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Visualizing the Devastating Sea Level Rise due to Climate Change in Various Locations Around the World
François Hollande, the former president of France once said, "We have a single mission: to protect and hand on the planet to the next generation."The video shows snapshots from the future which shows a catastrophic sea level if we remain in denial of climate change. If nations today keep their current ways which are harmful to the environment, the planet’s temperature will soon rise about 3 degrees Celsius, but if pollution is cut in half by 2030, global warming could be stopped after rising about 1.5 degrees Celsius.The comparison between the scientific projections of the sea levels, depending on the path that will be taken by nations, shows how small actions lead to big results. In this case, the future of our environment now depends on our hands. Ask yourself about the environment where the future generation will live, and act upon that vision. Video credit: Climate Central #SeaLevel #ClimateChange #World #Future #Environment #GlobalWarming
This Sculpture is Made From Antarctic Air Trapped in an Ice Core Since 1765
The year 1765 is considered by some as the beginning of the industrial revolution. Artist Wayne Binitie’s “1765” aims to show the artistic side on how much has changed since then. Binitie said that it was the beginning of the significant damage done by humans to the atmosphere.In a collaboration with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), he presented that year in a small artwork called “1765” Antarctic Air at the heart of the Polar Zero Exhibition in Glasgow. The man who mined the ice is glaciologist, Dr. Robert Mulvaney. He has been visiting the Antarctic for 25 years and stayed for 80 weeks in a tent to drill out ice before returning. Scientists do this to record what has happened to the ice sheet over a period of many years, so that we can know what happened to the climate and to the atmosphere. Some records go back to 120,000 years and 800,000 years.
Calcium Carbonate Concrete: A New Kind of Concrete Made From Waste Material and Carbon Dioxide Pollutant
Concrete is a dominant material in the construction industry. In order to produce this, companies release carbon dioxide into our atmosphere that can further accelerate climate change. Researchers are now proposing a new way to reduce emissions caused by concrete by introducing a sustainable and environmentally-friendly material, the calcium carbonate concrete.The future construction material is made from waste concrete and carbon dioxide from the air or industrial exhaust gases. Its functionality was proven to work by Professor Ippei Maruyama and C4S (Calcium Carbonate Circulation System for Construction) project manager Professor Takafumi Noguchi from the Department of Architecture at the University of Tokyo. Image credit: Maruyama et al.#concrete #carbondioxide #globalwarming #climatechange #calciumcarbonate
World's Whitest Paint May Reduce or Even Eliminate the Need for Air Conditioning
For years, scientists have been looking for ways to slow down climate change. Along the way, these people made intriguing stuff, like this paint developed at Purdue University by mechanical engineering professor Xiulin Ruan and his students. What makes this type of paint intriguing, you ask? The answer is its color and its excellent ability to block out most solar radiation. Currently the whitest paint in the world, it can reflect 98.1% of solar radiation. Typical commercial white paint can only reflect 80-90% of sunlight, and it cannot make surfaces cooler than their surroundings. This new paint formulation, however, can. And, according to Ruan, this paint could rival the cooling power of most air conditioners today.The paint appears in the 2022 edition of Guinness World Records.Check out more details over at Purdue University.(Image Credit: Purdue University photo/John Underwood)#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ReflectivePaint #GuinnessWorldRecords #SolarRadiation
This Carbon-Removal Machine In Iceland Is The Largest In The World, And It Will Remove Up To 4000 Tons of Carbon Dioxide Yearly
The simplest and probably the most cost-effective method to reduce carbon dioxide from our atmosphere is by planting trees. However, one weakness of this method is the amount of land needed for it. But because carbon dioxide is a growing problem in today’s world, some companies have started looking for other methods to reduce carbon dioxide. One such method that they have found is by building big carbon dioxide-removing machines, also known as “direct air capture” (DAC) machines.Just recently, the Swiss company Clineworks, with their Icelandic partner Carbfix, have launched the Orca, their new direct air capture and storage plant, which is stationed in Iceland. The Orca is said to be the largest DAC and storage plant in the world. It is said that this humongous machine will capture 4000 tons of CO₂ per year, which is about the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by 870 cars. The plant opened on September 8 of this year.The plant is composed of eight boxes about the size of shipping containers, each fitted with a dozen fans that pull in air. CO2 is filtered out, mixed with water, and pumped into deep underground wells, where over the course of a few years it turns to stone, effectively removing it from circulation in the atmosphere.While the Orca is certainly a big milestone, the DAC industry still has a long way to go if they plan to achieve the International Energy Agency’s Sustainable Development Scenario goal of 10 million tons of carbon dioxide captured annually.(All Images Credit: Climeworks)#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #CO2 #CarbonDioxide #CarbonEmission #DirectAirCapture
Animals Cope With Global Warming By Changing Their Shapes
With the world slowly getting hotter each moment that passes by, how do animals cope with the heat? Unlike we humans who have air-conditioners which could keep an enclosed environment cool, animals don’t have this revolutionary piece of technology. So how are they able to withstand the scorching heat? To solve this temperature problem, animals have resorted to “changing the sizes and shapes of certain body parts”.The animals’ shapes-shifting changes make sense, researchers say. In biology, an established concept called Bergmann's rule states that creatures that live in colder climates tend to be larger and thicker than those closer to the equator—to better conserve heat. The rule is named after Carl Bergmann, a nineteenth century biologist who first described the pattern in 1847. Thirty years later, another biologist, Joel Asaph Allen further expanded the concept, stating that animals that adapted to cold climates have shorter limbs and bodily appendages—to keep the warmth in. For similar thermoregulatory reasons, the reverse is also commonly true—in hotter climates warm-blooded animals’ appendages become larger, relative to their body size.The team of researchers from Deakin University in Australia and Brock University in Canada found that, since 1871, parrots have enlarged their beak surface by up to 10 percent, while roundleaf bats have very slightly increased their wing size since the 1950s.Learn more about this study over at Smithsonian Magazine.(Image Credit: Alexandra McQueen)#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #AnimalAdaptation #Adaptation #Birds #Bats
Heat Wave in the Arctic Circle: Ground Temp in Siberia Reaches Over 100° F
"Hot" and "Arctic Circle" are two words that don't usually go together, but recently, the surface temperature there reaches into the triple digits.According to Europe's Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DG DEFIS), the ground temperature for Saskylakh, Russia, which is well inside the Arctic Circle, reached 39°C or 102°F on June 20, 2021.The image above was taken by Sentinel-3 satellites, an Earth observatory satellite series by the European Space Agency's Copernicus Programme.#heatwave #Siberia #ArcticCircle #ClimateChange #globalwarming #CopernicusEU
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