. Najocitiji primjer bio je sa svinjskom gripom. http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQFZxVdBZqWVsSX-Moja namjera nije da bilo koga ubjedjujem u ovo ili ono.Stvar je svakoga pojedinca kako ce to shvatiti.Bilo bi dobro kad bi se sve zavrsilo na novim virusima svake godine bar po jedan. Medjutiom, stvar je puno, puno gora ali o tome nekom drugom prilikom kroz prigodne tekstove. Kad tableta protiv bolova postane otrov za tijelo Imate užasne glavobolje? Zašto biste patili? Popijte tabletu! Koliko puta ste čuli ovo? Istina, tablete nam olakšavaju život, ali jesu li tako dobre kao što nam se reklamiraju? Koje sve nuspojave nose sa sobom? Vodeća američka farmaceutkinja Suzy Cohen u svojoj novoj knjizi „Drug Muggers: Which Medications Are Robbing Your Body Of Essential Nutrients" govori o nuspojavama lijekova koje uzimamo bez recepta, a o kojima se baš i ne govori. Riječ je o gubitku vrijednih nutritivnih sastojaka čiji nedostatak u tijelu može biti okidač za mnogobrojne poteškoće koje se ne moraju odmah ukazati već mjesecima nakon što smo zaboravili da smo uopće popili tu tabletu. Istraživači Sveučilišta u Zagrebu otkrili su kako lijekovi koji uključuju ibuprofen i aspirin te su obloženi zaštitnim filmom povećavaju opasnost od stomačnog ulceritisa (čir ), krvarenja, a time i manjak željeza. Tablete koje imaju u sebi ketoprofen vezuju željezo uz sebe te tako dodatnu uništavaju tu važnu supstancu koja je odgovorna za stvaranje hemoglobina, proteina koji prenosi kisik kroz tijelo. Te tablete smanjuju i aktivnost folne kiseline koja smanjuje homocistein, koji je pak povezan sa srčanim tegobama. Dakle, spadate li među osobe koje počesto potežu za tabletama protiv bolova, povećavate si rizik od srčanih bolesti, depresije, proljeva, bolova u ustima te anemije. Upamtite kako za svaki lijek koji uzimate, kao i dodatak prehrani, uvijek trebate i liječnički amen. Bolje pitati, nego skitati! Izvor.Metro-portal mermaid Nije tesko bilo zakljuciti ko je proizvodjac nove bakterije.To su oni koji to cine svake godine, pa ni ova godina ne moze biti izuzetak.Znam, da ce neki kazati "nova teorija zavjere" ali to je surova istina sa kojom moramo zivjeti. Sa ovim se slažem..jedino bih rekla da je ova 'nova teorija zavjere' , stara teorija koja se svakim danom usmjerena na više načina protiv nas - ljudskog roda.:( Još nešto novo: U povrću iz Holandije otkrivena nova vrsta ešerihije koli Holandsko povrće zaraženo je drugačijom vrstom ešerihije koli od one koja je do sada otkrivena u NjemačkojHolandske vlasti zabranile su danas prodaju repinih klica jednog domaćeg uzgajivača zbog toga što su u njima pronađeni tragovi nove vrste bakterije ešerihije koli. Agencija zadužena za bezbjednost hrane u Holandiji saopštila je da je od EU dobila informaciju da je u Njemačkoj otkriveno zaraženo povrće iz Holandije. Kako se navodi, holandsko povrće zaraženo je drugačijom vrstom ešerihije koli od one koja je do sada otkrivena u Njemačkoj i od koje je umrlo 27 osoba, a više od 2.900 se razboljelo. Holandske vlasti nisu željele da saopšte ime proizvođača zaražene repe. http://www.dnevniavaz.ba/globus/eu/39427-u-povrcu-iz-holandije-otkrivena-nova-vrsta-eserihije-koli.html Imati svoju bastu i svoj vocnak danas je spas. Svaki čovjek godišnje pojede 6,5 kg kemikalija http://resources.monitor.hr/images/news/2011/06/07/njam20110607001.jpg Viša cijena i nedostupnost u svim trgovinama razlog su zašto proizvodi s oznakom organski još uvijek nisu baš popularni u Hrvatskoj. Kao prvo treba razjasniti da su nazivi organska, bio ili ekološka hrana sinonimi i znače isto. Prednost takve prehrane je što ne sadrži kemikalije, kojih inače u hrani pojedemo oko 6,5 kg godišnje. » Jutarnji (http://www.jutarnji.hr/jadranka-boban-pejic--svaki-covjek-godisnje-pojede-6-5-kg-kemikalija/951190/) almond eyes Vise pojedemo hemikalija nego voca:D Najbolje je iz svoje baste.Tada tacno znas sta jedes.Ovako hajde ga znaj?? 12 vrsta voća i povrća sa najviše pesticida http://www.nezavisne.com/slika/slikac.php?slika=20110614191418.jpg Da li je jabuka na dan zaista dobra za naše zdravlje? Možda, ukoliko nije obložena pesticidima. Ekološka organizacija Environmental Working Group objavila je najnoviju listu "prljavih" na kojoj se nalazi voće i povrće koje je najviše zagađeno pesticidima. Prošlogodišnji prvoplasirani celer, sada su zamijenile jabuke, sveprisutno voće koje je trenutno najzagađenije pesticidima. Najveći nivo pesticida u sebi sadrže: jabuke, celer, jagode, breskve, špinat nektarine, grožđe, paprika, krompir, borovnic, zelena salata, kelj Povoljan efekat koje voće i povrće ima na ljudski organizam se ne dovodi u pitanje, šta više dobro je da pola obroka čine ove namirnice. Međutim, postoji i potencijalno tamna strana voća i povrća, te je zabrinutost oko velike upotrebe pesticida sasvim na mjestu. Neke studije su pokazale da voće i povrće "obogaćeno" pesticidima može da izazove zdravstvene probleme, posebno kod djece i trudnica. Podatak o unošenju pesticida kroz hranu nije ohrabrujući i glasi - U pet porcija voća i povrća sa ove liste, prosječno se unese 14 različitih pesticida -. Sa druge strane, postoje i namirnice koje su svrstane u kategoriju "čistih", njih je 15 i njihovom upotrebom smanjuje se unos pesticida za 90 odsto. Među 15 "čistih", odnosno onih koje sadrže najmanji nivo pesticida nalaze se:crni luk, kukuruz, ananas, avokado, špargla, grašak, mango, plavi patlidžan, dinja, kivi, kupus, lubenica, mladi krompir,grejpfrut, pečurke. Pojedina istraživanja pokazuju da ishrana bazirana na organskoj hrani smanjuje nivo pesticida u tkivima, a najbolji način je informisanje o usjevima i količini pesticida koja se upotrebljava prilikom njihovog uzgajanja. Naravno lista je hvaljena i osporavana, ali bez obzira na sve, ishrana bogata povrćem i voćem ima svoje prednosti koje su značajnije od rizika izlaganja pesticidima. Izvor.Nezavisne Vec dugo i dugo koristim maslinovo ulje. I ranije se govorilo o njegovim prednostima ali ovo je vec malo konkretnije. Istraživanje pokazalo: Maslinovo ulje sprječava moždani udar http://static.nacional.hr/img/1df420523aaeed318b916bf6c2adf3bb_medium.jpg Maslinovo ulje može spriječiti moždani udar u osoba starijih od 65 godina, objavili su znanstvenici, prenosi BBC. Oni su u posljednjih pet godina pratili zdravstveno stanje oko 7.000 ljudi u tri francuska grada i otkrili da su oni koji su koristili puno maslinova ulja imali manji rizik od moždanog udara u odnosu na one koji ga nisu konzumirali. Na temelju zaključaka studije objavljene u časopisu Neurology, stručnjaci preporučuju da stariji ljudi promijene prehranu i koristite više maslinova ulja. "Naše istraživanje pokazuje da bi se trebale izdati nove preporuke u vezi s prehranom osoba od 65 i više godina", rekla je autorica studije dr. Cecilia Samieri sa Sveučilišta u Bordeauxu. "Moždani udar čest je među starijim ljudima, pa maslinovo ulje može biti jeftin način da se on spriječi", dodala je. Studija je pokazala da je rizik od moždanog udara 41 posto manji kod onih koji su redovito konzumirali maslinovo ulje u odnosu na one koji nisu. "Vjeruje se da maslinovo ulje štiti od povišenog kolesterola, visokog krvnog tlaka i srčanih bolesti i ohrabruje da bi moglo imati sličnu ulogu i protiv moždanog udara", rekao je Sharlin Ahmed iz britanske udruge za moždani udar. Izvor.Nacional Naucna istrazivanja od kojih mnogima dodje muka. Fuuuj: Japanci napravili meso za hamburgere od fekalija iz kanalizacije! http://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2011/06/Mitsuyuki-Ikeda-shit-burger-75x75.jpg Mitsuyuki Ikeda, istraživač iz laboratorije u japanskoj Okayami, razvio je način stvaranja "jestivog" mesa zasnovanog na proteinima od izmeta iz gradske kanalizacije. Iz kompanije "Tokio Kanalizacija" ovaj je naučnik dobio upit da li može nešto uraditi sa prekomjernom zagušenošću sistema, tj. da li može istražiti upotrebu fekalija u neke ljudima korisne svrhe. Ispitivanjem sadržaja kanalizacionog mulja, Ikeda je otkrio da ono ima visoku koncentraciju bakterija koje sintetiziraju proteine, čime je dobio željeni rezultat. Naime, stvoreno je umjetno "meso" koje sadrži 63% proteina, 25% ugljikohidrata, masti oko 3%, te 9% minerala. Za bolju sličnost sa stvarnim mesom, u ovaj je "proizvod" dodata prirodno crvena boja, kao i pojačivač okusa, na bazi soje. Cijeli projekat otišao je i korak dalje, te su japanci pronašli nekoliko dobrovoljaca koji su riskirali život kako bi probali ovo meso. Kako navode japanski naučnici, dobrovoljci su potvrdili da je "okus mesa iz kanalizacije" neodoljivo sličan stvarnom mesu, poput govedine npr. Japanski mediji navode da će, ukoliko uđe u proizvodnju, cijena "mesa iz kanalizacije" u budućnosti biti slična cijeni stvarnog mesa, ali u ovom trenutku cijena ovog mesa je i do dvadeset puta veća zbog uračunatih troškova istraživanja. Profesor Ikeda, osim što razumije psihološke barijere koje ljudi trebaju treba prevazići znajući da jedu "meso iz kanalizacije", se nada da će ovo meso postati dio svakodnevne prehrane pogotovo imajući u vidu njegov pozitivan uticaj prema okolišu (manje zagađenje), a pogotovo jer će ovakvo meso imati manje kalorija. (24sata.info Japanski mediji navode da će, ukoliko uđe u proizvodnju, cijena "mesa iz kanalizacije" u budućnosti biti slična cijeni stvarnog mesa, ali u ovom trenutku cijena ovog mesa je i do dvadeset puta veća zbog uračunatih troškova istraživanja. znači još ti njima platiš skupo da bi poj'o ****o :loler: almond eyes znači još ti njima platiš skupo da bi poj'o ****o :loler: Ma,ko ce to placati i kupovati.To je samo mali izlet u nevjerovatna postignuca i zamisli. Sada smo za to culi i vjerujem nikad vise:) Ta proizvodnja nece nikad zazivjeti,niti ce biti potraznje za takvom vrstom mesa. Ma,ko ce to placati i kupovati.To je samo mali izlet u nevjerovatna postignuca i zamisli. Sada smo za to culi i vjerujem nikad vise:) Ta proizvodnja nece nikad zazivjeti,niti ce biti potraznje za takvom vrstom mesa. ne želim zvučati paranoično, ali jesi ti sigurna almice da ćeš znati šta plaćaš i kupuješ, da i sada znaš šta plaćaš i kupuješ. ne kažem da nam ovakve stvari prodaju sad, ali svašta nam utrape da nismo ni svjesni. mermaid Ma,ko ce to placati i kupovati.To je samo mali izlet u nevjerovatna postignuca i zamisli. Sada smo za to culi i vjerujem nikad vise:) Ta proizvodnja nece nikad zazivjeti,niti ce biti potraznje za takvom vrstom mesa. Hahah...almice, ne budi sigrna, možda nećemo ni čuti, ali ko zna šta ćemo jesti upakovano u u salame, konzerviranu hranu, pa fašrano meso, u hamburgerima, ćevapima i drugim gotovim jelima.. Ovo sam pročitala prije ručka i sve mi se smućilo, sreća da sam brzo zaboravila..:). Ta proizvodnja nece nikad zazivjeti,niti ce biti potraznje za takvom vrstom mesa. Šta misliš da je znanstvenik bez razloga uložio trud i sredstva da napravi ovakvu vrstu mesa? U svijetu je sve manje hrane, a ovo otkriće će sigurno da umanji nestašice :)). Ne kažu đaba da se bliži smak svijeta..:(( almond eyes ne želim zvučati paranoično, ali jesi ti sigurna almice da ćeš znati šta plaćaš i kupuješ, da i sada znaš šta plaćaš i kupuješ. ne kažem da nam ovakve stvari prodaju sad, ali svašta nam utrape da nismo ni svjesni. Normalno da jesu,ali po cijeni necega mozemo vidjeti sta je utrpano,a sta nije. Ako nesto,poput ovog pokusaja da se od neceg iz kanalizacije napravi meso iziskuje mnogo ulaganja onda nece biti jeftino:) almond eyes Ne kažu đaba da se bliži smak svijeta.. Sta fali,i to je za ljude;) Normalno da jesu,ali po cijeni necega mozemo vidjeti sta je utrpano,a sta nije. Ako nesto,poput ovog pokusaja da se od neceg iz kanalizacije napravi meso iziskuje mnogo ulaganja onda nece biti jeftino:) samo je zasad skupo zbog troškova istraživanja Japanski mediji navode da će, ukoliko uđe u proizvodnju, cijena "mesa iz kanalizacije" u budućnosti biti slična cijeni stvarnog mesa, ali u ovom trenutku cijena ovog mesa je i do dvadeset puta veća zbog uračunatih troškova istraživanja. mermaid Za doručak sam znala da je najvažniji dnevni orok i da ga ne treba preskakati, ali nisam znala kakvi se sve procesi odvijaju u organizmu ako ga preskaćemo. Doručak: najvažniji obrok dana! Vjerovatno ste mnogo puta čuli kako je doručak najvažniji od svih obroka i da se ne smije preskakati, ali ste to svejedno učinili. Međutim, niste jedini, već ste samo dio od oko 50% stanovništva koje izbjegava doručak. Preskakanje doručka predstavlja nepotrebno gladovanje organizma. Ankete pokazuju da je većina ljudi svjesna značaja doručka, ali da je zbog nedostatka vremena često prinuđena da ga preskoči ili da "gricne nešto s nogu". Kao drugi, najčešći razlog preskakanja doručka, navodi se potreba za smanjenjem kilograma. Oni koji su "vječno" na dijeti, žele izostavljanjem doručka smanjiti dnevni unos kalorija, ne shvatajući da je njegovo izbjegavanje upravo jedan od uzročnika povećanja tjelesne težine. U svim savremenim istraživanjima o zdravoj ishrani, preporučuje se 4 do 5 obroka u toku dana, što znači da treba jesti i nešto ujutru i nešto u toku dana, pa i nešto uvečer. Ne treba preskakati doručak niti zanemarivati večeru. Ustanovljeno je da doručak povoljno utiče na metabolizam, popravlja raspoloženje, poboljšava koncentraciju, poboljšava radni učinak, daje neophodnu snagu na početku dana, snižava nivo štetnog holesterola u krvi, smanjuje glad, povoljno utiče na regulisanje težine, štiti organizam od bolesti, povoljno utiče na rad mozga, povoljno utiče na regulisanje šećera u krvi itd. Zbog preskakanja doručka vaše se tijelo ujutro budi i zbog 100 triliona ćelija vas moli da mu pružite 114 nutrijenata i energije koje je potrošilo u zadnjih 24 sata. Budući da organizam ne hranite ničim, dolazi do pada razine šećera u krvi i osjećaja gladi zbog kojeg tražite jednostavne ugljikohidrate (čokolada, kava, bomboni, kolačići, sokovi i sl.). Podižući razinu šećera u krvi silite vaša jetra da proizvode više inzulina. Inzulin miče šećer iz krvi i pretvara ga u masnoće. Rezultat je da razina šećera u krvi pada, često i ispod one s kojom ste se probudili. Počinjete osjećati glad i općenitu slabost. Da bi smanjili glad ponovno trebate jednostavne ugljikohidrate koji ponovno podižu razinu šećera u krvi. Svaka injekcija šećera popraćena je i dozom inzulina. Ovaj se ciklus ponavlja nekoliko puta tokom dana i stvara se ovisnost o ugljikohidratima. Ovisnost o ugljikohidratima preopterećuje i slabi jetru što može dovesti do dijabetesa. Previše šećera u krvi oštećuje krvne žile. Višak šećera će inzulin pretvoriti u masti. Sve navedeno je najčešći uzrok prekomjerne težine, visokog krvnog pritiska i dijabetesa. A sve počinje lošim doručkom! Doktori, nutricionisti i ostali stručnjaci za ishranu preporučuju neke od sljedećih namirnica za doručak: musli, pahuljice, banane, narandže, voće, voćni sok, tost, mlijeko, jogurt, mliječne proizvode, med, kuhani pirinač, sutlijaš... Za početak dana treba jesti hranu koja ima proteine, šećer i ugljikohidrate, kako bi organizam dobio "početno gorivo" za predstojeći naporan dan. Doručak ne treba da bude oskudan, ali ni preobilan. Izvori: zdravahrana.com; zena.hr Neira Delić Često vema kasno doručkujem ili preskoćim doručak, ne iz razloga što to želim, nego jednostavno ne osjećam glad. Možda je to samo stvar navike. Sada kada sam ovo pročitala, moje navike se moraju mjenjati. A vi, kakve su vaše navike? almond eyes Nikakve,doruckujem kafu:D mermaid Nikakve,doruckujem kafu:D Isto činim almice, od danas se mijenjam. U stvari od sutra, jer još nisam doručkovala...:) almond eyes Ma kakvi,ne mogu zamisliti da jedem cim se umijem,stvar navike koju ne zelim mijenjati:D Kucni lijekovi koji stvarno pomazu samo treba probati. Votka, olovka, jogurt, lijekovi koji stvarno pomažu http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQr6wesLfQzzQIlCve3S9sTgwvYuIQ9n NQMIf-OKxp_6ztiVDXmIh2o5w Naravno da svi imamo malu kućnu apoteku u kojoj držimo zavoje, tablete protiv bolova i slične stvari. Ali jeste li znali da neka hrana i stvari u kući mogu pomoći pri ozdravljenju. Tportal donosi male kućne trikove i bizarne kućne lijekovi koji stvarno djeluju. Evo šta učiniti kad vas uhvati štucavica, kad opečete jezik vrućim sirom ili krompirom, a i zanimljivo istraživanje koje otkriva kako iPod može sniziti krvni pritisak. Votka za mirisna stopala Idealan kućni lijek za noge koje se znoje i imaju miris. Natopite krpu sa votkom i dobro je iscijedite, a nakon toga prebrišite stopala. Votka sadrži alkohol koji djeluje antiseptički, a takođe isušuje kožu. Uništava miris koji su prouzrokovale gljivice i bakterije, a takođe će osušiti vlagu koja se nakuplja između prstiju i omogućava bakterijama i gljivicama da žive. Olovka protiv glavobolje Ako ste pod stresom ili ste osjećate jako nervozno, podsvjesno stišćete čeljust i zube. To zateže mišiće koji povezuju čeljust sa sljepoočnicom i može uzrokovati glavobolju. Kako bi spriječili bol u glavi uzmite olovku stavite je u usta između zuba, ali nemojte jako zagristi. Takav položaj čeljusti automatski će opustiti mišiće i smanjiti bol, kaže doktor Fred Sheftell, iz Centra za prevenciju glavobolja u Stamfordu. Jogurt protiv lošeg zadaha Prijašnja istraživanja otkrila su kako bakterije koje žive u jogurtu mogu vaš dah učiniti svježim. Naime, dobre bakterije iz probiotika poput jogurta, mogu nadjačati one loše u ustima koje uzrokuju loš dah. Tekućina za usta protiv plikova Klasični osvježivač daha u obliku vodice za ispiranje usta mogao bi vam pomoći kod bolnih plikova. Namočite komad vate sa malo osvježivača i namažite plik tri puta dnevno. Ovaj snažni antiseptik, osušit će to područje i smanjiti bol. Teniska loptica protiv bolnih stopala Za brzu i jednostavnu mini masažu stopala dovoljna vam je jedna mala teniska loptica. Izujte cipele i stanite na tenisku lopticu i kotrljajte je naprijed i nazad minutu do dvije. Postupak ponovite sa drugom nogom. Da biste rashladili i opustili natekle i bolne noge, možete ih staviti na bocu hladne vode te takođe kotrljati naprijed nazad par minuta. Šećer protiv štucanja Mala kašika šećera koju progutate kad vas uhvati štucanje trebala bi zaustaviti ovu neugodnu pojavu. Vjeruje se da šećer može promijeniti živčane mišiće koji šalju impuls mišićima dijafragme koji mogu potaknuti štucanje. iPod protiv visokog krvnog pritiska Slušajte dnevno bar 30 minuta omiljene muzike na Ipodu i smanjit ćete krvni pritisak kažu italijanski naučnici. Istraživanja su pokazala kako ljudi dok slušaju muziku dišu sporije i dosta im se smanjuje krvni pritisak. Sistolički krvni pritisak već nakon prve sedmice pada u prosjeku za vrijednost od 3,2, a nakon mjesec dana slušanja muzike za 4,4. Maslinovo ulje za suhe nokte, lijepe ruke i kosu Za suhe nokte i kosu upotri***ite maslinovo ulje. U zdjelicu zagrijte malo maslinova ulja i umočite nokte. Da vam omekša koža, ruku maslinovim uljem namočite pamučnu tkaninu omotajte je oko ruku, a zatim omotajte kućnom plastificiranom folijom. Ostavite da djeluje nekoliko minuta. Od maslinova ulja možete napraviti masku za kosu, tako da pomiješate žumanjak jaja i dodati par kapi limunovog sok. Sladoled protiv opečenog jezika Tkivo jezika posebno vrha jezika veoma je mekano i osjetljivo na vruću hranu. Ako ste se opekli na pizzu ili vrući sir ili niste čekali da se ohladi vaše omiljeno jelo, jezik možete rashladiti kašikom hladnog sladoleda ili jogurta. Hladnoća će vam donijeti trenutno olakšanje. Jabuka za zdrave zube Jabuka ima nevjerovatnu sposobnost da vam izbijeli i očisti zube, a prema nekim istraživanjima efikasnija je od klasičnih pasti za pranje zuba. Sadrži kiselinu koja odstranjuje nečistoće i bakterije. Češanj bijelog luka dobar za porezotine Ako se porežete na ranu stavite prepolovljeni češanj bijelog luka kako bi spriječili infekcije. Bijeli luk je bogat egenolom sastojkom koji djeluje antiseptički, a ujedno djeluje i protiv boli. Papaja za glađu i mekšu kožu Ovo tropsko voće sadrži papajin protein koji pomaže u odstranjivanju mrtvih stanica kože. Opranu, oguljenu i zgnječenju papaju (dvije kašike) pomiješajte sa zobenom kašom (jedna kašika). Ovu mješavinu stavite na čistu i suhu kožu i ostavite da djeluje deset minuta, a zatim je odstranite mokrim peškirom. Za mali alergeni test, vidite reguje li vam tijelo na te sastojke tako da mali dio stavite prije pilinga poviše lakta ili iza uha i pričekate nekoliko minuta da vidite hoće li biti nekakve reakcije na koži Izvor. 24 sata almond eyes Tokom ovih tropskih vrucina treba posebnu paznju obratiti na namirnice koje koristimo,na njihovu svjezinu i rok trajanja. Posebno treba obratiti paznju i na higijenu,od prodavaca do krajnjih korisnika namirnica.Svaki pripremljeni obrok treba pojesti nakon par sati.S tim da posebnu paznju obratimo na obroke koje pripremamo za najmladje.Mlijeko i mlijecni proizvodi su posebno osjetljivi i lako kvarljivi. Treba izbjegavati namirnice koje u sebi sadrze jaja,kao sto su domaci kolaci i sladoled,kao i majoneza. Kupujte kod provjerenih prodavaca,a izbjegavajte namirnice kojima je ambalaza ostecena,a obavezno provjerite i rok trajanja,kao i uvjete u kojima je roba cuvana. almond eyes http://www.dnevniavaz.ba/vijesti/teme/47801-iako-je-majcino-mlijeko-najbolja-i-nezamjenjiva-hrana-samo-sest-posto-majki-u-bih-doji-djecu.html Porazavajuci rezultati koji otvaraju mnoga pitanja:confused: Da li majke nije briga za bolju dobrobit njihovih beba,da li je lakse grijati i pripremati adaptirano mlijeko ili djetetu ponuditi majcino mlijeko,uvijek odgovarajuce temperature i lako dostupno? Da ne pisemo o onome sto je i korisnije za kucni budzet u ionako nestabilnoj drzavi sa pola miliona nezaposlenih. almond eyes http://www.dnevniavaz.ba/lifestyle/porodica-i-zdravlje/49705-kako-se-rijesiti-neugodne-pojave-zacinjena-hrana-izaziva-znojenje.html Kako se riješiti neugodne pojave: Začinjena hrana izaziva znojenje Dezodoransi neutraliziraju miris Ako začinima ne možete odoljeti, pijte mnogo vode kako ublažili miris Osim dezodoransa i antiperspiranata, postoje i drugi načini na koje možemo smanjiti neugodne posljedice znojenja, naprimjer pamučnom odjećom. Što se tiče boja, siva je najosjetljivija jer se na njoj vidi doslovno svaka kapljica, ali s crnom ne možete pogriješiti. Osobe koje imaju problema s prekomjernim znojenjem trebale bi izbjegavati začinjenu hranu. Neki začini, poput kima i sirovog bijelo luka, uzrokuju nastanak posebno intenzivnih tjelesnih mirisa. Ako začinima ipak ne možete odoljeti, pijte mnogo vode kako biste isprali, razblažili njihov mirisni učinak. Onima koji se i dalje kupaju u znoju uprkos svim pokušajima da ga spriječe ili bar donekle obuzdaju, preporučljivi se posebni jastučići za upijanje znoja koji se diskretno pričvrste na unutrašnju stranu rukava i učinkovito rješavaju problem. mermaid O kafi.. Ovo mi djeluje malo zbunjujuće..Piti ili ne piti, pitanje je sad? Ja se opredjeljujem za - piti...:) Znate li što vam sve kava može učiniti? Navika ispijanja kave za mnoge je užitak koji se ne može usporediti s ničim. No kava ima svoje čarobne prednosti, ali i opasne nedostatke koji ovise o količini kave koju konzumiramo na dnevnoj bazi. Doznajte kako broj šalica kave može utjecati na tijelo, zdravlje i raspoloženje kava ima pozitivne i negativne učinke na naš organizam i raspoloženje što ovisi o dnevnoj dozi 1 šalica dnevno Prednosti: Šalica kave na dan regulira visinu krvnog tlaka i pozitivno utječe na krvne žile. Kava je odličan antioksidans te potiče moždane aktivnosti. Nedostaci: Šalica kave je dovoljna da vam poremeti san i drži vas budnima tijekom noći jer je potrebno čak 8 sati da kofein potpuno nestane iz tijela. Izbjegavajte poslijepodnevnu kavu i uživajte u jutarnjem ritualu. 2 šalice dnevno Prednosti: Ovakva količina kave na dnevnoj bazi je odlična prevencija protiv Alzheimerove bolesti odnosno od tolike doze kofeina raste količina proteina u mozgu koja utječe na gubitak pamćenja. Ispijanje 2 šalice kave 30 minuta prije naporne aktivnosti pružit će vašem tijelu veliku dozu energije. Nedostaci: Dvije šalice kave u trudnoći prevelika su doza kofeina jer on utječe na proizvodnju hormona kortizola i adrenalina što može uzrokovati spontani pobačaj. Prednosti: Tri šalice kave dnevno sprečavaju nastajanje raka jajnika kod žena. Ova količina crnog napitka pozitivno utječe i na muškarce jer sprečava nastajanje žučnog kamenca. Nedostaci: Ova doza kave na dnevnoj bazi zbog velike količine kofeina povećava rizik od srčanog udara. 4 šalice dnevno Prednosti: Četiri šalice kave sadrži oko 400 miligrama kofeina što je vrlo snažan antioksidans koji 'čisti' organizam i pomaže u borbi protiv različitih oblika tumora, raka prostate i dijabetesa tipa 2. Nedostaci: Velika količina kave dnevno može dovesti do reumatskog artritisa te izazvati nervozu i tjeskobnost. 5 šalica dnevno Prednosti: Istraživanja su pokazala kako ispijanje pet šalica kave dnevno znatno sprečava nastajanje bolesti jetre. Nedostaci: Pet šalica kave na dnevnoj bazi može pojačati faktor rizika za osteoporozu jer kofein apsorbira kalcij koji je vrlo važan za kosti. 6 šalica dnevno Prednosti: Ispijanje šest šalica kave može smanjiti opasnost od raka kože za čak 31 posto jer kava kao antioksidant štiti i obnavlja stanice kože. Nedostaci: Velike količine kave mogu dovesti do dehidracije jer je kava vrlo snažan diuretik. Isto tako može izazvati tjeskobu i pojačati stres te uzrokovati visok krvni tlak što povećava rizik od kardiovaskularnih bolesti. http://image.dnevnik.hr/media/images/213xX/Oct2010/60376750.jpg (http://image.dnevnik.hr/media/images/original/Oct2010/60376750.jpg) Izvor: zadovoljna.hr optimus NEMA VIŠE ROKA TRAJANJA: Mikrobiolozi otkrili supstancu koja sprječava kvarenje hrane Mikrobiolozi sa univerziteta u Minnesoti slučajno su otkrili supstancu zvanu bizin - vrstu konzervansa koja bi mogla donijeti kraj oznakama roka trajanja. http://banjalukain.com/mediji/mikrobiolozi-otkrili-supstancu-koja-sprjecava-kvarenje-hrane almond eyes Kako se izboriti s depresijom nakon godišnjeg odmora Razgovarajte o dešavanjima na odmoru Pokušajte se vratiti uobičajenim obavezama i razmišljajte o sljedećem odmoru Istinski ste uživali u suncu, moru, plaži, hrani te svim ostalim morskim radostima, a onda je došao posljednji dan godišnjeg odmora i vaše raspoloženje naglo je splasnulo. Otprilike sličan scenarij dijeli većina ljudi, koji nakon povratka s godišnjeg odmora padaju u blagu depresiju. Iako je riječ o stanju koje ne treba zanemariti, ne biste se trebali ni pretjerano brinuti, jer već nakon sedmicu-dvije simptomi nestaju, a vi se vraćate u svoj uobičajeni život. Ako simptomi duže potraju, uzrok je možda nešto drugo pa biste se, u tom slučaju, trebali posavjetovati s ljekarom. Iako depresija nakon godišnjeg odmora ne traje dugo, šteta je trošiti vrijeme na bezvoljnost. Dobra je vijest da rješenje postoji. Stručnjaci kažu da biste dojmove s godišnjeg trebali podijeliti s drugima - pričajte im o svojim dogodovštinama, pokažite im fotografije i snimke, otkrijte im kakva ste mjesta posjetili. Takve aktivnosti pomažu vam u ponovnom proživljavanju sretnih dana. http://www.dnevniavaz.ba/lifestyle/porodica-i-zdravlje/50192-depresija-nakon-godisnjeg-odmora.html mermaid Ovo mi je nepoznato. Depresija poslije godišnjeg odmora? Poslije godišnjeg odmora smo uvjek relaksirani i opušteni...znam da većina jeste.. Pa zašto bi se onda zvao 'godišnji odmor' ? labosanka Nema depresija,kakve ba depresije, i to poslije odmora, to samo imaju osobe koje nisu rijesile sami sa sobom, realnosti u ochi treba gledati a ne pokusati izbjeci je. optimus Vas dvije kao da ne poznajete osjecaj Nedjeljom po podne, tamo negdje oko 17h najkasnije. Mene obavezno prodrma; u pm pa sutra opet na posao....i to je oblik depresije :p mermaid Vas dvije kao da ne poznajete osjecaj Nedjeljom po podne, tamo negdje oko 17h najkasnije. Mene obavezno prodrma; u pm pa sutra opet na posao....i to je oblik depresije :p To si ti samo umislio... :) Samo pomisli, a šta da nemam posla ili da sam bolestan, pa da ne mogu da radim..i depresija će da nestane. optimus To si ti samo umislio... :) Samo pomisli, a šta da nemam posla ili da sam bolestan, pa da ne mogu da radim..i depresija će da nestane. Znaci ipak uvidjass da ona ponekad postoji, pa cak i poslije godisnjeg odmora.:kissy2: A , sad kojom metodom je odagnati, je vec drugo pitanje. Al' mi se svidja tvoj pristup, pozetivan je :) almond eyes http://www.dnevniavaz.ba/lifestyle/porodica-i-zdravlje/53263-rijesite-se-grubih-peta-i-kurijih-ociju.html Kurije oči ili klavusi često se stvaraju na stopalima kao posljedica nošenja neprikladne i neudobne obuće ili zbog statičkih poremećaja Grube i ispucale pete, kurije oči, sitni kapilari, promjene na noktima i pojačano znojenje stopala praćeno neugodnim mirisom najčešće narušavaju izgled stopala i potkoljenica. Grube pete djeluju veoma neuredno. Koža je zadebljala, ispucala, a ako se stvore veće ragade, hodanje može postati bolno. Pete su mjesto gdje se nakuplja najviše odumrlih ćelija i zato ih je veoma važno njegovati, ne samo radi lijepog izgleda, nego i radi većih problema koji mogu nastati ukoliko su pete zapuštene. Sedmični piling Za početak važno je pripremiti toplu kupku za stopala u koju ćete dodati morsku so ili hrastovu koru. Kupka treba trajati oko 20 minuta, a tek onda se zadebljanja koja omekšaju na ovaj način odstranjuju keramičkom rašpom za stopala. Nakon toga je važno nanijeti debeli sloj kreme za njegu stopala. Dobro je i barem jednom sedmično napraviti piling stopala. Kurije oči ili klavusi često se stvaraju na stopalima kao posljedica nošenja neprikladne i neudobne obuće ili zbog statičkih poremećaja. To je jedna hiperkeratotične, konična tvorba, čiji tvrdi vršak u obliku trna ulazi u dermis. Kurije oko nastaje zbog stalnog mehaničkog pritiska na meka tkiva ispod kojih se nalazi tvrda podloga. Ono je bolno na pritisak jer vrh konusa pritišće na nervna vlakna u koži. Ukoliko se kurije oči ne uspiju odstraniti primjenom keratolitika, odstranjivanje se najčešće vrši ekskohleacijom ili elektrokoagulacijom. Problemi sa stopalima poput urastanja noktiju, gljivičnih infekcija ili slabe cirkulacije mogu ukazivati na neka hronična oboljenja koja na vrijeme treba uočiti i liječiti. Male vene Ono što isto tako narušava lijep izgled nogu je i pojava teleangiektazija i/ili venektazija. Teleangiektazije su trajno prošireni kapilari i postkapilarne venule u koži koje imaju izgled svijetlih, tankih, razgranatih niti. Esencijalne teleangiektazije koje se javljaju najčešće kod žena između 30. i 50. godine života često se nalaze na nogama i sklone su širenju. Venektazije su trajno proširene žilice venskog spleta u dermisu, veličine su nekoliko centimetara i plavo-crvene ili purpurnoplave boje. Nastaju uglavnom kod žena kao posljedica utjecaja estrogena na stijenku malih vena. Obično se vide na potkoljenicama i oko gležnjeva te na unutrašnjim dijelovima stopala. S obzirom na to da venektazije kod nekih žena predstavljaju veliki estetski problem, postoje metode kojima se mogu otkloniti. Pojačano znojenje Kod jednog broja ljudi dolazi do pojave pojačanog znojenja nogu, što se naziva genuina hiperhidroza. To pojačano znojenje često je praćeno i neugodnim mirisom koji nastaje kao posljedica raspadanja rožnatog sloja usljed bakterijske razgradnje. Pojačanom znojenju tabana pogoduju i nošenje neadekvatne obuće te loše higijenske navike pojedinaca. Zbog toga obuća mora biti od prirodnih materijala, a higijena stopala svakodnevna uz svakodnevno mijenjanje čarapa. Vjerujem da dosta ljudi ima problema sa stopalima jer im vecinom ne posvecujemo dovoljno paznje.A ona su glavni oslonac naseg tijela i moramo ih njegovati da bi nam bila lijepa i zdrava. almond eyes Tri puta veća je vjerovatnoća da će ljudi pojesti prvu stvar koju vide u frižideru Hrana koja je na dohvat ruke i koju prvo ugledamo u frižideru, ta će se prva pojesti, otkriva najnovija studija stručnjaka iz New Yorka. Tri puta veća je vjerovatnoća da će ljudi pojesti prvu stvar koju vide u frižideru, otkriva studija koja je rađena na Univerzitetu ''Kornel'' u New Yorku, a sprovedena je na više od 200 ispitanika. ''Mjesto na koje je hrana stavljena ima veliki uticaj na čovjeka, jer su ljudi skloni da se opredijele za onu hranu koju odmah vide'', rekao je jedan od glavnih stručnjaka na ovoj studiji, Brajan Vansink. ''Ako stavite zdravu hranu ispred nezdrave, najvjerovatnije ćete uzeti onu koja je zdrava. Manje je vjerovatno da ćete jesti petu ili osmu namirnicu koju vidite kada dođete umorni kući'', objasnio je on. Vansink je još dodao da je hranu najbolje stavljati u kutije koje su zatvorene zato što ne može odmah da se vidi šta je unutra. http://www.dnevniavaz.ba/tehnologija/nauka/55981-istrazivanje-u-sad-u-kuhinji-jedemo-ono-sto-prvo-vidimo.html almond eyes http://www.dnevniavaz.ba/vijesti/teme/57583-strucnjaci-o-povecanoj-potrosnji-lijekova-za-smirenje-gradjani-piju-tablete-zbog-nesposobne-vlasti.html mermaid Stigla nam je jesen, a sa njom dolaze i jesenske tegobe koje se mogu javiti zbog promjene temperature i vremenskih uslova. Tegobe se mogu izbjeći ili ublažiti jesenskom hranom koja vraća elan i raspoloženje, daje snagu... Jesenska hrana za vedar duh, radostan um i moćno tijelo Ako je jesen doba koje u vama budi pomalo sjetno raspoloženje i ako mislite da je to vrijeme mirovanja, podsjetit ćemo vas na namirnice koje mogu utjecati na rad mozga. Gotovo jednako kao što vesela glazba ili dobro društvo utječu na naše raspoloženje, tako i hrana koju konzumiramo može pospješiti osjećaj zadovoljstva Ali ne samo to. Ona može doista utjecati na osjećaj smirenosti, opuštenosti, na koncentraciju, ali i na otpornost organizma na različite