Battery Basics
Merrier Christmas with Rechargable Batteries
Did you know the world throws 600 million batteries away every year? And that we…
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Climate Change
What Made Hurricane Michael So Ugly
We should be careful not to hastily over-subscribe severe weather to climate change. Conservative movements…
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Reverse Engineering Carbon Pollution Out of the Atmosphere
In olden, pre-industrial-revolution times, trees captured carbon from the atmosphere, and turned it into air…
Climate Change
Climate Change Part 35: Record Arctic Ice Shrink in 2012
The Arctic ice pack reached its smallest extent previously recorded during the summer of 2012.…
Climate Change
Climate Change Part 12: The Keeling Curve 1961
Charles David Keeling was an American scientist who first alerted the world to the possibility…
Climate Change
Climate Change Part 10: Gilbert Plass Warns 1956
We have chronicled several early warnings of climate change on these pages. But we have…
Climate Change
Climate Change Part 3: Role of Water Vapor 1851
Scientists generally accepted Joseph Fourier’s 1824 assertion that “earth’s atmosphere functioned as an insulator” creating…
Climate Change
Climate Change Part 2: Greenhouse Effect Proposed 1827
In 1800, the world population reached one billion. Scientists did not yet know the earth…
Climate Change
How Does Carbon Reach the Atmosphere?
The other day we wrote about how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere functions as Earth’s…
Battery Basics
Does Altitude Affect Batteries On Earth
Does altitude affect batteries. we wondered the other day. After all, we do get tired…