A WARNING that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it.

Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a benchmark report that was claimed to incorporate the latest and most detailed research into the impact of global warming. A central claim was the world’s glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035.

In the past few days the scientists behind the warning have admitted that it was based on a news story in the New Scientist, a popular science journal, published eight years before the IPCC’s 2007 report. Read the full story

A senior Iranian anti-drug official has accused the US, Britain and Canada of playing a major role in Afghanistan’s lucrative drug trade.

On the sidelines of an anti-drug conference in Tehran, deputy head of Iran’s Drug Control Headquarters Taha Taheri said that Western powers are aiding the drug trade in Afghanistan.

“According to our indisputable information, the presence of the United States, Britain and Canada has not reduced the drug trade and the three countries have had major roles in the distribution of drugs,” IRIB quoted Taheri as saying on Thursday. Read the full story

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PORT-AU-PRINCE — The United States, France, Canada and governments across Latin America were gearing up to help Haiti, after a massive 7.0 earthquake leveled buildings and caused an unknown number of casualties.

US President Barack Obama said his government stood “ready to assist the people of Haiti,” as the State Department, USAID and United States Southern Command mobilized, the White House said, “to coordinate an assessment and any such assistance.”

In Paris, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said France “expresses its complete solidarity” with Haiti, adding that his ministry’s crisis center had begun working “to mobilize and dispatch without delay urgent aid to Port-au-Prince.” Read the full story

We have found video of Al Gore being confronted by a group known as We Are Change Chicago at a signing for his new book – “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis” (which has been proven to use fraudulent images via Photoshop to help his cause). Reports have surfaced that scientists involved with global warming have used fraudulent or incorrect data have added new twists to claims that global warming is caused by man and increased CO2 emissions.

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It took just six months for a warm and sunny Europe to be engulfed in ice, according to new research.

Previous studies have suggested the arrival of the last Ice Age nearly 13,000 years ago took about a decade – but now scientists believe the process was up to 20 times as fast.

In scenes reminiscent of the Hollywood blockbuster The day After Tomorrow, the Northern Hemisphere was frozen by a sudden slowdown of the Gulf Stream, which allowed ice to spread hundreds of miles southwards from the Arctic. Read the full story

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A severed foot has washed up on the shores of Canada’s Pacific coast, in the eighth such incident in two years, police said on Thursday.

The foot, in a size 8.5 white Nike running shoe, was discovered on Tuesday by two men walking on a beach in a suburb of Vancouver, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement.

The British Columbia coroners’ office is conducting a forensic autopsy and other tests to try to match it to missing persons, police said.

Seven feet were previously found along the rugged coast of British Columbia province and the neighbouring US state of Washington, including one later determined to have belonged to a missing man who was depressed. The other feet discovered include a female pair, a male pair and a male right foot.

DNA testing has not yet determined the identities of the others, said police.

Scientists say the feet could have drifted dozens or thousands of miles because human body parts can remain intact in water for years when protected by shoes or sturdy clothing.

“There has been no evidence to date to support foul play in relation to these discoveries and it appears that all remains separated from the body, disarticulated, through a natural process,” police said.

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Fuel-efficient cars not as ‘green’ as you might think

By David Balinsky
Published: Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Updated: Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Nowadays it is very chic to run out and buy a nice new “green” hybrid.

However, many people only look at the fuel that the consumer saves and some educated buyers will occasionally glance at the emissions rating.

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia – On an unseasonably warm day in mid-September in this hotbed of hockey, a crowd packed around a makeshift fence at David Lam Park to watch a slightly staged pickup soccer game.

One team had members of the Vancouver Whitecaps, who play in the top tier of the United Soccer Leagues and are destined to join Major League Soccer in 2011.

On the other team was a scruffy-haired local athlete: Steve Nash.

The several hundred fans who came for this “Showdown in Downtown” charity match – put together by Nash – watched the Suns point guard, Whitecaps minority owner and full-time soccer nut set up headers with precision passes, boot one-time kicks and control the general speed of the match.

Five days later, 5,135 fans crowded the Whitecaps’ home at Swangard Stadium to cheer a different local athlete with the same jutting jaw and petite facial features: Steve’s brother Martin, the Whitecaps’ starting midfielder and captain. He did much of the same – paced the soccer pitch with high lobs and passes, continuously finding teammates throughout the match.

While their playing styles might appear similar, the Nash brothers have increased the profile of soccer in this city in different ways – Steve with his name recognition, Martin with his behind-the-scenes grunt work.

“I’m out and about in the community here, in being a part of this team and coaching. I think it was good for (Steve) to get involved, to be behind the (Whitecaps’ MLS) bid,” Martin Nash said. “I think it is good for publicity for the MLS as well to have him interested and being involved.”

