Research lead Professor Valentina Zharkova said fluid movements within the Sun, believed to create 11-year cycles in the weather, will cancel each other out, triggering a dramatic temperature drop.
This will lead to a weather phenomenon known as a “mini ice age” which previously hit between 1645 and 1715.
The findings are based on a new model which scientists claim produces “unprecedentedly accurate predictions of irregularities” within the Sun’s “heartbeat”.
“[In the cycle between 2030 and around 2040] the two waves exactly mirror each other — peaking at the same time but in opposite hemispheres of the sun,” Prof Zharkova said.
“Their interaction will be disruptive, or they will nearly cancel each other. We predict that this will lead to the properties of a ‘Maunder Minimum’.”
Maunder Minimum was the name given to the period between 1645 and 1715 when Europe and North America experienced very cold winters.[/B]
Isn't the exhaust from vehicles carbon monoxide?
Not anymore. Used to be from old leaded petrol engines but now we have catalytic converters to turn it into carbon dioxide.
Heard a few weeks ago some research found that about half of all Indian children in Delhi suffered from lung/breathing disease. The city's air quality is off the scale bad - worst than China's major cities... But ey, it could be their diet or something; maybe it's genetic.
Nothing to do with the fact they have open fires to cook on inside their homes. Nor that they are one of the highest polluting countries in the world because they are using old technology.
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But that's mainly in the rural areas; and the cooking are done not in the main house but in an outside/separate kitchen/cooking area - not many kids were doing to actual cooking.
If you look at the picture it clearly shows a little kid shielding his eyes from the smoke of the fire. Many people do not have a separate cooking area and the whole family lives in one room. When they are babies they generally are slung in a papoose on the woman's back while she does the cooking. You figure it out.
Yep the pollution is bad in India ... up to catastrophic proportions.
http://aqicn.org/map/india/
Current Population of India in 2015 1,289,531,964 (1.28 billion) As of July 12, 2015
0 to 25 years = 50% of India's current population (which means they are breeding at a phenomenal rate)
A child is born every 1.1764 seconds.
Which means the need for cheap energy/heating/cooking as well as transportation is contributing a vastly skewiff rate of pollution compared to the rest of the world. Modernising this many people will not happen in my lifetime.
Not anymore. Used to be from old leaded petrol engines but now we have catalytic converters to turn it into carbon dioxide.
particulate matter (mostly soot)
the overwhelming cause of air pollution and deadly air particulates comes from the burning of fossil fuel - from coal, from gas and oil
I recall reading somewhere that suicide by means of vehicle exhaust has become less common in developed countries, largely because it's now much harder to actually do it with the lower CO concentration in modern vehicle exhaust gases.
Not sure if that's true, but I do recall reading it somewhere.
I recall reading somewhere that suicide by means of vehicle exhaust has become less common in developed countries, largely because it's now much harder to actually do it with the lower CO concentration in modern vehicle exhaust gases.
Not sure if that's true, but I do recall reading it somewhere.
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From that picture you conclude most rural households cook inside their one room?
I've seen video newsreel (on SBS recently i think) where the poor rural Indian villagers cook in a separate hut outside their small house. It's nothing modern or fancy, but it's a separate roof.
In that same news clip, there are some enterprising Indian companies that's making cheaper cooktops, ones that reduces smog and have a chimney that take the smog out through the roof.
Anyway, if you're saying that smog from the kitchen causes irreversible lung disease in 50% of Delhi's children, you're way off the reservation.
That's like saying rice farming and animal manure also causes global warming. Sure it does... but how significant is it? Very negligible.
As that researcher in the news clip above said... there are many factors that contributes to the kids lung diseases and Delhi's air pollution in general. Among the causes are power station, construction, open burning of rubbish... but the overwhelming cause of air pollution and deadly air particulates comes from the burning of fossil fuel - from coal, from gas and oil, from the traffic.
Further, I think he said the majority of severe cases are those living near the major traffic corridors.
Are we seriously even debating whether the burning of fossil fuel is damaging to health?
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Birth rate:
From wikipedia... fertility rate per woman averages 1.79 in Delhi; or 2.39 across India in 2013
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_states_ranking_by_fertility_rate
So it's not excessive.
Maybe so many Indians are young could be because life expectancy is very low. Not necessarily because they breed like Catholics or live to a ripe old age like most Westerners.
Didn't Robin William died a couple years ago from suicide by vehicle exhaust?
I went around Asia a few years ago... and whatever chemical is in the fumes, it'll kill you. If not right away, it will eventually if you live in the area long enough.
Haha not because of one picture stolen off the interweb. Seen this first hand in several countries. Children are reared around an open fire that burns the natural habitat because they cannot afford anything else.
Yes there are micro loans happening to give them a light in their humpy. Dirt poor is the word I would use in this instance.
http://www.kiva.org/india
As for being off the reservation it is ingrained in the children form an early age to get all that smoke into your lungs. NO EDUCATION you see. If you tell them it is bad for them to inhale this stuff then they have no way else of cooking as they are dirt poor. 1.3 billion of them man.
Insignificant collectively adds up to something at the end of the day. It is a volume business.
You used to be able to do yourself in by sticking your head in a gas oven, but you can't even do that anymore.
Not all of them are dirt poor, maybe a couple hundred millions. But all breathe the same air though.
Well, except for the very rich being driven around in limo and rolls royce with properly maintained air-filters, who live and work in houses and buildings with the world's best air filters.
The steam ships and steam engine trains are nice and all, but they're noisy and dirty as heck arent they? Would you rather an old 19th century coal-power train or the newer generation of electric ones on our network?
In 2012, India's per-capita income stood at $1,550, and world per-capita income around $10,235, suggesting that the ratio of Indian per-capita income to the world average is a measly 0.15. Meanwhile, the multimillionaire ratio (India's share relative to its population) is 3/17 = 0.17. These two ratios are close, which suggests that neither self-congratulation nor admonition is quite called for at this stage.
http://articles.economictimes.india...d-average-multimillionaires-per-capita-income
They can't afford them. It's a numbers game. $4.28 a day to live on per-capita compared to global $28.04 / day economy does not compute. Computer says no.
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