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...discovery, says British scientist David Peel, co-author of one of the reports, is "staggering." Worldwide temperature shifts of a few degrees over half a century -- the kind envisioned in theories of global warming -- would disrupt weather patterns, change sea levels and be difficult for animal and plant life to adjust to. The changes Peel measured, though, are roughly three times as severe and rapid...
...reputable scientist will say that what we are experiencing now is the early effects of global warming -- even if a few privately suspect it to be so. The theory that the buildup of CO2, methane and other heat-trapping gases can raise global temperatures -- like the glass in the walls of a greenhouse -- is well established, but no one knows how much warming will occur or how soon. While early computer models suggested that average global temperatures could jump 3 degreesF to 9 degreesF by the middle of the next century, recent studies have cast doubt on those estimates. Even...
Weather prediction is, in the best of circumstances, a crap shoot. Meteorologists, with their satellites and supercomputers, have become pretty good at forecasting the weather five to 10 days in advance. But offering definitive explanations for long-range atmospheric complexities is something no scientist can do. The world's weather is a prime example of the phenomenon of chaos -- a cause-and-effect system so devilishly complex that it becomes inherently unpredictable...
Various child-development experts weighed in with their views in amicus briefs to the court. Moving the baby now, wrote Professor Solnit, who is also a senior research scientist at the Yale Child Study Center, could pose a grave risk to her development. In his clinical work, Solnit has found that for a child so young, being removed from a home and placed with people who, however loving, are strangers to her can lead to "a loss of intellectual capacity." The hour-to-hour, day-to-day experiences of the first two to three years of life, he argues...
...notebook will help protect you from the greatest danger that faces a scientist: self-deception," reads the sheet. "It helps prevent wishful memory [from] improving one's recollection of past experiments...