Jun 11
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Apr 09
Flights have become bumpier in the past 44 years, and are set to get worse as climate change affects the jet stream, a study has shown. Photograph: Pictorial Parade/Getty Images Climate change will lead to bumpier flights caused by increased mid-air turbulence, according to an analysis by scientists of the impact of global warming on …
Feb 22
1.5C rise in temperature enough to start permafrost melt, scientists warn | Environment | guardian.co.uk. A global temperature rise of 1.5C would be enough to start the melting of permafrost in Siberia, scientists warned on Thursday. Any widespread thaw in Siberia’s permanently frozen ground could have severe consequences for climate change. Permafrost covers about 24% …
Feb 17
Sea ice loss in Arctic causing ecosystem changes: study – North – CBC News. Last year’s record loss of Arctic sea ice is already causing big changes for plants and animals that scientists are just starting to understand, according to newly published research. “It takes only one season to change how a deep-sea system …
Jan 21
BBC News – Gamma-ray burst ‘hit Earth in 8th Century‘. A gamma ray burst, the most powerful explosion known in the Universe, may have hit the Earth in the 8th Century. In 2012 researchers found evidence that our planet had been struck by a blast of radiation during the Middle Ages, but there was …
Jan 17
Black carbon causes twice as much global warming than previously thought | Environment | guardian.co.uk. New findings suggest there may be untapped potential to curb climate change by reducing soot emissions Soot from burned wood and diesel exhausts may have twice the impact on global warming than previously thought, according to a new study …
Jan 08
Australia adds new colour to temperature maps as heat soars | Environment | guardian.co.uk. Forecast temperatures are so extreme that the Bureau of Meteorology has had to add a new colour to its scale. It is a sign of things to come Global warming is turning the volume of extreme weather up, Spinal-Tap-style, to …
Jan 02
Op-ed: There’s no greater threat to America’s children than climate change | PennLive.com. Climate Change is the Biggest Threat to American Six-Year-Olds By Glen Retief This month, two media firestorms terrified American parents with apocalyptic visions of what the future might hold for their kindergarteners. In one, ammunition designed to tear apart bone and …
Dec 13
The Government today gave the green light for “fracking” to resume across the UK – potentially allowing for gas exploration to take place across 60 per cent of the country. Drilling to look for shale gas was put on hold 18 months ago after the process, which uses high-pressure liquid to split rock and extract …
Dec 04
Researchers looked at collisions between protons and lead ions By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 17:18, 27 November 2012 | UPDATED: 17:18, 27 November 2012 Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider beleive their experiments may have created a new type of matter. They say, collisions between protons and lead ions at the LHC have resulted in …
We have many promises to amend and agreements to keep now that Hell has begun its freezing over. If it is eternal, then we never have left, and never do escape, or remember Our lives released. They kept trying to build this up, out, and were solidified into rock, leaf, and rust, wider, planetary, abandoned, searched and discovered. I am the pig that flies.