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Could The Thawing Of The Arctic Be Slowed By ‘Cloud Brightening’?

29 November 2022

Some scientists are recommending drastic actions in response to the climate emergency. Others believe that altering nature will cost too much, regardless of whether you call it geoengineering or biomimicry, as reported by The Guardian.

Anthropic global warming

Like the apocryphal frog that doesn’t notice the rising water temperature until it’s boiled alive, we as a global society are still struggling to recognise that anthropic global warming is hastening us towards irreversible environmental and...

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The Largest Animal Disease Epidemic The World Has Ever Seen!

20 October 2022

Tucked between motorways in the west of the city, the drab brick building belonging to Madrid’s Complutense University stretches the length of a football pitch.
The current outbreak, believed to threaten around three-quarters of the world’s herds, can be traced to the 2007 appearance of the virus in Georgia.
And there’s not enough of a history to know exactly what’s going to happen.

Combating African swine disease, which has killed more than 100 million pigs since 2018, has proven to be more...

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How A Ship & Handful Shipowners Can Spread Diseases!

29 May 2020

As the Coronavirus grips the world is scare, here’s a story from the Bubonic Plague pandemic back in 1720 as reported by the Indo New York

In the early months of summer, that is in April 5, the bubonic plague struck for the first time onboard a ship
Because only a handful of ship-owners refuses to lose a cargo of precious fabrics, 100 000 Marseille and Provence are washed out by the bubonic plague.
More than 40000 deaths in the phocean city. One-third of the inhabitants of the time.
The tragedy...

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