(Scientists refer to this as the "commitment to warming").
A team of US scientists looked at 18 years' worth of satellite data and found the floating ice shelves that skirt the continent are losing 310km3 of ice every year.
A proposed experiment to test a way to deliver particles into the upper atmosphere using a balloon and a one kilometre-long pipe was cancelled in 2012 after it was reported that two of the scientists involved had submitted patent applications that were similar to the techniques being proposed.
I have to say The Theory of Everything is comparable in many ways, with similar narrative tropes and tricks about flawed-genius scientists – but The Theory of Everything is a much realer, truer and less cliched story.
Government scientists, drawing on data from Nagasaki and Hiroshima, used to visit schools to check thyroids and radioactivity levels, recalled Peterson, another advocate.
A century and a half later — and nearly a decade and a half after the sub was raised – just why the Hunley and its eight-man crew never returned is a mystery, albeit one that scientists may be closer to resolving.
There, scientists have since been slowly revealing the Hunley's secrets.
"While I was on board I soon realised that the boot room, where we all changed our clothing and left our shoes, had turned into a scene of social chaos," McEwan said, describing how the eminent scientists, who down the hall were gathering to talk earnestly about the future of the humankind, were also capable of stealing each others' footwear and regarding their colleagues with deep distrust.
With regular updating it would provide an evolving social contract between all the users of the information highway: people, governments, businesses, hospitals, scientists, aid organisations.
It is The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game which are the two films expected to predominate at this year's Baftas, the weirdly fortuitous pairing of two distinguished, intelligent, slightly theatrical performances and two brilliant British scientists cursed with the traditional qualities glibly associated with genius: shyness, loneliness, and disability of various sorts.
Marine scientists maintain the capture process imposes huge physiological stress upon dolphins and increases their chances of dying once they are in captivity – hence the need to constantly replenish stocks from the wild.
