Possible evidence of flowing water on Mars
Fox News is worried about the children of America being fed misleading information. In cartoon form no less. Won't someone please think of the children?
Today's (August 3) edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends included a remarkable exchange on the issue of SpongeBob Squarepants, climate change science, and the state of science education in the U.S. Apparently, using cartoons to teach children about important science issues of the day raises hackles at Fox, especially when those issues are at odds with their political perspectives. In particular, Fox & Friends attacked SpongeBob ...
Oh yeah, you know what comes next, right? Mike Huckabee, Fox News contributor, has a little old cartoon series of his
own to peddle:
So -- what does Huckabee's "unbiased" view of 9/11 look like? A lot of praise for the PATRIOT act (which it, should be said, many conservatives don't like), a lot of praise for the Department of Homeland Security, a lot of praise for Israel and the clear implication that President George W. Bush was responsible for the death of Osama bin Laden.
- On to real science, which explains the image above, the Mars orbiter snapped an interesting image showing what could be evidence of recent flowing water. Some thoughts on that here:
It was thought after the Viking Missions in 1976 that Mars might be a very dry world. The Mars Phoenix lander in 2008 changed that view. Not only did the landscape revealed by Phoenix’s cameras show unmistakable signs of a phenomenon well known to geologists and hydrologists called frost heaving, the lander found large deposits of water ice a few inches below the Martian soil everywhere it looked.
- Check out this amazing time lapse video of a volcanic landscape collapsing. Some more background and images on Big Think's blog.
- On the heels of hot years and turbulent climate the Arctic Ice Cap recorded the lowest surface area at maximum summer melt in 2007. That record may be met or surpassed next month:
The Arctic ice typically melts until September, before freezing again through March. Scientists at the Boulder, Colorado-based center say the declining ice pack is a harbinger of global warming. By 2030, there may “consistently” be summers where little or no ice remains on the ocean, Meier said.