Earth's global temperature has risen so much that as it rises, the sea levels rise. The temperature 125,000 years ago were indistinguishable from the 1995 to 2014 average, the researchers estimate. This can be used as evidence to show how grave danger the world is heading right not. It is almost to the point where it is irreversible. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/earth%E2%80%99s-last-major-warm-period-was-hot-today?mode=topic&context=60
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Research shows how extinction from climate change has occurred in hundreds of plants and animals around the world. Out of 976 species of plants and animals, 47% have experienced local extinction. The future of plants and animals are a grey area. It is hard to tell which species of specific organisms are going to be affected by climate change. But we humans can tell that the future of the organism living on the planet are looking grimmer and grimmer as time goes on. Something humans can learn by local extinctions being studied is that they are the earth trying to tell us that something has to change or else it's all going to go bad.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161208152136.htm Researchers at the department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have came up with a way to chemically modify sawdust to make it an oil-extracting, buoyant material. These to characteristics make it a desirable for cleaning up oil in the arctic. This new material is not truly beneficial now but as the ice retreats in the northern hemisphere, oil corperations are going to starting servicing ways to start abusing the arctic for resources. So with this invention of sawdust- absorbing material, we can help fight any accidents in the future.
A study from Iowa State University suggests that not only the energy created from wind turbines, but turbulence resulting from these turbines benefit crops. These turbines around the crops were able to make it a bit cooler during the day and about a degree warmer at night. This benefits the crops because it suppresses the formation of dew and dries the crop to fight mold and fungi from growing. Factors like clean and energy and benefiting surrounding crops helps influence farmers to hopefully hop off the fossil fuel train and hop on the clean energy one.
The power from wind farms has contributed to preventing a whopping 36 million tonnes of greenhouse gases from fossil fuels. This energy created by wind farms was not expected to be as helpful to the environment than was expected. With this it can sway people to use wind power instead of environmentally bad sources of energy. With the use of wind power in the future we can hopefully see it grow to continue to cut emissions. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161212101131.htm New studies show how we used to not be able to pin the rate of a glacial movement on specific ones but now after this new study, retreat is almost 99% from climate change. The study helps shows that climate change is real and it's not a hoax the Chinese made up. The article then supports the claim by explaining how after looking at 37 mountains around the world, scientists now can connect climate change with the retreating of glaciers 99% of the time. This article is important because it shows how climate change is a real issues and that measures need to be taken to try and prevent it.
Researchers from North Carolina and the Chinese Academy of Science have found a way to create a cheaper and more efficient way to produce solar panels. But there is a catch, the materials made in the solar panels are very hazardous to the environment so it's really not that great besides discovering a cheaper, efficient alternative to making the the solar panels that are used today.
To me this seems to possibility to open the doors to find an improved, cheaper solar panel. But it's just finding a way way to create these panels without discharging harmful pollutants to this earth that we live on. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160929111717.htm Scientists have figured out that infusing coffee and foam together, it can take out harmful lead and mercury from it. This is made from spent coffee powder in a bioelastomeric foam. This mixture of the two items can remove up to 99 percent of the harmful lead and mercury in a 30 hour period in still still water. But in moving water it can remove up to almost 70 percent.
This to me can be very useful to areas that are not as developed as first world countries. With a bit more innovation and modification, this can help prevent lead and mercury poisoning. The coffee foam can definitely be modified to probably take out up to 99 percent of the lead in water down the line, given more research. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160921095417.htm Myth: People claim that the more CO2 in the atmosphere helps sustain plants around the world. So the more CO2 the more the plants have to eat. This will help the plants grow overall.
This claim is trying to appeal to logic, our plants should therefor grow a lot taller and bloom bigger. But more is not better. more can be damaging to to the plant like with more CO2 in the air leads to warmer temperatures, which can lead to more desserts not as suitable for plants. Also besides more desserts form from more CO2, storms become intense which can not help the plant grow. One last thing the increased amount of CO2 does is increase the amount of water a plant needs to help with the less available water due to the drier, more hot weather. So overall, increased CO2 in the atmosphere does not help the plants well-being, rather it makes it harder on the plant. So limiting how much CO2 we emit each year will help the plants a great deal more than emitting more. http://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-plant-food.htm A research team from ACS' Journal of Physical Chemistry C found that in common food waste are sugars that can open up the door way for a much better use of thermal storage of energy. These sugars combined with carbon nanotubes create a good heat transfer for the energy. Some scientists are going as far trying to use these sugars to store the energy overall instead of just using it to transfer it. This has great potential for storing and using thermal energy. It could be used as an alternative to other storage use like batteries. By using these instead of batteries we aren't using materials to make batteries rather recycling food that is useless. I feel that it can be a way not waste as much and better the environment. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160915133240.htm |
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