Global warming is intensifying El Niño weather
As humans put more and more heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, the Earth warms. And the warming is causing changes that might surprise us. Not only is the warming causing long-term trends in heat, sea level rise, ice loss, etc.; it’s also making our weather more variable. It’s making otherwise natural cycles of weather more powerful.
Perhaps the most important natural fluctuation in the Earth’s climate is the El Niño process. El Niño refers to a short-term period of warm ocean surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific, basically stretching from South America towards Australia. When an El Niño happens, that region is warmer than usual. If the counterpart La Niña occurs, the region is colder than usual. Often times, neither an El Niño or La Niña is present and the waters are a normal temperature. This would be called a “neutral” state.
The ocean waters switch back and forth between El Niño and La Niña every few years. Not regularly, like a pendulum, but there is a pattern of oscillation. And regardless of which part of the cycle we are in (El Niño or La Niña), there are consequences for weather around the world. For instance, during an El Niño, we typically see cooler and wetter weather in the southern United States while it is hotter and drier in South America and Australia.
It’s really important to be able to predict El Niño/La Niña cycles in advance. It’s also important to be able to understand how these cycles will change in a warming planet.
El Niño cycles have been known for a long time. Their influence around the world has also been known for almost 100 years. Having observed the effects of El Niño for a century, scientists had the perspective to understand something might be changing.
The relationship between regional climate and the El Niño/La Niña status in climate model simulations of the past and future. It was found an intensification of El Niño/La Niña impacts in a warmer climate, especially for land regions in North America and Australia. Changes between El Niño/La Niña in other areas, like South America, were less clear. The intensification of weather was more prevalent over land regions.
And this conclusion can be extended to many other situations around the planet. Human pollution is making our Earth’s natural weather switch more strongly from one extreme to another. It’s a weather whiplash that will continue to get worse as we add pollution to the atmosphere.
Fortunately, every other country on the planet (with the exception of the US leadership) understands that climate change is an important issue and those countries are taking action. It isn’t too late to change our trajectory toward a better future for all of us. But the time is running out. The Earth is giving us a little nudge by showing us, via today’s intense weather, what tomorrow will be like if we don’t take action quickly.
Disponível em: <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/aug/29/global-warming-is-intensifying-el-nino-weather>
Global warming is intensifying El Niño weather
As humans put more and more heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, the Earth warms. And the warming is causing changes that might surprise us. Not only is the warming causing long-term trends in heat, sea level rise, ice loss, etc.; it’s also making our weather more variable. It’s making otherwise natural cycles of weather more powerful.
Perhaps the most important natural fluctuation in the Earth’s climate is the El Niño process. El Niño refers to a short-term period of warm ocean surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific, basically stretching from South America towards Australia. When an El Niño happens, that region is warmer than usual. If the counterpart La Niña occurs, the region is colder than usual. Often times, neither an El Niño or La Niña is present and the waters are a normal temperature. This would be called a “neutral” state.
The ocean waters switch back and forth between El Niño and La Niña every few years. Not regularly, like a pendulum, but there is a pattern of oscillation. And regardless of which part of the cycle we are in (El Niño or La Niña), there are consequences for weather around the world. For instance, during an El Niño, we typically see cooler and wetter weather in the southern United States while it is hotter and drier in South America and Australia.
It’s really important to be able to predict El Niño/La Niña cycles in advance. It’s also important to be able to understand how these cycles will change in a warming planet.
El Niño cycles have been known for a long time. Their influence around the world has also been known for almost 100 years. Having observed the effects of El Niño for a century, scientists had the perspective to understand something might be changing.
The relationship between regional climate and the El Niño/La Niña status in climate model simulations of the past and future. It was found an intensification of El Niño/La Niña impacts in a warmer climate, especially for land regions in North America and Australia. Changes between El Niño/La Niña in other areas, like South America, were less clear. The intensification of weather was more prevalent over land regions.
And this conclusion can be extended to many other situations around the planet. Human pollution is making our Earth’s natural weather switch more strongly from one extreme to another. It’s a weather whiplash that will continue to get worse as we add pollution to the atmosphere.
Fortunately, every other country on the planet (with the exception of the US leadership) understands that climate change is an important issue and those countries are taking action. It isn’t too late to change our trajectory toward a better future for all of us. But the time is running out. The Earth is giving us a little nudge by showing us, via today’s intense weather, what tomorrow will be like if we don’t take action quickly.
Disponível em: <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/aug/29/global-warming-is-intensifying-el-nino-weather>
Global warming is intensifying El Niño weather
As humans put more and more heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, the Earth warms. And the warming is causing changes that might surprise us. Not only is the warming causing long-term trends in heat, sea level rise, ice loss, etc.; it’s also making our weather more variable. It’s making otherwise natural cycles of weather more powerful.
Perhaps the most important natural fluctuation in the Earth’s climate is the El Niño process. El Niño refers to a short-term period of warm ocean surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific, basically stretching from South America towards Australia. When an El Niño happens, that region is warmer than usual. If the counterpart La Niña occurs, the region is colder than usual. Often times, neither an El Niño or La Niña is present and the waters are a normal temperature. This would be called a “neutral” state.
