SONG: “They Can Make It Rain Bombs” . (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This isn’t based on any recent research. It’s a penitential cover for being late… Read the rest “SONG: They Can Make It Rain Bombs (a penitential Camper Van Chadbourne cover)”
NPR explains why the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina is ringing alarm bells across the global tech industry. Because nearly every semiconductor and solar panel… Read the rest “One massive flood hits one small town… and the computer industry quakes.”
PhysOrg shares research from ETH Zurich that demonstrates something that should be obvious to anyone who’s played pool. But as the warming Earth makes the ice caps melt, changing… Read the rest “Climate change affects the Earth’s rotation more than the Moon does.”
This is a Popular Mechanics illustration from 102 years ago that sounds like it could have been written today. Warnings about industrial pollution increasing air temperature are nothing… Read the rest “Science Art: The Furnaces of the World…., 1912”
NPR has a piece on a USF anthro prof’s idea to make her sort of depressing research more palatable in a way of which this guild heartily approves – by turning data on public reactions… Read the rest “Algae bloom data, set to music.”
Forbes covers a climate-change story about global trade and supply chains (something the pandemic taught the world about), focused on that thin isthmus between the Atlantic and Pacific… Read the rest “Dry canal costs billions.”
The British Antarctic Survey reports on one consequence of thinning sea ice after one of the warmest winters on record. Out of five known breeding colonies in the Belligshausen Sea, four… Read the rest “A lot fewer emperor penguins next year. “Catastrophic breeding failure.””
Reuters reports on a hot, hot summer that is pulling more electricity from the Texas state grid than ever before:
… Read the rest “Texas expects record-setting power usage this week.”AccuWeather forecast high temperatures in Houston, the biggest city in
SONG: “In the Years Before A/C”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: National Park Service, 1 May 2023, “National Park archeologists find remains of an underwater hospital and… Read the rest “SONG: In the Years Before A/C”
The Guardian introduces us to a new group of cyanobacteria that live in volcanic hot springs in Italy and America’s Rocky Mountains and that feast on carbon dioxide — offering… Read the rest “Volcanic bacteria can eat CO2. Lots of it, and fast.”
Science reports on some unexpected consequences of a slightly warmer planet. In the statistics-heavy game of baseball, hitters have been averaging more home runs than ever for a lot of … Read the rest “Baseball hitters are getting more home runs, thanks to climate change.”
Ars Technica looks at the way Exxon executives decided to bury their own company’s very accurate findings on petroleum and climate:
… Read the rest “Despite their public stance, Exxon’s internal science team had a clear view on climate change.”Exxon’s scientific climate work was shut
Science News reveals the discovery of ice flows off Greenland’s melting that had been hidden until now. Researchers say the amount of sea-level rise due to the melting ice could be… Read the rest “Greenland is melting faster than we thought, and the sea is rising in response.”
Live Science considers the fate of the shovel lizard Lystrosaurus, a plant-eating creature from 251 million years ago who survived the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, but then was … Read the rest “Mammal ancestors survived a mass extinction – but got killed off by drought.”
Science News looks gas flares, the open flames used to burn off leaking natural gas and to convert methane to CO2 directly at oil fields. They find that they’re less effective than … Read the rest “Gas flares don’t burn off as much methane as they should – to the tune of 3 million cars’ worth of pollution.”
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