April 13, 2009
Michael Conniff wrote a great article on the Huffington Post yesterday about how American conservatives are downplaying the effects and even denying global warming itself. According to scientists, the Antarctic Peninsula has warmed 3ºC since the 1950’s. Britain’s own David Vaughan, an Antarctic Survey glaciologist, said, “We’ve been watching it all summer, waiting for it to go, and bang—now it’s gone.” He is referring, of course, to the Wilkins Ice Shelf, which is no longer .....
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April 6, 2009
An earthquake near L’Aquila, Italy, registering between 5.8 and 6.3 on the Richter scale, has killed more than 100 people and forced thousands to leave their homes. With that death toll rising, Italian leaders and citizens are asking the inevitable question: Could we have known about this? And what could we have done about it? Science is not about prediction, science is about research and analysis. That said, Giacchino Giuliani, an Italian seismologist, warned of .....
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