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This Just In: Arctic Cold In Winter

Written by CDN

In an excited story about the recovery of artefacts from the doomed Franklin expedition’s shipwrecked Erebus and Terror, the Canadian Press slipped in the claim that “Climate change, however, is shifting the terms of the work. Less sea ice means the wrecks are more vulnerable to waves and currents generated by winter storms”.

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Is Graphene Oxide In Their Secret Sauce?

Written by Maryam Henein

The Overton Window is the range of ideas/things the public is willing to consider and tolerate. In this post-truth world, facts slowly seep into frame to hand-hold the masses across the spectrum of acceptability — think lab leak. We knew this novel virus never came from a wet market and here we are four years later and the mainstream is just accepting the lab leak now. How many more years before people realize this wasn’t accidental but deliberate?

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The Cause of Interglacials

Written by Koen Vogel

What’s caused our current interglacial?

Numerous theories exist on what caused our current interglacial. Most explanations greatly oversimplify the cause to a “temperatures increased, so ice melted”, and fail to consider when, how or why the ice melted where it did, and why it didn’t somewhere nearby. For example, during the Oldest Dryas some ice sheets melted vigorously in both the Northern Hemisphere (e.g. western Canada) and in the Southern Hemisphere (Patagonia), while others didn’t and still haven’t (Greenland, Antarctica).

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The Kola Superdeep Borehole’s Legacy and Future Implications

Written by Dr. Matthew Wielicki

The Kola Superdeep Borehole, an ambitious Soviet project, stands as a remarkable testament to human curiosity and engineering prowess. Initiated in 1970 during the Cold War era, this project aimed not only to surpass the United States in the space race but also to achieve a groundbreaking feat in the exploration of Earth.

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