bolesti. Štiteći krvožilni sustav, čisteći organizam i pripremajući ga za hladnije dane, možemo preduhitriti i spriječiti tipične jesenska tegobe koje se javljaju kod promjenjivih temperatura i vremenskih uvjeta. A čim nam to pođe za rukom, bit ćemo spremniji na akciju, pa nas čak ni lošije vrijeme ni kraći dani neće spriječiti da nasmijani i puni elana uživamo u blagodatima jeseni. Kao što znamo, upravo je jesen bogata raznim vrstama voća i povrća koje je priroda stvorila, uz ostalo i zato da bi se pobrinula za naše tijelo. Na nama je samo da ispružimo ruke prema njezinoj šarenoj trpezi, odaberemo najbolje za sebe i tako razveselimo um, duh i tijelo. Magnezij i kalij protiv stresa, za dobar san Cjelovite žitarice, mlijeko, mliječni proizvodi, krumpir, mahunarke, müsli, lješnjaci i orasi – sve su to namirnice bogate magnezijem koji je iznimno važan za uklanjanje stresa. A u jesen, kada nas nakon godišnjih odmora očekuju novi opsežni i zahtjevni radni zadaci, stres je gotovo neizbježan. Pa kad se već priroda pobrinula da nam ih velikodušno podari u ovo doba godine, zašto onda ne povećati unos mladoga graha, lješnjaka i oraha u organizam, što će pridonijeti našim mentalnim sposobnostima. U knjizi 'Minerali' dr. Ulrich Strunz i dr. Andreas Jopp tvrde da je magnezij prijeko potreban za osjećaj unutarnjeg mira jer je najučinkovitija tvar protiv stresa, a djeluje brže od bilo koje vježbe opuštanja. Posljedica su smirenost i dobri živci. Magnezij će vam pomoći i da lakše zaspite, a kvalitetan san je jedan od pokretača dobrog raspoloženja. Osim toga, magnezij je potreban za proizvodnju energije u mišićima i srcu. Pripazite li, dakle, na povećani unos magnezija, imat ćete pregršt razloga da se radujete novom godišnjem dobu. Uz magnezij, gotovo jednako važan element je kalij. Mnogi procesi u organizmu ovise upravo o njihovu omjeru. Ako nam nedostaje magnezija, poremetit će se i procesi koji ovise o količini kalija. Namirnice bogate kalijem su paradajz, mahune, grašak, krumpir, a od voća to su banane, smokve i suho voće. Stoga je jesen pravo vrijeme da izbalansirate magnezij i kalij u svojem organizmu i poboljšate rad mišića i živaca. mermaid Evo još nekoliko savjeta kako pobjediti jesenski umor i osjećati se ljepše bez obzira na promjene temperature i vremenskih prilika. Pad raspoloženja, umor, depresija i nesanica karakteristični su za ovo doba godine. Međutim, uz male preinake u prehrani i načinu života vaše će raspoloženje opet biti na vrhuncu Nedostatak vitamina uzrokuje umor Poznato je da se organizam teško prilagođava naglim klimatskim promjenama koje su karakteristične za ovo doba godine. Upravo zbog toga većina ljudi se osjeća umorno, depresivno, a kod nekih se javljaju i različite alergijske reakcije... Savjeti stručnjaka pomoći će vam da se zauvijek riješite takvih problema! Kako reagira organizam? Tijekom jeseni obrambena moć organizma slabi, energetski potencijali opadaju, a i raspoloženje je promjenjivo. Da bi se tijelo i psiha prilagodili klimatskim promjenama potrebno je određeno vrijeme jer ovaj proces ovisi o stanju organizma i psihičkoj stabilnosti. Iako ne bi trebao, pogled u ogledalo često puta donosi razočaranje. Vitaminima protiv umora Glavni uzročnici umora i pada imuniteta su nedostatak vitamina, minerala i sve manje kretanja na svježem zraku. Upravo zbog toga nutricionisti i liječnici savjetuju više kretanja, laganu fizičku aktivnost, boravak u prirodi i prehranu bogatu vitaminima i antioksidansima. Uz malo truda, novim režimom prehrane i načinom života ukloniti ćemo simptome umora i bezvoljnosti. Dijeta Kako bi pobijedili umor karakterističan za ovo doba godine, tijekom dana je potrebno prakticirati više manjih obroka. na taj način rasteretiti ćete organizam i pokrenuti usporeni metabolizam. Dakle, konzumirajte namirnice bogate vitaminima jer oni jačaju imunitet i vraćaju energiju. Također je potrebno piti više čajeva i vode koji organizam oslobađaju toksina. Pojačana fizička aktivnost Izbjegavajte dugo sjedenje u zatvorenim kafićima i stalnu vožnju automobilom. Ovo je idealna prilika da napokon krenete u teretanu, a još bolje bi bilo da prakticirate svakodnevne šetnje u prirodi jer sunčeva svijetlost pojačava raspoloženje. Boja odjeće Boja odjeće također utječe na psihičko stanje osobe. Stoga, nosite vedre i tople nijanse, a posebno narančastu koja je izvor optimizma. Žuta primjerice, vraća energiju dok ružičasta vedrinu. Izbjegavajte crnu, sivu, plavu i smeđu jer one sputavaju protok energije i uzrokuju negativne misli. Uz sve to vodite aktivan društveni život. nacional.hr/port mermaid Nekoliko 'trikova' kako pobjediti umor i kako da se vema brzo osjećate ponovo kao novi... :) Pobijedite umor Umorni ste, bezvoljni, iscrpljeni, nije vam ni do čega? Planirali ste izlazak ili poslovni sastanak. Otkrivamo vam kako ponovo napuniti baterije za samo nekoliko minuta. Vedro raspoloženje dolazi preko osjetila mirisa. Razlog je u tome što je nos direktno povezan s dijelom mozga koji je odgovoran za emocije. Udišite miris đumbira, metvice, mandarine ili grejpa. Snažno masirajte palcem i kažiprstom uške. Akupresura uški ima gotovo isto djelovanje kao i masaža cijelog tijela. Iscrpljeni ste i ne možete se koncentrirati? U tom slučaju pomoći će vam ovaj mali trik: vucite kosu, pramen po pramen, nagore tako da se koža glave blago podiže. Na taj način se poboljšava cirkulacija i povećava budnost. Udahnite i izdahnite duboko - to čini čuda. Polako udišite zrak kroz nos tako da kisik dođe do trbuha, a zatim ga izbacite kroz usta (sve to uradite 10 puta). Sipajte u vodu eterično ulje koje djeluje stimulativno na organizam (ružmarin, limun). Preko vezivnog tkiva i limfnog sustava te tvari prodiru u krvotok, potičući cirkulaciju i rad organa. Pustite svoju omiljenu glazbu i uz nju plešite i pjevajte. Brzi ritmovi „tjeraju“ čovjeka na ples. Srce i puls se ubrzavaju, a unutarnje baterije se pune energijom. Križaljke vam osiguravaju da do duboke starosti trenirate mozak. Dok rješavate križaljku udobno se smjestite i dobro koncentrirajte, jer se organizam samo tako može regenerirati. Tuširanje potiče cirkulaciju: počnite toplom vodom, nastavite hladnom, pa opet toplom i obvezno završite hladnom vodom (tri ciklusa). Najjednostavniji način za tjeranje umora je kretanje na svežem zraku. Šetnja od 15 minuta brzim hodom potiče cirkulaciju i ublažava stres. Injekcija kisika aktivira rad sivih stanica mozga. Masažom ćete sigurno otjerati umor, a masaža glave izuzetno je efikasna. Stavite prste duž sredine tjemena, a potom blago masirajte cijelu glavu odozgo naniže, a onda od sredine prema potiljku i čelu. nije zgoreg da se zna Food as Medicine HEADACHE? EAT FISH! Eat plenty of fish -- fish oil helps prevent headaches.. So does ginger, which reduces inflammation and pain. HAY FEVER? EAT YOGURT! Eat lots of yogurt before pollen season. Also-eat honey from your area (local region) daily. TO PREVENT STROKE DRINK TEA! Prevent build-up of fatty deposits on artery walls with regular doses of tea. (actually, tea suppresses appetite and keeps the pounds from invading....Green tea is great for our immune system)! INSOMNIA (CAN'T SLEEP?) HONEY! Use honey as a tranquilizer and sedative. ASTHMA? EAT ONIONS!!!! Eating onions helps ease constriction of bronchial tubes. (onion packs place on chest helped the respiratory ailments and actually made breathing better). ARTHRITIS? EAT FISH, TOO!! Salmon, tuna, mackerel and sardines actually prevent arthritis. (fish has omega oils, good for our immune system) UPSET STOMACH? BANANAS - GINGER!!!!! Bananas will settle an upset stomach. Ginger will cure morning sickness and nausea.. BLADDER INFECTION? DRINK CRANBERRY JUICE!!!! High-acid cranberry juice controls harmful bacteria. BONE PROBLEMS? EAT PINEAPPLE!!! Bone fractures and osteoporosis can be prevented by the manganese in pineapple. MEMORY PROBLEMS? EAT OYSTERS! Oysters help improve your mental functioning by supplying much-needed zinc. COLDS? EAT GARLIC! Clear up that stuffy head with garlic. (remember, garlic lowers cholesterol, too.) COUGHING? USE RED PEPPERS!! A substance similar to that found in the cough syrups is found in hot red pepper. Use red (cayenne) pepper with caution-it can irritate your tummy. BREAST CANCER? EAT Wheat, bran and cabbage Helps to maintain estrogens at healthy levels. LUNG CANCER? EAT DARK GREEN AND ORANGE AND VEGGIES!!! A good antidote is beta carotene, a form of Vitamin A found in dark green and orange vegetables. ULCERS? EAT CABBAGE ALSO!!! Cabbage contains chemicals that help heal both gastric and duodenal ulcers. DIARRHEA? EAT APPLES! Grate an apple with its skin, let it turn brown and eat it to cure this condition. (Bananas are good for this ailment) CLOGGED ARTERIES? EAT AVOCADO! Mono unsaturated fat in avocados lowers cholesterol. HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE? EAT CELERY AND OLIVE OIL!!! Olive oil has been shown to lower blood pressure. Celery contains a chemical that lowers pressure too. BLOOD SUGAR IMBALANCE? EAT BROCCOLI AND PEANUTS!!! The chromium in broccoli and peanuts helps regulate insulin and blood sugar. Kiwi: Tiny but mighty. This is a good source of potassium, magnesium, Vitamin E & fibre. It's Vitamin C content is twice that of an orange. Apple: An apple a day keeps the doctor away? Although an apple has a low Vitamin C content, it has antioxidants & flavonoids which enhances the activity of Vitamin C thereby helping to lower the risks of colon cancer, heart attack & stroke.. Strawberry: Protective fruit. Strawberries have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits & protects the body from cancer causing, blood vessels clogging free radicals. (Actually, any berry is good for you. they’re high in anti-oxidants and they actually keep us young...........blueberries are the best and very versatile in the health field........they get rid of all the free-radicals that invade our bodies) Orange : Sweetest medicine. Taking 2 - 4 oranges a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent & dissolve kidney stones as well as lessen the risk of colon cancer.. Watermelon: Coolest Thirst Quencher. Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione which helps boost our immune system.. They are also a key source of lycopene - the cancer fighting oxidant. Other nutrients Found in watermelon are Vitamin C & Potassium. (watermelon also has natural substances [natural SPF sources] that keep our skin healthy, protecting our skin from those darn UV rays) Guava & Papaya: Top awards for Vitamin C. They are the clear winners for their high Vitamin C content. Guava is also rich in fibre which helps prevent constipation. Papaya is rich in carotene, this is good for your eyes. (also good for gas and indigestion) Tomatoes are very good as a preventative measure for men, keeps those prostrate problems from invading their bodies......GOOD AS MEDICINE.. Very informative - spread the information. mermaid Šta nije dobro za naše zdravlje... Tekst je malo duži, ali vrijedi ga pročitati i znati. GAZIRANA PIĆA BOLEST U ČAŠI Izvor: http://matrixworldhr.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/gazirana-pica-bolest-u-casi/ http://matrixworldhr.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/dd395-asp-site.jpg?w=593&h=454 (http://matrixworldhr.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/dd395-asp-site.jpg) Gazirana pića su izrazito loša za naše zdravlje, nema rasprave, nema demantija, to su neupitne činjenice na koje mi zatvaramo oči i pravimo se kao da to nije istina. Vi možete nastaviti s korištenjem patentiranih i zaštićenih otrova koje kupujete na policama prodavaonica no prije nego li sebi ili svome djetetu naspete još jednu čašu, promislite što zapravo pijete. Sastojci iz noćnih mora Na kraju XIX vijeka u prve kole su se stavljale značajne količine kokaina, ako ste se ikada zapitali zašto Coca Cola nosi to ime, vjerojatno vam je sada sve jasno. No kole nemaju potrebe za stvaranjem takve vrste ovisnosti kod potrošača, jer su prepune drugih sastojaka koje u potpunosti remete naš metabolizam. Već godinama se u SAD-u vodi rat kako bi se spriječilo usvajanje zakona u kojima bi svi proizvođači bezalkoholnih i gaziranih pića trebali identificirati i navesti toksične i kancerogene kemikalije koje se nalaze u njihovim proizvodima. 4-MI ili 4-metilimidazol 4-MI je iznimno kancerogena kemikalija, ona se stavlja u pića poput: Coca Cole, Pepsi Cole, Dr. Peppera i još 365 drugih proizvođača hrane i pića koji imaju potrebu za jeftinim izgledom karamele. Boja koja se naziva prirodni karamel, nema veze s prirodnim niti s karamelom, već je u pitanju zloglasni 4-MI. Znamo li mi uopće što se nalazi u našim kolama? Iako je ova boja poznati uzročnik kancerogenih oboljenja u sisavaca, naročito raka štitnjače, pluća i jetara, FDA – Food and Drug Administration – krovna američka udruga za hranu i lijekove, do sada nije zabranila ovu opasnu kemikaliju bez obzira što je svakodnevno konzumira stotine milijuna ljudi diljem svijeta. HFCS – Kukuruzni fruktozni sirup U kolama se nalazi jako puno različitih vrsta šećera, obično je u pitanju HFCS – High Fructose Corn Syrup, ili kukuruzni fruktozni sirup, koji iznimno povećava apetit i povećava tjelesnu težinu i negativni ili loš kolesterol. HFCS je jedan od najvećih uzročnika stvaranja sala oko trbuha i tipičnog izgleda „američkog“ konzumenta. HFCS ćete najčešće naći u svim gaziranim pićima, bez obzira na proizvođača, osim u segmentu koji se naziva „diet“ ili dijetna pića. HFCS je jedan od najvećih uzročnika srčanih problema i stvara poremećaje u metabolizmu, od visokog krvnog tlaka, inzulinske poremećaje, dijabetes, do promjena na krvnim žilama i nagomilavanje sala. Aspartam ili Aspartame Ovaj nekadašnji vojni otrov se nalazi u preko 6000 prehrambenih proizvoda, od pića i bombona do pasta za zube i sirupa za iskašljavanje, no najčešće ga možemo naći u pićima s oznakom „diet“ ili dijetnim pićima. Aspartam je metilni ester dipeptida građen od dvije amino kiseline, asparaginske i fenilalanina. Aspartam je 200 puta slađi od saharoze, no zapravo uopće nije sladak već je moždani pojačivač ukusa, drugim riječima u potpunosti laže naš mozak o ukusu. Ovaj kancerogeni otrov je na tržište pustio 1981. Donald Rumsfeld CEO Searlea koji se danas nalazi pod otkriljem monstruoznog Monsanta. Aspartam se nalazi u gotovo svim prehrambenim proizvodima. Koliko znate o ovom otrovu? Slika vlasništvo Dees Illustration. Iako su od početka znanstvenici ukazivali na kancerogena i anti-metabolička svojstva Aspartama, visoka politika i lobiranje s jako puno novca je uspjelo progurati ovaj otrov u gotovo sve prehrambene proizvode. Aspartam stvara brojne bolesti i poremećaje: Lou Gerigov sindrom, NHL Non-Hodgkins Limfom, multiple mijelome, leukemiju, Parkinsonovu bolest i druge neuro-degenerativne bolesti, tumore na mozgu, moždane udare, Tourettov sindrom, te stvara brojne urođene defekte na djeci i uzrokuje probleme u trudnoći i abortuse. O Aspartamu smo pisali na dugo i na široko, s podacima iz brojnih znanstvenih studija, želite li o Aspartamu saznati više kliknite na linkove ovdje, ovdje. Fosforna kiselina Fosforna kiselina je dodana kako bi tijelo zadržalo ogromne količine šećera koje se nalaze u gaziranim pićima, ona isisava velike količine magnezija i kalcija iz kostiju i tkiva i ozbiljno remeti i smanjuje rad našeg imunološkog sustava. S obzirom da fosforna kiselina utječe direktno na „ispiranje“ naših kostiju, one postaju porozne i slabe, što se povezuje s brojnim poremećajima s kostima kod dugogodišnjih korisnika gaziranih pića. Fosforna kiselina je i poznati uzročnik kamena na bubregu koji se najčešće stvaraju kod muške bjelačke populacije. Fosforna kiselina je najčešći uzročnik osteoporoze u zapadnjaka. Natrijev benzonat U tekstu koji je objavila web stranica Natural News, stoji kako svaki 11 stanovnik SAD-a ima problema s astmom uz bubuljice, svrab i lišajeve na koži. Natrijev benzonat je konzervans u svim gaziranim pićima, no stvara kronične napade astme i probleme na koži, s obzirom da su građani SAD-a najveći potrošači gaziranih pića na svijetu, i da gotovo ni ne piju običnu vodu, možda bi se odgovor na pitanje, zašto je astma toliko česta i SAD-u, mogla naći u obliku natrijevog benzonata. Kafein Kafein je dobro poznat spoj o kojemu ne trebamo trošiti puno vremena ni riječi, no važno je napomenuti kako kafein uzrokuje ovisnost, uništava nadbubrežne žlijezde i stvara stres. Natrijev citrat Ovaj spoj se nalazi u svim kolama, on može uzrokovati mišićne spazme, povećanu količinu natrija u krvi i mnoge druge nepoželjne efekte na zdravlje. Limunska kiselina Limunska kiselina upropaštava caklinu na zubima i zajedno sa šećerom je jedan od najvećih uzročnika karijesa kod moderne ljudske populacije. Dijetni otrovi Kao da u klasičnim kolama i gaziranim pićima nema dovoljno otrova, dijetna pića najnovije generacije su osigurala prvo mjesto među najopasnijim pićima današnjice. http://matrixworldhr.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/1-pepsi-next1111.jpg?w=593 (http://matrixworldhr.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/1-pepsi-next1111.jpg) Jedan od najmodernijih dijetnih gaziranih proizvoda na tržištu je Pepsi NEXT, u ovom “piću“ se pored Aspartama i već navedenih toksičnih kemikalija nalaze i sukarloza (E955) koja stvara ovisnost, poremećaj metabolizma i pretilost dok s druge strane uništava mikro-floru u crijevima i ovojnicu probavnog trakta, te kalijev-acesulfam (Ace K) za kojeg se zna kako uzrokuje kancerogena oboljenja i oboljenja štitne žlijezde. No nemojmo zaboraviti da najveći svjetski brendovi kola i gaziranih pića jako paze na svoje osnovne sastojke i industrijske recepte, sve naše tvornice kola su ništa više nego li punionice, originalni sirupi za stvaranje pića se prave uglavnom u SAD-u. Sva voda u SAD-u, koja služi za stvaranje osnovnih sirupa za bezalkoholna gazirana pića, je pomiješana s velikim količinama fluora. Fluor Fluor je korišten u nacističkim koncentracisjkim logorima kako bi logoraši bili poslušni točnije kako bi flor uspješno manipulirao s njihovom slobodnom voljom. Sva američka pića i hrana imaju velike količine fluora u sebi jer je fluoridacija američkih vodocrpilišta i vodovoda započela još polovicom prošlog vijeka. Fluor kalcificira epifizu, na slikama vidite primjer kalcificirane epifize. Fluor je kancerogeni otrov koji osim mijenjanja našeg ponašanja utječe i na kalcifikaciju epifize koja upravlja endokrinim sustavom i hormonima zaslužnima za cirkadijski ciklus, osim toga fluor kalcificira naše arterije i uzrokuje brojne kardio-vaskularne probleme. O fluoru možete više saznati, ovdje. Čudovišno korištenje stanica abortiranih fetusa u proizvodnji gaziranih pića U javnosti se već neko vrijeme čuju različite debate o tome koliko je moralno koristiti proizvode široke potrošnje u kojima se nalaze stanice kultivirane iz abortiranih fetusa. Bez obzira na vaše stanovište o abortusu, činjenica je da postoje cijele grane industrije; prehrane, pića i medicinskih proizvoda koje rutinirano koriste tkiva abortiranih fetusa, takvo ponašanje bi uvelike trebalo zabrinuti javnost. više o ovoj temi pročitajte na: http://matrixworldhr.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/gazirana-pica-bolest-u-casi/ đizlija ha,ha pa naši potpisali Codex Alimentarius,hebeš metlu,ako od njih iko zna šta su potpisali. mermaid Znala sam da je cvekla zdrava, ali da je ovoliko zdrava, to nisam znala... Namirnica koja smanjuje krvni pritisak, pobjeđuje rak, pomaže jetri... Istraživanje je pokazalo i to da se ispijanjem soka od cvekle povećava izdržljivost, da se njenim konzumiranjem može smanjiti napredovanje demencije http://www.oslobodjenje.ba/portal/images/articles/namirnica-koja-smanjuje-krvni-pritisak-pobjedjuje-rak-pomaze-jetri.jpg Nutricionisti i naučnici preporučuju što veću konzumaciju cvekle, a njenim dobrobitima kao da nema kraja. Svako malo stižu nove studije koje otkrivaju za šta je sve dobra. Cvekla ima neobično visoke razine nitrata, koji, kako je pokazalo niz studija, smanjuju krvni pritisak. Studija provedena u Londonu prije tri godine otkrila je da samo čaša soka od cvekle na dan drastično smanjuje pritisak. Najnovija studija provedena u Melbourneu dokazala je i da se pritisak znatno snižava već šest sati nakon što ispijete pola litre soka od cvekle. Istraživači su na kraju zaključili da bi se broj smrti zbog kardiovaskularnih oboljenja smanjio za 10 posto kad bi se sok od cvekle počeo konzumirati naveliko. Istraživanje je pokazalo i to da se ispijanjem soka od cvekle povećava izdržljivost, da se njenim konzumiranjem može smanjiti napredovanje demencije te rast tumora. Studija koja je provedena u Washingtonu 2011. utvrdila je da je betacyanin iz cvekle smanjio rast tumora prostate i grudi za 12,5 posto, piše Daily Mail, a prenosi net.hr. Nutricionisti cveklu preporučuju i kod probavnih problema, a ističu i da je dobra za jetru jer pomaže pri procesuiranju toksina. mermaid Mi i ne znamo šta jedemo? Oprez: GMO brandovi! GMO - ''Sjeme uništenja'' http://www.alternativa-za-vas.com/images/uploads/Gmo-rajcica.jpg''Širenje genetski modificiranih usjeva i hrane diljem svijeta danas je toliko uhvatilo maha da ga se može i mora proglasiti zločinom protiv čovječanstva." Te riječi u svojoj knjizi ''Sjeme uništenja'' napisao je publicist William Engdahl još 2005. godine. Kako vrijeme prolazi, njegove riječi sve više dobivaju na značaju. Zadnjih godina diljem svijeta je naglo porastao broj ljudi koji pate od alergija, raka i drugih teških bolesti, kao i osoba koje se lijeće od neplodnosti. Krajnje je vrijeme da se upitamo bi li to moglo imati veze s GM hranom? Sudeći po alarmantnim rezultatima istraživanja neovisnih stručnjaka, realno je zaključiti da bi. Što kažu najnovija istraživanja U uglednom časopisu Food and Chemical Toxicology u rujnu 2012. godine objavljen je rad ekipe znanstvenika na čelu s prof. Seralinijem s francuskog sveučilišta Caen, koji dokazuje da je GM hrana izuzetno opasna. Istraživanje provedeno na štakorima trajalo je dvije godine za razliku od dotadašnjih - na temelju kojih je GMO proglašen bezopasnim, a koja su trajala samo tri mjeseca. Rezultati istraživanja pokazuju da GM kukuruz može izazvati tumore i skratiti životni vijek. U glodavaca, smrtnost je bila dvostruko veća, a oštećenja bubrega i jetre - pet puta veća od prosjeka. Utvrđeno je da se 93% tumora u ženkama pojavilo tek u drugoj godini života, što bi kod čovjeka odgovaralo dobi od 35-40 godina. Na temelju istraživanja provedenih u Italiji čiji su rezultati objavljeni u časopisu The Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry, ustanovljeno je da je u glodavaca hranjenih GM kukuruzom došlo do poremećaja imunološkog sustava. Kod ljudi, takve promjene povezuju se s alergijama, artritisom, upalama crijeva i autoimunim bolestima. Ruski znanstvenici na čelu s dr. Surovom prije dvije godine objavili su senzacionalne rezultate dvogodišnjeg istraživanja tijekom kojega je ustanovljeno da su hrčci hranjeni GM hranom u trećoj generaciji potpuno izgubili sposobnost reprodukcije. Znamo li što jedemo? Pri razmatranju ovog problema osvrnut ćemo se na Hrvatsku, uz napomenu da je u svim zemljama koje su GMO-u otvorile vrata, situacija slična ili još gora. Čudnovati su putovi hrane, pa i bez ulaženja u detalje možemo zaključiti da zapravo ne znamo što jedemo. To što ste kupili hranu domaćeg proizvođača ne mora značiti da je domaća. Nego je domaći proizvođač preradio i/ili u vlastitu ambalažu upakirao nešto što je došlo tko zna otkud. Godine 2004. već smo imali aferu sa salamom poznatog proizvođača za koju je otkriveno da sadrži uvezenu soju s više no tada dopuštenom količinom GMO-a, pa je morala biti povučena s tržišta. Što sve već godinama jedemo, ostat će misterij. No nešto ipak znamo: prema zakonu na tržište smiju se staviti proizvodi koji sadrže, sastoje se ili su proizvedeni od genetski modificirane uljane repice, soje, kukuruza i pamuka, pri čemu se ne mora označavati da sadrže GMO, ako njegov udio u proizvodu ne prelazi 0,9%. Govorimo li pak o famoznom postotku od 0,9 posto, dr. sci. Valerije Vrčak, profesor Farmaceutsko-biokemijskog fakulteta u Zagrebu, upozorava nas da to nije nikakav znanstveno utvrđeni postotak. To je proizvoljni kompromis koji se ne temelji ni na kakvim medicinskim ili toksikološkim istraživanjima, te kao takav ne jamči zdravlje ljudi, životinja i okoliša. No ako proizvod sadrži više od 0,9 posto GMO-a, teško da se to može ustanoviti, budući da su slova na deklaracijama toliko sitna da vam za njihovo čitanje treba mikroskop - vjerojatno stoga kako se ne biste previše uzrujali kad biste vidjeli što jedete. Ni mjerodavne institucije ne štite nas previše. Sanitarna inspekcija provjerava samo desetak proizvoda u pet gradova, ukupno dvjestotinjak godišnje, pa tu i tamo nešto i pronađe. Primjerice, krajem ožujka ove godine pronašla je neautoriziranu GMO rižu u tjestenini od riže iz Austrije, te u talijanskoj tjestenini od rižinog brašna i rižinim rezancima iz Nizozemske. Nažalost, što se još krije na policama naših trgovina, preostaje nam samo nagađati. Tko su vladari života i smrti Još sedamdesetih godina prošlog stoljeća Kissinger je cijelu filozofiju sažeo u jednu rečenicu: ''Kontroliraj naftu i kontrolirat ćeš zemlju. Kontroliraj hranu i kontrolirat ćeš ljude''. Što se tiče hrane, nikada u povijesti svijeta toliko velika moć nije bila u rukama tako malog broja ljudi. Odnosno, najvećih proizvođača GMO sjemena poput Monsanta, Syngenta, Dowa i Du Ponta. I koje je danas, nažalost, uglavnom uz pomoć ucjene i političkog pritiska rasprostranjeno na ogromnim područjima diljem svijeta. Po Engdahlu, riječ je o zavjeri s ciljem smanjenja broja stanovnika u svijetu – jer nas je navodno previše. Budući da GM hrana polako truje organizam, skraćuje životni vijek te onemogućuje reprodukciju, ovaj plan realno je provediv. Tu teoriju u svojoj knjizi ''Sjeme uništenja'' opsežno je potkrijepio dokumentima Američke vlade s kojih je uklonjena oznaka tajnosti. GMO je u proteklim godinama preplavio svijet, a sudeći po tome, Amerika je na putu ostvarenja sna o potpunoj kontroli nafte i hrane u svijetu. Pritom im nije stalo poštedjeti ni vlastiti narod, a kamoli pripadnike drugih zemalja. Poznato je da pčele ne oprašuju GMO biljke, a kako kažu stari ljudi, kad nestane pčela, nestat če i nas. Wikileaks je objavio podatke koji otkrivaju kako je američka kompanija Monsanto (najveći svjetski proizvođač genetski modificiranog sjemena) direktno prijetila državama koje su odbile GMO hranu. Kompanija Monsanto eksplicitno je tražila od SAD-a da ekonomski "kazni" države koje bi odbile suradnju. Spominju se termini poput proglašenja "ekonomskog rata". Tako je primjerice zahtijevano da se izvrši veliki pritisak na Francusku koja je odlučila zabraniti neke vrste genetski modificiranog kukuruznog sjemena. Recimo usput da se multinacionalna korporacija Monsanto, koja je jedna od vodećih u svijetu (ako ne i prva) po profitu koji dolazi od GMO proizvoda, nalazi na listi deset najopasnijih korporacija na svijetu. Monsanto je stvorio i potiče potrošnju namirnica koje sadrže GMO. Jedan od 'velikih' izuma kompanije je sjeme 'Terminator', koje daje sterilne plodove, kako bi se poljoprivrednici prisilili da uvijek iznova kupuju na tone i tone sjemenja za sljedeću sjetvu. GMO brandovi Otkrivamo vam koji brandovi u svojim proizvodima mogu sadržati GMO sastojke. Napominjemo da GMO sastojci ne moraju biti navedeni na etiketama proizvoda, pa najvjerojatnije tamo ih nećete ni pronaći. Nažalost na ovoj listi su mnogima omiljene Milka čokolade, Pringles čips i Orbit žvakaće gume. http://www.alternativa-za-vas.com/images/gmo-brandovi.jpg http://www.alternativa-za-vas.com/index.php/clanak/article/oprez-gmo-brandovi Muhamed Husic Mi i ne znamo šta jedemo? Bez GMO hrane vise od trecine svijeta bi bilo bez hrane i umirali od gladi a ostali bi zivjeli u nestasici iste. mermaid Bez GMO hrane vise od trecine svijeta bi bilo bez hrane i umirali od gladi a ostali bi zivjeli u nestasici iste. Kontraš?!... :loler:... Da sam na tvom mjestu, ne bih odobravala, nego bih se zabrinula šta nam ovo rade. Nisi pročitao članak gore? Sad čitaj ovaj drugi, srodan je tom prvom članku... Mediji su se opširno raspisali o mjerama koje za svoje članice, među kojima će uskoro biti i Hrvatska, a žele to postati i ostale države u regiji, donosi Europska unija.Podsjetimo, nedavno je Europska komisija predložila “smjernice za dodjeljivanje koncesija uslužnih djelatnosti” općinama gdje se lokalna uprava zapravo tjera na “otvaranje tržišta” – drugim riječima, na privatizaciju. A to znači i na privatizaciju gradskih vodovoda. Drugim riječima, voda će se morati kupovati kod privatnika – a znamo na šta bi to moglo izaći… Ovih dana dolazi vijest da će Europska komisija 6. maja poslati Europskom parlamentu i jednu novu “zanimljivu” uredbu, po kojoj će korištenje starih i rijetkih sorti biti kažnjivo, čak i onda kada se siju ili sade u privatnom vrtu! Tom uredbom će poljoprivrednicima i povrtlarima zakonski propisati obavezno korištenje standardizovanog i unifikovanog sjemenja, pri čemu će korištenje starih, rijetkih i autohtonih sorti biti kažnjivo, čak i onda kada se sije ili sadi u privatnom vrtu! Trenutno tri najveće korporacije – Monsanto, DuPont i Syngenta – kontrolišu 53 posto svjetskog tržišta sjemenja. Međutim, kod takvih kompanija tržište sjemenja samo je sredstvo. Naime, riječ je o velikim proizvođačima herbicida, dakle hemijskim kompanijama, a tek onda i o proizvođačima sjemenja, koje uz svoje sjeme poljoprivrednicima, povrtlarima i voćarima nude herbicide i hemikalije bez kojih te sorte nije moguće uzgojiti. Ni Sjedinjene Američke Države ne zaostaju. Američki predsjednik Barack Obama nedavno je potpisao zakon kojeg su odmah prozvali “zakonom o zaštiti Monsanta”. Oni koji ne budu postupali po uredbi biće strogo kažnjeni, a oni koji budu poželjeli da registruju vlastito sjeme suočit će se sa nepremostivim birokratskim preprekama. lavanda Kontraš?!... :loler:... Da sam na tvom mjestu, ne bih odobravala, nego bih se zabrinula šta nam ovo rade. Nisi pročitao članak gore? Sad čitaj ovaj drugi, srodan je tom prvom članku... fora je u tom što će biti dopuštena samo sjemena s nacionalne liste a koliko naših poljoprivrednika uopće zna da domaće sjeme treba uopće prijaviti na listu kako bi imalo dopuštenje za sjetvu ? vrlo malo ili nimalo zakazali su svi redom a napose min. poljoprivrede. Moraš ljudima kazati koja su ima prava i obveze čitam u Hrvatskoj na listi nacionalnih domaćih sjemena je doslovce 6 kultura. mermaid Pa ja i mislim da je cilj što manja obaviještenost poljoprivrednika i totalno neznanje. mermaid Da li znate kada pijete reciklirano mlijeko? http://www.broj1.hr/sites/default/files/imagecache/middle/Glass-milk.jpg Mlijeko sa proteklim rokom šalje se natrag proizvođaču, koji ima zakonsko dopuštenje da ponovi proces pasterizacije na 190 stupnjeva te da ga vrati natrag na tržište. Prema zakonu taj proces može da se ponavlja do pet puta. Proizvođač je dužan objaviti koliko puta je ponovio ovaj proces i on ga obično objavi, ali na svoj način znajući da nitko ne pita da li je kupljeno mlijeko prerađeno više puta.Mlijeko sa proteklim rokom šalje se natrag proizvođaču, koji ima zakonsko dopuštenje da ponovi proces pasterizacije na 190 stupnjeva te da ga vrati natrag na tržište. Prema zakonu taj proces može da se ponavlja do pet puta.Tajna je napisana na dnu kartonske kutije sa sitnim brojevima. Pretpostavimo da je napisani broj 12345, nedostajući broj označava koliko puta je mlijeko bilo reciklirano. Recimo 12 45, broj 3 nedostaje - to znači da je mlijeku 3 puta protekao rok i toliko puta je bilo ponovo prekuhano. To nije sve jer u paketu sa 12 tetrapaka nekim kutijama nedostaju brojevi, a u drugima ne. Ipak, to znači da je cijela pošiljka tretirana jednako. Na taj se način, tvrtke se dobro bogate i to tako što recikliraju pokvareno mlijeko na račun onih koji snose posljedice, a to smo naravno mi koji pijemo, ono što pijemo. lavanda Da li znate kada pijete reciklirano mlijeko? http://www.broj1.hr/sites/default/files/imagecache/middle/Glass-milk.jpg Mlijeko sa proteklim rokom šalje se natrag proizvođaču, koji ima zakonsko dopuštenje da ponovi proces pasterizacije na 190 stupnjeva te da ga vrati natrag na tržište. Prema zakonu taj proces može da se ponavlja do pet puta. Proizvođač je dužan objaviti koliko puta je ponovio ovaj proces i on ga obično objavi, ali na svoj način znajući da nitko ne pita da li je kupljeno mlijeko prerađeno više puta.Mlijeko sa proteklim rokom šalje se natrag proizvođaču, koji ima zakonsko dopuštenje da ponovi proces pasterizacije na 190 stupnjeva te da ga vrati natrag na tržište. Prema zakonu taj proces može da se ponavlja do pet puta.Tajna je napisana na dnu kartonske kutije sa sitnim brojevima. Pretpostavimo da je napisani broj 12345, nedostajući broj označava koliko puta je mlijeko bilo reciklirano. Recimo 12 45, broj 3 nedostaje - to znači da je mlijeku 3 puta protekao rok i toliko puta je bilo ponovo prekuhano. To nije sve jer u paketu sa 12 tetrapaka nekim kutijama nedostaju brojevi, a u drugima ne. Ipak, to znači da je cijela pošiljka tretirana jednako. Na taj se način, tvrtke se dobro bogate i to tako što recikliraju pokvareno mlijeko na račun onih koji snose posljedice, a to smo naravno mi koji pijemo, ono što pijemo. zato lipo piješ domaće :) kod nas ima priličan broj malih mljekara, donose doma mlijeko, mi recimo za mlijeko koje uzimamo svako drugi dan platimo 25 km đizlija ništa zdravije