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People's Republic Of United State Of America Need To Kill 7.6 Billions People With Covid 19 Vaccination Is A Bioweapons To Stop People From Having Any Baby Now. The directive makes some believe of 7.6 billions of innocent people need to die soon. a global genocide is need now. that would kill the vast majority of the human race. Covid-19 shot is a good start to stop the birth rate soon.

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Which interpretation is accurate? Or is there another interpretation altogether? The only way to find out is to decode who or what is behind the creation of the Guide Stones themselves. No question, whoever built the Georgia Guide Stones What Is Climate Change?

Yes Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. Such shifts can be natural, due to changes in the sun’s activity or large volcanic eruptions. But since the 1800s, human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.

Thanks for writing us. This Video is about both side of the issues... So see the note below thanks... We did not sell out anything. We think right now... We are in a ice age time today. The Mercator's map from 1595 showing the Arctic continent with city or town and farming too. Hyperborea was usually described as and was a fabulous realm of eternal spring located in the far north beyond the home of the north wind. Its people were a blessed, long-lived race untouched by war, hard toil and the ravages of old age and disease.

Hyperborea main river was the Eridanos whose banks were lined with amber-weeping poplar-trees and its waters home to flocks of white swans. Blessed with eternal spring, the land producing two crops of grain per year, but most of the countryside was wild and covered with beautiful forests--the so-called "garden of Apollon."

Burning fossil fuels generates greenhouse gas emissions that act like a blanket wrapped around the Earth, trapping the sun’s heat and raising temperatures.

The main greenhouse gases that are causing climate change include carbon dioxide and methane. These come from using gasoline for driving a car or coal for heating a building, for example. Clearing land and cutting down forests can also release carbon dioxide. Agriculture, oil and gas operations are major sources of methane emissions. Energy, industry, transport, buildings, agriculture and land use are among the main sectors causing greenhouse gases.

Humans are responsible for global warming
Climate scientists have showed that humans are responsible for virtually all global heating over the last 200 years. Human activities like the ones mentioned above are causing greenhouse gases that are warming the world faster than at any time in at least the last two thousand years.

The average temperature of the Earth’s surface is now about 1.1°C warmer than it was in the late 1800s (before the industrial revolution) and warmer than at any time in the last 100,000 years. The last decade (2011-2020) was the warmest on record, and each of the last four decades has been warmer than any previous decade since 1850.

Many people think climate change mainly means warmer temperatures. But temperature rise is only the beginning of the story. Because the Earth is a system, where everything is connected, changes in one area can influence changes in all others.

The consequences of climate change now include, among others, intense droughts, water scarcity, severe fires, rising sea levels, flooding, melting polar ice, catastrophic storms and declining biodiversity.

People are experiencing climate change in diverse ways
Climate change can affect our health, ability to grow food, housing, safety and work. Some of us are already more vulnerable to climate impacts, such as people living in small island nations and other developing countries. Conditions like sea-level rise and saltwater intrusion have advanced to the point where whole communities have had to relocate, and protracted droughts are putting people at risk of famine. In the future, the number of “climate refugees” is expected to rise.

Future pandemics will continue to be a threat, so it is important to lay bare the true cause of this devastation. From the beginning, the origins of the pandemic have been debated, even though a natural zoonotic transfer to humans has been determined as the likely cause; however, speculation around a viral bioweapon and laboratory leaks remains. The evidence for the origins of this current pandemic can be found in the science and history behind biological outbreaks and the signs of bioweapon use. This knowledge will help minimize the harm of future pandemics.

One microbe has just devastated our world. Severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), the cause of COVID-19, has shattered economies, upended patterns of life globally, and already killed >18.6 million people. More than 886 million cases were documented worldwide so far. Drop in U.S. birth rates amid Covid-19 could have lasting economic impact today.

Genocide Black Abortions in America Abortion kills 1,000 black babies every day in America. Abortion is not just a woman’s issue. It’s a human rights issue. Abortion is the number one killer of black lives in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, abortion kills more black people than HIV, homicide, diabetes, accident, cancer, and heart disease … combined.

In 2019, black women had 38.4% of all abortions in the U.S., despite African-Americans comprising only 13.4% of the total population.

