The occasion was massively overhyped and misrepresented reporting of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project.
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Marshalled by an astrophysicist, Richard Muller, this group, which calls itself the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature, is notable in several ways.
Most scientists on both sides agree we are near the half precession point and solar energy at the earth surface in high summer at 65N is declining.
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The severity of the laboratory test was equivalent to an oblique collision with the rocky surface of the Earth - a comet coming in at an angle of less than 25 degrees from the horizon, rather than head on (perpendicular to the Earth's surface).
Coral reefs are home to 25 percent of the world's marine fish species, and cover 1 percent of the Earth's surface, making them the largest single living structure on Earth.
The areas are sparsely populated, and the earthquake was 62 miles beneath the Earth's surface.
Here on the Earth's surface we live at the bottom of a gravity well.
But he never told his mother he was working a half mile under the Earth's surface.
So planting trees in these climates actually has the net effect of warming the Earth's surface.
They are known as the "high seas" and they cover 50 percent of the Earth's surface.
The ozone layer protects living things on the Earth's surface from the Sun's ultra-violet radiation.
Iridium is normally rare at the earth's surface, but it is more abundant in meteorites.
Does this cast doubt on the data which show warming at the earth's surface?
The spacecraft will maintain the longest continuous image record of the Earth's surface as viewed from space.
Since oceans cover two-thirds of the Earth's surface, it's more likely debris will hit water than land.
As near as anyone can figure, the Earth's surface temperature increased 1 degree Fahrenheit in the 20th century.
Smos aims to see steps of about 4% on this range across 50km-wide segments of the Earth's surface.
Hot springs are perhaps the most recognizable signs of geothermal energy stored under the Earth's surface in any specific area.
When that happens, it will be the biggest and fastest change to the Earth's surface ever made by human influence.
When Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, was born one fifth of the Earth's surface was covered by the British Empire.
The Great Lakes Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie and Ontario hold nearly one-fifth of the freshwater on the Earth's surface.
Since Russia and the U.S. signed a partial test-ban treaty in 1963, their blasts have been deep below the earth's surface.
On the issue of storms affecting more of the earth's surface, the worriers are, according to the models, just plain wrong.
Geological processes, such as plate tectonics, erupting volcanoes, advancing glaciers and river networks, have altered Earth's surface over billions of years.
All those miners were rescued, pulled one by one from hundreds of meters beneath the Earth's surface with a specially designed capsule.
Instruments show there has been some warming of the Earth's surface since 1979, but the actual value is subject to large errors.
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Russia will continue to have the sad distinction of covering 12% of the earth's surface, while attracting only 0.3% of its tourists.
"Cryosphere" refers to the regions of the Earth's surface where ice predominates.
Most are smaller than a grain of sand, according to the American Meteor Society, and usually burn up before they hit Earth's surface.
Those fissures and crevices that have trapped natural gas below the Earth's surface are also capable of trapping helium, although typically in small amounts.
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