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10 Ways Methane Could Brake Global Warmingâ?"or Break the Planet

Methane is a paradox. It increases global warming at the same time that it promises abundant alternative energy. The gas is all around the planet, from the atmosphere to deep below seabeds. Here are 10 trends and discoveries that may determine methane's ultimate roll in the health of the environment:

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Lord Monckton Thrashes DeSmog Blog Editor in High-Profile Global Warming Debate

Lord Christopher Monckton, a global warming expert and former senior policy advisor to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has challenged Al Gore, and other ardent proponents of the theory that humans are causing a global warming crisis, to publicly debate the issue.

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Astronomers Claim Discovery of Earth-like Planet

Raver32 writes "A team of astronomers announced they have discovered the smallest and potentially most Earth-like extrasolar planet yet. Five times as massive as Earth, it orbits a relatively cool star at a distance that would provide earthly temperatures as well, signaling the possibility of liquid water. "The separation between the planet and its star is just right for having liquid water at its surface," says astronomer and team spokesperson Stephane Udry of the Observatory of Geneva in Versoix, Switzerland. "That's why we are a bit excited." But researchers do not yet know if the planet contains water, if it is truly rocky like Earth, which might make it hospitable to life as we know it, or whether it is blanketed by a thick atmosphere. "What we have," Udry says, "is the minimum mass of the planet and its separation" from its star.

U.N. agency: Global warming hurting fish

Global warming will severely hurt hundreds of millions of people who depend on fishing for their livelihoods, a U.N. agency said in Rome Thursday.

'Dire Predictions' book offers easy guide to global warming science

Global warming, increasing greenhouse gases and melting ice sheets are all dire predictions by the Nobel-Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), but understanding the scientific assessments, future impacts on our lives, and the things we can do to mitigate the situation is not easy. Now, in a new book, two Penn State climate scientists present the information from the most recent IPCC reports in easily understood, sometimes amusing explanations and illustrations.

Future Impact of Global Warming is Worse When Grazing Animals are Considered, Scientists Suggest

The impact of global warming in the Arctic may differ from the predictions of computer models, according to new research, which shows that grazing animals will play a key role in reducing the anticipated expansion of shrub growth in the region, thus limiting the shrubs' predicted and beneficial carbon-absorbing effect. Full story

Cool sculptures for a warming planet

Eleven artists are seeking shelter in Shropshire this autumn. For a show called Give Me Shelter, opening in the grounds of National Trust house Attingham Park in September, the artists will be installing sculptures on the theme of protection from disasters caused by global warming. Among the works on display will be The Large Huts by Christina Mackie - enormous, clod-like mounds inspired by concrete sun shelters in Pakistan - and Roma, a 20-metre steel walkway in the shape of a cattle run, designed by Keith Wilson.

Rock Stars to Send DNA Into Space

Operation Immortality(TM), the project to create a digital time capsule of the human race, has joined forces with Planet Make-Over, an entertainment driven social network designed to demonstrably reverse the effects of Global Warming. This alliance aims to unite and mobilize the worldwide gaming community with Planet Make-Over's mission by sending the digitized DNA of rock stars Eric Johnson, Patrice Pike and Planet Make-Over's Musical Director, Stephen Bruton into space with video gaming luminary Richard Garriott as he travels to the International Space Station (ISS) on Oct. 12, 2008.

j2 Global Sues Three Over Patents

Los Angeles-based electronic FAX service provider j2 Global Communications said this morning that it has filed three, separate patent infringement suits. j2 Global announced that it has sued Protus IP Solutions INc., Captaris Inc. and EasyLink Services International Corporation. All of the suits allege patent infringement on two of j2's patents, covering what j2 says are described as “Scalable Architecture for Transmission of Messages over a Network.” The lawsuits were filed in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Texas. In all of the cases, j2 Global is looking for monetary damages and injunctive relief from the firms. The new lawsuits come in addition to outstanding patent infringement lawsuits against both Protus and Captaris.

A planet-sized debate

Later this week the Applied Physics Laboratory of The Johns Hopkins University will host a three-day conference and educators’ workshop titled “The Great Planet Debate�. The purpose of the event, in the words of its organizers, is straightforward: “[T]o explore a basic, but controversial, question: What is a planet?� The highlight of the conference: a debate between planetary scientist Mark Sykes and astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson over whether Pluto should be classified as a planet.

Study Concludes "Planet" Was Just Stellar Spots

Kligat writes "Back in January, it was reported that the youngest planet ever to be discovered, about ten times the mass of Jupiter, was orbiting the eight- to ten-million-year-old star TW Hydrae. Now a Spanish research team has concluded that TW Hydrae b doesn't exist, and that cold spots on the star's surface actually produced the dip in brightness instead of a transiting planet. Not as cool as if a planet had actually been there, but refutations are science, too, right?"

