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International Polar Year: data on climate change

International Polar Year: data on climate changeWarmingAside from large brains, opposing thumbs and the ability to walk on 2 legs, humans have something else that is unique among the animal world. Guilt.The world is warming and humans first inclination is to feel that we're at fault. The second is we...

Tags: International Polar Year, climate change

Discussion threads 2009-07-25

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Global warming promises more hunger, more innovation

Hopefully not a repeatThe idea of GM foods is found most abhorrent in the nations with some of the worst food problems? Also, did anyone notice that the FPRI report indicates that more than 50% of the world's agricultural green house emissions are generated by the primitive natural agriculture...

Tags: global warming, climate change, food

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

News to know: Microsoft; Apple; Green tech; Laptop deals

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. FT: Apple joins forces with record labels Robin Harris: The Wintel blue light special John Morris: Sunday...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Green Technology, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows 7, Smart Phones, Blu-Ray, Web Browsers, Notebooks, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Internet, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-27

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

International Polar Year

The Internation Polar Year is done. And there's now a glacier of data to be analyzed. One thing the scientists learned: the ice flows at a much higher rate in the Arctic than previously known. That's part of the reason Arctic ice is melting faster than in earlier...

Tags: Ice, Scientist, Internation Polar Year, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-03

NASA IG: Scientists were muzzled

NASA IG: Scientists were muzzledI don't think so!If this administration is writting his pay check, than they can control what the researcher is doing and saying.As for global warming, it seems to be limited to glaciers in the mountains and at the poles. The temperature did not changed much in...

Tags: Workforce management, NASA, administration, NASA IG

Discussion threads 2008-06-03

Global Warming (GW)? The spin cycle is on high.

Global Warming GW? The spin cycle is on high.Message has been deleted.RE: Global Warming GW? The spin cycle is on high.This article falsely claimss that the Roanoke Weather article states that excess snow cover is evidence of a cooling trend. Actually if you read it, the article...

Tags: socialist, global warming, spin cycle

Discussion threads 2008-03-02

U.S. government may decide fate of iconic species

This photo courtesy and copyright: IFAW. This is about polar bears and their survival. For the folks who may ask, what's this got to do with ZDnet and green tech, let me repeat an answer I gave recently to an emailer when I blogged...

Tags: Green Technology, Bear, U.S. Government, Government, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-12-17

Greenland becoming a green land

This picture is from NASA/JPL. What do you see here? You see stresams of water on the surface of a melting Greenland ice sheet. The streams converge on a moulin which is a shaft or tubular path down which the water pours until it...

Tags: Greenland, Ice, United States Coast Guard, Ice Sheet, Web Site Development, Blogging, Web Technology, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-25

'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