Numerous major publications have highlighted the global problems with increasing temperatures. Recently, complete issues of major magazines including National Geographic August 2019, have featured the worldwide problems, include human misery and resulting mass-migrations which result from rising sea levels, crop failures in densely populated countries, civil wars, and nationalistic fervor. The very next month’s National…
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New Find of Pre-Human Ancestor
A pre-human face from 3.8 million years ago has been discovered. Scientists found the fossils in a rocky bed in Ethiopia, and were able to date the find from minerals in the nearly layers of volcanic rocks. While these developments always are newsworthy, this one is unique in that the facial features were determined. Fossilized…
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Climate Change – Part 3: Implications and Predictions for the Future
Part three of a three-part series. If the ice sheets over Greenland and Antarctica were to collapse and melt entirely, the sea level would increase by 200 feet. And if the present warming continues, 200-300 years from now, the Earth again will be free of ice, and sea levels will return to 240 feet higher…
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Climate Change Part 2: The Science Behind the Data
Part two of a three-part series. Five periods of mass extinction have been identified on our planet. Two were the result of asteroid collisions, with the more "recent" the massive impact zone centered on what is now the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico sixty-six million years ago. The other three were caused by temperature changes, all…
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