Asiana to proceed with TV station suit -- but NTSB off the hook

Seoul, South Korea -- Asiana Airlines says it will proceed with its planned lawsuit against an Oakland, California, television station -- but it's not going to pursue legal action against the National Transportation Safety Board.

Over the weekend, the Korean airlines had said it would sue both entities after an intern at the NTSB mistakenly confirmed "inaccurate and offensive" names as those of the pilots of ill-fated Flight 214. The bogus names that phonetically spelled out phrases such as "Something Wrong" and "We Too Low" were read during KTVU's noon broadcast on Friday. The airline called the report "demeaning" and said it was "reviewing possible legal action." Monday morning, the airline seemed to have a partial change of heart.

 

Airline spokesman Na Chul-hee said Asiana has retained a U.S. law firm to file a defamation claim against the TV station. But, he said, the company didn't have plans to file a separate suit against the NTSB. "After a legal review, the company decided to file a law suit against the network because it was their report that resulted in damaging the company's image," he said. On Friday, KTVU anchor Tori Campbell read the names. The news station, a CNN affiliate, later apologized on air and on its website.

"Nothing is more important to us than having the highest level of accuracy and integrity, and we are reviewing our procedures to ensure this type of error does not happen again," KTVU posted on its website. The station said the names were confirmed by an NTSB official in Washington prior to air. The NTSB also apologized for the "inaccurate and offensive" names that were erroneously confirmed by a summer intern.

"Earlier today, in response to an inquiry from a media outlet, a summer intern acted outside the scope of his authority when he erroneously confirmed the names of the flight crew on the aircraft," the NTSB said Friday in a statement.

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The Baby Born With Six Legs 'Has Successful Operation'

A baby boy born with six legs has had four of his limbs successfully removed by surgeons in Pakistan, according to reports.

Umar Farooq was born with a rare hereditary disorder called polymelia in which an embryo starts as conjoined twins in the womb.

One of the twins eventually disintegrates, leaving behind additional limbs that get attached to the remaining foetus.

"A team of five experienced doctors have successfully separated the extra legs and limbs from the baby. He is very much safe and secure," Dr Jamal Raza, director of the National Institute of Child Health in Karachi, told Dawn.com.

"The extra limbs and legs were the result of a genetic disease which would affect only one in a million or more babies."

Dr Raza said that despite being born with extra limbs, Umar "was as normal as other children".
"Before surgeons could operate they said they had to work out which of the limbs belonged to the boy and which to his twin," Dr Raza told the International Business Times.

Umar's father, Imran Sheikh, was able to pay for his son's operation after his plea for financial help was met by the governor of the Sindh province in Pakistan.

"We are a poor family. I am thankful to the government and doctors for helping in the successful operation of my baby," Mr. Sheikh told the Pakistan Observer.

Recent Ice age study delivers blow to global-warming skeptics

A new study finds that rising levels of carbon dioxide drove increasing temperatures at the end of the last ice age. The findings contrast with previous studies, that skeptics of human-triggered global warming said showed that CO2 levels weren't a very important factor.

Rising levels of carbon dioxide drove much of the global warming that thawed Earth at the end of the last ice age.

That's the conclusion a team of scientists has drawn in a new study examining the factors that closed the door on the last ice age, which ended about 20,000 years ago.

The result stands in contrast to previous studies that showed temperatures rising in advance of increases in atmospheric CO2 levels. This has led some skeptics of human-triggered global warming to quarrel that if warming temperatures came first, CO2 wasn't an important factor then and so can't be as significant a factor today as most climate scientists calculate it to be.

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The measurements from the previous studies were taken from ice cores extracted from very thick glaciers in Antarctica. The new work supplements that statistics with temperature evidence from 80 locations around the globe.

The results show that while temperature will increases around Antarctica appear to have led increases in atmospheric CO2, the picture globally was the opposite – CO2 increases paved the way for temperature increases.

“The new work is a significant advance” in the study of the climate conditions surrounding Earth's cycle of ice ages, notes Richard Alley, a Penn State University geologist who specializes in studying glaciers and therefore the climate records encoded in the ice.

It's the latest indication that researchers' understanding of CO2's effects on climate “is confirmed by the history of climate,” he writes in an e-mail.

The results also hold notes of caution for nowadays, notes Jeremy Shakun, a climate researcher at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.

He notes that during the 10,000 years from the end of the last ice age to the start of the current “interglacial” climate, atmospheric CO2 concentrations rose 40 percent, from 180 molecules per million in the atmosphere to 260 parts per million. During the past 100 years, concentrations have been risen 34 percent, from 292 ppm to 392 ppm – and continue to rise.

“Clearly, it's not a small amount,” says Dr. Shakun, referring to the increases during the past century. “Rising CO2 at the end of the last ice age had an enormous effect on global climate. We've raised it as much in the last century.”

That doesn't mean the complete impact of these increases will appear during the course of this century, he explains. It takes much longer for the climate system to fully respond. The oceans are intercepting much of the current warming and additional CO2 humans have added to the atmosphere through burning fossil fuels and land-use changes. And Earth still hosts huge ice sheets in Greenland and over Antarctica to keep things relatively cool.

“It will take many centuries and beyond to fully feel the effects,” Shakun says.