Dispatches from the global cataclysm: methane fires are burning up the atmosphere.

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Ralph Metzner

Jim Garrison reports in a Huffington Post op-ed on the recent discovery that the potent “greenhouse gas” methane is heating up the atmosphere much fast than anticipated. This one of those factors accelerating global climate and environment collapse that scientists have been warning us about. (Of course, some scientists are still debating and discussing the [...]

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Top 100 spectacular photographs of distant galaxies

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Ralph Metzner

A collection of 100 breath-takingly gorgeous photographs taken with the Hubble telescope can be found here: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/archive/top100/ Scroll slowly through these photographs and a deep sense of the wonder of our Universe will come over you. Astronomers who customarily label their findings with abstract names like galaxy  “NGC123”  have resorted to vivid poetic metaphors in [...]

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