Researcher Barry Sinervo, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz recently concluded a study that shows a decline in lizard populations in certain regions. The study published in Science and led by Sinervo includes data gathered over five continents dating back to 1975. Initially Sinervo had set out to conduct a study [...]
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March 16th, 2010
Porsche’s answer to the Chevy Volt
We are all looking forward to the mass market introduction of the Chevy Volt in November of 2010. We also anticipate a good reaction to the Nissan Leaf with its 100 mile electric range. But those two efficient autos will be passed on the freeway by the Porsche 918.
Alright, the 918 is just a concept [...]
March 3rd, 2010
A new climate change report from the American Association for the Advancement of Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has issued a report stating that global warming and climate change are so much a matter of scientific fact that the United States must now refocus part of its energies from greenhouse gas emissions to dealing with the effects of global warming. The AAAS claims that these [...]
February 26th, 2010
Renewable nuclear power – A viable goal or an unrealistic scientific dream?
A few years ago a couple of fairly well respected scientists, Martin Fleishman and Stanley Pons announced to great fan fare that they had created a positive result cold fusion process in a jar on a tabletop. The basis of their experiment was the electrolysis of heavy water with a palladium anode. The premise of [...]
January 29th, 2010
Water vapor’s role as a greenhouse gas
At one time there was a proposal to inject the Earth’s upper atmosphere with sulfate particles and effectively block the rays of the sun from reaching the Earth. The basic idea was to limit the effects of global warming by allowing less sunlight to reach the Earth’s surface. As a general rule, such mass mitigation [...]
