South Africa's Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) and the Applied Centre for Climate and Earth Systems Science (ACCESS) hosted the first in a series of workshops for scientists and journalists.
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are currently the highest on record, according to preliminary data from the Earth Systems Research Laboratory at Mauna Loa in Hawaii where measurements of CO2 have been recorded for nearly half a century.
The program administered by NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Science Foundation, and the State Department is a hands-on, primary and secondary school-based, science and education program that facilitates collaboration among students, teachers, and scientists around the world as they perform inquiry-based investigations of the environment and Earth systems.
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This positive feedback shows how even a small change to the Earth's systems can trigger much greater ones.
The need for active, purposeful management of the Earth's systems clashes with a premise on which much of modernity, including environmentalism, is founded, namely, that man stands apart from nature.
It's called Medicare, and even today, it is one of the largest single-payer systems on Earth, enrolling more than 47 million people.
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Protect and restore the integrity of Earth's ecological systems, with special concern for biological diversity and the natural processes that sustain life.
We are also working internationally with China, the European Union, South Africa, and 79 other nations through the intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO) to implement a Global Earth Observation System of Systems, or GEOSS, by 2015.
Meanwhile, outside of that claustrophobic feedback loop of our face and our screen, the physical systems of the earth are degraded by human activity.
The team concluded that about one of every three known planetary systems could harbour Earth-like planets in habitable zones further out than the Hot Jupiters.
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Earth resources: next to turbidite systems, also contourites may generate well-sorted deep-water sands.
If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth's physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: NASA's top expert on near-Earth objects says that new telescope systems are gradually getting a handle on potentially threatening asteroids.
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While we applaud the work that has been accomplished by the private spaceflight industry, such programs are focused exclusively on developing systems for access to low Earth orbit following the 2011 retirement of the Space Shuttle.
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Unbeknownst to most sunbaked tourists, the Happiest Place on Earth is an enclosed universe of monitoring systems that continually cull customer surveys and use computer modeling to predict everything from how many people will eat at any one time to passenger loads on the Jungle Cruise boats.
Geothermal systems gather energy present beneath the earth's surface, where the temperature averages 55 degrees (higher in Texas, lower in North Dakota), and concentrate it to provide space heating.
The heating and cooling systems use air that has been earth-tempered drawn into a large tube and passed through the ground, which has a consistent temperature that is cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
Finally, we should heed what Jay Richards eloquently discusses in his book, " Money, Greed And God": We must be careful to compare our man-made systems to what is possible here on Earth, not to what is possible only in Heaven.
In 2000, when a Harvard Medical School professor working at the World Health Organization developed a complicated formula to rate the quality and fairness of national health care systems around the world, the richest nation on earth ranked thirty-seventh.
Treatment continues at the sites today, with vapor barriers in place, so-called slurry walls going down 40 feet into the earth, well sucking up water to be treated, and systems operating to extract toxins from the air and water.
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The argument for building a Death Star hinges on its ability to destroy planets in other stellar systems since every indication to date is that the Earth is the only planet in its stellar system with a major civilization.
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This pending move back to planetary science from earth sub-orbit comes on the heels of improvements in pointing systems and instrument technologies that will allow ground-based controllers to fine-tune balloon payloads to include one-meter class optical and infrared telescopes.
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These same sites also host large metal deposits, which could become essential mineral resources for us in the future and some of these same systems may even reveal how life first originated -- on Earth and beyond.
It could mean they gain control of the spacecraft systems and can fire the engines, but after the orbit around Earth has dropped so low that there is not enough fuel to go to Phobos.
For a month in early 2000 Cisco Systems, the Internet router king, became the most valuable company on Earth.
So there is good reason to believe that investigating extraterrestrial weather systems could one day help meteorologists to fathom the workings of those on earth.
Ultimately, the logical conclusion of wireless graffiti systems would be the ability to attach information to any object or place on earth with an accuracy of a metre or less.
The rebuilding effort also represented a chance to create infrastructure improvements that would have helped the economy directly, such as investments in transportation, water and power systems, according to Arthur Levner-Lam, director of the hazard center at the Earth Institute at Columbia University.
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