Comments on: Ross Ice Shelf could ‘collapse quickly’…Meteor could crash into Earth

By: Keith

Keith — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 11:54:55 +0000

“Antarctica stores 90 per cent of the world’s water”…Really?? Compared to the Pacific Ocean, and all the other oceans too? Seriously, if you can’t get a reporter to get a simple fact, such as: 1) the word ‘fresh’, and 2) Antarctica and Greenland combined have seventy percent, not ninety percent as the reporter claims, then how is any of this considered credible?

By: Mary Cooper

Mary Cooper — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:24:24 +0000

I totally agree. There are many experts saying contradicting– and I believe politically-motivated– things, when no one really knows for sure what will happen or why. Call me naive but I thought you had to be able to prove a theory consistantly before it is accepted as fact.

By: Blue Crab Boulevard » All Those Things That Could

Blue Crab Boulevard » All Those Things That Could — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:43:39 +0000

[...] I could have been elected president of my high school class. I suppose it would have helped if I had actually run for the office. I could have gotten a date with that really cute and smart girl that sat next to me in chemistry class, too. If I had asked her. I could have won that enormous slot machine jackpot. Without actually going to the casino and playing, I guess not, though. Pierre LeGrand over at The Pink Flamingo Bar points out another "could". Or twelve. I could hit the Powerball. My wife could stop asking me to remodel the world. My children could stop asking me to buy every single toy on earth. Lots of things could happen. Being a scientist and running around like chicken little is so unseemly. What I want to know is if being a scientist gives you the right to go around yelling fire in the theater? Or more likely does it give journalists the right to distort what scientists are saying to sell their medium? Could be… Ross Ice Shelf could ‘collapse quickly’ [...]