http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRPPjT8Td-XeXpRRuO4tPVzxduRASPjaMPuk6UBRsBfdb6gFVfM (http://forum.dnevniavaz.ba/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=milk+girls&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=V1rWOfr_y5SxCM&tbnid=ao9s8Op8N9_a3M:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.frendz4m.com%2Fforum%2Fshowth reads-28-0-6155302.htm&ei=j3PWUeC-BYjwPPm8gDg&bvm=bv.48705608,d.Yms&psig=AFQjCNGKvYe-hCZ9h3ttS3fBS63JqJGQRw&ust=1373095172435367) mermaid zato lipo piješ domaće :) kod nas ima priličan broj malih mljekara, donose doma mlijeko, mi recimo za mlijeko koje uzimamo svako drugi dan platimo 25 km Šta bi radili onoliki tetrapaci mlijeka po samoposlugama ako bi svi pili domaće... (šala), ali i bez šale, nije svakom dostupno domaće mlijeko, a i navika je u pitanju. Povremeno pijem domaće i razlika je ogromna. Nego, šta radiš sa tolikim mlijekom? đizlija Šta bi radili onoliki tetrapaci mlijeka po samoposlugama ako bi svi pili domaće... (šala), ali i bez šale, nije svakom dostupno domaće mlijeko, a i navika je u pitanju. Povremeno pijem domaće i razlika je ogromna. Nego, šta radiš sa tolikim mlijekom? tetrapakiše ga komšijama lavanda Šta bi radili onoliki tetrapaci mlijeka po samoposlugama ako bi svi pili domaće... (šala), ali i bez šale, nije svakom dostupno domaće mlijeko, a i navika je u pitanju. Povremeno pijem domaće i razlika je ogromna. Nego, šta radiš sa tolikim mlijekom? pa što ti je to puno mlijeka ? nemaju više, mi bi inače svaki dan po dva litra, u mene velika obitelj;) nema mi ništa lipše neg kad je tek skuvano mliko na domaći topli kruh namazati onaj kajmak mmmmmm lavanda tetrapakiše ga komšijama jok kupam se u njemu ko Kleopatra :YMDAYDREAM: mermaid jok kupam se u njemu ko Kleopatra :YMDAYDREAM: Hahahah...zmaš' da sam to pomislila.... :)) đizlija jok kupam se u njemu ko Kleopatra :YMDAYDREAM: a ko se kupao u maslinovom ulju??? lavanda Hahahah...zmaš' da sam to pomislila.... :)) znaš imam tetu ona savršeno izgleda i s vojih 75 godina, tribaš vidit kožu ali ona ti sve prirodno koristi, naprimjer kad jede domaće voće obvezno kriškom prijeđe preko kože lica, najbolja je kaže lubenica za to, lipo se onim sokom umije, zatim domaće mlijeko je zakon :) lavanda a ko se kupao u maslinovom ulju??? iss tebe sve izdaješ, to je poslije mlijeka :YMDAYDREAM:oš pipnit plivadon iss tebe sve izdaješ, to je poslije mlijeka :YMDAYDREAM:oš pipnit Ne moze, tresu mu se ruke od kompresora.:loler: lavanda Ne moze, tresu mu se ruke od kompresora.:loler: dobre vibracije ..nananana:dancing: đizlija iss tebe sve izdaješ, to je poslije mlijeka :YMDAYDREAM:oš pipnit ih,još pitaš lavanda ih,još pitaš :ymdaydream: Loud@Clear Mermaaaaid... Mazes li se ti maslinovim uljem...:YMDAYDREAM: đizlija :ymdaydream: znaš, maslinovo su rimski patriciji koristili za kupke da ublaže sifilisne boljke,a onda ga prodavali plebstu :YMDEVIL: mermaid Mermaaaaid... Mazes li se ti maslinovim uljem...:YMDAYDREAM: :)) Maaažeeem.... ! :loler: đizlija Mermaaaaid... Mazes li se ti maslinovim uljem...:YMDAYDREAM: ja kada nema baš ništa ,koristim prerađeno motorno lavanda znaš, maslinovo su rimski patriciji koristili za kupke da ublaže sifilisne boljke,a onda ga prodavali plebstu :YMDEVIL: svašt ti li i ti znaš ja sma bila sad u planini lipo nabrala Gospine trave i potopila u maslinovo ulje lipo je mazat kožu nakon sunčanja, bude lipe jednolične boje ;) Loud@Clear :)) Maaažeeem.... ! :loler: Podrzavam :YMAPPLAUSE: lavanda :)) Maaažeeem.... ! :loler: vidiš ti mermi ovih muških , on pita mažeš li pa srca ti triba pitat jel triba namazat malo teže dostupe dijelove .. sve im triba crtat:YMDAYDREAM: đizlija svašt ti li i ti znaš ja sma bila sad u planini lipo nabrala Gospine trave i potopila u maslinovo ulje lipo je mazat kožu nakon sunčanja, bude lipe jednolične boje ;) dobro za opekline,kantarion-gospina trava đizlija vidiš ti mermi ovih muških , on pita mažeš li pa srca ti triba pitat jel triba namazat malo teže dostupe dijelove .. sve im triba crtat:YMDAYDREAM: misliš kao u posljednjem tangu u Parizu :YMAPPLAUSE: Loud@Clear znaš, maslinovo su rimski patriciji koristili za kupke da ublaže sifilisne boljke,a onda ga prodavali plebstu :YMDEVIL: Znas da se u starom Rimu,najstariji zanat na svijetu placao vinom-cetvrt litre...:pivo: Loud@Clear vidiš ti mermi ovih muških , on pita mažeš li pa srca ti triba pitat jel triba namazat malo teže dostupe dijelove .. sve im triba crtat:YMDAYDREAM: Dobro,evo... Mazete li se ispod pazuha...:D đizlija koliko se sječam M.brando koristi buter http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/699/lasttango034il.jpg (http://www.google.ba/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=keSbkUEDFS9fWM&tbnid=FyF1dB61wwG-4M:&ved=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emuleday.com%2Fdownload%2F154 721-francais-ultimo-tango-a-parigi-aka-last-tango-in-paris-1972-int-dvdrip-xvid-free.html&ei=wSXXUebhDIfHtAbO44CQDg&psig=AFQjCNHvlAPzJ_J6HfrbZ975WhCgGCaFHA&ust=1373140618632427) plivadon koliko se sječam M.brando koristi buter http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/699/lasttango034il.jpg (http://www.google.ba/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=keSbkUEDFS9fWM&tbnid=FyF1dB61wwG-4M:&ved=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emuleday.com%2Fdownload%2F154 721-francais-ultimo-tango-a-parigi-aka-last-tango-in-paris-1972-int-dvdrip-xvid-free.html&ei=wSXXUebhDIfHtAbO44CQDg&psig=AFQjCNHvlAPzJ_J6HfrbZ975WhCgGCaFHA&ust=1373140618632427) Od margarina Snajderka ima zgaravicu:loler: đizlija Od margarina Snajderka ima zgaravicu:loler: kada podrigne od šampanjca,baca masne balončiće.Nije samo rečeno,mliječni,ili kikiriki buter.ja bih uzeo kikiriki buter :YMDEVIL: Loud@Clear Ne moze, tresu mu se ruke od kompresora.:loler: Dobro da nije od alkohola...:D mermaid Blagodeti masline - ona čuva naše zdravlje http://www.stetoskop.info/pics/4/1494/thumbnails/150x150/masline.jpg Ova, pre svega mediteranska, biljka odavno je poznata kao lekovita. Crna i zelena maslinanalazi se u svim svetskim kuhinjamam kao dodatak ishrani, salati i odličan začin. Pročitajte kakve sve blagodeti za duh i telo nudi maslina. Za zdravije srce Kao jedan od osnovnih sastojaka mediteranske kuhinje, maslinovo ulje je poznato po svojoj ulozi u prevenciji kardiovaskularnih oboljenja. Masne kiseline, antioksidansi i silicijum koji se u njemu nalaze, uravnotežuju nivo holesterola u krvi i štite arterije. Ne povećavajući uobičajenu dozu masnoća, zamenite ulje koje koristite maslinovim uljem (kao i orahovim ili sojinim zbog raznovrsnijeg unosa). Za bolje varenje Maslinovo ulje (http://www.stetoskop.info/Maslinovo-ulje-kao-lek-1482-s7-content.htm) pomaže rad jetre i creva, a stomak ga dobro podnosi. Ono je takođe odlično za prženje, jer ne prodire u namirnice i čuva svoju svarljivost. Kao laksativ, pomaže u borbi protiv opstipacije creva, do koje dovode preterano sedenje i stres (jedna do dve kafene kašičice devičanskog maslinovog ulja ujutru na prazan stomak). Za bolju stimulaciju varenja (http://www.stetoskop.info/Porciju-zdravlja-molim-3588-s13-content.htm) i ravnotežu crevne flore, dodajte maslinke vlaknima i fermentiranim mlečnim proizvodima. Pre obilnog ručka, pojedite nekoliko maslinki uz aperitiv, ali bez preterivanja: prilično su kalorične. Ubrane pre sazrevanja, zelene maslinke su dvostruko manje masne nego crne. Dobro je znati: nemojte deci davati cele maslinke jer se mogu ugušiti ako progutaju košticu. Izbegavajte maslinke ako držite dijetu bez soli. http://www.stetoskop.info/box/YTo1OntzOjE6ImYiO3M6NjoiRkZGRkZGIjtzOjE6ImIiO3M6Nj oiOTNBREY1IjtzOjE6InciO3M6MzoiMTUwIjtzOjE6ImgiO2k6 MTEyO3M6MToicyI7czoxOiI5Ijt9/RG9icmUgbWFzdGkga29qZSBwcm9uYWxhemltbyB1IG1hc2xpbm kgcG96aXRpdm5vIHV0acSNdSBuYSBlcmVrY2lqdSwgdGUga29k IG11xaFrYXJhY2EgamHEjWFqdSBzZWtzdWFsbmkgbmFnb24u (http://www.stetoskop.info/Maslina-za-bolju-i-duzu-erekciju-4480-s8-news.htm) Za smirenje U slučaju artroze ili reumatizma, potopite sto grama suvih cvetova kamilice u pola litra maslinovog ulja na dva sata. Procedite, a zatim od dobijene tečnosti napravite obloge i stavite nazglobove. Ako su vam umorne noge, izmasirajte ih mešavinom jedne supene kašike maslinovog ulja i tri kapi esencijalnog ulja lavande. Obnavlja kožu Zimi, hladnoća, grejanje, zagađenje, stres i umor oštećuju kožu. Ona se suši, ten postaje tamniji, kosa i nokti slabe. Bogato masnim kiselinama i antioksidansima (polifenoli, vitamini E, A), maslinovo ulje hrani i vraća vlagu, štiti i jača. Za blagi oporavak, izbegavajte proizvode koji sadrže alkohol i setite se maslinovog ulja. U blagim sapunima, hidratantnim kremama, regenerativnim balzamima… ono stvara zaštitni film epiderma. Za lice Posle skidanja šminke, uveče pre spavanja, nanesite hranljivu i regenerativnu kremu od maslina. Za svetliji ten: posle čišćenja i ispiranja lica, pustite da se pore otvore pod uticajem pare posle kupanja. Stavite gazu natopljenu maslinovim uljem na čelo, jagodice i slepoočnice. Držite tako petnaest minuta, obrišite papirnom maramicom i isperite. Za usne: uz pomoć nekoliko kapi maslinovog ulja, usne vam neće biti suve. Za telo Da biste imali satensku kožu, masirajte se maslinovim ulje pre tuširanja ili kupanja. Masirajte naročito dekolte (radi sprečavanja pojave površinskih bora) i laktove, kolena i stopala (da bi ste ih omekšali). Ako su vam laktovi grubi, trljajte ih pet minuta polovinom limuna umočenom u maslinovo ulje, a onda isperite. Za ruke i nokte Ako perete sudove bez rukavice, završite taj posao ispiranje i dobrim brisanjem ruku, a zatim ih izmasirajte jednom ili dve kapi maslinovog ulja. Posle kućnih poslova, operite ruke sapunom sa maslinovim uljem. Suve i crvene ruke masirajte pre spavanja izgnječenom pulpom polovine avokada pomešanom sa jednom supenom kašikom maslinovog ulja. Isperite i dobro osušite ruke. Ako vam se nokti lome, držite ih deset minuta nedeljno u posudi sa maslinovim ulje smlačenim u mikrotalasnoj rerni. Ako se listaju, trljajte ih četvrtinom limuna. Nahranite ih jednom kapi maslinovog ulja kad skinete lak. Za kosu Da bi vam kosa bila sjajna, pomešajte četvrt čaše piva, žumance, supenu kašiku maslinovog uljaisok od limuna. Nanesite na suvu kosu, isperite, a onda operite šamponom. Ako je kosa suva i krta, dodajte žumance kremi od avokada koju ste pripremili za ruke. Masirajte vlažnu kosu, a onda je zamotajte u peškir. Postupak završite pranjem kose blagim šamponom. Dobro je znati: za negu koristite uvek devičansko maslinovo ulje. Daje ukus Maslinka nudi raznovrsne ukuse. Ona čuva u marinadi zadovoljstva svih godišnjih doba (paradajz, paprika, srce artičoke, pečurke…). Jedite ih same ili kao salatu pripremljenu u činiji od maslinovog drveta. http://www.stetoskop.info/images/spacer.gif mermaid NAMIRNICA KOJE MOŽETE JESTI I NAKON ISTEKA ROKA Rok upotrebe neke namirnice, koji po zakonu mora biti jasno naznačen na artiklu, ističu britanski stručnjaci, nije realan pokazatelj kvalitete hrane, većina namirnica je savršeno dobra za upotrebu i nakon što rok istaknut na pakiranju istekne. Ističu kako se taj rok odnosi na svježinu namirnice, koja nakon označenog roka nije štetna za organizam. 1.Jaja Ukoliko se čuvaju propisno, dakle u hladnjaku jaja mogu trajati od tri do pet tjedana. Naravno pri tomu pripazite da iz hladnjak vadite samo onoliko jaja koliko ćete trenutno potrošiti, jer njihovu kvarljivost uzrokuje stajanje na sobnoj temperaturi. 2.Mlijeko Tjedan dana nakon isteka roka koji je otisnut na pakiranju mlijeko može ostati pitko i zdravo za upotrebu. Lako je uočljivo promijeni li mlijeko okus, miris ili izgled što ga čini kvarljivim. 3.Kečap Čuvate li kečap u hladnjaku od može zadržati svoju kvalitetu i do šest mjeseci, nakon isteka roka trajanja još uvijek je siguran za konzumiranje. Naravno uočite li plijesan ili osjetite čudan miris nećete ga jesti. 4.Maslinovo ulje Rok trajanja maslinovog ulja je do dvije godine, kako bi zadržalo svoja hranjiva svojstva preporuča ga se držati na hladnom i tamnom mjestu gdje se neće kvariti. 5.Kiseli krastavci Rok trajanja otvorene staklenke kiselih krastavaca je godinu dana ukoliko ju čuvate u hladnjaku, isto pravilo vrijedi za masline. 6.Ocat Rok trajanja octa gotovo je beskrajan, ukoliko se dogode neke promjene na boji ili talogu i dalje je siguran za korištenje. Dobar med svoja svojstva ne gubi s vremenom stajanja, stoga je dobar dokle god se ne potroši. 8.Kava Pakiranje kave koje ste otvorili i na koje ste zaboravili valjano je za korištenje čak tri do pet mjeseci nakon označenog roka trajanja. Zrna kave ne gube na svojstvima ni nakon pola godine. 9.Maslac Dva tjedna nakon isteka roka maslac je siguran za konzumiranje, u zamrzivaču može stajati čak devet mjeseci. 10.Začini Cimet, papar, crvena paprika gotovo svi začini zadržavaju svojstva dvije godine nakon označenog isteka roka, pri tomu je važno čuvati ih u staklenkama i na suhom i tamnom mjestu. (zadovoljna.hr) mermaid Nutricionisti je velikodušno preporučuju: Evo zašto je dinja voćka o koju se morate okoristiti! Ako tražite zdravu i ukusnu hranu koja izaziva zadovoljstvo, nutricionisti velikodušno preporučuju dinje. Dinje su izrazito hranjive i niskokalorične, osvježavaju i imaju najveću količinu beta-karotena koji je antioksidant i pomaže u sprječavanju rizika od nastanka nekih vrsta raka. http://namirnice.ba/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Dinja-zdravlje-namirnice.ba_.jpg (http://namirnice.ba/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Dinja-zdravlje-namirnice.ba_.jpg) Jer je idealno osvježenje Dinja je idealna namirnica za osvježenje tokom vrelih letnjih dana. Iako je njena prava sezona od juna do kraja avgusta, danas se može naći u bilo koje doba godine. U piramidi ishrane dinja je u ravnopravnom odnosu sa svim ostalim voćem, zbog čega je poželjno da se servira i do četiri puta tokom dana. Bez bojazni mogu da je konzumiraju i osobe sa viškom kilograma, jer u sto grama ima samo 34 kalorije, malo šećera bez obzira što je slatka, i čak 91 gram vode. Jer je puna vitamina Dinja sadrži i dosta kalija, kao i vitamina A i C. Ako ste na dijeti, dinja je odlično rješenje. Možete je jesti koliko želite, bez razmišljanja o broju kalorija. Tajna dinje je u velikoj količini vode. Ona vam neće samo ugasiti žeđ, već vas može i zaštititi od sunčevih opekotina. Jer vas štiti od sunca Sok od dinje će vam pomoći da se zaštitite od štetnog zračenja sunca. Dinje su bogate antioksidantima koji organizmu pomažu u zaštiti od štetnih radikala koji oštećuju ćelije kože. Jer su zdrave njene košpice Osim ploda, koji je dobar i za uklanjanje viška vode iz organizma, mogu se jesti i suhe košpice dinje, koje se naročito preporučuju ljudima koji boluju od bolesti bubrega. Mišljenje većine dobrih poznavalaca je da je dinja voće, dok drugi tvrde da je povrće, a kao argument navode činjenicu da mora da se sije svake godine. Mišljenja su podjeljena i kada je riječ o porodici kojoj pripada – jedni tvrde da pripada krastavcima, dok je drugi smeštaju u porodicu bundeva. Jer je niskokalorično voće i smanjuje visok pritisak Dinja se ubraja u niskokalorično voće. Sadrži mnogo kalija, zbog znatnog sadržaja vitamina A, a budući da sadrži i vitamin C, kalcij, magnezij, fosfor i biotin, dinju treba konzumirati u velikim količinama. Kalij pomaže organizmu u oslobađanju viška natrija i tako smanjuje povišen krvni pritisak. Jer štiti od kardiovaskularnih bolesti i starenja Dva antioksidansa koja sadrži, vitamin A i C, zajedno štite organizam od kardiovaskularnih bolesti i starenja. Dinja je bogata i tiaminom, niacinom, vitaminom B6, folatima, pantotenskom kiselinom. Od minerala sadrži željezo, magnezijum, bakar, kalijum, mangan, fosfor. Neka nova istraživanja tvrde da beta karoten iz dinje pomaže u borbi protiv karcinoma pluća, ali i kod raka grlića materice, želuca i oralnih formi. + Recpt: Sok za osvježenje i jačanje organizma Sok od dinje iscijeđen ručno ili u sokovniku pomiješajte sa jogurtom, medom i limunovim sokom. Tako dobijenu mešavinu treba piti dva do tri puta dnevno po jednu čašu. lavanda Nutricionisti je velikodušno preporučuju: Evo zašto je dinja voćka o koju se morate okoristiti! Ako tražite zdravu i ukusnu hranu koja izaziva zadovoljstvo, nutricionisti velikodušno preporučuju dinje. Dinje su izrazito hranjive i niskokalorične, osvježavaju i imaju najveću količinu beta-karotena koji je antioksidant i pomaže u sprječavanju rizika od nastanka nekih vrsta raka. http://namirnice.ba/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Dinja-zdravlje-namirnice.ba_.jpg (http://namirnice.ba/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Dinja-zdravlje-namirnice.ba_.jpg) Jer je idealno osvježenje Dinja je idealna namirnica za osvježenje tokom vrelih letnjih dana. Iako je njena prava sezona od juna do kraja avgusta, danas se može naći u bilo koje doba godine. U piramidi ishrane dinja je u ravnopravnom odnosu sa svim ostalim voćem, zbog čega je poželjno da se servira i do četiri puta tokom dana. Bez bojazni mogu da je konzumiraju i osobe sa viškom kilograma, jer u sto grama ima samo 34 kalorije, malo šećera bez obzira što je slatka, i čak 91 gram vode. Jer je puna vitamina Dinja sadrži i dosta kalija, kao i vitamina A i C. Ako ste na dijeti, dinja je odlično rješenje. Možete je jesti koliko želite, bez razmišljanja o broju kalorija. Tajna dinje je u velikoj količini vode. Ona vam neće samo ugasiti žeđ, već vas može i zaštititi od sunčevih opekotina. Jer vas štiti od sunca Sok od dinje će vam pomoći da se zaštitite od štetnog zračenja sunca. Dinje su bogate antioksidantima koji organizmu pomažu u zaštiti od štetnih radikala koji oštećuju ćelije kože. Jer su zdrave njene košpice Osim ploda, koji je dobar i za uklanjanje viška vode iz organizma, mogu se jesti i suhe košpice dinje, koje se naročito preporučuju ljudima koji boluju od bolesti bubrega. Mišljenje većine dobrih poznavalaca je da je dinja voće, dok drugi tvrde da je povrće, a kao argument navode činjenicu da mora da se sije svake godine. Mišljenja su podjeljena i kada je riječ o porodici kojoj pripada – jedni tvrde da pripada krastavcima, dok je drugi smeštaju u porodicu bundeva. Jer je niskokalorično voće i smanjuje visok pritisak Dinja se ubraja u niskokalorično voće. Sadrži mnogo kalija, zbog znatnog sadržaja vitamina A, a budući da sadrži i vitamin C, kalcij, magnezij, fosfor i biotin, dinju treba konzumirati u velikim količinama. Kalij pomaže organizmu u oslobađanju viška natrija i tako smanjuje povišen krvni pritisak. Jer štiti od kardiovaskularnih bolesti i starenja Dva antioksidansa koja sadrži, vitamin A i C, zajedno štite organizam od kardiovaskularnih bolesti i starenja. Dinja je bogata i tiaminom, niacinom, vitaminom B6, folatima, pantotenskom kiselinom. Od minerala sadrži željezo, magnezijum, bakar, kalijum, mangan, fosfor. Neka nova istraživanja tvrde da beta karoten iz dinje pomaže u borbi protiv karcinoma pluća, ali i kod raka grlića materice, želuca i oralnih formi. + Recpt: Sok za osvježenje i jačanje organizma Sok od dinje iscijeđen ručno ili u sokovniku pomiješajte sa jogurtom, medom i limunovim sokom. Tako dobijenu mešavinu treba piti dva do tri puta dnevno po jednu čašu. uz kriške pršuta mmm prava delicija ;) đizlija uz kriške pršuta mmm prava delicija ;) ko hobotnica na bosanski način =)) lavanda ko hobotnica na bosanski način =)) jao :loler: đizlija jao :loler: ništa bolje mermaid Osnovni uzrok raka službeno je otkriven prije 1923., a pronalazač je 1931. za to dobio Nobelovu nagradu iz medicine. Vrlo mali broj ljudi u svijetu zna za to, jer je ta istina nažalost sakrivena od javnosti. Godine 1931. njemački znanstvenik Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883.-1970.) primio je Nobelovu nagradu za pronalazak osnovnog uzroka raka. Warburg je otkrio da je rak rezultat anti-fiziološkog načina života.Anti-fiziološkim načinom prehrane (pretežno hranom koja zakiseljuje) i fizičkom neaktivnošću tijelo stvara kiselu sredinu slabo opskrbljenu kisikom. Stanična kiselost istiskuje kisik, a pomanjkanje kisika u stanicama stvara kiselu sredinu. Warburg je rekao: “Pomanjkanje kisika i kiselost su dvije strane iste medalje: ako netko ima jedno, ima i drugo”. Ako imate previsoku kiselost, automatski će vam nedostajati kisika u organizmu; ako vam nedostaje kisika imat ćete zakiseljen organizam. Kisela sredina je sredina bez kisika. “Oduzmete li zdravoj stanici 35% njezinog kisika, možete je pretvoriti u stanicu raka za samo dva dana”, tvrdio je dr. Warburg. “Sve normalne stanice imaju apsolutnu potrebu za kisikom, ali tumorske stanice mogu živjeti bez njega. To je pravilo bez iznimke”. Tumorska su tkiva kisela, dok su zdrava alkalna U svojem djelu “Metabolizam tumora“, dr. Warburg je pokazao da svi kancerogeni oblici ispunjavaju dva temeljna uvjeta: krvnu kiselost i hipoksiju (pomanjkanje kisika). Otkrio je, da su tumorske stanice anaerobne (ne udišu kisik) i da ne mogu preživjeti u prisutnosti visokih koncentracija kisika. Tumorske stanice mogu preživjeti samo uz pomoć glukoze i u sredini bez kisika. Stoga, karcinom nije ništa drugo nego obrambeni mehanizam, koji naše stanice koriste da bi preživjele u kiseloj sredini bez prisustva kisika. http://doznajemo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Otto-Heinrich-Warburg.jpg Nobelovac Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883.-1970.) Zdrave stanice žive u alkalnoj sredini punoj kisika, koja omogućava njihovo normalno funkcioniranje. Tumorske stanice žive u kiseloj sredini siromašnoj kisikom. Kiselost i alkalnost organizma ovisi o hrani Nakon što je završen probavni proces, hrana, ovisno o svom nutritivnom profilu, stvara uvjete kiselosti ili alkalnosti u tijelu. Pojednostavljeno rečeno, alkalnost organizma ovisi o tome što jedemo. Kiselo ili alkalno stanje mjeri se PH skalom od 0 do 14, gdje je 7 neutralna zona. Od 0 do 7 je kiselo, a od 7 do 14 je alkalno. Naše stanice, da bi mogle uspješno funkcionirati, trebaju imati lagano alkalan pH, malo iznad 7. Kod zdravog pojedinca pH krvi nalazi se između 7,40 i 7,45. Krv se neprestano sama regulira kako ne bi upala u metaboličku kiselost. Međutim, neka hrana zakiseljuje krv i zagađuje tijelo. Hrana koja zakiseljuje tijelo: * Rafinirani šećer i svi njegovi derivati. Od svih je najgori, jer nema bjelančevina, masti, vitamina ni minerala, samo rafinirane ugljikohidrate, koji škode gušterači. Njegov pH je 2,1 (veoma kiseo). * Meso (sve vrste) * Proizvodi životinjskog porijekla – mlijeko i sirevi, vrhnje, jogurt itd. * Rafinirana sol * Rafinirano brašno i svi njegovi derivati kao što su tjestenina, torte, keksi itd. * Kruh * Margarin * Kofein * Alkohol * Duhan * Sva industrijski prerađena i konzervirana hrana, koja sadrži konzervanse, umjetne boje, arome, stabilizatore itd. * Antibiotici i općenito svi lijekovi Hrana koja alkalizira: * Svo sirovo povrće. Neko je kiselo po okusu, ali u tijelu se mijenja i postaje alkalno. * Voće. Na primjer, limun unutar tijela ima veoma visok stupanj alkalnosti. (Nemojte da vas zavara njegov veoma kiseli okus). * Bademi. Vrlo su alkalni. * Integralne žitarice: jedina alkalizirajuća žitarica je proso. Sve su ostale žitarice lagano kisele, no idealna prehrana treba i određeni postotak kiselosti pa valja jesti i nešto žitarica. Sve žitarice moraju se jesti kuhane. * Med. Ima vrlo visoku alkalnost. * Klorofil. Zelene biljke sadrže klorofil koji je veoma alkalan. * Voda. Važna je za proizvodnju kisika. Uvijek budite dobro hidrirani, pijte vode malim gutljajima tijekom cijelog dana. * Vježbanje. Vježbe pomažu održavati alkalnost organizma jer daju kisik cijelom tijelu. Sjedalačkii način života uništava život. Kemoterapija ne liječi nego pogoršava kiselost organizma Kemoterapija zakiseljuje tijelo do te mjere da ono mora posegnuti za alkalnim rezervama organizma, kako bi neutraliziralo kiselost žrtvujući minerale (kalcij, magnezij, kalij) ugrađene u kosti, zube, udove, nokte i kosu. Iz tog razloga primjećujemo promjene na osobama koje primaju kemoterapiju, između ostalog i opadanje kose. Ostali lijekovi također pogoršavaju kiselost organizma, pa ih valja izbjegavati koliko je to god moguće. Ispravan omjer pH Kao što je naglašeno, potpuno je nemoguće da se rak pojavi u nekoj osobi koja se zdravo hrani, pije puno čiste vode i vježba. Da biste se ispravno hranili, osigurajte si 60% alkalnu prehranu i izbjegavajte proizvode koji su u većini kiseli, kao što su gazirana pića, slatkiši, brza hrana. Ne zloupotrebljavajte sol te je koristite što je manje moguće. Ako ste bolesni, idealno je da vam ishrana bude 80% alkalna. Imate li karcinom, savjet je da alkalizirate tijelo što je više moguće. To možete postići uz pomoć prehrane, vježbe, izbjegavanja stresa i dodatnog unosa klorofila. Mišljenja stručnjaka “Sve takozvane prirodne smrti nisu ništa drugo nego terminalna točka zasićenosti tijela kiselošću”, rekao je George W. Crile iz Clevelanda, jedan od najpriznatijih kirurga na svijetu. “Nisu važna bezbrojna imena bolesti, nego činjenica da one sve proizlaze iz osnovnog uzroka: previše kiselosti u tijelu.” – Dr. Theodore A. Baroody, knjiga “Alkaliziraj ili umri” (“Alcalize or Die”): “Povećana zakiseljenost organizma uzrok je svih degenerativnih bolesti. Ako dođe do poremećaja ravnoteže i organizam započne skladištiti kiselost i toksine u većoj mjeri nego što ih može izlučiti, onda se javljaju bolesti” – dr. Robert O. Young. Izvor: Alternativa (http://alternativa-za-vas.com/) đizlija Osnovni uzrok raka službeno je otkriven prije 1923., a pronalazač je 1931. za to dobio Nobelovu nagradu iz medicine. Vrlo mali broj ljudi u svijetu zna za to, jer je ta istina nažalost sakrivena od javnosti. Godine 1931. njemački znanstvenik Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883.-1970.) primio je Nobelovu nagradu za pronalazak osnovnog uzroka raka. Warburg je otkrio da je rak rezultat anti-fiziološkog načina života.Anti-fiziološkim načinom prehrane (pretežno hranom koja zakiseljuje) i fizičkom neaktivnošću tijelo stvara kiselu sredinu slabo opskrbljenu kisikom. Stanična kiselost istiskuje kisik, a pomanjkanje kisika u stanicama stvara kiselu sredinu. Warburg je rekao: “Pomanjkanje kisika i kiselost su dvije strane iste medalje: ako netko ima jedno, ima i drugo”. Ako imate previsoku kiselost, automatski će vam nedostajati kisika u organizmu; ako vam nedostaje kisika imat ćete zakiseljen organizam. Kisela sredina je sredina bez kisika. “Oduzmete li zdravoj stanici 35% njezinog kisika, možete je pretvoriti u stanicu raka za samo dva dana”, tvrdio je dr. Warburg. “Sve normalne stanice imaju apsolutnu potrebu za kisikom, ali tumorske stanice mogu živjeti bez njega. To je pravilo bez iznimke”. Tumorska su tkiva kisela, dok su zdrava alkalna U svojem djelu “Metabolizam tumora“, dr. Warburg je pokazao da svi kancerogeni oblici ispunjavaju dva temeljna uvjeta: krvnu kiselost i hipoksiju (pomanjkanje kisika). Otkrio je, da su tumorske stanice anaerobne (ne udišu kisik) i da ne mogu preživjeti u prisutnosti visokih koncentracija kisika. Tumorske stanice mogu preživjeti samo uz pomoć glukoze i u sredini bez kisika. Stoga, karcinom nije ništa drugo nego obrambeni mehanizam, koji naše stanice koriste da bi preživjele u kiseloj sredini bez prisustva kisika. http://doznajemo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Otto-Heinrich-Warburg.jpg Nobelovac Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883.-1970.) Zdrave stanice žive u alkalnoj sredini punoj kisika, koja omogućava njihovo normalno funkcioniranje. Tumorske stanice žive u kiseloj sredini siromašnoj kisikom. Kiselost i alkalnost organizma ovisi o hrani Nakon što je završen probavni proces, hrana, ovisno o svom nutritivnom profilu, stvara uvjete kiselosti ili alkalnosti u tijelu. Pojednostavljeno rečeno, alkalnost organizma ovisi o tome što jedemo. Kiselo ili alkalno stanje mjeri se PH skalom od 0 do 14, gdje je 7 neutralna zona. Od 0 do 7 je kiselo, a od 7 do 14 je alkalno. Naše stanice, da bi mogle uspješno funkcionirati, trebaju imati lagano alkalan pH, malo iznad 7. Kod zdravog pojedinca pH krvi nalazi se između 7,40 i 7,45. Krv se neprestano sama regulira kako ne bi upala u metaboličku kiselost. Međutim, neka hrana zakiseljuje krv i zagađuje tijelo. Hrana koja zakiseljuje tijelo: * Rafinirani šećer i svi njegovi derivati. Od svih je najgori, jer nema bjelančevina, masti, vitamina ni minerala, samo rafinirane ugljikohidrate, koji škode gušterači. Njegov pH je 2,1 (veoma kiseo). * Meso (sve vrste) * Proizvodi životinjskog porijekla – mlijeko i sirevi, vrhnje, jogurt itd. * Rafinirana sol * Rafinirano brašno i svi njegovi derivati kao što su tjestenina, torte, keksi itd. * Kruh * Margarin * Kofein * Alkohol * Duhan * Sva industrijski prerađena i konzervirana hrana, koja sadrži konzervanse, umjetne boje, arome, stabilizatore itd. * Antibiotici i općenito svi lijekovi Hrana koja alkalizira: * Svo sirovo povrće. Neko je kiselo po okusu, ali u tijelu se mijenja i postaje alkalno. * Voće. Na primjer, limun unutar tijela ima veoma visok stupanj alkalnosti. (Nemojte da vas zavara njegov veoma kiseli okus). * Bademi. Vrlo su alkalni. * Integralne žitarice: jedina alkalizirajuća žitarica je proso. Sve su ostale žitarice lagano kisele, no idealna prehrana treba i određeni postotak kiselosti pa valja jesti i nešto žitarica. Sve žitarice moraju se jesti kuhane. * Med. Ima vrlo visoku alkalnost. * Klorofil. Zelene biljke sadrže klorofil koji je veoma alkalan. * Voda. Važna je za proizvodnju kisika. Uvijek budite dobro hidrirani, pijte vode malim gutljajima tijekom cijelog dana. * Vježbanje. Vježbe pomažu održavati alkalnost organizma jer daju kisik cijelom tijelu. Sjedalačkii način života uništava život. Kemoterapija ne liječi nego pogoršava kiselost organizma Kemoterapija zakiseljuje tijelo do te mjere da ono mora posegnuti za alkalnim rezervama organizma, kako bi neutraliziralo kiselost žrtvujući minerale (kalcij, magnezij, kalij) ugrađene u kosti, zube, udove, nokte i kosu. Iz tog razloga primjećujemo promjene na osobama koje primaju kemoterapiju, između ostalog i opadanje kose. Ostali lijekovi također pogoršavaju kiselost organizma, pa ih valja izbjegavati koliko je to god moguće. Ispravan omjer pH Kao što je naglašeno, potpuno je nemoguće da se rak pojavi u nekoj osobi koja se zdravo hrani, pije puno čiste vode i vježba. Da biste se ispravno hranili, osigurajte si 60% alkalnu prehranu i izbjegavajte proizvode koji su u većini kiseli, kao što su gazirana pića, slatkiši, brza hrana. Ne zloupotrebljavajte sol te je koristite što je manje moguće. Ako ste bolesni, idealno je da vam ishrana bude 80% alkalna. Imate li karcinom, savjet je da alkalizirate tijelo što je više moguće. To možete postići uz pomoć prehrane, vježbe, izbjegavanja stresa i dodatnog unosa klorofila. Mišljenja stručnjaka “Sve takozvane prirodne smrti nisu ništa drugo nego terminalna točka zasićenosti tijela kiselošću”, rekao je George W. Crile iz Clevelanda, jedan od najpriznatijih kirurga na svijetu. “Nisu važna bezbrojna imena bolesti, nego činjenica da one sve proizlaze iz osnovnog uzroka: previše kiselosti u tijelu.” – Dr. Theodore A. Baroody, knjiga “Alkaliziraj ili umri” (“Alcalize or Die”): “Povećana zakiseljenost organizma uzrok je svih degenerativnih bolesti. Ako dođe do poremećaja ravnoteže i organizam započne skladištiti kiselost i toksine u većoj mjeri nego što ih može izlučiti, onda se javljaju bolesti” – dr. Robert O. Young. Izvor: Alternativa (http://alternativa-za-vas.com/) najveći neprijatelj farmaceutskih kuća je obićna soda bikarbona-treba svaki dan pojesti kašikicu mermaid najveći neprijatelj farmaceutskih kuća je obićna soda bikarbona-treba svaki dan pojesti kašikicu Ovaj savjet za otkiseljivanje organizma sam nedavno negdje pročitala. mermaid OPASNO KONZUMIRANJE U BiH se u prodaji nalazi piletina puna hormona i sumnjivog kvaliteta U BiH se u prodaji nalazi piletina puna hormona i sumnjivog kvaliteta, uvezena iz Brazila, Argentine ili Turske, čije je konzumiranje opasno po zdravlje ljudi. http://www.haber.ba/thumbnail.php?file=pictures/2013_april/piletina_800366205.jpg&size=article_medium Ovo tvrde domaći proizvođači piletine, dodajući da se najčešće radi o mesu treće ili četvrte klase kvaliteta, koja se reciklira nakon čega se dodaju razni sastojci koji poboljšavaju izgled, okus i miris mesa, nakon čega se dalje preprodaje. Srbijanski mediji su prenijeli informaciju da na tamošnje tržište, preko granice sa Kosovom, stalno ulaze tovari mesa, uglavnom pilećih bataka, iz Južne Amerike, prepuni hormona. Pored toga što su puni opasnih hormona, sumnjiva je i bakteriološka ispravnost ovih namirnica pošto se isporuke, na putu do kupaca, više puta odmrzavaju. Refik Kurgaš, direktor firme "Brovis" iz Visokog koja se bavi živinarstvom, smatra da ovakvo meso uveliko postoji na bh. tržištu, dodajući da je situacija u ovoj oblasti veoma komplikovana i da ide na štetu kako domaćih proizvođača tako i na zdravlje ljudi. "Tu je veliki novac u igri, radi se o milionskim ciframa, a na granici inspektori te pošiljke uopšte ne kontrolišu, već samo puštaju da prođu i tako dolazi na naše trpeze", istakao je Kurgaš. Kurgaš je potvrdio da isto to meso ulazi i u BiH i da se najčešće radi o zaleđenoj piletini koja je godinama bila u zalihama robnih rezervi navedenih zemalja. "Oni vjerovatno moraju da obnove svoje rezerve i gledaju kako da se riješe tog mesa i naravno ono završi kod nas, jer ono što niko neće hoćemo mi. To meso se koristi za preradu, od njega se prave razne salame, paštete i kobasice", istakao je Kurgaš. On je naveo da je najbolji dokaz da se na našim trpezama nalazi sumnjivo meso, cijena, jer, na primjer, turski