Unified platform: LG Electronics links up with GXS for global ERP support; B2B consolidation

LG Electronics, a global leader and technology innovator in consumer electronics, home appliances and mobile communications, has chosen GXS Trading Grid to consolidate and centralize its interactions with more than 200 global trading partners. The move is part of a broader LG strategy to reduce complexity in its supply chain operations by centralizing its geographically dispersed ERP systems in Europe, the U.S., South America, and Asia-Pacific at its headquarters in Seoul, and to centralize its B2B e-commerce functions onto a unified global platform.

Observing an Evaporating Extrasolar Planet

Observations of planets orbiting other stars are becoming increasingly common as astronomical techniques become more and more sophisticated. But some extrasolar planets have a stronger than normal spectroscopic signature, often stronger than their optical signature. What could be causing this? In a recent study, observations of the extrasolar planet HD 209458b (also unofficially known as "Osiris", which orbits a star in the constellation of Pegasus) revealed the strongest ever spectroscopic signature for a giant extrasolar planet, indicating Osiris is producing a huge cloud of gas. This gas is being lost from the planet's atmosphere; Osiris is evaporating…

LG Electronics Selects GXS to Support Global ERP and B2...

GXS, a leading provider of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce solutions, today announced that LG Electronics, a global leader and technology innovator in consumer electronics, home appliances and mobile communications, has chosen GXS Trading Grid to consolidate and centralize its interactions with more than 200 global trading partners. The move is part of a broader LG strategy to reduce complexity in its supply chain operations by centralizing its geographically-dispersed enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in Europe, the United States, South America and Asia-Pacific at its headquarters in Seoul, South Korea and to centralize its B2B e-commerce functions onto a unified global platform.

LG Electronics Selects GXS to Support Global ERP and B2B Consolidation

SEOUL, Korea and GAITHERSBURG, Md., July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- GXS, a leading provider of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce solutions, today announced that LG Electronics, a global leader and technology innovator in consumer electronics, home appliances and mobile communications, has chosen GXS Trading Grid(R) to consolidate and centralize its interactions with more than 200 global trading partners. The move is part of a broader LG strategy to reduce complexity in its supply chain operations by centralizing its geographically- dispersed enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in Europe, the United States, South America and Asia-Pacific at its headquarters in Seoul, South Korea and to centralize its B2B e-commerce functions onto a unified global platform.

Nickelback Joins Live Nation Artists in Exclusive Global Partnership

LOS ANGELES, July 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Live Nation (NYSE: LYV) President and Chief Executive Officer Michael Rapino announced today that the company has entered into a long-term global partnership with Nickelback, one of the most successful contemporary hitmaking and touring rock bands in the world. Nickelback is the fourth global superstar that Live Nation has signed to a unified rights deal, on track with the company's strategic plan to sign four to six such deals with world-class artists in the first year of operation of its Live Nation Artists division. (Photo: here) Shaped by Mr. Rapino, the new partnership contemplates all areas of Nickelback's global music enterprises, including three touring and album cycles, with an option for a fourth.

Big Brother is Watching Over the Red Planet

We have security cameras watching our daily habits, we watch voyeuristic TV shows of social misfits trapped in a house, we use webcams to transmit our musings on Youtube and we are constantly being monitored by hi-res satellite cameras. What can we possibly survey now? Surely every inch of the planet is under someone's watchful eye? This planet maybe. By a stroke of luck, ESA scientists have just realised that a surplus camera on board the Mars Express orbiter could be switched back on and used as an interplanetary webcam. Big Brother is now keeping a watchful eye on the Red Planet too…

Warming may cause rapid plant species loss on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Global warming could cause a dramatic decline in plant species diversity on the rangelands of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in southwest China, say Chinese and U.S. scientists.

Solving the Asteroid " Meteorite Puzzle

Astronomers studying ways to deal with incoming near-Earth asteroids (NEA) that might be on a collision course with our planet want to know in detail what these space rocks are made of. The better they "know the enemy" the better they can come up with ways to destroy or change the course of NEAs. Since we've only studied a couple of asteroids up close with spacecraft, the best way to learn more about the composition of asteroids should be fairly easy: just look at meteorites that fall to Earth, which are small chunks of asteroids. But in doing so, researchers discovered quite a huge discrepancy. The vast majority of asteroids that whiz by Earth are of a type that matches only a tiny fraction of the meteorites that most frequently hit our planet.

NASA seeks next Carl Sagan - and extraterrestrial life

An image of the planet Mercury, made during the January 2008 flyby of the planet by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft is seen in this image released by NASA July 3, 2008. An image of the planet Mercury, made during the January 2008 flyby of the planet by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft is seen in this image released by NASA July 3, 2008. (REUTERS/NASA/JHUAP/ Arizona State University/Handout)

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