Red Bull boss Laurent Mekies has reflected on the Miami Grand Prix as the team show signs of progress.
A new Nature Climate Change study suggests airborne microplastics -- especially darker and colored particles -- are likely contributing to atmospheric warming by absorbing more heat than they reflect. Researchers estimate the effect could be roughly one-sixth that of black carbon, though outside experts say the uncertainties remain large and more study is needed before drawing firm policy conclusions. "We can say with confidence that overall they are warming agents," said Drew Shindell, a Duke University earth science professor and co-author of the study. "To me, that's the big advance." The Washington Post reports: To undertake their study, a group led by researchers at Fudan University in China examined how different colors and sizes of microplastics interact with light across the spectrum, while combining that information with simulations of how particles get dispersed in the air across the planet. "Black, yellow, blue and red [particles] absorb sunlight much more strongly than the white particles," Yu Liu, a Fudan professor and study co-author, said in a call with reporters. In fact, the study details how black and colored particles showed "absorption levels nearly 75 times higher than pristine, non-pigmented plastics." The scientists also found that different sizes of particles absorb light at different intensities -- and that how they absorb light can change as they age.
The authors estimate that microplastics suspended in the atmosphere could be contributing to global warming at about one-sixth the amount of black carbon, also known as soot, a pollutant generated largely from burning fossil fuels. If the latest estimates are right, Shindell said, microplastics might not be an enormous source of atmospheric warming, compared with massive contributors such as cars and trucks, belching industrial plants or even burping cows. "But not a trivial one, either," he said.
By his calculation, the effect of one year's microplastic emissions globally is approximately equivalent to 200 coal-fired power plants running for that year. But that rough estimate does not factor the longer-term repercussions of microplastics decaying and persisting in the environment for decades to come. Whatever the exact impact, the topic deserves further study, the authors say, because current climate modeling does not account for any additional warming that these tiny particles might be causing.
The authors estimate that microplastics suspended in the atmosphere could be contributing to global warming at about one-sixth the amount of black carbon, also known as soot, a pollutant generated largely from burning fossil fuels. If the latest estimates are right, Shindell said, microplastics might not be an enormous source of atmospheric warming, compared with massive contributors such as cars and trucks, belching industrial plants or even burping cows. "But not a trivial one, either," he said.
By his calculation, the effect of one year's microplastic emissions globally is approximately equivalent to 200 coal-fired power plants running for that year. But that rough estimate does not factor the longer-term repercussions of microplastics decaying and persisting in the environment for decades to come. Whatever the exact impact, the topic deserves further study, the authors say, because current climate modeling does not account for any additional warming that these tiny particles might be causing.
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Pilgrim Uniting Church, Flinders Street, Adelaide CBD
Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:
Located between Pirie Street and Flinders Street, next to Adelaide Town Hall.
Paul Kelly Lane runs from Flinders Street through to the City of Adelaide Meeting Hall, and can be accessed from Pirie Street along the walkway located at 25 Pirie Street, through to Flinders Street.Along the laneway is the Pilgrim Church which has existed at the site since 1851. A café, Part Time Lover, also has its entrance along the laneway, at the rear of the Adelaide Town Hall.
Paul Kelly was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2017 for distinguished service to the performing arts and to the promotion of the national identity through contributions as a singer, songwriter and musician.
Born and raised in Adelaide, Paul Kelly has played at various Adelaide venues including The Tivoli Hotel on Pirie Street in earlier years, and Adelaide Town Hall in more recent years. Paul Kelly was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame (1997) and has been the recipient of 17 ARIA Awards. The album Women at the Well from 2002 had 14 female artists record his songs in tribute. Paul Kelly has penned and performed numerous hits with the most recognised To Her Door, Dumb Things, Darling it Hurts, and How to Make Gravy, and the co-written (with Kev Carmody) From Big Things Little Things Grow, and co-written famous anthem Treaty (with Yothu Yindi and Peter Garrett).
Artist Heidi Kenyon will create an artwork that will be inspired by and respond to the identity and legacy of Paul Kelly along the laneway in the form of a creative public art project using light as the medium, day and night. It is proposed that the artwork be A series of works, will be attached to the existing light posts from Flinders Street to the building at 25 Pirie Street.
Kyu John has added a photo to the pool:
Hadden we even gemist tussen het vieren van onze vrijheid, die niet vanzelfsprekend is, door, maar in Amsterdam is sinds vorige week eindelijk het langverwachte verbod op reclames voor vlees, vliegreizen, auto's die geen elektrische auto's zijn en alle andere leuke dingen ingegaan. En daarmee staan we als gidslandje toch een potje lekker op de internationale kaart. Want we kunnen in Nederland niet alleen investeringen in startups de moeder belasten, we kunnen het ook illegaal maken om een poster van een broodje worst op te hangen. New York Times van de leg, BBC in rep en en roer en uiteraard blaast ook FOX News een partijtje mee. Maar wat blijkt? Het is alleen maar zodat raadslid Anneke Veenhoff (deze gek) zich een beetje internationaal kan profileren. In de praktijk komt er van het verbod namelijk helemaal niks terecht. "Vleesreclame en fossiele aanprijzingen zijn nu verboden in de algemene plaatselijke verordening (apv), een rigoureus middel. De wethouder had het liever via de contracten met aanbieders van buitenreclame geregeld. Bovendien was er in het voorstel geen dekking opgenomen voor de uitvoering en handhaving. (...) In heel 2026 zal er daarom geen handhaving zijn." Zin in bier op een door de gemeente verboden terras nu.
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The shapes of Maxwell Mustardo’s ceramic works evoke ancient amphorae, kraters, and, most recently, kylix—a wide Greek cup with handles—although their surfaces feel distinctly organic. Textured growths cloak the vessels with fungal or lichen-esque forms, albeit in color palettes that are bold and otherworldly. Fluorescent oranges, pinks, and greens appear to glow in even the most mundane settings, firmly planting the pieces at the intersection of historic craft, nature, and the uncanny.
“I am always tweaking chemistry and application methods to push certain surface effects that I like, that feel organic and grown,” Mustardo tells Colossal. “More recent series of work have tried to blur the boundaries of cultural and natural forms (the amphora becomes anthropomorphic, gadrooning reduced to its fruity lineage, and so forth).”
An ornamental design with curved bands, gadrooning is typically relegated to surface decoration. As the artist mentions, though, he prefers to cast these tapered adornments as the central focus, “promptly pushing classical ornament back into their origins in the natural world, from the kingdom of fruits and vegetables.”
Mustardo is based in New Jersey, where he’s the studio manager of the former residence of artist Toshiko Takaezu (1922-2011). Find more of his work on Instagram.
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