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Climate change is a profound threat to modern human civilization and requires immediate action
2013-08-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dailing Tidings: Modern civilization, in all its aspects, work, transportation, agriculture, housing etc., is built upon the findings of modern science. Humanity can no longer survive and flourish, with a world population of over seven billion, without the products of science. Fossil fuels have for the last 200 years been a significant boon to humanity. They have helped make possible great advances in living standards, health, and longevity. They are built into the very fabric of our civilization. We take their...
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$78K Fed Study: Did 'Climate Change' Cause Decline of the Mayan Civilization?
2013-08-08 14:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fox Nation: The National Science Foundation (NSF) is giving nearly $78,000 of taxpayer funds to the Trustees of Boston University to study whether "climate change" was a primary cause for the decline of the Mayan civilization in Guatemala between 1000 BC and 900 AD. According to the grant abstract, "the study will provide a detailed record of human occupation and environmental change" in the Maya Biosphere Reserve forest of northeastern Guatemala. This lowland area was where the Maya settled in pre-Columbian...
Voyager-1, and human civilization, finally leave the Solar System
2013-03-20 20:41:57| Extremetech
35 years after its launch, NASA's Voyager-1 spacecraft has finally left the Solar System -- the first ever man-made object to do so. It will now continue on a course that, in 40,000 years, will take it within 1.7 light years of a star called AC+793888 -- the first man-made object to pass so close to another star, and potentially other planets. Eventually, millions of years from now, Voyager-1 will reach the core of the Milky Way.
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