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Giving the “Green-light” to Geo- Engineering

“Here’s the reason we’d never halt a geoengineering project midway through”

By- James Temple

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Many would say that this only the tip of the iceberg but really it is much more than what we see. We are talking about the global warming crisis that has been going on for years, but it might be advantageous that we actually do not stop tampering with mother nature. For years, now scientist, and geo-engineers all over have tried to discover what is the actual solution towards global warming.Some have even suggested in this article that there should be “spraying tiny particles into the air to reflect more sunlight back into space, that wouldn’t reduce emissions..”, according to James Temple of the MIT REVIEW. 

“Read full article here”

There is no doubt that geo-engineering has done a lot of wrong for the planet, however, we have been doing it for so long that if we were to stop now , things such as greenhouse affect would have an ever bigger impact on the earths ecosystem. In the long run affecting various habitats for animals and plant life. With this being a global crisis, the issues in order to resolve these issues are going from various governments. With the ecosystems in certain areas being affected, it is also starting to interfere with various countries economic systems. It has been strong suggested that climate engineering should be something that should be managed so that we can control the affects on our ecosystem. 

I believe that this blog does provide a very good sense of strong journalism because I believe that is structured an organized in such a way that it easy for the reader to extract details and main points of the article. Along with that, the sources that this information were extracted from are credible enough because they actually work with in this field. I believe that the editor gave allow of detail and showed a great rebuttal giving multiple perspectives on the topic. 

Whats up in tech?- Looking to find out data in a speedy, watch out for “Ushahidi”

So whats going on in the tech world? As we know , data is very important as to how it tracks the movement of information. What if I told you that there was something out there that can allow you to see all types of data from the reach of your finger tips? I am talking about ” Ushahidi” – in Swahili means ” Testimony” , is a software program that allows everyday people to interact and learn of various things happening within that areas such as potential threats or dangers.

 “Click this Link to find out more”

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Some of these features include:

-Data collection 

  • Multiple sources from various social (media) outlets etc., Twitter, Facebook, text messages.  
  • Compatible for iOS and Androids based devices. 

– Data Management 

  • Being able to save and collect data.
  • Allows interactions with other users 
  • Beign able to retrieve data from other people that are using Ushahidi software

– Data Visualization / Alerts

  • Users are able to see the actual data being recorded whether it is in graph form , timelines.
  • Those alerts that were recorded on the map, then appear to show what area that information was being recorded in. 

I beleive that this software is advantageous towards our society, because it allows each person to be able to affectively help eachother, and could possibly save lives of many. 

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Tracking Solar Activities

I found this cool data base site that allows one to track solar radiation and other cosmic activities thats free for the public use. This site allows one to stay up to date on whats taking place above them which can helps one to avoid, and or prepare for dangerous solar radiation and or other cosmic events.

We all have seen the many different weather upheavels lately, and some has been caused by solar radiation and other solar activities which has aided towards the floods, droughts, meteorites and etc. Its very benificial to be able to have a reliable data base accessible for the publics use for information on current solar events and activities.

The National Solar Radiation Data (NSRD), provides comprehensive information for the United States and other international locations. This site is also growing daily to stay up to date and informative which makes it a lot more easier to stay informed.solar-flare-sun-eruption-energy-39561.jpeg

Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse!

There will be a special event that will take place on the 31st of Jan, so mark your calendars! There will be a super blood moon eclipse taking place in the heavens and it will be visible for many. Eclipses take place every time the earth moves between the sun and moon.

This eclipse will be even more bigger than the average eclipse and its being called a blue moon because this phenomenon seems to only happen”every blue moon”, marking it the second full moon in a monthly cycle.

Lastly, we haven’t experience this type of phenomenon in our lifetime because it happen 150 years ago,pexels-photo-673902.jpeg and so I just had to share this news. For more information like time and specifics on where to get the best views as far as location, you can click on the link here.

 

Twitter and news organizations

Almost all the news organization websites I have searched used the same social media platforms which are Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin. Two of the news organizations I have searched were the New York Times and BBC.

I checked the twitter accounts for both the New York Times and the BBC. Both twitter accounts offer pictures and videos with a brief description. Also, both twitter accounts offer links in each twitter post to the actual story in the main news website. I included two twitter posts, from New York Times and BBC twitter accounts to show how the post has the descriptive headline, a photo, and the link to the actual story.