As the Earth’s average surface temperature rises, another degree Celsius will rise 2.5 meters above sea level from Antarctica alone, and a three-degree increase in the frozen continent will see an increase of 6.5 meters, scientists warned on Wednesday. This catastrophic increase in the global waterline – enough to develop …
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Water is a very strange thing. In our everyday experience, when liquid water falls below 0 ° C (32 ° F or 273.15 Kelvin), it becomes OK, freezes in solid form. But the snow, it turned out, is also rather strange. Most of the time, the ice seems to be …
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Traces of a rare molecule known as phosphine have been found in Venus’s hellish, highly acidic atmosphere, astronomers announced Monday – providing a boring clue about the possibility of life. The phosphine molecules found on Earth are primarily the result of the action of microorganisms that thrive in human industry …
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Recordbreak temperature A CBS Los Angeles report states that the heat wave in Southern California swept through historic California during the Labor Day weekend. Woodland Hills recorded a record temperature of 121 degrees on Sunday afternoon, the highest official temperature ever recorded in LA County. National Weather Service. The previous …
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A major new study has been published – one that provides much more certainty about the extent of future warming we might expect. Along with many other international climate scientists, it was led by my colleague, climate scientist Steven Sherwood from the University of New South Wales in Australia. So, …
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