Just picture it as you look to the sky and see this flapping by rofl...oh my gosh!!
but they may also indicate a common reaction to a loss of something in the environment and at any rate show degeneration or devolution.
So other nutrients in each woman diet can cloud results; Other studies have shown that eating probiotics has a negligible effect on good gut bacteria.
but in fact depend upon an extreme variety with the environment. When enough animals of the environment become endangered a tipping point will happen
and suddenly humans might find themselves crashing towards extinction! But of course we humans are too smart to believe that could ever happen...
It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that are forever blowing through one s mind.
One of today's leading theories suggests that our forest-dwelling ancestors began walking on two feet as climate change stripped away the trees they lived in forcing them to move to the ground.
The Magicicada attack is an unusual event in the northeastern ecosystem; there are very few events in the lives of flora
So the ecosystem doesn't depend on the cicadas the same way some animals may rely on certain seasonal fruits
The writers didn't seem to be any good at math anyway. biblical numbers a slight variation from biblical proportions is indicative of immense catastrophe such as the many that are contained within The Bible (floods plagues Sodom and Gomorrah etc..
which said $4161 I didn't believe that my neighbours mother was truley bringing home money part-time at their laptop..
what you mean by immense catastrophe My ancestors didn't record any flood around that time so how immense could it be?
Would the 2004 Thailand Tsunami be considered Biblical do you think? I recommend Popsci not use references from authors who have problems adding.
The Army has lent the Interior department 41 small drone aircraft that have been used for environmental monitoring including tracking migratory wildfowl.
#Climate Change Will related Increase Heat Deaths In NYC, Study Sayswarming weather could make summer in the city deadly in the next few decades according to a study published this week in Nature Climate Change.
By the 2020s New york city will see 22 percent more heat-related deaths per year compared with 1980s the researchers predicted.
The Environmental protection agency estimates that the annual mean temperature of a city with a million or more people can be up to 5. 4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than its more rural surroundings.
NYC currently clocks in with more than 8 million. Using 16 computer models of present and future climate change scientists at Columbia University
and the Chinese Center for disease control and Prevention found that while warmer temperatures would reduce the number of deaths due to cold in the winter the increase in heat-related deaths in summer months would cause a net 6. 2 percent spike in weather-related
mortality per year in the city by the 2020s. By the 2080s there could be as much as a 91 percent increase in heat deaths compared to 1980s levels:
What our study suggests is that the heat effects of climate change dominate the winter warming benefits that might also come:
climate change will cause more deaths through heat than it will prevent during winter lead author Patrick Kinney a professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University told The Guardian.
After understand the process ask yourself then how would it effect our environment. Earth's Magnetic field Is Fading http://news. nationalgeographic. com/news/2004/09/0909 040909 earthmagfield. htmlmagnetic Storm http://www. pbs. org/wgbh/nova/magnetic/about. htmlthe
Pole Shift has started August 18 2012 The Earth s magnetic field is weakening and moving. http://fuel-efficient-vehicles. org/energy-news/?
which could have the largest effect on the environment and few are talking about and taking into account global warming spells a changing world for humanity predicated in religious apocalyptic history of they sky turning to fire.
If humanity does survive its size will be of the tiniest percentage in a new world completely alien to anything we have known.
if oil corporations weren't spending billions on climate change denial. -Comparing temperature records from the past is like comparing Gala to Ambrosia apples.
-The immigration reform has nothing to do with climate change. Just because someone advocates for climate change mitigation doesn't mean they can't deal with other completely unrelated policies.
Not even a ripple of interest in the Earth magnetism reduction no comments lol. This is easily verified via the science community;
http://hurricane. ncdc. noaa. gov/pls/paleox/f? p=519:1: 876114133735201:::P1 study id: 13358 (You have to download the data--for example to Excel
If climate wasn't a concern why is ranked it in the top ten threats to national security?
Because they're having to pay out on claims from increased annual storm damage is why.
%So 75 people is translated into 97%of climate scientists. Not very convincing eh? Now about ignoring the black line in the graph:
The implication by Mann isas is understood widely by climate scientists and statisticians--that mixing different kinds of data is bad science.
Over centuries we could actually get a runaway greenhouse effect and then that's it for all the species on this planet.
The greenhouse effect) means once the planet gets warmer and warmer then the oceans begin to evaporate...
Thus runaway greenhouse effect and catastrophic global warming. This despite the fact that the Earth had 3 to 5 times as much CO2 in the atmosphere (1000 to 2000 ppm) during the Jurassic period
No runaway greenhouse effect no massive increase in sea levels. You see based on observations of the relationship of CO2
So I'll take your sky is falling warning also with a grain of salt.
if oil corporations weren't spending billions on climate change denial. This is classic the euphemism for it would be a convenient truth.
