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Archeomagnetic Jerks & Abrupt Climate Change
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Mysterious Blue Water in an Abandoned Strip Mine
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Paint your roof white to reduce global warming
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What is the Controversy Behind the Discovery of Rapid Climate Swings?
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Velocity of particles in the Ring Current
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The Age of Plate Tectonics: When Did It Begin?
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Accessing the Latest IPCC Report: Tips and Resources
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Estimating the impact of CO2 on global mean temperature
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Sloan Deep Carbon Cycle Workshop
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How is the core of the Earth kept hot?
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Climate scepticism and ice cores
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Glaciers that grew when temperature increased
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Sad news for Earth in several billion years
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Are Other Planets Headed for Organic Evolution?
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Model CO2 as Greenhouse Gas: Tips & Results
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Could Mammoth Remains Challenge Current Climate Paradigm?
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Is the Earth's Axis Changing or is that just an illusion?
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Formula for rate of evaporation of water
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Is Water Vapor the Most Lethal Greenhouse Gas?
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What would it take to turn Earth into a global desert?
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How long have Homo-Sapiens walked the Earth?
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What CO2 Emissions Level Would Stabilize Atmospheric CO2 Level?
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Could Oxygen and Photosynthesis Lead to Intelligent Life on Other Planets?
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The Atmosphere and Earth's Orbit (Probably Easy Q)
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Impact of 300km Meteorite on Early Earth's Surface
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Why does life need to have water?
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What's wrong with a bit of global warming?
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Which Event Will Happen First?
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New study refutes CO2 as significant driver
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How Do Clouds Respond to Global Warming?
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Hot Deserts: Average Temps & Satellite Recordings
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What are Saturn's rings made of and how are they formed?
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3 Questions about Greenhouse Gasses
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Correlation between El Nino and europe weather
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Bill Gates Tackles Hurricane Prevention: Tilting at Windmills
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What size of human population can earth sustain?
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Do YOU believe the Earth is flat?
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My Fault Experiment: Hot Water & Earth's Crust
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Geomagnetic reversal and pole shift
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Why Do Some Geophysicists Support the Expanding Earth Hypothesis?
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Revolutionary Solution for Global Warming: Pumping Excess Water into Space!
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Oil Industry: Does it Hire Physicists?
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Salting the Earth: The Long-Term Effects of Soil Salinization After War
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Possible Explanations for Earth's Unique Characteristics
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Was the 1908 Siberia Explosion Caused by a Comet?
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Sending a probe to the Earth's core?
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Solar Storm of 2012: Rebuild or Perish?
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Chemical asorb sun energy?high CO2 in atmosphere
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God created the heavens and the Earth
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Why is the air colder in the upper atmosphere?
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Google Earth - Invasion of Privacy?
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Why is the air less dense higher up you go?
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Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
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Wind Speeds at Different Elevations: What's the Impact?
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Why Does the CaCO3 Compensation Process in Ocean Acidification Work So Slowly?
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Where on Earth are possible coal and oil of tomorrow forming today?
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Global Warming: Unraveling the Confusion
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Stop Rain? Artificial Methods to Stop Raining
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Does photosynthesis contribute to the increasing mass of Earth?
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Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future Implications for Life on Earth
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Catch the Special on ABC: Your Thoughts?
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Is Geography a science? It is comprised of theories, Laws and rules
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Ancient Volcanic Eruptions Caused Global Mass Extinction
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Did Humans Live on Pangea?
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Sunlight reduction in large volcanic events
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What is the melting temperature of diamond?
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Instrumental Record -vs- Satellite Record
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Tectonics driven by ice mass changes?
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Atlantis and Hubble (viewed from earth)
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Is Earth's Temperature Governed by Physics Alone?
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How Would Yellowstone's Eruption Impact Global Wind Patterns and Earth's Orbit?
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How did the earth develop its magnetic field in the first place?
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Formation of the geomagnetic field
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Is Redoubt Volcano About to Erupt in Alaska?
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Explore the Night Sky with Google Sky
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Kimberlite explosion in New York
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Crystallization or Solidifaction
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Why Do CO2 Levels Vary During Glacial and Interglacial Periods?
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What is the Probability of Life on Earth and the Role of Intelligent Design?
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Is H2O Safe to Drink? Understanding the Importance of Clean Drinking Water
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What if there other earths out there?
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Battlefield Earth and scientology? huh?
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Yellowstone Caldera Eruption: Dating Ash Layers & Bore Holes
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Only dirty coal can save the Earth
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What Kind of Fossil Did the Hiker Find?
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H.A.A.R.P. and earths magnetosphere
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Waking the Baby Mammoth: Watch on Sun 26 April
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How much ice has melted during the last 50 years?
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Can Dating Methods Disprove Macroevolution and Speciation?
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Why is peat classified as a fossil fuel?
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The Edge of Space: Scientists Track Transition to Space
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High way's and their ecological impact
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Antarctic ice shelf half the size of Scotland on verge of collapse
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Earthquake Hits Italy: 6.7 Magnitude Tremor in Central Region
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Is the earth only 6,000 years old?
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How many humans have lived on Earth?
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Tonight's PBS NOVA on extinctions.
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Is the Rise in CO2 Really Not from Fossil Fuels? A Critique of the Quirk Paper
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What caused the reversal of global cooling?
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Is CO2 the main driver of climate change over the past 420 million years?
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