Forests Absorb Carbon more TPT

American forests can absorb up to 40 percent of the nation's fossil fuel carbon emissions -- much more than previously thought.

Earth responds to CO2 faster TPT

"Earth Recovered from Prehistoric Global Warming Faster Than Previously Thought"


'Recovered' is a loaded term. Some people like warm weather. The Ice Ages were a difficult time.

FTA: When faced with high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and rising temperatures 56 million years ago, Earth increased its ability to pull carbon from the air. This led to a recovery that was quicker than anticipated by many models of the carbon cycle...

Proton and Antiproton DTE

the products of the collision between a proton and its antimatter partner, the antiproton, were different than expected.

"This is huge — an unexpected discovery which could completely transform high-energy physics, and cosmology as well, as the two fields are joined at the hip," astrophysicist Michael S. Turner, director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at The University of Chicago, wrote in an email to LiveScience. "But there is one big IF — if it holds up and is not explained by standard model physics."

and of course, the 'more research is needed' statement:

"...a lot more work has to be done before this can be accepted as a fact."

Alien life ..more in common with earth life TPT

We are not alone in the universe -- and alien life forms may have a lot more in common with life on Earth than we had previously thought.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/05/exclusive-nasa-scientists-claims-evidence-alien-life-meteorite/#ixzz1FtCbfi3N



FTA: “Maybe life was seeded on earth -- it developed on comets for example, and just landed here when these things were hitting the very early Earth,” Shostak speculated. “It would suggest, well, life didn’t really begin on the Earth, it began as the solar system was forming.”

Hesitancy to believe new claims is something common and necessary to the field of science,

East Polynesia colonized more recently TPT

East Polynesia colonized faster and more recently than previously thought


FT Abstract: We show that previously supported longer chronologies have relied upon radiocarbon-dated materials with large sources of error, making them unsuitable for precise dating of recent events

FTA: Polynesian ancestors settled in Samoa around 800 B.C., then much later moved to colonize the region in two distinct phases—earliest in the central Society Islands between A.D. 1025 and 1120, four centuries later than previously assumed. Then, between 70 and 265 years later, dispersal continued in one major ‘pulse’ to all remaining islands including New Zealand, Hawai`i and Easter Island (Rapa Nui) between A.D. 1190 and 1290. The timing and sequence of this remarkable event has been highly debated and poorly resolved, precluding the understanding of cultural and ecological change that followed.

Homo Sapiens in Israel Twice as long ago as PT

TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Scientists say they've found the world's earliest evidence of modern man


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may cause scientists to reconsider current thinking that homo sapiens came out of Africa just 200,000 years ago,

'Shattered old ideas' = TPT

A new way of saying TPT:

On August 1, 2010, an entire hemisphere of the sun erupted. Filaments of magnetism snapped and exploded, shock waves raced across the stellar surface, billion-ton clouds of hot gas billowed into space. Astronomers knew they had witnessed something big.

It was so big, it may have shattered old ideas about solar activity.

"The August 1st event really opened our eyes," says Karel Schrijver of Lockheed Martin’s Solar and Astrophysics Lab in Palo Alto, CA. "We see that solar storms can be global events, playing out on scales we scarcely imagined before." ...