@frosttty If climate wasn't a concern why is ranked it in the top ten threats to national security?
Because they're having to pay out on claims from increased annual storm damage is why.
Rainfall and rivers all carry water back into the ground and in some areas the local government even pumps water underground in an effort to maintain their aquifers.
(or around 2%of the earth's total) depleted from US underground aquifers most of the freshwater contained in the polar ice caps has been released from melting most of the freshwater contained in glaciers has been released from melting and most of the freshwater
Water scarcity and climate change/global warming are in their infancy. I know it's easier to stick your head in the sand
widespread social/economical/political/environmental collapse. Here's a good documentary on global water supply: www. youtube. com/watch?
v=Rjon2thsqzgand IPCC's FAQ on climate change: www. ipcc. ch/publications and data/ar4/wg/en/faqs. htmland any other questions you might have:
You know when I first caught wind of the 3d printer's existence I always said this is the beginning of star trek replicator technology.
but climate change may bring early springs more often in the future survey scientists wrote in their study.
and we call it a cold snap. It gets warm all of a sudden and we call it spring?
Many complimentary relationships in ecology have different cues to start. So an earlier blooming season for plants may not necessarily mean an earlier end to hibernation to pollinators.
In the last 72h we've had on the order of 10cm of rain. While I enjoy spring rains we need to get our crops in the ground!
spring was sure as hell late in WI and MN; it effin'snowed on my birthday May 1 1
According to one study it is Earth's second largest contributor to climate change after carbon dioxide.
The reason black carbon doesn't wreak more havoc on the environment is that it has a short lifetime in the lower atmosphere precipitation washes away black carbon emissions from planes and other sources within a matter of weeks.
Because there is no rain or other atmospheric factors to wash out the black carbon in the stratosphere black carbon would linger for 5 to 10 years or more.
The Federal Aviation Administration (F. A a.)the organization responsible for assessing environmental impacts and deciding whether to grant licenses to launch vehicles into space says the effects of black carbon in the stratosphere are unclear.
Although black carbon is known to be a short-term climate forcer research on the potential climate change impacts of black carbon from rockets is in a very early stage
XCOR will have di minimus impact on our environment Nelson says Our fuels are almost completely free of particulate matter.
There's no satisfying climate scientists...We will succeed never in doing anything without a little risk or harm.
The only real and feasible option for satisfying the long-term requirements of drastically cutting the price to put anything into space deal with environmental issues
Sure does make for an inviting business climate too. What's it gonna be need next time you to get all the benefit of public approval for space
but rather from people from the climate crowd watching Virgin's launch. So why is the only response from Xcor?
The International Space station has made some significant steps forward in sustainability after all you have to be sustainable to live in such a harsh environment.
and environment They can not live on their own they are dependant in their immediate physiological functions on very specific stimuli and circumstances.
Guess what else could develop into a person given the right circumstances and environment: practically anything on the planet certainly sperm cells even skin cells (as this reseach so obviously shows.
and can live in most any kind of hot-weather environment. And yet the Mystery Monkey captured the nation's attention.
We've got tropical zones in the Florida keys and the Caribbean hot grasslands in the deep south humid swamps in Louisiana and South Florida.
And there are cold-weather monkeys too for instance in northern Japan and The himalayas. What's the deal?
The Isthmus of panama which we now refer to as Central america didn't appear until much later by which time the climate on both Americas was very different from when the primates first landed there.
When they did first land here the climate was much warmer than it is now
which most of the world's creatures (aside from a precious few like the Virginia opossum and the dormouse) were unable to adapt to the new climate
There's a distinct climate zone division in southern Mexico--no Mexican monkey can make it on the northern side.
It's actually possible that a Platyrrhine could maybe give it a go in the Caribbean or the Florida keys the most tropical environments north of Mexico but:
Could the scourge of climate change lead to a friendly neighborhood monkey in Brooklyn? Anything is possible in evolution says Dr. Flynn.
If climate change continues and it gets warmer globally they could continue further north. But we'd need continuous forests from southern Mexico on northwards
and dryness is an issue though in the future they might get increased rainfall. So no monkeys in the near future.
#Time-Lapse GIFS Show Earth Transforming Over 25 Years Starting in the 1980s Alaska's Columbia Glacier began retreating shrinking from 41 miles long (its originally documented length in 1794) to 36 miles
So many in the ecology movement are centered self egotistical and will lie just to achieve what they think should be.
