Scripps in the News

• From Old Vials, New Hints on Origin of Life
  New York Times - Oct 16, 2008
  In 1953, Stanley L. Miller put ammonia, methane, and hydrogen — the gases believed to be in early Earth’s atmosphere — along with water in a sealed flask and applied electrical sparks to simulate the effects of lightning. A week later, amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, were generated out of the simple molecules.
• Cooling Climate ‘Consensus’ of 1970s Never Was
  Science News - Oct 14, 2008
  The reasons to disbelieve that humans are causing global warming are many and varied, skeptics say. Now, new research also skewers the global warming skeptics’ claim that, in the 1970s, scientists believed that an ice age was imminent. Most climatologists have long shared a feeling that discussions in the 1970s about global cooling were common in the media but not in scientific journals, says Richard Somerville, a climatologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.