Posted at 6:59 AM on November 8, 2007 by Paul Huttner Here's a
new twist on climate change. Something is sparkling in Greenland
these days, and it's not ice. It seems the rush is on in
Greenland for diamonds. Newly exposed rock that was under a
sheet of ice several years ago has revealed some impressive
diamond finds, including a 2.4 carat rock in a western Greenland
trial dig. This highlights a new era of oil mineral, and other
natural resource exploration in the new Arctic frontier. As new
islands emerge, new land areas jut out from under dissapearing
ice. Posted at 2:18 PM on November 8, 2007 by Mark Seeley Over
the years, meteorologists have come up with ingredients methods
to forecast specific weather events, especially winter
snowfalls. Such methods are used along with the numerical
guidance models produced by the These methods apply a cookbook-
style ingredients list that forecasters can use to estimate the
precipitation process and apply to the size and intensity of
storms. Fundamentally, this gets to