The Brazilian Amazon deforestation in an area with straight lines? Straight lines are not natural amazon forest?
You're concerned about the ecologists lining their pockets to clean up the Earth but aren't concerned about the oil
the time-lapse on the withdrawal of the glacier is the more worrisome. nice if it were gradual
so that the balancing act of seawater-atmosphere-land that tempers the weather would not be so drastic
if there is such a thinginteresting that they didn't include time lapse from satellite images of Hubbard glacier also in Alaska and about 250 miles from Columbia glacier.
Do humans cause all environmental disasters? No. However we are having a huge impact on the total environment of the planet.
Understand that simply because oil companies are doing us a'service'does not take away from the fact that millions of metric tons of pollutants are pumped into the atmosphere daily.
There is still smog in Los angeles New york Bejing Tokyo Moscow Frankfurt London Paris Dubai etc. etc
-Pinatubo's effect on the climate lasted 2-3 years. Particulates have a relatively short lifespan in the atmosphere.
-Prosperity doesn't necessarily lead to a cleaner environment. I've dealt with this opinion a lot in university
I worked with in El salvador was looking to clean up their environment even though they were among the poorest people in the world.
even though there are more people living there National prosperity (not prosperity of just a few oligarchs) leads eventually to a cleaner environment;
It's affected by solar storms the solar wind solar radiation Milankovitch cycles. You're right about the data consensus though.
whether humans are contributing significantly to climate change. tertertert tree cover in the entire U s. is positive most noticeably (from satellite) in the southwest where people plant trees where there were none before
Theoretically it's possible that human emissions are affecting global climate but it's extremely difficult to separate the human contribution from the natural signal.
and Japanese levels of prosperity) has not lead to a cleaner environment? The beauty of capitalism or a free market economy is that it always tends toward more efficient use of resources;
which means by definition a gradually lessening impact on the environment. Here in the U s. we have numerous examples to illustrate that:
Ugh EPA trying to kill jobs again. Beijing is an example of capitalism that goes unchecked.
They're in so much of a hurry to make money that they've ignored the environmental impacts of their actions.
because they want to be easier on the environment or because they know it's a better investment to energy independence for the future?
Lauren the examples showed actual direct human effects on the environment and others not so direct.
and their short term affect on the climate. Climatologists weren't aware of this until you mentioned it...
Science says that our increased levels of CO2 are creating global warming and climate change.
In a time with unprecedented ability to transform the environment to make deserts bloom and turn intercontinental travel into the work of a few hours we are suffering from diseases our ancestors of a few thousand years ago much less our prehuman selves never knew:
and did not destroy his surroundings. Now we worry about our kids as digital natives who grow up surrounded by electronics
and behavior in an evolutionary context and part of that context requires understanding the environment in which we evolved.
or at least our protohuman forebears were at some point perfectly adapted to our environments. We apply this erroneous idea of evolution producing the ideal mesh between organism and surroundings to other life-forms too not just to people.
We seem to have a vague idea that long long ago when organisms were emerging from the primordial slime they were roughhewn approximations of their eventual shape like toys hastily carved from wood
Neither we nor any other species have ever been a seamless match with the environment.
and health because adaptations that arose in one environment bedevil us in another. Hiccups hernias and hemorrhoids are caused all by an imperfect transfer of anatomical technology from our fish ancestors.
As we humans are created to serve the GODS our biology did distant itself from being naturally harmonious with the environment.
For the human species to continue we need to master our environment and deal with our toxic nature.
I've known a lot of Native americans that are concerned supposedly with the environment. They act out against the activities of'The Whiteman'real swell.
Just don't look at how they have lived never it in their own Sovereign environments and you'll get along great.
Sure if you want to completely ignore evolution and species in their natural environments. Its not like squirrels are hoarders or foxes or ravens...
As we remove ourselves from the natural environment we are getting more allergies. It's been reported here just as in most other science outlets.
When you pull a beer out of the fridge the condensation that builds up on the outside of the can releases heat warming your drink twice as much in humid weather compared with dry weather researchers found recently.
and games but it actually has an important bearing on climate change research. Warm air can hold more moisture
So warmer atmospheres could hold more moisture driving more powerful thunderstorms--they're driven by heat released from condensation in warm summer air.
Your'climate change'analogy fails due to insufficient dynamics. But thanks for playing. Today's magic is tomorrow's technology.
GGENUS the author wasn't trying to make a'global'climate statement. Notice that he chose St louis and New orleans for his points of comparison.
