Domed Cities - For Earth? Posted: 5 months ago by kakana
Domed cities are a well-known sf staple. But do we need to start planning them for use on Earth, due to climate change? Supposed benefits, in addition to protection from drastic climate change, include reduction of costs for extreme weather and shifted costs for climate control of buildings.
*Didn't they already put a dome on Springfield?*
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USA is a global catastrophe!? Posted: 3 years ago by Jon77
The most powerful storm in the past 20 years, bringing it down to New York and New Jersey, filled reservoirs, water supply both the state. At the same time, he has brought many problems for thousands of motorists and homeowners who threatens to destroy coastline Long-Island and New Jersey and has increased the long debate over climate change.
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Wobbling earth triggers climate change Posted: 3 months ago by kakana
Regular wobbles in the earth's tilt were responsible for the global warming episodes that interspersed prehistoric ice ages, according to new evidence.
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Bye bye black sheep – climate change making sheep change colour Posted: 4 months ago by AutumnLotus
Global warming is not only making the wild sheep of Soay to shrink but it is also making them change colour, claim scientists.
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Climate Change, Not Humans, Trounced Neanderthals Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
Neanderthals disappeared from Earth more than 20,000 years ago, but figuring out why continues to challenge anthropologists. One team of scientists, however, now says they have evidence to back climate change as the main culprit.
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The Earth at night: Stunning images of the cities that light up the globe Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
It may look like an intriguing star constellation far away in space, but these lights are actually far closer to home. These images shows cities at night as viewed by the International Space Station.
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Mushrooms respond to climate change Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
A team from Cardiff University has found that climate change is dramatically altering the growing patterns of mushrooms, toadstools and other fungi.
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Time for a Change to Time for a Change Posted: 1 year ago by BernardBlack
Op-ed piece stating that Obama's "Change" slogan was perfect for the primaries. He needs to change it up a bit to highlight what he brings as well as highlighting McCain's faults. Also noted is a study showing that during a 6-week period, Obama's negative media coverage exceeded his positive coverage by a wide margin
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Amphibians In Losing Race With Environmental Change Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
Even though they had the ability to evolve and survive for hundreds of millions of years - since before the time of the dinosaurs and through many climatic regimes - the massive, worldwide decline of amphibians can best be understood by their inability to keep pace with the current rate of global change, a new study suggests.
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Ten things that won't change (no matter who gets elected) Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
The more things change, the more they stay the same is the old saying. How true that is. Among the things that won't change is America's relationship with China. Next time a candidate promises to get tough with Beijing, you may want to remind them of the trillion or so dollars that we owe them.
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Forams Can Provide a Record of Ancient Climate Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
These microscopic creatures have been around for 550 million years. Because of their abundance in ancient sediments and their sensitivity to different environments, oil companies hire paleontologists to examine forams in rock samples to help them decide where to drill. For similar reasons, forams also are useful indicators of past climate change.
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Adapt, Move or Die: Prehistoric Climate Change Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
Today, the climate in Britain is pleasant. But every hundred thousand years or so, it goes from pleasant to abominable — part of a natural cycle that is caused by the way the earth tilts and wobbles as it orbits the sun.
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Cockroaches future-proofed against climate change Posted: 3 months ago by evadiva
Hate cockroaches? Best pour yourself a stiff drink. The widely loathed insects can hold their breath to save water, a new study has found – and the trick could help them to thrive in the face of climate change.
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Is Earth's Magnetic Field getting ready to "flip?" Posted: 3 years ago by BrownTrout
There is a growing body of evidence that suggests the Earth's magnetic field is about to disappear (at least for a while). As the magnetic poles shift position, it will have a significant effect on our terrestrial weather as well as all the gadgets we've launched into Earth orbit.
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Canada Best Place To Escape Climate Change Posted: 1 year ago by 2manyusernames
Due to a number of factors such as low population density with a lower impact on natural resources, excellent economy, an extensive amount of arable land, and more, Canada is ranked as the country that would be the least negatively impacted by a global climate change.
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White House Climate Change Report Issues Dire Warning On Worsening Situation Posted: 5 months ago by bingo
Rising sea levels, sweltering temperatures, deeper droughts, and heavier downpours _ global warming's serious effects are already here and getting worse, the Obama administration warned on Tuesday in the grimmest, most urgent language on climate change ever to come out of any White House.
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Power to the People: More Join to the Earth Hour Switch-off Posted: 2 years ago by Blankspace73
As many as 30 million people are tipped to switch off lights and televisions around the world to help fight climate change with 24 cities joining Earth Hour on March 29.
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The Future of Farming Posted: 4 months ago by Bingo
We may be running out of dirt.
That's not just a problem for farmers, that carbon ends up in the atmosphere, contributing to climate change, which then exacerbates other food-growing issues such as drought or floods and extreme temperatures. Plus, degraded soils spur farmers to clear more land, contributing to the rapid destruction of the world's forests, further exacerbating climate change.
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The floating cities that could one day house climate change refugees Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
An architect has come up with an innovative answer to rising sea levels - a city that floats around the world.
The self-contained 'Lilypad' city will be home to around 50,000 'climate refugees' from the worst hit areas - including London.
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Greedy cities consume Earth's resources Posted: 3 years ago by rambler
Disproportionate growth of the world's urban population could result in further loss of many forms of life on Earth, warn experts in the sciences of climate change and biodiversity.
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Paint cities white to tackle global warming, scientist says Posted: 10 months ago by AutumnLotus
Roads and buildings should be painted white in order to tackle global warming, according to a scientist.
Hashem Akbari believes that whitening 100 of the world's largest cities could wipe out the effect of the expected increase in emissions over the next decade.
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