fileti koštaju 4,6, a domaći oko osam maraka. Desimir Živanić, vlasnik Preduzeća za proizvodnju i uzgoj pilića "Živanić DS" iz Prnjavora, kaže da proizvođači već godinama "kao papagaji" ponavljaju da u BiH ulazi sve što u ostale zemlje ne može da prođe. "Nedavno je bila situacija da je piletina iz Malezije, koja je zaustavljena na granici Austrije, kasnije uvezena u BiH. Šta dalje da pričam ako se zna da vage na našim graničnim prelazima ne rade, što znači da ne možemo mjeriti težinu, a kamoli prisustvo hormona", istakao je Živanić. Tehnolozi upozoravaju da ukoliko se pile hrani hormonskom hranom i ukoliko te hormone metabolizam pileta nije iskoristio do kraja, oni se nastavljaju razgrađivati u čovjeku nakon što pojede to meso. "To izaziva razne poremećaja po zdravlje čovjeka, kao što je debljanje ili neke alergijske reakcije", pojašnjavaju tehnolozi. Ljubomir Kalaba, direktor Kancelarije za veterinarstvo BiH, naveo je da je u ovoj godini sa granice vraćeno ukupno 15 pošiljki mesa piletine. "Pošiljke su vraćene zbog raznih nepravilnosti, trenutno ne možemo da damo podatak o čemu se konkretno radilo, jer bismo morali sve papire posebno pregledati. Uglavnom, nismo imali registrovanog uvoza iz Brazila", naveo je Kalaba. (NEZAVISNE) SMANJUJU BOL, JAČAJU IMUNITET I ELIMINIŠU STRES: 15 prirodnih lijekova koji se koriste širom svijeta (http://www.magazin.ba/lifestyle/zdravlje-lifestyle/smanjuju-bol-jacaju-imunitet-i-eliminisu-stres-15-prirodnih-lijekova-koji-se-koriste-sirom-svijeta-22796.html) Svako mjesto pod nebom ima neka svoja vjerovanja i običaje koji su samo njemu svojstveni. Pronašli smo petnaest prirodnih lijekova koji se koriste širom svijeta i koji smanjuju bol, jačaju imunitet i eliminišu stres, a sve na prirodan, efikasan i brz način. Pogledajte o čemu se radi.http://www.magazin.ba/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/prirodni-lijek.jpg (http://www.magazin.ba/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/prirodni-lijek.jpg)Šri Lanka: Kokos sprečava gojaznost Prosječni stanovnik Šri Lanke godišnje pojede oko 116 kokosovih oraha. Pretpostavlja se da je i to jedan od razloga zbog kojeg stanovnici ovog tropskog raja nemaju problema sa gojaznošću. Naime, kokosovo ulje je prepuno srednjeg lanca masnih kiselina (MCFA) koji potiče jetru da sagorijeva tjelesne masti 50% brže nego obično. Kada žene konzumiraju 30 ml kokosovog ulja ili 170 grama kokosa ili 300 ml kokosovog mlijeka dnevno, one sa lakoćom mogu izgubiti i do dva kilograma mjesečno.Austrija: Joga sprečava nesanicu Jedan od najpopularnijih lijekova protiv nesanice u Austriji je joga. Austrijanci je ne praktikuju samo kod kuće već postoje i programi za praznike na kojima se upražnjava joga. Istraživanja pokazuju da upražnjavanje joge bar dvadeset minuta dnevno sprečava nastanak nesanice, efikasno kao pilule za spavanje, a i redukuje anksioznost, hronični stres i depresiju.Indonezija: Đumbir uništava trigliceride Indonežani troše više đumbira od bilo koje druge zemlje na svijetu. A oni ga ne koriste samo kao začin već od njega prave i čajeve, slatkiše, hljeb i mnoštvo drugih ukusnih poslastica. Oduvijek su smatrali ovaj začin snažnim tonikom za zdravlje srca, a i zdravstveni stručnjaci se slažu sa njihovim vjerovanjem. Naime, istraživanja pokazuju da dnevna doza đumbira može da smanji proizvodnju triglicerida, koji začepljuju arterije, i do 17%. Pored toga, on je i dvostruko efikasniji od aspirina, kada se radi o sprečavanju nastajanja opasnih krvnih ugrušaka. Preporučena dnevna doza đumbira iznosi 10 grama.Indija: Kurkuma stabilizuje nivo šećera u krvi Indijci ovaj začin ne koriste samo u kulinarske svrhe. Naime, oni ga koriste i kao biljni lijek, kada se pojave problemi sa visokim nivoom šećera u krvi. Istraživači sa indijskog Univerziteta Gujarat potvrdili su da aktivni sastojak kurkurme, koji se naziva kurkumin, aktivira gene koji regulišu nivo glukoze u krvi. Da bi vidjeli korist, svakodnevno morate unositi bar pola kašičice kurkume u organizam. Začin možete dodavati mesu, povrću, riži i jajima.Japan: Gljive kontrolišu holesterol U Japanu se gljive smatraju i hranom i lijekom, a prosječna stanovnica zemlje izlazećeg sunca pojede oko 3.5 kg gljiva godišnje. Dodavanje najmanje 50 grama gljiva u svakodnevnu ishranu može smanjiti nivo lošeg holesterola i za 30%. Razlog? Gljive sadrže velike količine antioksidanata koji smanjuju proizvodnju masti koje začepljuju arterije.Engleska: Kupka od mljevene gorčice eliminiše bol u mišićima Izležavanje u toploj kupki od mljevene gorčice tradicionalni je engleski lijek protiv bola u mišićima. Ovo je veoma djelotvoran lijek, jer mljevena gorčica kroz pore izvlači toksine iz organizma, poboljšava cirkulaciju, opušta mišiće i ubrzava zarastanje rana na koži.Njemačka: Čaj od kamilice sprečava nadutost Sve je počelo kao najobičniji lijek koji su Nijemci koristili, a naučnici širom svijeta potvrđuju njegovu djelotvornost. Naime, istraživanja pokazuju da svakodnevno konzumiranje pola litre ovog čaja olakšava simptome nadimanja i bola u stomaku. Kamilica umiruje nadbubrežne žlijezde smanjujući njihovu proizvodnju kortizola – hormona stresa koji, između ostalog, ometa probavu i utiče na stvaranje gasova u organizmu i bola u stomaku.Rusija: Bijeli luk u borbi protiv virusa Rusi već odavno (običaj koji je sličan običaju iz našeg podneblja) koriste bijeli luk kako bi se riješili prehlade i gripa. Istraživanja pokazuju da dnevni unos bijelog luka može smanjiti rizik od virusnih infekcija i za 43% pa čak i ako ste okruženi osobama koje su prehlađene ili imaju kijavicu ili grip.Kina: Akupunktura sprečava glavobolje Čak oko 80 miliona Kineza koristi ovu drevnu terapiju kako bi se riješili glavobolje. Istraživanja pokazuju da je akupunktura djelotvornija od bilo kojeg lijeka protiv glavobolje. Ako patite od hroničnih glavobolja i migrena, preporučuje se da idete na tretmane akupunkture.Finska: Kafa u borbi protiv depresije Finci su najveći konzumenti kafe na svijetu – u prosjeku, Finac popije oko 1 640 šoljica kafe godišnje. Kada je u Finskoj počela prodaja kafe, u osamnaestom vijeku, ona se koristila kao lijek protiv depresije i mogla se kupiti samo u apotekama. Najnovija istraživanja pokazuju da dvije do tri šoljice kafe nevno mogu smanjiti nastanak depresije i do 43%.Egipat: Korijander pomaže u zaštiti od trovanja hranom Jedan je od najstarijih začina na svijetu, a Egipćani ga koriste kada imaju stomačne probleme (sjemenke korijandera su pronađene čak i u drevnim grobnicama). Istraživanja pokazuju da njegove sjemenke ubrzavaju oporavak od crijevnih infekcija. Korijander uništava bakterije, uključujući E. coli i salmonelu, bušeći rupe u njihovim spoljnim membranama.Novi Zeland: Med sprečava infekcije sinusa i grla Nepasterizovani med jedan je od najdjelotvornijih lijekova koji Novozelanđanke koriste kako bi se riješile infekcija grla i sinusa. Istraživanja pokazuju da prirodni antibiotici i enzimi u nepasterizovanom medu uništavaju skoro skoro 100% bakterije i viruse, a to uključuje i one koje uzrokuju infekcije grla i sinusa.Meksiko: Aloe vera smiruje osip na koži Tradicionalni iscjelitelji u Meksiku preporučuju aloe veru kao lijek protiv osipa i drugih kožnih problema. Istraživanja pokazuju da aloe vera može smanjiti crvenilo, ubrzava zarastanje rana, povećava nivo vlažnosti kože i jača otpornost na iritanse koji se mogu naći u sapunima i drugim sredstvima za njegu kože. Ona ne samo da sprečava suhoću i crvenilo kože već smanjuje i mogućnost buduće pojave osipa na koži.Rusija: Kefir ublažuje sindrom nervoznih crijeva Ruskinje piju velike količine ovog napitka, a koriste ga i kao lijek protiv sindroma nervoznih crijeva – crijevni problem koji uzrokuje nadimanje, bol i proljev. Kefir sadrži, u odnosu na jogurt, najmanje pet puta više zdravih probiotika neophodnih za normalno funkcionisanje crijeva.Grčka: Arnika sprečava nastajanje modrica Ova biljka raste u planinskim predjelima Grčke, a jedna je od grčkih najpoznatijih prirodnih lijekova protiv modrica. Ona je trenutno najpopularniji homeopatski lijek na svijetu, a fenomenalna je za sprečavanje nastajanja i liječenja modrica, čak i onih koje nastaju nakon operacije. Bogata je biljnim jedinjenjima koja smanjuju otok za čak 30% i poboljšavaju cirkulaciju kroz oštećena tkiva. HRANA ZA MOZAK: Pet namirnica koje štite mozak od starenja i poboljšavaju memoriju (http://doznajemo.com/kuhinja/hrana-za-mozak-pet-namirnica-koje-stite-mozak-od-starenja-i-poboljsavaju-memoriju/) ZDRAVA HRANA (http://doznajemo.com/kuhinja/category/zdrava-hrana/) | 25.08.2013. Ne postoji nijedna hrana koja će zamijeniti uravnoteženu i raznovrsnu prehranu i sama od sebe nas učiniti novim Albertom Einsteinom, ali postoji hrana koja našem mozgu pruža ono što mu je najpotrebnije za normalnu funkciju. http://doznajemo.com/kuhinja/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/borovnice.jpg Mozak je organ koji koristi apsolutno sve vitamine i minerale u manjim ili većim količinama. Nedostatak bilo kojeg nutrijenta može se negativno odraziti na mozak. U daljem tekstu navešćemo vam najvažniju hranu koja čuva mozak od uticaja starenja i poboljšava memoriju. Riba: Većina vrsta ribe sadrži omega-3 masne kiseline, naročite one masnije poput lososa. Kada uzmemo u obzir činjenicu da je čak 25 odsto mozga sačinjeno od jedne vrste omega-3 masne kiseline (DHA), onda je jasno zašto je ovo ultimativna hrana za mozak. Ribe koje su najbolji izvori omega-3 masnih kiselina su: tuna, skuša, losos, jesetra, cipal, strijela, inćuni, srdele i pastrmka. Ako ne volite jesti ribu, postoje i omega-3 kapsule koje možete kupiti u apoteci. Osim za mozak, dobre su i za srce. Omega-3 je naročito učinkovita kod djece s poremećajem koncentracije. Orasi: Još jedna hrana bogata omega-3 mastima su orasi. Ali, pored toga oni sadrže još nekoliko nutrijenata važnih za mozak. U Velikoj Britaniji je rađena studija na 64 studenta u kojoj su naučnici probali naći vezu između konzumacije oraha i poboljšanih mentalnih sposobnosti. Ispitanici koji su jeli orahe imali su bolje sposobnosti verbalnog zaključivanja. Oni su uradili taj dio testa sa 11,2 odsto boljim rezultatom, od onih koji nisu jeli orahe. Borovnica: Ovo voće je prebogato antioksidansima koji ublažavaju štetu izazvanu oksidacijom. Pošto je mozak jedan od organa koji su pod najvećim udarom, zbog velike potrošnje energije, antioksidansi igraju važnu ulogu u očuvanju tog organa. U jednoj studiji rađenoj na starijim osobama prosječne dobi 76 godina, redovna konzumacija soka borovnice je rezultirala poboljšanjem memorije kod većine učesnika. Jaja: Jedan od najboljih izvora nutrijenta holina su jaja. Holin je potreban mozgu za stvaranje neurotransmitera acetilholina, koji ima uticaj na memoriju, strukturu i organizaciju raznih regiona mozga, te stvaranje neurona i sinapsi u mozgu. Ovaj nutrijent utiče na mozak čak i prije rođenja. Neke studije ukazuju na to da unos većih količina holina u trudnoći povoljno utiče na dugotrajnu memoriju djeteta. Smatra se da je moguće predvidjeti memoriju u starosti na osnovu toga koliko holina je majka unosila u trudnoći. Jaja takođe sadrže i selenij, još jedan nutrijent važan za zdravlje mozga. Još jedan dobar izvor holina osim jaja je teleća jetrica. Grožđe: Pored brojnih vitamina koje sadrži, grožđe ima i resveratrol, antioksidans koji je postao poznat zbog tvrdnji da produžava život. Malo je poznato da resveratrol može odgoditi ili potpuno spriječiti nastanak Alchajmerove bolesti. Naučnicima još nije poznato na koji način funkcionira, ali ako može spriječiti Alchajmerovu bolest onda sigurno ne može biti loše za naš mozak HRANA ZA MOZAK: Pet namirnica koje štite mozak od starenja i poboljšavaju memoriju (http://doznajemo.com/kuhinja/hrana-za-mozak-pet-namirnica-koje-stite-mozak-od-starenja-i-poboljsavaju-memoriju/) ZDRAVA HRANA (http://doznajemo.com/kuhinja/category/zdrava-hrana/) | Ne postoji nijedna hrana koja će zamijeniti uravnoteženu i raznovrsnu prehranu i sama od sebe nas učiniti novim Albertom Einsteinom, ali postoji hrana koja našem mozgu pruža ono što mu je najpotrebnije za normalnu funkciju. http://doznajemo.com/kuhinja/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/borovnice.jpg Mozak je organ koji koristi apsolutno sve vitamine i minerale u manjim ili većim količinama. Nedostatak bilo kojeg nutrijenta može se negativno odraziti na mozak. U daljem tekstu navešćemo vam najvažniju hranu koja čuva mozak od uticaja starenja i poboljšava memoriju. Riba: Većina vrsta ribe sadrži omega-3 masne kiseline, naročite one masnije poput lososa. Kada uzmemo u obzir činjenicu da je čak 25 odsto mozga sačinjeno od jedne vrste omega-3 masne kiseline (DHA), onda je jasno zašto je ovo ultimativna hrana za mozak. Ribe koje su najbolji izvori omega-3 masnih kiselina su: tuna, skuša, losos, jesetra, cipal, strijela, inćuni, srdele i pastrmka. Ako ne volite jesti ribu, postoje i omega-3 kapsule koje možete kupiti u apoteci. Osim za mozak, dobre su i za srce. Omega-3 je naročito učinkovita kod djece s poremećajem koncentracije. Orasi: Još jedna hrana bogata omega-3 mastima su orasi. Ali, pored toga oni sadrže još nekoliko nutrijenata važnih za mozak. U Velikoj Britaniji je rađena studija na 64 studenta u kojoj su naučnici probali naći vezu između konzumacije oraha i poboljšanih mentalnih sposobnosti. Ispitanici koji su jeli orahe imali su bolje sposobnosti verbalnog zaključivanja. Oni su uradili taj dio testa sa 11,2 odsto boljim rezultatom, od onih koji nisu jeli orahe. Borovnica: Ovo voće je prebogato antioksidansima koji ublažavaju štetu izazvanu oksidacijom. Pošto je mozak jedan od organa koji su pod najvećim udarom, zbog velike potrošnje energije, antioksidansi igraju važnu ulogu u očuvanju tog organa. U jednoj studiji rađenoj na starijim osobama prosječne dobi 76 godina, redovna konzumacija soka borovnice je rezultirala poboljšanjem memorije kod većine učesnika. Jaja: Jedan od najboljih izvora nutrijenta holina su jaja. Holin je potreban mozgu za stvaranje neurotransmitera acetilholina, koji ima uticaj na memoriju, strukturu i organizaciju raznih regiona mozga, te stvaranje neurona i sinapsi u mozgu. Ovaj nutrijent utiče na mozak čak i prije rođenja. Neke studije ukazuju na to da unos većih količina holina u trudnoći povoljno utiče na dugotrajnu memoriju djeteta. Smatra se da je moguće predvidjeti memoriju u starosti na osnovu toga koliko holina je majka unosila u trudnoći. Jaja takođe sadrže i selenij, još jedan nutrijent važan za zdravlje mozga. Još jedan dobar izvor holina osim jaja je teleća jetrica. Grožđe: Pored brojnih vitamina koje sadrži, grožđe ima i resveratrol, antioksidans koji je postao poznat zbog tvrdnji da produžava život. Malo je poznato da resveratrol može odgoditi ili potpuno spriječiti nastanak Alchajmerove bolesti. Naučnicima još nije poznato na koji način funkcionira, ali ako može spriječiti Alchajmerovu bolest onda sigurno ne može biti loše za naš mozak lavanda najveći neprijatelj farmaceutskih kuća je obićna soda bikarbona-treba svaki dan pojesti kašikicu soda bikarbona je, ali ove na tržištu većinom imaju dodan aluminij 3 napitka od banane koji otapaju masne jastučiće [Recepti]Unatoč uvriježenim mišljenjima kako bananu treba izbjegavati ukoliko želite izgubiti kilograme ona je jedno od najpoželjnijih sastojaka dijetalnih napitaka i to upravo zahvaljujući kaliju koji riješava višak vode u tijelu i vlaknima koji ubrzavaju metabolizam čineći u saradnji s drugim otapalicama masti poput lana i špinata pravu invaziju na nepoželjne jastučiće! http://namirnice.ba/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/banane.jpg (http://namirnice.ba/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/banane.jpg) Banana obiluje kalijem koji pomaže pri uklanjanju viška vode iz organizma, a jedna banana sadrži čak 450 mg ovog elementa. Osim toga prirodni šećeri fruktoza, saharoza i glukoza odličan su izvor energije za naše tijelo, pa konzumirajući bananu zatomljujemo lažne osjećaje gladi koji nas često dovode do zabranjenih zalogajčića koji su uzročnici masnih jastučića, dok su vlakna kojima banana obiluje ključni u ubrzavanju metabolizma. Bananu koristimo u dijetalnim napitcima kao bazu kojoj dodajemo prirodne topilice masti poput lanenih sjemenki, bobičastog voće i špinata koji između ostalog opskrbljuju naše tijelo svim potrebnim vitaminima i mineralima. Banana napitak s lanenim sjemenkama Sastojci: 1 narandža 1 banana 2 čajne kašike sirutke 2 čajne kašike lanenih sjemenki Banana s bobičastim voćem Sastojci: 1 banana 1 šolja bobičastog voća(borovnica, malina, brusnica) 1 čajna kašika meda 1 čajna kašika izribanog đumbira pola šolje mlake vode Banana napitak sa špinatom Sastojci: 1 banana 20 dkg opranog svježeg špinata pola šolje light jogurta trećina šolje zobenih pahuljica 1 čajna kašika meda Priprema ovih napitaka jednaka je za sve vrste, samo je potrebno sastojke ubaciti u blender i izmiksati. Ove dijetalne, ali prije svega zdrave napitke konzumirajte ujutro za doručak jer tada tijelo najbolje apsorbira i prepoznaje sastojke koji će u ovom slučaju napraviti pravu invaziju na vaše masne jastučiće nataložene oko struka:-S:-S Očistite svoja creva sa ovsenim pahuljicama. Odličan «piling» za creva! http://uspesnazena.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/1006344_525625827507305_1683015337_n-300x262.jpg (http://uspesnazena.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/1006344_525625827507305_1683015337_n.jpg)Vrlo cesto ljudi ugrozavaju zdravlje, nekvalitetnom a ponekad i stetnom hranom i zaboravljaju na cinjenicu da zdravlje i mladost vratiti nece. Veoma je vazno s vremena na vreme sprovoditi ciscenje jetre (http://uspesnazena.com/?p=3256) i creva od toksina, koji stvaraju deponiju u nasem organizmu. Ako niste zadovoljni svojim izgledom ili jednostavno imateproblema sa digestivnim traktom, onda je ovo recept za vas! Ocistite svoja creva i poboljsajte svoj izgled koze uz ovaj jednostavan recept! Bice potrebno: - 5 kasika ovsenih pahuljica - 5 kasika vode - 1 kasika mleka ili jogurta - 5 komada kostunjavog voca ( lesnici, bademi, orasi..) - 1 kasikica meda Priprema: - Ovsene pahuljice zalijte sa hladnom prokuvanom vodom na 15-20 minuta.- Dodajte mleko (jogurt), med i orase i promesajte.Konzumirajte ujutru na prazan stomak. Jedite polako i sve temeljno sazvacite. Kurs tretmana — mesec dana. Ovakvo ciscenje creva pomaze da se normalizuje metabolizam i regulise visak telesne tezine. Posle tretmana osecacete se ne samo zdravije, vec lepse i mladje. Postoji jedan uslov: posle uzimanja obroka sa pahuljicama ujutru pozeljno da ne jedete i ne pijete najmanje 3 sata (ni kafa, ni caj). Ne zaboravljajte da unosite tecnost u organizam — minimum 2l dnevno. Najbolje — vodu i zeleni caj (http://uspesnazena.com/?p=2008). Ten koze lica, kosa i nokti postaju zdravi i lepi, a stomak ce polako «istopiti». Nema negativnih efekata. Provereno je. Jednom ili dva puta godisnje lekari ruske alternativne medicine toplo preporucuju vrlo efikasno »generalno» ciscenje celog organizma od toksina. (http://uspesnazena.com/?p=1613) Mandarine dolaze: Četiri razloga zašto ih maksimalno iskoristiti ove sezone (http://www.cazin-danas.com/mandarine-dolaze-cetiri-razloga-zasto-ih-maksimalno-iskoristiti-ove-sezone/#) October, 2013 Objavio: Sanela Prošić (http://www.cazin-danas.com/author/p-sanela/) KATEGORIJA: ZDRAVLJE (http://www.cazin-danas.com/category/sve-vijesti/lifestyle/lszdravlje/) 0 Comments (http://www.cazin-danas.com/mandarine-dolaze-cetiri-razloga-zasto-ih-maksimalno-iskoristiti-ove-sezone/#) http://www.cazin-danas.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/mandarina_shutter-600x259.jpg (http://www.cazin-danas.com/mandarine-dolaze-cetiri-razloga-zasto-ih-maksimalno-iskoristiti-ove-sezone/#) Mandarine su ukusne i malo ko ih ne voli. Ali, znate li da pružaju više od ugodnosti tokom jela? To citrusno voće ima višestruke zdravstvene koristi – smanjuje rizik od pojave raka, podstiče mršavljenje … Mogu smanjiti rizik od raka Mandarine mogu smanjiti rizik od raka jetre. Naime, naučnici na Univerzitetu Kjoto otkrili su da ljudi koji imaju hronični virusni hepatitis mogu smanjiti rizik od razvoja raka jetre ako piju sok od svježe mandarine. U jednogodišnjoj studiji 30 učesnika koji su imali virusni hepatitis konzumiralo je napitak koji sadrži sok mandarine na dnevnoj bazi, te na koncu nisu imali nikakve znakove raka jetre. Za razliku od njih, među 45 učesnika koji nisu pili napitak od mandarine, 8,9% razvilo je rak jetre, prenosi Net.hr. Dobar su izvor vitamina C Mandarine vam mogu dati i do 80% potrebnog dnevnog unosa vitamina C. A vitamin C je višestruko koristan, na primjer u borbi sa slobodnim radikalima. Utiču i na holesterol Antioksidansi u mandarini mogu sniziti nivo ‘lošeg’ holesterola. To postižu boreći se protiv slobodnih radikala koji oksidiraju holesterol, pa se on lako nakuplja na zidovima arterija. Nakuplja li se holesterol, krv se usporeno kreće u arterijama, što može povećati rizik od visokog krvnog pritiska, moždanog udara, bolesti srca te oboljenja jetre. Pomoći će da izgubite na težini Mandarine su izvor dijetalnih vlakana, čak 3 g vlakana na 100 g. A redovno uzimanje vlakana pomaže da duže osjećate sitost. Uopšteno, djeca i odrasli trebaju uzeti oko 20 g vlakana dnevno. Međutim, možda ćete morati uzeti i više, zavisno o količini kalorija koje konzumirate.:d:d Sok od nara pomaže bubrežnim bolesnicima (http://lijecenje.blogspot.de/2013/02/sok-od-nara-pomaze-bubreznim-bolesnicima.html) Bubrežni bolesnici na dijalizi, koji tri puta sedmično piju po pola čaše soka od nara, izloženi su manjem riziku od infekcija, koje su među glavnim uzročnicima smrtnosti među ovakvim pacijentima. Istraživanje je obavljeno na 110 pacijenata od kojih je polovina tokom godinu dana tri puta sedmično pila sok od nara, dok je druga polovina dobijala neki drugi napitak, prenosi Reuters. Kod onih koji su pili sok od nara je utvrđena manja koncentracija inflamatornih molekula u krvi i oni su rjeđe imali potrebu za hospitalizacijom od pacijenata iz kontrolne grupe. Dijaliza, inače, izaziva povećanje koncentracije štetnih slobodnih radikala u krvi, pa su zato pacijenti na ovoj terapiji izloženiji infekcijama. Batia Christal, vođa izraelskog tima, napomenula je da su istraživanja u posljednje tri godine pokazala da, od svih vrsta voća i povrća, nar ima najveći sadržaj antioksidanta polifenola, koji umanjuju oštećenje ćelija izazvano slobodnim radikalima. Ukoliko želite u kratkom razdoblju ukloniti masne naslage i očistiti organizam od štetnih tvari, sok od šipka je idealan napitak za vas. Sjeme i sok od nara smatraju se tonikom za srce i grlo. Kora od voća i kora od stabla se koristi kao tradicionalni lijek protiv proljeva, dizenterije i crijevnih parazita. Bori se protiv raka Sok od šipka je bogat antioksidativnim svojstvima, sadrži tri puta više antioksidanta u 100 ml nego crno vino ili zeleni čaj. Kao rezultat ovog visokog sadržaja antioksidanta, može vam pomoći u borbi protiv raka dojke i raka prostate. Studija na 48 muškaraca koji su imali operaciju ili terapiju zračenjem za liječenje lokaliziranog raka prostate (karcinom prostate koji nije proširio) pokazala je da pijenje oko 235 ml soka od nara dnevno može usporiti rak prostate. Što se tiče raka dojke, nova istraživanja pokazuju da jedenje ploda ili pijenje soka može spriječiti i usporiti rast nekih vrsta raka dojke. Studija pokazuje da elagitanini (skupina fitokemikalija), inhibira rast raka dojke. Normalizira krvni tlak Sok od šipka dobro razrjeđuje krv. Kao rezultat toga, izvrstan je za bolji protok krvi u srce. Jedna je studija pokazala da pijenje 50 ml soka od šipka dnevno smanjuje sistolički krvni tlak za čak 5 posto. Koristan je za srce Šipak i njegov sok pomažu spriječiti nakupljanje plaka na stjenkama arterija, ali također može smanjiti progresiju ove bolesti . Nakupljanje plaka može dovesti do smanjenja protoka krvi, što može izazvati srčani i moždani udar. Ovi korisni učinci koriste i osobama s dijabetesom, koji imaju povećan rizik za aterosklerozu. Nova preliminarna studija pokazuje da su osobe s dijabetesom koje su pile sok od šipka tri mjeseca imale manji rizik od ateroskleroze. Štiti hrskavicu Prema studiji Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine objavljenoj u rujnu 2005. godine sok od šipka djeluje kao inhibitor na enzime odgovorne za oštećenje hrskavice, stoga je odličan za osobe koje pate od osteoartritisa. Voće također sadrži antiupalna svojstva koja također pomažu pri liječenju ove bolesti. Zdravi zubi Istraživanja pokazuju da pijenje soka od nara može biti prirodan način da se spriječi zubni plak, jer šipak ima antibakterijska svojstva. To pomaže smanjiti šanse za loš dah i bolesti desni. Učinkovit protiv impotencije Istraživanja pokazuju da sok od šipka može biti učinkovit u poboljšanju protoka krvi kroz tijelo, što je od posebne važnosti za ljude koji pate od erektilne disfunkcije (ED). To stimulira proizvodnju dušičnog oksida, koji "odmara" stanice krvnih žila. Sprječava Alzheimerovu bolest Prema studiji na životinjama, sok od šipka može spriječiti ili usporiti napredovanje Alzheimerove bolesti. Borba protiv prehlade i gripe Velike količine vitamina C pomažu u borbi protiv gripe i simptome prehlade. Ako vas uhvati gripa, jednostavno popijte 1 do 2 čaše razrijeđenog soka od šipka. PMS Vjeruje se da šipak uravnotežuje razine estrogena u žena. Dakle, poželjno je da ga žene dodaju u prehranu jer može pomoći u borbi protiv PMS-a i problema povezanih s menopauzom. Šipak konzumiran kao voće nema popratnih pojava, te se može jesti u gotovo neograničenim količinama. Svako voće je izvor bogatstva fitotvari, a ukoliko se jede svježe, povoljni učinci na zdravlje su mnogobrojniji i snažniji. Preporuča se konzumiranje sirovog nara radi boljeg iskorištenja antioksidanata, i to u sklopu uravnotežene prehrane, a također i ukoliko imate problema sa apetitom, jutarnjom mučninom i bolnim grlom. Dokazano je da nar pomaže osobama oboljelim od astme, budući da visoka razina vitamina C ima snažno protu-upalno djelovanje. Od šipka se proizvodi i sok (upitno je da li ga ima na policama naših dućana) koji predstavlja potencijal u borbi protiv otvdrnjavanja krvnih žila. ENZACIONALNO: Uz ova četiri začina pobijedite sve bolesti pa čak i rakin AKTUELNO (http://www.znamo.ba/category/aktuelno/), IZ MINUTE U MINUTU (http://www.znamo.ba/category/iz-minute-u-minutu/), ZDRAVLJE (http://www.znamo.ba/category/lifestyle/zdravlje/) okt 20, 2013 @ 11:07 http://www.znamo.ba/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/SLIKA-ZACINA-300x196.jpgŽeljezo je mineral koji često nedostaje u prehrani vegeterijanaca, a upravo iglice ružmarina kriju pravo obilje ovog minerala. Ako u organizam ne unosimo dovoljno željeza možemo očekivati da će nas mučiti umor i anemija. Začini se koriste da bi podigli okus hrane koju spravljamo. No, osim ovih dobro nam znanih kulinarskih svojstava mogu se pobrinuti i za naše zdravlje. Ružmarin Željezo je mineral koji često nedostaje u prehrani vegeterijanaca, a upravo iglice ružmarina kriju pravo obilje ovog minerala. Ako u organizam ne unosimo dovoljno željeza možemo očekivati da će vas mučiti umor i anemija. No, uz ružmarin koji je bogat karnosičkom kiselinom čija je uloga signalizacija mozgu da se obrani od štetnih nusprodukata metabolizma koji mogu dovesti do bolesti, a riječ je o radikalima. Ružmarin snižava rizik i od moždanog udara te neurodegenerativnih stanja poput Alzheimerove bolesti jamče istraživači u stručnom časopisu Journal of Neurochemistry. Ružmarin se konzumira tako što se grančica nasjecka i posipa po mesu ili salati. Bosiljak Još su stari Grci ovaj začin čije ime dolazi od grčke riječi basileus što znači kralj bosiljak smatrali kraljem začina. Bosiljak je u talijanskoj kuhinji nezamjenjiv, a odlično prija i u jelima s rajčicom. Njegova uloga u jelima je značajna jer osim okusa pomažu i u probavljanju težih jela pa ga se stoga dodaje i masnoj ribi. Otvara apetit, potiče probavu, smiruje upalu sluznice želuca i crijeva, koristi se za rješavanje problema kod nadutosti, vjetrova i mučnina. Također, liječi upale bubrega i mjehura, a ženama koristi kod neredovitih mjesečnica. Ekstrakt bosiljka snižava krvni tlak jednako kao i lijekovi pokazalo je to istraživanje Medicinskog fakulteta Sveučilišta Xinjiang a smatraju i da utječe na razinu proteina koji stežu krvne žile. Origano Začin neizostavan u pripremi pizze bogat je mineralima poput niacina, beta-karotena i bakra, a sadrži i brojne druge hranjive tvari. Istraživanja pokazuju da je origano čak 42 puta bogatiji antioksidansima nego jabuke, od borovnica je bolji četiri puta, a od naranče 12. Origano poput bosiljka i ružmarina posjeduje ružmarinsku kiselinu koja je snažan antioksidans koji pomaže u sprječavanju oštećenja stanica uzrokovanih slobodnim radikalima. Sve ovo smanjuje rizik od raka, bolesti srca, preranog starenja i ateroskleroze, a ružmarinska kiselina saveznik je i protiv alergijske astme. Ovaj mirišljavi začin bogat je antibakterijskim svojstvima koja uključuje ulje timol i karvakrol. Istraživanja kažu da ovaj dvojac zaustavlja rast brojnih bakterija. Stručnjaci Medicinskog fakulteta Georgetown Sveučilišta u Washingtonu pokazali su kako karvakrol može zaustaviti rast gljivice Candide albicans. Od origana se može pripremiti čaj, može biti i kao što je već poznato začin te se koristiti može u obliku svježih listova. Cimet Ovo je jedna od najsvestranijih i najučinkovitijih biljaka smatraju stručnjaci koji su uvjereni u zdravstvene dobrobiti ovog začina. Iznimno je sposoban kod borbe s dijabetesom jer poboljšava aktivnost inzulina. Učinkovit je kod popravljanja probave, a potiče i znojenje te je vrlo djelotvoran kod problema s kašljem. Cimet ima antioksidativna i antiupalna svojstva baš kao i antibakterijaska. Brojne studije kažu da može pomoći u smanjenju rizika od nekih vrsta raka, može smanjiti i krvni tlak, kolesterol te količinu tjelesne masnoće piše Ordinacija.hr dodaju i da je za pozitivan utjecaj cimeta dovoljno pola žlice cimeta na dan:loler: :loler: POMOĆI ĆE VAM U OTKLANJANJU NEČISTOĆA: Ove tri namirnice zamjenjuju četkicu za zubeNedjelja | 27.10.2013. Zube trebamo prati nakon svakog jela, to smo naučili još kao djeca kada su nas i roditelji i stomatolozi učili da ih moramo četkati najmanje dvije minute http://depo.ba/media/pictures/2012/08/05/d7c64d22cdc7629280c7a316fbcc0301.jpgZube trebamo prati nakon svakog jela, to smo naučili još kao djeca kada su nas i roditelji i stomatolozi učili da ih moramo četkati najmanje dvije minute. No, ukoliko se nađete u (ne)prilici bez četkice za zube neke vam namirnice mogu pomoću u uklanjanju nečistoća iz usne šupljine snovna higijena usne šupljine nalaže pranje zuba nakon svakog obroka. Budući da nismo uvijek u prilici nakon unesene hrane zgrabiti četkicu za zube i pastu za zube, možemo posegnuti za prirodnim zubnim čistačima. Grickanje određenog hrskavog i tvrdog voća i povrća izaziva lučenje sline koja uništava bakterije te plak i zube održava čistim i zdravim. Namirnice koje čiste zube: Jabuke Jabuka sadrži fosfor, kalcij i flour te sprječava razvoj karijesa, a dokazano je da ovo voće bolje čisti zube od bilo koje četkice djelujući dvostruko – mehanički i fizički. Sirova mrkva Žvakanjem mrkve se stimulira proizvodnja sline, koja pomaže u uklanjaju zaostale hrane. Osim toga, vlakna mrkve djeluju kao četkica za zube i desni. Celer Celer štiti zube na dva načina. Žvakanje celera izaziva lučenje tvari koja neutralizira bakterije koje izazivaju karijes. Isto tako, ova namirnica žvakanjem prodire između zubi, masira desni i čisti usnu šupljinu. Suhe smokve liječe anemiju (http://www.magazin.ba/lifestyle/zdravlje-lifestyle/suhe-smokve-lijece-anemiju-27713.html) http://www.magazin.ba/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/smokva.jpg Treba znati da četiri suhe smokve osiguravaju čak četvrtinu preporučene dnevne količine željeza za naš organizam. Da bi postigli što bolji učinak, smokve jedite uz kompot ili svježe iscijeđen sok naranče jer je ona bogata vitaminom C. Naime, vitamin C u ljudskom organizmu poboljšava apsorpciju željeza. Suhe smokve predstavljaju i odličan izvor minerala. Osim željeza, smokve obiluju bakrom, cinkom, selenom, manganom, kalcijem i kalijem. Smokve sadrže i esencijalne omega-3 i omega-6 masne kiseline, kao i fitosterol. Sve su to elementi koji mogu utjecati na smanjivanje razine kolesterola u krvi. Dunja je jako zdravo voće i izvor sreće (http://www.magazin.ba/lifestyle/zdravlje-lifestyle/dunja-je-jako-zdravo-voce-i-izvor-srece-27716.html) http://www.magazin.ba/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/dunje-300x206.jpgNažalost, danas je rijetko nalazimo na našim jelovnicima, ali postoje i oni koji se tradicionalno dugi niz godina neće odreći ove mirisne delicije. Dunja u sirovom obliku skoro da je nejestiva zbog svoje kiselosti, ali je zato odličan materijal za pripremanje velikog broja poslastica. Ovo voće je idealna zimska namirnica zbog svoje dugotrajnosti i činjenice da je dostupna u periodu od kasne jeseni pa sve do mjeseca februara. Birajte čvrste i blijedožute plodove koji su najsvježiji, a izbjegavajte mekane, smećkaste nijanse sa dosta crnih točkica koji ukazuju na već dotrajalu voćku. Od velikog broja zdravstvenih blagodati posebno se ističe uloga u poboljšanju probave i čuvanju zdrave crijevne flore, kao i poboljšanju krvne slike. Napravite već danas neku ukusnu poslasticu. Naš prijedlog su zapečene dunje. Jednostavno dunju razrežite na dva dijela, izdubite sredinu sa košticama i u nju stavite šećer. Pecite dok dunje ne dobiju zlatnu boju