Comments on: Scientists seek cold, hard facts on polar changes

Major international effort to push multidisciplinary research at the North and South Poles as concern mounts over global warming.
Images: A century of polar exploration

[ralfthedog]

Sounds cool.

I hope this is for true science and not just a stupid publicity stunt like 90% of the manned space stuff.

Please note, I am not anti space. I would double NASA's budget if I could. I just think that most manned missions are for publicity not science. Lets see more unmanned probes to mars, and less photo ops.

[Domestech]

Global Warming

Noy until big business is prevented from controlling this government will good come from it....if it the true spirit of freedom survives

[MammothCave]

Truthful facts needed, just not here.

I was so disappointed to listen to one of my favorite podcasts today and have to listen to nearly half of it covering global warming. This is hardly the tech news that I have come to look to CNET to cover. Global warming is a concern, so is AIDS, poverty, and civil rights. But they have no place on a tech site, nor a tech podcast. If you want to talk about the technology of how to reduce greenhouse gases, look at some of the practical ways Al Gore has reduced his personal energy consumption through the use of great technology such as geothermal heat pumps to heat his modest 4000 sq ft home, underground water collection systems, or the integration of natural flora to landscape his house and the use of grey water to irrigate his gardens. That would be practical technology that would be appropriate here.

~Rick

(oops, that was President Bush that has the modest house with all of the environmentally friendly technology. Gore is the one flying around on a private jet telling us to cut back on our energy consumption while his 20 room, 16,000 sq ft mansion uses 20 times the energy of the average American home. The Truth can be so darn Inconvenient at times).