In an editorial in The Citizen on Feb. 26 Joseph Garofalo makes several points about global warming (now called climate change). I would like to point out a few issues I see with his argument.

He cites a recent survey which claims that 97 percent of scientists agree that humans are causing global warming. There are numerous articles available that point out serious flaws with this survey. You can do an Internet search for "97 percent debunked" and review them at your leisure.

One article in The American Thinker noted that a review of this survey "found that only 1 - 3 percent of respondents explicitly stated agreement with the IPCC declarations on global warming."

There are, of course, a lot of counter-arguments on the Internet; again, you can peruse them at leisure. However, to claim that there is "97 percent agreement" based on this survey is an extreme stretch.

This appears to be another case of the global warming alarmists running with a study that can't stand up to scrutiny (there have been numerous cases in the past where they tried to prevent anyone who wasn't a true believer from reviewing their work).

A second point is that the misleading survey only claims that there is agreement that humans are causing global warming. This leaves out the following questions: (1) will it be beneficial or harmful overall; (2) if it is harmful on balance, will the cost be significant; and (3) is it cheaper to adapt to any impacts than to greatly increase the cost of energy and other necessities of life?

A third point is the claim that there must be some type of "corporate conspiracy" that controls the media and government that is fighting against the brave scientists trying to save us.

This ignores the fact that there is a mountain of money available to corporations that play along with "Big Green" (Solyndra, GE, etc.). There is also a mountain of research money available to scientists who support "Big Green."

There have been a number of cases over the past 10 years where scientists who are true believers have argued that anyone who disagrees with them should be professionally ostracized or stripped of credentials.

If there is any conspiracy it is on the part of the true believers, the ClimateGate emails clearly showed that the true believers were working very hard behind the scenes to manipulate the definition of "peer reviewed" to prop up their case.

A final point in his editorial is the old Malthusian argument that resources are finite and the growing human population is going to doom us all. This theory has been proven wrong time and again (anybody remember the "Population Bomb" craze of the '60s and '70s?). People today live longer, healthier and more pleasant lives than ever before.

READ MORE: Global warming: 97% bunk

A car that could run for 100 years on one tank of fuel? It sounds like a far-fetched idea, but it is just what a company is apparently claiming possible with the use of an atomic fuel that was abandoned during the Nixon administration. We're talking about the sounds-too-good-to-be-true substance called "Thorium."

Thorium is a naturally occurring radioactive element. It was discovered in 1828 by a Norwegian mineralogist and identified by a Swedish chemist, who then named it after the Norse god, Thor.

READ MORE: Atomic Car Revisited: Thorium Could Power A Vehicle for 100 Years?

There are now over one billion cars traveling roads around the world directly and indirectly costing trillions of dollars in material resources, time and noxious emissions. Imagine all these cars running cleanly for 100 years on just 8 grams of fuel each.

Laser Power Systems (LPS) from Connecticut, USA, is developing a new method of automotive propulsion with one of the most dense materials known in nature: thorium. Because thorium is so dense it has the potential to produce tremendous amounts of heat. The company has been experimenting with small bits of thorium, creating a laser that heats water, produces steam and powers a mini turbine.

Current models of the engine weigh 500 pounds, easily fitting into the engine area of a conventionally-designed vehicle. According to CEO Charles Stevens, just one gram of the substance yields more energy than 7,396 gallons (28,000 L) of gasoline and 8 grams would power the typical car for a century.

The idea of using thorium is not new. In 2009, Loren Kulesus designed the Cadillac World Thorium Fuel Concept Car. LPS is developing the technology so it can be mass-produced.

READ MORE: Thorium-Fueled Automobile Engine Needs Refueling Once a Century

VIDEO: Car Runs For 100 Years Without Refueling - The Thorium Car

There are two equinoxes every year – in March and September – when the sun shines directly on the equator and the length of day and night is nearly equal. Seasons are opposite on either side of the equator, so the equinox in March is also known as the "spring equinox" in the northern hemisphere. However, in the southern hemisphere, it's known as the "autumnal (fall) equinox".

