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Facts about the sun climate change & the environment // Cosas sobre el sol, cambio climático y el medio ambiente. Sun Age

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[jenvalentinog]

Cambio climático

[explore-blog]

Henry David Thoreau on what it means to live life fully awake – beautiful short read.

[sunageorg]

Merchants of Doubt (2014)

Quiénes nos mienten sobre los problemas que afectan a la sociedad y por qué.

Alerta de spóiler: lo hacen por intereses económicos,

[buscando-letras]

COP 20. Lima, Perú.

[photojojo]

Nearly 90% of the mass of any iceberg you see is actually underwater, so finding one that’s upside down is a rare sight.

While on a trip to Antarctica, photographer Alex Cornell witnessed that rare sight and captured the iceberg’s typically hidden underside.

Photographing an Iceberg’s Rarely Seen Underside 

via Colossal

[sunageorg]

Pregunta a Neil deGrasse Tyson: ¿Cómo pueden los niños de primer grado salvar a la Tierra?

[climateadaptation-deactivated20]

Denying Problems When We Don’t Like the Solutions

There may be a scientific answer for why conservatives and liberals disagree so vehemently over the existence of issues like climate change and specific types of crime. A new study from Duke University finds that people will evaluate scientific evidence based on whether they view its policy implications as politically desirable. If they don’t, then they tend to deny the problem even exists. “Logically, the proposed solution to a problem, such as an increase in government regulation or an extension of the free market, should not influence one’s belief in the problem. However, we find it does,” said co-author Troy Campbell, a Ph.D. candidate at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. “The cure can be more immediately threatening than the problem.” The study, “Solution Aversion: On the Relation Between Ideology and Motivated Disbelief,” appears in the November issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (viewable at http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/107/5/809/).

Can someone fwd me a copy?

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Antarctica from space. Via NASA.

[dreamt-of-dolphins]

Beluga Whales, Antarctic - Deep Blue, BBC

[sunageorg]

#TBT a esta charla del 2010 que dice que para salvar al mundo podríamos pasar 3 mil millones de horas a la semana jugando videojuegos. Nos gusta esa idea.

"Gaming can make a better world" -Jane McGonigal (2010) TED:talks 

[sunageorg]

"¿Cuán malo puede ser? Si la economía tiene que crecer--"

The Lorax, 2012 (Universal Studios)

[cop20somethings]

Name: Amanda

Age: 23

Home Country: Brazil

Affiliation: Engajamundo

"I think youth bring a different perspective from the people that will be here in forty years— the people who will deal with the results of climate change. I think we have a really special role and we have to fight for more space every time and we have to fight to be listened to. I think the role of youth here is is also to be here, but bring the concerns of that youth that couldn’t attend this event."

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Londres va a llenar su mapa de puntos de recarga para smartphones denominados Solar Box, fundada por UnLtd, LSE Entrepreneurship y Siemens, cuya energía es solar a través de paneles y que incluye cuatro tomas. Estarán abiertas desde las 05:30 hasta las 11:30, 365 días al año. Y sí, serán gratuitas. La primera en Tottenham Court Road.

[just-breezy]

Photos from the book Melting Away: A Ten-Year Journey Through Our Endangered Polar Regions by Camille Seaman (what an appropriate name btw)::

For ten years Camille Seaman has documented the rapidly changing landscapes of Earth’s polar regions. As an expedition photographer aboard small ships in the Arctic and Antarctic, she has chronicled the accelerating effects of global warming on the jagged face of nearly fifty thousand icebergs. Seaman’s unique perspective of the landscape is entwined with her Native American upbringing: she sees no two icebergs as alike; each responds to its environment uniquely, almost as if they were living beings. Through Seaman’s lens, each towering chunk of ice—breathtakingly beautiful in layers of smoky gray and turquoise blue—takes on a distinct personality, giving her work the feel of majestic portraiture. Melting Away collects seventy-five of Seaman’s most captivating photographs, life affirming images that reveal not only what we have already lost, but more importantly what we still have that is worth fighting to save.

[todropscience]

ANTARCTIC ICE SHELF BEING EATEN AWAY BY SEA

The western portion of Antarctica: It’s headed for collapse, due to rapid melting of some of its buttressing ice shelves. Many questions about Antarctic climate-ocean-ice feedbacks remain, however. The places where warm waters are promoting melting are powerfully linked to current wind patterns around Antarctica—and these are also subject to change in a warming world.

Some of the processes by which water masses, winds, and ice shelves interact are shown in the schematic diagram below…

More: SCIENCE

Image: P. Huey

[fairtrade]

“One of the most important tools in fighting climate change is information. If the farmers don’t get proper information about climate change, then it is impossible to act.”

-Raul Caso Yupanqui, 26, is General Manager of the Sonomoro Cooperative in Peru. Raul is attending COP20 with other Fairtrade producers to make sure the voice of smallholder farmers are represented in the discussions. Farmers at Sonomoro are seeing the impacts of climate change and are already carrying out adaptation projects, watch the short film here.