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Oil Spills And Troubled WatersThe ongoing environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has much of the anti-environmentalist bloggersphere ducking its collective head beneath the parapet. Suddenly, America is aware that offshore oil drilling has the potential to wipe out the livelihoods of entire coastal communities>
The Usual Suspects of the anti-science movement, Center for Biological Diversity(1), Environmental Working Group(2) and more, are back in court to try and force California to accept that money is magic and rich homeowners with solar panels should be paid for electricity they send to the grid - at full retail price>
There are concerns about projected warming on the Earth’s surface and in the lower atmosphere even while the planet’s upper atmosphere has cooled.It's not a paradox, it's a pattern and a recent paper described the mechanics of how it works. The short answer is that carbon dioxide (CO2) reacts differently>
New Missing Link - Or Maybe NotThe recent suggestion that Australopithecus Sediba is an intermediate species has aroused controversy.The following extracts are from naturenews.Claim over 'human ancestor' sparks furoreResearchers dispute that hominin fossil is a new species.Michael Cherry >
We may use terms like "grounded" and terra firma to mean stability and consistency but geology laughs at that notion. The next time you go on vacation, a new tool can show you how many places your vacation destination has been. Paleolatitude.org can do that, right down to the movements of small tectonic>
The Greenland Ice Sheet is huge, a 1.7 million-square-kilometer, 2-mile thick layer of ice that covers Greenland.
In the last 40 years, ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet has increased four-fold, contributing to global sea level rise. Some of the melting at the surface of the ice sheet is due to a warmer atmosphere>
