6,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Suzanne Bell, an analytical chemist at West Virginia University, estimates that a 150-pound human body contains about 6.5 octillion (that's 6,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) atoms. The vast majority of them are hydrogen (humans are almost entirely water, which comprises two hydrogen atoms and an oxygen).
Everywhere we look, we find more indications that the United States is in a lot of trouble. America's domestic supply chains have been broken, and disruptions continue to pile on, causing more shortages and exacerbating price increases all over the nation. Our system has never been so vulnerable to external interruptions, and experts say the U.S. is extremely vulnerable to cyber attacks at a time nearly all services and operations that make the economy run are heavily dependent on technology. With consumer prices over 8% higher than a year ago, growing affordability constraints are putting immense pressure on the finances of millions of American families, while household incomes remain stagnant. Despite Fed policies to tame inflation, consumer prices are going to remain elevated this year due to elevated due to the soaring costs of housing, energy, and food as the global commodity market faces shortages of energy supplies, raw materials, fertilizers, grains, and semiconductors. To make things worse, our financial markets are starting to falter, with the stock market recording billions in losses week after week, and the housing market bubble on the verge of another disastrous burst. All of that is occuring at the same time as our geopolitical conflicts with other major economies continues to escalate. Many more problems continue to emerge with each passing day, and the things we just mentioned are not even half of the story. Wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes, winter storms, and heatwaves were among the 20 weather and climate disasters the United States has faced over the past 12 months. Those extreme weather events have resulted in $145 billion in damages in 2021 and victimized 688 people. Such disasters are becoming more frequent with each passing year, and it is being it is estimated that more than 100 million people in the U.S. will experience temperatures that are 20 to 30 degrees above average this summer. On top of everything we’ve already mentioned, shall we add a diesel fuel shortage and a nationwide electricity shortage to the equation? We’re actually being warned that energy supplies are rapidly dwindling in America, and a shocking diesel shortage could begin this summer. That's why in today's video, we brought you a compilation of stats, forecasts and updated numbers about the issues our country is currently facing and the challenges we are about to face in the months ahead.
How did the US become a major hub for stolen ancient artefacts? Efforts to prevent cultural theft cannot keep up with the illicit multibillion-dollar industry.
If you are in the market for a coffin from the time of the Pharaohs in Egypt, or gold from the Inca Empire, you have come to the right place.
The United States is a major hub for the illicit trade in ancient artefacts. Buyers and sellers can take advantage of lax regulations to make deals on statues from Yemen or clay tablets from Babylonia fairly easily.
Shawnee State University Professor Amr al-Azm and Antiquities Coalition founder Deborah Lehr tell host Steve Clemons about their efforts to curtail the artefacts flooding to the West from all corners of the globe.
Not forgetting the Queen Mary . British built of course.
Even larger than the Titanic and just as elegant, the R.M.S. Queen Mary was once considered the finest ocean liner traversing the Atlantic Ocean. The Queen Mary made exactly 1001 transatlantic crossings in the mid-20th century before it was converted into a hotel in Long Beach, California.
What they were saying 40 years ago has probably changed given what is happening now. If you look around the world and see how much destruction we have caused over the years to plant and animal life ,or instance cutting down forests to grow palm trees and grow soya beans man has to take some responsibility for our changing temperatures.
Critical for Our Future Although discovering that urban trees and soils store more carbon might seem like “a double whammy of a good thing,” Hutyra says, it’s unclear if this boost in carbon uptake will last as the planet continues to warm.
Climate change could exacerbate carbon losses from soil, and the trees at the edge of forests in rural or urban areas could be more vulnerable to extreme heat and drought.
“Forests store almost half of their carbon below ground,” Garvey says. “Which is why understanding the relationships between the soil and the plant life is so vital to understanding the bigger picture of how forests store carbon for the long term.”
While Earth’s climate has changed throughout its history, the current warming is happening at a rate not seen in the past 10,000 years.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (I.P.C.C.),"Since systematic scientific assessments began in the 1970,s the influence of human activity on the warming of the climate system has evolved from theory to established fact."
Scientific information taken from natural sources (such as ice cores, rocks, and tree rings) and from modern equipment (like satellites and instruments) all show the signs of a changing climate.
From global temperature rise to melting ice sheets, the evidence of a warming planet abounds.
An interesting read and you don't have to be an expert to realise that the earth is warming up and tides are rising as there is enough evidence out there from experts to make this believable ,but you will always have people on here that know the answer to everything but with no real explanation as to just what is happening.
This is a NASA for kids explanation.so might just help their simple minds.
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