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EartherClimate ChangeClimate Change Skeptics Eat Crow
Global warming skeptics suspected climate change scientists were hiding data. So the skeptics paid for a new study to find the real truth. The results are in! And they’re identical to previous results: Humans are heating up the earth. University of California physics professor Richard Muller, one of the most vocal skeptics, gathered a team … Continued
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EartherClimate ChangeLiving on the Fringes of the Modern World
While most of us get cozier by the minute with the latest iGadgets, perfected work and play stations, and 1,500 thread count sheets, there are still actual nomads out in the world, roaming. Fascinated by these mobile humans’ dedication to travel and eschewing modern-day comforts, documentary photographer Jeroen Toirkens has been following nomadic tribes through … Continued
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Artificial Volcano to Help Cool the Planet. What?
Here’s the plan: A giant garden hose 12.4 miles long, tethered to a ship and attached to a 650-foot (about two football fields) balloon, which will pump out hundreds of tons of chemical particles into the stratosphere to mimic a volcano. Why? Because even though a volcano is hot, the volcanic ash reflects sunlight. Scientists … Continued
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These Beautiful Waterfalls Are Made Entirely of Ice
Sisse Brimberg and Cotton Coulson—two veteran National Geographic photographers who have been married for 28 years—have captured this beautifully surreal image of waterfalls fully made of ice. I guess that those ice caps are really melting. Cotton and Sisse—also known as Keenpress—just came back from the Artic and gave us permission to reproduce these beautiful … Continued
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World War 2 Bombing Runs Changed the Weather Over England
According to scientists, climate change is real. Humans have, are and will continue to affect this planet’s weather with their CO2 shenanigans. This includes WW2, where there was a demonstrable human-created invention that had a measurable impact on the weather. That invention is the bomber. There were many, but the one you’re probably thinking of … Continued
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EartherClimate ChangeOur Choice for iPad and iPhone
While the iPad has ramped up my of internet reading considerably, I still prefer to tackle books in their physical form, largely because there’s no real advantage to reading them on the tablet. Our Choice, the latest volley in Al Gore’s noble crusade for climate change, is evidence that when crafted with care, the electronic … Continued
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Programmer Develops Twitter Bot to Troll Climate Change Deniers
Preaching the climate change gospel can be tough work, especially on Twitter. Software developer Nigel Leck got tired rehashing the same 140-character arguments against climate change deniers, so he programmed a bot that does the work for him. With citations! Leck’s bot, @AI_AGW, doesn’t just respond to arguments directed at Leck himself, it goes out … Continued
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EartherClimate ChangeThe Weather Apocalypse In London’s Future
This may be the future of London and your city. It’s a terrifying prospect, but one of the potential outcomes of climate change. Floods, ice, extreme immigration… I love the idea of Buckingham Palace in a slum. Watch, and imagine. The photos are part of London Futures, an image exhibition at the London Museum that … Continued
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This Controversial Climate Change Ad Made Sony Drop its Sponsorship
They’d obviously spunked a lotta money on the ad, which features a Gillian Anderson voiceover and appearance from famous English footballer/soccer-player Peter Crouch, but when it illustrates exploding kiddies it’s no surprise that Sony wanted nothing to do with it. Made to draw attention to the climate change day October 10th, the 10:10 advert riled … Continued
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Artificial Clouds That Could Stop Climate Change Receive Investment From Bill Gates
Rather than plunge money in a couple of girlfriends his daughter’s age, Bill Gates’ retirement money sure is being put to good use, with his most recent investment being in machines that turn seawater into climate-changing artificial clouds. His $300,000 will hopefully go a long way in Silver Lining’s project, potentially knocking climate change on … Continued
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NASA’s Earth Day Gift Runs On a 56,832-Core, 128-Screen Climate Research Supercomputer
Earth Week is upon us, and NASA has prepared a very special gift for the blue planet: a planetary data-crunching tool that uses a 56,832-core, 128-screen supercomputer for helping scientists work together toward better climate change research. NEX, which stands for NASA Earth Exchange, provides scientists around the globe with the kind of computer power … Continued
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Eyjafjallajökull Daily CO2 Output Utterly Dwarfed by European Aviation Industry
Mt. Eyjafjallajökull is wreaking havoc on European travel right now, but what about the continent’s environment? That’s a lot of CO2 in the air, after all, but you’d be surprised to learn the airplanes it’s grounded are much, much worse. As you can see in the big, colorful graph, the European aviation industry’s daily CO2 … Continued
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Bubble Bath Oceans Could Beat Global Warming
A physicist at Harvard has an idea for fighting climate change that’s radical in every sense of the word. He wants to pump massive amounts of microbubbles into the world’s oceans, increasing their reflectivity and cooling their waters. Professor Russell Seitz proposed his idea at a recent geoengineering conference. The tiny bubbles essentially act as … Continued
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IBM Develops Infinitely Recyclable Plant-Based Plastic
Earlier this week, IBM researchers announced a discovery that could lead to plastics made from plants instead of petroleum. The new plastics will be more energy efficient, more versatile, and infinitely recyclable (until we move to our space colony). The discovery was made at IBM’s Almaden Research Center in Northern California in cooperation with scientists … Continued
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Coffee-Powered “Carpuccino” Infuriates Car Lovers, Coffee Lovers, Pun Lovers
Point: As my fellow Jalopnik readers would agree, the thought of an au-to-MO-bile running on some coffee beans is equally laughable and insulting. Counterpoint: As my fellow coffee drinkers would agree, this is an utter disgrace to our holy bean. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-how-to-actually-make-coffee-5345785 Countercounterpoint: Carpuccino? Really? A while ago we read that coffee-based biofuels were feasible. Knowing … Continued
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Doomsday Clock Moved Back One Minute
The Doomsday Clock, a metaphoric measure of the threat posed by nuclear weapons, biotechnology, and climate change, has been moved back one minute, to six minutes before midnight, signaling a more “hopeful state of world affairs.” The Bulletin of Atomic Sciences cited the increased discourse on climate change and further developments towards a nuclear weapons-free … Continued
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Google Earth To Tackle Deforestation
Google’s services are getting stronger and more powerful with every passing week. Today’s announcement at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen could be a real game-changer, especially in South America and Australia, where deforestation is rife. Areas suffering from deforestation (including illegal logging) can be analyzed and detected instantly, with Google’s ultra-fast satellite imagery-processors … Continued
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EartherClimate ChangeWaking Up On Mars: Australia’s Bizarre Dust Storm
I woke up Wednesday (Tuesday U.S. time), to a scene from Total Recall. Sydney had been blanketed by an apocalyptic glowing red dust storm. Red from iron-oxide: rust. And if I couldn’t breathe, my tech gear wouldn’t like this either… But I did what any geek would do. I regressed into an excited 10 year … Continued
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Cloud-Generating 1900-Ship Armada to Sink Climate Change
The Copenhagen Consensus Centre—a respected European think tank which used to be skeptic on climate change—is now advising that we should spend $9 billion in building 1900 cloud-generating ships like the one above. Why? To cool down Earth: When you spray saltwater into the air, you create nuclei that cloud condenses around, creating bigger and … Continued
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