News-of-Interest Roundup
Sep. 24th, 2006 08:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauraanne_gilmanRoyal Society Tells Exxon: Stop Funding Climate Change Denial
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0920-04.htm
"Britain's leading scientists have challenged the US oil company ExxonMobil to stop funding groups that attempt to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change.
In an unprecedented step, the Royal Society, Britain's premier scientific academy, has written to the oil giant to demand that the company withdraws support for dozens of groups that have 'misrepresented the science of climate change by outright denial of the evidence.'
The scientists also strongly criticise the company's public statements on global warming, which they describe as 'inaccurate and misleading.'"
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First launch from New Mexico spaceport set for Monday
http://www.kristv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5447106
"EL PASO, Texas -- After several delays, a Connecticut aerospace company is set to launch the first space-bound rocket from a southern New Mexico spaceport.
UP Aerospace plans to launch a SpaceLoft XL rocket from Spaceport America in Upham, N.M., about 95 miles northwest of El Paso, early Monday."
MONDAY EVENING UPDATE: well, they got airborne, so yay.... but that was about all they managed. Le sigh....
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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0920-04.htm
"Britain's leading scientists have challenged the US oil company ExxonMobil to stop funding groups that attempt to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change.
In an unprecedented step, the Royal Society, Britain's premier scientific academy, has written to the oil giant to demand that the company withdraws support for dozens of groups that have 'misrepresented the science of climate change by outright denial of the evidence.'
The scientists also strongly criticise the company's public statements on global warming, which they describe as 'inaccurate and misleading.'"
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First launch from New Mexico spaceport set for Monday
http://www.kristv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5447106
"EL PASO, Texas -- After several delays, a Connecticut aerospace company is set to launch the first space-bound rocket from a southern New Mexico spaceport.
UP Aerospace plans to launch a SpaceLoft XL rocket from Spaceport America in Upham, N.M., about 95 miles northwest of El Paso, early Monday."
MONDAY EVENING UPDATE: well, they got airborne, so yay.... but that was about all they managed. Le sigh....
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