i šećer se rastopi. Ukoliko niste ljubitelj poslastica, sigurni smo da bar nećete odliti posebnom mirisu dunje na vašem ormaru.;;);;) OČISTITE ORGANIZAM OD OTROVA: Prirodna detoksikacija: Jedite nešto od ovoga barem pet dana i preporodite se! Tijelo treba njegovati, a to ćete postići unosom pravih hranjivih tvari. Uz pravu mjeru odmora i aktivnosti, tako ćete podržati prirodan proces detoksikacije http://depo.ba/media/pictures/2013/10/31/9d6e3faabcb6c55b628bc42e5d9cfa8d.jpgTijelo treba njegovati, a to ćete postići unosom pravih hranjivih tvari. Uz pravu mjeru odmora i aktivnosti, tako ćete podržati prirodan proces detoksikacije. Sljedeće dvije sedmice redovno jedite hranu navedenu na ovom popisu i već za pet dana ćete osjetiti olakšanje i navalu energije. Rotkvice Rotkvice povećavaju protok žuči, pomažu u održavanju zdravog žučnog mjehura i jetre, te poboljšavaju probavni proces. To je razlog zašto se rotkvica u japanskoj kuhinji poslužuje zakiseljena. Dodajte tanke listiće rotkvice u salatu. Kurkuma Tradicionalna indijska i kineska kuhinja cijene kurkumu zbog ljekovitih svojstava. Nove studije su potvrdile antioksidativni i protuupalni učinak kurkume u tijelu, kao i njegovu sposobnost da pomaže jetri u detoksikaciji štetnih spojeva. Antioksidansi iz kurkume igraju ulogu u borbi protiv tvari koje oštećuju stanice i nakupljaju se s godinama. Jedna kašičica žutog praha na dan je sve što trebate. Limun Mnogi podcjenjuju sposobnost limuna u održavanju zdrave probave i izbacivanju otrova. Neki travari i nutricionisti smatraju da je opor okus limuna koji potiče protok žuči odgovoran za blagotvorno djelovanje na probavni proces. Piling od limuna i limete također djeluje antioksidativno. Limun koristite umjesto octa u salatama, popijte ga prije doručka s vodom ili ubacite u gotova jela. List korijandera I sjeme i list ove biljke imaju zdravstvene koristi. Dok sjeme može pomoći probavi i održavanju normalne razine holesterola, lišće pomaže u uklanjanju nekih teških metala (poput žive i olova) koji se mogu nakupljati u tijelu. Stavite šaku lišća u salatu ili na predjelo kao ukras. Kiseli kupus Fermentirani kupus daje blagotvornu dozu dobrih bakterija koje nazivamo probioticima. Probiotici su osobito važni za zdrav probavni trakt. U crijevima žive trilioni bakterija koje igraju ulogu i u probavi i u održavanju dobrog imuniteta. Bez te korisne flore naš probavni proces mogu ometati plinovi ili zatvor. Zatvor može dovesti do nakupljanja toksičnog otpada u crijevima i krvotoku, te čak i povećati rizik od razvoja raka. Bijeli luk Potvrđeno je da bijeli luk jača imunitet i štiti srce, ali njegovi sumporni spojevi također igraju ulogu u detoksikaciji. Jetra je zadužena za neutraliziranje toksina uz pomoć sumpora, pa će dodavanje sumporom bogatih namirnica u prehranu, poput češnjaka, olakšati ovaj proces. Artičoke Jestivi dijelovi važni su za zdravlja jetre. Promiču protok žuči i masnoća iz jetre. Uloga žuči je emulgirati masti i nositi toksine i otpad iz jetre u tanko crijevo. Zato u salatu dodajte srednje veliku artičoku. Sjemenke lana Sadrže i topiva i netopiva vlakna koja će popraviti zdravlje crijeva i spriječiti reapsorpciju kolesterola iz debelog crijeva. Pokušajte dodati nekoliko samljevenih kašika lana u žitarice koje jedete za doručak ili u jogurt. Organski uzgojene jabuke Jabuke su zdrave i treba ih konzumirati tokom cijele godine. Pune su vlakana, a naročito pektina, koji čisti probavni trakt, te olakšava oslobađanje svih nakupljenih toksina i čestica hrane koji mogu ostati neprobavljene. Važno je konzumirati široku lepezu vlakana u prehrani. Repa Ovo korjenasto povrće sadrži biljne pigmente koji djeluju antioksidativno i jačaju jetrene funkcije. Repu naribajte u salate, kuhajte ili smiksajte u sok. Brokula Iz porodice je krstašica i jedna je od najzdravijih namirnica. Probavom brokule oslobađaju se hranjive tvari koje pomažu kod čišćenja lošeg estrogena koji se nakuplja u tijelu. Previše takozvanih loših estrogena može dovesti do nekih većih zdravstvenih problema, uključujući i debljanje, PMS, pa čak i rak. Šparoge O ovom povrću razmišljajte kao o prirodnoj 'tableti' prehrambenih vlakana, vitamina, minerala i slobodnih radikala. Ispiru višak vode i natrija, te su korisne u detoksikaciji. List maslačka Gorke namirnice odlične su za žuč i jetru. Ako vam je pregorko za salatu, ispirjajte šoljicu maslačkovog lišća s češnjakom. Borovnice Imaju najmanje tri ključna antioksidansa: antocijanine, resveratrol i elaginsku kiselinu. Elaginska kiselina može blokirati metaboličke putove koji dovode do raka. Dodajte pola šoljice u frap :D:DJako dobar savjet,Borovnicu ,Limun, kiseli kupus jabuke ,su obavezno u mojoj ishrani kazu prasa i padlidzan je isto jako zdrav za ciscenje organa;)i krvi U SAMO 4 NEDJELJE: Pila je 3 litra vode dnevno zbog glavobolje i loše probave, a rezultat je bio zadivljujući! [*=center]četvrtak, 31 oktobar 2013 13:22 [*=center]font size http://istinito.com/components/com_k2/images/system/blank.gif (http://istinito.com/index.php/zdravlje/item/14217-u-samo-4-nedjelje-pila-je-3-litra-vode-dnevno-zbog-glavobolje-i-lo%C5%A1e-probave-a-rezultat-je-bio-zadivljuju%C4%87i.html#)http://istinito.com/components/com_k2/images/system/blank.gif (http://istinito.com/index.php/zdravlje/item/14217-u-samo-4-nedjelje-pila-je-3-litra-vode-dnevno-zbog-glavobolje-i-lo%C5%A1e-probave-a-rezultat-je-bio-zadivljuju%C4%87i.html#) http://istinito.com/media/k2/items/cache/a70669800d10d7441b9778298976db43_L.jpg (http://istinito.com/media/k2/items/cache/a70669800d10d7441b9778298976db43_XL.jpg) Sara Smit, 42-godišnja Britanka i majka dvoje djece, imala je svakodnevne glavobolje i lošu probavu. Nakon preporuke ljekara, odlučila se na eksperiment, prilikom koga je tokom 28 dana pila tri litre vode dnevno. Rezultati su bili nevjerovatni! Nakon što su je godinama mučile glavobolje i loša probava, neurolog i nutricionista savjetovali su joj da počne piti tri litre vode dnevno kako bi tijelo bolje funkcionisalo. Sara je dan obično započinjala šoljicom čaja, a vodu bi popila uz ručak i večeru – u prosjeku litar dnevno. Kad je vidjela podatak da svaka peta žena ne unosi dovoljno vode u organizam, odlučila je da napravi eksperiment i tokom četiri nedjelje unosi preporučenu količinu kako bi vidjela šta će se dogoditi. Svoje iskustvo je opisala Daily Mailu. Tri litre vode zvuče jako puno, zato se posavjetovala s ljekarom opšte prakse kako naglo povećanje unosa vode ne bi ostavilo zdravstvene posljedice. Ohrabrio ju je preporukom da jednu litru popije ujutru, jednu u poslijepodnevnim satima i jednu uveče. - Vaši bubrezi, koji filtriraju otpadne stvari iz krvi prije nego što ih pretvore u mokraću, brzo će osjetiti korist od ovog eksperimenta - rekao joj je doktor. Cio je eksperiment pratilo i fotografisanje iz nedjelje u nedjelju. Na početku je, priznaje, izgledala kao da ima 52 godine, dakle 10 godina više. Imala je tamne kolutove oko očiju, zbog čega je izgledala iscrpljeno, istaknute bore, crvene mrlje, koža je bila bez sjaja. - Izgledala sam mrtvo - piše Sara. Čak su joj i usne bile smežurane, što je klasičan znak loše hidratacije. Svaki sistem i funkcije u našem tijelu zavise o vodi. Ona ispira toksine iz vitalnih organa, prenosi hranjive stvari do stanica, osigurava vlažnu okolinu za uši, nos i grlo, izbacuje otpad. Ne unositi dovoljno vode znači oslabiti organizam. Zato je odlučila 28 dana da pije tri litre vode dnevno, i rezultat je bio zapanjujuć. Osjećala se bolje već nakon prve nedjelje Već pri kraju druge nedjelje primjetila je da nedjelju dana nije imala glavobolje i da joj je probava radila mnogo bolje. Nakon četiri nedelje eksperimenta, njeno je lice izgledalo potpuno drugačije. Izgledala je kao druga žena. Tamni kolutovi oko očiju su potpuno nestali, kao i crvenilo. Koža joj je postala glatka gotovo kao kad je bila dijete. Transformacija je bila zadivljujuća Takođe se osjećala zdravije, poletnije i mršavije, što je nevjerovatno jer nije ništa promijenila u svojoj rutini osim količine vode koju je unosila. Nije se odrekla ni provoda i pokoje kapljice alkohola, ali je pritom pila i dovoljno vode i ujutru se budila svježa. Sara savjetuje da svaka žena učini isto – pije tri litre vode dnevno i vidi šta će se dogoditi! Naravno, prije toga posavetujte se s ljekarom. :ymapplause::ymapplause::ymapplause: MED I CIMET SKORO PA MAGIČAN LIJEK: Protiv prehlade, zubobolje, a vrlo korisna kombinacija i za imunološki sistem te liječenje stomačnih tegoba… (http://doznajemo.com/2013/10/24/med-i-cimet-skoro-pa-magican-lijek-protiv-prehlade-zubobolje-a-vrlo-korisna-kombinacija-i-za-imunoloski-sistem-te-lijecenje-stomacnih-tegoba/) http://doznajemo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/med-cimet.jpg (http://doznajemo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/med-cimet.jpg)Otkveno je da mješavina meda i cimeta liječi mnoge bolesti. Naravno, znanstvenici danas također prihvaćaju med kao vrlo efikasan lijek za mnoge bolesti. Med se može koristiti bez sporednih efekata za sve vrste bolesti. Današnja znanost kaže da med, iako je sladak, ako se uzme u pravoj dozi kao lijek ne šteti dijabetičarima. Oglasi: Weekly World News je svojedobno dao listu bolesti koje se mogu liječiti medom i cimetom u skladu sa istraživanjima zapadnih znanstvenika.Artritis (upala zglobova) Uzeti jedan dio meda na dva dijela mlake vode, te dodati malu čajnu žlicu cimetovog praha, napraviti masu i polako masirati na bolne dijelove tijela Primijećeno je da se bol smanjuje u roku od jedne do dvije minute Ili, osobe koje boluju od artiritisa mogu ujutro i navečer uzeti jednu šalicu vruće vode sa dvije žlice meda i jednom malom čajnom žlicom cimetovog praha. Ako se pije redovito, čak i kronični artritis može biti izliječen U nedavnom istraživanju Univerziteta u Kopenhagenu, otkriveno je da su doktori tretirali svoje pacijente sa mješavinom jedne žlice meda i pola čajne žlice cimetovog praha prije doručka. Rezultat je bio da je u roku od sedmice dana od 200 ljudi koji su tretirani, njih 73 bilo totalno oslobođeno bola, a u roku od jednog mjeseca skoro svi pacijenti koji nisu mogli hodati ili se kretati zbog artritisa su počeli da hodaju bez bolova. Gubitak kose Oni koji pate od gubitka kose ili ćelavosti mogu primijeniti masu od vrućeg maslinovog ulja, jedne žlice meda i jedne čajne žlice cimetovog praha prije kupanja i držati otprilike 15 minuta, a nakon toga oprati kosu Vrlo je učinkovito ako se drži čak i 5 minuta. Infekcije mokraćnog mjehura Popiti dvije žlice cimetovog praha i jednu čajnu žlicu meda u čaši mlake vode.To uništava klice u mokraćnom mjehuru. Zubobolja Napraviti masu od jedne čajne žlice cimetovog praha i pet čajnih žlica meda te staviti na bolni zub. Ovo možete ponavljati 3 puta dnevno dok vam traje zubobolja. Kolesterol Ako se pacijentu koji ima povišen kolesterol daju dvije žlice meda i tri čajne žlice cimetovog praha pomiješane sa 4,5 dcl čaja, to će smanjiti nivo kolesterola u krvi za 10% u roku 2 sata Kao što je navedeno za pacijente koji boluju od artritisa, ako se uzima 3 puta dnevno, liječi se bilo koje kronično povišenje kolesterola Što se tiče informacije iz spomenutog magazina, uzimanje čistog meda dnevno uz hranu smanjuje žalbe u vezi kolesterola. Prehlade Oni koji pate od uobičajenih ili ozbiljnih prehlada trebaju uzeti 3 dana po jednu žlicu mlakog meda sa čajne žlice cimetovog praha dnevno Ovaj proces će izliječiti većinu kroničnih kašljeva, prehlada te iščistiti sinuse. Nervoza i bolovi u trbuhu Med uzet sa cimetovim prahom liječi bolove u trbuhu te također otklanja čireve u korijenu Nadutost : u skladu sa studijama provedenim u Indiji i Japanu, otkriveno je da se, ukoliko se uzme med sa cimetovim prahom, smanjuje nadutost. Bolesti srca Napraviti masu od meda i cimetovog praha i mazati na kruh umjesto želea ili marmelade i jesti redovno za doručak To smanjuje kolesterol u arterijama i spašava pacijenta od srčanog udara.Također, oni koji su već preživjeli srčani udar miljama su daleko od slijedećeg udara, ako primijene ovaj proces dnevno Redovna upotreba navedenog smanjuje gubitak daha i jača otkucaje srca U Americi i Kanadi različiti domovi za brigu tretirali su svoje pacijente uspješno i našli da su arterije i vene koje gube svoju elastičnost i postanu začepljene starenjem bile revitalizirane. Imunološki sistem Dnevna upotreba meda i cimetovog praha jača imunološki sistem i štiti tijelo od bakterija i napada virusa.Znanstvenici su pronašli da med sadrži različite vitamine i željezo u velikim količinama. Konstantna upotreba meda jača bijela krvna zrnca u borbi sa bakterijama i virusnim bolestima. Probava Kada se cimetov prah posut u dvije žlice meda uzme prije jela, to smanjuje kiselinu i pomaže u probavi čak i “najtežih” jela. Gripa Znanstvenik iz Španjolske je dokazao da med sadrži prirodni sastojak koji ubija klice početka gripe i sprječava da pacijent dobije gripu. Dugovječnost Kada se redovito uzima čaj napravljen sa medom i cimetovim prahom to produžava dugovječnost. Uzeti 4 žlice meda, 1 žlicu cimetovog praha i 3 šalice vode te prokuhati i napraviti u obliku čaja Popiti 1 šalice, 3 do 4 puta dnevno. To održava kožu svježom i nježnom te sprječava starenje Životni vijek se također povećava tako da čak i osoba stara 100 godinu počne obavljati rutinske poslove nekoga mlađeg 20 godina. Prištevi Od tri žlice meda i jedne čajne žlice cimetovog praha napravi se masa Primijeniti ovu masu na prišteve prije spavanja i oprati ujutro toplom vodom.Ako se to radi svaki dan, u roku dva tjedna prištevi će nestati. Infekcije kože Ekcemi, lišajevi te sve vrste kožnih infekcija se liječe primjenom meda i cimetovog praha u jednakim dijelovima na oboljela mjesta. Mršavljenje Svako jutro, pola sata prije doručka, na prazan želudac i navečer prije spavanja popiti 2 žlice meda i 1 čajnu žlicu cimetovog praha prokuhano u jednoj šalici vode.Ako se uzima redovno, smanjuje težinu čak i najdeblje osobe.Također, uzimanje ove mješavine redovno ne dozvoljava masnoćama da se akumuliraju u tijelu čak i ako je osoba na visokokaloričnoj dijeti. Rak Nedavno istraživanje u Japanu i Australiji otkrilo je da se može poboljšati stanje kod uznapredovalog raka želuca i kostiju. Pacijenti koji boluju od ovih oblika raka trebaju dnevno uzimati jednu žlicu meda sa jednom čajnom žlicom cimetovog praha 3 puta dnevno u toku jednog mjeseca. Umor Nedavne studije su pokazale da je šećer sadržan u medu više koristan nego štetan za snagu tijela.Ljudi srednje dobi koji uzimaju med i cimetov prah u jednakim dijelovima su pokretljiviji i fleksibilniji Milton koji je radio istraživanje kaže da uzimanje pola žlice meda u jednoj čaši vode sa posutim cimetovim prahom, ujutro te nakon tri sata popodne kada vitalnost tijela počinje da opada, povećava vitalnost tijela u roku tjedan dana. Loš zadah Ljudi u Južnoj Americi, ujutro prije svega grgljaju (ispiraju grlo) jednu čajnu žlicu meda i cimetovog praha pomiješane u toploj vodi, tako njihov dah ostaje svjež tokom cijelog dana… Gubitak sluha Svakog jutra i večeri uzimanje jednakih dijelova meda i cimeta vraća sluh… MUŠKARCIMA JE OPET LAKŠE: Za žene je ovo smrtonosnije od raka dojke?! Loša prehrana i nedostatak fizičke aktivnosti opasni su faktori rizika čije će se negativno djelovanje na srce udvostručiti nakon 60. godine http://www.depo.ba/media/pictures/2010/02/20/ec17063aab1d7cb50aa0c75ddbbae615.jpg Srčani udar nije problem samo za sredovječne, prezaposlene muškarce. Srčane bolesti su zapravo najčešći uzročnik smrti i kod žena, triput češći od raka dojke. Pušenje Prestanu li pušiti, žene dramatično brzo smanjuju rizik od srčanog udara, a ubrzo im je rizik kao i kod onih koje nikad nisu pušile. Žene koje puše imaju 25 posto veći rizik od srčanog udara nego muškarci jer je žensko tijelo podložnije djelovanju toksina. Sjedilački način života Loša prehrana i nedostatak fizičke aktivnosti opasni su faktori rizika čije će se negativno djelovanje na srce udvostručiti nakon 60. godine. Nekvalitetna prerađena hrana koja uzrokuje upalne procese Rafinirani bijeli šećer i brašno, te loše masnoće uzrokuju upalna stanja u organizmu, uključujući i krvne žile, zbog čega dolazi do nakupljanja kolesterola i raznih krvožilnih bolesti. I dok su pušenje i hrana puna rafiniranog bijelog šećera i brašna, te loših masti (transmasti) poznati faktori rizika jer izazivaju upale koje oštećuju krvožilni sustav, žene bi trebale paziti na još neka stanja. Dodatni faktori rizika Indeks tjelesne mase iznad normale. Naslage sala na bokovima i trbuhu. Povišen šećer i dijabetes. Povišen tlak i kolesterol – trebate ih redovno kontrolirati. Često pijete alkohol (jedna do dvije čaše alkoholnog pića na dan može pomoći samo ženama nakon menopauze, mlađima se ne preporučuje jer može remetiti srčani ritam i oštetiti srčani mišić). Niste u braku/stabilnoj vezi. Žene koje žive same imaju između 60 i 65 posto veće šanse dobiti srčani udar nego udane žene (pretpostavlja se zbog nesigurnosti i stresa koji češće prati samaštvo). Usporen rad štitnjače – može povisiti krvni tlak. Postmenopauza je razdoblje kad žene imaju povećan rizik od srčanog udara jer im pada razina estrogena koji prirodno štiti srce jer onemogućuje zakrčenje krvnih žila. Jedete više od 20 g zasićenih masnoća na dan (ili često jedete transmasnoće, očvrsnutu biljnu mast i margarin). Policistički jajnici. Rizik od srčanog udara je četiri do sedam puta veći kod ovih žena, no znanstvenici još uvijek ne razumiju zašto je tako. Češće posjećujte ginekologa i sanirajte problem.b-)b-) :loler:Posto krompir koristimo skoro svakodnevno trebali bi da vise znamo o njemu Zbog neznanja krompir obično jedemo na najnezdraviji mogući način [Zdravlje]Krompir, najomiljenija gomoljasta biljka, sadrži ugljikohidrate koji organizam brzo opskrbljuju energijom. Krompir je postao temelj prehrane velikog broja ljudi, no problem je što ga prevelik broj ljudi priprema na najnezdraviji način. http://namirnice.ba/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Krompir-10-razloga-zasto-ga-volimo.jpg (http://namirnice.ba/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Krompir-10-razloga-zasto-ga-volimo.jpg) Oduzmete li masne i slane dodatke, krumpir je zapravo izuzetan izvor zdravih sastojaka. Ima malo kalorija, posebno je dobar izvor vitamina B6, vitamina C, bakra, kalija i mangana, te je pun vlakana. Dakle, namirnica koja pridonosi zaštiti krvnih žila i djeluje protiv raka. Idealno bi bilo kuhati ga te začiniti solju i maslinovim uljem ili maslacem. Nije nezdrav ni pečen u pećnici ako ga previše ne zamastite, piše Magazin.hr. (http://magazin.net.hr/zdravlje/nutricionizam/zbog-neznanja-krumpir-jedemo-na-najgori-moguci-nacin) Nepotrebno na lošem glasu zbog škrobaReputacija krompira kao zdrave namirnice ugrožena je zbog velikog udjela ugljikohidrata i bijelog škroba. No, nove analitičke metode pokazuju malo drugačiju sliku. Primjerice genetičar Roy Navarre je identificirao 60 različitih oblika fitohemikalija i vitamina u krompiru, stoji u studiji Phytochemical Profilers Investigate Potato Benefits iz 2007. Neki nutricionisti tvrde da su ovi sastojci jednako moćni kao i oni zbog kojih su slavu stekli brokula, špinat i prokulice, tj. da štite od kardiovaskularnih bolesti, respiratornih problema i nekih tumora. Snižava povišen pritisakTim prof. Navarre uočio je da krompir sadrži i visok nivo kukoamina. Ove molekule su posebno važne jer imaju potencijal za snižavanje krvnog pritiska. Isti sastojak je do sada pronađen u paradajzu te u biljci Lycium chinense, tj. goji bobicama. Koru ove biljke kineski travari koriste stoljećima za izradu posebne ljekovite infuzije. Nove metode analize modernoj znanosti omogućavaju otkrivanje stotina neočekivanih sastojaka koji se nalaze u nekoj biljci. Vitamin B6 – izgradnja ćelijaAko bismo gledali visoku koncentraciju vitamina B6 – šolja pečenog krumpira sadrži 21% dnevnih potreba – krompiri bi i samo zbog toga trebali biti uvršteni među za zdravlje vrijedne namirnice. Vitamin B6 je uključen u više od 100 enzimskih reakcija. Enzimi su proteini koji pomažu odvijanje hemijskih reakcija, pa je vitamin B6 potreban gotovo posvuda u tijelu. Mnogi građevni blokovi proteina, a to su aminokiseline, zahtijevaju B6 za sintezu. Zbog toga je vitamin B6 bitan za formiranje gotovo svih novih ćelija u tijelu. Stvaranje hema (protein naših crvenih krvnih stanica) i fosfolipida (komponente stanične membrane koje omogućuju razmjenu poruka između stanica) također ovise o vitaminu B6. Vitamin B6 – ćelije mozga i aktivnost živčanog sistemaVitamin B6 ima brojne uloge u našem živčanom sistemu, a mnoge uključuju neurološke aktivnosti moždanih ćelija. B6 je potreban za stvaranje amina, vrsta molekule ili neurotransmitera potrebnog za prijenos poruke iz jednog živca na sljedeći. Neki od neurotransmitera koji zahtijevaju vitamin B6 su serotonin, čiji je nedostatak povezan s depresijom, melatonin, hormon potreban za dobar noćni san, epinefrin i norepinefrin, hormoni koji nam pomažu nositi se sa stresom, te GABA, koji je potreban za normalno funkcioniranje mozga. Vitamin B6 – protiv raka i zaštitnik krvotokaVitamin B6 igra i važnu ulogu u metilaciji, hemijskom procesu u kojem se metilne skupine prenose iz jedne molekule na drugu. Mnogi bitni hemijski procesi u tijelu nisu mogući bez metilacije, naprimjer geni se mogu uključiti i isključiti na taj način. To je posebno važno u prevenciji raka. Drugi način na koji metilacija pomaže spriječiti rak je ‘lijepljenje’ metilnih skupina na otrovne tvari kako bi one bile manje toksične, čime se potiče njihovo izbacivanje iz tijela. Metilacija je važna i za zdravlje kardiovaskularnog sistema jer mijenja potencijalno opasne molekule pod nazivom homocisteine u benigne tvari. Budući da homocistein može direktno oštetiti stijenke krvnih žila, uvelike povećava progresiju ateroskleroze, a visok nivo homocisteina povezan je sa značajno povećanim rizikom za srčani i moždani udar. Namirnice bogate vitaminom B6, poput krompira, mogu pomoći zadržati nizak nivo homocisteina. Osim toga, prehrana bogata namirnicama koje obiluju vitaminom B6 povezana je s ukupno nižom stopom srčanih bolesti. Vlakna u koriJedan pečeni krumpir će vam pružiti 11,7% dnevne vrijednosti potrebnih vlakana, ali zapamtite, vlakna u krumpiru su uglavnom u kori. Ako želite sniziti holesterol i rizik od raka debelog crijeva, treba vam podrška vlakana. Vitamin B6 – bolja kondicijaVitamin B6 je potreban i za razgradnju glikogena, oblika šećera pospremljenog u ćelijama mišića i jetre. Zbog toga je ovaj vitamin ključan za izdržljivost tijekom vježbanja. Nekoliko savjeta za dobar sanDobar san ne zavisi samo od udobnog kreveta i vremena spavanja. Ljudi koji se bave fizičkom aktivnošću bolje spavaju od onih koji nisu aktivni. http://www.oslobodjenje.ba/portal/images/articles/nekoliko-savjeta-za-dobar-san.jpg Bilo kakva aktivnost je dobra, bitno je samo da ne presjedite cijeli dan i da se uposlite. Ne morate trčati maraton da biste lijepo spavali. Savjetovano je da se vježbanje kasno u noć izbjegava, ali jedno novije istraživanje otkrilo je da nema potrebe za tim. Nije važno kada ste aktivni, važno je samo da ste aktivni i lijepo ćete se naspavati. Kao što se pred vježbe istežete, tako i pred spavanje treba da mislite na spavanje. Sat vremena pred spavanje pripremite svoje tijelo za san gaseći sve električne uređaje i sjedite ili lezite da pročitate nekoliko stranica knjige. Vremenom će vam ovo preći u naviku. Svi znamo da treba da izbjegavamo piti kafu kasno popodne kako uvečer ne bismo imali problema da zaspimo. Ali znate li i da vas čokolada, šnicla i začinjena hrana mogu održavati budnim ako ih pojedete kasno uvečer? Savjeti: Tri namirnice koje najefikasnije ubijaju zadah bijelog lukaOsim što je veliki broj mediteranskih i jela iz ostalih kuhinja teško zamisliti bez nezamjenjivog okusa bijelog luka, jedna je od najzdravijih namirnica koju odlikuju antibakterijska, antivirusna i antioksidativna svojstva. Ali kako zbog njegovog specifičnog mirisa koji dolazi iz usta ne biste bili i 'anti' poželjni u društvu, isprobajte ove korisne savjete. http://namirnice.ba/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Cesnjak.jpg (http://namirnice.ba/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Cesnjak.jpg) PeršunOvaj će vam zeleni začin biti dostupan ne samo u vlastitoj kuhinji već i u restoranu jer se često koristi i za ukrašavanje jela. Žvačite ga odmah kako biste ga zahvaljujući moćnom osvježivaču hlorofilu kojim obiluje neutralizirali nepoželjan dah. Ako ste kod kuće slobodno stavite listiće s desetak petiljki u usta, a ako ga kojim slučajem nemate u svom hladnjaku posegnite za začinima poput anisa, metvice, klinčića ili kardamoma. Limunada ili kriška limunaLimunada će vam pomoći da neutralizirate dah češnjaka, ali samo ako u sebi sadrži pravi sok limuna. Gazirani sokovi ili radleri u tome vam neće pomoći, tako da se u restoranu radije odlučite za mineralnu vodu s kriškom limuna kako biste mogli isisati njegov sok. Topli čajPrilikom uklanjanja jakog daha iz usta najviše pomaže zeleni čaj. Njime ćete isprati ulje iz češnjaka koje se zadržalo na jeziku ili zubima. Ukoliko niste ljubitelj zelenog čaja gotovo jednako djelotvoran je i onaj od metvice, a ako niti on nije po vašem ukusu odlučite se za bilo koju drugu vrstu čajnog napitka koji neće biti toliko učinkoviti kao navedeni, ali će vam barem malo pomoći u osvježavanju usne šupljine. Osim ovih pomagača nakon jela, svakako operite zube, očistite ih zubnim koncem te usnu šupljinu isperite vodicom za usta. Tek tada možete biti sigurni da je od češnjaka ostalo samo ono pozitivno koje već opskrbljuje vaše tijelo, dok je jedina negativna nuspojava sigurno isprana i uništena. Znajte da bacate lijek ako bacate koru od narandže, limuna, mandarina, grejpfruta Iako je poznato da agrumi imaju dobre učinke na naše zdravlje zbog visokih koncentracija ljekovitih nutrijenata, poput vitamina C, nedavna istraživanja otkrivaju nove zdravstvene koristi mnogih citrusnih flavonoida. http://namirnice.ba/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Kora-naradze.jpg (http://namirnice.ba/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Kora-naradze.jpg) Naime, u samim agrumima (narančama, limunima, grejpu…) postoji obilje flavonoida, ali najviše ih ima u kori. To znači da je najbolji način da u organizam unesete najveću dozu antioksidansa da pojedete bijelu ‘kožicu’ koja se nalazi u unutrašnjosti ploda uz koru, tvrdi se u knjizi 25 fantastičnih činjenica o hrani autora Mikea Adamsa i Davida Guiterreza. Najbolji od flavonoida u tom bijelom ‘mesu’ je naringenin, koji se može naći u svim agrumima i u kori paradajza. Istraživanja su pokazala, da naringenin i srodni citrusni flavonoidi mogu popraviti oštećenja DNK koja vode do nastanka raka, a druga istraživanja su pokazala da naringerin može stimulirati jetru da spali višak masnoće i vrati pretile miševe na normalnu težinu, prenosi portal Natural News. Pročitajte još: Limeta: Citrusna voćka koja liči na limun puna je vitamina C i ima niz zdravstvenih prednosti (http://namirnice.ba/namirnice/limeta-citrusna-vocka-koja-lici-na-limun-puna-je-vitamina-c-ima-niz-zdravstvenih-prednosti/) Naime, naučnici su u laboratorijskim uvjetima hranili miševe hranom bogatom mastima i izazvali im simptome metaboličkog sindroma. Zatim su im davali naringerin, a nakon analiza se pokazalo da je on normalizirao nivo holesterola i triglicerida, spriječio inzulinsku rezistenciju i normalizirao metabolizam glukoze (šećer u krvi). Dakle, u hrani ima lijekova, stoga nemojte te lijekove bacati! POMAŽE U MRŠAVLJENJU, BOLOVIM U ZGLOBOVIMA...: Nevjerovatna ljekovita svojstva iz stabljike celeraUtorak | 19.11.2013. Kod nas se celer koristi kao začin ili se njegov korijen renda za razne salate, a ona kombinacija sa jabukama je apsolutno najpopularnija. Međutim, mnogo ljekovitih sastojaka krije se u stabljikama celera i zato potražite onaj sa dugom stabljikom, a mi ćemo vam reći zašto bi to trebalo da uradite Iako je zbog ostalih veoma zdravih namirnica poprilično zapostavljen, kad pročitate ovaj članak koliko je zdrav odmah ćete otrčati do prve prodavnice da ga kupite. Riječ je o celeru – stabljikama celera. Kod nas se celer koristi kao začin ili se njegov korijen renda za razne salate, a ona kombinacija sa jabukama je apsolutno najpopularnija. Međutim, mnogo ljekovitih sastojaka krije se u stabljikama celera i zato potražite onaj sa dugom stabljikom, a mi ćemo vam reći zašto bi to trebalo da uradite. Celer je odličan izbor ako želite smršati i pazite na kalorije jer jedna velika stabljika sadrži svega 10 kalorija i zato je grickajte za užinu dodavajte u supe, salate i gulaše. Ako patite od bolova u zglobovima, infekcije pluća, astme ili imate aktne trebalo bi čim više celera da koristite u svojoj ishrani zbog njegovih antiupalnih svojstava. Kada osjećate nervozu i da vas stres polako uzima pod svoje grickajte stabljiku celera. Minerali kojima je celer veoma bogat, posebno magnezijum i eterična ulja umiruju nervni sistem. Ako pre spavanje za užinu pojedete nekoliko stabljika celera, garantovano ćete bolje spavati. Sigurno ste primijetili da stabljika celera kad je zagrizete ima ukus kao hrskava voda i upravo zbog velike količine vode od koje je sačinjena veoma dobro utiče na probavni sistem. A kad tu vodu spojimo sa vlaknima koja takođe sadrži, to je dobitna kombinacija za dobru i urednu probavu pa čak i probleme sa zatvorom. Izbjegavajte je za vreme stomačnih virusa propraćenih prolivom. Celer sadrži natrijum, ali ne isti koji sadrži so. So iz celera je organskog porekla, veoma važna za vaše zdravlje. Istraživanja su pokazala da samo jedna stabljika celera dnevno povećava preporučenu dnevnu dozu vitamin A za 10 odsto, nutrijente od velike važnosti za zdravlje očiju i dobar vid. Celer sadrži komponente koje smanjuju loš holesterol, a samim tim utiču i na sniženje povišenog krvnog pritiska. Ako imate probleme sa pritiskom celer konzumirajte najbolje u sirovom obliku. Pored svega navedenog istraživanja su pokazala da moćni flavonoidi u celeru koji se zovu luteolini sprečavaju rast ćelija zahvaćenih rakom posebno u pankreasu, takođe redovno konzumiranje celera smanjuje rizik od nastanka raka dojke. Korisni savjeti: kada kupujete celer birajte onaj čija stabljika pukne čim je savijete to znači da je sveža i hrskava, a što se tiče boje zapamtite pravilo “što tamnija stabljika-to više ukusa”. Celer jedite odmah čim ga nasječete, jer ako ga iseckate i ostavite da stoji u frižederu gubi svoje hranjive materije, dok celer koji se kuva na pari zadržava 99 odsto svih nutrijenata. ŠTA URADITI POSLIJE JELA: Kako djeluje čaša hladne vode nakon masnog obroka ?!Srijeda | 20.11.2013. Hladna voda će stvrdnuti masnije dijelove hrane u stomaku koje su konzumirane u toku obroka i stvoriti čvrstu masu od toga Volite li vi popiti čašu hladne vode nakon jela? Sjetite se šta se desi kada hladnom vodom zalijete masnoću u tavi nakon prženja. To isto dešava se i u vašoj probavi. Hladna voda će stvrdnuti masnije dijelove hrane u stomaku koje su konzumirane u toku obroka i stvoriti čvrstu masu od toga. Ova masa se teško vari. Kada se sudari sa kiselinom u probavi, ona je razbija i takva mješavina se apsorbuje u crijevima prije nego čvrsta hrana. Tu se taloži i blokira crijeva, te ostale organe i vodi do stvaranja raka, piše portal Zdravljebezdoktora.com. (http://www.zdravljebezdoktora.com/index.php/zdravlje-bez-doktora-clanci/108-kako-djeluje-casa-hladne-vode-nakon-jela) Stoga je nakon obroka najbolje pojesti toplu supu ili čašu mlake vode, odnosno čaja. mermaid Dobro je! Ali nije dobro pretjerivati... :-J http://www.feinkost-pum.de/artikelbilder/Suho_meso_1287_1G_1_xl.jpg Riba pečena u foliji Jedan od odličnih načina da riba poprimi arome i bude vrlo ukusna. Osim toga puno suđa ostane čisto . http://www.recepti.hr/upload/imagecache/clanak/pb010196.jpg Sastojci: riba sol limun češnjak maslinovo ulje grančice ružmarina krumpir Priprema:Ribu očistiti, nasoliti, premazati maslinovim uljem, češnjak izrezati na kolutove,limun također na tanke kolutove, pa svaki kolut još prepoloviti.Krumpir oguliti i izrezati na kolutove,posoliti i politi maslinovim uljem,dobro izmiješati. Na komad folije (duži od ribe na oba kraja) staviti krumpira,na krumpir staviti ribu.U otvor ribe staviti malo češnjaka 1 komad limuna i malo ružmarina,po ribitakođer staviti iste sastojke i preko svega još nakapati maslinovog ulja.Zatvoriti foliju dobro sa svih strana da pare ne izlaze i prći 30 minuta na 220° C.Poslužiti na foliji.:ymapplause::ymapplause:;;);;) 9 SUPER TRIKOVA: Ovako možete namirnice održati duže svježima i uštedjeti (http://doznajemo.com/kuhinja/9-super-trikova-ovako-mozete-namirnice-odrzati-duze-svjezima-i-ustedjeti/) http://doznajemo.com/kuhinja/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/namirnice.jpgPostoji još jedan način uštede pored povoljnih cijena koje ste otkrili obilazeći supemarkete ili pijace. Ovaj način je još jednostavniji, a jedino što treba da uradite je da naučite nekoliko caka. Ako se budete pridržavali sljedećih savjeta, hrana će vam duže trajati i na taj način ćete duplo uštedjeti. Umotajte peteljke banana folijom kako bi trajale 3 do 5 dana duže. Držite luk u hulahopkama i trajaće i do 8 mjeseci. Držite jabuke blizu krompira kako biste ih spriječili da proklijaju. Pečurke čuvajte u papirnoj kesi, a ne u plastičnoj. Držite mlijeko u sredini frižidera, a ne u vratima gdje je temperatura niža. Držite jaja na srednjoj polici frižidera kako bi trajala 3 do 4 nedjelje duže nego što im je rok trajanja. Zamrznite hljeb. Zamrzavanje hrane produžiće trajanje mnogih proizvoda, uključujući