Can We Adapt Now to Stop the Climate Change Boom? A Study of Climate Change Effects in the Arctic and Mid-Atmospheric

There are many caveats. Changes in ocean currents are not incorporated in the work due to a host of shorter-term planetary changes. The authors examine the effect of average global temperature increases rather than temperature increases in the Arctic, which are happening at least three times faster than those in the rest of the planet. The study suggests that society will find a way to slash greenhouse gases drastically in the future, using carbon-capture technology. We must keep in mind that this is a conceptual experiment, says Petrini.

He and others say that taking action against climate change will be cheaper and easier than trying to reverse it later. Bochow says that it is a bet against time if we do nothing now. The longer we wait, the harder it gets.

June, July, August, and September were the hottest years on record, and they are likely to be the hottest years in the foreseeable future. Bochow and his colleauges wanted to see what would happen if humanity overshot the 1.5 C target, even by a lot, and then cooled things down again.

“This is a useful way to explore, but we need to do more than just be within the limits of policy right now,” says a Climate scientist at the NORCE Norwegian Research Centre.

Anti-CRISPRs: RNA-based defence against viruses by mimicking a part of the CRISPR-Cas system

To protect themselves against viral infection, bacteria often use CRISPR-Cas systems to identify and destroy an invading virus’s genetic material. But viruses aren’t helpless and can deploy countermeasures, known as anti-CRISPRs, to neutralise host defences. This week, a team describe a new kind of anti-CRISPR system, based on RNA, which protects viruses by mimicking part of the CRISPR-Cas system. The researchers hope that this discovery will lead to more precise genome editing in the future.

The discovery of a puffed-up exoplanet that has just 1.5% the density of Earth was made with the help of carved inscriptions.

The results of a huge reproducibility exercise show that more than 200 ecologists do different things with the same data.

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