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NASA administrator at odds with scientists
Global warming is a trend but does not necessarily need to
be fixed or stopped, The United States' top space official
said Thursday. "I have no doubt that a trend of global
warming exists," said National Aeronautics and Space
Administration chief Michael Griffin. "I am not sure that it
is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with.
"To assume that it is a problem is to assume that the state
of Earth's climate today is the optimal climate, the best
climate that we could have or ever have had and that we need
to take steps to make sure that it doesn't change." NASA
scientist James Hansen took exception to Griffin's assessment.
"It's an incredibly arrogant and ignorant statement," Hansen
told ABC News. "It indicates a complete ignorance of
understanding the implications of climate change." NASA's
chief spokesman, David Mould, said Griffin's remarks were
intended to show the space agency's role in assessing the
environmental issue. "NASA is providing the vast majority
of the data on global climate. We analyze some of the data,"
Mould said. "But the policies beyond the analysis of the data,
he was trying to say, are outside the scope of NASA's mission.
Others, including Congress, will decide that."
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Hybrid cars face 'Catch 22' situation
A U.S. study suggests a hybrid car with the same performance
and price as a gasoline vehicle won't sell well -- even if it
is three times more fuel efficient. The Massachusetts
Institute of Technology analysis found, among other things,
until many alternative fuel vehicles are on the road, people
won't consider buying one -- so there won't be many on the
road, thereby producing a "Catch-22" situation. "The challenge
is not just introducing an (alternative fuel) vehicle," said
postdoctoral associate Jeroen Struben of the Sloan School of
Management. "Consumer acceptance, the fueling infrastructure
and manufacturing capability all have to evolve at the same
time." Thus, he said, fuel suppliers won't build alternate
fuel stations until they're certain of future demand; but
until the fuel is widely available, consumers won't buy the
vehicles. And manufacturers can't make such vehicles cheaper
and better until production volume is high; but high-volume
production won't happen until such improvements are in place
to attract buyers. The research was supported by MIT, the
U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Shell Hydrogen.
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Scientists study 'brain pacemakers'
U.S. scientists are studying so-called "brain pacemakers" to
determine how they provide the symptomatic relief seen in
people suffering movement disorders. Although brain pacemakers
help ease symptoms in about 30,000 U.S. citizens with Parkinson's
and other diseases, just how deep brain stimulation alleviates
symptoms isn't well understood. Now biomedical engineers at
Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering have found
stimulation administered by rapid-fire electrical pulses deep
in the brain produces what they call an "informational lesion."
By relaying a repetitious and therefore meaningless message,
constant pulses overwhelm the erratic bursts of brain activity
characteristic of disease. "Periodic bursts in the brains of
people with tremor -- which might follow a pattern such as
'pop-pop-pop, silence, pop-pop-pop, silence' -- propagate
pathological information within brain circuits," said Associate
Professor Warren Grill, the study's lead investigator. "If you
replace that instead with a constant 'pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop,'
you've erased that pathological information." The research by
Grill, Duke doctoral student Alexis Kuncel and Cleveland Clinic
neurologist Scott Cooper appears in a special June issue of
the journal IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and
Rehabilitation Engineering.
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