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The Rose of Saturn: A massive hurricane thats twice the width of Earth
2013-04-30 20:58:26| Extremetech
Do not adjust your monitor: The image you see here, captured by NASA's Cassini orbiter, is a hurricane on Saturn that's twice the size of Earth. The eye of the storm, shown in red, is about 1,250 miles (2,000km) wide -- about 20 times larger than the eye of hurricanes here on Earth -- and the outer edge of the hurricane is traveling at around 330 mph (150 meters per second).
Humans' indelible stamp on Earth clear 5000 years ago
2013-04-29 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: When did humans stamp our footprint on the planet? The idea that we have entered a geological epoch defined by our very presence the Anthropocene is gaining traction, but exactly when did this epoch begin? After the first atom bomb went off? At the start of the industrial revolution in the mid-18th century? Or was it a lot earlier? A new study argues that the Anthropocene began with the rise of farming or even in Neolithic times, when we took to widespread burning of the bush to hunt animals....
Shared earth modeling
2013-04-27 17:36:20| Oil IT Journal - www.oilit.com
Semantic approach to oil and gas field modeling proposed in new publication from IFP Energies Nouvelles. Knowledge-driven solution to inform next generation Energistics Resqml protocol.
Reflections on Shared Earth Modeling and the semantic web
2013-04-27 17:36:20| Oil IT Journal - www.oilit.com
Neil McNaughton delves deeper into the subject of this months lead. Can a book be news? It can, if it proposes a novel approach to intractable problems like interoperability and data management.
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An Earth Scientist Explores the Biggest Climate Threat: Fear
2013-04-27 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Heres a Your Dot contribution pushing back against apocalyptic depictions of the collision between humans and the climate system written by Peter B. Kelemen, the Arthur D. Storke Professor and vice chair in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. Keleman has done a lot of interesting work on possible ways to capture carbon dioxide from air (none being easy or cheap): Fear Itself We already know it is too late to reverse the planets transformation,...
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