rfmcdonald | Entries tagged with global warming

The Conversation notes that ponds on farmers' fields in the Prairies can serve as useful carbon sinks.

Karen Filbee-Dexter at The Conversation notes that, with climate change, kelp forests in the Arctic Ocean are on the verge of great expansion.

Evan Gough at Universe Today notes that including a space telescope or two would make images of black holes that much sharper.

Phys.org notes a new study suggesting that there was a major burst of massive star formation in our galaxy three billion years ago.

Reddit's mapporn shares a map imagining what climate would look like on a world where land took the place of sea and vice versa.

Centauri Dreams notes a strange corridor of ice beneath the surface of Titan, a possible legacy of an active cryovolcanic past.

D-Brief notes one study suggesting that, properly designed, air conditioners could convert carbon dioxide in the air into carbon fuels.

Dead Things reports on the discovery of an unusual human skull three hundred thousand years old in China, at Hualongdong in the southeast.

Gizmodo notes the identification of a jawbone 160 thousand years old, found in Tibet, with the Denisovans. That neatly explains why the Denisovans were adapted to Tibet-like environments.

JSTOR Daily examines Ruth Page, a ballerina who integrated dance with poetry.

Language Hat shares a critique of a John McWhorter comment about kidspeak.

Victor Mair at Language Log shares a well-researched video on the Mongolian language of Genghis Khan.

Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how Donald Trump, in his defiance of investigative findings, is worse than Richard Nixon.

James Butler at the LRB Blog writes about the bombing of London gay bar Admiral Duncan two decades ago, relating it movingly to wider alt-right movements and to his own early coming out.

Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen notes a recent review article making the case for open borders, disproving many of the claims made by opponents.

Paul Mason at the NYR Daily explains why the critique by Hannah Arendt of totalitarianism and fascism can fall short, not least in explaining our times.

Corey S. Powell at Out There explains how, and why, the Moon is starting to get serious attention as a place for long-term settlement, even.

Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society Blog explores the fund that she had in helping design a set of scientifically-accurate building blocks inspired by the worlds of our solar system.

Drew Rowsome reports on the new restaging of the classic queer drama Lilies at Buddies in Bad Times by Walter Borden, this one with a new racially sensitive casting.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers the massive boom of diversity at the time of the Cambrian Explosion.

Towleroad features the remarkable front cover of the new issue of Time, featuring Pete Buttigieg together with his husband Chasten.

Window on Eurasia considers if the new Russian policy of handing out passports to residents of the Donbas republics is related to a policy of trying to bolster the population of Russia, whether fictively or actually.

Arnold Zwicky considers the various flowers of May Day.

New estimates suggest the costs of global warming will be in the tens of trillions of dollars, with warmer countries taking a particularly big hit. Motherboard reports.

Indigenous bumblebee populations in Canada are fast approaching extinction, with a certainty of major negative environmental effects. CBC reports.

MacLean's reports on the return to prominence of Jim Balsillie, this time not so much as a tech mogul as a sort off tech skeptic.

This Motherboard article makes a somewhat far-fetched argument that Game of Thrones demonstrates the need for human civilization to have backups.

The Conversation reports on the recent discovery, in Serbia by a joint Serbian-Canadian team, of a Neanderthal tooth, and what this discovery means for our understanding of the deep past of humanity.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes that methane hydrates on the ocean floor will only pose a catastrophic risk of climate change if we do nothing about climate change generally.

Centauri Dreams reports on the massive flare detected on L-dwarf ULAS J224940.13-011236.9.

Crooked Timber considers a philosophical conundrum: What should individuals do to combat climate change? What are they responsible for?

The Crux considers a few solar system locations that future generations of hikers might well want to explore on foot.

Joe. My. God. notes that Pete Buttigieg is becoming a big star in his father's homeland of Malta.

Language Log considers the idea of learning Cantonese as a second language.

Lawyers, Guns and Money considers the policy innovations of Elizabeth Warren.

The Map Room Blog looks at how the Russian government is apparently spoofing GPS signals.

Marginal Revolution reports a claim by Peter Thiel that the institutionalization of science since the Manhattan Project is slowing down technological advances. Is this plausible?

Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society Blog notes that the Mars InSight probe has detected marsquakes.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that, finally, astronomers have found the first cold gas giants among the exoplanets, worlds in wide orbits like Jupiter and Saturn.

Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy notes how some of the praise for Daenerys Targaryen by Elizabeth Warren reveals interesting and worrisome blind spots. (Myself, I fear a "Dark Dany" scenario.)

Window on Eurasia suggests that Russia is not over the fact that Ukraine is moving on.

Frances Woolley at the Worthwhile Canadian Initiative takes issue with the argument of Andray Domise after an EKOS poll, that Canadians would not know much about the nature of migration flows.

For Easter, Arnold Zwicky considered red and white flowers, bearing the colours of the season.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the many galaxies in the night sky caught mid-collision.

Centauri Dreams reports on the plan of China to send a probe to explore near-Earth co-orbital asteroid 2016 HO3 and comet 133P.

Gizmodo reports, with photos, on the progress of the Chang'e 4 and the Yutu 2 rover, on the far side of the Moon.

Joe. My. God. notes that Bill de Blasio hopes to ban new steel-and-glass skyscrapers in New York City, part of his plan to make the metropolis carbon-neutral.

JSTOR Daily notes a critique of the BBC documentary Planet Earth, arguing the series was less concerned with representing the environment and more with displaying HD television technology.

Language Hat notes the oddities of the name of St. Marx Cemetery in Vienna. How did "Mark" get so amusingly changed?

Language Log looks at how terms for horse-riding might be shared among Indo-European languages and in ancient Chinese.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the grounds for the workers of New York's Tenement Museum to unionize.

The NYR Daily notes the efforts of Barnard College Ancient Drama, at Columbia University, to revive Greek drama in its full with music and dance, starting with a Euripedes performance.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel shares some iconic images of the Earth from space for Earth Day.

JSTOR Daily looks at how, in the 19th century, many cities made their cemeteries into parks.

Guardian Cities considers which city in the world is the hardest-drinking one.

CityLab notes that building cities is not going to be the answer to global warming.

The Conversation looks at the demographics of the homeless of North America.

The threat of Donald Trump to send undocumented immigrants to sanctuary cities in the United States has widely noted. Maybe this actually might be a good solution? Global News reports.

After years of renovations, the Kingston Frontenac Public Library is set to reopen to the public this weekend. Global News reports.

McGill is taking care of the tens of thousands of ants in a colony displaced from the Insectarium in Montréal during renovations there. CBC reports.

Russell Arben Fox writes about the politics and economics of funding a new baseball stadium in the Kansas city of Wichita.

Where will the 4/20 marijuana celebration be held in Vancouver in 2020? Global News reports.

This article at Slate explains how lower Manhattan can only be protected from rising sea levels by land reclamation.

Wired reports on the daunting scale of the Venezuela power failure, and the sheer difficulty of restoring the network.

The Inter Press Service looks at the possibility for Argentina to enjoy improved agricultural circumstances come climate change.

CBC reports on how artificial intelligences can be used to create frightfully plausible fake news.

Axios notes the sheer density of information that Google has on its users.

CityLab reports on the policies hopeful presidential candidate Pete Buttegieg would bring in relating to the automation of work.

Wired takes a look at the second reported HIV cure and what it means.

Core samples from the Earth contain the history of our planet's orbital machinations. D-Brief reports.

Global action on climate, D-Brief notes, is needed now if we are to save the Earth for future generations.

Certain kinds of tectonic collisions, by exposing fresh rock, may well cause ice ages. D-Brief reports.
Some Apollo moon rocks as yet untouched by science have been given over for analysis. D-Brief reports.

An analysis of pig bones at Stonehenge reveals the cosmopolitanism of the visitors to that site. D-Brief reports.

The people of Wolfe Island are upset at cutbacks in ferry trips to and from their island. Global News reports.

The Cape Breton Post shares a fascinating report about the history of the Jewish community of industrial Cape Breton.

Sable Island, in the Atlantic off of the Nova Scotia coast, is going to enjoy a clean-up. Global News reports.

The Inter Press Service notes how global warming-accelerated erosion threatens to split the Caribbean island of Mayreau into two.

The Malta Independent examined some months ago how strong growth in the labour supply and tourism, along with capital inflows, have driven up property prices in Malta.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about the importance of seeing the world from new angles.

John Quiggin at Crooked Timber suggests that, worldwide, coal is becoming increasingly closely associated with corruption.

