Mercurium | the nanocosmos series
Nanocosmos, which combines scientific images from the smallest and largest scales in the universe — nanotechnology and astronomy — is the newest extension to the Nanotechno Project: ”Nanographs” developed with layers of images and structures from nanoscience and nanotechnology, the emerging crossdisciplinary field of building materials, devices and innovations at the quantum scale of atoms and molecules.
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New piece in the nanocosmos series entitled Cassinno. This “nanograph” combines a scientific image of a cluster of carbon nanotubes engineered to operate as a field-effect transistor (FET) with a high resolution image of Saturn taken by the Cassini spacecraft.
All part of the broader Nanotechno project — http://www.nanotechno.biz/
OK, you have fought hard to deny or challenge the realities of climate change, perhaps because you are afraid of the policies that might have to be put in place; or are afraid of the possibilities of increased government intervention; or you don’t think it will be that bad; or you think it will be too expensive to do anything about; or you don’t understand the science; or you don’t trust scientists, including, by the way, every national academy of sciences and every professional scientific organization in the geosciences […] or whatever.
You may not think the expected consequences of climate change are bad enough to do anything, despite what researchers have been telling us for years about higher temperatures, worsening frequency and intensity of storms and droughts, rising sea levels, altered water quality and availability, growing health risks from pests and heat, and much more.Fine. But you are dragging the rest of us, who still believe in science and think that things can and should be done quickly, down into what increasingly seems like a future hell. […]
It now appears that on top of all of the other potentially catastrophic, costly, damaging, or dangerous impacts of human-caused climate change, there is a very serious risk that it will threaten the production of chocolate.
‘An Open Letter to Climate Change Deniers and Skeptics: The Final [Chocolate] Straw’ by Peter Gleick
No more CHOCOLATE?!
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Source: forbes.com
Are you listening, Rick Perry, Michelle Bachmann and company?
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Source: thewakeup