#Warming Causes Plants To Release Gases That May Mitigate Global Warmingplants could help cool down the warming world through their own climate change response according to a new study.
whether this affects the environment. Some aerosols--small atmospheric particles--can contribute to cooling because they help form clouds
which reflect sunlight. The albedo effect from increased cloud cover contributes to cooler temperatures. But the role of plant aerosols in this process was understood not well.
To investigate this Finnish researchers collected data from forests in 11 locations around Earth. They measured aerosol concentrations plant gases average temperatures and the height of something called the boundary layer
They found that plant emissions do impact climate warming but only by a tiny degree.
In estimates of anthropogenic climate change and the effects of aerosol-related air quality directives the response of the biosphere has to be considered they write.
when there should have been rain coming ashore that this spraying started. Results of the spraying:
No rain as it should have come ashore normally. Now that nation is facing another drought for their summer season.
I would also like to hear the author's explanation of why AGW proponents claim the US has been experiencing climate warming for the past 150 years
But probably not because this is a positive environment and all guesses are welcome and also this is not a very common animal so guess whatever you want!
#How Stopping Deforestation Would Make Us Richer Infographic Deforestation definitely isn't doing nature any favors
Based on an economic valuation of Sumatra's Leuser National park designer Jan Willem Tulp breaks down the pros and cons of alternatives to deforestation in a beautiful interactive infographic.
deforestation which is what's happening to the park now; and total tree-friendly conservation.
This would give more jobs currently for the planting help to lower C02 in the environment help wildlife and help stop water runoff and erosion.
If planting of trees was done on a large enough scale they create their own weather like rain forest keep the USA wetter.
It's easy to grasp that complete deforestation could have expensive and devastating consequences. But trees are a renewable resource
The use of a picture of deforestation caused by the Mt st helens eruption event may bring people's emotions to the surface
but we would be unable to stop such an event of deforestation unless we knew the eruption was going to happen
It's environmental entertainment. For a more sustainable more natural environment. For our children. Think of the CHILDREN!
Yes think of the children. We get that fat Education funding package by filming videos about us hiring ethnic single mothers that receive real life skills like rifle shooting
When Will You Stop Talking About Climate Change And Actually Do Something? Dear Mr. Presidenti was hoping to get a jump on this Earth Day letter during the weekend but
Torrential rains the past few days soaked the ground so much the water had nowhere else to go.
(and climate change-related) disaster last summer as wildfires consumed entire communities and choked the air for hundreds of miles.
Last fall 1000 miles to the east my family in New jersey bailed out their entire homes after Hurricane Sandy tore down the Jersey Shore.
The climate is changing and weird weather is just one manifestation of it. This is linked to carbon dioxide emissions as study after study has shown.
As the New yorker put it recently the phrase climate change appears 29 times in the new budget
The Supreme court has held several times that the Environmental protection agency can regulate greenhouse gases and that means you can control carbon dioxide emissions without passing any new laws.
Under the Clean Air Act the EPA can work with states to develop new standards for curbing emissions at existing power plants.
But the pipeline endangers the environment in many ways. It cuts through precious aquifers in the arid West
while safeguarding environmental resources as well as jobs. The New york times put it best: A president who has identified repeatedly climate change as one of humanity's most pressing dangers cannot in good conscience approve a project that--even by the State department's most cautious calculations--can only add to the problem.
Reducing carbon dioxide emissions through a cap and trade system--agreeing to limits on emissions and trading credits for exceeding themis not the only solution.
After your reelection we and many others exhorted you to beat the drum for climate change.
Storms are becoming more severe. Really Popsci???Can we just report science and not some Greeie Leftist propaganda??
and climate change is going to turn that on its head. But go ahead and continue with your denial so you can keep your republican agenda...
He needs to get right on to regulating the Sun Volcanic eruptions and the Electromagnetic Field. They have been causing far too much climate change
and need to be taxed! Get real. Once again...go read the evidence. We put out 100 times more than all of the volcanoes do combined annually in CO2 emissions.
Climatologists understand the effect the Sun has on our climate and it's minor compared to
Yes I understand that life has evolved over millenia under different climates but you glossed right over my point
I'll have less money in my pocket but a better environment. Boooohooooo Get real.
The first 20ppm gives us+3 degrees (Celsius) from their greenhouse effect. The next 260ppm (preindustrial levels) give us another 3 degrees.
so long as crazed environmental groups don't stop Fracking. Our CO2 emission levels are down to 1994 levels
and it's not thanks to the EPA it's thanks to market-driven technological development.