Why is it called equinox?
On the equinox, night and day are nearly exactly the same length – 12 hours – all over the world. This is the reason it's called an "equinox", derived from Latin, meaning "equal night". However, even if this is widely accepted, it isn't entirely true. In reality equinoxes don't have exactly 12 hours of daylight

The March equinox occurs the moment the sun crosses the celestial equator – the imaginary line in the sky above the Earth's equator – from south to north. This happens either on March 19, 20 or 21 every year. On any other day of the year, the Earth's axis tilts a little away from or towards the Sun. But on the two equinoxes, the Earth's axis tilts neither away from nor towards the Sun, like the illustration shows.

READ MORE: March Equinox: March 20, 2014, 16:57 UTC

Equinox 2014 comes before midday March 20 for most of U.S.

Nikola Tesla was an electrical engineer, inventor and one of the most outstanding physicists in the history of science. But beyond his brilliant work, some aspects of his life remain hidden in the pages of history.

Recently a new statue in honor of Tesla was unveiled in Long Island of New York, which, according to historical data, was the final resting place of the brilliant scientist.

Tesla won more than 700 patents and became famous for developing AC (alternating current), while his work became the basis of developments in wireless communications, radar, laser X rays, lighting, robotics, and many other areas.

Beyond the scientific heritage that made him famous worldwide, his life had some aspects of it remain unknown to most people.

Read the secrets of Tesla's life as presented by Jane Alcorn, president of the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe.

1. The Tesla museum was funded by a cartoon

2. Some of Tesla's inventions were classified

3. Tesla was an environmentalist

4. Tesla died a very poor humanist

5. Tesla suffered from insomnia and obsessive compulsive behaviors (OCD)

READ MORE: Full Article: 5 Shocking Facts You Didn’t Know about Nikola Tesla

Albert Einstein wasn't always convinced that the universe began with a big bang.

In a newly discovered manuscript, the famed physicist pondered over a so-called "steady state" theory and described a cosmos that can continuously and spontaneously replenish itself with new matter to form stars and galaxies. That would mean the overall density of space would remain stable, even as the universe expands.

Researchers believe Einstein's manuscript, found "hiding in plain sight" in the Hebrew University's online Albert Einstein Archives, was written in 1931 — nearly 20 years before British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle championed a similar and controversial theory.

Physicist Cormac O'Raifeartaigh, with the Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland, tells Nature magazine he "almost fell out of his chair" when he realized what he had found. The document, written in German — Einstein's native tongue — was mistakenly identified as a first draft of another paper.

"If only Hoyle had known, he would certainly have used it to punch his opponents," O'Raifeartaigh told Nature.

Ultimately, Hoyle's theory didn't hold up to observational evidence. And Einstein apparently abandoned the idea when his calculations didn't jibe with equations for his general theory of relativity. The manuscript, translated into English and posted on the preprint server arxiv.org, shows Einstein's correction to his original calculation.

A paper about Einstein's rediscovered manuscript has been submitted to the European Physical Journal.

READ MORE: Lost Einstein Paper Posed Alternate Cosmic Theory

The world's premier space agency has joined the search for a Malaysian commercial jetliner that vanished into thin air over the weekend.

On Monday (March 10), NASA began examining ways it can contribute to the search for Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared shortly after takeoff on Friday (March 7), agency officials said.

"Activities under way include mining data archives of satellite data acquired earlier and using space-based assets, such as the Earth-Observing-1(EO-1) satellite and the ISERV camera on the International Space Station, to acquire new images of possible crash sites," NASA spokesman Allard Beutel told Space.com via email. "The resolution of images from these instruments could be used to identify objects of about 98 feet (30 meters) or larger."

In addition, Beutel added, NASA will be sending relevant data to the U.S. Geological Survey's Earth Resources Observations and Science Hazard Data Distribution System, which facilitates the sharing of information whenever the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters is activated.

The disappearance of Flight 370 calls to mind Air France Flight 447, which vanished over the Atlantic Ocean in June 2009, shortly after taking off from Rio de Janeiro en route to Paris. It took five days to locate the wreckage of Flight 447 and nearly two years to find and recover the jet's "black boxes" from the ocean floor.

READ MORE: NASA Joins Hunt for Missing Malaysian Passenger Jet