i hljeb (samo ga obavezno stavite u kesu.. Držite stariju hranu ispred svježije hrane u frižideru kako biste znali šta treba da bude pojedeno ranije. Čuvajte paradajz na sobnoj temperaturi, a ne u frižideru. NJEMAČKO ISTRAŽIVANJE POKAZALO: Ovo je superlijek protiv stresaNedjelja | 24.11.2013. Njemačko istraživanje pokazalo je da su fosfolipidi u mlijeku pravi blagoslov za ljude pod stresom. Iako mnogi smatraju da je mlijeko zbog masnoća i izazivanja alergija potrebno izbjegavati te ga mnogi ne podnose, znanstvenici ga preporučuju Čaša mlijeka odličan je lijek protiv stresa, zaključili su njemački naučnici proučavajući utjecaj namirnica na stres. Tragajući za idealnim preparatom koji bi umanjio stres i njegov poguban utjecaj na organizam možda nismo ni slutili da nam je nadohvat ruke namirnica koja pomaže u borbi protiv tjeskobe, razdražljivosti, napetosti i drugih problema koje izaziva svakodnevan stres. Mlijeko, često zanemareno kao namirnica, umiruje i blagotvorno djeluje na mozak. Njemačko istraživanje pokazalo je da su fosfolipidi u mlijeku pravi blagoslov za ljude pod stresom. Iako mnogi smatraju da je mlijeko zbog masnoća i izazivanja alergija potrebno izbjegavati te ga mnogi ne podnose, znanstvenici ga preporučuju. Istraživači sa Sveučilišta u Trieru dokazali su da pijenje mlijeka donosi ravnotežu i vraća kognitivne sposobnosti koje su ugrožene stresom. Zato čaša mlakog mlijeka prije spavanja briše težak dan i olakšava san. :loler::loler: Ulje koje liječi sve bolesti osim smrti: Upoznajte još jedan nevjerovatan izum prirode!Nigella sativa (poznata kao kim, crni kumin, čurokot ili kalinji) je jednogodišnja biljka iz porodice Ranunculaceae. Poznata po svom plodu – crnom sjemenu koje se zove crni kumin (nemojte ga zamijeniti sa kuminom, Cumunum cyminum, koji možete pronaći skoro u svakoj trgovini). http://namirnice.ba/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/crni-kumin-curokot-ulje.jpg (http://namirnice.ba/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/crni-kumin-curokot-ulje.jpg) Crni kim… je jedna od najpoznatijih biljaka u historiji medicine. U drevnom Egiptu su ga koristili za poboljšanje probave, kod prehlada, glavobolja, infekcija i zubobolja. Sjeme crnog kumina bilo je pronađeno u grobnici faraona Tutankamona. Kalinji se spominje u Bibliji i Haditha. Islamski poslanik Muhamed o njemu govori slijedeće: “Crni kumin liječi sve bolesti osim smrti”. Univerzalni lijekCrni kumin, kim ili Nigella sativa, korišten je još u starom Egiptu, a danas je poznat kao jedna od najučinkovitijih ljekovitih biljaka u prevenciji i liječenju niza zdravstvenih tegoba. Mnogi ga nazivaju i univerzalnim lijekom, onim koji liječi gotovo sve bolesti. Provedeno je više od 200 istraživanja na različitim univerzitetuma i u njima je dokazano da kim povoljno utječe na veliki broj bolesti, posebno autoimune – poput multiple skleroze, reumatoidnog artritisa, psorijaze, astme, alergija, alergijskog rinitisa, kao i da umanjuje holesterol i trigliceride, ublažava šećernu bolest, visoki krvni pritisak, ekcem, akne, bronhitis, upalu pluća i sinusa, gastritis, čir, infekciju helikobaterom, bolesti jetre, kronični umor, slabu cirkulaciju, karcinom, a od izuzetne je pomoći i kod hemoterapije i terapije zračenjem. Klinički je dokazano da crni kumin ublažava simptome alergije, alergijskog rinitisa i alergijske astme, a njegovo ulje širi dišne puteve i olakšava disanje, a svojim antibiotskim djelovanjem sprečava razvoj sekundarnih bakterijskih infekcija, koje se često javljaju uz sezonske alergije. Na prirodan i siguran način priprema organizam da blaže reagira na alergene i postupno povećava toleranciju organizma na njih. Odličan za srceKim djeluje povoljno i na kardiovaskularni sustav. Jačanjem zida krvnih sudova i povećavanjem njihove elastičnosti dovodi do regulacije arterijskog pritiska. Istraživanja su pokazal da primjena ulja crnog kumina dovodi do snižavanja ukupnog holesterola, triglicerida i vrijednosti takozvanog lošeg ( LDL ) holesterola. Može se koristiti za snižavanje vrijednosti šećera u krvi tako što stimuliše gušteraču da luči inzulin i povećava osjetljivost ćelija na njega. Poseban učinak pokazuje kod dijabetesa tipa 2. Posljednjih godina istraživanjima je dokazano i antitumorsko djelovanje crnog kumina, te se on može koristiti i kao pomoć u liječenju karcinoma jer djeluje direktno na maligne ćelije i jača obrambenu moć organizma.:loler::loler: josip_mo Prošlo je vrijeme šipka ali zato sada ima soka od šipka. Daleko najukusniji, pitkiji sok za mene. A šipak ima 9 puta više vitamina C od limuna na primjer. lavanda Prošlo je vrijeme šipka ali zato sada ima soka od šipka. Daleko najukusniji, pitkiji sok za mene. A šipak ima 9 puta više vitamina C od limuna na primjer. jope u nas bude šipaka tamo sve do kasno proljeća, dida ih spremi za zimu na starinski način :) josip_mo jope u nas bude šipaka tamo sve do kasno proljeća, dida ih spremi za zimu na starinski način :) Mi ih ne spremimo nego ih držimo po balkonu i podrumu. Pa što se ne pojede za 15 dana propadne. lavanda Mi ih ne spremimo nego ih držimo po balkonu i podrumu. Pa što se ne pojede za 15 dana propadne. :) kod nas ih ima puno, stari su to nasadi, znaš kako se sprema šipak za zimu? triba ga ubrat zajedno s drškom što duljom i onda im te drške povežeš i ostaviš negdi di mogu slobodno visiti :) tako se mogu ostaviti i jabuke i dunje i kruške, onaj sok iz drške drži plod još dugo svjež :)i onda se u porljeće počastiš domaćim šipkom, lipota :) poz mom mostarcu , valjalo bi do Rujišta ima lipo sniga kažu ili do Blidinja ;) josip_mo :) kod nas ih ima puno, stari su to nasadi, znaš kako se sprema šipak za zimu? triba ga ubrat zajedno s drškom što duljom i onda im te drške povežeš i ostaviš negdi di mogu slobodno visiti :) tako se mogu ostaviti i jabuke i dunje i kruške, onaj sok iz drške drži plod još dugo svjež :)i onda se u porljeće počastiš domaćim šipkom, lipota :) poz mom mostarcu , valjalo bi do Rujišta ima lipo sniga kažu ili do Blidinja ;) Imamo 4-5 stabala šipka. Onaj koji prvi prispije je najslađi ali brzo, već na stablu počme trunuti. Njega ne možemo nikako ostaviti za kasnije. Ovih ostalih nešto i ostane. Vjerujem da su posebno ukusni kada se sačuvaju za kasnije, kada ih nema nigdje. A na planine ne idem od trenutka kada zahladi do na proljeće. Dva puta na Gorancima zaglavio, zapravo zamalo zaglavio zbog leda. Molili Anđelu čuvaru zadnji put kada smo se vraćali :biggrin:. Hodaš li ti po planinama, skijaš li? lavanda Imamo 4-5 stabala šipka. Onaj koji prvi prispije je najslađi ali brzo, već na stablu počme trunuti. Njega ne možemo nikako ostaviti za kasnije. Ovih ostalih nešto i ostane. Vjerujem da su posebno ukusni kada se sačuvaju za kasnije, kada ih nema nigdje. A na planine ne idem od trenutka kada zahladi do na proljeće. Dva puta na Gorancima zaglavio, zapravo zamalo zaglavio zbog leda. Molili Anđelu čuvaru zadnji put kada smo se vraćali :biggrin:. Hodaš li ti po planinama, skijaš li? jesan Josipe to je gušt i po ;) ne znam što si zaglavio obično se put prema Gorancima prilično probije za proć :) josip_mo jesan Josipe to je gušt i po ;) ne znam što si zaglavio obično se put prema Gorancima prilično probije za proć :) Led, doslovno led. Pošao predvečer. Nove gume, auto nešlajdra, sve bez problema. Mi kontali da je mokra cesta. Teko kada smo stali u strani pomoći drugom autu shvatili da smo na 2 cm leda. Okrenuli auto rukama na mjestu kao da je u njemu 1,5 kg a ne 1,5 tona. lavanda Led, doslovno led. Pošao predvečer. Nove gume, auto nešlajdra, sve bez problema. Mi kontali da je mokra cesta. Teko kada smo stali u strani pomoći drugom autu shvatili da smo na 2 cm leda. Okrenuli auto rukama na mjestu kao da je u njemu 1,5 kg a ne 1,5 tona. :) a je to nezgodno, al šta fali malo se i proklizat :) mene jednom tako priko Vranića uffff bilo umalo, al većinom nema problema ;) Najbolja hrana za kosu zimi su masline, jaja, blitva, kelj i kupusi Crveni kupus štiti od oštećenja prouzročenih agresivnim preparatima za kosu, jaja i grejp (http://www.znamo.ba/tag/grejp/) kosi vraćaju elastičnost, a masline stimuliraju rast vlasi i sprječavaju isušivanje. Smeđa riža (http://www.znamo.ba/tag/riza/) Zimi je kosi potrebna posebna njega (http://www.znamo.ba/tag/njega/) zato što je nepovoljni vremenski uvjeti isušuju i čine lomljivom. U njezi kose, ali i noktiju pomažu namirnice iz kuhinje kao što je smeđa riža. Ona je bogata vitaminom B koji poboljšava elastičnost vlasi i smanjuje pucanje, a uključivanje ove namirnice u prehranu stimulira obnovu folikula i jača korijen kose. Jaja Jaja blagotvorno djeluju na kosu, a za to su zaslužni cink, sumpor i vitamin B kojima obiluje. Cink regulira proizvodnju ulja u folikulima, sumpor učvršćuje vlasi, a vitamin B povećava fleksibilnost kose čime se smanjuje rizik od pucanja. Kuhana ili pečena, jaja su odlična za početak dana, a njihova prednost jest u tome što ih se može puniti povrćem i gljivama. Grejp Grejp je bogat vitaminom C nužnim za sintetiziranje kolagena koji kosi daje elastičnost i čvrstoću. On također pojačava cirkulaciju i prokrvavljenost vlasišta što stimulira rast kose. Odličan je dodatak doručku, a može se jesti svjež ili u kombinaciji sa žitaricama. Kelj Kelj je odličan izvor magnezija i karotenoida, fitokemikalija koje pomažu u izgradnji vlasi. One stimuliraju proizvodnju elastina i keratina koji kosi daju elastičnost i sjaj. Blitva Blitva sadrži magnezij, beta-karoten, vitamin C i sumpor koji stimuliraju proizvodnju keratina, elastina i kolagena nužnih za čvrste i elastične vlasi. Jedenjem blitve kosa postaje otpornija i sjajnija, a smanjuje se i mogućnost od zapetljanja. Smokve Zbog obilja željeza koje posjeduju poboljšavaju cirkulaciju i stimuliraju rast kose. Upravo je nedostatak željeza jedan od glavnih razloga za ispadanje vlasi, a istraživanja su potvrdila da se jedenje hrane bogate ovim metalom kosi vraća volumen i jača korijen. Masline Masline sadrže vitamin E koji povećava dotok krvi u vlasište i stimulira rast kose. Ulje iz ploda čuva fleksibilnost vlasi, daje im mekoću te sprječava isušivanje i pucanje. Chia sjemenke Bogate su omega-3 masnim kiselinama koje kosi daju elastičnost i jačaju vlasi. Masne kiseline također hrane vlasište i kosi vraćaju sjaj. Chia sjemenke mogu se kombinirati sa žitaricama i jogurtom, a dodaju se i pudinzima i shakeovima. Dostupne su u trgovinama zdrave prehrane. Crveni kupus Crveni kupus baš kao i borovnice sadrži antocijan, pigment koji čuva zdravlje kose. On smanjuje oštećenja nastala od sunca i agresivnih preparata za njegu. Kupus se najčešće priprema kao salata, a preporučuje ga se jesti što češće naročito u zimi zato što osim kose jača i imunitet. Sirup za bolju krvnu sliku http://www.kuhinjica.rs/showpic.aspx?w=637&h=300&img=/images/article_pic/sirup.jpgDa bi vam krvna slika bila bolja, ovaj sirup je dovoljno da konzumirate dve puta godišnje Ako ste malaksali, osećate umor, a proleće baš i ne utiče na vas, vreme je da proverite krvnu sliku. No pre nego odete lekaru pokušajte na prirodan način i prirodnim sastojcima da sami poboljšate svoje kako opšte stanje tako i krvnu sliku. Sastojci: • 1 kg cvekle • 1/2 kg šargarepe • sok od jednog limuna • 2-3 pomorandže • 2 kisele jabuke • 1 tegla meda Priprema: Cveklu, šargarepu i jabuke oljuštiti, iseći na manje komade, ubaciti u sokovnik i iscediti sok. Od limuna i pomorandži ručno iscediti sok i pomešati sa prethodnim. Na kraju dodati teglu meda, najbolje livadskog, jer je najlekovitiji zbog raznolikosti biljaka. Sve dobro izmešati da se med otopi i sjedini sa sokom. Količina pomorandži može biti i veća, jer se one dodaju uglavnom zbog ukusa i mirisa. Gotov sirup sipati u staklene flaše. Dobije se oko litar i po do 2 l sirupa, što je dovoljna količina za 15-20 dana. Sirup piti svako jutro na prazan stomak, dok se ne popije cela količina. ZDRAVLJE (http://www.vijesti.ba/tag/Zdravlje) Sedam supernamirnica za decembarL. http://www.vijesti.ba/thumbnail.php?file=news/2013/Novembar/brusnica_v_280214517.jpg&size=article_mediumIlustracija Ovaj mjesec uz francuske salate i sarme probajte naći mjesta na svom jelovniku za namirnice koje preporučuju nutricionisti. Gljive Osim što imaju sjajan ukus imaju i malo kalorija, a uz to bogate su fitokemikalijama i kalijem. Brusnice Osim što su prepune antioksidanata korisne su i u borbi protiv određenih zdravstvenih problema, poput urinarnih infekcija. Avokado Odličan su izvor vitamina i vlakana, luteina za zdravlje očiju i zdravih masnoća koji pomažu da se osjećamo siti. Idealno za one koji žele uživati, ali ne prejedati se ovih praznika. Kumkvat Ako već niste vrijeme je da probate kumkvat koji je sjajan izvor dijetalnih vlakana, vitamina C i A. Divlja riža Divlja riža je odličan izvor vlakana te vitamina B i E. Crveni grah Dovoljno je reći da je crveni grah broj jedan što se tiče bogatstva antioksidantima. Celer To je dobar izvor dijetalnih vlakana, vitamina B6, kalija i mangana, piše mermaid Najbolja hrana za mozak Najbolja hrana za snagu mozga - AFA alga i još 20 namirnica koje će brzo i učinkovito nahraniti vaš mozakJednostavno rečeno, mozak se mora hraniti, voli da bude dobro i kvalitetno nahranjen, voli snažna goriva: kvalitetne masti, kvalitetne antioksidante i najbolje ugljikohidrate. AFA alge Najveća vrijednost AFA-e je u njenoj visokoj koncentraciji neuropeptidnih prekusora, u njenom zapanjujuće pozitivnom učinku na živčani sustav općenito. AFA je eliksir za duh i mozak. Specifično poboljšava funkcije hipotalamusa, hipofize i epifize. Ove glavne žlijezde povezane su s višim suptilnim spiritualnim centrima u mozgu. AFA algu, je potrebno uključiti u prehranu na dnevnoj razini i rezultati će biti vrlo vidljivi. Avokado Avokado se od ostalog voća i povrća izdvaja izuzetno velikim sadržajem minerala i oligo elemenata: 1400 mg na 100 g, što je triput više od drugog svježeg voća. Vrlo veliki sadržaj kalija pomaže eliminaciju toksina iz organizma, a zahvaljujući vlaknima koja sadrži avokado olakšava probavu. Bogat je magnezijem, fosforom, željezom, cinkom, bakrom i manganom. Smanjuje umor, smiruje nervozu i potiče obrambene mehanizme organizma. Pripaziti na kvalitetu: ne morate kupiti organski avokado - konvencionalni je u redu. Borovnice Ove ukusne bobice su jedna od najboljih namirnica za vas, za vaš mozak, ali samo u ono vrijeme godine kada dozrijevaju. Budući da su oni visoko energetske i nisko glikemične, sigurne su za dijabetičare i one sa poremećajem šećera u krvi. Borovnice su vjerojatno, poslije AFA alge, najbolja hrana za mozak na zemlji. Pokazalo se da smanjuju rizik od Alzheimera. Poboljšava sposobnost učenja i motoričkih sposobnosti. Jedna su od najjačih anti stresnih namirnica. Izbjegavajte suhe i slatko od borovnica. Pripaziti na kvalitetu: kupiti lokalne i organske i to kad im je sezona. Kada nije sezona borovnica, odlučite se za brusnice, grožđe, kupine ili višnje kako bi dobili poticaj za svoj mozak. Divlji losos Omega-3 masne kiseline su bitne za vaš mozak. Ove masti su posebno korisne za jačanje spoznaje i budnosti, kao i za smanjenje rizika od degenerativnih duševnih bolesti (poput demencije), poboljšanje memorije, poboljšanje raspoloženja, smanjenje depresije, anksioznosti i hiperaktivnosti. Divlji losos je odličan izvor omega3, ali izbjegavajte losos iz uzgoja (obično je zaražen morskim ušima). Izaberite divlji Aljaški losos, jedite male porcije i ne više od dva puta tjedno. Orašasto voće Orašasti plodovi sadrže bjelančevine, velike količine vlakana, i bogati su korisnim mastima. Također, sadrže puno vitamina E, što je neophodno za kognitivne funkcije. Jedite obične orahe, ne one zaslađene. Također su odlični bademi. Kikiriki nije idealan. Osim činjenice da su mnogi ljudi alergični, kikiriki ima manje zdravih masnoća od mnogih drugih vrsta orašastih plodova. Pokušati odabrati organske, sirove orahe i bademe, a ako ih ne možete dobiti, barem izbjeći konzervirane na bilo koji način Sjemenke Probajte sjemenke suncokreta, sezama i laneno sjeme. Sjemenke sadrže puno proteina, korisnih masti, vitamin E antioksidant u borbi protiv stresa i važne minerale, kao što je magnezij, koji stimuliranju mozak. Potražite organske i izbjegavajte visoko prerađene. Kava Kava je dobra za mozak jer zapravo sadrži vlakna. To će pomoći vašem kardiovaskularnom sustavu. Važno je da se zadržite na par šalica dnevno. Samo nemojte uništiti ovu dobru osobinu kave dodajući šećer. Kuhajte organsku kavu. Zobena kaša Ova prirodna četka za ribanje je jedna od najboljih namirnica za kardiovaskularno zdravlje, što se prenosi na zdravlje mozga. Osim toga, zobena kaša je s vlaknima, ima razumnu količinu proteina, pa čak i malu količinu Omega-3. To su dobra zrna koja će vas održati tijekom jutra, tako da niste skloni razdražljivosti. Najzdravije zobene pahuljice su one najmanje obrađene. Kloniti se bilo kojih pripremljenih sa šećerom i slično. Grah Mozak koristi oko 20% od unosa ugljikohidrata i to jako voli i treba. Grah je uistinu nevjerojatno dobra hrana koja je nažalost rijetko uključujemo u prehranu. Grah je skromna namirnica, ali vrlo pametna. Ne samo da je bogat vlaknima, vitaminima, mineralima i proteinima, on je smiješno jeftin. Zamislite koliko košta cijela vreća graha, a koliko se ljudi može kvalitetno nahraniti. Grah je stabilan, sporo otpušta glukozu u mozak - što znači da imate energije za cijeli dan. Pokušajte pronaći dragocjen, organski uzgojen grah. Šipak – Nar - Mogranj Šipak sadrži antioksidante kao i borovnica, koji su neophodni za zdrav mozak. Mozak prvi osjeti učinak stresa, tako da ćete puno učiniti hraneći se snažnim antioksidantima. Šipak je sezonski i jedite ga samo kad mu je sezona i to jedite onaj lokalni. Sok od šipka koji se konzervira sa mnogo šećera, nema nikakve vrijednosti. Smeđa riža Smeđa riža je nisko glikemična i sa ugljikohidratima koji su odlični za osobe osjetljive na gluten, a koji žele održati zdrav kardiovaskularni sustav, bolju cirkulaciju i oštriji mozak. Ne kupujte već "kuhanu u vreći". Samo čistu smeđu rižu koju doduše trebate dugo kuhati, pa zato skuhajte u nedjelju da imate za cijeli tjedan. Čaj Kuhati uvijek svježi čaj jer inače nećete imati koristi od svih antioksidanata koji potiču mozak. Budući da je čaj kao kofein, zadržati se na 2-3 šalice dnevno. Kupiti organski! Čokolada Kupite uvijek najbolju čokoladu. Čokolada šalje serotonin kroz krv pa ćete osjetiti zadovoljstvo u vrlo kratkom vremenu. Tamna čokolada je bogata vlaknima, a to znači vlakna = zdrav kardiovaskularni sustav = zdrav mozak. Kupovati super tamnu, čistu organsku čokoladu, a ne slatku, obrađenu mliječnu, niti čokoladne bombone i slično. Kamenice Kamenice su bogate selenom, magnezijem, proteinima i nekim drugim hranjivim tvarima od vitalnog značaja za zdravlje mozga. U jednoj studiji istraživači su otkrili da muškarci koji su jeli kamenice, imaju značajno poboljšana saznanja i raspoloženje! Kamenice iz eko proizvodnje, su zapravo jedna od najvažnijih opcija plodova mora. Maslinovo ulje Prehrana bogata zdravim masnoćama je bitna za jasno razmišljanje, dobro pamćenje i uravnoteženo raspoloženje. Istraživanja su pokazala da prehrana sa niskim udjelom masnoća nije dobra za zdravlje. U stvari, izbjegavanje masnoće mogu povećati maglovita razmišljanja, promjene raspoloženja i nesanice. Jedna studija je otkrila da ljudi koji su se u prehrani oslanjali na obrađene biljne masti koje nalazimo u gotovim salatama, grickalicama i gotovoj hrani, imali 75% veću stopu mentalnih degradacija (demencije, gubitka pamćenja) od onih koji su jeli zdrave masti. Većina procesirane hrane kao i zalogajnice za brzu pripremu hrane, koristite kukuruzno ulje, palmino ulje, sojino ulje i ostale masti bogate omega-6, a te masnoće nisu dobre. Čak i zasićene masnoće su bolje od Omega 6. Odaberite zdrave masti kao što su one prisutne u maslinovom ulju, orahu i drugim orašastim plodovima i sjemenkama, lanu i avokado. Izbjegavajte obrađene masti koje su u kolačima, čipsu, grickalicama, brzoj hrani, prženim jelima. Loše masnoće doslovno mogu promijeniti komunikacijske putove u vašem mozgu. Pokušajte naći organsko i lokalno maslinovo ulje. Tuna Osim što je još jedan bogat izvor omega-3, tuna ima najvišu razinu vitamina B6 od bilo koje druge hrane. Istraživanja su pokazala da je B6 izravno povezan s pamćenjem, spoznajom i dugoročnim zdravljem mozga. Općenito, B vitamini su među najvažnijima za balansiranje raspoloženja. B6 osobito utječe na dopaminske receptore, a dopamin je jedan od hormona koji zajedno sa serotoninom stvara dobar osjećaj. Jedite tunu iz bio održivog ribogojilišta. Vegetarijanci B6 mogu naći u banani. Češnjak Svježi češnjak je jedan od najjačih oružja u prehrani. Ne samo da je nevjerojatan za smanjenje lošeg kolesterola i jačanje kardiovaskularnog sustava, nego ima snažan zaštitni učinak na mozak, kao antioksidant. Odabrati organski i lokalno uzgojeni. Jaja Jaja sadrže bjelančevine i masti kako bi osigurali energiju za mozak, kao i selen što pomaže u dobrom raspoloženju. Jesti organska jaja. Zeleno lisnato povrće Špinat, kelj, blitva, brokoli, cvjetača, rikola, ricana salata, pupčar, bez obzira volite li zelen ili ne, trebate nešto od toga jesti svaki dan. Zeleno lisnato povrće je bogato željezom. Nedostatak željeza je povezan s sindromom nemirnih nogu, umorom, lošim raspoloženjem i nejasnim razmišljanjem. Izaberite organski uzgojeno. Izostaviti crveno meso nekoliko dana u tjednu, i jedite samo dobro začinjenu zelen, samo kratko kuhanu ili kao salatu. Rajčice Rajčica sadrži likopen, antioksidans koji je posebno dobar za mozak - čak pomaže u spriječavanju demencije. Jesti lokalno proizvedene rajčice i samo kad im je sezona. Kakao Kakao je među prvih pet najmoćnijih namirnica mozga. Koristiti onaj iz organskog uzgoja. Ono što jako šteti mozgu: Alkohol ubija stanice mozga odmah! Alkohol također ometa proizvodnju dopamina. Umjerene količine alkohola, osobito crno vino, može poboljšati vaše zdravlje, ali samo čaša ili dvije dnevno, sve više je recept za smanjene funkcije mozga i gubitak energije. Slatki sirupi, kao kukuruzni sirup i šećeri će dovesti do zdravstvenih problema poput dijabetesa i pretilosti, a strašno su opterećenje za mozak. Nemojte jesti šećer, osim u posebnim prigodama. Ako ne možete smanjiti toliko, pokušajte se ograničiti na samo dvije čajne kašičice dnevno. Nikotin sužava protok krvi u mozgu te značajno smanjuje funkcije mozga. Ručak sa velikim udjelom ugljikohidrata će vas učiniti pospanim i tromim. Odlučite se za lagani obrok s nekim kvalitetnim proteinima uz mnogo salate. http://www.novosti.rs/upload/images/2012//08/26/01%20orah.jpg Caj za proliv- Steza (Potentilla anserina L) http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6aNbZ-rFFGU/UWmSFUAmJlI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/1szBzZrcAgI/s200/dete.jpg (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6aNbZ-rFFGU/UWmSFUAmJlI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/1szBzZrcAgI/s1600/dete.jpg) Caj za proliv Proliv(dijareja) je veoma nezgodna pojava kod odraslih i kod dece.Siptomi proliva uvek su praceni povisenom temperaturom,mucnina,povracanje,bolovi u stomaku,groznica,slabost. Proliv narusava mikrofloru koju cine dobre bakterije,dovode do gubljenja vode i elektrolita iz naseg organizma.Puno proliva i povracanja moze dovesti do dehidritacije organizma.Mora da se piju cajevi koji da vas lece i koji ce da deluju kao nadoknada za izgubljenu vodu.Najbolje da skuvate caj od hrastove kore,kupinovog lista i malo sipka za bolji ukus. Ovaj caj pijete u toku dana,dok je mlak caj,pomalo u gutljajima,pije se prva tri dana samo ovaj caj,zatim uvodite hranu kao sto je kuvani pirinac,krompir,pomalo posoliti,zatim kuvanu sargarepu,dvopek,stapici,banane i jabuke narendajte,neka malo potamne,tako da se pojede. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m2DOEFSLuCM/UWmSQXzm0eI/AAAAAAAAAaY/2KHyL7G06Y8/s200/steza.jpg (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m2DOEFSLuCM/UWmSQXzm0eI/AAAAAAAAAaY/2KHyL7G06Y8/s1600/steza.jpg) Steza Ukoliko da nemozete naci negde da kupite hrastovu koru,ima bas neprijatan ukus,predlazem vam caj od steze(Potentilla anserina L.).Uzmite 1 kafenu kasicicu suvog korena steze prelijte sa 200ml vruce vode,ostaviti da odstoji nekih 15 minuta,zatim procediti i piti 3 puta dnevno po 200 ml caja.Ovaj caj mozete piti za bilo koju vrstu proliva,cak ako imate ne daj boze krvi u prolivu,mozete ovaj caj da dajete bebama,deci,mogu piti odrasli.Cak mozete od delove(list i cvet) biljke i koren da kuvate u mleku ovaj caj sa mlekom i stezom je veoma dobar za upale grla,pluca,piti zasladjeno sa medom za ostale bolesti kao sto su unutrasnja krvarenja,menstrualne tegobe umesto mleko zamenite sa vodom.Ista priprema 1 kafena kasicica steze preliti sa 200 ml toplog mleka,ostaviti da odstoji 15 minuta.Za kozna oboljenja mozete koristiti stezu usitnite suve listove i koren,tako da dobijete prah tako stavite na kozu ili malo sipate tople vode i nanesete na kozu.Inace ovako u svezem mozete da jedete njene listove.Sada da se vratimo sa prolivom njega mozete leciti uz pomoc cajeva od nevena,majcine dusice,mozete piti caj od islandskog lisaja.Kada prodje malo od lecenja da biste podigli imunite mozete koristiti biljne kapi od imele,hajducke trave i nevena. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uBqMBb8F5rA/UWmSTtVWk-I/AAAAAAAAAag/prW71yEY8sY/s200/steza1.jpg (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uBqMBb8F5rA/UWmSTtVWk-I/AAAAAAAAAag/prW71yEY8sY/s1600/steza1.jpg) Steza(Potentilla anserina L) Napomena: za male dece i bebe mozete samo koristiti koren od steze(Potentilla anserina L (http://radiosarajevo.ba/novost/134242/imunitetska-bomba-napravite-prirodni-lijek-protiv-viroze-i-prehlade) (http://radiosarajevo.ba/novost/134227/moze-li-novac-kupiti-srecu-video) http://radiosarajevo.ba/img/s/627x344//upload/images/PREZIVLJAVANJE%202013/napitak-limuin-med.jpg Imunitetska bomba: Napravite prirodni lijek protiv viroze i prehlade (http://radiosarajevo.ba/novost/134265/7-stvari-koje-niste-znali-o-svojoj-macki-video) (http://radiosarajevo.ba/novost/134263/koliko-nam-treba-da-se-zaljubimo) Neprirodno visoke temperature za ovo doba godine, osim glavobolje i pospanosti, sa sobom su donijele i brojne viroze popraćene upalom sinusa, kašljem te cjelokupnim padom imuniteta. Želite li na prirodan i zdrav način ojačati tijelo i pobijediti prehlade i viroze posegnite za jednostavnim i ukusnim receptom iz vaše kuhinje, savjetuje Zadovoljna.hr. (http://zadovoljna.dnevnik.hr/clanak/zdravlje_i_prehrana/napravite-prirodni-lijek-protiv-viroze-i-prehlade---309875.html) Sastojci: 6 limuna 1 veći češanj bijelog luka 2 kašike đumbira u prahu 2 kašike meda 3 kašike soka od ananasa ¼ kašike ljute papričice u prahu Priprema: U posudu za blender iscijedite svih šest limuna Dodajte sve ostale sastojke te ih dobro izmiksajte dok ne dobijete ujednačenu tekućinu. Sadržaj prelijte u staklenu posudu te je spremite u hladnjak. Svaki dan popijte četri šoljice napitka dok simptomi viroze potpuno ne nestan ZANIMLJIV LIJEK ZA PROBLEME SA ZGLOBOVIMA, ARTRITISOM, OSTEOPOROZOM, REUMATIZMOM… http://www.zdravljebezdoktora.com/images/gelatin-dessert.jpg (http://www.zdravljebezdoktora.com/images/gelatin-dessert.jpg)Već neko vrijeme na svim stranama svijeta možemo se susresti sa neobičnim ali efikasnim lijekom za problema sa zglobovima, kostima, teško pokretljivim koljenima, stopalima, vratom itd. Terapija za koju mnogi tvrde da je čudotvorna sastoji se u korištenju želatina u periodu od nekoliko sedmica. Potrebno je da kupite u prodavnici prehrambeni želatin. Ima ga u različitim oblicima sa i bez dodatih voćnih ukusa i šećera. Pred spavanje pomješate vrhom punu čajnu kašikicu želatina u čašu vode, soka, jogurta ili neke druge tekućine. Kako budete mješali smjesu ona će postajati gušća. Kada je dobro umjesite popijte je ili pojedite ako je gusta. Koristite toliko tekućine da kada umješate želatin smjesa ostane dovoljno tečna da je možete popiti ako vam je tako lakše. Možete je pomješati i sa žitaricama sa mlijekom, te pojesti tu masu. Ukoliko su vaše tegobe sa zglobovima i kostima jače koristite ovu metodu ujutro i navečer. Treapija bi trebala dati efekat i smaniti bolove i znatno povećati pokretljivost zglobova već nakon sedam dana. Tretman prema potrebi možete korisiti od 4 do 6 sedmica. Ovaj recept posebno je koristan za starije i manje pokretne osobe ,te ljude koje osjećaju bolove pri pokretima i sl. Želatin je proizvod životinjskog porijekla koji nastaje hidrolizom proteina kolagena koji je glavni vezivni sastojak životinjskog tkiva: hrskavica, kostiju, tetiva, itd. Želatin svakodnevno konzumiramo a da toga nismo svjesni u različitim prehrambenim proizvodima , želeima, mesnim produktima, mliječnim i hladnim prerađevinama, gumenim bombonama itd. Često je sakriven u ovim proizvodima pod nazivom E441. Kako starimo ili usljed poremećaja ili prehrane naša tijelo proizvodi manje kolagena što uzrokuje da pojedinačna mikrovlakna u našem tijelu postaju više međusobno povezana što rezultira manjom fleksibilnošću. To nam daje efekat slabe fleksibilnosti, bolova i otežanog kretanja te nam je potrebno sve više pokreta kako bismo se “zagrijali” i normalno bezbolno izvodili neke fizičke aktivnosti. Ovi sastojci nadoknađuju se putem želatina. U studijama i preporukama navodi se da je korištenje želatina osim ovih rezultiralo i sljedećim zdravstvenim koristima: - Pomoć pri rastu i boljoj teksturi kose i noktiju - Boljom elsatičnosšću tijela i kože te smanjenju vidnih tragova starenja na koži - Skoro svi ispitanici prijavili su značajno poboljšanje kvaliteta sna - Studije su pokazale i redukciju u pojavi celulita, pojačanom metabolizmu i znatnom smanjenju sezonskih alergijskih reakcija Želatin se proizvodi od različitih vrsta životinja a najčešće od svinja ili goveda što bi trebalo jasno biti naznačeno na pakovanju Čuvajte srce: Ova četiri napitka odlična su za zdravlje najbitnijeg organa u našem tijelu!Bolesti srca su dijelom genetski uslovljena, ali su takođe u velikoj mjeri preventabilna i može se uticati na to da do njih ne dođe. Ovi su napici koju mogu doprinijeti zdravlju vašeg srca. http://namirnice.ba/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Sok-od-nara.jpg (http://namirnice.ba/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Sok-od-nara.jpg) Sok od naraAntioksidativna moć nara je zaista velika. Novija istraživanja su pokazala da redovno konzumiranje ukusnog soka od nara može zaštiti vaše srce tako što će smanjiti nivo holesterola u krvi i poveća protok krvi do srca. Pijte ga svježeg i bez dodatnih zaslađivača. Crni čajMoćni antioksidanti u crnom čaju unaprjeđuju zdravlje srca. Dokazano je da konzumiranje crnog čaja smanjuje rizik od nastanka moždanog udara, smanjuje nivo lošeg holesterola, poboljšava funkciju krvnih sudova, kao i dotok krvi u srčane arterije. Pijte svjež crni čaj, vruć i bez zaslađivača za njegovo najbolje dejstvo. Nekoliko šoljica ovog čudesnog napitka dnevno može smanjiti rizik od nastanka srčanih oboljenja. Zeleni čajKao i crni čaj, zeleni čaj sadrži obilje antioksidanata koji čuvaju srce. Osnovna razlika između ove dvije vrste čaja jeste da zeleni čaj nije fermentisan. Istraživanje iz 2004. godine pokazalo je da povećano konzumiranje zelenog čaja smanjuje rizik od oboljevanja koronarnih arterija. Njegova upotreba je povezana i sa smanjenim nivoom holesterola u krvi, uz niži rizik za nastanak krvnih ugrušaka i moždanog udara. VodaDehidratacija može da doprinese izazivanju nezanemarljivog broja rizikofaktora koji su potrebni za nastanak srčanih oboljenja, kao što je povećana viskoznost krvi. Kada je organizam dehidriran i fali mu tečnosti, krv je gušća, što zahtijeva da srce troši više energije da pumpa krv kroz tijelo. Hronična dehidratacija može rezultirati u hipertenziju t. povišen krvni pritisak, koja se opet poboljšava konzumiranjem vode. Brojna istraživanja su pokazala da je znatno manji rizik od nastanka srčanih oboljenja povezan upravo sa konzumacijom veće količine vode na dnevnoj bazi. Ne postoji napitak koji bolje hidrira organizam od same vode, a to je odlično za zdravlje vašeg srca. Preporučljivo konzumiranje vode na dnevnoj bazi je 8 čaša. Obogatite vodu svježe cijeđenim limunom i tako joj dajte aromu koja osvježava, a istovremeno i dozu antioksidanata koji su od izuzetnog značaja za zdravlje. Skidanje šminke prirodnim uljem Autor Tijana Ćup (http://www.sanmagazin.com/ljepota/itemlist/user/45-tijana%C4%87up) Znate li da u svakodnevnoj njezi većina nas koristi preko 8 preparata dnevno među kojima su krema, kupka, sapun, maskara, sjenka za oči, puder, rumenilo, ruž, parfem, šamponi, regeneratori, losioni, mlijeka za tijelo? Znate li koliko je to hemikalija na vašem tijelu? Predstavnici Kampanje za sigurnu kozmetiku u SAD-u, djelimično finansirani i od strane Fonda za borbu protiv raka dojke, ističu da smo dnevno izloženi uticaju preko 126 različitih hemikalija čija bezbijednost još uvijek nije sa sigurnošću utvrđena. I iako vam ne pokušavamo sugerisati da kosu perete pepelom, a suđe pijeskom, niti da se odreknete šminkanja, bilo bi dobro da barem neke industrijske preparate zamijenite preparatima iz prirode, koji ne samo da su znatno jeftiniji, nego mogu imati i višestruke koristi za vašu kožu.Jednostavno pravilo glasi: "Ono što možete da jedete, dobro je i za vašu kožu!" Tačnije, ono što je korisno u ishrani, apsolutno je bezbijedno za spoljnu upotrebu.Već smo pisali o prednostima korištenja prirodnih ulja (http://www.sanmagazin.com/ljepota/item/2079-suha-koza-prirodna-ulja-koja-kozi-lica-vracaju-vlaznost), no ovdje ćemo spomenuti još neka. Naime, jedna