Tag: climatechange
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Climate is not just whether it is hot or cold. It is also about the weather patterns, events that happen annually in an area or globally.
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These rocks just happened to play a major role in proving the theory of continental drift. A theory that literally changed the world.
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Life on our planet has faced 5 mass extinction events. Mass extinctions are events where a dangerously large proportion of life dies across the globe
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You might have heard of the term “Milankovitch Cycles”. These are some of the most powerful forces in determining Earth’s climate.
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So what if it had been global cooling instead? I think the response would have been vastly distant. It seems to me that people fear the cold a lot more than heat. Imagine if it had been called ‘global freezing’? Images of the ice ages, snowball earth, blizzards and snow might cross your mind.
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Now when people say “Maths makes me sad”, no one means it more sincerely than climate scientists. This graph does not make me sad so much as this graph scares me.
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In my last post, I talked about how I was building a climate model. It was pretty much just your average light hearted blog post. This one is not. The results that I was excited to see were not exactly exciting as such. The results of my model show that Sydney’s temperature is rising at…