Every increase in global warming matters
In a series of UN reports, thousands of scientists and government reviewers agreed that limiting global temperature rise to no more than 1.5°C would help us avoid the worst climate impacts and maintain a livable climate. Yet policies currently in place point to a 2.8°C temperature rise by the end of the century.

The emissions that cause climate change come from every part of the world and affect everyone, but some countries produce much more than others.The seven biggest emitters alone (China, the United States of America, India, the European Union, Indonesia, the Russian Federation, and Brazil) accounted for about half of all global greenhouse gas emissions in 2020.

Everyone must take climate action, but people and countries creating more of the problem have a greater responsibility to act first.

We face a huge challenge but already know many solutions
Many climate change solutions can deliver economic benefits while improving our lives and protecting the environment. We also have global frameworks and agreements to guide progress, such as the Sustainable Development Goals, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement. Three broad categories of action are: cutting emissions, adapting to climate impacts and financing required adjustments.

Switching energy systems from fossil fuels to renewables like solar or wind will reduce the emissions driving climate change. But we have to act now. While a growing number of countries is committing to net zero emissions by 2050, emissions must be cut in half by 2030 to keep warming below 1.5°C. Achieving this means huge declines in the use of coal, oil and gas: over two-thirds of today’s proven reserves of fossil fuels need to be kept in the ground by 2050 in order to prevent catastrophic levels of climate change.

Adapting to climate consequences protects people, homes, businesses, livelihoods, infrastructure and natural ecosystems. It covers current impacts and those likely in the future. Adaptation will be required everywhere, but must be prioritized now for the most vulnerable people with the fewest resources to cope with climate hazards. The rate of return can be high. Early warning systems for disasters, for instance, save lives and property, and can deliver benefits up to 10 times the initial cost.

We can pay the bill now, or pay dearly in the future
Climate action requires significant financial investments by governments and businesses. But climate inaction is vastly more expensive. One critical step is for industrialized countries to fulfil their commitment to provide $100 billion a year to developing countries so they can adapt and move towards greener economies.

Despite the scientific evidence that climate change is a hoax or is not a hoax, there are many non-believers and skeptics in politics, industry, and the general population. Many climate change scientists believe that current climate models do not accurately portray the atmosphere-ocean system, and measurements made by means of satellites show no global warming but a cooling of 0.13°C between 1979 and 1994. The theory of global warming assumes maximum warming at the poles, so why have average temperatures in the Arctic dropped by 0.88°C over the past 50 years? The human-induced climate change hoax is a trojan horse through which unelected globalist bodies such as the United Nations are attempting to seize totalitarian control over every minute detail of our lives under the pretext of “saving the planet”. A report from the United Nations on climate change is based on faulty hypotheses and qualitative conclusions, not the facts about the Earth's temperature or the impact of man-made pollution on the climate. Some Americans are skeptical of whether climate change is happening at all, with the two most skeptical interviewees saying that climate change is a hoax used only for political gains.

The Vikings first colonized Greenland in A.D. 985 and made a living primarily as dairy farmers for more than 400 years before abandoning the settlements. Viking Age Greenlandic society was anchored in the many farms that dotted the settlements, with Christianity visibly present in the churches accompanying them. These farms directly exported precious goods such as skins, hides, and walrus ivory abroad while importing luxuries as well as the necessary iron. The economy of the Norse Greenlanders depended on a combination of pastoral farming with hunting and some fishing. Farmers kept cattle, sheep, and goats - shipped into the island - for their milk, cheese, and butter, while most of the consumed meat came from hunted caribou and seals. Archaeologists now suspect that the Vikings first traveled to Greenland not in search of new land to farm but to acquire walrus-tusk ivory, one of medieval Europe’s most valuable trade items.

When climate scientists talk about natural climate swings that came before humans started messing with the system, many invoke two epochs. During the Medieval Warm Period, roughly from 800 to 1200 AD, temperatures rose a few degrees above average. That warming has been connected to improved crop yields in parts of Europe, and the temporary Viking occupation of Greenland. During the following Little Ice Age, which lasted roughly from 1300 to 1850, the Greenland Vikings disappeared, glaciers from California to the European Alps advanced, and New York harbor froze, enabling people to walk from Manhattan to New Jersey without benefit of the George Washington Bridge.

