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Thursday, October 5, 2006
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Science Blog: "Scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks International Arctic Research Center this fall documented that recent surges of warm water from the North Atlantic Ocean continue to pulse into the Arctic Ocean and are moving toward Alaska and the Canadian Basin.
"Scientists made the observations this fall during an oceanographic cruise aboard the Russian icebreaker Kapitan Dranitsyn as part of the Nansen and Amundsen Basins Observational Systems program. Information gathered by the NABOS program, as well as from other international programs, has shown that, during the last decade, the movement of warm water into the Arctic Ocean has increased. And the readings from this fall's cruise show unprecedented warmth in some areas."
"2008 pres"
9:23:57 PM 
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ZDNet: "A new season has started for YouTube and it has nothing to do with the fall shows. It's all about the political season. And the latest victim is Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was recently shot - by his opponent's camp - stumbling over an awkward explanation of how a $1500 check from a friend came to his reelection fund at just the time when the friend's wife landed a state job."
"denver 2006"
9:01:18 PM
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Science Blog: "Dr. John C. Mather of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has won the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Mather shares the prize with George F. Smoot of the University of California for their collaborative work on understanding the Big Bang..
"Mather and Smoot analyzed data from NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), which studied the pattern of radiation from the first few instants after the universe was formed. In 1992, the COBE team announced that they had mapped the primordial hot and cold spots in the cosmic microwave background radiation. These spots are related to the gravitational field in the early universe, only instants after the Big Bang, and are the seeds for the giant clusters of galaxies that stretch hundreds of millions of light years across the universe."
8:59:16 PM
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Time: "The Foley sex scandal has hurt G.O.P. election prospects. Two-thirds of those aware of the scandal believe Republican leaders attempted a cover-up, according to a new survey."
Thanks to Oliver Willis for the link.
"2008 pres"
5:49:40 PM
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EarthTimes.org: "Continually decreasing sea ice in the Arctic Ocean prompted a group of researchers yesterday to warn that this Polar region may have no sea ice by 2060. Measurements taken by satellite indicated that the sea surface area covered by ice floes was at its minimum in 29 years, a result of global melting. A team of scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) made the observation. Team leader and senior researcher at NSIDC, Mark Serreze believes the phenomenon is linked with the rapid rate of global warming. The researcher suggested it could also be the result of a self-perpetuating warming cycle.
"By covering much of the northernmost ocean, sea ice works like insulation preventing the sea water from warming up. The ice reflects much of the sunlight which would otherwise heat up the sea water. Seasonal temperature changes affect the extent of sea surface covered by these ice bodies. In summers, it is usually the lowest, with the ice floes melting down to their minimum around mid-September. The thermal expansion and runoff from melting icebergs and glaciers contribute to the rising sea levels. The decline in sea ice mass would be recovered during winters, under normal circumstances. However, the entire Arctic mass of sea ice has been on a long-term decline, reaching new lows every summer."
"2008 pres"
5:59:00 AM
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