Category Archives: geology

Have there really been more earthquakes than average?

By Dave | Published: March 1, 2010
Damage in Santiago, Chile. Photo by Reuters/Marco Fredes After the massive earthquake this past weekend in Chile, MSNBC published a sensationalistic piece entitled, “Is nature out of control?” The Wall Street Journal asked if three massive earthquakes around the world in two months are related and a cause for alarm. The mainstream media, always searching for [...]
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Water vapor and climate change

By Dave | Published: January 29, 2010
Just saw this absolutely ridiculous article posted on Digg, by way of the Guardian: “Water vapour caused one-third of global warming in 1990s, study reveals.” That’s gotta be one of the more sensationalist titles ever written in the climate change debate, which will help fuel and legitimize claims made by climate change deniers. Anyway, the article [...]
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Google Earth 5

By Dave | Published: February 5, 2009
Over on the Geology News blog, I posted two videos I recorded yesterday playing with the new version of Google Earth. The first video examines Monterey Canyon, an underwater canyon near Monterey, California. The second video is the area that Spirit, a Mars Exploration Rover, landed at in January 2004.
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