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Ocean Organic Carbon Persists For Millenia

Ocean Organic Carbon Persists For Millenia

March 29, 2015
Russ George
Get Your Geek On

European scientists working as part of the globally comprehensive Malaspina Expedition have shown deep ocean carbon is not promptly exhaled as CO2 by microbial activity…

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thank the plankton

Spring Blooms Convert Vast Amounts of CO2 Into Ocean Life And Oxygen

March 26, 2015
Russ George
Get Your Geek On, Good News For The Planet

New report shows ocean pastures bloom with the seasons and enrich the ocean with oxygen to far greater depths than formerly believed. The spring blooms…

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High and Rising CO2 Helping Trees Conserve Water

High and Rising CO2 Helping Trees Conserve Water

March 26, 2015
Russ George
Get Your Geek On

Dramatic water conserving effects of rising CO2 in European trees is revealed in 100 years of data Italian researcher(s) Tognetti et al. (2014) show that…

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Vital Plankton Rock Star Dissolving In Our Acidifying Oceans

Vital Plankton Rock Star Dissolving In Our Acidifying Oceans

March 25, 2015
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet, Good News For The Planet

Our favourite plankton rock star, Emily Hux, an incredibly populus and beautiful form of ocean life is in dire straits and we don’t mean enjoying…

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Arctic Gulls Disappearing As Mercury Increases To 45 Times Historic Levels

Arctic Gulls Disappearing As Mercury Increases To 45 Times Historic Levels

March 19, 2015
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

Pure white Arctic Ivory Gulls has seen its population reduced to just 20% of historic levels since the 1980’s. Only 500 breeding pairs of the…

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Amazon Rainforest Living Fast Dying Young In High CO2 World

Amazon Rainforest Living Fast Dying Young In High CO2 World

March 18, 2015
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

Most extensive study of the Amazon to date reveals startling early death of rainforest trees. Life expectancy of Amazon trees has declined by more than…

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sealion nursery

Starving Sea Lions Perish By Tens of Thousands In California’s Dying Ocean

March 10, 2015
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

California’s Dying Ocean Becoming A Lifeless Blue Desert As Sea Lions, Seabirds, and Sardines Starve To Death In Greatest Numbers Ever Recorded While many argue…

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Eco Jihadis Of The Climate Industrial Complex

Eco Jihadis Of The Climate Industrial Complex

March 4, 2015
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

President/General Eisenhower warned the nation and the world in the 1950’s of the danger of the emerging Military Industrial Complex and it’s ilk. Eisenhower noted, “these…

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Rapid Changes In Ocean Pastures Not Tied To Deep Ocean Iron Sources

Rapid Changes In Ocean Pastures Not Tied To Deep Ocean Iron Sources

March 3, 2015
Russ George
Get Your Geek On

Studies show deep ocean iron has changed little over the last 76 million years leaving only the diminishing iron from failing dust in the wind…

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diatom

Phytoplankton Lab Studies Reveal Both Expected And Unexpected Results

March 2, 2015
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

Increasing CO2 in the air leads to more CO2 in the surface ocean home of the world’s most important plant life, the phytoplankton. A little…

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Stinging Eviction Notice Being Served By Blue Planet Landlord

Stinging Eviction Notice Being Served By Blue Planet Landlord

March 2, 2015
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

Life on this blue planet first emerged as a gooey gelatinous slime some 4 billion years ago. The 3 billion year reign of the bacteria…

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Often one cannot catch the unknown in a net of the known. - anon

"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such trifling investment of fact." Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

"It's like religion. Heresy in science is thought of as a bad thing, whereas it should be just the opposite." - Thomas Gold

Unnamed Law: If it happens, it must be possible.

" If you steal from one person, well they call that plagarism. I steal from everyone, they call that research. - Woody Guthrie

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”

- Thomas Pynchon

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. - Arthur C. Clarke's First Law

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover. - H. Poincare

"Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature." - Michael Faraday

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. - Max Planck

Corollary: Science advances funeral by funeral.

A man with a new idea is a crank until he succeeds. - Mark Twain

Never attribute to conspiracy that which is adequately explained by stupidity. - R. George

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are that good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. - Howard Aiken

I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here ... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped. - U.S. Senator Simon Cameron, on the Smithsonian Institute (1901)

The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who's doing it!  The Roman Rule

 "I never make predictions, especially about the future" - Casey Stengle

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