Our goal is to create multiple layers of protection, much like modern cars have seatbelts, airbags, and even collision-warning sensors. Different tools work better for different people in different ways, and we need every tool we can get. But even the most brilliant innovations make no ...
The hottest part of the solar atmosphere, which has a temperature of a million degrees or more, is called the corona. Appropriately, the part of the Sun where the rapid temperature rise occurs is called the transition region. Why is the corona hotter than the photosphere? The corona reaches...
The atmosphere of the earth is a thick layer of gases that is held in by gravity. The atmosphere is made up of several major layers, which are the troposphere (closest to the earth) and then stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere and exosphere. The ozone layer is located in the ...
Ekholm also noted that carbon dioxide acted in a layer high in the atmosphere, above water vapor layers, where small amounts of carbon dioxide mattered. All of this was understood well over a century ago. The Keeling curve tracks the changing carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere. ...
HAARP also admits that there are two layers of the atmosphere that do “produce Earth’s weather,” but then argue that they would not consider touching either the “troposphere or the stratosphere.” The reality is weather modification technology has been used and patented since World War II...
The multiple layers of biscuit are buttery, fluffy and expertly baked. It took me a little bit longer than usual to power through it but I achieved it, with help of the always-solid cup of Joe served at Biscuit Love. Aimee ordered the traditional Biscuits and Sausage Gravy; A lifelong ...
Riftia pachyptila,the tube worm discovered at the bottom of the ocean. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The discovery had profound impacts on scientists' understanding not only of life on our planet, but of the potential for lifeelsewherein the solar system. If life could thrive 10,000 ...
Although manganese nodules were initially discovered in the 1870s, it was only in the 1960s that commercial mining of manganese nod- ules became foreseeable. The apparent imminence of a 'scramble' for the seabed was one of the factors that gave rise to the United Nations Convention on the ...
Stron- tium isotope stratigraphy, a term coined by Elderfield to describe the mapping of stron- tium isotopes in layers of rock, is now widely used to date sediments. It has also proved useful for climate scientists. Weathering pulls carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and vents release the ...
The radiative transfer models used by government climate scientists show that going up to 550 PPM or even 1000 PPM CO2 will make minimal difference to the radiative balance of the atmosphere. The knee of the CO2 curve is at about 30 PPM, and additional CO2 has little first order effect. Th...