Sorry to return to the topic of Thomas Friedman so soon, but evidently, he thinks that if one combines NaCl, CO2, and H2O together, he will get calcium carbonate.
This despite the fact that there is no calcium whatsoever in that equation, save the one that Friedman posited would exist as the result of it.
Really, doesn’t the New York Times have factcheckers? Or better yet, superior columnists who could take over Friedman’s space, and make us resolutely not miss him?
The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth’s rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday.
The quake, the seventh strongest earthquake in recorded history, hit Chile Saturday and should have shortened the length of an Earth day by 1.26 milliseconds, according to research scientist Richard Gross at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
“Perhaps more impressive is how much the quake shifted Earth’s axis,” NASA officials said in a Monday update.
The computer model used by Gross and his colleagues to determine the effects of the Chile earthquake effect also found that it should have moved Earth’s figure axis by about 3 inches (8 cm or 27 milliarcseconds).
Perhaps the unbelievably silly idea that vaccines cause autism will now be put to rest, thus allowing parents to responsibly care for their children, and protect them against disease.
Seriously, someone needs to revoke Rajendra Pachauri’s Nobel Prize:
This issue has been noted before, but it is worth reawakening interest and attention in light of this story:
Look, I am worried enough about the environment to want to make sure that climatologists get things right; it would be rather bad if they didn’t, and if we made policy based on erroneous assumptions.
Here is a good statement of the problem raised by the e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit:
If we get the oceans to rise, there will be beachfront erosion. That will leave less sand for Democrats to stick their heads in when confronted by inconvenient scandals.
As a consequence of the leaked e-mails from the University of East Anglia, Phil Jones, the director of the university’s Climate Research Unit, has been forced to step aside.
Possibly. Scientists in New Zealand are alleged to have cooked the books as well. Whether this turns out to be the case or not, it is clear that the leaked e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia have caused significant credibility problems for the climate research community.
I am going to be rather careful about this story, as the details of it are in the preliminary stages of dribbling out to the public. But, long story short: The University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit got its e-mail system hacked, and the e-mails have been made public. What they reveal is the possibility that climate scientists may have fudged data concerning global warming.