By Joshua S Hill •
March 5, 2008
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Over our history eclipses have been the portent of the gods wrath, new things to come, or simply a pretty light show. But would you have expected our last lunar eclipse to have been of any help to researchers looking at climate change?
Researchers at the University of Colorado in Boulder, US, found that Earth’s atmosphere contained very little light-blocking volcanic dust. During the eclipse, Earth blocks sunlight from reaching the moon – hence why [...]
By Joshua S Hill •
March 3, 2008
I played around for a few minutes with a heading that said something along the lines of “Scientists alert us to the Obvious… etc” for this story. It seems to me that I am dealing more and more with people who simply intend to live their lives with their heads buried in the sand.
That isn’t to say that [...]
By Pem Charnley •
February 20, 2008
Could he see where it would end?
Turner, arguably the greatest artist Britain has ever known, painted the scene above. A steam tug tows a wind-powered warship to its grave. The sun sets. It’s not optimistic. Maybe not pessimistic either, yet the artist knows something has changed. Wind power is no longer an option. It’s 1838.
