SCIENTECH

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That we are at a boiling point on the subject of climate change is an understatement, and a metaphor.

Despite the fact that objective scientific data has been thrown on the table proving a climatic change, the issue of global warming continues without being taken seriously by a large part of the general public.

Global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the past 20th century. This increase, especially since the middle of the last century (industrial revolution) seems to have been caused by concentrations of greenhouse gases, resulting from human activity (burning of fossil fuel, deforestation, aerosols, etc.).

It is estimated that global surface temperature will rise a further 1.1 to 6.4 °C (2.0 to 11.5 °F) during the 21st century.

Human, animal life and nature as our ancestors knew it, and as we know them, surely will have significantly changed by the time when the children of our children’s children start giving their first steps on this planet. And unless we begin to be truly aware of the decisions are taken, why they are taken, who are behind them and with what ultimate purposes, these changes may be far more terrifying than the plots that our science fiction can possibly imagine.

We are on a highway of genetic manipulation, cloning and molecular biotechnology, to the final destination of the engineering of life virtually from scratch.

It was 1933 when Fritz Zwicky, a Swiss astrophysicist working out of Caltech, the California Institute of Technology, articulated a first theory on dark matter.

He was studying the Coma cluster of galaxies and noticed some discrepancies, as the sum total of visible matter in the cluster could not account for its total apparent mass. It was at that moment that he realised that some extra type of matter, which could not be seen, ought to exist to account for the missing mass.

Fast forward to 1998, when Americans Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess simultaneously found evidence for the even more exotic ingredient of dark energy.

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