Science Etcetera Jupiterday, 20080306

March 6th, 2008

More than 400 years after the Inquisition forced him to recant his belief in Science, the Catholic church is itself recanting by building a Galileo statue inside the Vatican

Forbes Ranks Einstein as the Fifth Top-Earning Dead Celebrity.

Examine it, download it, print it out and give it to your friends, make it your wallpaper, it’s the Combat Global Warming Map.

Combat Global Warming Map

Blowhard “Culture Warrior” Billy O’Rly? said on his show that Global Warming is “all guesswork.” The sort of statement I would expect from buffoon with a demonstrated complete ignorance of science.

One of the most frustratingly ignorant things AGW Skeptics repeat like mantra is “How can humans mess up something as large as the Earth?” Well and new book Fragile Earth, illustrates exactly how we can have dramatic effects, good and bad, with lots of satellite photos.

Lake Chad 1972 and 1987
Shrunk to 5% its Former Size

Following this line of thought, the Glen Canyon Dam has opened up to unleash a Manmade Flood on the Grand Canyon in order to generate sediment deposits along the river’s banks for plants, campers, and fish.

Westerners look at the individual’s face, Easterners factor in all the faces around the individual when interpreting a person’s emotions.

Thanks to California’s mandating power companies to produce 20% of their electricity from renewable sources, Cow butts are being plugged into the Power Grid, ~~but~~ however, as one researcher notes, cow belches are where the real energy gold is.

Today’s Moment of Science runs to Second Life for a tour of science Learning Opportunities in this virtual world, you can read about my personal experiences with Science in SL here.:

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That global warming map link doesn’t work.
by Clint March 6th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Thanks for the catch. I fixed the link, and found they had several more maps also.
by ideonexus March 6th, 2008 at 10:02 pm