KlangArt Samuel Heller

KlangArt Samuel Heller

Posts Tagged ‘pollution’

Put the pedal to the metal now – it could be the last time

There are dangers where our protection algorithm breaks down: Changes, happening so slowly that we simply adapt to, and therefore overlook the upcoming situation. This is a pure failure in our modern consciousness because – for humanity as such – there was no need to learn this lesson, until now.

Carnegie Mellon Lecture: Global Climate Change

This actual lecture on YouTube about Climate Change is mainly in three parts: – Facts about climate change from a environmental point of view – Needs and possibilities to master the challenge – Economical views on the subject. With todays technic our vehicles could be 50 %, buildings 80 % more efficient without change in lifestyle. Acting is since some years not a question of money or ideology, but of intelligence.

Killing fuss

In ‘Dying for some quiet: The truth about noise pollution‘ in the NewScientist they state that
«…the WHO’s findings suggest that long-term exposure to traffic noise may account for 3 per cent of deaths from ischaemic heart disease in Europe – typically heart attacks.»
In Europa alone probably half a million lifeyears are lost anually.
Nothing new are [...]

Global Dimming

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If you thought it would be nice to have mediterranean temperatures in middle Europe by two more degrees Celsius in 2025, you must know that there is a good chance we’d have an increase of four degrees that year. And with it the dryness of nord Africa.
You ask why? Particulate matter might [...]