D-Brief looks at a study drawing on Twitter that suggests people will quickly get used to changing weather in the era of climate change.

Jonathan Wynn at the Everyday Sociology Blog writes about a family trip during which he spent time listening to sociology-related podcasts.

Far Outliers notes the life-determining intensity of exam time for young people in Calcutta.

io9 notes that, finally, the classic Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Once More, With Feeling" is being released on vinyl.

JSTOR Daily looks at how medieval Europe regulated the sex trade.

Language Hat looks at how anthropologists have stopped using "hominid" and started using "hominin", and why.

Language Log considers the difficulty of talking about "Sinophone" given the unrepresented linguistic diversity included in the umbrella of "Chinese".

Marginal Revolution suggests there are conflicts between NIMBYism and supporting open immigration policies.

At Out There, Corey S. Powell interviews astronomer Slava Turyshev about the possibility not only of interstellar travel but of exploiting the Solar Gravity Lens, 550 AU away.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 9 mission.

Towleroad notes that Marvel Comics is planning to make its lead character in the Eternals gay.

Daniel Little at Understanding Society examines how the human body and its physical capacities are represented in sociology.

Window on Eurasia notes the growth of the Volga Tatar population of Moscow, something hidden by the high degree of assimilation of many of its members.

Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell notes, in connection to Huawei, the broad powers allotted to the British government under existing security and communications laws.

Arnold Zwicky looks at anteaters and antedaters.

The BBC considers what the science fiction we prefer to read says about us.

Arkady Martine at Tor considers the ethical dilemmas of Farscape protagonist John Crichton, reminding me again that I should watch this series, some time.

James Nicoll at Tor lists five classic SF novels examining anthropogenic climate change.

Alison Flood at The Guardian reports on the overlooked 1918 novel What Not by Rose MacAulay, a work that may have influenced Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Adrian Lee at MacLean's considers what the three dystopian films of Blade Runner, Akira, and The Running Man, all set in 2019, have to say about the year as it was imagined and as it exists.

Have fossils of the movements of ancient animals 2.1 billion years ago been found? CBC reports.

Increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, it turns out, will not accelerate tree growth. CBC reports.

Motherboard reports that vast "mountains" may exist, hidden deep inside the molten interior of the Earth.

Universe Today reports on Hubble observations of the atmospheres of outer-system ice giants Uranus and Neptune.

Universe Today reports on the startling assertion of Elon Musk that, in the foreseeable future, a round-trip ticket to Mars might cost only $US 100 thousand.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares a lovely photo of the Earth peeking out from behind the far side of the Moon.

At the Broadside Blog, Caitlin Kelly shares lovely photos of delicate ice and water taken on a winter's walk.

Centauri Dreams looks</> at the study by Chinese astronomers who, looking at the distribution of Cepheids, figured out that our galaxy's disk is an S-shaped warp.

D-Brief notes new evidence that melting of the Greenland ice sheet will disrupt the Gulf Stream.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing takes issue with the uncritical idealization of the present, as opposed to the critical examination of whatever time period we are engaging with.

Gizmodo notes that an intensive series of brain scans is coming closer to highlighting the areas of the human brain responsible for consciousness.

Mark Graham links to new work of his, done in collaboration, looking at ways to make the sharing economy work more fairly in low- and middle-income countries.

JSTOR Daily notes how the mystic Catholicism of the African kingdom of Kongo may have gone on to inspire slave-led revolutions in 18th century North America and Haiti.

Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at an exhibition examining the ambitious architecture of Yugoslavia.

The Map Room Blog links to a cartographer's argument about the continuing importance of paper maps.

Marginal Revolution shares one commenter's perception of causes or the real estate boom in New Zealand.

Neuroskeptic considers the role of the mysterious silent neurons in the human brain.

At NYR Daily, Guadeloupe writer Maryse Condé talks about her career as a writer and the challenges of identity for her native island.

Roads and Kingdoms shares a list of ten dishes reflecting the history of the city of Lisbon.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel takes a look at the promise of likely mini-Neptune Barnard's Star b as a target for observation, perhaps even life.

Window on Eurasia shares the perfectly plausible argument that, just as the shift of the Irish to the English language did not end Irish identity and nationalism, so might a shift to Russian among Tatars not end Tatar identity.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at stellar nursery NGC 604 in the Triangulum Galaxy.

