NYTIMES Calls for Al Gore to Cool the Hype!

It starts right out with calling Gore's approach the "three alarm fire" approach.

This article is a must read.

I wish science would stick with scientists and ditch the politicians!

Global Warming Is Not a Crisis

Wow ABC is running an opinion today contrary to the politically correct agenda of alarmist Global Warming.

The opinion makes several good and valid points.

Bottom line we just don't have enough information to make a clear determination on this issue. Should we bend to the alarmist position and waste trillions of dollars on fighting something that might not be or invest in a battle that we have no chance of winning with current thinking.

Sun Blamed for Warming of Earth and Other Worlds

More evidence that the sun is the main cause of the global warming on Earth and other planets.

The article does a decent job of explaining a variety of different views on the issue and how the climate is changing on other planets as well.

Drudge is reporting today that the NY Times is going to run an explosive article claiming Al Gore's claims are exaggerated and really behind his political agenda.

What is interesting with a lot of these articles is the similarity to the Global Cooling articles during the 70's. It is such a shame that the Sheeple in this country have such a short memory.

Global Warming detected on Mars!

Michael Asher over at DailyTech has a good summary in his blog post about Global Warming. He brings together several different perspectives on the issue.

Bottom line: If Mars is experiencing Global Warming and there are no humans there - could it be possible that it is caused by other issues?

Take the time to review what he has posted he ask links to other information and an upcoming documentary.

One of the first prominent scientist promoting human caused Global Warming - NOW A SKEPTIC

The National Post in Canada has an article about Claude Allegre a French scientist who was one of the first promoting the idea of human caused Global Warming.

What is interesting is he publicly changed his position back in September but it never really hit the mainstream media - hey what's up with that? :)

He wrote an article about the natural causes behind Antarctica ice gain and Kilimanjaro's shrinking ice caps. Now if one of France's leading socialists can step out from behind the political agenda behind Global Warming - why can't everyone else?

We need serious and complete research performed on Global Warming and it is going to take many years before we really know anything.

A new satellite could see shadow of extra dimensions

David Shiga over at New Scientists reports on a new satellite to be launched next year that could possibly detect theoretical dimensions beyond the common 3 we are familiar with.

The satellite might be able to detect the hint of the extra dimensions in the afterglow of the big bang. The afterglow is from the cosmic microwave background that describes the structure of the universe from about 370,000 years after the big bang. But hey what's a few hundred thousand years when you are talking about billions!

This is fascinating as the extra dimensions are key to string theory which is attempting to unify everything into a single theory of everything. 2007 looks to be an exciting year for science (as long as we can keep the politics at bay!) as the Large Hadron Collider is to go online by the end of the year and will provide our first real glimpse into the reality of string theory. If it proves out it will change everything and we will all have to face the fact that there just might be unlimited parallel universes!

Where did life come from?

Wired Mag and Big Questions Wiki have an interesting article today about the origins of life.

The answer is pretty simplistic and has not been validated in any lab so you can imaging the banter is already starting on the conversation threads.

It is part of a bigger set of questions (42 of the biggest questions in science). Yes Douglas Adams still lives on with that famous answer to everything: 42!

Here is the link to the other 41 questions: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.02/bigquestions.html

Google to Help Film Entire Universe

Google has joined a group of 19 universities and national labs to assist with surveying space and assisting in turning the captured nightly data (images, video) into useful public information - can everyone say: Google Universe!

Google sits in an interesting position to assist efforts like this. The LSST project; which stands for Large Synoptic Survey Telescope; will produce about 30 terabytes of image information every night. Seagate and Hitachi better hurry up with their new drive technology!

Google should be applauded for assisting in projects like this. One of the biggest barriers for undertaking some of these scientific expeditions is how to manage the vast and I mean vast amount of data produced.

Google also recently announced a major partnership with NASA as reported on Joe Duck's blog, link here: http://joeduck.wordpress.com/2006/12/17/nasa-google-space-research-project/