Thanks to FlowingData for highlighting this link by Albert Cairo to the article by David Rothenberg and Mike Deal " Whale Song Explained". The largest single pressing of any album of recorded music was not made by Michael Jackson or Mariah Carey, but by an animal the size of a city bus. Ten million copies of Songs of the Humpback Whale were inserted into…
How can you have a glacier visitor center without a glacier? RT @ClimateReality: How can you have a glacier visitor center without a glacier? http://t.co/V5jToq92rW pic.twitter.com/iR0LfDkh2S — Yale Climate Project (@YaleClimateComm) January 15, 2015 Links A Century of Retreat at Portage Glacier, South-Central Alaska [US. Geological Survey] USGS Fact Sheet [USGS - PDF 500KB ] Yale Climate Connections
The Age newspaper reports: A study in Australia’s eucalypt forests has revealed that levels of carbon and greenhouse gases released in wildfire could be reduced by fuel reduction burning, or planned burns conducted prior to the bushfire season in high risk forests. Funded by the Bushfire CRC, the work was led by researchers at the University of Melbourne and is…
Spell-binding... The ocean becomes cosmos, the man a satellite & the bottom of the sea an unknown planet OCEAN GRAVITY @guillaumenery http://t.co/CMSLqaOFZD — SPUNCO FILMS (@spunco) December 11, 2014
Data collected and analysed by the Bureau of Meteorology show that 2014 was Australia's third-warmest year on record while rainfall was near average nationally. Nationally, Australian temperatures have warmed approximately one degree since 1950, and the continued warmth in 2014 adds to this long-term warming trend. Simply the single most pressing and present public policy issue of our time. Yes,…