The ocean waters switch back and forth between El Niño and La Niña every few years. Not regularly, like a pendulum, but there is a pattern of oscillation. And regardless of which part of the cycle we are in (El Niño or La Niña), there are consequences for weather around the world. For instance, during an El Niño, we typically see cooler and wetter weather in the southern United States while it is hotter and drier in South America and Australia.
It’s really important to be able to predict El Niño/La Niña cycles in advance. It’s also important to be able to understand how these cycles will change in a warming planet.
El Niño cycles have been known for a long time. Their influence around the world has also been known for almost 100 years. Having observed the effects of El Niño for a century, scientists had the perspective to understand something might be changing.
The relationship between regional climate and the El Niño/La Niña status in climate model simulations of the past and future. It was found an intensification of El Niño/La Niña impacts in a warmer climate, especially for land regions in North America and Australia. Changes between El Niño/La Niña in other areas, like South America, were less clear. The intensification of weather was more prevalent over land regions.
And this conclusion can be extended to many other situations around the planet. Human pollution is making our Earth’s natural weather switch more strongly from one extreme to another. It’s a weather whiplash that will continue to get worse as we add pollution to the atmosphere.
Fortunately, every other country on the planet (with the exception of the US leadership) understands that climate change is an important issue and those countries are taking action. It isn’t too late to change our trajectory toward a better future for all of us. But the time is running out. The Earth is giving us a little nudge by showing us, via today’s intense weather, what tomorrow will be like if we don’t take action quickly.
Disponível em: <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/aug/29/global-warming-is-intensifying-el-nino-weather>
Quando ocorrem períodos prolongados de estiagem em diferentes regiões brasileiras, observa-se um aumento no índice de ocorrência de doenças respiratórias. Nesse contexto, ressalta-se a importância de determinadas medidas profiláticas para favorecer um melhor desempenho do sistema respiratório humano, onde ocorre a troca gasosa por difusão. Durante a hematose, ocorre a difusão de CO2 para o meio externo e de O2 para o meio interno. Esses gases são ligados ao pigmento respiratório proteico denominado hemoglobina, que se localiza nas hemácias. Conforme o gás ao qual a hemoglobina se liga, um diferente composto é formado, como apresentado a seguir.
Hemoglobina + oxigênio (O2) → oxiemoglobina
Hemoglobina + gás carbônico (CO2) → carboemoglobina
Hemoglobina + monóxido de carbono (CO) → carboxiemoglobina
Sobre as características dos compostos resultantes dessas ligações, verifica-se que a
A “ferida brava” ou “úlcera de Bauru” é uma zoonose de manifestações clínicas variadas, em expansão no Brasil, sendo o estado de Mato Grosso do Sul importante área endêmica. Avaliar a clínica, a epidemiologia e laboratorialmente pacientes é de extrema importância para o controle dessa doença.
Uma das características dessa doença é o aparecimento de feridas na pele e nas mucosas, cuja cicatrização é bastante difícil, podendo progredir para lesões mutilantes.
Essa doença é transmitida pela picada
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No decorrer da História, nenhum poeta, nenhuma personalidade literária ocupou na vida de seu povo um lugar semelhante. Ele foi o símbolo por excelência deste povo, a autoridade incontestada dos primeiros tempos de sua história e uma figura decisiva na criação de seu panteão, assim como o seu poeta preferido, o mais largamente citado.
FINLEY, Moses. T. O mundo de Ulisses. Lisboa: Presença, 1965, p. 13.
A citação expressa a importância de Homero para a cultura grega antiga. De acordo com os historiadores, Homero foi um
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A revolução permanente é uma utopia: a guerra permanente é uma realidade. 1914-1985: Primeira Guerra Mundial, Guerra do Rif, Guerra Civil Espanhola, Segunda Guerra Mundial, guerras da Indochina, da Coréia, do Vietnã, da Argélia, a chamada “Guerra Fria”.
VICENT, G; PROST, A. História da Vida Privada. São Paulo: Cia. das Letras, 1992. p. 201. v. 5.
Após a morte de Lênin houve um racha entre os líderes da Revolução Russa. Como contraposição à tese da “revolução em um só país”, a concepção de Revolução Permanente, uma proposta que pretendia transformar o processo revolucionário em ação incessante e global, foi defendida por
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Brasília, 9 de abril de 1964. Os militares fazem publicar o primeiro ato institucional, que dá poderes excepcionais ao governo. É a ruptura com o modelo político que, bem ou mal, vinha desde 1945. Está formalmente instaurado o regime autoritário.
COUTO, R. C. História Indiscreta da Ditadura e da Abertura. Brasil 1964-1985. Rio de Janeiro: Record, 1999. p. 26.
Após a publicação do 1º ato institucional, os militares procuraram estabelecer uma fachada de legitimidade ao novo regime. Essa manobra politica resultou
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Hino a São João Batista no original latino
Ut queant laxis
Resonare fibris
Mira gestorum
Famili tuorum
Solve pollutti
Labii reatum
Sancte Ioanes
Tradução: “Para que teus servos / possam ressoar claramente / a maravilha dos teus feitos / limpe nossos lábios impuros / Ó São João”.
O monge beneditino Guido d’Arezzo (990-1050) utilizou as sílabas iniciais do Hino a São João para