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The Parade of Impending Catastrophes

Written by Norman Rogers

There are organizations whose purpose is to save us from impending catastrophes.  I’m not talking about the Federal Emergency Management Agency or the Red Cross.

I’m thinking of the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the World Wildlife Fund, the National Geographic Society, The National Audubon Society, The Environmental Defense Fund, The Population Connection, and many more.

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Have Global Temperatures Reached a Tipping Point?

Written by Arthur Viterito Professor of Geography (Ret.) College of Southern Maryland

Two previous studies, The Correlation of Seismic Activity and Recent Global Warming (CSARGW) and The Correlation of Seismic Activity and Recent Global Warming: 2016 Update (CSARGW16), documented a high correlation between mid-ocean seismic activity and global temperatures from 1979 to 2016 [1, 2].

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Validation of Earth’s Surface Skin (Radiative) Temp Measurement, Hence Air Temp Proxy of Surface Temp Bad

Written by Dr Jerry L Krause

The U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) project of NOAA is similar to that of the Department of Agriculture’s Soil Climate Analysist Network (SCAN) project in that both projects’ central focus is to measure the soil’s temperatures and the moisture contents at 5cm (2in), 10cm (4in), 20cm (8in), 50cm, (20in) and 100cm (40in) depths.

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Earth’s magnetic ocean tides mapped from space

Written by Jonathan Amos

This is the European Space Agency’s spectacular new view of ocean tides as they sweep around the Earth. The movie shows not the bulging movement of water directly, but rather its magnetic signature. As the Moon pulls the salty seas through our planet’s global magnetic field, electric currents are generated.

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Royal Raymond Rife: discoverer of resonance therapy

Written by aurorscalartechnology.com

In the 1920’s, Royal Raymond Rife (pictured) has possibly made one of the most important medical discoveries in history; he designed and built the most powerful microscope that has ever been made. This microscope could have caused an enormous change in medication.

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Big increase in Antarctic snowfall

Written by Jonathan Amos

 

Scientists have compiled a record of snowfall in Antarctica going back 200 years. The study shows there has been a significant increase in precipitation over the period, up 10{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117}.

The effect of the extra snow locked up in Antarctica is to slightly slow a general trend in global sea-level rise. However, this mitigation is still swamped by the contribution to the height of the oceans from ice melt around the continent.

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More than half your body is not human

Written by James Gallagher

Body-bacteria illustration

More than half of your body is not human, say scientists. Human cells make up only 43% of the body’s total cell count. The rest are microscopic colonists. Understanding this hidden half of ourselves – our microbiome – is rapidly transforming understanding of diseases from allergy to Parkinson’s.

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New ‘NanoZymes’ Use Light to Kill Bacteria

Written by RMIT University


Credit: Dr. Chaitali Dekiwadia/ RMIT Microscopy and Microanalysis Facility, A 3-D rendering of dead bacteria after it has come into contact with the NanoZymes.

Researchers from RMIT University have developed a new artificial enzyme that uses light to kill bacteria. The artificial enzymes could one day be used in the fight against infections, and to keep high-risk public spaces like hospitals free of bacteria like E. coli and Golden Staph.

E. coli can cause dysentery and gastroenteritis, while Golden Staph is the major cause of hospital-acquired secondary infections and chronic wound infections.

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The Absurd Myth About the Solar & Wind Power Solution

Written by srsroccoreport.com

As the U.S. and global oil industry continues to disintegrate under the weight of increased debt and the Falling EROI – Energy Returned On Investment, analysts are still suggesting that solar and wind power are the solution to our energy problems.

While there are many good reasons solar and wind can’t provide us with the necessary energy needs in the future, the most import one is that it takes the burning of a massive amount of coal, natural gas, and oil to manufacture renewable energy sources.

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Hunting mystery giant lightning from space

Written by Mary Halton

A cloud illuminated by lightning, with a panel of the International Space Station visible at the bottom of the frameImage copyright ESA/NASA
Image caption The ISS provides a unqiue perspective on Earth’s weather

Thunderstorms are some of the most spectacular events in nature, yet what we can see from the surface of our planet is only the beginning. There are bizarre goings on in Earth’s upper atmosphere, and a new mission aims to learn more about them.

Launched to the International Space Station on Monday, the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) will observe the strange electrical phenomena that occur above thunderstorms.

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