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Software-Plus-Services Helps Antarctica-Based Research Station Keep Life-Support Systems Running at All Times

Power, heating and clean water are essential in Antarctica, where temperatures can fall below - 50 degrees Celsius. In these extreme conditions, new software is helping keep scientists safe and reduce costs. Antarctica New Zealand deployed SmartAsset software from The Online Workshop to support maintenance and asset management at its...

Tags: Antarctica, Asset, Software, Asset Management, Tools & Techniques, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Finance, Business Operations, Management

Case studies 2009-09-01

Crazy Penguin Catapult Free 1.1.4 (Mobile)

Fend off invading polar bears by hurtling courageous penguins at them with your trusty catapult. Help the penguins win back Antarctica and play the six levels.

Tags: Antarctica, Polar Bear, Mobile, Catapult, Digital Chocolate, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-06-05

Photos: Antarctica in HD

Scientists have developed a new HD map of Antarctica with a resolution that's 10 times greater than ever before. by CNET News.com

Tags: Antarctica, Photograph, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2007-12-04

Photos: A Cool Robot for polar duty

A boxy robot covered with solar panels could be just the thing for researchers in Antarctica.

Tags: Robots, Antarctica, robot, photograph, researcher

Image galleries 2007-03-16

Images: A lesson plan from the South Pole

A new Web project aims to teach children about life on Antarctica and the effects of global warming.

Tags: Antarctica, global warming, Web

Image galleries 2007-02-18

'Cool robots' for Antarctica... and Mars

Researchers from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College have built a robot designed to do research in Antarctica. This robot is a general purpose mobile platform that can carry various instruments and travel in polar temperatures. The 'Cool Robot,' as it is called, has been tested in Greenland...

Tags: Antarctica, robot

Blog posts 2006-03-06

Additional Resources

Climate scientists saying global warming trend is worsening

Pardon me while I yawn. This is the same bunch (climate change chicken-littles) that brought the hockey stick graph and pimped out statistics. These folks have been exposed as corruptand fraudulent, driven by ideology and not science. By continuing to treat them as anything other than worthy...

Tags: global warming

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Making money off global warming

Carbon Credit: The "global warming" SCAMGuess who is the biggest seller of carbon credits?? You know, the program where you buy an imaginary credit as payment for putting something in the air that you were already doing for free.Hint: An inconvenient truth based on a very convenient set...

Tags: global warming, Making Money

Discussion threads 2009-11-01

Another flashpoint in global warming warnings

"The sky is falling, the sky is falling"Chicken Little date unknownNo, the sky is not falling, but, there are wide ranging problems caused by global warming that people have to deal with right here, right now. Somebody actually has to deal with overflowing lakes. The eco system on our planet...

Tags: global warming, Sun Microsystems Inc., global warming warning, flashpoint

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

International Polar Year: data on climate change

The results are now becoming clear from the International Polar Year IPY: earlier estimates of climate change were too mild. Change is happening faster than the IPCC expected. We all know the once mythical Northwest Passage now exists, in summer you can take your ship from Europe across...

Tags: Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-25

Political gaming around the Waxman-Markey bill

Political gaming around the Waxman-Markey billEvidence for your assertions, pleaseWhile there is at least weak scientific evidence that man contributes to global warming (I do not trust it, but at least some studies try to make the point), there is none for climate change causing weather events like hurricanes. ...

Tags: Messiah, hurricane, global warming, Waxman-Markey, life saving, sea level, game, Katrina

Discussion threads 2009-06-30

What do Green IT, the economic crisis, and best selling author, Thomas Friedman, have in common? Poor accounting

Consider the following questions posed by Thomas Friedman, New York Times columnist and author of The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, and more recently, Hot, Flat And Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - And How it Can Renew America: “Was it an...

Tags: Accounting, Friedman's Inc., Financial, PC, Information Technology, Environment, Green IT, Economic Crisis, Printing, Strategy, Management, Doug Washburn

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Worse and worse

Worse and worseNot Unusual. And No Problem.Oh wait. Someone has a political agenda out here.Tip of the Iceberg, to coin a phraseIts much worse than anyone thinks. I spent 3 months researching an article on all the latest science and each one of 8 new (2-3 years) developments indicates it...

Tags: Kozmcrae

Discussion threads 2009-05-31

Exam contingencies for swine flu epidemic

The swine flu (H1N1 hereon in) epidemic has gradually petered out and levelled off, but still more and more cases are being discovered every day. Over 4,700 cases have been confirmed, spreading over every continent of the world except Africa (thankfully, because let's be honest, it would be a biological...

Tags: Exam, H1N1 Flu, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-05-11

Polar meltdown both north and south

Arctic Ice Cover maps. Courtesy University of Washington/NOAA. That's the March ice cover on the left, September on the right. The top pair show current conditions, the bottom maps show thirty year model: ice free summers. The U.S. Geological Survey has compiled data confirming...

Tags: Earth, Meltdown, Glacier, Sea Level, Ice Sheet, Sea Ice, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-04

Fancy a little water over lower Manhattan?

At one extreme there's the possibility that warmer oceans will melt the entire ice sheet along Antarctica's western edge. Scientists say that would raise the global sea levels by five meters, that's about sixteen feet. That's above the front door on many Manhattan office buildings. Not to...

Tags: Manhattan, Operational Accounting, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-19

Bangladesh to be poster child of rising ocean levels

Bangladesh to be poster child of rising ocean levelsI love the apocalyptic predictions ofhorrible weather resulting from global warming when not a single climate model takes precipitation into account because we don't know how to model it.Maybe global warming will cause long, gentle rains and huge increases in snowfall in...

Tags: global warming

Discussion threads 2009-02-06

You against the green IT world. Do your practices stand up against the best?

You against the green IT world. Do your practices stand up against the best?The Green Cult is Wearing ThinGore has made his $100 million and the world is beginning to understand that green is a nice to have not a must do. In this economy it ranks dead last...

Tags: Gore, carbon dioxide, CO2 level, Green IT

Discussion threads 2009-01-29

Contrary to past indicators, the whole Antarctic is warming

Contrary to past indicators, the whole Antarctic is warmingMisleading Article againUnfortunately, if you look at their actual graph in the Nature article, Antarctica also shows the plateau and cooling that the world has been showing to the satellites for the last decade.Ref: http://climatesci.org/2009/01/21/follow-up-on-todays-ap-article-by-seth-bornenstein-entitled-study-antarctica-joins-rest-of-globe-in-warming/It's just localYou can't make a conclusion on...

Tags: past indicator

Discussion threads 2009-01-22

Contrary to past indicators, the whole Antarctic is warming

A new sythesis of data since the 1957 International Geophysical Year shows that the Antarctic is in the grips of continental warming. Some earlier data indicated that the interior of the Antarctic was getting cooler. New analysis shows this to be false. The whole ice sheet atop...

Tags: Data, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-22