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Solar cycles life cycles

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For most people on this planet, the Solar Cycle is like talking about the sex of Martians. Science in general is perceived as something alien to our world, even though in reality all of our technology, medicine, and in short, everything we know today as a way of life, is the result of years of effort in this field. Apart from material progress, science sheds light on the world around us; this natural world that we consider ourselves to be separate from, but on which our lives depend . Solar flare in X ray The Sun is not just for tanning and powering photovoltaic cells. As we learn in school, it is the source of life for plants, which in turn provide us (and our livestock) with food, and it also powers our weather. Of course, it is not expected that people know everything about what the Sun does, but each sneeze of the star should be seen as something more important than a scientific curiosity or an apocalyptic headline. Today, in the midst of climate change, it is important to know tha...

Biodiversity won't save nature because it is a consequence of nature constant evolution

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Biodiversity is not something static unless the consequence of birth and extinction of species due the external pressure. The inaction of the last 30 years on climate change has brought us to the brink of disaster. Wildfires, severe droughts, severe storms or rising seawater temperatures; they are putting our society on the brink of the precipice. But the destruction that climate change is causing is also affecting ecosystems; which, pressured by pollution, the expansion of agriculture, and the general growth of mankind, are putting nature in a critical position. Today, the constant destruction of natural habitats that were preserved in the distance is a matter of concern. Humanity has reached every corner of the globe, both land and sea, and is just thinking about how to take advantage of it. The planet no longer has sanctuaries, even natural parks or biosphere reserves declared by the United Nations are already threatened by some project to exploit the resources they have. The blindn...

The lost decade

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We are arrived to 2020 without any of environment and climate goals achieved Today we passed to new decade. The last days newspapers and magazines make reports and extrapolations about how our world would look in the next 30 years. Some are optimistic, other give more alerts about the future; but too much seem that lives in other planet. If we see the last 30 years, we see a humanity worried about how it can grow but forgetting that planet is finite. Planet haven’t infinite land to build infrastructures, haven’t infinite air to store our polluted gases and infinite space to hide our trash. When media publish about what we must do in the next 30 years, but they forget what we hadn’t been able to do in last 30 years. Australia fires - people trapped in beach   When I began to write this blog, many people told me that we must write in positive. Well, I’m not the most joyful of person of this planet. It’s too much hard to talk in positive about future in the current cont...

Spring asthenia in fifth of February

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Just started the winter when spring already here again. This is not good nor bad now because the consequences after the live. It's over the winter. As I said a year ( Spring in full in February ) meteorological winter just finished in February; regardless that American’s marmots say, popular wisdom or any other ancestral sign. It’s a fact; today the summers end in November and winter is reduced to a few weeks of Christmas and January. The asthenia is one state where the changing of climate generated a profit fall to the person who suffers. I don’t know if I suffer it but I have a low blood pressure rather sudden changes in atmospheric pressure (no matter whether upward or downward) cause me drowsy. So, when the weather changes I can predict it with relative certainty, being the current climate roulette that we’re living a considerable emotional ordeal. This morning (5/2/17) had the soul feet, together with the change of smell general breathed in streets denoted somethin...

2014 the hottest year than ever

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Published in Linkedin:   2014 the hottest year than ever  (30/12/14) Cretaceous was an age which everybody imagines as a global tropical world. In fact and long terms is true, but in this long period it could happen more climates. However there was very quiet period, always we compare with current time; and it has singularities that it goes away to the ideal tropical climate. Cetaceous was hot; but ironically tropics no more than current, while polar seas (there wasn’t any continent in there) was as warmed current areas. Unlike today Cretaceous climate haven’t great differences in relation to latitude, the heat was efficiently transported to the poles by the oceans. Planet hasn’t a significate temperature gradient, so winds was only an anecdote, and it means that more part of land emerge (without continental ice of Antarctica level sea was more of 200 meters higher than today, The great flood ) was a desert (read The day after Tomorrow where explain little the importance...

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Today more or less everyone has heard about climate change and the greenhouse effect. Another thing is that everyone really understands the same when they talk about these two concepts. When the same academic don’t agree on many aspects of the climate, it’s unrealistic to think that the general population has a unique view of the events that affect the current and future climate. Everything concepts and Climate Change and Greenhouse are two concepts that attempt to describe unambiguous easily. Climate Change is exactly that means its name: the climate change is only the pass-through of a particular climate state in other different. It is a very common situation that has happened several times in the life of our planet and for some historical times. It is a traumatic event for a living beings but characteristic of the weather luckily frequency is small compared to the lives of most of these beings, allow periods with calm. The Greenhouse is a quality of our atmosphere which allowed...

The drop that makes a glass overflows

If you fill a glass until the top and the last section we do drop to drop, we reach a point where a drop enters the glass begins to overflow. We can consider that the penultimate drop completed volume of the glass and last drop did not fit and so it fell by the side. So just get out there would expect a drop, but in reality much more water overflows. This behavior is caused by the surface tension of the liquid that links the surface preventing it from breaking, thus the last drops before overflow don't fit but tension doesn't let water to fall by side. When it starts to overflow? So when the weight of the liquid is higher than the tension, the surface loses its mechanical consistency and breaks, it let out all the excess liquid. There are other metastable situations that after passing the threshold of stability, under certain conditions so close to threshold, it remains stable until they were disturbed or too move away to threshold. The instantaneous vaporization of water’s gl...