Earth is currently in a period of warming. Over the last century, Earth's average temperature rose about 1.1 F (0.6C). In the last two decades, the rate of our world's warming accelerated.
Scientists predict that the globe will continue to warm over the course of the 21st century. Is this warming trend a reason for concern? After all, our world has witnessed extreme warm periods before,
such as during the time of the dinosaurs. Earth has also seen numerous ice ages on roughly 11,000-year cycles for at least the last million years. So, change is perhaps the only constant in
Earth's 4.5-billion-year history.
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http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2008/esw_videos.html
http://www.globalchange.com RFID technology will be used in billions of things in our world - and these tiny chips will also be fused to brain tissue. 10 billion RFID computer chips were used by
Wal-Mart alone last year. Impact of RFID on retailing, manufacturing, wholesale, distribution. Security and privacy. Multimedia conference lecture, keynote presentation by Futurist Dr Patrick Dixon.
You can watch the entire presentation on Google Video (one hour keynote conference lecture on future trends)
This new discovery could help scientists predict when the solar storms that can disrupt power grids satellites and even GPS signals could be especially severe.
