Nearly 200 countries have signed an agreement to help combat global warming. In December, nations from around the world constructed the UN’s COP21 climate agreement in Paris, France. It has now been signed. The Royal Society of Chemistry summarized the agreement, “The agreement includes a target to limit global temperature rise to ‘well below’ 2°C […]
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GMO’s: Throwing the Baby out with the Bathwater
by Daniel Brouse The definition of GMO is the modern version, not selective breeding. (0) GMO’s (genetically modified organism) have been around for thousands of years; however, the irrational fear of GMO’s is a recent phenomenon. Are there risks to GMO’s? Yes. Has there been any evidence of harm to human health? No. The risks […]
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Killing Ourselves With Climate Change
WASHINGTON DC — Climate change is maiming and killing humans. “This isn’t just about glaciers and the polar bears; it’s about the health of our family and our kids,” said Gina McCarthy, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, one of eight U.S. agencies that contributed to the report. “To protect ourselves and future generations, we […]
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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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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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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 […]
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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