:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 1.01.2007 ::
:: "New telescope looks below polar ice" ::
United Press International
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 29 -- A new radar instrument peered through more than a mile of Greenland ice to show an image of the land hidden for millions of years, U.S. researchers said.
The instrument should help scientists determine how global climate change affects the ice melt, Ken Jezek, earth sciences professor at Ohio State University, said in a news release.
Beneath the ice, Greenland's topography matches that of Canada and the northern United States, Jezek said.
Scientists are trying to gauge the effects of global climate change by examining conditions beneath Earth's ice sheets, which cover roughly 15 percent of the planet, Jezek said. Scientists theorize that water below the ice could influence how much of the surface ice may melt because of rising temperatures.
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