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Why is the Aerosol particle distribution lognormal?

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How much more could the Earth shrink as it cools and the core completely cools?

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Scientists sue to stop 'black hole' from sucking up Earth

  • Gaius Baltar
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Predictive power of the Farmer's Almanac

  • DaveC426913
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What Happens During a Magnetic Pole Shift?

  • lukifell
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Forget ocean levels rising due to global warming what if

  • DaveC426913
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Interested in the whole earth magnetic polarity swap thing

  • derryck1234
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Can Plate Tectonics Be Linked to the Emergence of Life on Earth?

  • FunkyDwarf
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Experiments on Greenhouse Gases

  • physicsdude30
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Georeactor Theory: Is Fission Reactions Responsible for Earth's Heat?

  • Jbcourt
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Verifying the Gutenberg-Richter law at small magnitudes

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Effect of gravity on atmosphere

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Bringing iron asteroids down to Earth?

  • rrw4rusty
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Earth Day - My Contact Experience

  • scar7
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Archeomagnetic jerks and geomagnetic field instability

  • Saul
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Why do planets rotate?

  • Parbat
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Would you float at the center of the Earth in a spherical chamber?

  • Seagull59
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How Does the Earth Naturally Cool Itself?

  • cshum00
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What is the most accurate half time for carbon dating?

  • Andre
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What controls salinity in oceans and seas?

  • jackson6612
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How would fallowing the land conserve moisture?

  • jackson6612
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Why don't the glaciers just melt?

  • TSN79
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Difference in simple shear and rotational strain

  • rahuldg11
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How Much Oil Does US Agriculture Use?

  • aquitaine
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3D surface of the land and ocean floor

  • SAZAR
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What is the hell is Interior draeminity?

  • Silex7
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Is a rift valley bottom considered a plateau or a plain?

  • jackson6612
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Can Particulate Matter Decay Constants Be Found for Different Regions?

  • DnD Addict
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Who are the worlds leading climatologists?

  • Nusc
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  • Poll Poll

Variances of Physics on Earth

  • CleffedUp
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Influence of the sun on the temperature of the ocean

  • Shukie
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Angular speed of the Earth's atmosphere

  • GRB 080319B
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What causes the weak gravitational field under India and the Indian Ocean?

  • curiousphoton
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Why does crude oil stay near the bottom at 5000 feet depth?

  • gwangi
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Massive cold region in the North Atlantic Ocean

  • dorlomin
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What Would Happen if a Hurricane Hit the Gulf Oil Spill?

  • rockhouse
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Could a nuke ignite sub-surface methane?

  • rockhouse
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Strong negative feedback in Climate

  • Gary P
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What kind of fish fossil did I find on the beach in Swansea, UK?

  • Dylan Roberts
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Abiotic oil theory vs fossil fuel theory

  • Guts
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Could the Chicxulub asteroid have changed Earth's orbit or axis at all

  • GreatBigBore
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Make a barometer that has a dial?

  • moonman239
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Rock that rattles when shaken - what's inside?

  • qaddoumi
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Questioning the Big Bang Theory

  • johncena
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Unfolding Earth - my contribution

  • dgtech
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Saturation of water vapor in the atmosphere

  • Entropee
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Determining Age of Earth with Superparamagnetism

  • fefe80
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Carbon dioxide has Eyjafjallajokull pumped into the atmosphere

  • Jobrag
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Iceland Volcano - Eyjafjallajokull

  • Astronuc
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Massive 8.8 Earth Quake in Chile

  • Monique
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Freezing in the gulf oil pipeline

  • Mark24
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How old is the earth according to the bible?

  • chrisalviola
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Hellyer claims ET has visited Earth

  • WiFO215
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Fast way to decompose plastic bags.

  • matthyaouw
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The Amount of Human CO2 emissions vs. The Scale of our Atmosphere

  • engineertard
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Why Does the Earth Have Two Magnetic Poles?

  • suryakanta06
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Can ocean pH decrease while releasing CO2 simultaneously?

  • cesiumfrog
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How do archaeological sites get buried under soil?

  • Newai
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How volcanic ash from Iceland affected air traffic in 2010

  • wolram
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Do Women's Actions Really Cause Earthquakes?

  • Borg
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Does Tidal Friction Affect the Moon's Gravitational Potential Energy?

  • Andrew Mason
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K-T extinction thought experinment

  • aquitaine
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Live earthquakes in the World directly on the web

  • elizabeth2010
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Have you seen the incredible pictures of Iceland's Volcano?

  • Evo
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What is self and air broadening effects?

  • nordmoon
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Will Iceland's volcano sink the EU's economies?

  • turbo
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Unravelling the Subtropical Jet Stream

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Temperature affect on the Aurora Borealis

  • Guitarzan01
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North Atlantic Drift Current and Abrupt Climate Change

  • Saul
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Nature's past experiment on global warming?

  • Soaring Crane
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What Causes the Rapid Changes in Sea Level?

  • Saul
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How did Victorians estimate the ages of fossils?

  • sophiecentaur
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Qanat (subterranean channel) water profiles

  • pingulii
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Is there life in the universe, and if so has it visited Earth?

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Easter Earthquake In California

  • zoobyshoe
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Can fungi compete with algae for biofuel production?

  • Ivan Seeking
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What do dip angle, dip latitude, and L-shells mean in geomagnetism?

  • Ehabali
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How Do You Reverse Projections to Interpret Geological Maps?

  • rahuldg11
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What caused the 7.8 Earthquake in Sumatra and what are the details?

  • russ_watters
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What is Causing Yellowstone's Recent Seismic Activity?

  • SixNein
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What is the relationship between viscosity and convection in the mantle?

  • rahuldg11
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Atmosphere lowers total radiation Earth receives

  • FireBones
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How can we defeat pollution as individuals?

  • Dr. Peabody
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The Earth is Growing: A Thought-Provoking Theory

  • HornyLlama
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New fossil What hav I found? PIC's

  • ejoe89
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Can infrared laser reflections reveal an object's color?

  • Albert_A
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I don't know what animal my fossil used to be

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