Q: Is it true that flashlight apps for your smartphone may contain malware? A: It’s not just flashlight apps. Over 90% of freeware (free computer software for photos, converting Youtube videos, etc.) and free app downloads contain malware that is secretly added to your device. Besides stealing your data, they can corrupt files or worse. […]
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Melting Sea Ice: the Disaster Scenario
According to a new study published in the journal Nature, the disaster scenario of rising sea levels could play out much sooner than expected. Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica may become unstable in the next 30 to 50 years. “We are not saying this is definitely going to happen,” said David Pollard, a researcher at Pennsylvania […]
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Tagged climate change, melting ice, rising sea level, sea level rise, sea-level rise (SLR)
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Humans Set World Pollution Record
by Daniel Brouse Scientists wrote in the journal Nature Geoscience, “Given currently available records, the present anthropogenic carbon release rate is unprecedented during the past 66 million years.” The largest known natural surge is believed to have happened 56 million years ago and was likely caused by a release of frozen methane beneath the seabed. […]
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Tagged carbon dioxide, climate change, CO2, greenhouse gases, record
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Peace
I’m for peace. I’ve yet to see a man wake up in the morning and say “I’ve just had a good war.” — Mae West
Feedback Loops
Feedback loops accelerate global warming. In the 1990’s, the Membrane Domain started publishing research on human induced climate change. The research team was the first to put forth the hypothesis that global warming is an exponential phenomenon. Up to that point, the scientific community had based their forecasts on a linear event. The Membrane Domain […]
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Tagged climate change, ethanol, feedback loops, gasoline, ice melting, methane released, ozone
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Greenland Is Melting
NASA — Greenland’s snowy surface has been getting darker over the past two decades, absorbing more heat from the sun and increasing snow melt, a new study of satellite data shows. That trend is likely to continue, with the surface’s reflectivity, or albedo, decreasing by as much as 10 percent by the end of the […]
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Tagged climate change, feedback loops, Greenland, melting ice, rising sea level, sea level rise
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Oceans Rising at Fastest Rate
A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences states that oceans are rising at a faster rate than any time in the last 3,000 years. “We can say with 95 percent probability that the 20th-century rise was faster than any of the previous 27 centuries,” said Bob Kopp, a climate scientist […]
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Tagged climate change, sea level rising
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The Fall of the Arctic King
Famous wildlife photographer, Sebastian Copeland, utilized a graphic picture to raise awareness of human induced climate change. “‘For the state of the ice in general, we’re headed into uncharted territory. There’s no doubt about it. The frozen remains of this young bear point to starvation. The faster retreat of the sea ice, a bear’s favoured […]
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Tagged arctic, human induced climate change, ice melting, impact, polar bear
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NASA Interplanetary Travel Posters
NASA released print quality travel posters promoting space exploration. Greetings from your First Exoplanet While there is much debate over which exoplanet discovery is considered the “first,” one stands out from the rest. In 1995, scientists discovered 51 Pegasi b, forever changing the way we see the universe and our place in it. The exoplanet […]