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We’re climate researchers and our work was turned into fake news
by Michael Grubb
rawpixel.com / shutterstock Science is slow. It rests on painstaking research with accumulating evidence. This makes for an inherently uneasy relationship with the modern media age, especially once issues are politicised. The interaction between politics and media can be toxic for science, and climate change is a prominent example.
(via scifigeneration)
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Dahr Jamail | 2017 Was the Warmest Year on Record for Oceans Excerpt:
It is well known now that 2017 was the second-warmest year ever recorded, after 2016. In fact, the five hottest years ever recorded have occurred since just 2010, according to NASA.
What hasn’t received as much attention is the fact that 2017 was the warmest year ever recorded for the planet’s oceans. The previous warmest year for the oceans was 2015.
In fact, when it comes to the overall impacts of human-caused global warming, the oceans have taken most of the hit: They have absorbed 93 percent of the warmth humans have generated since the 1970s.
If you took all of the heat humans generated between the years 1955 and 2010 and placed it in the atmosphere instead of the oceans, global temperatures would have risen by a staggering 97 degrees Fahrenheit.
The study found that the top 2,000-meter layer of Earth’s ocean waters was at its warmest levels ever, and that this warming, according to the study, “represents the signature of global warming.” This is due to the fact that, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 5th Assessment Report, oceans absorb the vast majority of human-generated heat primarily because water has a high heat capacity, given that it takes much more heat to warm water than it does air.
Oceanic warming is clearly dramatically escalating. The study found that the last five years have been the five warmest years for the oceans, and added, “Therefore, the long-term warming trend driven by human activities continued unabated.”
Warm water expands in volume. Thus, the warming is causing increases in sea level rise, in addition to causing more coral bleaching events, declines in oceanic oxygen levels, and increasing melting of sea ice and ice shelves. Studies show that warming ocean waters are causing major species relocations, along with extinctions of some species of fish and marine life.
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Climate Change Could Be Making Our Food Less Nutritious 
Climate Change Could Be Making Our Food Less Nutritious http://futurism.com/climate-change-could-be-making-our-food-less-nutritious/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=futurismnews&utm_content=Climate%20Change%20Could%20Be%20Making%20Our%20Food%20Less%20Nutritious
Climate Change Could Be Making Our Food Less Nutritious
Scientists are discovering that higher CO2 levels are diminishing the nutritional value of global plant crops, threatening human health and survival, as well as that of other species. This lesser-studied effect of climate change demands attention.
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BREAKING: Verizon lawyer turned FCC chairman announces plan to slash net neutrality, Internet activists will fight him tooth and nail
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, April 26, 2017
Contact: Evan Greer, press@fightforthefuture.org, 978-852-6457WASHINGTON, DC – At an event in Washington, DC today Ajit Pai, former Verizon lawyer and new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), announced his plan to ignore the voices of millions of Americans and slash the Title II based net neutrality protections that prevent Internet Service Providers from discriminating against, censoring, or slowing down websites.
Fight for the Future, a nonpartisan digital rights organization that has lead the largest online protests in history in support of Internet freedom, issued the following statement, which can be attributed to campaign director Evan Greer (pronouns: she/hers:)
“Ajit Pai isn’t even trying to hide the fact that he’s a puppet bureaucrat doing the bidding of companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon (his former employer.) Moving so quickly to slash the protections that millions of Internet users from across the political spectrum fought for is a slap in the face to democracy and poses a serious threat to the future of freedom of expression.
Pai’s speech was an insult to the intelligence of internet users. He attempts to portray basic free speech protections as heavy handed government regulation.
Net neutrality is the First Amendment of the Internet. By ignoring what the public wants and attacking Title II open Internet rules, the FCC is playing with fire and potentially opening the floodgates for widespread censorship.
Paving over the Internet into fast lanes for those who can afford to pay and slow lanes for the rest of us will turn the Web into a place where the wealthiest and most powerful can be heard, while ordinary people and alternative voices are drowned out.
If Ajit Pai thinks that destroying net neutrality is going to be easy, he has another thing coming. Internet users will fight tooth and nail to defend our basic right to connect, create, learn, and share.”
Fight for the Future was instrumental in the massive grassroots campaign that successfully pushed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to enact the strongest net neutrality protections in US. history last year. They built the page BattleForTheNet.com, which was responsible for more than ¼ of all the net neutrality comments received by the FCC during its feedback process, and were behind the Internet Slowdown protest, the largest online protest since SOPA, which drove nearly 1 million comments to the FCC and hundreds of thousands of phone calls to Congress in a single day, and was supported by more than 40,000 websites including Kickstarter, Etsy, Netflix, and Tumblr.
The group also helped take the fight for net neutrality into the streets with creative protest campaigns like Occupy the FCC and the nationwide Internet Emergency protests, and bombarded the FCC with phone calls from CallTheFCC.org
Fight for the Future is best known for their role in the massive online protests against SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, and continues to organize many of the largest protests in the history of the Internet. Over the summer, they organized the high profile Rock Against the TPP tour featuring many celebrities and well known musicians. Learn more at FightFortheFuture.org
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Ambiguous Cylinder Optical Illusion.
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Siemens is Building a Swarm of 3D Printing Spider Robots With a Hive Mind 
Siemens is building an army of robot spiders called SiSpis that are equipped with artificial intelligence and 3D printing nozzles. This allows them to autonomously and collaboratively build wherever they are, a new system the inventors are referring to as “mobile manufacturing.”
(excerpt - click the link for the complete article)
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