A climate era of 10x the natural variance of the Holocene (think global temperature changes of 1. 5 C per decade rather than per century.
A Picture of Hurricane Sandy? REALLY? We see a large storm like that hit the upper east coast just about every decade.
Wikipedia has an excellent list. And GLOBAL WARMING WOULD HAVE MADE HURRICANE SANDY WEAKER. Sandy was a tropical storm coming from the east that collided with a massive blizzard from Canada.
Global warming has a larger effect on the climate the further up in latitude. If global warming were more significant today it would have had a tranquilizing effect.
It would have meant a weaker cold front and a less severe Sandy. Try to understand your own science before writing prescriptions with it.
It is unfortunate that so many people misunderstand the scientific method and are willing to espouse the climatologist models without even looking at the data Is the planet warming?
Of course it is. Been going steady at about 1. 5c per deacde. For the past 10000 years we've had a variance of+/-2. 5c per decade.
If it is caused by humans we cannot tell through the noise of the historic climate.
If the Earth were determined to have a robust climate with little need of human concern that ballooning field would have unemployed several thousand scientists.
and totally forget about the massive deforestation that has occurred over the last 150 years. If the human race is having any effect on the climate both halves of the problem must be analyzed properly
and done so by scientists who are aligned not with either politicians or business interests. Unfortunately I do not anticipate any of the above to happen any time soon.
When will you stop touting climate studies as a settled science and recognize that 20 years of failed predictions indicate that climate mechanisms are understood not sufficiently?
I'm getting ever closer to never reading Popsci content again. Heating has stopped yet CO2 levels continues to rise.
I want one in my neighborhood. Brian144 is spot on here. Chances are if you're a climatologist you're going to be spouting the same biased data that every other climatologist is worried about.
because their entire goal in life is to prove that Climate Change is a thing
Saying 99%of climatologists agree climate change is occurring is like saying 99%of priests agree that god is omnipotent.
Sure lets destroy the ecosystems of ridges and mountain tops because we never see it anyway.
In reality the actions taken by the GW Bush administration were so effective at combating global warming that we are now potentially facing a period of global climate cooling.@
Wind drag can be measured but will also fluctuate based on air density at different altitudes climates and across a distance.
There are others factors but you get the point. So with this it's hard for
me to take lots of these climate models seriously since I know their assumptions run quite deeper than the example
I got my data from on an earlier POPLIBERAL article about climate change. I know them to be correct and all of their data seems spot on from what I remember.
Man-made climate change is quite arrogant and convenient for climatologists. Even though I am not a climatologist as an computer scientist
or More Says Studyhttp://www. sciencedaily. com/releases/2013/04/130422101313. htmgeochemical Method Finds Links Between Terrestrial Climate
My point is this climate change is not accurately measure without a larger slice of data to view. 1400 years doesn't even fully account for humans occupying the earth as we have been here far longer.
The larger picture will show you that our planet continue to change it's climate with or without our help.
It's not that we believe that climate change itself is a hoax its that human made climate change seems to be more political than factual.
when human made climate change is divided deeply among scientists and only backed by people whose jobs are rested solely upon it existing.
/what/why climate change is happening. Lets instead look at how we are impacting the world around us.
1) I think it is very pleasant to fly into the SMOG in Los angeles...It just tickles my nose
For example trash in the ocean is not the same argument when addressing manmade climate change.
I want the our energy to be cleaner and safer for the environment however until technology catches up with fossil fuels it's prudent to scale back slowly and responsibly.
since 40 years ago on the first Earth day celebration when climatologists and various other climate experts claimed we were heading for the end of the world in the next 15 years.@
Here are some useful links with the first link being most tellingit is not only climate scientists who believe much of the earth's warming is caused by human activity http://www. ucsusa. org/ssi/climate-change/scientific
-consensus-on. htmlsimilar results shown from nasa http://climate. nasa. gov/scientific-consensussomething a little more recent http://www. guardian co uk/environment/2013/mar 27/climate-change-model
-global-warmingmembers of the IPCC the 2007 peace winner write on climate change http://www. scientificamerican. com/article. cfm?
id=science-behind-climate-changehttp://www. epa. gov/climatechange/science/overview. html#human-causeshttp://www. edf. org/climate/how-we-know-the-earth-is-warmingreally all it takes for
which mitigates the damage they do to our health and the environment. It is simple economics.
Climate change is a concern to our Pentagon and ranks as a national threat. Oh they're just trying to justify their climatologist jobs...
which academic societies or professional groups are dissenting on global warming or climate change. The petroleum folks were the last holdouts on that one.
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