https://padlet.com/18wajdap/7qwhbr0m91mb MP1 en-us 2017-11-04 19:18:07 UTC 2018-05-15 12:20:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Xmastree.png 18wajdap https://padlet.com/18wajdap/7qwhbr0m91mb/wish/203565026 Yesterday, the U.S. released a report worked on by 13 of their agencies, that states that "humans are the dominant cause of the global temperature rise that has created the warmest period in the history of civilization," entirely contradicting the views of the Trump Administration in the process.   This release is very timely, as next week the United Nations convenes in Germany for its annual conference regarding climate change.  The U.S. is expected to be heavily criticized for the fact that Trump's peers now have scientific proof that his views on climate change are incorrect, and that he seemingly will still remain out of the Paris climate accord agreement.  ]]> 2017-11-04 19:31:07 UTC https://padlet.com/18wajdap/7qwhbr0m91mb/wish/203565026 18wajdap https://padlet.com/18wajdap/7qwhbr0m91mb/wish/203565174 The United Nations just announced that Carbon Dioxide levels grew at a record rate in 2016. This rate was 50% faster than the average of the last decade, taking the ppm from 400 to 403.3. The last time that the world has ever seen levels of Carbon Dioxide this high was 3 to 5 million years ago in the mid-Pliocene era. Scientists believe that this growth in Carbon Dioxide levels has contributed to the sea levels rising about 20 meters and the global average temperature also rising 3 degrees. ]]> 2017-11-04 19:33:19 UTC https://padlet.com/18wajdap/7qwhbr0m91mb/wish/203565174 18wajdap https://padlet.com/18wajdap/7qwhbr0m91mb/wish/203581165 According to a recent study published in the Lancet Scientific journal, pollution kills about 9 million people worldwide each year.  These deaths are the result of dirty air in China and India, tainted water in sub-Saharan Africa, toxic mining conditions in South America, as well as many other things. These 9 million deaths related to pollution are more per year than deaths caused by HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis combined. These numbers are quite astounding, and according to environmental expert Gina McCarthy,  these numbers are not only astounding, but very reliable. She is known to claim that these are the best epidemiological numbers that we have. ]]> 2017-11-05 00:18:37 UTC https://padlet.com/18wajdap/7qwhbr0m91mb/wish/203581165 18wajdap https://padlet.com/18wajdap/7qwhbr0m91mb/wish/203582007 This video from the Wall Street Journal highlights why Hurricane Harvey was as devastating as it was to Houston. The video begins by stating that most storms quickly move off the coast at which they first hit, but Harvey was different and stayed inland for a very long period of time. Houston also lies very low in altitude, which does not help at all with drainage. To further worsen drainage issues, Houston has not been careful with preserving its swamp-land, and has allowed for a lot of laying down of asphalt. This means that the only place that the water has left to go is the residential streets. All of these factors contributed to the making of "the 800 year flood". ]]> 2017-11-05 00:43:27 UTC https://padlet.com/18wajdap/7qwhbr0m91mb/wish/203582007 18wajdap https://padlet.com/18wajdap/7qwhbr0m91mb/wish/203584490 At the top of a 50 foot cliff in the Bahamas lies a common tourist spot -- two extremely large boulders. For decades, scientists have wrestled with the question of how they got there, but the solution may have just been found. After running data, is believed that these rocks may have landed there during a period of time around 100,000 years ago, when global temperatures were high, sea levels were too, and storms were violent enough to throw boulders from the sea as large as these. This idea is scary to a world with a rapidly heating climate, and it acts as a warning to avoid the Earth to going back to that state. ]]> 2017-11-05 02:09:54 UTC https://padlet.com/18wajdap/7qwhbr0m91mb/wish/203584490