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Where the Global Warming Data Is 1011

Several readers noted the latest fallout from the Climate Research Unit's Climategate: the admission by the University of East Anglia that the raw data behind important climate research was discarded in the 1980s, "a time when climate change was seen as a less pressing issue" according to the Times (UK) article. The Telegraph quotes Phil Jones, beleagured head of the CRU: "Our global temperature series tallies with those of other, completely independent, groups of scientists working for NASA and the National Climate Data Centre in the United States, among others. Even if you were to ignore our findings, theirs show the same results. The facts speak for themselves; there is no need for anyone to manipulate them." Some of the data behind these other results can likely be found in a new resource that jamie located up at the Real Climate site: a compilation of links to a wide variety of raw data about climate. From the former link: "In the aftermath of the CRU email hack, many people have come to believe that scientists are unfairly restricting access to the raw data relating to the global rise in temperature. ... We have set up a page of data links to sources of temperature and other climate data, codes to process it, model outputs, model codes, reconstructions, paleo-records, the codes involved in reconstructions etc."

Comment Re:VASIMR (Score 1) 237

Well I meant rather disposing off the ISS somewhere around Earth where they could scavenge stuff from it at a later date rather then let 450 metric tons of potential material burn up in the atmosphere. So whenever we abandon it we could just attach a big honking tug and put in some graveyard orbit. Hell once we get space tugs operational we should just put all those old satellites and other salvageable space derbies floating around into a big space junkyard. Then maybe the junks mutual gravity will pull all that junk conveniently together and form what could be called a 'junkotroid' for ease of salvage.

Comment Re:VASIMR (Score 1) 237

Didn't they say they were going to actually test this on the ISS itself around 2011-2012 or so? Also would disposing of the ISS in one of the L points for parts and stuff be a good idea? The VASIMR engine should be good around 2016-2020 right, so it shouldn't be that big of a leap I suppose.
Space

Submission + - Earthlike planet discovered around nearby star

The Bad Astronomer writes: "Astronomers in Europe have announced the discovery of a planet with only 5 times the Earth's mass, orbiting a red dwarf star 20 light years away. It orbits the star so close in that it only takes 13 days to go around... but the star is so cool that the temperature of the planet is between 0 and 40 Celsius — cool enough to allow liquid water to exist! Models indicate the planet is either rocky like the Earth or covered in an ocean. While it's not known if there actually is liquid water on the planet, of course, this is a really big discovery, and indicates that we are getting ever closer to finding another Earth orbiting an alien star."

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