BBC - Climate Change: The Blog of Bloom: Do Farrah Fawcett hairdos give climate change a boost?
Yet another reason not to waste time trying to copy the late Farrah Fawcett's inimitable trademark tousled tresses: hair sprays have hair-raising emissions to match, according to new research by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.Charlie's Angels: Information from Answers.com
In fact, [modern?] hair sprays, air cons and fridges contain a greenhouse gas that can be 14,800 times more effective at warming the climate than carbon dioxide, says Guus Velders, the lead author of the study. [Via Climate Depot]
Charlie's Angels was a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men. The series was broadcast in the USA on the ABC Television Network from 1976 to 1981 and was one of the most successful series of the 1970s.The Significance of the 1976 Pacific Climate Shift in the Climatology of Alaska
The figure shows temperature trends for each climate region in Alaska, including linear trends for the entire period and for the two periods separated by 1976. It shows that, except for the Arctic region, all of the warming in Alaska occurred in a very short period of time – 1976 - 1978. The temperature trend was decreasing prior to the 1976 shift and since then has not been warming.[Related, undated article] Global Warming - The Effect of CFC Gases
There is a theory that doesn't involve the ozone layer at all, and that's that our planet is becoming warmer because oceanic tides are driving climate change.
Evidently, the coldest water found at the deepest points of the ocean is generally transported to the surface by tides that cause the water to mix, thus lowering the temperatures in the air. But thanks to changes in the way the tides work, less cold water is mixing with the warmer upper layers of water, with the result being warmer periods on Earth.
According to scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography- part of the University of California, the way the ocean deals with cold water is controlled by the alignment of the sun, moon and earth. Right now we're experiencing less and less cold water being forced to the surface, so the planet is heading for its warmest peak.
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