Centauri Dreams considers what the rings of Saturn indicate about the inner structure, and formation, of Saturn.

The Crux looks at the exciting steam-based robot WINE, capable of travelling between asteroids and hopping around larger worlds like Ceres and Europa with steam.

D-Brief looks at how the colours of the ocean will change over time, some parts becoming bluer and others greener as phytoplankton populations change.

Gizmodo deals critically with the idea that "permatripping" on LSD is possible. At most, the drug might expose underlying issues.

Imageo notes that, even with the polar vortex, cold snaps in North America under global warming have been becoming less cold over time.

JSTOR Daily looks at how Cutex, in the early 1910s, created a new market for manicures.

Language Hat mourns linguist, and fluent speaker of Sumerian, Miguel Civil.

Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how there is not a centre in American politics to be exploited by the likes of Howard Schultz, that if anything there is an unrepresented left.

Marginal Revolution shares a commenter's argument--misguided, I think--that a wealth tax would represent a violation of privacy rights.

Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society Blog notes that the InSight probe on Mars has placed the Wind and Thermal Shield above its seismometer.

At Une heure de peine ..., Denis Colombi takes issue with the use of statistics without a deeper understanding as to what they represent.

Window on Eurasia suggests that, while a report that Belarus is investigating the possibility of autocephaly for its national church on the Ukrainian model is likely fake news, it may reflect underlying trends.

Arnold Zwicky points readers towards the enjoyable music of Americana/folk duo Mandolin Orange.

Huffington Post Québec notes that the iconic Silo no 5 on the Montréal waterfront is now the subject of a redevelopment bid.

Emily Raboteau writes in the NYR Daily about life in the metropolis of New York City as it faces the threats of climate change.

CityLab remembers Lightning, the African-American neighbourhood of Atlanta displaced by the construction of the stadium where the Superbowl is now playing.

CityLab looks at the reasons behind a surge of petty crime in Barcelona.

Claudia Torrisi writes< at Open Democracy about the growing strength of the neo-traditionalist right in the northern Italian city of Verona.

Architectuul looks at the divided cities of the divided island of Cyprus.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares an image of a galaxy that actually has a tail.

Maria Farrell at Crooked Timber talks about her pain as an immigrant in the United Kingdom in the era of Brexit, her pain being but one of many different types created by this move.

The Crux talks about the rejected American proposal to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon, and the several times the United States did arrange for lesser noteworthy events there (collisions, for the record).

D-Brief notes how the innovative use of Curiosity instruments has explained more about the watery past of Gale Crater.

Bruce Dorminey notes one astronomer's theory that Venus tipped early into a greenhouse effect because of a surfeit of carbon relative to Earth.

Far Outliers looks at missionaries in China, and their Yangtze explorations, in the late 19th century.

Gizmodo notes evidence that Neanderthals and Denisovans cohabited in a cave for millennia.

At In Media Res, Russell Arben Fox writes about his exploration of the solo music of Paul McCartney.

io9 looks at what is happening with Namor in the Marvel universe, with interesting echoes of recent Aquaman storylines.

JSTOR Daily looks at the Beothuk of Newfoundland and their sad fate.

Language Hat explores Patagonian Afrikaans.

Lawyers, Guns and Money reports on how mindboggling it is to want to be a billionaire. What would you do with that wealth?

The Map Room Blog shares a visualization of the polar vortex.

Marginal Revolution reports on the career of a writer who writes stories intended to help people fall asleep.

The New APPS Blog reports on the power of biometric data and the threat of its misuse.

Neuroskeptic takes a look at neurogenesis in human beings.

Out There notes the import, in understanding our solar system, of the New Horizons photos of Ultima Thule.

Jason Davis at the Planetary Society Blog notes that OSIRIS-REx is in orbit of Bennu and preparing to take samples.

Roads and Kingdoms shares a list of 21 things that visitors to Kolkata should know.

Mark Simpson takes a critical look at the idea of toxic masculinity. Who benefits?

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why global warming is responsible for the descent of the polar vortex.

Window on Eurasia notes how the pro-Russian Gagauz of Moldova are moving towards a break if the country at large becomes pro-Western.

Arnold Zwicky looks at the art of Finnish painter Hugo Simberg.

