Friday, June 05, 2009

Eugene Robinson - [A Believer On] Carbon Capture and Storage - washingtonpost.com
Is this really a good idea? Is this the legacy we want to leave to future generations -- thousands of sites, labeled "off-limits," where we've deposited the harmful residue of our toxic addiction to fossil fuels?
The Four Seasons of Titan: Weather & Climate Change on Saturn's Largest Moon (VIDEO)
"Titan's clouds don't move with the seasons exactly as we expected," said Sebastien Rodriguez of the University of Paris Diderot, in collaboration with Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team members at the University of Nantes, France. "We see lots of clouds during the summer in the southern hemisphere, and this summer weather seems to last into the early fall. It looks like Indian summer on Earth, even if the mechanisms are radically different on Titan from those on Earth. Titan may then experience a warmer and wetter early autumn than forecasted by the models."
But if it's warmer on Titan than the models predict, can't we just conclude that humans must have caused the additional warming?

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