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event: Counting the Rings
by Greg on Sep.20, 2009, under Science Event
It has been four years since I have read Elizabeth Kolbert’s sprawling long essay on climate change? FOUR YEARS? I have to reread it and see if it anything has changed in that time period. If you feel like reading journalism at its best, someone reposted it: The Climate of Man 1,2,&3. This event is related to the central idea of that essay: that the demise of civilizations throughout human history have been the result of some catastrophic climate event like drought:
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Environmental Lecture
Did you know that tree rings can indicate more than the number of years a tree’s been alive? The width of each ring refers to how much the tree grew that year, so scientists are able to measure the ring widths to determine when historical droughts took place. (continue reading…)
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Large X-class Flare Erupts on the Sun
On Jan. 27, 2012, a large X-class flare erupted from an active region near the solar west limb. X-class flares are the most powerful of all solar events. Seen here is an image of the flare captured by the X-ray telescope on Hinode. This image shows an emission from plasma heated to greater than eight million degrees during the energy release process of the flare. Image Credit: JAXA/Hinode
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