The legend is that when Galileo was forced to recant in front of the Inquisition in 1633 that the earth moves round the sun, he was heard to mutter eppur si muove or 'nonetheless, it moves'.
After a year in which climate scientists have been subjected to a tsunami of ignorant comment and abuse, it's worth recalling RealClimate's updated version of that line, eppure si riscalda, or 'and yet it still warms', which was accompanied by a link to this stark NASA graph above.
See Galileo links at Ashden Directory, and the Telegraph.
The bat that weighs the same as a teaspoon of salt – and the biologist who
rediscovered it
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The short-tailed roundleaf bat was feared extinct until scientist Iroro
Tanshi found one in Afi sanctuary in Nigeria, and set out to protect the
only con...
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