13 APR 2013 by ideonexus

 Conclusions of the IPCC

This IPCC finding makes several different assertions, each of which is worth considering in turn. First, it claims that atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases like CO2 are increasing, and as a result of human activity. This is a matter of simple observation. Many industrial processes, particularly the use of fossil fuels, produce CO2 as a by-product.18 Because CO2 remains in the atmosphere for a long time, its concentrations have been rising: from about 315 parts per million (ppm) wh...
Folksonomies: global warming
Folksonomies: global warming
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The organization concludes that Global Warming, which is a very simple theory, is true.

12 SEP 2011 by ideonexus

 Physics Demonstrates the Principle that Everything has a ...

At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided into smaller parts. Nevertheless, for entirely speculative reasons the philosophers of Antiquity, especially the Stoics, concluded this concept to be quite unnecessary. The prodigious development of physics has now reached the same conclusion as those philosophers, Empedocles and Democritus in particular, who lived around 500 B.C. and for whom even ancient man had a...
Folksonomies: physics philosophy classics
Folksonomies: physics philosophy classics
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From the lecture 'Development of the Theory of Electrolytic Dissociation' by Svante Arrhenius.