Aside from the big Stardust comet story, the large pressroom at the American Geophysical Union is producing plenty other stories. One big event Thursday was a speech by Al Gore in an immense ballroom, with extra rooms and video feeds for the overflow. He said scientists need to be even more vocal over global warming to, some accounts say, raise an “appropriate alarm” and also to resist more stoutly efforts by some powerful US politicians to control what federal scientists can say in public. The scientists cheered robustly. Gore left without taking any questions from the audience or the press.
Al Gore Stories:
AP Alicia Chang; BBC Jonathan Amos; San Jose Mercury News Julie Sevrens Lyons with a sidebar on Gore’s humor, of which she apparently had not previously heard; Oakland Tribune Douglas Fischer; SF Chronicle Jane Kay;
Pressroom blogs on Gore:
Freelancer Hugh Powell writes cleverly of the applause: “Oceanographers swelled; volcanologists erupted in applause; seismologists beat their hands together with tectonic force; solar physicists radiated enthusiasm;..” and so on. That’s Powell’s pic up there;
Alexandra Witze on Nature.com;
Other AGU News:
LiveScience Jeanna Brynner on radar mapping of mountains beneath Greenland’s ice; Grist: JPL Press Release; ESA Press Release;
BBC Jonathan Amos with a UC Berkeley report on Antarctic wind patterns 40,000 years ago.
Sacramento Bee Carrie Peyton Dahlberg on the “Amazing” GRACE double-satellite experiment that measures gravity so precisely it can detect earthquakes and the melting of polar ice.
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