Climate change is real. Now, let’s debate what to do about it

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Climate change is real. Now, let’s debate what to do about it.

Bangor Daily News
A woman walks past a map showing the elevation of the sea in the last 22 years during the World Climate Change Conference 2015 in France.

ULA Atlas V Rocket Launch Of Missile Warning Satellite Delayed To Friday

Tech Times
ULA’s Atlas V rocket is about to be launched on Friday, Jan. 20, from Cape Canaveral in Florida. It will carry a geosynchronous missile detection satellite to the high orbit.

Mud cracks on Mars suggest a watery ancient past

Fox News
NASA’s Curiosity rover has photographed shallow crevices on Mars that may have formed from ancient mud cracks, yet more evidence that the planet had a watery past.

How can we predict the climate years out when next week’s forecast is so uncertain?

Bangor Daily News
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image showing large chunks of melting sea ice near Greenland on July 16, 2015.

The last time the oceans got this warm, sea levels were 20 to 30 feet higher than they are today

Los Angeles Times
Ocean temperatures today are about the same as they were more than 100,000 years ago – at a time when sea levels were 20 to 30 feet higher.

Larsen ice crack continues to open up

BBC News
The crack that looks set to spawn a giant iceberg in the Antarctic has continued to spread. The rift in the Larsen C Ice Shelf has grown a further 10km since 1 January.

The world may see a mass extinction of primates if humans don’t act

STLtoday.com
In a bleak new study published this week in the journal Science Advances, 31 top primatologists warn that the planet could see a mass extinction of nonhuman primates as a consequence of human activities.

The Science of Intellectual Tribalism

National Review
‘David Gelernter, fiercely anti-intellectual computer scientist, is being eyed for Trump’s science adviser.” – Washington Post, January 18.

Small moth with yellowish coif named after Donald Trump

Yahoo News
A small moth with a yellowish-white coif of scales, dubbed Neopalpa donaldtrumpi and named after U.S. President-edit Donald Trump, is seen in an undated combination photo provided by evolutionary biologist Vazrick Nazari.

Extreme Solar Storm-Induced Blackouts May Cost US More Than $40B Daily

Claims Journal
The daily U.S. economic cost from solar storm-induced electricity blackouts could be in the tens of billions of dollars, with more than half the loss from indirect costs outside the blackout zone, according to a new study.

NASA Plans Mission to Asteroid Worth $10000 quadrillion worth of Minerals

PerfScience
NASA has approved two interesting missions and one of them will reach an asteroid valued by astronomers at $10,000 quadrillion, due to expensive mineral reserves on that asteroid.

Will Trump echo JFK’s moonshot and vow to send humans to Mars?

Washington Post
For drive-by readers we offer this immediate answer to the question posed in our headline: Almost certainly not, at least in the inaugural address.

Finally, an explanation of strange African ‘fairy circles’?

Business Insider
WASHINGTON (AP) – The forces behind the mysterious “fairy circles” that dot a desert in southern Africa do not appear to be supernatural, but they are intricate and complex.

These SpaceX Rocket Landing Photos Are Simply Jaw-Dropping

Space.com
If you needed any more proof that SpaceX is back after last weekend’s successful rocket launch, look no more. The private spaceflight company not only launched 10 communications satellites into orbit during its Falcon 9 launch Saturday (the first for

Temperatures hit new high in 2016

The Straits Times
A Nasa Earth Observatory photo taken on Sept 22 last year shows the Bruckner and Heim glaciers where they flow into Johan Petersen Fjord in Greenland.

Six People Are About to Find Out What It’s Like to Live on Mars

U.S. News & World Report
Crammed into a dome with one bathroom, six scientists will spend eight months munching on mostly freeze-dried foods and have only their small sleeping quarters to retreat to for solace.

Prominent astronauts carrying on US space history

Mohave Valley News
WASHINGTON (AP) – Early U.S. space history is fading with the deaths of Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, John Glenn, the last of the Mercury 7 astronauts, and Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon.

Image: NASA’s Terra satellite sees Alaskan volcanic eruption wrapped in white

Phys.Org
When NASA’s Terra satellite passed over Alaska’s erupting Bogoslof Volcano the MODIS instrument aboard captured an image of a large ash plume surrounded by clouds making it appear to be wrapped in white.

Global Warming Could Steal Postcard-Perfect Weather Days

Sci-Tech Today
Global warming is going to steal away some of those postcard-perfect weather days in the future, according to a first-of-its-kind projection of nice weather.

Urgent action needed or Beijing smog may linger 3 decades, environmental groups say

CNBC
On the first day of 2017, Beijing suffered its first severe haze disaster of the new year. At the same time, more than 20 Chinese cities declared orange alert of air pollution.

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