Climate Change: Map of Who Emits and Who Will Suffer

This Summer's Reading List

Megaflood Made Britain An Island

You'll Understand Homeopathy If You Understand Einstein
....Homeopathy - can it get more stupid than this...? Warning: Advanced degree in physics and chemistry required to follow this discussion: Now you know why those white pills pack so much punch! They are literally powder kegs of energy.

Teaching Human Evolution In Pakistan Can Be Dangerous
Kenneth Chang of New York Times has written an interesting summary on the teaching and acceptance of evolution across Muslim countries and among Muslim immigrants in many western nations. Atomic physicist Pervez. A Hoodbhoy went through a dramatic moment while lecturing at a university in Pakistan: Pervez A. Hoodbhoy, a prominent atomic physicist at Quaid-e-Azam University in Pakistan, said that when he gave lectures covering the sweep of cosmological history from the Big Bang to the evolution of life on Earth, the audience listened without objection to

Isolating Nuclear Waste At Yucca Mountain
BLDGBLOG has an interview with Abraham Van Luik, a geoscientist with the U.S. Department of Energy. Its a long interview about isolating nuclear waste. Yucca mountain and its geology feature prominently. Definitely worth reading.

End Cretaceous: How Many Impacts? How Many Iridium Anomalies?
Looking over the recent GSA geoblogosphere page I was alerted to a presentation by Shankar Chatterjee and colleagues on the Shiva crater, a hypothetical impact crater that Chatterjee claims is of end Cretaceous age and is likely responsible along with the Deccan volcanism for the mass extinction. He suggests that the Chicxulub impact event in Mexico also timed to the end Cretaceous did not alone cause the mass extinction. Here is the abstract. The talk apparently got a

Cambrian Explosion: This Time Its The Calcium That Did It
Geological processes and evolution - 4 A short article in Science Daily describes research that suggests that a buildup of calcium in the oceans in the early Cambrian provided the necessary trigger for the Cambrian "explosion" - the pronounced expansion and diversification of multicellular groups of animals. Some of the best examples of this evolutionary radiation is preserved in deposits like the Burgess Shale and the