August 2009

Saturday, August 29, 2009

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How many greenhouse gases?

few days ago I asked how many are greenhouse gases?

talk is often carbon dioxide (CO2) when discussing greenhouse gases as I had come to believe that was the only one but there are many more. And some of them are much more powerful in its effects on global warming. I gathered information and this is data I have, arranged most to least impact:

Water vapor (H2O)

According to the Panel of Experts on climate change, is between 36 to 70 of the greenhouse effect. That is, the fog the fog and clouds are water vapor. And last but not least, global warming causes a feedback loop that, with higher temperatures will produce more water vapor which generates, in turn, further temperature high, and, in turn, more water vapor, etc.

carbon dioxide (CO2)

is a byproduct of fossil fuels: oil, coal and natural gas.

Methane (CH4)

is the most important component of natural gas and flatulence of cows, and other natural sources ( swamps and termites) and artificial as landfills. Scientists recognize still do not quite understand the cycle of methane by what they consider their impact could still be much higher.

· nitrogen oxides (NOx)

These gases are created naturally from of bacterial decomposition of organic nitrates, by the combustion plant or the activity of volcanoes. Our species has led to an increase of these gases because the produce for various industrial products and by-product of motor vehicles.

· Ozone (O3)

This gas has became famous because of the weakening of the layer . Ozone is not distributed evenly across our planet. With our actions we have accentuated the differences. Thus, in the lower atmosphere ozone is too acts as a potent greenhouse gas, but at the top scarce and this results in a decreased ability to prevent adverse solar radiation.

· trifluoromethane (CHF3)

also is known by the name of fluoroform and used in the manufacture of silicon chips and as a fire suppressant. remains in the atmosphere for 260 years, trapping 11,700 times more heat than CO2. chips are used in all modern electronics as automobiles, televisions, CD and MP3 players, mobile phones, etc.

· hexafluoroethane (C2F6)

building is used in semiconductor and remains in the atmosphere up to 10,000 years. This longevity, along with his ability to hold 9,200 times more heat than CO2, has provoked the interest of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are following too closely effects.

· sulfur hexafluoride (SF6)

Very used in the electronics industry as insulation, is an inert gas. gas is considered the most powerful greenhouse in the world with a capacity of 22,200 times at trapping heat than CO2.

· trichlorofluoromethane (GC-11)

This cooling causes several negative effects on the environment. addition to retaining 4,600 times more heat than CO2, reducing the ozone layer faster than any other refrigerant and also must not forget the environmental impact of chlorine.

The list will expand as the scientific study of the phenomenon. For example, the case of sulfuryl fluoride (SO2F2) used as a fumigant against termites, has a life span of 40 years and is able to catch the 4800 times more heat than CO2, as has been released in the month of March, a group of scientists from the Institute of Technology Massachusetts .

From this information has begun to take over my disappointment. This means that the whole framework in which we have based our wealth, is a disaster for the sustenance of life of man, plants and animals. Are we willing to turn back? We collect environmental problems. Well, all this must be added that the sea has become a giant landfill. The oceans around the world accumulate millions of tons of waste from plastic bags and bottles, even cigarette butts, televisions, refrigerators and even beds. Damage to marine biodiversity and the economy are increasing. It is estimated that plastics take hundreds of years to degrade.

The total amount of garbage ocean is unknown, due to the lack of studies and much of the waste is not seen. end up in the bottom or ingested by living things marine. Greenpeace estimates that 10% of world production of plastic is deposited in the oceans. global manufacture of plastic is about 225 million tons per year.

A 1994 study on the English coast, French and Italian localized in the seabed, 1935 units per square kilometer, most plastic bags. Experts point out that the bioaccumulation of these substances in the body of living beings along the food chain, could have serious consequences: pollution is increasing in food from the sea.

The dumping of industrial or agricultural waste, such as nitrogen fertilizers leads to ocean acidification and leads to increasing dead zones. In them, the absence of oxygen leads to the disappearance of living beings. Several studies, including the United Nations, have highlighted the rapid growth of these dead spots around the world.

MEASURES TO COMBAT MARINE LITTER

Experts say you can still fight this problem if proper measures are taken. Environmentalists say the sea is the great forgotten the institutional managers. Accordingly, they claim the adoption of rules that encourage waste reduction and proper treatment.

Consumers are essential because we can reduce the use of these products and packaging, reuse and recycling. Environmental awareness serves as well on land than at sea: do not throw anything to the water and deposit waste in proper containers, gestures are vital to ocean life.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

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Ravens are surprisingly intelligent

A recent study by the University of Cambridge on the behavior of crows has shown that these birds use certain tricks to get feed.

Two thousand years ago a fable of Aesop told us that a thirsty crow could not reach the water that was at the bottom of a jug of long narrow neck. Ingenious, picked up a pebble and threw it into the jar and then saw the water level was near its peak. repeated the process several times until he got drinking and save his life. The fable of the crow and the jar was used by Aesop to highlight the moral teaching of that necessity is the mother of all inventions.

A group of British researchers, led by some members of the University of Cambridge, have studied a very similar situation but with crows. The experiment was conducted with four black crows. Cook, Fry, Connelly and Monroe were placed in front of a glass with a long neck and deep water with a floating worm, a distance that was beyond the peaks of the birds. Beside the recipient a handful of stones, just as it had in the Greek fable, which have been used by the Ravens to increase the water level and thus achieve find the worm. As can be seen in a video of the experiment (http://www.vimeo.com/5974322), Cook and Fry did it the first try, while Connelly and Monroe needed to try again. The images show how the birds pay much attention to his actions: first, evaluate the level of the water, watching the container side and on the other hand, using, successively, the number of stones necessary to achieve the food with peak.

evidence that the result is not due to chance, demonstrated when he repeated the experiment by introducing a second container filled with sand. None of the four returned to rely on the glass of water. Indeed, the researchers could not help but be stunned by such a reaction.