od odličnih načina korištenja prirodnih ulja jeste za skidanje šminke. Na internetu se mogu pronaći mnogi recepti za losione za skidanje šminke koje možete pripremiti kod kuće, no mi smatrmo da za tim apsolutno nema potrebe. Umjesto da se zamajavete izradom bilo kakvog losiona, za skidanje šminke možete koristiti samo sirovo, hladno cijeđeno prirodno ulje. Među uljima namijenjenim za ovu svrhu najbolja su neizbježno maslinovo ulje, kao i jojobino (oba su odlična za sve tipove kože), bademovo ulje (za masnu kožu), te ricinusovo ulje (za veoma suhu kožu).Zašto maslinovo ulje?Maslinovo ulje nije dobro samo za vaše srce, nego i za vašu kožu. Bogato je mastima, te pumpa vašu kožu vitaminima E i A koji ne samo da su odlični protiv starenja kože, nego je čine i vlažnom, mekanom i nježnom. Sadrži snažne antioksidante koji pomažu u borbi sa slobodnim radikalima, glavnim uzročnicima starenja kože.Zašto jojobino ulje?Jojobino ulje ima odlična antibakterijska svojstva, te sprječava i liječi kožne infekcije. Američki indijanci su ga koristili vijekovima, a savremenom svijetu postalo je poznato tek 70-ih godina. Takođe, sprječava kožne upale, otečenost i crvenilo na koži koje obično prati kožne povrede. Jojobino ulje je veoma slično ulju koje naša koža sama proizvodi, te je odlično za vraćanje vlažnosti koži, koju nanošenjem čini mekanom i blistavom.Budući da je odličan antiseptik, jojobino ulje se preporučuje za njegu kožeprotiv akni. Ono kožu istovremeno čisti, vlaži i njeguje.Zašto bademovo ulje?Bogato vitaminima A, E i B, baš kao i maslinovo ulje odlično je u borbi protiv starenja. Takođe, utrljavanjem bademovog ulja na tamne kolutove oko očiju uveče prije spavanja, kolutovi će nestati, zajedno sa svim nepravilnostima na koži, a ostaće božanstveno lijepa koža. Dobro je za sve tipove kože, ali se navodi da je odlično za masnu kožu. Čisti pore, vlaži i kožu čini lijepom.Zašto ricinusovo ulje?Ricinusovo ulje je odlično za veoma suhu kožu. Ne samo da ima antibakterijska svojstva, nego i protiv-gljivična i protiv-upalna. Snažan je antioksidant i često osnovni sastojak u labelima kako bi usnama dali sjaj i mekoću. Ono što će oduševiti dame sa rijetkim trepavicama, jeste da ricinusovo ulje podstiče rast trepavica.Postupak skidanja šminke prirodnim ujemIzaberite ulje po želji, nanesite ga na blaznicu, a potom uklonite šminku sa očiju, lica i vrata. Na poslijetku se umijte kako biste uklonili višak ulja sa vašeg lica i gotovo! Brusnica bogata kalijumom http://www.kuhinjica.rs/showpic.aspx?w=637&h=300&img=/images/article_pic/brusnice-brusnice-01032013024433949.jpgMesto pod imenom Brusnica postoji nedaleko od Gornjeg Milanovca, ali i u čak četiri opštine u Bosni i Hercegovini. Međutim, „brusnica“ nije samo toponim, već i ime za jagodičasto voće izuzetno zanimljivog ukusa i lekovitih svojstava. Poreklom je iz Severne Amerike, a nezaobilazna je u proslavi Dana zahvalnosti. Kada je reč o proizvodnji u evropskim zemljama, Litvanija je lider Starog kontinenta. Brusnica je bogatakalijumom (http://www.kuhinjica.rs/zanimljivosti/zanimljivosti-iz-nutricionizma), kao i vitaminima A (http://www.kuhinjica.rs/nutricionizam/zdravlje/vitamin-a-cudo-od-vitamina) i C. (http://kuhinjica.rs/nutricionizam/zdravlje/vitamin-c-prvo-slovo-zdravlja) Prijatelj je mokraćne bešike, budući da sprečava bakterije u nameri da se prilepe za njene zidove. Ovo voće je takođe i moćan protivnik ešerihije koli i čira na želucu. Istraživanja pokazuju da su brusnice među prvih pet namirnica sa najvećim sadržajem antioksidanata po porciji. Jaja japanske prepelice protiv anemije Tradicija zastupljenosti jaja japanske prepelice u zemljama Istoka duga je nekoliko vekova. Proboj na svetsku scenu bio je relativno spor, ali veoma uspešan. Ona u proteklim decenijama nisu osvojila samo ostatak sveta, već i svemir. Naime, kao izuzetno hranljiva i otporna namirnica, jaje japanske prepelice ponele su u vasionu sovjetske i ruske svemirske letelice, uključujući satelit „Bion 5“ i kosmičku stanicu „Mir“. Ova jaja imaju pet puta više fosfora od kokošijih, sedam puta više gvožđa (http://www.kuhinjica.rs/nutricionizam/zdravlje/pravilna-ishrana-i-anemija) i deset puta viševitamina B (http://kuhinjica.rs/nutricionizam/zdravlje/vitamin-b-1-tiamin-za-zdrave-nerve). Serija naučnih istraživanja potvrdila je njihovo povoljno delovanje na centralni nervni sistem, krvne sudove i metabolizam. Konkretno, jaja japanske prepelice mogu da vam pomognu ako vas mori anemija, astma, holesterol, povišeni pritisak (http://www.kuhinjica.rs/zanimljivosti/suncokretovo-ulje-eliksir-zdravlja) ili zatvor. Francuska poslatica-dižon senf Dižon je glavni grad francuskog regiona Burgonja. U njemu je rođen Gistav Ajfel, konstruktor koji je za potrebe Svetske izložbe u Parizu 1889. stvorio toranj koji danas važi za prvu asocijaciju na Pariz. Međutim, Dižon nije samo rodno mesto Gistava Ajfela, već i „dižon-senfa“. Za razliku od mnogih jela, ovome se zna tačna godina nastanka. Bilo je to 1856, kada je jedan francuski kuvar sklon improvizacijama promenio tradicionalni recept za senf. Umesto sirća, on se odlučio za kiseli sok od nezrelog grožđa. Tako je nastao senf (http://www.kuhinjica.rs/enciklopedija-hrane/zacini/gorusica-i-senf-brassica-nigra)jakog ukusa koji se, i pored činjenice da se glavni sastojci uvoze iz Kanade, smatra francuskom robnom markom. Koristi se u pripremi sosova (http://www.kuhinjica.rs/zanimljivosti/sosovi-kruna-vaseg-kulinarskog-umeca), čorbi, sendviča i salata. (http://www.kuhinjica.rs/nutricionizam/namirnice/salate-zavodljive-hrskave) Limun i limeta-citrusi puni C vitamina Iako je tačna postojbina limuna i dalje u priličnoj meri nedoumica, veruje se da se ovo voće najpre uzgajalo u južnoj Indiji i severnom Mjanmaru. Poznato je po obilnoj količini vitamina C, budući da stotinu grama limuna zadovoljava dve trećine dnevnih potreba za ovim vitaminom. Još od davnina se koristio za čišćenje zagnojenih rana, a na Siciliji su sa pravom verovali da može da dezinfikuje vodu. „Zeleno, volim te, zeleno“, kaže Lorka u čuvenoj „Romanski mesečarki“. Za one koji dele njegove estetske kriterijume, limeta je pravi izbor. Manja je od limuna, ali je jednako bogata vitaminom C. Savet meseca Kako biste posudu sa šećerom zaštitili od mrava, stavite u nju nekoliko karanfilčića. Liječenje tumorskih oboljenja http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-49LsmpZ8HYU/UNRg_fRLOjI/AAAAAAAABKM/peVgtwLBnQ4/s320/29582_149354298546889_1492910665_n.jpg (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-49LsmpZ8HYU/UNRg_fRLOjI/AAAAAAAABKM/peVgtwLBnQ4/s1600/29582_149354298546889_1492910665_n.jpg) Liječenje tumorskih oboljenja Ova jednostavna i upravo briljantna prehrana pomogla je nebrojenim ljudima u izlječenju od tumorskih oboljenja. Kako bi se laneno ulje čim učinkovitije krvotokom transportiralo do stanica, dr. Budwig je preporučavala njegovo mješanje sa posnim svježim kravljim sirem. Zašto posni kravlji sir? Zato što sadrži aminokiseline metionin i cistein koje u svom sastavu imaju sulfihidrilnu skupinu (SH - atom sumpora i vodika) koja se lako povezuje sa masnim kiselinama. Tako povezana aminokiselina i masna kiselina čine tzv. lipoprotein koji je lako topiv u vodi, samim time topiv u krvi. Dakle posni kravlji sir je samo transportni mehanizam kako bi se laneno ulje čim učinkovitije transportiralo do svih stanica. Posni sir ima manje masti od običnog sira što mu omogućava da prihvati veću količinu lanenog ulja od običnog sira. Dnevna količina za ozbiljno oboljele je 6 velikih žlica (40-50 grama) lanenog ulja dobro promješanog s 100 grama (pola čaše) svježeg nemasnog kravljeg sira. Ovu dnevnu količinu možete pojesti odjednom ili možete rasporediti u više navrata, ali ju tada trebate svaki puta ponovo svježe zamješati budući mješavina stajanjem gubi svojstva pa ne smije stajati. Zanimljivo, ovu mješavinu podnose i osobe koje obično ne mogu tolerirati laktozu. Umjesto posnog sira možete koristiti jogurt ili kefir ali ga tada morate staviti tri puta više. Može se koristiti i tofu (sojin sir) ali njegova količina autoru nije poznata. Ulje lanenih sjemenki mora biti svježe! Ukoliko se pokvari morate ga baciti. Laneno ulje izrazito lako užegne pa ga je zato potrebno držati u hladnjaku nakon otvaranja i potrošiti kroz dva-tri tjedna. Da je užeglo prepoznat ćete po velikoj promjeni u okusu - postati će jako oporo. Ako želite znati koji okus ima kada užegne, ostavite manju količinu da stoji u otvorenoj čaši na sobnoj temperaturi 5-6 dana. Laneno ulje se može kupiti u svakoj trgovini zdrave hrane (Bio&Bio, Konzum, Proteka, Herbarom i sl.) i košta otprilike 30 kn za 250ml, dakle otprilike 150 kn mjesečno. Ukoliko živite u manjem mjestu možete ga naručiti preko interneta. Mješanje sira i ulja najbolje je raditi sa električnim štapnim mikserom. Mikasjte 1-2 minute jer mora biti jako dobro promješano. Uvijek prvo mješajte samo sir i ulje. Onda po želji možete dodati i mljevene orahe, lješnjake ili bademe, svježe voće i povrće, bobice, ili svježe istisnute sokove od voća i povrća. Zbog okusa možete dodati čajnu žličicu meda ili bućinog ulja. Banane pašu posebno dobro. Tako dobivate pravi hranjivi obrok. Mješavinu morate pojesti odmah nakon mješanja. Nema čuvanja u frižideru. Protokol Dr. Budwig propisuje i obaveznu konzumaciju svježe mljevenih lanenih sjemenki. To je zato što neke supstance iz lanenih sjemenki nisu prisutne u ulju, a njihova prisutnost je jako važna (prije svega lignani, ali i neki vitamini i minerali). Lanene sjemenke moraju biti samljevene jer će inače samo proći kroz probavu. Sjemenke (3-6 velike žlice) možete samljeti u mlincu za kavu (5-10 sekundi) i dodati ih mješavini sira i ulja, ili napraviti novu mješavinu bez ulja. Sjemenke nakon što ih sameljete ne smiju stajati dulje od 15 minuta (zbog oksidacije). Nemojte kupovati samljevene sjemenke.Dr. Budwig je formulirala i ELDI ulje za topikalnu primjenu. Njime se uspješno mogu tretirati tumori koji su na koži ili blizu površine. Proizvodi se samo u Njemačkoj i nije ga jednostavno nabaviti (probajte preko interneta naručiti ovdje). Mnogi ljudi su se osvjedočili u učinkovitost ovog protokola. Neki su snimili video i stavili ga na YouTube. Pogledajte npr. ovaj video. Ili pretražite sa ključnom riječi "Budwig" ili "Johanna Budwig". Koliko brzo djeluje ova dijeta (i prateća prehrambena praksa koje se morate pridržavati)? Relativno brzo. Već nakon dva-tri tjedna bi trebali osjetiti prve rezultate. Ukoliko vaš rak nije izrazito agresivan vjerojatno bi vam bilo mudro pričekati sa kemoterapijom i pokušati prvo sa prirodnim pristupom (kemoterapija nepovratno uništava tijelo). Za kompletno povlačenje bolesti je potrebno 1-5 godina. Međutim ove prehrambene navike treba prakticirati doživorno, uz eventualno moguće smanjenje količine lanenog ulja. Inače će se rak vratiti i možda ova terapije više ne bude toliko djelotvorna. Dodatno možete pojačati i ubrzati učinak ako iz prehrane izbacite nepoželjne masti, npr. margarin, prženje na ulju i sl. OPREZ! Ukolioko se radilo o ozbiljnom bolesniku Dr. Budwig nije davala punu količinu lanennog ulja odmah na početku nego je prakticirala prijelazno razdoblje od 3 dana. Ova terapija je puno snažnija nego se na prvi pogled čini pa može stvoriti neželjeno burnu reakciju. Također, ponekim je ljudima unos velike količine lanenog ulja znalo uzrokovati ispadanje kose. Točan razlog nije poznat; možda se radi o smanjenju inzulina u plazmi, hormonalnom disbalansu ili oslobađanju toksina iz apoptoznih stanica. Zanimljivo, unos velike količine svježe mljevenih lanenih sjemenki (nikad) nema taj učinak. Budwig je svojim pacijentima izričito branila kemoterapiju i zračenje. Smatrala je da smanjuju uspješnost ove terapije i uništavaju obrambenu sposobnost organizma. Također je izričito branila unos mesa i šećera (ne odnosi se na voće). Disciplinirano provođenje kompletnog protokola je uvjet uspjeha i kod najtežih slučajeva. Na ovoj stranici je sažeto opisana jezgra protokola. Proširite svoje znanje i upoznajte se sa "oleolux" uljem i "linomel" obrokom. Proučite razne izvore informacija. Kompletan protokol možete pronaći u knjizi "Uljno-proteinska kuharica" od Dr. Johanna Budwig. 10 pravila kojih se morate disciplinirano pridržavati: Piti puno tekućine, odrasla osoba čak i 3 litre dnevno. Jesti sirovo i šareno povrće i voće. Pijte svježe istisnute sokove od povrća i voća. Ne sladiti šećerom. Jedite puno orašastih plodova i koštica, ali samo neprženih (bademi, lješnjaci, orasi, buća i drugo). Nikakva slatka hrana (bijeli šećer, bijeli hruh, bijela tjestenina, rafinirano brašno, kolači i slično) ili slatki sokovi (gazirana pića, sokovi od sirupa, zaslađeni voćni sokovi i slično). Nikakvo crveno meso ili mesne prerađevine (govedina, janjetina, divljač, svinjetina, kobasice, špek, paštete, hrenovke i slično). Jedite umjerenu količinu ribe i bijelog mesa (piletina, puretina,..). Postignite urednosti stolice unosom vlakana (npr. Probavin), hrane bogate manezijem (npr. bademi) ili laksativima. Sunčajte se svaki dan do sat vremena (izbjegavajući najjače sunce, naravno). Budite fizički aktivni. Hodajte 30-60 minuta svaki dan. Otkriveno 10 najvećih laži o načinu prehrane i bolestima http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y_WGIWld7wE/UmJDWFZc8OI/AAAAAAAAKnE/_QesWtvR5aM/s320/meso-rostilj-vesalice.jpg (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y_WGIWld7wE/UmJDWFZc8OI/AAAAAAAAKnE/_QesWtvR5aM/s1600/meso-rostilj-vesalice.jpg) Bojite se jesti jaja, špek, kobasice, masnu hranu? Pune su vam uši kalorija, kolesterola, straha od debljanja? Kada pročitate ovo razotkrivanje deset nutricionističkih laži, bit će vam puno lakše. Vjerojatno ćete uvečer odmah narezati nešto "pod 45". Laž br. 1 – Jaja su nezdrava Jaja su nevjerojatno zdrava! Činjenica je da su sastojci u jajetu toliko hranjivi da iz jedne jedine stanice izraste pilić. Jaja su na loš glas došla zbog velike količine kolesterola; no, ona ne povećavaju količinu tzv. lošeg kolesterola u krvi. Dapače, povećavaju razinu dobrog kolesterola. Jaja su savršena hrana za ljude – puna su vitamina, minerala i jedinstvenih antioksidanta koja štite oči te izvrstan izvor kolina, nutrijenta koji je vrlo važan za rad mozga. Laž br. 2 – Svaka kalorija je ista Općenito se smatra da je za gubitak težine najvažnija stvar potrošnja i unos kalorija. No, nije svejedno iz koje hrane kalorije dolaze. Naime, različite vrste hrane kroz tijelo prolaze kroz različite metaboličke procese. Primjerice, fruktoza vam može potaknuti apetit, a glukoza ga smanjiti. Laž br. 3 – Životinjske masti su nezdrave Dugo se vjerovalo da su zasićene masne kiseline, koje nalazimo u životinjskim mastima, nezdrave. Istraživanja pokazuju da su one u potpunosti bezopasne i ne povećavaju rizik od bolesti srca i krvožilnog sustava. One povećavaju dobar kolesterol, a loš kolesterol preoblikuju u bezopasni podtip kolesterola. Laž br. 4 – Puno proteina je nezdravo Povećan unos proteina dugoročno osnažuje kosti i smanjuje mogućnost loma kostiju u starosti. Neistina je i da previše proteina šteti bubrezima, iako bi bubrežni bolesnici doista trebali izbjegavati njihov prevelik unos. Dapače, proteini smanjuju rizik oboljenja od dijabetesa i visokog krvnog tlaka. Laž br. 5 – Svi bi trebali jesti kruh od cijelih zrna ječma Sve je više dokaza da ječam uzrokuje razne zdravstvene probleme. Naime, ječam je najveći izbor glutena u prehrani, a mnogi ljudi su na njega osjetljivi zbog čega može doći do probavnih problema, problema s mozgom (šizofrenija, autizam...). Znanstvenici čak preporučaju uopće ne jesti ječam! Laž br. 6 – Kava je nezdrava Istina je da kava može malo povećati krvni tlak. No, istraživanja pokazuju da oni koji piju kavu imaju 67 % manji rizik oboljenja od dijabetesa tip II., manji rizik oboljenja od Alzeheimerove i Parkinsonove te 80 posto niži rizik od bolesti jetre. Osim toga, kofein pomaže u mobilizaciji masnih kiselina, osnažuje metabolizam, a blagotvorno utječe i na funkcije mozga. Kava je puna i antioksidanta – sadrži ih više i od nekog voća i povrća. Laž br. 7 – Meso je nezdravo Istina je da se procesuirano meso povezuje sa raznim bolestima, no neprocesuirano crveno meso ne bi trebalo. Istraživanje iz 2010. na 1,2 milijuna ljudi otkrilo je da nema značajne veze između kardiovaksularnih bolesti i dijabetesa sa crvenim mesom. Crveno meso je vrlo hranjivo; puno je vitamina, minerala, kvalitetnih proteina, zdravih masti i nutrijenata važnih za tijelo i mozak. Laž br. 8 – Najzdravija prehrana je niskomasna i visokokarbonska Istraživanje dugo 7,5 godina pokazalo je da je grupa žena koja se hranila niskomasnom hranom težila u prosjeku samo 0,4 kg manje od grupe koja se hranila "normalno", a nije bilo porasta kardiovaskularnih bolesni ili raka. Laž br. 9 – Bilja i ulja od rafiniranog sjemenja su zdrava Sojino, suncokretovo i kukuruzno ulje navodno su zdravi. No, ona sadrže Omega-6 masne kiseline čije pretjerano uzimanje može uzrokovati bolesti. Osim toga, povezuje ih se sa povećanim rizikom od bolesti srca i krvnih žila. Laž br. 10 – Od masnoća se debljate Iako zvuči logično da se od masnoća debljate, to nije baš tako jednostavno. Iako masti imaju više kalorija nego proteini ili ugljikohidrati, masna prehrana vas neće udebljati. Dapače, u posljednje su vrijeme postale popularne dijete u kojima se jede masna hrana, a izbjegavaju ugljikohidrati. Rak uzrokuje gljivica candida, a lijek je obična soda bikarbona? Dr Tullio Simoncini, italijanski stručnjak u oblasti onkologije, dijabetesa i poremećaja metabolizma, tvrdi da je karcinom zapravo infekcija kandidom i da se uspješno liječi sodom bikarbonom. Poslije ovih tvrdnji Simoncini je završio u zatvoru. ''Rak se može liječiti kao bilo koja gljivica – sodom bikarbonom'' - ovo već nekoliko godina tvrdi i svoje pacijente tako liječi italijanski doktor Tullio Simoncini. Doktor Marko Jovašević iz Srbije prenio je savjete italijanskog kolege na svoj blog, a Telegraf ih u cjelosti predstavlja, javljaju Nezavisne (http://www.nezavisne.com/zivot-stil/zdravlje/Kome-je-u-interesu-da-se-ne-otkrije-lijek-za-rak-226288.html): Šta je zapravo utvrdio italijanski ljekar? ''Candida albicans je gljivica koja je u određenim količinama prisutna u svakome od nas. Kandida raste u crevnoj flori svih ljudi i njen je sastavni dio. Ova gljivica takođe živi u ustima, grlu i polnim organima većine ljudi. Organizam zdravog čoveka održava kandidu pod kontrolom, ali ako iz nekih razloga imunitet opadne i gljivica se razmnoži, može uzrokovati ozbiljne zdravstvene probleme. Nažalost mnoštvo faktora u našem modernom životu pogoduje rastu kandide. Stres, prekomjerno korišćenje antibiotika, nezdrava ishrana, sredstva protiv kontracepcije… – sve to utiče na rast kandide u organizmu, koja uzrokuje brojne probleme.'' Kandida i rak Dr Tullio Simoncini – italijanski ljekar i stručnjak u oblasti onkologije, dijabetesa i poremećaja metabolizma – tvrdi da je karcinom upravo infekcija kandidom, i da teorija konvencionalne medicine o tome, da rak nastaje kao rezultat nepravilnog funkcionisanja ćelija, ne pije vodu. Od samog početka svoje medicinske karijere, ovaj ljekar vidio je da nešto ozbiljno nije u redu sa konvencionalnim načinom liječenja raka: ''Svuda oko sebe sam vidio nepodnošljivu patnju. U bolničkim onkološkim sobama djeca su umirala. Patio sam, kada sam gledao jadnu djecu, koja su umirala od posljedica hemoterapije'', kaže dr Tulio Simoncini. Njegova frustracija i bol pokrenuli su ga da traži nove načine razumijevanja ove opake bolesti. Počeo je svoja istraživanja sa otvorenim umom, bez predrasuda i strogih pretpostavki. Simoncini je shvatio da mora postojati povezanost između svih vrsta karcinoma – bez obzira na to gdje se nalaze u tijelu. http://radiosarajevo.ba/upload/images/Eventi%202013/Tullio-Simoncini.jpgDr Tulio Simoncini Proučavajući karcinome, primijetio je da su sve izrasline raka imale istu boju – bijelu, kao i kandida. Povezavši bijele naslage sa kolonizacijom kandide, Simoncini je krenuo sa daljim istraživanjem ovog fenomena. Nakon nekog vremena, Simoncini je shvatio da formiranje ćelija raka nije 'greška' u funkcionisanju organizma, već zaštitna reakcija organizma na invaziju kandide. Konvencionalna medicina tvrdi da je dalje širenje raka uzrokovano 'malignim' ćelijama raka koje su 'pobjegle' sa izvornog tumora. Međutim ovaj ljekar tvrdi da to nije tako. Dalje širenje raka je takođe uzrokovano pravim uzročnikom tumora – kandidom. Na kraju krajeva pravi uzročnik raka, kao i drugih bolesti, je oslabljeni imunitet. Kada imunitet funkcioniše pravilno, odmah rješava problem prije nego što situacija izmakne kontroli. U ovom slučaju zdrav imunitet drži nivo kandide u organizmu pod kontrolom, sprečavajući njeno dalje širenje. Lijek protiv kandide Kada je Simoncini shvatio da je rak uzrokovan kandidom, nastavio je tražiti lijek koji bi efikasno ubijao kandidu i na takav način liječio rak. Brzo je shvatio da obični lijekovi protiv gljivica ne funkcionišu, jer kandida brzo mutira da bi se odbranila, čak se i počinje hraniti lijekom koji je bio namijenjen njenom ubijanju. Umjesto toga Simoncini je pronašao nešto puno jednostavnije i bolje –sodu bikarbonu. ''Da, stara dobra soda bikarbona je dovoljna da riješi ovaj problem'', tvrdi ovaj ljekar. Za razliku od drugih lijekova kandida se ne može prilagoditi sodi bikarboni. Drevni Egipćani takođe su znali za djelovanje anti-gljivičnih lijekova, a u indijskoj literaturi za liječenje raka preporučuju se lijekovi sa snažnim baznim svojstvima, poput sode bikarbone. Simoncini je počeo da koristi sodu bikarbonu za uništavanje kandide. Njegov prvi pacijent bio je Italijan Gennaro Sangermano koji je pušten iz bolnice kući jer mu 'nije bilo spasa'. Nakon nekoliko mjeseci, pacijent ne samo da nije umro, nego se odlično osjećao i bio u potpunosti zdrav. Sudbina italijanskog ljekara Dalje je slijedilo sve više slučajeva izlječenja od raka, nakon čega je Simoncini odlučio predstaviti svoje pronalaske italijanskom Ministarstvu zdravlja u nadi da će se nastaviti naučna istraživanja u tom smjeru. Međutim, ministarstvo ne samo da je ignorisalo njegovo otkriće nego su ga i okrivili za ''ilegalno korištenje lijekova koji nisu odobreni od strane Ministarstva zdravlja''. Nakon duge kampanje ismijavanja i ponižavanja, Simoncinija su osudili na tri godine zatvora zbog 'štete' nanijete pacijentima koje je izliječio od raka. Onkolozi su smatrali pokušaj liječenja raka sa sodom bikarbonom'ludom' i 'opasnom' idejom, a sodu su nazivali 'lijekom' koji je Simoncini 'ilegalno propisivao svojim pacijentima'. Ljekar Marko Jovašević je nakon objavljivanja priče o svom italijanskom kolegi počeo da dobija prijetnje da će biti tužen Ljekarskoj komori Srbije jer podstiče liječenje alternativnim i neispitanim lijekovima. Ilustracija Uzročnik lošeg zdravlja: Alkohol vodi u depresiju i smrt Alkohol je treći po redu uzročnik lošeg zdravlja ljudi, a kao jedna od posljedica prekomernog pijenja javlja se i depresija koja je više nego izražena tokom i nakon praznika, javlja Tanjug. Ljudi koji piju veće ili manje količine alkoholnih pića različitog su uzrasta, socijalnog staleža, životnih navika, ali im je svima zajednička želja za pijenjem koja, ako se ne kontroliše, vodi ka najštetnijem obrascu pijenja - alkoholizmu kao bolesti zavisnosti. Simptomi depresije javljaju se kod 40 posto osoba koje učestalo konzumiraju alkohol, dok se kod 5 do 10 posto osoba sa problemom depresije javlja i alkoholizam kao paralelna bolest. Suicidne ideje ili pokušaj suicida javljaju se kod 10 posto depresivnih zavisnika od alkohola, a smatra se da od svih samoubica 20 posto čine alkoholičari. Depresivni poremećaj je prisutan kod oko 15 posto cjelokupne populacije, a kada se preciznom dijagnostičkom procedurom isključi prisutnost nezavisnog psihijatrijskog poremećaja (major depresivne epizode), smatra se da se kod preostalih depresivnih poremećaja u oko 90 posto slučajeva u korijenu depresivnosti nalazi akohol ili druge psihoaktivne supstance. AGRUMI (CITRUSI) I HLADNE NOGE I RUKE Decembar 5, 2013 u 8:30prije podne Godine 1936. Albert Szent-Györgyi dobio je Nobelovu nagradu za otkriće vitamina C i opisao ga je kao vitamin "P", što danas obuhvaća veliki broj fitonutrijenata nazvanih flavonoidi. Neki, poput kvercitina, jako su rašireni su u biljnoj hrani. Može se reći da, ako je nešto široko rasprostranjeno u biljnom carstvu, onda su to flavonoidi, koje se može pronaći čak u salati.Drugi se nalaze samo na pojedinim biljnim vrstama. Na primjer, hesperidin se primarno nalazi u agrumima. To može biti jedan od razloga, da od svih različitih vrsta voća , limun može smanjiti rizik moždanog udara . Limunski fitonutrient hesperidin povećava protok krvi. Korištenje uređaja zvanog Doppler fluksimetar , mjeriti protok krvi kroz kožu pomoću laserske zrake. Ako uzmete količinu hesperdina koja se nalazi u dvije šalice soka od naranče/pomaranđe, protok se krvi povećava, što se može registrirati navedenim fluksimetrom. Sok od naranče čini i bolje stavari, jer ima i drugih sastojaka osim hesperdina . Na primjer, ako se mjere promjene genetskih izražavanja, konzumacija narančina soka uzrokuje promjene u ispoljavanju 3000 naših gena, dok sam hesperidin modulira ispoljavanje oko 2000 gena. Znači, gotovo 2000 aktivnosti naše DNK, konzumacijom samo jedanog od 1000 fitonutrijenata u biljkama, prilično je fascinantna činjenica. Ove promjene u cirkulaciji krvi nisu samo " teoretske". Istraživači su angažirali volontere sa osjetljivošću na hadnoću ( hladne ruke i noge ) , uveli ih u klimatizirane prostorije i mjerili im temperaturu prstiju ruku nakon uzimanja placebo napitka i napitaka sa sadržajem hesperidina. U skupini sa placebom, prsti su postajali sve hladniji i hladniji , spustivši se gotovo za 9 stupnjeva Celzijusa . Prsti onih koji su konzumirali sokove od naranči, prsti se nisu ni približno ohladili , jer je njihova cirkulacija krvi ostala stabilana . Ako pojedete nekoliko naranči prije skijanja, rizik od ozeblina može se znatno smanjiti , jer krv jače procirkulira prstima ruku i nogu . Istraživači su, osim toga, odabrali nekoliko žena i uronili im ruke u hladnu vodu. Temperatura prstiju, nakon izranjanja ruku iz hladne vode, oporavila se brže u grupi žena koja je koristile agrume, što pokazuje da je citrusni fitonutrijenti, ne samo održavaju ekstremitete toplijim, već i brže vraćaju temperaturu nakon hlađenja ekstremiteta. Naberite iglice smreke Ako se nađete na nekoj planini tokom prolećnih dana, naberite iglice smreke. Da biste smreku razlikovali od jele, treba da znate da su njene Iglice četvoroouglaste za raziliku od jelinih koje su pljosnate. Smreka sadrži etarska ulja, smole, tanin, terpentin, sumpor, fosfor, gvožđe, kalcijum, vitamin C (u mladim iglicama 250 do 300 mg u 100 g). Koristi se: * da smiri respiratorne tegobe * da ublaži kašalj Sirup protiv kašlja U teglu ređajte red mladih smrekinih izdanaka, pospite šećerom, pa ponovo izdancima, ponovo šećerom i tako dok ne dođete do vrha. Zatvorite gazom, stavite na toplo mesto i sačekajte dok se šećer ne rastopi a izdanci ne isplivaju. Sipajte u veći sud, dobro izgnječite, procedite kroz gazu, sipajte u flašu i dobro zatvorite. Koristite za decu po kašičicu tri puta dnevno, a za odrasle kašiku tri puta tokom dana. Kim - melem za stomak Ukoliko se ovog proleća nađate na nekoj od planinskih livada, naročito u blizini hrastovih, borovih i bukovih šuma potražite kim. Cela biljka je vrlo prijatnog mirisa jer sadrži obilje eteričnih ulja. Kim se svrstava u red biljaka štitarica, procvetava u aprilu, a u lekovite svrhe najdelotvorniji je kao karminativ - protiv nadimanja i gasova. Najlekovitije su semenke kima, koje mogu da se kupe i u biljnim apotekama i prodavnicama zdrave hrane. Po savetu našeg istaknutog biologa iz Kraljeva mr Živka Slavkovića predlažemo nekoliko recepata za upotrebu ove dragocene droge. Čaj protiv prehlade izazvane virusima Kašičicu semena kima zdrobiti flašom na papiru. Usitnjene delove sipati u emajliranu posudu i preliti sa 250ml proključale izvorske vode, po mogućstvu, i kuvati poklopljeno oko dva minuta. Skloniti sa vatre i ostaviti da odstoji 10 minuta. Procedite, zasladite kašičicom meda i pijte toplo dva puta dnevno sedam dana. Ovim čajem možete napariti i grlo i nos. Kim u vinu - protiv nadimanja i gasova Usitnjenu kašiku semena kima prokuvajte u pola litra vina. Ohladi se i procedi. Uzima se samo pola decilitra pre jela. Ovu mešavinu mogu da koriste samo odrasli! Čaj od kima protiv grčeva u stomaku za bebe Kašičica semena kima se zdrobi i prokuva u 250ml izvorske vode. Bebi se daje po pola decilitra toplog čaja na svaka dva sata. Stomačić se premaže toplim kantarionovim uljem i utopli pelenom. Sačuvajte stomak za vreme posta Kašičicu semenki kima dodajte u pola litra izvorske vode, poklopite i kuvajte 10 minuta. Skinite sa vatre i ostavite da odstoji 10 minuta. Čaj se pije više puta u toku dana. Pola litre čaja je doza za jednog čoveka Riba povećava učinkovitost mozga Ocjena: Ako jedete ribu, koja je bogata omega-3 masnim kiselinama, povećavate protok krvi u mozak i tako poboljšavate njegovu učinkovitost. Najnovije istraživanje pokazuje kako riba također može ubrzati vrijeme reakcije te smanjiti razinu umora u mozgu, čak i nakon obavljanja teških poslova. Britanski znanstvenici tvrde kako rezultati mogu biti osobito važni za starije osobe, pošto nam oni očito pokazuju kako imaju potencijal odbijanja demencije. Oni su konkretno proveli dva istraživanja kako bi ispitali utjecaje plave ribe. Volonteri su dobili dodatke prehrani s ribljim uljem koji su bogati s DHA omega-3 masnim kiselinama. Rezultati jednog istraživanja su pokazali kako uzimanje omega-3 dodataka tijekom izvršavanja mentalnih zadataka, potiče protok krvi u aktivna područja mozga. Drugo istraživanje je promatralo utjecaj davanja dvaju dodataka ribljeg ulja grupi volontera u dobi od 18-35 godina, na više od tri mjeseca. Rezultati su pokazali malo razlike u protoku krvi u mozak, ali je zato dokazano brže vrijeme reakcije te niža razina umora nakon što im je zadan zadatak koji moraju završiti. "Ova otkrića bi mogla imati implikacije za mentalno funkcioniranje u kasnijem životu," Top news prenosi izjavu autora istraživanja Philippa Jacksona sa Sveučilišta Northumbria iz Velike Britanije.:loler::) Tijelo daje signale koji vam signali fale : Što znače akne , osip , ukočenost i ostali znaci ? Kada vam vaše tijelo nešto poručuje , kao na primjer da štedjeti na kritičnim vitaminima , ono to može pokazati na dosta čudne načine . Pukotine na kutovima usana Nedostaju vam : željezo , cink i vitamini B skupine , kao što su niacin ( B3 ) , riboflavin ( B2 ) i B12 . Rješenje : Jedite više piletine i puretine , tune , jaja , blitve , kikirikija i mahunarki . Vitamin C poboljšava apsorpciju željeza pa navedene namirnice kombinirajte s brokulom, keljom , karfiolom ili paprikama . Crveni osip na licu koji se peruta i opadanje kose Nedostaje vam : biotin , koji je poznat i kao vitamin za kosu . Rješenje : Potrebno je jesti tvrdo kuhana ili pečena jaja , losos , avokado , gljive , cvjetača , soju , orašaste plodove , maline i banane . Crvene ili bijele izrasline koje nalikuju akne ( najčešće na obrazima , rukama , bedrima i stražnjici ) Nedostaju vam : esencijalne masne kiseline i vitamini A i D. Rješenje : Povećajte unos zdravih masti . Usredotočite se na unos orašastih plodova , kao što su orasi i bademi , kao i sjemenke ( sjemenke lana i chia sjemenke ) . Povećati unos vitamina A , jedite više povrća zelenih listova , mrkve i paprike . Što se tiče vitamina D , unosite više mliječnih proizvoda ili koristiti dodatke prehrani koji sadrže ovaj vitamin . Peckanje i utrnulost ruku , stopala i drugih dijelova tijela Nedostaju vam : vitamini B skupine , kao što su folna kiselina ( B9 ) , B6 i B12 . Rješenje : U ovim slučajevima mogu vam pomoći špinat , šparoge , cikla , grah , jaja i perad . Grčevi u mišićima u obliku probadajućeg bola ( u nožnim prstima , listovima , tabanima i nogama ) Nedostaju vam : magnezij , kalcij i kalij . Rješenje : Jedite više banana , badema , lješnjaka , trešanja , jabuka , grejpa , brokule , kelja i špinata . Majčina dušica olakšava disanje i opušta mišiće Narodni Lijek (http://www.narodnilijek.com/web/author/admin/) mar 11th, 2014 http://www.narodnilijek.com/web/wp-content/uploads/majcina-dusica.jpg Divlji bosiljak, tamjanika, timjan poljski, majčina dušica (http://www.narodnilijek.com/web/herbarium-timjan-poljski-majcina-dusica/), materinka, papric, bukovica, vreskovina, poponak, čabrac, vrisak, to su samo neki od naziva za istu ljekovitu biljku. SUŠENJE: Majčinu dušicu najbolje je brati na početku razdoblja cvatnje jer tad sadrži najviše ljekovitih sastojaka. Sušiti je treba na sjenovitu mjestu ili u dobro provjetrenoj prostoriji te je pritom nije preporučljivo dirati prstima nego prevrtati drvenim ili staklenim štapićima. Majčina dušica potječe iz južne Europe. Njen latinski naziv je Thymus serpyllum. Jaka je i aromatična mirisa, koji je ne samo ugodan nego i koristan jer u povrtnjaku tjera biljne uši, pa preporučuju da je posadite pokraj ruža. Majčina dušica voli osunčana mjesta bez stalne vlage i sjene te bogatu, suhu i laganu zemlju. Raste na livadama, pašnjacima, pokraj putova, po stijenama, uz kamenite padine i uz rubove šuma. Možete je uzgajati i u teglama iz reznica ili iz sjemena posijanog početkom travnja. Majčina dušica cvate cijelo ljeto, a bere se u svibnju, lipnju, srpnju, kolovozu i rujnu. Ljekoviti listovi i mladice s cvjetovima beru se na početku razdoblja cvatnje. Kod branja majčine dušice budite vrlo nježni. Ne čupajte biljku jer ćete je time uništiti, nego