Peter Sinclair's new video on extreme weather, jet stream and polar vortex

By illconsidered on January 14, 2014.

This extreme weather driving jet stream behaviour is fast becoming the new normal.

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Linking Weather Extremes to Global Warming

Global Warming is the increase in the Earth's temperature owing to the greenhouse effects of the release of CO2 and other gasses into the atmosphere, mainly by humans burning fossil fuel, but also by the release of Methane from oil wells and melting of Arctic permafrost, natural gas from leaky pi

Getting WISE to the ways of black holes

NASA's WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer ) telescope has collected some important data on black holes, in particular, about the big jets of energy that stream out of them.

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