[Science] Draft UN climate report shows 20 years of overestimated global warming ...

Draft UN climate report shows 20 years of overestimated global warming ...
http://www.webcommentary.com/php/ShowArticle.php?id=carubaa&date=130129
A preliminary draft of a report by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was leaked to the public this month, and climate skeptics say it contains fresh evidence of 20 years of overstated global warming.

China's smog taints economy, health
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BEIJING - When a thick quilt of smog enveloped swaths of China earlier this month, it set in motion a costly chain reaction for the world's No.

Key clue emerges in sinking of Confederate submarine
http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/Experts-find-new-evidence-in-submarine-mystery-4228461.php
New evidence sheds light on how the Hunley sank a Union ship. H.L. Hunley. The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley sits in a conservation tank after a steel truss that had surrounded it was removed Jan. 12, 2012, in a conservation lab in North Charleston, ...

Spider silk mystery unraveled by scientists using lasers
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2013/01/28/asu.scientists.unravel.mysteries.spider.silk
Researchers used a laser light scattering technique to map the complex strands of the silk. spider silk lasers Enlarge. Researchers at the University of Arizona used lasers to map the complex strands of spider silk to better understand why it is so strong.