Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Pep Talk from Kid President
This video was posted last year around just before President Obama's second inauguration in 2013. Our English teacher had us watch is class last month. I like what this kid has to say but Journey is a band not a guy.
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Throw Back Thursday
Today I went to Buzzfeed and saw 20 DIY (Do It Yourself) projects; it brought back some memories.
My Mom and I did most of them, my favorite was making oobleck. Here is something we did not make, something that glows. What kid doesn’t like something that glows in the dark? Tutorial here.
But we did make rainbow cupcakes out of ginger-ale, white cake mix and of course food coloring. Below is a how to make rainbow bread.
My Mom and I did most of them, my favorite was making oobleck. Here is something we did not make, something that glows. What kid doesn’t like something that glows in the dark? Tutorial here.
But we did make rainbow cupcakes out of ginger-ale, white cake mix and of course food coloring. Below is a how to make rainbow bread.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Greenhouse gas injections may unleash earthquakes
Pumping carbon dioxide into the bowels of the Earth seems like an appealing way to ditch the greenhouse gas. But such injections could trigger earthquakes, geophysicists report November 4 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Petroleum companies already use CO2 injections to flush out underground oil. Now researchers have found that such gas injections into an oil field in northwestern Texas sparked dozens of small earthquakes.
“It’s inconceivable that the injection wells weren’t contributing to these earthquakes,” says study coauthor Cliff Frohlich of the University of Texas at Austin. The study provides some of the first evidence that gas injections may lead to earthquakes.
Petroleum companies already use CO2 injections to flush out underground oil. Now researchers have found that such gas injections into an oil field in northwestern Texas sparked dozens of small earthquakes.
“It’s inconceivable that the injection wells weren’t contributing to these earthquakes,” says study coauthor Cliff Frohlich of the University of Texas at Austin. The study provides some of the first evidence that gas injections may lead to earthquakes.
Storms are becoming more intense, moving toward poles
Climate simulations have long forecast that climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions will make rain heavier and more intense, while also pushing storms and deserts away from the equator. Observed climate patterns that match these predictions are called "fingerprints" of human activity. Researchers have struggled to find such fingerprints because weather is notoriously fickle.
In the new study, Kate Marvel and Céline Bonfils, climate scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, develop a statistical method to separate human influence from natural variation in precipitation. The researchers use the method to see whether satellite and ground-based rain measurements from 1979 to 2012 matched predicted fingerprints. Marvel and Bonfils find that storms had indeed strengthened, and both storms and deserts had migrated toward the poles.
Only human influence can account for these trends happening in tandem, Marvel and Bonfils conclude.
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