Earth’s temperature has increased by 1°C over the past century, and most of this warming has been caused by carbon dioxide emissions. But what does that mean locally? A new study published in Nature Climate Change pinpoints the temperature increases caused by CO2 emissions in different regions around the world. Using simulation results from 12 global climate models, Damon Matthews, […]
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Work out of Progress I suppose it must all go on indefinitely – Just when I thought it had all been played out, All become superfluous. I am at the stage of universal discarding; I suppose that many people see, through several decades, What I pushed aside in a matter of months. Discarding is basic to life: […]
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“We must learn to love life without ever trusting it.” – G.K. Chesterton
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“To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.” – St. Catherine of Siena
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The European Space Agency’s incoming director general, Jan Worner, wants to build a village on the moon. Other nations have similarly out-of-this-world ambitions: Japan Launched a probe to mine an asteroid in 2018 China Plans to build a huge solar-power station in space Russia Hopes to send probes to Jupiter, Mars and Venus India Is exploring sending a rocket to […]
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“How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?” – Logan Smith
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“The first test of a truly great man is his humility, an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.” – John Ruskin
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