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Earths albedo controlled by cosmic rays

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Purple stone, what are the likely contents?

  • Ulysees
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Are Egypt's Pyramids Built from Marine Fossils?

  • wolram
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Large impact crater spanning three states near Huntsville, Alabama

  • bigfatpothead
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Sunspot Activity and the Possibility of a New Little Ice Age

  • wolram
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Geopathology, or underground water causing cancer - is there any basis?

  • Ulysees
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What is the potential impact of Toyota's CO2-reducing product on Earth Day?

  • rohanprabhu
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Paleontology In the Turkana Valley

  • LURCH
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What is the Scientifically Accepted Age of Planet Earth?

  • VashtiMaiden
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Can cosmic rays affect Earth's climate?

  • wolram
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What skills would be valuable on a new planet after Earth's collapse?

  • wolram
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Nuclear Winter - science or myth?

  • Gokul43201
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Thanks for the link, unfortunately it requires a subscription.

  • wolram
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Is BBC's Planet Earth (2006) worth watching?

  • Snazzy
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Appearing Now on a YouTube Near You

  • epii10
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Fluorescent colours and the atmosphere

  • tishk
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The lifetime of plants is 95% complete.

  • FlowerPUA
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How many Glaciers are there in the World?

  • Aquafire
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Potential Consequences of Large-Scale Earth Hour Participation

  • andylim
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How do clouds form and how does rain fall from them?

  • tepozzz
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Why does 1 degree of Earth's rotation equal 60 minutes of time?

  • DaveC426913
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China's Three Gorges Dam: An Environmental Catastrophe?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Detailed rainfall, sunlight, and temperature data?

  • Ulysees
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Where is global warming's missing heat?

  • Evo
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The growth of a corral fossil over 1 day

  • Ulysees
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How Does Our Atmosphere Shield Us from Cosmic Rays?

  • hagopbul
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Is the Greenhouse Gas Equation Wrong?

  • reasonmclucus
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Can I find a photo of a landform created by tectonic shear in Canada?

  • DaveC426913
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Do bacteria affect snow formation and climate?

  • Andre
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The Man From Earth - movie question

  • Ivan Seeking
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Has the Coriolis force affected tectonics?

  • Loren Booda
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Sidoarjo mudflow, well blowout identification.

  • matthyaouw
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More WAIS (W. Antarctica) instability?

  • zankaon
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Nitrous oxide as a greenhouse gas: 300 times more potent than CO2

  • wolram
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What Can Martian Geology Tell Us About Earth's Ancient Twin?

  • zankaon
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Record-Breaking Rainfall in Mackay, Queensland: Any Similar Occurrences?

  • ChrisLeslie
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Since the earth is spinning, wouldn't centrifugal force make us lighter?

  • ben328i
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What Would it Feel Like to Stand in the Earth's Core?

  • Soliloquy
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Effect of spreading center on likelihood to subduct

  • Riser38
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Why Are Earth's Oldest Rocks Younger Than Mars's?

  • Kessler
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Scariest Places on Earth repeats

  • Evo
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Observations About Global Circulation Models

  • John Creighto
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Welcome to the Anthropocene Epoch: Humans' Impact on Earth

  • Ivan Seeking
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What causes the Pacific decadal oscillation?

  • pitot-tube
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Cave large enough to detect with a pendulum?

  • Ulysees
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How Quickly Is the Earth's Core Slowing Down?

  • Phrak
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What Causes 430,000 Year Cycles in Paleocene Sea Level?

  • Andre
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Weißwasser, Germany, town near Polish border

  • wolram
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How did a log fold around a rock in a stream?

  • Andre
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Weight of objects as they descend into the earth

  • PlasmaSphere
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What would happen if Earths core cooled down

  • PlasmaSphere
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Japan Flirts With Environmental Disaster?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Wouldn't growing trees solve Global Warming?

  • LightbulbSun
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Has Global Oceanic Warming Been Detected Through Sea Level Rise?

  • zankaon
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Calculated sea surface rise from total Greenland melt

  • zankaon
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Earth Underground Temperature: Hot or Cold?

  • W3pcq
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How Would Ocean Currents Flow on a Smooth Sphere?

  • h4tt3n
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3 point problem and Cramers Rule

  • succubus
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Torque a Hurricane? Can You Alter Angular Momentum?

  • zankaon
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Popocatepetl volcano gets frisky

  • turbo
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Food price inflation surging globally in 2007

  • wolram
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Auditing the end of the Wisconsin glaciation.

  • Andre
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Orson Scott Card and the Surprise Ending

  • fleem
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Tried this in Physics, said try here

  • mufcdiver
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Why Isn't Geophysics More Popular?

  • Guna82m
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Why Doesn't Earth Lose Atmosphere Over Time?

  • ChemGuy
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Why is the science on global warming so contradictory?

  • moe darklight
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The Earth's Precessional motion

  • plutoisacomet
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Ways to Destroy Earth/Life on Earth

  • keinve
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Fighting global warming with pollution

  • corra
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UN expert seeks to halt biofuel output

  • Evo
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Is the Flat Earth Society a Joke?

  • Link-
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Are weather station temperatures measured in shade or direct sunlight?

  • Simfish
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What is the Best Textbook on Ice Ages?

  • giann_tee
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Do you know of a forum for meteorologists?

  • torstum
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How Are Fossilized Rocks Like This Leaf Formed?

  • Jimmy Snyder
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How much snow does the southern hemisphere see?

  • Holocene
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Can lightning induce ozone formation in the upper atmosphere?

  • Mike2
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Mega Volcano 2012: Troubling Signs of a Possible Eruption

  • wolram
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Was Mars the Earth of the past and Venus the Earth of the future?

  • PiRsq
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How Does Gravity Affect Planetary Surface Topology?

  • natski
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Gravity Wave, How? Video inside

  • Raza
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What evidence supports the theory of a hollow Earth?

  • ZeuZ
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Atmospheric Circulation and Seasonal Variation

  • Soaring Crane
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Global warming case frustrating

  • tonyjeffs
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Origin of Earth: Supernova Theory

  • Holocene
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What are earthquake lights in Peru?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Blogger Finds Y2K Bug in NASA Climate Data

  • B. Elliott
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Scientists try new ways to predict climate risks

  • Evo
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Air pollution in Arvin, California and downwind areas

  • Astronuc
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What are the main heat sources for Earth's equilibrium surface temperature?

  • Loren Booda
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Is the Sun Responsible for Global Warming?

  • Andre
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Aerosol particles reflecting sunlight and reducing warming

  • EnumaElish
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