“‘Bomb cyclone’ blasting East Coast before polar vortex uncorks tremendous cold late this week. The most severe winter weather yet will assault the area late this week.” — washingtonpost.com (January 3, 2018) The bomb cyclone blizzard was a 1,000 mile wide Nor’easter classified as a “bomb cyclone” because of its sharp drop in atmospheric pressure. […]
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Bomb Cyclone: Extreme Weather Events
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Tagged blizzard, bomb cyclone, climate change, extreme weather events, polar vortex, storms, winter
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Pollution And Health: 9 Million Deaths Per Year
The Lancet Commission published a report on October 19, 2017 that outlined the results of pollution and health. The report concluded that 9 million people suffered premature deaths due to pollution in 2015. “Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and premature death in the world today. Diseases caused by pollution were responsible for […]
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Tagged air pollution, climate change, death, illness, pollution, water pollution
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How to Make Gold & Platinum
by Daniel Brouse Q: How do you make gold and platinum? A: Collide two neutron stars “It’s so beautiful. It’s so beautiful it makes me want to cry. It’s the fulfillment of dozens, hundreds, thousands of people’s efforts, but it’s also the fulfillment of an idea suddenly becoming real,” said Peter Saulson of Syracuse University. […]
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Tagged Albert Einstein, astronomy, gold, gravitational waves, platinum, spacetime, stars
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Bounty of the Sea: More Plastic Than Fish?
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the World Economic Forum, in a report called The New Plastics Economy (which looks at the amount of plastic that ends up in the sea) claims there will be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050. “If we continue dumping plastic in the sea at the present rate, […]
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Tagged fish, fishing, oceans, plastic, plastic bags, pollution, seas
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WARNING! Hold Your Breath / Air Quality Alert
By Daniel Brouse Many days in the Philadelphia region are not healthy for breathing. On “Ozone Action Alert Days” you are advised to avoid outside activities. Children should not play outdoors. Avoid running and other fitness activities. Do not breathe in unconditioned air. Low level ozone is volatile and causes micro-explosions in your lungs that […]
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Tagged air quality, Asthma, breathing, climate change, global warming, harm, ill, lungs, ozone, ozone alert, respiratory system, sickness, trees, Tropospheric Ozone
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The Universal Theorem
The Cron Vortex by Daniel Brouse The Universal Theorem contains elements from: Einstein’s Theory of Relativity / Space-time Continuum, Vortex Physics, Chaos Theory and The Laws of Thermodynamics. The combination of these elements form a system. The interaction between the system and matter is commonly called time. Imagine Earth as it starts on the edge […]
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Tagged chaos theory, Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Laws of Thermodynamics, Space-time Continuum, Universal Theorem, Vortex Physics
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Trade War! What Is It Good For?
By Daniel Brouse International Economics 101 What do you think of when you hear the term “trade war”? The costs and benefits to society are very similar to traditional warfare. 1) Financial Cost. A war is expensive. In a trade war, huge tariffs are placed on the purchase of imports. A tariff is a sales […]
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Tagged costs, Economics, trade war
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The Demise Of The USA: Will China Takeover?
By Daniel Brouse UNITED STATES — President Trump has done more to damage the environment in his first days of office than any President in history. He has pledged to withdraw from the Paris treaty. The Paris Treaty was the most extensive agreement to address climate change and the first time China and India joined-in. […]
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Tagged climate change, Donald Trump, The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)
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Energy, Heat and Global Warming
By Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee for Sidd’s Science Center I ask: Is there anything humans do with energy that results in less heat? For example, furnaces generate heat, refrigerators generate heat, light bulbs generate heat, computers, cars, fans and even air conditioners create more heat. Is there anything that we do that has a […]
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Tagged burning wood, carbon dioxide, climate change, fossil fuels, heat, oil coal, work
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Carbon Offsetting and Reduction
The United Nations has initiated the first “worldwide” pollution tax. The International Civil Aviation Organization’s global carbon offsetting system is aimed at slowing the growth of emissions from commercial flights. Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) The role of a global MBM scheme is to complement a broader basket of measures to […]
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