Centauri Dreams extends further consideration the roles that artificial intelligences might play in interstellar exploration.

D-Brief notes that the genes associated with being a night owl also seem to be associated with poor mental health outcomes.

Far Outliers looks at the lifeboat system created on the upper Yangtze in the late 19th century.

Kashmir Hill, writing at Gizmodo, notes how blocking Google from her phone left her online experience crippled.

Imageo notes that, even if halted, global warming still means that many glaciers well melt as they respond to temperature changes.

JSTOR Daily looks at the racism that permeated ads in 19th century North America.

Language Hat looks at how some Turkish-speaking Christians transcribed the Turkish language in the Greek alphabet.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how utterly ineffective the Trump Administration's new refugee waiver system actually is.

The LRB Blog looks at the film and theatre career of Lorenza Mazetti.

Marginal Revolution notes, in passing, the import of being a YouTube celebrity.

Molly Crabapple at the NYR Daily writes about the work of the New Sanctuary coalition, which among other things waits with refugees in court as they face their hearings.

The Speed River Journal's Van Waffle looks for traces of the elusive muskrat.

Towleroad shares footage of New Order performing the early song "Ceremony" in 1981.

Transit Toronto notes that Metrolinx now has an app for Presto up!

At Vintage Space, Amy Shira Teitel looks at the Soviet Moon exploration program in 1969.

Window on Eurasia notes the new pressures being placed by rising Islamism and instability in Afghanistan upon Turkmenistan.

Arnold Zwicky considers, briefly, the little is known about the lives of 1980s gay porn stars Greg Patton and Bobby Pyron. How did they lead their lives?

CBC Prince Edward Island reports on a poster showing the hundred largest islands in the world. (PEI is #96.)

A broken undersea cable has disrupted Internet service throughout the Kingdom of Tonga, Motherboard reports.

The melting of ice is southwestern Greenland is accelerating, CBC reports.

CityLab notes controversy in Montréal regarding plans to redesign the insular Parc-Jean-Drapeau.

Al Jazeera looks at the problems facing the inhabitants of the United Kingdom's overseas territories, almost all islands, faced with Brexit.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes that Israeli non-profit SpaceIL plans to launch a lander to the Moon in February.

Henry Farrell at Crooked Timber writes about the material power of ideas and knowledge in 2019.

D-Brief shares the latest images from Ultima Thule.

Earther notes that temperatures in the Arctic have been higher than they have been for more than one hundred thousand years, with moss spores hidden by ice caps for millennia sprouting for the first time.

Far Outliers notes the economic importance, in the early 20th century, of exports of tung oil for China.

JSTOR Daily notes the uneasy relationship of many early psychoanalysts with the occult.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes an alarming report from California showing how the police have been deeply compromised by support for the far right.

Gillian Darley at the LRB Blog writes about a now-forgotten Tolstoyan community in Essex.

Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution notes a new book by Kevin Erdmann arguing that the United States has been experiencing not a housing bubble but a housing shortage.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes the Boomerang Nebula, a nebula in our galaxy colder than intergalactic space.

Eugene Volokh at the Volokh Conspiracy looks at libel law as it relates to the Covington schoolboys' confrontation.

Window on Eurasia notes a window, in the early 1990s, when the independence of the republic of Karelia from Russia was imaginable.

Arnold Zwicky free-associates around blue roses, homoerotic and otherwise.

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Entries tagged with global warming

[NEWS] Five sci-tech links: ponds, Arctic kelp, black holes, starbursts, inverted world

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[NEWS] Five science links: global warming, bees, Balsillie, backups, Neanderthals

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: cemetery parks, alcohol, floating cities, homeless, sanctuary cities

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Kingston, Montréal, Wichita, Vancouver, New York City

[NEWS] Sox tech links: Venezuela power, Argentina agriculture, AI writing, Google, Buttegieg, HIV

[NEWS] Five D-Brief links: geology and orbits, global climate, ice ages, Apollo moons, Stonehenge

[ISL] Five #islands links: Wolfe Island, Cape Breton, Sable Island, Mayreau, Malta

[BLOG] Some Monday links

[NEWS] Five sci-fi links: science fiction, Farscape, climate change, Rose MacAulay, 2019

[NEWS] Five sci-tech links: Precambrian fossils, CO2 and trees, mountains, Uranus and Neptune, Mars

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

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