They also warn more work is needed to clarify how big the difference between viruses and hosts needs to be to create serious spillover risk. Use one of the services below to sign in to PBS: You've just tried to add this video to My List. But a 2022 study claims thathumans might give viruses to animals more often than previously understood.. Nonetheless, LA is continuing with this program to see what works and what doesn't. The Guardian goes batty on climate again. By taking ice from below the glacier and then respreading it on top, it will refreeze and increase the strength of the glacier. Glaciologists have stopped their program to measure the glacier. The mass amounts of CO2 and other greenhouse gases produced by human business, transportation, deforestation, and fossil fuel usage, rise into the air where they stop the heat from the sun from bouncing back out to space. Changes to the ocean, including warming, more frequent marine heatwaves, ocean acidification, and reduced oxygen levels have been clearly linked to human influence. 'It could be anything from ticks to mosquitoes to certain animals, to bacteria and viruses themselves,' said Lemieux. Twitter staff SUE Musk for not giving them enough notice as he begins mass Twitter layoffs: Company seals its offices for ALL employees and says those who still have a job on Friday morning will get an email letting them know, Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group, Experts say the chance of a viral 'spillover' increases with the melting of glaciers, A 'spillover' describes a virus jumping to a new species, like from bats to humans. Some cities have experimented with painting rooftops white to reflect sunlight and keep buildings cool, but Los Angeles went a step further and is painting entire roads white. This is because they are made up of fallen snow that over many decades compresses down into larger, denser masses of ice. The water will also be used for misting, like in Vienna. Vienna also has a huge number of water fountains for drinking to keep people hydrated more than 1,100 for its population of 1.9 million which is important in preventing heat-related illness. Dave realizes that the cold will stop the Blob but not kill it, as long as the Arctic stays cold. 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Around 100 million Americans have been under heat alerts for eight of the past 16 days. What a bunch of jamokes. As well, through the disruption of these currents and jet streams, the ocean at a large is being changed, with consequences like the collapse of fishing industries. The headline for the article didnt beat around the bush: Next pandemic may come from melting glaciers, new data shows. Dave realizes that the cold will stop the Blob but not kill it, as long as the Arctic stays cold. Paris' heat plan involves a register that identifies the most vulnerable, so officials can check up on them by phone and offer advice on staying cool. View the full tabulated data. If emissions rise without reduction, then the Arctic could be completely devoid of ice in summer as soon as the year 2040. The new research exposes how sea-level rise isn't the only danger posed by the region's rapidly melting glaciers. Species are also at risk. Credit: NASA | Watch on YouTube. Adjust the colors to reduce glare and give your eyes a break. Climate change needs to be stopped. The Swiss Academy of Sciences reported that the shrinkage of ice in the country's glaciers topped a previous record retreat nearly a generation ago. And like LA, Paris is trying to take the heat out of its roads and sidewalks by "demineralizing them," using more porous materials. So they are saying that temperatures are rising due to rising temperatures. "The trend also reveals how important glaciers are to the water and energy supply in hot, dry years," the report stressed -- something to consider given that hydroelectricity provides more than 60 percent of Switzerland's total energy production. The decision has already been taken in 2019 and the hot summer of 2022 has led to "extreme losses of ice" and the end of the program. In the Engadine and southern Valais regions, both in the south, "a four to six-metre-thick layer of ice at 3,000 metres above sea level vanished," said the report. Mountain and polar glaciers will continue melting for decades or centuries. The technique has helped reduce the building's need for air conditioning by 50%. Parts of the Middle East are some of the hottest inhabited places on Earth. Like Vienna, Paris uses mist machines on hot days. Get breaking news and the latest headlines on business, entertainment, politics, world news, tech, sports, videos and much more from AOL Any change is dangerous. The Covid scammers and the climate scammers are not separate they are the exact same people. Elsewhere in Europe, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Germany said the ice sheet on the Southern Schneeferner in the Alps melted so much this summer that it could no longer be considered a glacier leaving Germany now with only four glaciers. Researchers Ariane Middel and V. Kelly Turner found that technique did cool the streets themselves by around 10 degrees. The southern Spanish city of Seville is taking that approach with heat