Tag: Climate change
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Axis Shifting as Pole Ice Melts
Talk about the earth moving under one’s feet… The movement of the Earth’s axis has no practical effects on humans, because it is so small. “We suspect these changes are occurring at a meter [or] a meter-and-a-half, at the most, per year,” Ivins says. But tracking the shifts in the Earth’s axis is crucial for…
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Climate change is latest problem that’s admitted but ignored – washingtonpost.com
“We are collectively irrational, in the sense that we should really care about the long-term well-being of the planet but when we get up in the morning it's very hard to motivate ourselves,” said Dan Ariely, a professor of behavioral economics at Duke University, who gave a keynote speech last month at a Washington conference…
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FINALLY, A GOOD PLAY ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE | More Intelligent Life
Yes, these plays have the thrill of a disaster story, a race against the clock. But the real appeal comes from the passionate and often comically exasperating exchanges that take place when one character tries to explain to another what’s going on. There’s a large and often hilarious gulf between the science and the politics,…
Barbara K Iverson 