"Crows are intelligent animals and they are surprisingly a degree to compete with the great apes in the ability to solve problems," account Christopher Bird, author of the study to be published in the pages of "Current Biology"

images Internet News

described in "Il Corriere della sera"

translated and adapted to blog by Franziska

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

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have discovered 350 new species of cicadas

WWF A dossier contains the result of ten years of research in the Himalayas. They have discovered 350 new species are already endangered because of global warming. Among them is the world's smallest deer, flying frog and a gecko that lives on Earth hundreds of millions of years.

The study is a summary of the discoveries made by various scientists over the 1998 to 2008, in remote and mountainous valleys that run from northeast India, the northern tip of Myanmar, to Nepal and the southern regions of the Tibet autonomous area.

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Experts have classified more than 350 species until that time unknown in the eastern Himalayan region: 244 plants, 16 amphibians, 16 reptiles, 14 fish, 2 birds, 2 mammals and at least 60 new invertebrate. Among them a bright green frog that flies (Rhacophorus suffered) membranes using her long red feet to soar into the air, a leaf deer (Muntiacos putaoensis) the smallest and oldest in the world and a salamander that lives for a hundred million years has been discovered in an amber mine Hukawang Valley in the Himalayan region of northern tip of Myanmar. The one with the highest concentration of Bengal tigers and, above all, is the last bastion of the Indian rhinoceros.

While we celebrate the discovery of unknown life forms, unfortunately, we have to pick up the alarm supposed to know that in the eastern Himalayas are at risk of extinction a surprising variety of species: ten thousand plants, 300 species of mammals, 977 birds, 176 reptiles, 105 amphibians and 269 freshwater fish. These data themselves are discussed.

Let's put all our energies on the results of the United Nations Conference on climate in Copenhagen from 7 to December 18 next, when all world leaders will meet to make a deal that will end the Kyoto Protocol. The devastation caused by climate change will stop only with the courage and unity of all people rich and poor all together. Because we will all travel on this train.

Alcalá de Henares, August 11, 2009

Franziska

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

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Himalaya

Because of its apparent ability to "rebirth of the earth", the cicadas represent the resurrection and immortality in many cultures. In Taoism are the symbol of Tsien, the soul leaves the body after death.

had in Greece the cicada as a pet. were famous in antiquity and that became the symbol of music. Plato was unknown to me his love of fables, he explained that the cicadas were men whose devotion to music was so large that it consumed and the only thing left for them was their music. I do not know where you are going to stop the reputation of Plato from this story. I limited to pick it up and, therefore, I take responsibility for that claim.

What is Aristotle's account he liked fried, is much more believable. Even today, men in Asia, Africa and Australia, consumed. I guess the women also have to eat while cooking to everyone's taste, such as "al dente", "a la carbonara 14", etc. Native Americans, ie Indians, fry and eat them like popcorn. are surprisingly meaty and have a taste reminiscent of asparagus.

Among the Australian cicadas are some species with curious names such as: greengrocer, baker Mealy, battery double, cherry nose or bladder.

One species, the Magician Septemdecim, widely dispersed in eastern United States experienced an underground life, preimage, whose duration ranges from 13 to 17 years, can count, though no one has yet managed to discover how they do. What is true is that match their life cycles with prime numbers higher on 13 or 17. have assured that trillions of eggs hatched one night, but at unpredictable times, literally, flood their predators. These the gorge until it can no longer, but without the population of cicadas damage. There are thirty different nests each of which were incubated at different times. cycles 13 and 17 coincide only once every 221 years. Of these tricks should have taken note Co. and others of the same species.

During his long confinement underground, the larvae use their depositions to seal the cells to protect them from flooding. Still, it is estimated that killed 98% of the larvae before they feel the need to incubate. Those that survive, leave the stage of larva, mating frenzy. After mating, females perch on the branch of a tree and practice oblique incisions, vertically injecting eggs into the holes, last six weeks, the birth place of the tiny larvae that, when opened, falling to soil. His front legs, equipped with thick, jagged femurs, good organs are the larvae used excavators to sink immediately on earth.

Meanwhile, adults, mostly die within fifteen days after mating, thus providing a huge injection of nitrogen to the forest floor. These cicadas have not yet discovered the value of chastity.

larvae, nymphs and adults feed exclusively on plant sap. larvae after various and numerous silent have the outlines of the wings and the larvae become lymphs; then they will head to the surface and emerge into the light. Fixed remain motionless on a log until adulthood, breaking the shell, life goes on.

all know that cicadas are the loudest insects but may not know it all, which only males sing, and usually the hottest days of summer. Some species can reach 120 decibels. hears is nearly two miles away. As the rockers!

Cicadas usually sing numerous groups and the main function of this song is the bridal claim. Some species practice "protest song" if you feel annoyed. Each species has its own set of calls that they can identify females.

To perform this song -call sing anything, "the males are provided with a device estridulante two membranes covering oval. The structure of this device is very complex because it comprises a pair of plates called "toms" and attached a large cavity that functions as a sounding board. contractions of muscles producing the drums vibrate with them the distinctive chirp.

Data collected in "The World of Animals"

And "Little big world of ignorance (animal)

Internet images

Alcalá de Henares

, August 4, 2009

Franziska