Koch Industries, the holding firm for David Koch and his brother, will buy Molex, which sells interconnection systems to automakers, mobile-phone companies and military customers. That includes Apple, which uses some Molex connectors for the iPhone 5, the top-selling smartphone. Source Billionaire Koch brothers latest bet: Spending US$7.2 [...]
Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is a greenhouse gas mitigation technology which produces negative carbon dioxide emissions by combining biomass use with geologic carbon capture and storage. […]
Source A 2007 Royal Society paper by NASA scientist Drew Shindell: “… the rarity of palaeoclimate evidence for hydrate-induced climate changes argues that this is a fairly unlikely candidate for near-term sudden climate change. Unlike the others, however, anthropogenic climate change may alter the probability of hydrate release when compared [...]
Excerpts from an episode of History Channel's "Mega Disasters" series.
A compilation of related science with some commentary.
The World Ocean accounts for approximately 93% of the warming of the earth system that has occurred since 1955.
Unrealistic optimism is a pervasive human trait that influences domains ranging from personal relationships to politics and finance.
One of the biggest canyons in the world has been found beneath the ice sheet that smothers most of Greenland.
Shallow hydrates were sampled in Siberia, they form as a result of the so-called “self-preservation phenomenon” and they are termed “metastable”.