škarama odsijecite samo gornju polovinu lisnatih grančica u cvijetu. Ljekoviti sastojci nalaze se isključivo u listu i cvijetu, no oni su vrlo nepostojani te se nestručnim branjem, sušenjem i čuvanjem mogu potpuno izgubiti. Kako biste izbjegli isparavanje aromatičnih supstancija, listove i cvjetove treba sušiti na sjenovitu mjestu ili u dobro provjetrenoj prostoriji na temperaturi ne višoj od 40°C. Pri sušenju ih prevrćite drvenim ili staklenim štapićima, ne dirajući ih prstima. Osušenu majčinu dušicu spremite u platnene vreće te ih pohranite u suhu prostoriju. Osušena biljka sadrži oko 0,6% eteričnog ulja (Oleum Serpylli) te timol, karvakrol, tanin, gorke tvari i flavone. Kako ti ljekoviti sastojci ne bi isparili, čaj nikad ne kuhajte u otvorenoj posudi. Zbog ljekovitih sastojaka majčina je dušica od davnina omiljena u narodnoj medicini, a i Britanska herbalna farmakopeja (British Herbal Pharmacopoeia) uvrstila ju je u ljekovite biljke. Zbog njenih ljekovitih svojstava majčinu dušicu zovu i “sirotinjskim antibiotikom”. Upotrebljava se za liječenje bronhitisa, bronhijalnoga katara, upala grla i hripavca. Istraživanja su pokazala da flavonoidi majčine dušice imaju blagotvoran učinak na opuštanje mišića te da je djelotvorna u liječenju probavnih smetnji kao što su usporena probava, nadutost, grčevi i povraćanje. LJEKOVITI ČAJ OD MAJČINE DUŠICE Da bi čaj bio učinkovit, treba ga pravilno pripremiti. Uzmite jušnu žlicu majčine dušice, prelijte s 200 mililitara kipuće vode, poklopite i nakon pola sata procijedite te zasladite medom i pijte od tri do četiri šalice čaja dnevno. TINKTURA (http://www.narodnilijek.com/web/sta-je-tinktura/) ZA MASAŽU MIŠIĆA Tinktura za masažu mišića pravi se od zeljastih dijelova biljke, stabljike i listova koje ste prikupili u podne po sunčanom vremenu. Stavite u bocu te prelijte 40 postotnom votkom. Držite na toplom nekoliko tjedana.:YMDAYDREAM: Ako hoćete da se kilogrami tope, jedite ovo voće S. http://www.vijesti.ba/thumbnail.php?file=news/2014/March/grejfrut_990924695.jpg&size=article_medium Grejpfrut Pročitajte koje voće ima nevjerovatnu moć da topi masne naslage i ubrzava metabolizam. Većina voća sadrži prekomjernu količinu prirodnog šećera koji se veoma brzo pretvara u masti. Međutim, postoje i određene vrste voća koje pomažu sagorijevanje masti i kalorija, a njihov svakodnevni unos može pomoći u mršavljenju. Evo o kojem voću je riječ... Avokado Avokado sadrži veće količine omega-9 masnih kiselina, te ubrzava pretvaranje masti u energiju i poboljšava metabolizam. Limun Održavanje zdravlja jetre imperativ je za sposobnost organizma da obrađuje i sagorijeva masti, jer je jetra jedan od organa koji je odgovoran za ove funkcije. Tu na scenu stupa limun: on pomaže detoksikaciju jetre, čime se održava njeno zdravlje. Pored toga, limun ima i mnogobrojne koristi za cjelokupno zdravlje. Kokos Kokos je bogat trigliceridima srednjeg lanca koji povećavaju stopu metabolizma jetre i do 30 procenata. Pored toga, on je i veoma zasitan, pa je manja vjerovatnoća da ćete posegnuti za nezdravim grickalicama. Grejpfrut Veliki broj istraživanja potvrđuje da je grejpfrut odlično voće za sve koji žele da se riješe suvišnih kilograma. Jedno od tih istraživanja pokazuje da su žene koje su svakodnevno jele grejpfrut za trinaest mjeseci uspjele da izgube deset kilograma i to bez nekih većih promjena u ishrani i načinu života. Paradajz Iako je povrće, paradajz je pun C vitamina i likopena, te stimuliše proizvodnju aminokiseline poznate pod nazivom karnitin. Istraživanja pokazuju da karnitin ubrzava sposobnost organizma da sagorijeva masti i to za jednu trećinu. Zdravlje (http://www.vijesti.ba/tag/Zdravlje) Tri breskve na dan ubijaju rak http://www.vijesti.ba/thumbnail.php?file=news/2014/March/breskva_482411263.jpg&size=article_medium Breskve Konzumacija samo tri breskve dnevno može da pomogne u borbi protiv raka dojke, tvrdi najnovije istraživanje. Američki naučnici su do ovog značajnog otkrića došli na osnovu testiranja sprovedenim na miševima, piše "Daily Mail". ''Ćelije agresivnog raka dojke implementirali smo miševima pod kožu, a zatim ih tretirali ekstraktima breskve", rekao je dr. Luis Kisneros Zevalos, koji je sprovodio projekat. On je dodao da je tim uočio pozitivan efekat poslije samo nekoliko sedmica, što znači da su breskve "ubile" metastaze i zaustavile bolest. Naučnicu su, takođe, izračunali upotrijebljene doze na miševima i isprobali ih na ljudima, poslije čega su došli do zaključka da bi konzumacija dvije do tri breskve dnevno imala isti efekat i kod žena. U zapadnim zemljama rak dojke je najčešća vrsta raka kod žena, a najnoviji podaci pokazuju da je samo u Americi prošle godine oboljelo oko 232.000 žena. ''Važnost tog otkrića je značajna jer pokazuje kakav efekat na borbu protiv te smrtonosne bolesti imaju prirodni spojevi, u ovom slučaju fenolni spojevi u breskvi'', rekao je Kisneros Zevalos, koji ističe da je važno da se pojede čitav plod, a ne samo sok, jer konzumacija soka od breskve neće dati isti rezultat. NE BACAJTE BIJELI LUK KOJI JE PROKLIJAO: Nije stvar u štednji, nego o puno važnijim razlozima koji su nedavno otkriveni.... http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TcJjTFgICgE/UzXUWOFEVcI/AAAAAAAATrA/L78I5nJbGZw/s1600/cesnjak-proklijao.jpg (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TcJjTFgICgE/UzXUWOFEVcI/AAAAAAAATrA/L78I5nJbGZw/s1600/cesnjak-proklijao.jpg) Vjerovatno vam se dogodilo da bijeli luk proklija prije nego ste ga upotrijebili, no to ne znači da ga trebate bacati! Naprotiv, bijeli luk koji je pustio klice nakon pet dana ima znatno viši nivo antioksidanasa nego svježi bijeli luk, zaključak je nove studije objavljene u listu Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. To vam možda zvuči čudno, ali ima više smisla ako se u obzir uzme trenutni trend gdje sve veći broj prehrambenih tvrtki i restorana nudi proklijala zrna, orašaste plodove, mahunarke, jer taj proces zapravo poboljšava sastav hranjivih tvari. S ovom novom studijom, jasno je da se isto odnosi i na bijeli luk. Evo što se događa: “Biljke su vrlo osjetljive na napad bakterija, virusa i insekata tokom klijanja’, kaže autor studije dr. Jong-Sand Kim. ‘To uzrokuje da proizvode spojeve pod nazivom fitoaleksini kako bi se obranile. Većina njih je toksična za mikroorganizme i insekte, ali korisna za ljudsko zdravlje.” Proklijali ili ne, bijeli luk je uvijek dobar izbor. U obje varijante ima zdrave spojeve koji sadrže sumpor, poput alicina, za kojege studije pokazuju da usporavaju aterosklerozu, snižavaju krvni pritisak i smanjuju rizik od nekih vrsta raka. http://cdn.brzevijesti.ba/storage/2013/12/23/thumbs/52b86156-9228-4066-85d0-686d57e60dd4-drinkingwater460979746c-preview.jpg Istraživanja su pokazala da je postepeno mršavljenje najbolje Ovih 10 malih promjena će vam pomoći da brže smršate Istraživanja su pokazala da je postepeno mršavljenje najbolje. Ne treba da se upuštate ni u šta što obećava brze rezultate. Potrebno je samo da izvršite male izmjene i pridržavate ih se i rezultati neće izostati. Ovih 10 stvari treba da izmjenite kako biste brže smršali, piše 24sata.rs. UZMITE OLOVKU Pazite koliko jedete i zapisujte to. Nakon toga samo smanjite sve porcije. U jednoj studiji su ljudi koji su vodili dnevnik ishrane smršali duplo više od onih koji ga nisu vodili. PRESKOČITE REKLAME Tokom reklama na televiziji ustanite i krećite se. Skačite, igrajte, penjite se uz stepenice i spuštajte se, trčite po kući – radite bilo šta što ubrzava rad srca toliko da povremeno ostanete bez daha. Na taj način možete sagoreti i do 270 kalorija dnevno. OGRANIČITE MASNU HRANU Svu masnu i slatku hranu smanjite postepeno i ograničite je. Ako jedete 6 veoma slatkih ili veoma masnih stvari nedeljno, odrecite se jedne ove nedelje, a sljedeće nedjelje izbacite i drugu iz ishrane. ČITAJTE TEKSTOVE O MRŠAVLJENJU Studija je pokazala da oni koji redovno čitaju o dijetama i vježbanju tokom 16 nedelja povećavaju nivo psihičke aktivnosti i unos zdravih namirnica kao što su voće i povrće, a smanjuju unos zasićenih masti. ŠETAJTE 5 MINUTA DUŽE Samo nekoliko minuta više aktivnosti dnevno pomoći će vam da smršate. Treba da budete aktivni bar 30 minuta dnevno, ali tih 30 minuta ne mora biti odjednom. PRIDRŽAVAJTE SE „PRAVILA OD JEDNOG KILOMETRA“ Mnogi ljudi sjednu u auto i odvezu se čak i kada je razdaljina do koje idu manja od jednog kilometra. Umjesto da trošite gorivo, trošite kalorije. JEDITE 10 MINUTA Nemojte jesti kao da ste na takmičenju, nego usporite. Uživajte u svakom zalogaju, žvaćite 20 puta svaki zalogaj i znat ćete kada ste siti i kada treba da stanete, a kada vam treba još. JEDITE VOĆE UMESTO DA GA PIJETE Umjesto da pijete voćne sokove, jedite voće. Ne samo da ćete unijeti zdrava vlakna, nego ćete duže biti siti. OBEZBJEDITE SEBI TEHNIČKU PODRŠKU Vježbanje sa prijateljem je mnogo ljepše, ali ne morate to da radite uživo. Sada postoje i programi za komunikaciju preko kamere, pa može svako od vas da bude kod svoje kuće. Jedna studija je pokazala da žene koje vježbaju u društvu brže mršave. PIJTE OBIČNU KAFU Jedna šoljica kafe sa malo šećera ima mnogo manje kalorija od „fenski“ kafa iz kafića. Izbjegavajte da pijete kafe po kafićima svakodnevno i uživajte u mirisu sopstvene kafe čuvajući se, pri tom, i od dodatnih kalorija. 6 znakova da jedete da biste se izborili sa emocijama Jede vam se nešto slatko ili nešto hrskavo? Možda, u stvari, hranite svoja osećanja (http://zena.blic.rs/Zdravlje/18527/Prejedanje-kao-uteha-nova-mentalna-bolest), a ne svoj stomak. Ali možete da prekinete tu naviku. Ako ste kod sebe primetili neki od ovih znakova, ondahttp://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png (http://zena.blic.rs/Zdravlje/21883/6-znakova-da-jedete-da-biste-se-izborili-sa-emocijama#) često jedete više da biste se izborili sa emocijama, nego zato što ste gladni. http://zena.blic.rs/data/images/2014/03/21/12/55438_profimedia0087595382_630x0.jpg?ver=139540324 2 Mnogi ljudi ne jedu zato što su gladni, nego zato što imaju emotivnih problemahttp://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png (http://zena.blic.rs/Zdravlje/21883/6-znakova-da-jedete-da-biste-se-izborili-sa-emocijama#) JEDE VAM SE ISTA HRANA U ISTO VREME Da li vam se uvek u isto vreme jede nešto slatko ili vam se uvek u isto doba jedu kokice? Ako ste to primetili, svaki sledeći put se zapitajte da li ste zaista gladni ili pokušavate da smirite emocije. Ako je u pitanju ovo drugo, umesto da jedete, prošetajte 10 minuta ili pišite dnevnik kako biste izbacili sve iz sebe ili pozovite nekog prijatelja i opustite se u kratkom razgovoru. PREJEDETE SE KADA STE SREĆNI ILI KADA SE OSEĆATE LEPOhttp://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png (http://zena.blic.rs/Zdravlje/21883/6-znakova-da-jedete-da-biste-se-izborili-sa-emocijama#) Ljudi više jedu kada su zadovoljni, jer ne žele sebi da pokvare uživanje uzdržavajući se od hrane. A sutra se kaju zbog previše kalorija. Morate misliti o onome što jedete. Ne morate se uzdržavati od svega, ali nemojte ni preterivati. http://zena.blic.rs/data/images/2014/03/21/12/55439_profimedia0157905776_300x0.jpg?ver=139540331 93) PALI STE NA „JABUKA TESTU“ Sledeći put kada budete bili gladni, pojedite jednu jabuku. Ako je ona zadovoljila glad, ondahttp://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png (http://zena.blic.rs/Zdravlje/21883/6-znakova-da-jedete-da-biste-se-izborili-sa-emocijama#) ste bili gladni. Ako ste i dalje gladni, hrana vam se traži iz emocionalnih razloga. Nađite nešto da sebi skrenete pažnju na 10 minuta – nešto što biste mogli da uradite umesto da jedete, kao što je čitanje članka u časopisu, igranje sa psom ili tuširanje. VAŠA SNAGA VOLJE SLABI KAKO SE DAN PRIBLIŽAVA KRAJU Popodnevna prejedanja najčešće su odgovor na stres koji se nakupio u toku dana. Ali ako zgrabite hranu bogatu ugljenim hidratima, samo ste pojačali stres. Kako biste sprečili popodnevne napade gladi i održali nivo stresa na normali, jedite tri obroka i dve užine dnevno. Jela treba da imaju bar 300 kalorija i 15 grama proteina, a užine oko 150 kalorija i 10 grama proteina. Da biste izbegli popodnevni nalet gladi, jedite najmanje na svaka tri satahttp://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png (http://zena.blic.rs/Zdravlje/21883/6-znakova-da-jedete-da-biste-se-izborili-sa-emocijama#). OSEĆATE SE KRIVIM NAKON ŠTO POJEDETE NEŠTO ŠTO „NE BISTE SMELI“ Ljudi koji jedu da bi umirili emocije osećaju se bolje dok jedu, ali nakon toga se osećaju loše jer nisu umeli da se kontrolišu. Kako biste zatvorili krughttp://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png (http://zena.blic.rs/Zdravlje/21883/6-znakova-da-jedete-da-biste-se-izborili-sa-emocijama#) „dobre“ i „loše" hrane, razmišljajte o hrani punoj kalorija i ugljenih hidarata kao o izvorima energije i hranljivim materijama. Razmišlajte o onome što čini da se osećate dobro – možda su to omlet, ovsena kaša ili voće – i uvek imajte tu hranu uz sebe. TRPATE HRANU U USTA Umesto da jedete polako, ponašate se kao da ste na takmičenju. Morate napraviti razliku između emocionalne i fizičke gladi. Istinska gladhttp://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png (http://zena.blic.rs/Zdravlje/21883/6-znakova-da-jedete-da-biste-se-izborili-sa-emocijama#) nailazi postepeno i praćena je krčanjem stomaka, iziritiranošću, glavoboljama i nedostatkom energije. Udahnite i izdahnite duboko najmanje 10 puta. Ne samo da će vam se potreba za hranom smanjiti ako niste zaista gladni, nego će se i hemikalije u mozgu izbalansirati, pa ćete pažljivije izabrati šte ćete da jedete. Kaša sa pšeničnim mekinjama – kao oblog (http://zdravapriroda.com/featured/kasa-sa-psenicnim-mekinjama-kao-oblog-2221.html) http://zdravapriroda.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/psenica1-620x387.jpgJednostavan recept kako da sami sebi spremite zdravu masu kojuhttp://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png (http://zdravapriroda.com/featured/kasa-sa-psenicnim-mekinjama-kao-oblog-2221.html#) koristite kao oblog za liječenje čireva, apscesa, antraksa i sličnih oboljenja. U 1 litru vrelog mlijeka dodajte pšenične mekinje ili mekani dio (bezhttp://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png (http://zdravapriroda.com/featured/kasa-sa-psenicnim-mekinjama-kao-oblog-2221.html#) kore) crnog kruha (od cijelog zrna pšenice), kao i jedno žumance jajeta. Dobili ste kašu. Koristi se kao lokalni oblog protiv čireva (furunkula), apscesa (zagnoja), flegmona (upale staničnog tkiva izazvanog gnojenjem i praćenog bolom), antraksa (crnog prišta) djelujući tako što sakuplja i odvodi gnoj, a također smiruje i bol u zglobovima (naročito koljenima). Kaša se može dobiti i od: 5 izlupanih (izgnječenih) listova kupusa, 2 glavice crnog luka (također izgnječenog), 5 šaka pšeničnih mekinja i malo vode. Kuha se 20 minuta dok voda ne ispari i ne nastane žitka masahttp://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png (http://zdravapriroda.com/featured/kasa-sa-psenicnim-mekinjama-kao-oblog-2221.html#). Ovu kataplazmu dok je još vruća treba staviti na platno, obložiti oboljelo mjesto, i držati 2 do 4 sata. almond eyes 6 znakova da jedete da biste se izborili sa emocijama Jede vam se nešto slatko ili nešto hrskavo? Možda, u stvari, hranite svoja osećanja (http://zena.blic.rs/Zdravlje/18527/Prejedanje-kao-uteha-nova-mentalna-bolest), a ne svoj stomak. Ali možete da prekinete tu naviku. Ako ste kod sebe primetili neki od ovih znakova, ondahttp://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png (http://zena.blic.rs/Zdravlje/21883/6-znakova-da-jedete-da-biste-se-izborili-sa-emocijama#) često jedete više da biste se izborili sa emocijama, nego zato što ste gladni. http://zena.blic.rs/data/images/2014/03/21/12/55438_profimedia0087595382_630x0.jpg?ver=139540324 2 Mnogi ljudi ne jedu zato što su gladni, nego zato što imaju emotivnih problemahttp://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png (http://zena.blic.rs/Zdravlje/21883/6-znakova-da-jedete-da-biste-se-izborili-sa-emocijama#) JEDE VAM SE ISTA HRANA U ISTO VREME Da li vam se uvek u isto vreme jede nešto slatko ili vam se uvek u isto doba jedu kokice? Ako ste to primetili, svaki sledeći put se zapitajte da li ste zaista gladni ili pokušavate da smirite emocije. Ako je u pitanju ovo drugo, umesto da jedete, prošetajte 10 minuta ili pišite dnevnik kako biste izbacili sve iz sebe ili pozovite nekog prijatelja i opustite se u kratkom razgovoru. PREJEDETE SE KADA STE SREĆNI ILI KADA SE OSEĆATE LEPOhttp://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png (http://zena.blic.rs/Zdravlje/21883/6-znakova-da-jedete-da-biste-se-izborili-sa-emocijama#) Ljudi više jedu kada su zadovoljni, jer ne žele sebi da pokvare uživanje uzdržavajući se od hrane. A sutra se kaju zbog previše kalorija. Morate misliti o onome što jedete. Ne morate se uzdržavati od svega, ali nemojte ni preterivati. http://zena.blic.rs/data/images/2014/03/21/12/55439_profimedia0157905776_300x0.jpg?ver=139540331 93) PALI STE NA „JABUKA TESTU“ Sledeći put kada budete bili gladni, pojedite jednu jabuku. Ako je ona zadovoljila glad, ondahttp://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png (http://zena.blic.rs/Zdravlje/21883/6-znakova-da-jedete-da-biste-se-izborili-sa-emocijama#) ste bili gladni. Ako ste i dalje gladni, hrana vam se traži iz emocionalnih razloga. Nađite nešto da sebi skrenete pažnju na 10 minuta – nešto što biste mogli da uradite umesto da jedete, kao što je čitanje članka u časopisu, igranje sa psom ili tuširanje. VAŠA SNAGA VOLJE SLABI KAKO SE DAN PRIBLIŽAVA KRAJU Popodnevna prejedanja najčešće su odgovor na stres koji se nakupio u toku dana. Ali ako zgrabite hranu bogatu ugljenim hidratima, samo ste pojačali stres. Kako biste sprečili popodnevne napade gladi i održali nivo stresa na normali, jedite tri obroka i dve užine dnevno. Jela treba da imaju bar 300 kalorija i 15 grama proteina, a užine oko 150 kalorija i 10 grama proteina. Da biste izbegli popodnevni nalet gladi, jedite najmanje na svaka tri satahttp://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png (http://zena.blic.rs/Zdravlje/21883/6-znakova-da-jedete-da-biste-se-izborili-sa-emocijama#). OSEĆATE SE KRIVIM NAKON ŠTO POJEDETE NEŠTO ŠTO „NE BISTE SMELI“ Ljudi koji jedu da bi umirili emocije osećaju se bolje dok jedu, ali nakon toga se osećaju loše jer nisu umeli da se kontrolišu. Kako biste zatvorili krughttp://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png (http://zena.blic.rs/Zdravlje/21883/6-znakova-da-jedete-da-biste-se-izborili-sa-emocijama#) „dobre“ i „loše" hrane, razmišljajte o hrani punoj kalorija i ugljenih hidarata kao o izvorima energije i hranljivim materijama. Razmišlajte o onome što čini da se osećate dobro – možda su to omlet, ovsena kaša ili voće – i uvek imajte tu hranu uz sebe. TRPATE HRANU U USTA Umesto da jedete polako, ponašate se kao da ste na takmičenju. Morate napraviti razliku između emocionalne i fizičke gladi. Istinska gladhttp://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png (http://zena.blic.rs/Zdravlje/21883/6-znakova-da-jedete-da-biste-se-izborili-sa-emocijama#) nailazi postepeno i praćena je krčanjem stomaka, iziritiranošću, glavoboljama i nedostatkom energije. Udahnite i izdahnite duboko najmanje 10 puta. Ne samo da će vam se potreba za hranom smanjiti ako niste zaista gladni, nego će se i hemikalije u mozgu izbalansirati, pa ćete pažljivije izabrati šte ćete da jedete. Odavno je poznato da vecina ljudi(oni koji imaju hrane u izobilju)ne jede samo da bi prezivjela(sto je glavni razlog unosa hrane),vec i iz raznih drugih razloga.Iz toga onda proizadju drugi,novi problemi,i tako ukrug. Ako si nesretan u ljubavi,poslu i sl.,uskoro ces biti i nesretan i debeo,ili nesretan i ljut na sebe. Kako god:) Odavno je poznato da vecina ljudi(oni koji imaju hrane u izobilju)ne jede samo da bi prezivjela(sto je glavni razlog unosa hrane),vec i iz raznih drugih razloga.Iz toga onda proizadju drugi,novi problemi,i tako ukrug. Ako si nesretan u ljubavi,poslu i sl.,uskoro ces biti i nesretan i debeo,ili nesretan i ljut na sebe. Kako god:) Ah to nije tacno .Mnogi bi zeljeli da se udebljaju bar 1 kg ali ne ide ne prima im se zbog pakosti i pasjaluka:p:pEvo np moja kcerka je visoka 1,79 cm teska 58 kg nikad nije dobila 1 kg ima evo 15 god- vaga uvijek 56-58 i poslije poroda brzo sleti na isto.Ja mislim da je to ipak u genima ,dok joj je sestra punija i ne moze bas tako da smrsa kako bi htijela.Sve to zavisi od tipa osobe ,naravi i fizicke aktivnosti.Imas ljudi koji su puniji ali su aktivni i izdrzljivi u svemu cak danas na RTL kazu da su bolje ljubavnice i da lakse dijecu radzaju.Ko bi ga sve znao ima analiza tona mala:):) Evo ja 176visoka a 84kg,ma nikakva dieta ne pomaze kad volim pojest dzaba ti8-}8-}a jedem rucak samo i oko 17-18 sati neku sitnicu ,sto kazu vode se napijes prima se.Moj dr kaze da to ima veze sa stitnjacom jer imam poremecenu funkciju i da je teze smrsati,da budem iskrena ja se osjecam mnogo zdravije i otpornije s ovim stanjem koje je sad i nemam problem bas mi fino pa trosila se il ne trosila nidze veze s tim8-}[-x[-xNisam nikad cula da ima nesretnih debelih osoba zbog toga ,jedino mogu one koje su zavidne na neciji izgled-htijele bi a ne mogu to je dr stvar.Svaka osoba je prica za sebe.:loler::d:d Pogledajte kojih pet slatkih namirnica bez problema mogu biti zamjena za aspirin (http://zdravapriroda.com/featured/pogledajte-kojih-pet-slatkih-namirnica-bez-problema-mogu-biti-zamjena-za-aspirin-2784.html)http://zdravapriroda.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/maline-620x349.jpg Lijekovi koje možemo naći u prirodi šareni su i sitni baš kao i oni koje nam nude farmaceuti. Ali, u prirodi su lijekovi zapakirani u sitnim voćnim bobicama koje su vrlo ukusne i nemaju nikakve neugodne nuspojave. To su ove namirnice: BorovniceBorovnice su prepune fitonutrijenata. Sadrže elaginsku kiselinu, katehine, antocijanine i salicilnu kiselinu. Borovnice su zapravo prirodni aspirin. Da, sljedeći put kada budete imali glavobolju, jedite borovnice! Pomažu i pri smanjenju broja proteina koji se dovode u vezu s bolestima mozga kao što su Alzheimer i Parkinsonova. Sprečavaju i opasne neurološke poremećaje. KupineKupine sadrže vrlo važnu hranjivu tvar poznatu pod imenom – elagična kiselina. Ona štiti ćelije kože od štetnih UV zraka. Usporava i raspadanje kolagena u koži. Jedete li ih često nećete se tako lako naborati. RibizleRibizle su posebno cijenjene jer sadrže gama-linoleničnu kiselinu. Ova kiselina zaustavlja alergijsku reakciju koju tijelo pokrene kako bi izoliralo strane tvari kao što je pelud. Jedete li ribizle smanjit ćete svrbež u očima i začepljenje sinusa. MalineMaline također djeluju poput aspirina. Jedući maline možete izliječiti glavobolju, jer sadrže bitan spoj koji efikasno smanjuje bol i upale, čak i bolje od aspirina. Pojedini nutrijenti u njima štite ćelije od onečišćujućih tvari koje se nalaze u prerađenoj hrani i duhanskom dimu. JagodeJeste li znali da jagode sadrže više vitamina C nego narandže? Zovu ih i fabrike antioksidanasa, a jedući ove bobice spriječit ćete artritis, gubitak pamćenja, različite oblike raka i bolesti srca. Osim toga one su tako slasne sa šlagom – samo neka bude bez šećera. Sušene jabuke za zdravo srce i dobru krvnu sliku (http://zdravapriroda.com/featured/susene-jabuke-za-zdravo-srce-i-dobru-krvnu-sliku-3401.html)http://zdravapriroda.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/cips-jabuka-susene-jabuke-slika-29700366-620x465.jpgSušene jabuke imaju neočekivano pozitivan učinak na zdravlje, pokazuje najnovije istraživanje. Krvna slika značajno se popravlja posle pola godine uz konzumaciju 75 grama sušenih jabuka na dan što ujedno popravlja zdravstveno stanje srca i kardiovaskularnog ssistema. Istraživanje je sprovedeno na ženama u menopauzi (160 žena između 45 i 65 godina), a rezultati su nedavno predstavljeni na konferenciji “Experimental Biology 2011″ u Washingtonu. Kod žena koje su, uz svoju redovnu prehranu, redovno jele i sušene jabuke smanjio se nivo lošeg LDL kolesterola. Visoki udio šećera u suvom voću pritom se nije negativno odrazio na tjelesnu težinu ispitanica, upravo suprotno – žene su u prosjeku izgubile 1,5 kilograma. “Do velikih poboljšanja došlo je već poslen šest mjeseci. LDL kolesterol je pao za 23 posto, a dobar holesterol se istovremeno povećao za 4 posto”, rekao je Bahram H. Arjmandi sa univerziteta Florida State. Zdravstveni testovi pokazali su i smanjenje upalnih procesa u krvi. Liječnici koji su bili uključeni u istraživanje navode da su sušene jabuke izrazito zdrave grickalice koje pospješuju zdravlje srca i cijelog krvožilnog sustava. Kokosov orah – izvor hrane, zdravlja i lepoteJuba (http://matrixworldhr.wordpress.com/author/matrixworldhr/) / 1 tjedan ago (http://matrixworldhr.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/kokosov-orah-izvor-hrane-zdravlja-i-lepote/) Autor: Dušica Salai Matrix World Kokos je višenamenska biljka – koristi se kao hrana (i kao piće), kao lek, u kozmetici, u izradi odeće, kao građevinski materijal i kao sirovina za mnoge proizvode savremene industrije. Lako se vari, bogat je hranljivim materijama i mineralima, delotvoran je protiv gljivica, bakterija i virusa i poznat je kao antioksidant. Pored toga, kokosov orah snižava vrednosti šećera u krvi, štiti jetru i poboljšava imunitet, a ima i blagotvorno dejstvo na kožu i kosu. Kokosova voda je čak korišćena i kao infuzija, budući da je izotonična i sterilna, a na Filipinima i u Meksiku se fermentacijom kokosovog oraha dobija vino zvano „tuba“ obogaćeno probioticima. Kokosov orah je plod kokosove palme (Cocos nucifera) i strogo botanički gledano spada u koštunice. Kad dostigne zrelost, težak je izmđu 1 i 4 kg i sadrži i do litar kokosove vode, a na jednoj palmi bude 11-16 kokosovih oraha. Rasprostranjen je u tropskim krajevima, pogotovu na obalama i ostrvima Tihog i Indijskog okeana, delovima Indijie i Južne Amerike. Poreklo kokosa je predmet rasprave jer neka naučna istraživanja ukazuju na Indo-Pacifičko poreklo (Tihi i Indijski ocean), dok su drugi zagovornici teze da poreklo vodi iz severozapadne Južne Amerike, gde je pronađen jedan od fosila kokosove palme. http://matrixworldhr.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/1-kokos.jpg?w=554&h=373 (http://matrixworldhr.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/1-kokos.jpg) Palma kokosa sa plodom. Smatra se da su mu ime nadenuli portugalski moreplovci. Naime, veruje se da su ih tri udubljenja koja kokos ima u osnovi asocirala na sablast, ili vešticu što se na portugalskom kaže „coco“. Kako Coconut Research Center navodi, ishrana ogromnog dela svetske populacije zavisi od svežeg kokosa. Prerađuje se širom sveta u kokosovo mleko, brašno, šećer i maslac, bezbrojne kozmetičke proizvode i sapune, i naravno, kokosovo ulje. O sastavu, hranljnivim i lekovitim svojstvima kokosovog ulja smo pisali ovde (http://matrixworldhr.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/kokosovo-ulje-super-hrana-protiv-super-bakterija-virusa-i-gljivica/), a o brojnim mogućnostma primene kokosovog ulja u ishrani, kozmetici i lečenju ovde (http://matrixworldhr.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/vise-od-100-razloga-za-koristenje-kokosa-kao-kucnog-lijeka-za-prirodno-poboljsanje-zdravlja/). http://matrixworldhr.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/1-kokosov-orah-van.png?w=542&h=409 (http://matrixworldhr.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/1-kokosov-orah-van.png) Izgled zdravog ploda kokosove palme. Prema pisanju Natural News, jedinstvena kombinacija masnih kiselina koje kokos sadrži ima pozitivan uticaj na zdravlje, pomaže u regulaciji telesne težine, poboljšava funkcije mozga, podstiče zdravlje kardiovaskularnog sistema, i dobar je izvor minerala neophodnih za funkcionisanje mnogih enzima. Uticaj kokosa na regulaciju telesne težine Kokosov orah je bogat trigliceridima srednje dugog lanca (MCTs), tipu prehrambene masnoće za koju je poznato da pokreće mršavljenje zbog brzine kojom je naše telo metaboliše. Jedna studija objavljena u izdanju Ceylon Medical Journaljuna 2006., na primer, pokazala je dase MCTstokom varenja razlažu na slobodne masne kiseline srednje dugog lanca i monogliceride- dve supstance koje naše telo koristi odmah, umesto da ih skladišti kao salo. Štaviše, poznato je da MCTssuzbijaju glad efikasnije od dugo-lančanih triglicerida (nalaze se u hrani kao što su meso i sir), što sprečava prejedanje i vremenom smanjuje unos kalorija. Kako kokos podstiče zdravlje kardiovaskularnog sistema Velike količine MCTs u kokosu se takođe povezuju sa poboljšavanjem zdravlja kardiovaskularnog sistema. Prema rečima dr. Marie Pierre St-Onge, vodećeg istraživača u studiji objavljenoj u izdanju časopisa American College of Nutrition oktobra 2008. dobrovoljci koji su u sklopu četvoromesečnog programa mršavljenja u ishrani imali MCTs, doživeli su primetno smanjenje nivoa ukupnog holesterola i štetnog LDL holesterola. Dakle, ako patite od povišenog nivoa holesterola, dodavanje više kokosovih oraha u ishranu moglo bi da pomogne da ga stabilizujete. http://matrixworldhr.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/1-meso-kokosa.jpg?w=547&h=368 (http://matrixworldhr.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/1-meso-kokosa.jpg) Unutrašnjost kokosovog oraha. Kokos – odličan izvor vlakana Prema USDA National Nutrient Database, jedna šolja mesa kokosovog oraha sadrži 7 grama dijetalnih vlakana. Iako većina ljudi zna da vlakna čiste crevni trakt i mogu da pomognu lečenju opstipacije, članak objavljen u izdanju Nutrition Revievs aprila 2009 pokazuje da ishrana bogata vlaknima takođe smanjuje nivo šećera u krvi, štiti nas od dijabetesa, podiže imunitet i – kao iMCTs – snižava nivo LDL holesterola u krvi. U stvari, kokosovi orasi su jedna od najboljih namirnica za održavanje zdravlja krvi. Poboljšan rad mozga uz pomoć kokosa Jedna porcija svežeg mesa kokosovog oraha obezbeđuje 17 odsto preporučenog dnevnog unosa (RDI) bakra, neophodnog mikroelementa koji aktivira enzime odgovorne za proizvodnju neurotransmitera – hemikalija koje mozak koristi za prenos informacija od jedne ćelije do druge. Iz tog razloga, hrana bogata bakrom, poput kokosa, može da pomogne da nas zaštiti od kognitivnog opadanja vezanog za starenje. Štaviše, studija objavljena u oktobru 2013. u Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease pokazuje da ulje u mesu kokosovog oraha može da pomogne u zaštiti nervnih ćelija od proteinskih plakova, koji doprinose progresiji Alchajmerove bolesti. Mineralni sadržaj – Budući da se kokosov orah pretežno sastoji od masti, njegov profil minerala niži je od drugog tropskog voća. Ipak, kokosov orah sadrži solidan nivo kalijuma, gvožđa, fosfora, magnezijuma, cinka i važnog antioksidansa, selena. Pored toga, jedna porcija mesa kokosovog oraha takođe nam obezbeđuje 60 odsto RDI magnezijuma,minerala koji omogućava brojne hemijske reakcije u našem telu a ogroman broj nas pati od nedostatka magnezijuma a da to i ne zna. Izvori Matrix World: Namirnice koje biste trebali jesti svaki dan (http://zdravapriroda.com/featured/namirnice-koje-biste-trebali-jesti-svaki-dan-2959.html)http://zdravapriroda.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/zema_kasika.jpg Hrana koja se nudi po dućanima, tržnicama… toliko je raznovrsna da je ponekad teško odabrati. Predlažemo da uvedete pet novih namirnica svaki tjedan, imajući na umu da jedete raznovrsno voće, povrće, žitarice punog zrna i potrebne proteine. Krumpir, piletina, jaja, mlijeko, kruh, meso i luk. Nedavna istraživanja pokazuju da se građani Hrvatske najčešće hrane kombinirajući ove namirnice. No, ponuda hrane je daleko raznovrsnija i šteta je da ne isprobate nove okuse i u organizam unesete važne hranjive tvari. Prvi tjedan započnite ovim namirnicama, no nemojte ih zaboraviti ni kasnije: Crvena paprikaZačinite obroke ljutom paprikom. Kapsaicin u njima ubrzat će metabolizam (pomažući u izgaranju masnog tkiva). Kako je koristiti? Dodajte crvenu papriku u marinade za meso, u omlete ili jednostavno u salate. KeljAko ste u potrazi za povrćem koje će obogatiti uobičajenu salatu, pokušajte s lisnatim zelenim povrćem kao što je kelj. Jedna šalica sirovog kelja zadovoljit će dnevne potrebe za vitaminima A i C. Kako ga koristiti? Kelj je ukusan i sirov kao hrskava salata. U salatu dodajte maslinovo ulje i limun, koji će omekšati lisnato povrće, dodajte pinjole i sušeno voće za dodatni okus. Ili ga naprosto skuhajte, i na taj ćete način obogatiti organizam dodatnom dozom zdravlja. Sjemenke chiaChia su izniman izvor omega-3 masnih kiselina i trebaju biti dio vaše prehrane. Pokazalo se da uravnotežuju krvni tlak, popravljaju raspoloženje i štite srce tako što smanjuju razinu lošeg kolesterola. Kako ih koristiti? Dodajte ove čudesne sjemenke u zobenu kašu, šejkove, peciva i jogurt. OrasiOrasi su bogati vlaknima, magnezijem i antioksidansima, poput vitamina E. Pokazalo se i da dvije šake oraha na dan mogu poboljšati protok krvi i pomoći u smanjenju krvnog tlaka. Kako ih koristiti? Orahe je lako uklopiti u prehranu. Oni su savršen dodatak za zobene kaše i salate. Možete ih ubaciti i u jela s mesom te grickati umjesto slatkiša. Bademov i maslac od kikirikijaBademov i maslac od kikirikija puni su zdravih masnoća i proteina. Kupujte nesoljeni, bez dodanog šećera i konzervansa. Kako ga koristiti? Mažite na sendviče i bit ćete zadovol Powered by vBulletin® Version 4.1.12 Copyright © 2014 vBulletin Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved.