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Robert Anderson, a geologist at the University of Colorado in Boulder, says that Fung's study is part of a larger picture showing that the Arctic is changing far faster


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a geographer at the World bank in WASHINGTON DC, is to produce better estimates for carbon emissions from deforestation.


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Nature Newsbiological oceanographer Andrew Pershing wants carbon credits for whale conservation. That's because whales, he says,


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if isotope values varied by geography or if anyone was putting in sweeteners, says Peck.


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You can't build a wall around the Arctic climate, counters Alan Robock, a climatologist at Rutgers University in New brunswick, New jersey.


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and his colleagues are compiling a database of genetic markers to verify the geographic origins of black truffle populations.


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Climatologists cleared: An inquiry has upheld the integrity of research by the'climategate'scientists at the University of East Anglia, UK.

Headed by geologist Ron Oxburgh, former rector of Imperial College London, the inquiry was one of a number established after e-mails sent by scientists at the university's Climatic Research Unit were leaked.

The review, by scientists at the US Geological Survey, will be completed by 1 october 2010. Business Synthetic hopes:

Meteorologists are modelling where the cloud will move, using satellite and wind-speed data. The emissions are so small,


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) Researchers from the University of Delaware in Newark studied 5 years of wind data from 11 meteorological stations.

water and climate services in Africa are under the spotlight at the First Conference of Ministers Responsible for Meteorology in Africa, in Nairobi,


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Despite being high on the priority list of the Earth-science community, Hyspiri is scheduled not for launch until 2020.


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a 2009 report sponsored by China's National Natural science Foundation and China Geological Survey (CGS), part of the Ministry of Land and Resources (MOLR),

Beijing and Hebei province to 65%of current levels by 2023, says Li Guomin, a hydrogeologist at the Chinese Academy of Science's Institute of Geology and Geophysics in Beijing.


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the committee scrutinized e-mails concerning the selection of weather-station data in research published in Nature1,

regardless of choice of weather stations indicating that the reported results can be trusted. Was there something funny going on with the data?

a professor emeritus of geology at the University of Edinburgh who added that they cannot make papal announcements:'

and to a similar graph used in a 1999 report to the World meteorological organization (WMO). The width of tree-rings fail to closely track direct records of temperature beyond around the 1960s.

Jones was referring to the fact that climatologist Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State university in University Park had used direct temperature measurements to reconstruct temperatures over the past 20 years or so in a graph in an earlier Nature paper2.


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with the Pakistan Meteorological Department reporting that flood surges have arrived in the southeastern Sindh province.

says M. Akram Anjum, chief meteorologist of the Pakistan Meteorological Department. The second flood wave is likely to create exceptionally high flood levels over the next three to four days in and around the Kotri area in Sindh,


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an ecologist at the Beijing-based Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, examined phosphate run off into Lake Tai,


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This information was fed then into a computer-based geographical information system to produce a map of the different locations


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are the first empirical evidence to support a theory that there was a dramatic rise in oxygen levels in the Devonian period, 400 million years ago,

and again, more dramatically, during the Devonian, around 400 million years ago. This is the first evidence supporting the theory that oxygen levels increased substantially during the Devonian.

Scientists previously suspected that such an event took place, but their assumptions were based on geochemical models rather than hard evidence.

Different models suggested different oxygen levels at the beginning of the Devonian episode. Many researchers thought that the proportion of oxygen in the atmosphere during the earlier episode,

and that it was not until the rise of vascular plants those with a circulatory system to transport nutrients in the Devonian that oxygen levels rose to near-modern values.


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according to a recent study by Matthew Kauffman of the US Geological Survey in Laramie, Wyoming,


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Experts in radiocarbon dating, who usually stick close to their laboratories, are also getting their hands dirty.

should be ready for radiocarbon dating work in 12-18 months. Having an accelerator near to local excavation sites will help to yield results much more quickly,


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and on a par with these other areas of intellectual development, says Timothy Beach, a physical geographer at Georgetown University in WASHINGTON DC,

who presented his findings on Wednesday at the Geological Society of America (GSA) meeting in Denver, Colorado.

he and his wife, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, a physical geographer specializing in water quality from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia,


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Along the way, she has come to question how climatologists react to those who question the science,


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which lowered river levels and stranded equipment, a team of Brazilian and German scientists have installed a small meteorology tower

Seismologists facing manslaughter charges In June, the public prosecutor in L'aquila, in central Italy, indicted six scientists of manslaughter, at the end of an investigation on the earthquake that hit the city on 6 april

2009 (see'Italy puts seismology in the dock'.'At the time of the earthquake, the six seismologists were acting as consultants to the Italian government.

On 31 march 2009, as recurring tremors were alarming the local population, they met with the Civil Protection in L'aquila to assess the risk of a major shock.


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Abdalati is currently director of the Earth science and Observation Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder.


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the World meteorological organization is expected to pronounce its verdict on 2 december. Trend watch A 1. 6%jump in doctorates awarded in the United states last year was almost entirely the result of more women gaining science


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and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission based in Paris. The effort faces some sizeable scientific hurdles.

Oceanographer Christoph Heinze at the University of Bergen, Norway, points out that the carbon sequestration abilities of wetland plants are


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000 years ago and the current Holocene epoch began. In previous interglacial periods, CO2 levels spiked early

The Holocene began by following this trend, but then CO2 levels changed course and began to rise around 8, 000 years ago.

Ruddiman and several other researchers will present their supporting evidence in a series of papers scheduled for publication in a special issue of The Holocene journal later this year.

It assumed that just 40 gigatonnes of carbon were buried in peatlands during the late Holocene,

whereas no one can refute the idea that humans played a significant part in influencing the Holocene climate,

shows that orbital variations and tropical sources can explain the Holocene methane trends. This does not prove there was not an anthropogenic influence,


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a land-cover scientist and contractor to the US Geological Survey (USGS). Such plantations are at least ten years old,

Koh's study is useful because of its large geographical focus. Such recent reliable information has not been available for the entire region until now


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However, the numbers still only represent rough estimates, owing to a lack of information about geographic variation in soil depth,

most robust stands around, says Thomas Smith, an ecologist at the US Geological Survey in St petersburg, Florida.


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says Nick Beresford, a radioecologist at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology in Lancaster, UK.


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which some seismologists have dubbed the most dangerous in the country, will not be restarted until Chubu completes existing plans to upgrade seawall defences there.


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including regional weather forecasting and satellite imagery for tracking rainfall and vegetation as well as hand-held global-positioning-system devices to monitor progress in the field.


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Sponsored by the United nations Environment Programme and the World meteorological organization, the report says that black-carbon emissions from vehicles,


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Woodlands are clustered around the Cambrian Mountains in central Wales. The analysis shows that this location provides the greatest market value, for example, in the value of the timber.

the Cambrian Mountains are almost perfectly the wrong place to plant trees, says Bateman. The area is made up of peat land,


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The researchers, led by paleontologist Feng Tang of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences in Beijing,


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Archaeologist Brendan Foley of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts and geneticist Maria Hansson of Lund University, Sweden, retrieved DNA from nine amphorae the storage containers


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'Richard Betts, a meteorologist at the Met Office in Exeter, UK, who served as a scientific advisor to the study,


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and we re losing time, says Veerabhadran Ramanathan, an atmospheric scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La  Jolla, California,


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says Gregg Marland, a geologist at Appalachian State university in Boone, North carolina, who led the development of guidelines for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on how to construct


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Ash-covered forest is'Permian Pompeii'An ancient swampy forest full of long-extinct plant species has been brought to life through analyses of well-preserved fossils entombed in a layer of volcanic ash.

Only when broad areas are preserved in situ in a geological instant can researchers get a true picture of the composition

says Scott Elrick, a geologist with the Illinois State Geological Survey in Champaign. When the forest was sat alive,


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says Holly Gibbs, an environmental geographer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.""I don't know that it's a sea change yet,


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Nature also looked at where the sequences come from (see The geography of sampling. The picture that emerges is worse than some experts had thought.

"Proper geographic representation is lacking, says van der Werf, as is sustained surveillance. This results in large gaps in data, she says,


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Led by geographer Ian Prosser, who is science director of the CSIRO Flagship research programme Water for a Healthy Country, a group of hydrologists, ecologists,


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2011), which examined why seismologists were placed on trial after an earthquake devastated L aquila, Italy, in 2009.


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and emerging diseases follow different geographical patterns, says Grace, a finding that conflicts with the idea held by many scientists that the crucible of disease emergence is biodiversity hotspots,


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the US Geological Survey says. India s GM caution A cross-party panel of politicians in India has urged the government to halt all open-field trials of transgenic crops until it develops a better monitoring and oversight system.


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He confirmed his field observations with 2006 data from the LANDSAT Earth-observing satellites operated by NASA and the US Geological Survey.


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The researchers also found some unexpected geographical patterns.""Counter to popular explanations, diversification rate does not vary with latitude,


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MONTEFORTE/AFP/GETTYMANSLAUGHTER verdict rocks seismology After a 13-month trial, six scientists and former government official Bernardo De Bernardinis (pictured) have been found guilty of manslaughter


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"The anatomy of these specimens certainly matches that of known Paleocene primates, but a skull or a full skeleton would tell us so much more,


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Both techniques depend on the peculiarities of local geography and badger populations, but they reflect the range of approaches that can be supported by the scientific evidence.


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Fracking furore The US Environmental protection agency (EPA) said last week that data provided by the US Geological Survey were consistent with its December 2011 finding that the use of hydraulic fracturing


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But  808  million has already been allocated for a new generation of weather-forecasting satellites,


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Ancient scourge The zombifying fungus's vast geographic distribution also hints at the possibility that it has been possessing ants at least


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researchers must understand local meteorology and trace emissions back to their sources. Working with state, academic and private partners, the Los angeles team aims to have 13 monitoring stations on towers within six months.


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Donald Boesch A biological oceanographer, Boesch is currently president of the Center for Environmental science at the University of Maryland in Cambridge,


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says Mark Sutton, an environmental scientist at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Edinburgh, UK."


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says lead author Chris Huntingford, a climate modeller at the UK s Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Wallingford.


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says Helmut Rott, a meteorologist at the University of Innsbruck in Austria and lead scientist on the Coreh2o project."


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and the virus has expanded its geographical range to neighbouring Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, as well as Beijing in the north and Henan in the centre of the country.


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H7n9 bird flu poised to spreadthe H7n9 avian flu virus greatly expanded its geographical range over the weekend,

or what the geographic extent is, says Lipsitch, It looks as though it will be at least as challenging as H5n1


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Xu and his colleagues correlated meteorological measurements with chemical compositions of air parcels sampled at 16 locations across the region.


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Reindert Haarsma, a climatologist at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute in De Bilt, forecasts a surge in hurricane-strength storms such as 1999 s Lothar


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Deep-sea dive The film-maker James cameron is donating his deep-sea submersible to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts,


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but a 2012 study by the Polish Geological Institute revised this figure to less than 800 Â billion cubic metres.


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what was transported, says says Brendan Foley, a maritime archaeologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts,


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and forecasting at the Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth s Interior. go. nature. com/9cbgun  21-25 july Current research in viral ecology,


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Using data collected by the US Geological Survey, Steward and his colleagues measured the water-level change in all of its 3, 025 wells at the beginning and end of five-year periods between 1960 and 2010.


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says study co-author Ralph Keeling, a geochemist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La jolla, California,


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Field trials to assess the ecological efficiency of organic and chemical fertilizers in different geographic and climatic settings are under way in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda and Tanzania.


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He told the Wildphotos conference, held at the Royal Geographical Society in London on 12-13 october


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Geologists take drill to Triassic parktourists flock to Petrified forest national park in Arizona to marvel at great glittering logs of petrified wood.

But geologists hope to flock there this month in search of something less visible and more scientifically significant:

The goal of the US$970, 000 drilling project is to stitch together a complete picture of most of the middle and late Triassic period, a turbulent interval that saw both a mass-extinction event and the emergence of dinosaurs.

"It s a unique opportunity to put together a coherent time framework for a critical part of the Triassic,

says John  Geissman, a geologist at the University of Texas at Dallas and one of the project s leaders."

"Sure, we have other continental Triassic records, but the Petrified Forest area is pretty darn good

which a Triassic core was drilled from New jersey s Newark sediment basin between 1990 and 1993 (ref. 1). That project aimed to tease out changes in the amount of sediment that was deposited as Earth went through cyclical shifts in the shape of its orbital path

says Paul  Olsen, a geologist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New york,

This reworking would lead to one subdivision the Norian stage taking up nearly half of the entire Triassic period,

owing to weathering or abrupt geological events. Because of surface erosion, for example, the core will not capture the very end of the Triassic around 200 Â million years ago,

when a mass extinction swept across the planet, killing many dinosaurian relatives. The core will

The record then skips tens of millions of years into rocks from the Permian period that preceded the Triassic."

But getting a nearly complete record for much of the Triassic, in such well-studied rock layers, is bound to offer a trove of information.

Geologists have explored the Petrified Forest area since the 1850s, most recently for its rich array of Triassic fossils.

it will pave the way for further studies of the Triassic s buried history. The team already has its eye on other cores that it could drill


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says Helen Roy, an ecological entomologist at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Wallingford, UK.


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according to a preliminary assessment released on 13 Â November by the World meteorological organization. See go. nature. com/apxlsn for more.


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According to a 6 Â November report by the World meteorological organization (WMO) in Geneva, Switzerland, carbon dioxide levels climbed last year to an average 393.1 parts per million (p. p m.)141%above preindustrial levels.


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The World meteorological organization in Geneva, Switzerland, released a report3 on 6 november showing that emissions of CO2,


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a geographer at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern europe in Halle, Germany,

Kirsten de Beurs, a geographer at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, has visited often the region,


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A report delivered in November by the US Geological Survey s Interagency Grizzly bear Study Team describes a resilient and healthy bear population that has adapted to the loss of pine nuts by eating more elk and bison

But those criticisms are rejected by Frank van Manen, a wildlife biologist with the US Geological Survey in Bozeman, Montana, who led the diet study.


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says Nathan Stephenson, an ecologist at the US Geological Survey in Three Rivers, California, and the first author of the study, which appears today in Nature1."

Noah Baker spoke about the findings with Nathan Stephenson, an ecologist at the US Geological Survey.


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USGS chief US President Barack Obama announced on 9 Â January that he had nominated Suzette Kimball to lead the US Geological Survey.


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and its geographical expansion is a reminder of the threat beyond China. Furthermore, although case numbers have shown signs of dropping in the past two weeks,


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a US Geological Survey wolf biologist based in St paul, Minnesota, argues in favour of"watchful waiting.


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the US Geological Survey (USGS) said on 11 Â March. USGS scientists found embryos (pictured) of bigheaded carp about to hatch in the river running through Lynxville, Wisconsin.


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says Patrick Shafroth, a plant ecologist with the US Geological Survey in Fort Collins, Colorado.

who also heads the US Geological Survey s Grand canyon Monitoring and Research center in Flagstaff, Arizona.


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Meteorologists have gotten reasonably good at figuring out where a tropical cyclone is headed. What we're not so good at is figuring out how strong it's going to be

or So that's actually pretty good says Cary Mock a geography professor at the University of South carolina.

It also makes the art of being a meteorologist that much more impressive. It used to be that you could tell what the weather was going to be by listening to the forecast

while ignoring the expert opinions of the overwhelming community of climatologists who have concluded that man is accelerating global warming


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The report was part of a special supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society called Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 From a Climate Perspective.

and the amount of precipitation in the tropics one of the two Danish geophysicists behind the study Mads Faurschou Knudsen of the geology department at Aarhus University in western Denmark told the Videnskab journal.

He and his colleague Peter Riisager of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) compared a reconstruction of the prehistoric magnetic field 5000 years ago based on data drawn from stalagmites

and Oman The results of the study which has also been published in US scientific journal Geology lend support to a controversial theory published a decade ago by Danish astrophysicist Henrik Svensmark who claimed the climate was influenced highly by galactic cosmic ray (GCR

The geologic record shows that hundreds of pole reversals have occurred throughout Earth's history; they happen when patches of iron atoms in Earth's liquid outer core become reverse-aligned like tiny magnets oriented in the opposite direction from those around them.

According to John Tarduno professor of geophysics at the University of Rochester a strong magnetic field helps protect Earth from blasts of radiation from the sun. Coronal mass ejections (CMES) occasionally occur on the Sun

The first proof is the geologic record. When the last pole switch happened no worldwide shifting of continents

and other records said Alan Thompson head of geomagnetism at The british Geological Survey. The scientists explained that changes in the Earth's liquid core happen on a completely different distance and timescale than convection in the Earth's mantle

(which causes Earth's tectonic plates to shift moving the continents). The liquid core does indeed touch the bottom of the mantle

but it would take tens of millions of years for changes in the core to propagate up through the mantle and influence the motion of the tectonic plates.

In short there is no evidence from the geological past and in my opinion also no conceivable method that magnetic reversals could trigger Earthquakes Korte said.

It does not coincide with the geographic poles the axis on which the Earth spins but it is close.

it seems odd you would think 97%of climatologists would not qualify as enough of a second opinion to except the first climatologist opinion...

Exactly which Climatologist Climate Scientist Geologist Meteorologist and general weather model do you believe in? If you are so against adding Cosmic and Solar forcing data why?


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and the World meteorological organization periodically summarizes the worldwide scientific consensus on climate change. It's more than 2000 pages long.

but most other people aren't like geoscientists engineers and meteorologists; people who don't have a vested interest in furthering the global warming alarmists agenda. http://wattsupwiththat. com/2013/08/13/new-peer-reviewed-paper-shows-only-36-of-geoscientists

or global warming but a strong correlation to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (El Niã Â o and La Niã Â a). Meteorologists know that all heat waves are regional not global events

and climate ask a meteorologist not a climate scientist. 4. Satellite pictures show that the increasing CO2 saturation

which are included not in the modelsã¢Â# A study done by an Assistant professor of Earth sciences at Dartmouth University http://www. sciencedaily. com/releases/2002/06/020607073439. htm looked at the cycles of the sun s magnetic

âÂ#Â...British Geological Survey Confirms Polar Shift Picture Posted January 25 2012 Weakening SAA may be early evidence of a forthcoming Polar Reversal The Earth s

and the amount of precipitation in the tropics one of the two Danish geophysicists behind the study Mads Faurschou Knudsen of the geology department at Aarhus University in western Denmark told the Videnskab journal...

It has happened before-the geological record suggests the magnetic field has reversed every 250000 years meaning that with the last event 800000 years ago another would seem to be overdue.

Ciaran Beggan a geomagnetic specialist at The british Geological Survey in Edinburgh said studies have refined also our understanding of how the field reverses.


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Out of sight the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) an oceanographic workhorse called a Remus begins gliding through the lagoon in a pattern that resembles the long linear passes of a mowed lawn.

For a group like Bentprop the use of advanced oceanographic instruments is a huge technological leap forward

The vehicles come from the University of California San diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Delaware

The funding enables oceanographers to test new technologies while helping Bentprop locate WORLD WAR II airmen an effort they named Project Recover.

Board shorts and sandals make the athletic oceanographer look more surfer than scientist he even brought a board on the research vessel for

The oceanographic community is engineering new sensors for them and having them do smarter things during their searches.

With the oceanographers'help he hopes Bentprop could find it. On land our major technology was a machete

The oceanographic team's official command center in Palau is on the second floor of the Coral reef Research Foundation

As they wait for their food Mark Moline an oceanographer from the University of Delaware opens a Toughbook laptop

The Echoscope or multibeam volume imaging sonar does enabling oceanographers to map topography accurately and in high enough resolution to distinguish man-made objects.

Terrill describes it as the oceanographic seafloor-mapping equivalent of ultrasound sonar used to look inside the human body.

Oceanographers and biologists studying living structures such as coral reefs could also benefit from it; 3-D models would enable them to detect how ocean acidification


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what you mean by dirt says Milan Pavich a research geologist with the U s. Geological Survey.

and say it was created 3. 9 billion years ago then grind it up (dust storms plate tectonics water erosion whatever) you end up with a pile of dirt 3. 9 billion years old.


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hope you don't mind a bit of geographical lesson don't want to be assuming after all. The foks of the Indus Civilization were a few among the Bronze age peoples to have codified a standard system of weights and measures.


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not geology...not environmental engineering or conservation or meteorology or heck anything scientific at all...but no English literature.*

*Seriously though I'm usually the guy defending the liberal slant of this website's writers from overzealous conservative counter-arguments in the name of an improved discussion.


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