Archive for 'Climate change'
Science Weekly podcast: Scientific feuds; Tevatron’s stay execution; plus Stephen Hawking dismisses God – again
Posted on 05. Sep, 2010 by Nell Boase, Andy Duckworth, Robin McKie, Ian Sample.
What happens when fierce scientific rivals go head to head? Joel Levy discusses some of history's most epic battles to discredit the work of colleagues. Do these often petty quarrels help or hinder the progress of science?Joel's book Scientific Feuds: ...
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Google and Galaxy Zoo could aid global climate project
Posted on 04. Sep, 2010 by Robin McKie.
Climate scientists meeting in Britain this week hope to build a database to predict natural disasters precisely. And records of the voyages of the Bounty and Beagle will assist them in their taskLeading climate scientists will gather in the UK this wee...
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A climate warning from the deep
Posted on 04. Sep, 2010 by Robin McKie.
The dispersal of tiny sea creatures in Antarctica has alerted scientists to the vulnerability of Earth's ice sheetsBryozoans make unlikely prophets of doom. Nevertheless, scientists believe these tiny marine creatures, which live glued to the side of b...
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Letters: Still wary of Bjørn Lomborg’s pronouncements on climate change
Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by Science news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk.
Bjørn Lomborg's change of mind on climate change is welcome, and some of his suggestions good, but your glowing review of his new book failed to examine deeply his shift in position (Top climate sceptic calls for $100bn fund to fight warming, 31 Augus...
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Study: Antarctica’s “Achilles’ Heel” Ice Sheet Once Collapsed
Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by Joseph Calamia.
Similar populations of seabed-rooted animals separated by 1,500 miles of ice, researchers say, could mean that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet was once a trans-Antarctic seaway. This surprising find has also led researchers to wonder if a warming planet could again cause the thick ice sheet to collapse and give way to a swath of [...]

















