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An Entire American Community Being Relocated Because Sea Level Rise
Posted by Gizmodo: None Given on March 16th, 2016
Gizmodo: Climate change is often seen as a problem for generations to come, but as our freakish winter weather has shown, we're already living the future we created. Need more proof? An entire Native American community is now going to be resettled, before it gets swallowed by the rising seas.
The Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians have called the Isle of Jean Charles-a tiny slip of land some 100 miles south of New Orleans-home for nearly 200 years. Tragically, they're now watching it disappear into the...
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Australia May Fire 350 Climate Scientists Because Climate Change is Proven
Posted by Gizmodo: None Given on February 9th, 2016
Gizmodo: There are down sides to success. Australia’s national science industry has announced that, as far as they’re concerned, there is no longer any doubt that climate change exists--so they will no longer be funding research that seeks to prove it. They will, however, employ scientists to lessen its effects.
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, or CSIRO, recently put out a news release full of terms that employees dread. It includes terms phrases like “embrace change,” and...
LA’s Gas Leak Is a Global Disaster
Posted by Gizmodo: None Given on December 31st, 2015
Gizmodo: ne of the worst environmental disasters of the decade is currently underway in a quiet community 25 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Putrid, methane-rich natural gas has been spewing into the air at an estimated rate of nearly 1,300 metric tons per day for over two months. Experts are calling it the climate version of the BP oil spill, and the leak isn’t going to be contained anytime soon.
Natural gas is often touted as a cleaner energy source than oil or coal, because of the lower greenhouse gas...
World’s Most Powerful Telescope Ruled Unlawful
Posted by Gizmodo: None Given on December 7th, 2015
Gizmodo: Last week, Hawaii’s Supreme Court voided a construction permit for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), a $1.4 billion observatory that would peer into distant corners of our universe and back in time, exploring new cosmic landscapes with a resolution twelve times sharper than that of Hubble.
The TMT is intended to be the flagship observatory of the northern hemisphere and the most powerful optical telescope on Earth. There’s just one problem: the telescope’s construction site, near the summit of...
Climate Change Is Setting The World On Fire
Posted by Gizmodo: None Given on July 18th, 2015
Gizmodo: What happens when you mix record-smashing heat and exceptional drought? Fire! Lots of fire! But climate change isn`t just bringing more fires to our doorstep, although it`s accomplishing that quite handily. It`s making fire seasons longer.
That`s according to a study published this week in Nature Communications, which shows that fire weather seasons have, on average, grown 18.7 per cent longer across the Earth`s surface since 1979. What`s more, the global burnable area affected by fire seasons...
Climate change is moving the North pole and affecting Earth’s rotation
Posted by Gizmodo: None Given on December 13th, 2013
Gizmodo: I thought I knew all the dreadful effects of climate change, but this new discovery has truly surprised me: "Climate change is causing the North Pole's location to drift, owing to subtle changes in Earth's rotation that result from the melting of glaciers and ice sheets." The entire Earth is tilting because this change.
One example:
The influx of fresh water from shrinking ice sheets also causes the planet to pitch over. Landerer and colleagues estimate that the melting of Greenland's ice is...