I’m browsing the Earth Observatory pages at NASA, sparked off by another Twitter user.
I thought this image of a fuel fire in Puerto Rico which happened in October 2009 was interesting. It shows the area affected by the incident which in the picture is about 140km long by 15km wide.
Fire at Fuel Storage Facility in [...]
Check out this helpful online article by the New Scientist which cleanly debunks the top 50 of 100 ‘reasons’ why ‘Global Warming is natural’ published in the Daily Express recently. As a casual reader it can be very difficult to make up your mind what to think about the climate debate. Newspapers always set themselves [...]
Between 7th and 18th December 2009 delegations from 192 countries who are party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will be gathering to further the discussion and initiatives first laid out in the Kyoto Protocol. The purpose of the meeting is to make a new treaty on climate change, it is [...]
This caught my eye a while back.
The algorithm used by Google to work out rankings for pages has been applied (theoretically) to food webs. the implication here is that if scientists can calculate the state of an ecosystem they will be able to work out whether the system is vulnerable to collapse.
Of course things change [...]