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As it moves around its orbit, Venus displays phases like those of the Moon: it is new when it passes between the Earth and the Sun, small and full when it is on the opposite side of the Sun, and a half-phase when it is at its maximum elongations from the Sun. Venus is brightest when it is a large but thin crescent and much closer to the Earth. In 1610 Galileo saw the phases of Venus through his telescope.

The heliocentric model of the solar system developed by Copernicus predicted that all phases would be visible since the orbit of Venus around the Sun would cause its illuminated hemisphere to face the Earth when it was on the opposite side of the Sun and to face away from the Earth when it was on the Earth-side of the Sun. In contrast, the geocentric model of Ptolemy predicted that only crescent and new phases would be seen, since Venus was thought to remain between the Sun and Earth during its orbit around the Earth. Galileo's observations of the phases of Venus proved that it orbited the Sun and lent support to (but did not prove) the heliocentric model.

This image was created using elements of NASA images, and from by  Nichalp

 Sagredo Discussione? 19:33, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

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 * McKitrick and Michaels - "we use the percent change, from 1980 to 2000, in population, real average income, real national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and coal consumption."  Wouldn't this give the same "adjustment" for an Inuit village that grew from 500 to 1000 as a city that grew from 1 million to 2 million?  And probably even more; I believe that such places generally have high growth rates and greater than average % income gains.  It seems unlikely that they'd have the same heat island effect, but the skeptics would find it quite convenient to explain the Arctic.  Then there's the M&M data point on the Antarctic Peninsula.  (See the map at the bottom of )  Another heat island?  Which station is that?  Damn, somebody better have a talk with those folks; they must have caused the collapse of Larsen B!   Sagredo Discussione? 03:35, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

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Mardi Gras 2007 had an estimated crowd of 800,000. It was larger than the 2006 crowds of 700,000, but not as large as pre-Katrina numbers of 1 million. .

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New Orleans sits within a shallow depression underlain by unconsolidated (loosely settled) river sediments. "51 percent of the terrestrial surface of the contiguous urbanized portions of Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Bernard parishes lie at or above sea level with the highest neighborhoods at 10-12 feet above mean sea level, while 49 percent lies below sea level, in places to equivalent depths". The metropolitan area is 1.8 m below sea level according to NASA. Above-sea-level New Orleans is also home to two of the city’s most important industries; the tourism and convention trade and the port. The entire Central Business District and most of the medical district are above sea level as well. New Orleans’ signature neighborhood, the French Quarter, is entirely above sea level, in areas by over 10 feet.

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This location makes the city particularly vulnerable to flooding. A complicated system of levees, pumps, and upstream control structures on the Mississippi River is necessary to maintain dry conditions in the city. Elevated areas, while not immune to flooding, constitute a valuable natural resource for which residential use, whenever practical, should be prioritized. It cannot be currently forecast where levees or pumps might fail and which basins might inundate. As a general principle, higher ground is always less flood-prone to lower ground. Elevation is a scarce, precious resource in an inhabited deltaic environment. It should be fully utilized for residential living.

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The Tulane Study used to be here: http kerrn org pdf campanellaaslno pdf

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http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/do_nmap.py?year_last=2007&month_last=09&sat=4&sst=1&type=trends&mean_gen=1212&year1=1951&year2=2006&base1=1951&base2=2006&radius=1200&pol=pol generated from here: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/maps/

May2007 Update.pdf. Retrieved October 10, 2007, from http://www.neworleansonline.com/pr/releases/releases/May2007%20Update.pdf New Orleans' Recovery as of May 2007

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