Plants may adapt to rainfall patterns Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
U.S. scientists have found tropical plants might be more adaptable than thought to changing rainfall patterns accompanying global warming.
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Water Experts Find Earth Warming, Rainfall Linked to Sun Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A team of water experts says the pattern of droughts and floods in South Africa shows our global warming was triggered by the variability of the sun’s irradiance rather than by human-emitted CO2. They say variations in South African rainfall patterns are keyed to periodic reversals of the sun’s magnetic field—and to the constantly changing distance between the sun and the earth as both move through space.
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MSU scientists find new gene that helps plants beat the heat Posted: 1 month ago by AutumnLotus
Michigan State University plant scientists have discovered another piece of the genetic puzzle that controls how plants respond to high temperatures. That may allow plant breeders to create new varieties of crops that flourish in warmer, drier climates.
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USA is a global catastrophe!? Posted: 2 years ago by Jon77
The most powerful storm in the past 20 years, bringing it down to New York and New Jersey, filled reservoirs, water supply both the state. At the same time, he has brought many problems for thousands of motorists and homeowners who threatens to destroy coastline Long-Island and New Jersey and has increased the long debate over climate change.
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Scientists turn trees and plants into plastics Posted: 1 year ago by kxmk
A new process may allow plants to become the root of chemicals, plastics and fuels rather than oil.
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"Extinct" plants found in remote Australia Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
Two plants that were thought to have been extinct since the late 1800s have been rediscovered in far northern Australia, according to an official report released on Saturday.
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Blame for global warming placed firmly on humankind Posted: 2 years ago by hazelly
The most authoritative scientific report on climate change says with 90% certainty that the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities are driving climate change.
As if it wasn't obvious before...
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Genetically modified plants vacuum up toxins Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Scientists have figured out a way to trick plants into doing the dirty work of environmental cleanup. Researchers at the University of Washington have genetically altered poplar trees to pull toxins out of contaminated ground water, offering a cost-effective way of cleaning up environmental pollutants.
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Shiny crops could slow global warming, scientists say Posted: 11 months ago by wildminou
Might the cultivation of "shiny crops" be a good way to reflect solar energy back into space – thus helping cool the surface of the planet in the fight against global warming?
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Global Dimming Posted: 2 years ago by tundramonkey
And we thought global warming was a problem...
(a bit long, but worth the watch)
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Global warming not so global Posted: 2 years ago by Inc0m
Global temperature fluctuations mostly stable since 1979
with only regional warming and cooling trends.
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How to talk to a global warming skeptic Posted: 1 year ago by 2manyusernames
Below is a complete listing of responses to the most common skeptical arguments on global warming. There are four separate taxonomies; arguments are divided by:
Stages of Denial, Scientific Topics, Types of Argument, and Levels of Sophistication. BBC has similar site with less info.
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The Color of Plants on Other Worlds Posted: 8 months ago by 2manyusernames
What color will alien plants be? The question matters scientifically because the surface color of a planet can reveal whether anything lives there—specifically, whether organisms collect energy from the parent star by the process of photosynthesis.
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Oh No! Ozone Will Kill Us All Posted: 5 months ago by 2manyusernames
Remember the previous world climate scare? The one after Global Ice Age, but before Global Warming? The loss of the Ozone and the ozone hole over Antarctica was going to result in man's doom. Now that we are on our way to correcting the problem there are worries that the ozone will increase global warming and change wind patterns warming Antarctica even faster.
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Global Warming: Rush To Judgement? Posted: 1 year ago by 2manyusernames
a non existent article in a non-existent learned journal was dangled as bait. The article reported to scientifically proved that "concerns about manmade global warming are unfounded." Rush and several Blogs ate it up, despite obviously gibberish math and such reference works as "Miocene, Pliocene and Plasticine fossil records for eukaryotic mass on the West African continental shelf."
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'Jelly balls' may slow global warming Posted: 6 days ago by AutumnLotus
Vast numbers of marine "jelly balls" now appearing off the Australian east coast could be part of the planet's mechanism for combating global warming.
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Hello...it's your plant calling Posted: 1 year ago by misswinkle
Plants make actual voice calls to owners to inform them of its needs. Owners can in turn call their plants to find out more about them.
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Plants Text Message Farmers When Thirsty Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
Beginning this crop season, farmers will be able to receive text messages on their cell phones from their plants saying whether they are thirsty or not.
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Alaska town sues oil and power companies over global warming Posted: 7 months ago by doggylives
A tiny Alaska village eroding into the Arctic Ocean sued two dozen oil, power and coal companies Tuesday, claiming that the large amounts of greenhouse gases they emit contribute to global warming that threatens the community's existence.
The lawsuit has been billed, the most dangerous in america
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Global Warming Responsible for Western Droughts Posted: 10 months ago by mahler87
Next in series: Global warming responsible for results of 2008 election.
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Bonfires May Be Banned In The Name of Global Warming Posted: 6 months ago by 2manyusernames
Seattle is considering banning the ancient tradition of bonfires, of lying on the beach at night, lounging around a fire because they contribute to global warming or cooling or climate change or something.
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