Around Vancouver, signs of Steve Nash’s celebrity are pasted across the city: sports clubs he owns, billboard advertisements, people wearing his No. 13 Suns jersey. Although hockey rules Vancouver, Steve, who grew up in nearby Victoria, is the region’s favorite son.

“He is a recognizable face, a huge celebrity here in Canada – our most famous current athlete,” Whitecaps defender Marco Reda said.

In July 2008, after talking with his friend, Whitecaps co-owner and former Yahoo! president, Jeff Mallett, it was announced that Steve would make a financial commitment to the Whitecaps as a minority owner. At that point, the Whitecaps were planning to bid to join MLS in 2011.

Formed in 1974, the Whitecaps boasted a sound fan base, good facilities, and stable ownership with Mallett, majority owner Greg Kerfoot and Boston Celtics co-owner Steve Luczo. But Nash brought a different type of quality to the bid – a star quality.

“You can just see the positives in terms of him, not just being known by the fans, but interacting with the fans and having a passion for the sport which is really important here,” MLS president Mark Abbott said. “You can tell that he loves the game.”

And on March 18, this helped Vancouver win its bid.

“I think the MLS was very excited that Steve would be a tag associated with our club,” Whitecaps president Bob Lenarduzzi said. “It was very exciting to have someone of his stature and the way he conducts himself. He brings a lot of, a lot more profile to the club.”

Steve’s celebrity status with the Whitecaps could easily overshadow Martin’s accomplishments, but the younger Nash has carved his own soccer niche in the area. Martin, 33, who is in his ninth season with the Whitecaps, spends close to 20 hours a week coaching soccer. Some of it is for pay, some of it is for fun, but all of it comes from his social conscience – to give back to the game.

One day before a Whitecaps’ playoff game against the Portland Timbers in October, Martin spent his Wednesday night teaching a U-11 team how to dribble, pass and shoot. He even showed off a little, as the group of 10 stared in awe when Martin balanced a ball on his forehead.

“You always want to help out and see the game grow because it is what I have been doing my whole life and it is what I love doing,” Martin said.

As the team prepares for its move to MLS, the brothers see their roles with the Whitecaps evolving.

Owning the team is part of Steve’s post-basketball plan, to keep his hand in a sport he cares about, while also moving the game forward in his home area. It’s something he hopes to be more involved with once his basketball career is over.

“I feel like I still have a lot to give as a basketball player. But I have to realize that I am mature enough now and at a stage where I am happy to start other pursuits,” Steve said. “So, being a part of the ownership group of the Vancouver Whitecaps is one of those pursuits that fulfills a passion of mine, but also brings something really incredible to our home province.”

Meanwhile, Martin would like to simply get to 2011. With soccer mortality inching closer, he wants to play on his hometown team when it reaches the highest professional soccer level in North America.

“Personally, I would love to be a part of it because it would be that final progression,” Martin said. “To be there for it would be great.”

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Fuel-efficient cars not as ‘green’ as you might think
By David Balinsky

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Nowadays it is very chic to run out and buy a nice new “green” hybrid.

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New world economic order takes shape at G20

By Lesley Wroughton

PITTSBURGH (Reuters) – The Group of 20 is set to become the premier coordinating body on global economic issues, reflecting a new world economic order in which emerging market countries like China are much more relevant, according to a draft communique. Read the full story

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Walkout over Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Zionist rant

FRANCE today led a walkout of delegations, including Australia, to protest a fiery speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the UN General Assembly. Read the full story

by Kevin D. Annett, M.A., M.Div.

Last week, many of the aboriginal people in the remote west coast village of Ahousaht were innoculated with the tamiflu vaccine. Today, over a hundred of them are sick, and the sickness is spreading.

In the same week, body bags were sent to similarly remote native reserves in northern Manitoba that have also received the tamiflu vaccine.

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Google lets you custom-print millions of books

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• Google Book Search is letting readers turn digitized texts back into paper copies
• Google scans millions of books and turns them into searchable documents
• Books can be printed on demand by a special machine in about 4 minutes
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Kim Phuc Phan Thai is the young girl in the center of this iconic photograph from the Vietnam War. Taken by the photographer Nick Ut after a napalm strike it shows Kim Phuc (as she is less formally known) running naked having suffered horrendous burns to her back and arms. She has sometimes been called “napalm girl” as a result of this picture.

Even today few would be expected to survive such napalm burns but Kim Phuc PhanThai is alive and well and with us now. 65% of her body was burned and she had 14 months of treatment in the burns unit in Saigon and 17 operations to graft skin from the undamaged areas of her legs to her back and arms. Read the full story