A Sampling of Clips for 
March 29 ^th, 2007

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No Surprises in Climate
Change Report, Oceanographer Says
ABC News, Australia, March 29 -- This weekend, Federal Labor leader Kevin Rudd will convene what he's billed as Australia's first national climate change summit. One of the speakers is Australia's leading oceanographer, Dr Tony Haymet, director of the prestigious Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD. He believes there are lessons for Australia in the ambitious program by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to reduce carbon emissions. More

Primordial Soup's On: Scientists Repeat Evolution's Most Famous Experiment
Scientific American, March 29 -- A Frankensteinesque contraption of glass bulbs and crackling electrodes has produced yet another revelation about the origin of life. The results suggest that Earth's early atmosphere could have produced chemicals necessary for life—contradicting the view that life's building blocks had to come from comets and meteors. "Maybe we're over-optimistic, but I think this is a paradigm shift," says chemist Jeffrey Bada, whose team performed the experiment at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD. More

50-year State Survey
of Temperatures Sees Most Change in Cities
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 29 -- California's average temperature increased nearly two degrees over the last half of the 20th century, according to scientists at NASA and California State University Los Angeles. (Quotes Tim Barnett, a climate researcher at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

A Glaring Omission
Capitol Hill Blue, Opinion, March 29 – Ken Burns is preparing "The War," his 14-hour documentary on World War II to be aired on PBS this fall. According to all accounts, the film fails to include a single reference to the Latino experience in that decisive conflict. (Written by Jorge Mariscal, a veteran of the U.S. war in Vietnam and a literature professor at UCSD) More

Video Footage Shows
Sperm Whale Pilfering Fish from Line
International Herald Tribune, March 28 -- Fishermen and scientists have known for at least two decades that sperm whales were snatching small numbers of fish from miles of longline in the world's largest black cod fishery the eastern Gulf of Alaska. But last spring was the first time they actually caught one in the act. (Quotes Aaron Thode, an associate researcher at UCSD) More