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Sunday, November 21, 2010
Can the party of Reagan accept the science of climate change?
Here is a thoughtful piece by Sherwood Boehlert, a Republican who represented New York's 24th District in Congress from 1983 to 2007. Boehlert notes: I can understand arguments over proposed policy approaches to climate change. I served in Congress for 24 years. I know these are legitimate areas for debate. What I find incomprehensible is the dogged determination by some to discredit distinguished scientists and their findings.
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These guys put the "extreme" in "extremophile"
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Whoa. Oregon state researchers have discovered a bacterial ecosystem in the Earth's deepest crust layer. And they think there may be some deeper still. Organisms, like these, that live in extreme environments once thought to be devoid of life are called "extremophiles."
Is any part of Earth untouched by humans?
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This recent Economist article is reminiscent of that:
Soot gets everywhere. Even into the world’s highest mountains
photo and text from Economist Article
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