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Coming from a scientific background, I would prefer to use Radians. I’m sure we could all cope with a circumnavigation covering 2 pi...

The first definition of the metre was a ten millionth of the distance between the equator and the pole. This was abandoned when it...

Yes. Anyone with A-level chemistry can make perfectly acceptable explosives; that's the easy bit! But reliable detonators are another...

You can only get old stock or recycled Afromosia in the UK and EU; it's illegal to import it without a licence, and you won't get a...

The cockpit coamings were Afromosia, which is no longer available - it's on the CITES list. That's dark brown, very hard wearing, and...

I think it was also to do with temperatures. But it's a slight effect; it's more relevant to Antarctic ice-shelves, which are floating...

They learned English and then were replaced by a lot that spoke German!

Further, melting the sea ice will decrease the albedo (ice is white, seawater is (more or less) black)! So less of the sun's radiation...

Exactly. And In northern Canada they mostly speak Inuktitut!

But it is a result of the atmosphere absorbing more heat because of increases in GHGs.

' if you dont read the newspapers, you are uninformed, if you do read the newspapers, you are misinformed' denzel washington.

The Wikipedia article suggests that they promoted Rolls Razors as the perfect 21st birthday present for a young man! If I'd waited...

It's worth bearing in mind that Western Europe is only habitable because of the warmth brought to our shores by the North Atlantic...

Not all climate change is global warming.