A masked gunman armed with a pistol has shot dead a Russian Orthodox priest in his Moscow church, police say.
The gunman walked into St Thomas Church in southern Moscow, asked priest Daniil Sysoyev his name and then opened fire, investigators said.
The church's choirmaster was also injured in the attack.
A police spokesman said they believed the gunman had "religious motives". Reports said Father Sysoyev, 35, had received threats via e-mail.
Russian media said he had been involved in missionary activities aimed at encouraging young people to choose the Orthodox Church.
A statement on the website of Father Sysoyev's missionary training centre said he had been threatened by Muslims, AFP reported.
Cosmic rayscharged particles that hurtle through space at nearly the speed of lighthave long baffled scientists. How do they acquire such tremendous velocities? Two new astronomical resultsone in this week's issue of Science and the other published online this month in Naturesuggest that the physicist Enrico Fermi nailed the answer 60 years ago: They get their oomph from exploding stars.
read moreAverage temperatures across the world are on course to rise by up to 6C.
Emissions rose by 29% between 2000 and 2008.
The observed matter in the universe accounts for just 5% of the observed gravity. A possible explanation is that Newton's and Einstein's theories of gravity fail where gravity is either weak or enhanced. The modified theory of Newtonian dynamics (MOND) reproduces, without dark matter, spiral-galaxy orbital motions and the relation between luminosity and rotation in galaxies, although not in clusters.
read moreData:data.giss.nasa.gov
Jan through Dec average for last ten years:
year avg T in C
1999 14.43
2000 14.40
2001 14.56
2002 14.67
2003 14.65
2004 14.59
2005 14.77
2006 14.64
2007 14.72
2008 14.54
Linear fit slope: +0.02 C/yr
Average year to year change: +0.01 C/yr
The headline is bullshit.
From 1981 to 1998 the linear fit slope was +0.01 C/yr and the average year to year change was +0.02 C/yr.
For the years 1880 to 1900 the average temp was 13.79 C, the linear fit slope was -0.005 C/yr and the average year to year change was +0.002 C/yr.
"Dad Murders Son for Molesting Sister"
No I didn't read the story.
I have, however, known in a volunteer capacity many abused girls.
My ex is a past president of the Settlement Club: www.settlementhome.org
I had to wonder if it was jealousy.
"Back in the 70s it was global cooling"
#57 | Posted by Sniper at 2009-11-20 11:11 AM | Reply | Flag: makes up shit
"On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground"
Arrhenius, Svante, 1896.
wiki.nsdl.org
"The Artificial Production of Carbon Dioxide and Its Influence on Temperature"
Callendar, G.S., 1938
wiki.nsdl.org
"Science: Warmer World"
Monday, Jan. 02, 1939
www.time.com
1974
Serious droughts since 1972 increase concern about climate, with cooling from aerosols suspected to be as likely as warming; scientists are doubtful as journalists talk of a new ice age.
1977
Scientific opinion tends to converge on global warming, not cooling, as the chief climate risk in next century.
But keep posting your ignorant horseshit anyway, Snappy, it's mildly entertaining.
Since the data have been updated to include October, just for shits and giggles here are the last 120 months with a linear fit: i179.photobucket.com
Slope's positive.
Checking Arctic sea ice extent nsidc.org it's right at the lowest ever measured for this date.
Data: data.giss.nasa.gov
If Vermin wasn't such an ignorant shit, he could do the fifth grade math himself.
"who's greatest mathematical accomplishment is making change"
You're giving him too much credit.
Now that Oct 2009 is in the data, data.giss.nasa.gov just for fun I plotted the world average October temps since the Arab oil embargo of 1973.
i179.photobucket.com
Really should have gotten off the oil tit.