Global Weirding. This is a remix of the Fifth Assessment Report (IPCC AR5), the most comprehensive report on climate change ever produced. The report is dense. Stacked it is about half a meter tall. Its convincing conclusions sometimes come with potentially frightening consequences. In Guide to Global Weirding we have used daily data from climate simulations. We try to show what our future might look like if we take the IPCC AR5 Report and its conclusions seriously.
The visualization and everything you see on this site is done by CICERO in partnership with Bengler. Environice and Mystery have filmed some short clips that you might have seen. The project is supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers through their call for derivative products of the IPCC. Guide to Global Weirding was produced using model data submitted to the CMIP5 model inter-comparison project, which is publicly available. The futures presented are based on three climate scenarios simulated by NorESM: RCP2.6, RCP6.0 and RCP8.5. In Danish. Rose George: Let's talk crap. Seriously. Big cats like boxes too.
How life begins in the deep ocean - Tierney Thys. There’s arsenic in your rice — and here’s how it got there. Photo by Shutterstock. Rice. It’s just one of the basics, right? Whether eaten on its own, or in products like pastas or cereal, this inexpensive and healthy food is a staple for Asian and Latino communities, as well as the growing number of people looking to avoid gluten. Here’s the bad news (cue Debbie Downer sound effect): The food most of us think we have more or less locked down is shockingly high in arsenic. And arsenic, especially the inorganic form often found in rice, is a known carcinogen linked to several types of cancer, and believed to interfere with fetal development.
According to new research by the Consumers Union, which took over 200 samples of both organic and conventionally grown rice and rice products, nearly all the samples contained some level of arsenic, and a great deal of them contained enough to cause alarm. Rice often readily absorbs arsenic from soil where chemical-heavy cotton once grew. How does rice compare to other grains like wheat and oats?
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