Nasa warns of fresh risk from £468m satellite falling from space - Telegraph

The volume of abandoned rockets, shattered satellites and missile shrapnel in the Earth’s orbit is reaching a “tipping point” and is now threatening the $250 billion (£174bn) space services industry, according to the US Defense Department's interim Space Posture Review.

Meanwhile in a report earlier this month, the National Academy of Sciences admitted that scientists had “lost control” of the space environment.

Google Details Electricity Usage of Its Data Centers - NYTimes.com

Up to now, the company has kept statistics about its energy use secret. Industry analysts speculate it was because the information was embarrassing and would also give competitors a clue to how Google runs its operations.

Global Warming: A 98% Consensus Of Nothing - Forbes

Forgetting for the moment that only shameless activists or the most statistically and scientifically ignorant of persons would claim that a survey sample of only 77 scientists volunteering to participate in a survey is indicative of what the entire climate science community believes, the questions and answers themselves tell us nothing.

Al Gore’s credibility wanes – just 24% now consider him to be an “expert” on global warming | Watts Up With That?

60% of likely U.S. Voters think it’s at least somewhat likely that the level of activity on the sun, including solar flares and sunspots, has an impact on the long-term heating and cooling of the earth’s atmosphere. Just 22% feel that it’s unlikely solar activity influences the atmosphere’s long-term temperature.