From xkcd: http://www.xkcd.com/164/ Science is about facts and evidence. There is a lot of evidence that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. You can explore with our models how carbon…
…All they need to do now is find stars that have planets that have at least one moon. “When they’re found, we’ll be ready to weigh them,” said Kipping. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101015140801.htm…
…detect smaller and smaller motions will enhance the ability of instruments to detect smaller and smaller planets around other stars–perhaps even another “Earth.” Technological innovation is the only limit. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101128220203.htm…
How can you tell what’s in the atmosphere of a planet that’s over one billion miles from Earth? Blog Post
…the measurement from that far away, it’s only a matter of time until we’ll be able to measure atmospheres of planets and moons outside of our solar system! http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/cassinifeatures/feature20101126/ http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101128222041.htm…
…roughly the same amount of sea level rise caused by melting glaciers and icecaps outside of Greenland and Antarctica and 25% of the total sea level rise per year! http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100923142503.htm…
…big question, for us humans, is how humans will fare. Explore the role of oceans in Earth’s climate with our activity, “What will Earth’s climate be in the future?” http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110109184025.htm…
…ice sheet dynamics and their relationship with the global climate system.” Explore the relationship between temperature and ice-melting in our activity, “What will Earth’s climate be in the future?“ http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110126131538.htm…
…think it is important to get that message out now.” http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110216132100.htm Explore the relationship between temperature and greenhouse gases in our activity, “What will Earth’s climate be in the future?“…
…100 to be considered significant. http://www.xkcd.com/882 Scientists test their hypotheses multiple times to be sure of the significance of their results. Even though one test may reach a significant p-value,…
…Formaldehyde is relatively abundant throughout the galaxy, making it possible that life could form in other solar systems in the same way that it formed in this solar system. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110404151351.htm…