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Rajendra Pachauri fails to get British support over ‘unsubstantiated’ climate report claims

Chair of IPCC facing allegations that claims made in key reports did not have required standard of scientific reviewDamian Carrington Rajendra Pachauri, who has faced criticism as chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change following allegations of inaccurate statements in panel reports, suffered a fresh blow last night when he failed to get the [...]

[ More ] February 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Science |

Moon Junk Listed As Historical Resource

A California state panel on Friday registered a collection of 106 artifacts left on the moon by the Apollo 11 mission as historical resources, according to a recent Reuters report.

[ More ] January 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Space |
 

Obama Acts to Ease Way to Construct Reactors

The Obama administration proposed a tripling of federal loan guarantees for nuclear plants and named a panel to study options for nuclear waste.

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Science |

California lists moon junk as historical resource

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Seeking to preserve the site where humans first set foot on the moon, a California state panel on Friday registered a collection of 106 objects left by the Apollo 11 mission as an historical resource.

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Science |
 

Apollo 11 moon site given historic status

A California preservation panel votes to put Tranquility Base on a register of historical resources, even though it’s 221,000 miles away.
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[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Science, Space |

UN Rethinks Link Between Climate Change, Natural Disaster

A UN climate panel is reconsidering its claim that there is a connection between global warming and a flux of natural disasters, a British newspaper reported on Sunday.This is not the first mistake to be made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate …

[ More ] January 26th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Science |
 

UN climate panel chief will not quit over errors

The head of a panel of United Nations climate scientists said Saturday he would not resign despite a recent admission that a panel report warning Himalayan glaciers could be gone by 2035 was hundreds of years off.

[ More ] January 23rd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Science |

Sale of helium poses supply risk, panel finds

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The sell-off of the federal strategic helium reserve has driven up demand for the vital element and poses a threat to the supply that researchers need, a panel of U.S. experts reported on Friday.

[ More ] January 23rd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Science |

Founder of SpaceX Refutes Report Slamming Safety Standards

A commercial space pioneer and a former astronaut are answering claims by an independent advisory panel that private companies do not meet NASA human-rating standards.

[ More ] January 23rd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Science |

UN climate report riddled with errors on glaciers

Five glaring errors were discovered in one paragraph of the world’s most authoritative report on global warming, forcing the Nobel Prize-winning panel of climate scientists who wrote it to apologize and promise to be more careful.

[ More ] January 21st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Science |
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