University of Wisconsin researchers say the Earth’s climate could warm to temperatures seen up to 50 million years ago.
Mercury Rising: Researchers Say Temperatures Warming To Levels Seen 3M Years Ago
Wisconsin Public Radio
December 12, 2018
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UW student leaves French market minutes before shooting
NBC-15
Jordan Jerrett has grown to love the city of Strasbourg as his home. The UW-Madison student has been abroad in the French city since September. Jerrett never thought there would be a deadly shooting in the quiet city he adores.
UW-Madison climate study: Greenhouse gas levels high, warming likely
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases have surpassed those from any point in human history and by 2030 are likely to resemble levels from 3 million years ago when sea levels were more than 60 feet higher than today and the Arctic was forested and largely ice-free, according to a new paper by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Lessons From a Long Sleep
Proto Magazine
Millions of years of evolution have given hibernators this seemingly miraculous ability to survive the equivalent of a stroke and its aftermath more than 30 times each year, all without signs of injury or distress. Hannah Carey, a physiologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is another scientist who believes that solving the mysteries of how that happens might lead to treatments that could help prevent or reduce the harm to people who have a stroke.
Clouds or Snow on Satellite? Here Are a Few Ways to Tell the Difference
Weather Nation
William Straka, a researcher for the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explained that scientists often use the Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) to quickly detect and monitor likely snow cover.
Is an Electric Band-Aid the Future of First Aid?
Healthline
“We developed this wearable bandage device that can significantly facilitate wound recovery. So, the device is self-powered, self-sustainable without any battery or electric circuit,” Xudong Wang, PhD, an author of the paper and professor of material science and engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Healthline.
Earth’s climate by year 2150 will compare to the climate 50 million years ago
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“If we think about the future in terms of the past, where we are going is uncharted territory for human society,” Kevin Burke, the study’s lead author and a paleoecologist researcher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, told university press.
Six things Wisconsin families can do to fight climate change
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A new paper by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison paints a stark picture of climate changes taking place.
Welcome to the Eocene, where ice sheets turn into swamps
Grist
Our current rate of warming will quickly lead us back to a climate that predates the evolution of modern humans, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. That kind of rapid change has no direct comparison in all of Earth’s multi-billion year history.“The only thing that comes to mind is a meteorite impact,” says co-author Jack Williams, a paleoecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Humans May Reverse a 50 Million Year Climate Trend After Just Two Centuries – Motherboard
Vice
If the world’s greenhouse gas emissions are left unchecked, the Earth’s climate will be similar to how it was 50 million years ago by 2150. This period, known as the Eocene, was characterized by an ice-free Earth and an arid climate across most of the planet. This is the conclusion of new research published by UW–Madison researchers in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that used leading climate models and archaeological data to compare Earth’s future with its past.
Survey ranks UW sixth in research expenditures, retains 2016 rank
Badger Herald
UW saw a gain in research expenditures overall with one decline in local, state funds.
Wisconsin is falling behind Minnesota
Madison Magazine
Minnesota produced about $20.7 billion more in goods and services than Wisconsin in 2008, and by 2017, the difference was $27.1 billion. The widening wage gap between Minnesota and Wisconsin over the same 10-year period is remarkable, too. Minnesota reported wages and salaries totaling $11.9 billion more than Wisconsin in the first quarter of 2008. By the first quarter of 2018, that gap had nearly doubled to $22.4 billion.
UW study: Climates soon to resemble Earth’s long-distant past | Local | lacrossetribune.com
LaCrosse Tribune
At the rate we’re emitting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, we could turn the geologic clock back 50 million years over the course of a mere 200 years, according to a study from researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison published Monday in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences.
Seven things Wisconsin families can do to fight climate change
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A new paper by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison paints a stark picture of climate changes taking place.Here are six things Wisconsin families can do to fight climate change:
Campus life
Political commentator urges conservative students to fight for their beliefs
Badger Herald
In a majority liberal university, it’s easy for students to lose touch with their political views, commentator says.
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Cottage Grove man arrested after ‘aggressive altercation’ in UW Hospital parking ramp, police say
Wisconsin State Journal
A Cottage Grove man who allegedly resisted a police officer after getting in an altercation with another man inside a UW Hospital parking ramp was arrested Tuesday, according to the UW-Madison Police Department.
Arts & Humanities
UW-Madison professor nominated for second Grammy
WISC-TV 3
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Jim Leary was nominated for a second Grammy.
Business/Technology
EatStreet founders, UW alumni ‘honored’ to win 2018 UW Entrepreneurial Achievement Award
Badger Herald
EatStreet CEO says UW, gener8tor cultivated environment for massive success.
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AP FACT CHECK: Wisconsin Governor’s Veto Pen Is Powerful
AP
Quoted: That veto power is unique because it gives the governor the power to change policy, said Miriam Seifter, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
GOP accused of abusing balance of powers at state level
Christian Science Monitor
Quoted: “The idea that, if our party loses the election, we’ll rearrange the powers of government, is one step short of canceling elections altogether,” said Howard Schweber, professor of American politics and political theory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
As New Panel Forms, A Look At The Issues Facing Wisconsin’s Prison System
Wisconsin Public Radio
Interview with Professor Cecelia Klingele: “It’s exciting to see such depth of experience from our state being called upon to give advice to the new governor about how best to move forward with reform in Wisconsin.”
Hiring, wages and profits all rise, Madison-area business leaders say in survey
Wisconsin State Journal
The poll was conducted by Moses Altsech, a lecturer in marketing at the UW-Madison School of Business and president of Moses Altsech Consulting.
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KARE’s Belinda Jensen dishes on 25 years of predicting the weather
Star Tribune
Noted: When she got a degree in meteorology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she was the first in her family to go to a four-year college, and one of the few women studying the subject at her school. While in college, she called Douglas again to land an internship. “A great experience. I learned a lot. And I realized this wasn’t for me,” she says of television. “I knew it wasn’t my cup of tea.”
Identity of Little Foot fossil stirs controversy
Science
Clarke says Little Foot’s features most closely match A. prometheus, a species proposed in 1948 by anthropologist Raymond Dart. Yet the designation drew swift condemnation from paleoanthropologists Lee Berger, also at the University of the Witwatersrand, and John Hawks at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. In a paper slated to be published this week in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, the pair argues that the name A. prometheus was originally poorly defined and shouldn’t be used to classify the remains.