Earth Sciences Forum

Join the experts in discussing earth science topics. Earth science is the physical state of the earth and its atmosphere. Such as Geology, Meteorology, Oceanography, Ecology.

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Does the earth expand and contract

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Statistical analysis versus computer modeling

  • Johan de Vries
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How big and soon and where will temp changes be?

  • venturerite
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Why Does the AI in Empire Earth Have Unlimited Resources?

  • JPC
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Is Global Warming Causing Irreversible Damage to Traditional Crop Growth?

  • wolram
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Is the Greenhouse Effect Driving Global Warming?

  • billiards
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Turbulent flow in F1 aerodynamics and weather prediction

  • wolram
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How can a lake disappear extremely quickly?

  • Mk
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Are There Really Millions of Volcanoes Hidden Beneath the Ocean?

  • wolram
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Should Europe Be Considered A Seperate Continent?

  • Silverbackman
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Earth's diameter is smaller than previously thought

  • Evo
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Why don't water droplets in clouds fall despite their density?

  • H8wm4m
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Closing in on Missing Carbon Sink - ScienceDaily

  • Mk
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Identify Rocks from Lake Luzerne

  • LightbulbSun
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Guilt about the abuse of the earth

  • lane9a5a
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Are past temperature rises faster than current global warming?

  • Nooj
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Ice caps melting = water rising?

  • pikapika!
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Ernst Beck's chemical measurements of atmospheric CO2 over 180 years

  • Andre
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Any Changes in Earth's Orbit or Rotation?

  • baywax
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Greenland ice core spikes and the Bolling warming paradox

  • Andre
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Atmosphere temperature gradients at altitudes impossible?

  • tonyjeffs
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Statement and Paleo climate problems.

  • Andre
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Understand why temperature is constant

  • SciencePF
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Why is spent nuclear fuel more dangerous than natural uranium?

  • Langbein
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Nobel winning physicist takes on Global Warming

  • Ivan Seeking
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New paper on climate change and solar activity

  • Andre
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Why is ozone considered a pollutant?

  • LightbulbSun
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Who Compiles and Analyzes Data on the Planet's Climate?

  • Pythagorean
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Review of An Inconvenient Truth and polar bear survival claims

  • Mk
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Difference between a Dust Storm and a Tornado

  • LightbulbSun
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Humanity on a ticking time bomb?

  • Sehrish
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Global warming could increase wind shear and hinder hurricanes

  • Ivan Seeking
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Galactic cosmic rays and glacial cycles

  • William Astley
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Scientists study Earth's missing crust

  • Evo
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Underground continent info needed

  • sentrynox1
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IPCC Assessment report 4 WG1 the science

  • Andre
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Could Earth's Magnetic Field Influence Meteorite Trajectories?

  • Rothiemurchus
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Most Genius Physicists on Earth?

  • Chaos' lil bro Order
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Do Plants Contribute to Methane Emissions?

  • Mk
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Is global warming putting cities at risk of being flooded?

  • vadslram
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Discovery's Planet Earth series

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Are Volcanic Emissions Really Greater Than Man-Made Greenhouse Gases?

  • OSalcido
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Clathrate gun kills Pleistocene mega fauna.

  • Andre
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Discussing the Pulsating Equator Hypothesis

  • billiards
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The most used arguement against global warming skeptics

  • Mk
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When will human population reach Earth's resource limits?

  • kendr_pind
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Why Are Noctilucent Clouds Increasing in Number and Brightness?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Asteroid Impacts: What Happens In the Deep Ocean?

  • matthyaouw
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50% reduction in penguin population

  • Mk
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Continents on the northern hemisphere

  • pixel01
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Global warming causes great cooling

  • Mk
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Himalayan Earthquakes: Role of Tibetan Plateau

  • billiards
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Can You Dig a Hole Through the Earth?

  • LPHY
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Is Human Activity the Primary Driver of Global Warming?

  • WilliamLP
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Al Gore's Testimony to the United States House

  • Mk
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Where is the Center of the Earth?

  • Nash
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What caused the sea to inundate Beijing within the past 80,000 years?

  • nesp
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Seaport 2.5 Miles Above Sea Level(?)

  • ConfedHeraldry
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Did the core of the Earth collide with the Earth billions of years ago?

  • verdigris
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How Do Clouds Impact CO2 Levels and Global Warming?

  • billiards
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Ice Age Floods cause mass extinctions?

  • nannoh
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Recognition of 'Sublimation of Atmosphere'

  • PreSaturation
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Why does the earth have a core and can a planet exist without one?

  • verdigris
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Why is there tension between different Earth science disciplines?

  • billiards
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Statistical analysis that warmer oceans caused the crazy hurricains last year

  • ComputerGeek
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How Does Latitude and Longitude Affect Sunrise Times?

  • Cmunro
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Why is the Earth's interior hot and how does it affect our planet?

  • pivoxa15
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Gravitational invluence of glaciers

  • Aschere
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How do geologists explain Mt. St. Helens radiometric dating?

  • moe darklight
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Solutions to the energy crisis / global warming problem

  • heusdens
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Finding the Missing Player in Pleistocene Ice Age Discussions

  • Andre
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Earth has inner core surface property variations at 1km scale

  • verdigris
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Why did ocean ridges form and break up the supercontinent?

  • verdigris
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Lehmann discontinuity and shear wave anisotropy

  • verdigris
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Feasibility of fission reactor at centre of Earth

  • verdigris
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Understanding Earth's Complex Energy System and Global Warming

  • reasonmclucus
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Why doesn't increased cloud cover from global warming cool the planet?

  • RAD4921
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Aircraft exhaust causes cirrus cloud formation

  • verdigris
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Iron in Mesophere: Impact on Global Warming

  • verdigris
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Heat from inside the Earth causing global warming?

  • verdigris
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Nitrous oxide,hydrocarbons and greenhouse

  • verdigris
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Particles from space seed cloud formation and greenhouse

  • verdigris
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Stratospheric temperatures have been constant for 10 years

  • verdigris
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How much of the various fuels is there on Earth

  • eehiram
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The Impact of Human Actions on Animals: A Call to Action

  • Ascetic Anchorite
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How do scientists date fossils older than carbon-14 can reach?

  • ArmitageT1
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Are Isotopes in Ice Cores Indicators of Temperature or Precipitation?

  • Andre
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Meridional Overturning Circulation vs. Thermohaline Circulation?

  • theworld
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If you diged so deep into the earth

  • linux kid
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Extremely Cold Winters and Global Warming

  • Swapnil
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Why is the earth constantly rotating, but we as humans can never feel it?

  • JERGLOVE
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Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum and ocean filling

  • Andre
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