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...string of 'gates over the past few months - Climategate, Himalayagate, among others - have landed some hard punches on the politics of climate change science. They haven't laid a glove on the science itself, however. Humans are pumping out planet-warming greenhouse gases at a prodigious rate, and the planet is warming. That's no coincidence...
...planet warms and the permafrost thaws, methane could begin to escape into the atmosphere, where it would trap more heat and melt more permafrost - one of the many positive feedback mechanisms that could accelerate the climate change that is already under...
...connected with Avatar's message about taking care of our planet. How can we create our own Pandora here on earth? -Julie Patrick, Manhattan Beach, Calif. Go for a walk in the forest. Go snorkeling in a coral reef. Appreciate the nature we have. I think that from a respect for nature comes action. The best thing people can do right now to help the planet is to understand how we've got to make a fairly rapid transition to alternative energy...
...York will have to get used to Grainge this summer when the 49-year-old takes over as head of Universal Music worldwide, the largest record company on the planet with a market share of nearly 29% and such acts in its stable as U2, Lady Gaga, Eminem and Amy Winehouse. Grainge has been groomed for the role for several years and says his fingers will remain close to the light switch. "It will depend if they have any hits or not," he tells TIME. (See the 100 best albums of all time...
...slightly different from the north-south axis around which the Earth rotates) - in the case of the Chile earthquake, by about three inches. The law of conservation of angular momentum, however, requires that even under these exigent circumstances, the Earth's angular momentum stays constant, which means the planet must step on the gas (or the brake) to accommodate shifting mass. The same thing happened in 2004 with the 9.1 Sumatran earthquake that triggered the tsunami. That earthquake should have shifted the Earth's figure axis by 2.76 inches and shortened its day by 6.8 millionths of a second, according...