waves, becoming world's first to do so. The team sampled soil that becomes a riverbed for melted glacier water in the summer, as well as the lakebed itself, which required clearing snow and drilling through more than six feet of ice. Similar genealogies suggest a virus has evolved along with its host, but differences suggest spillover, and if a virus has jumped hosts once, it is more likely to do so again. At the start of the year, the snow cover in the Alps was exceptionally light, then a large volume of sand dust blew in from the Sahara Desert between March and May, settling on the surface. Why Phi? Why Is Biodiversity Critical To Life On Earth? Adjust the colors to reduce glare and give your eyes a break. Cool, huh? Animals and protists are the most susceptible to spillover, while plants and fungi showed a lower susceptibility to spillovers. The idea has some merit. 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The main result is a city full of "cool islands." People pushing this nonsensical fear porn are apparently shortsighted enough to not understand that it will eventually cripple the future of their own children and grandchildren The problem is that humanity lacks wisdom and commonsense on a societal/institutional level, because most people are driven by ill-understood self-interests (mostly related to money!) Three cubic kilometres of ice -- three trillion litres of water -- have melted away, the report said. Now that sounds like a plan. The Swiss Academy of Sciences reports that the shrinkage of ice in glaciers in Switzerland which has the greatest volume of glaciers of any country in Europe has topped a previous record retreat nearly a generation ago. The Hadrian aqueduct was once used as a main source of water, using a system of pipes that worked with gravity to allow water to flow from its source to the city for human consumption. In a lot of cities, catching the bus can mean a long wait. It only takes an IQ above mud to figure out that tying viral pandemics to a made-up climate crisis in such an absurd way (i.e. A 2018 Brown University study of 20 heat warning systems in the United States found that only Philadelphia's heat warning system was effective in saving lives, partly because it uses health-based metrics. "The world's leaders have at least realized that something needs to be done to prevent the negative impacts of climate change," he said. 2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. Scientists say Earth needs to prepare for an alien encounter NOW before it's Why you won't see many BLUE fireworks this Bonfire Night: Chemist reveals the science behind pyrotechnical Mammals are making a comeback! [] Climate COVID? Results vary depending on the level of heat and materials a roof is made of, but in places like Ahmedabad in India, which gets seriously hot, cool roofs have shaved 3-8 degrees Fahrenheit of the heat in homes. FILE --Parts of the ice of the Corvatsch glacier are covered with a tarpaulin, near Samedan, Switzerland, Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. The world's rapidly melting glaciers has disastrous consequences on the animals that rely on them for survival. Burning of fossil fuels. Those instead wash into the lake, which has seen 'dramatic change' in recent years, as increased water from melting glaciers deposits more sediment. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. Source of Guardian story: The Thaw (2009): An Arctic research station on Banks Island, in the Canadian Arctic releases a deadly virus. Still, as a result of all the broader climate change effects, glaciers are rapidly melting with huge chunks falling off into the sea, while elsewhere the ice begins to retreat to land. But like many aspects of the natural world, they are becoming increasingly threatened by the consequences of human industry and activity. By 2019, the city had planted more than 8,000 trees and over 350,000 shrubs. Glaciers are slowly moving rivers of ice, formed by the accumulation and compaction of snow on mountains or near the poles. For the paper, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, a team from Canada's University of Ottawa focused on Lake Hazen, the largest lake by volume in the High Arctic region. Scientists develop a transparent window coating that can cool buildings without Meet the medieval warrior hit in the face with an AXE: Scientists recreate the face of a victim of one of TikTok reveals staff in China can SPY on UK user data - raising serious concerns about privacy. To make it more fun, the organizers also held a haiku poetry competition, and selected the best 10 to etch into the sidewalks by the original stops. This means hundreds of millions of people living in urban areas are again desperately trying to stay cool. Germany lost one of its few remaining glaciers this summer as exceedingly warm weather ate away Alpine ice at a faster pace than feared, a scientific report released on Monday showed. Cities all around the world have created "gardens in the sky" to cool down buildings. Neat Streets Miami, a board convened by the county council, recognized that bus stops had become real danger zones during heat waves, so they planted trees around 10 stops. 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