Daily Archives: October 22, 2008

Scotch Tape emits X-Rays: film at 11

Now here’s a science story you don’t hear every day. Simple scotch tape pulled off it’s reel in a vacuum makes x-rays powerful enough to image this finger. NEW YORK -AP- Just two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical … Continue reading

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Sea ice area approaching the edge of normal standard deviation

10/31 NEWS: See updated graphs here UPDATED: 10/22/08 The new images below are even closer Watching arctic sea ice rebound this year has been exciting, more so since a few predictions and expeditions predicated on a record low sea ice … Continue reading

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Contributor/Blogger Prognostications of Future Temperature Trends

Guest post by Bob Tisdale Near the current end of the thread titled National Post: Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof Allan asked, “What is your global average temperature prediction for the next several decades?”  There were a few responses, … Continue reading

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