No smoking hot spot | The Australian

No smoking hot spot | The Australian: "... but since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming. As Lord Keynes famously said, 'When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?'"

Disappearing sunspots may signal end to global warming

Disappearing sunspots may signal end to global warming: "The blank sun has not gone unnoticed by the experts. 'We're experiencing a very deep solar minimum,' says solar physicist Dean Pesnell of the Goddard Space Flight Center.

'This is the quietest sun we've seen in almost a century,' agrees sunspot expert David Hathaway of the Marshall Space Flight Center.

So why are sunspots under the spotlight? Because, according to solar scientists, their declining numbers, significant even by solar-minimum standards, could be the harbinger of colder temperatures ahead."

BBC News - Scientists crack 'entire genetic code' of cancer

BBC News - Scientists crack 'entire genetic code' of cancer: "'As more cancer genomes are revealed by this technique, we will gain a greater understanding of how cancer is caused and develops, improving our ability to prevent, treat and cure cancer.'"

CAT scan cancer fear: Radiation 'could trigger the disease in one in 80 patients' | Mail Online

CAT scan cancer fear: Radiation 'could trigger the disease in one in 80 patients' | Mail Online: "Having a CT - or CAT - scan puts patients at far greater risk of developing cancer than previously thought, scientists claim."

Daily Express | UK News :: Climate change is natural: 100 reasons why

Daily Express | UK News :: Climate change is natural: 100 reasons why: "HERE are the 100 reasons, released in a dossier issued by the European Foundation, why climate change is natural and not man-made:"

Child diabetes blamed on food sweetener - Times Online

Child diabetes blamed on food sweetener - Times Online: "Scientists have proved for the first time that a cheap form of sugar used in thousands of food products and soft drinks can damage human metabolism and is fuelling the obesity crisis.

Fructose, a sweetener derived from corn, can cause dangerous growths of fat cells around vital organs and is able to trigger the early stages of diabetes and heart disease."

BBC News - People who look young for their age 'live longer'

BBC News - People who look young for their age 'live longer': "People blessed with youthful faces are more likely to live to a ripe old age than those who look more than their years, work shows."