March 26th, 2010
Well…this is just a name for something that some people believe they already knew was going on. According to geologists from the University of Leicester, which includes Nobel Prize winner, Paul Crutzen and atmospheric chemist. Yes. This guy winning the Nobel Prize automatically makes the whole thing true right? While this stuff doesn’t sound like [...]
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February 3rd, 2010
While the overall subject of this study is rather interesting, the results are far from conclusive. First a little background on the study: For more than 20 years forest ecologist Geoffrey Parker has tracked the growth of 55 stands of mixed hardwood forest plots in Maryland. The plots range in size, and some are as [...]
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January 18th, 2010
Let’s bring up some new Global Warming news today. With all the people calling for a conspiracy in the whole Climate-gate fiasco in the last couple months, we still have reports about possible warming issues going on in the world right now. Melting ice sheets is always one that pops up every few weeks. A [...]
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December 11th, 2009
First of all, isn’t it getting a little old that everything has “Gate” at the end of it? Isn’t THAT a conspiracy? Certainly adding “Gate” to anything taints the debate from the second it is inserted now doesn’t it? Doesn’t mean this isn’t a big deal, but it makes it too cheesy to take seriously [...]
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November 25th, 2009
Not often do you get two stories in the same week about threats to more than one species. Unfortunately this week we have it. One because of nature, and one that is significantly impacted by us. First, the one under heat from nature. Amphibians, like frogs have been around for more than 360 million years. [...]
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November 21st, 2009
Frist off, let’s explain what a “wave energy system” is. At first read you probably think this has something to do with radio, gamma, or whatever type of wave in some sort of
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November 18th, 2009
So much for the green movement. More evidence that the rise in atmospheric CO2 emissions continues to outstrip the ability of the world’s natural ‘sinks’ to absorb carbon is published November 17 in the journal Nature Geoscience. An international team of researchers under the umbrella of the Global Carbon Project reports that over the last [...]
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November 4th, 2009
In 2005, a 35 mile rift broke through around Ethiopia in Africa, that some scientist believed might be the formation of a new ocean. Further study of the area has pulled more scientists into this belief as well. The fat burner volcanic processes at work beneath the Ethiopian rift are nearly identical to those at [...]
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October 24th, 2009
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has just awarded just over $100 million to 32 plant genome research projects. These projects are designed to to help in the understanding of the plant genome in hopes that they will be able to understand more fully how they react to the environment. The projects are there to find [...]
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October 20th, 2009
Here we go again. It seems to me that these sort of things would be rather straight forward. There was this much ice this many years ago, and now there is this much ice now. That ice has been depleting at X number of meters per year, and this is the rate. Apparently it isn’t [...]
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