Recent extreme weather includes a tornado that hit Brooklyn. Sometimes it seems that storms are worse over cities?especially on the weekends?and scientists say this is TRUE. In fact, climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions produced by humans been changing global rainfall patterns over the entire 20th Century.
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UPDATE – UFO video allegedly from Haiti and the Dominican Republichas been posted on YouTube that shows exotic craft movinglow overhead. This dramatic footage has caused a sensationamong those interested in UFOs, AND NOW IT CAN BE PROVENTHAT IT IS A HOAX. The reason is that the palmtreebackground comes from the procedural landscapes associatedwith a video program called Vue 6. To see these landscapesin Quicktime,clickhere (If you cannot view, please refer to Quicktime techsupport.)
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A new study shows that the rich really ARE getting richer while the poor are getting poorer. Over the last 20 years, the net worth of the top two percentile of American families nearly doubled, from $1,071,000 in 1984 to $2,100,500 in 2005. But the poorest quarter of American families lost ground over the same period, with their 2005 net worth below their 1984 net worth, measured in constant 2005 dollars. Are we headed for a financial crisis?
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Scientists know that in the distant past, huge amounts of methane were somehow released from the ocean floor, which lead to an extreme case of global warming. Could this happen again? If it does, we may be able to use a newly-discovered sea creature to mop up the methane.
In New Scientist, Catherine Brahic writes about the discovery of reef-building sponges that were thought to have been extinct for 100 million years?except a new group of them has been discovered off the West Coast of the US. Why is this important??Because these creatures consume large quantities of methane and can be found in places where the gas seeps up from the ocean floor.
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