For a long time, many took on faith the idea that these phenomena were global. But that assumption has been undermined in the past decade or so by studies from widespread areas (including parts of Greenland) suggesting that in fact temperatures in many places did not line up with one or the other periods. Some regions appear to have been warming when they were supposed to be cooling, and vice versa. The same goes for two lesser-known, more vaguely defined earlier swings, known as the Roman Warm Period (ca. 100-300 AD) and the Dark Ages Cold Period (ca.400-800).

A new study puts together the evidence on a global scale for the first time. Based on this, the authors say that the supposed warm and cold epochs may represent, more than anything, regional variations that can be explained by random variability. Published in the leading journal Nature this week, the study analyzes paleoclimate data from across the world, using multiple statistical methods and many sources: tree rings, glacial ice cores, corals, lake sediments. It does not suggest that the periods of high or low temperatures observed during the named epochs did not exist in certain places; rather that they did not exist everywhere at the same time, and thus probably were not caused by some kind of planetary driver.

That said, the study does find one very coherent period: an unprecedented warm one extending over 98 percent of the globe, starting in the 20th century. This is almost certainly caused by us.

We spoke with coauthor Nathan Steiger of Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory about climates of the past and present, and what we can learn from them.

What are the most important conclusions of your study?

We show that previously named climate epochs of the Common Era were not coherent phenomena across the globe. This goes against the widespread notion that periods like the Little Ice Age or Medieval Warm Period were global periods of cold or warmth. We’re not the first to point out that there are problems with this idea, but our study is the first to rigorously test the hypothesis on a global scale. In contrast to this, we see that current global warming is remarkably coherent.

How do you tell what temperatures were doing in various parts of the world during these past times?

We rely on proxies. Trees, for example, can be very sensitive to annual changes in temperature and moisture, and the width and density of their annual rings reflect those year-to-year changes. We can then sample hundreds of trees all over the world along with other natural archives to infer what climate was like in the past. For this study in particular we used several different statistical methods that combine all of these proxies to produce global maps of temperature change going back 2,000 years.

Have scientists been too narrow-minded in their geographical focus? I mean, the very name “Medieval” calls up part of European history–a period that didn’t exist in Asia, the Americas or Africa.

Paleoclimate is like many fields of study. There are historical biases in where data is collected, and how the stories about the data are developed. The first paleoclimate data were largely collected from Europe by Europeans, and so it’s not terribly surprising that the stories that try to make sense of such data are Euro-focused. Another problem is that until recently, people have been reluctant to share data and to create narratives that include more than a single, or perhaps a few, time series. If you’re a scientist who has spent a lot of time and money in producing a particular proxy time series, then there’s a tendency to emphasize the importance of that particular time series and to develop a story explaining it. The simplest story to develop is one that corresponds to a traditional understanding of what the climate “should” be doing going back in time. It’s only been in the past few years that scientists from across the paleoclimate community have begun to publicly collate a wide range of data types from all over the globe.

Are you recommending that scientists stop using terms like the “Little Ice Age”?

Not necessarily. In general, having simplified conceptual models of natural phenomena can be very useful and even essential in the pursuit of scientific understanding. It’s when the conceptual models get in the way of accurate science that problems arise. For example, when one labels any Common Era proxy time series with terms like the “Medieval Climate Anomaly,” they are usually implicitly assuming that such epochs were global, and over well-defined time intervals. Our results show that both of these assumptions are incorrect.

Not that there isn’t already plenty of evidence, but does this study add to the argument that humans are causing global warming?

We show that conditions during medieval times or during the Little Ice Age are expected to occur naturally. But the large spatial consistency of the present warm phase cannot be explained by natural variability. This result corroborates many existing studies that have shown that humans are causing global temperatures to rise since the beginning of the industrial period.

Are there limitations to your study?

Yes. Paleoclimate proxies can be used to infer past temperatures, but are not thermometers per se, and so they include non-temperature “noise.” We have therefore tried to use as many proxies as feasible for our study, but we are limited by where the data exists and the quality of the data. Uncertainties are usually largest in places without good quality proxy data. But for the particular hypothesis we’re testing, we don’t think these uncertainties significantly impact the results. We find the same results regardless of which proxy networks or which statistical methodologies we use. So we’re pretty confident in the results.

Georgia Guide Stones America’s Stonehenge Are they a monument to human civilization, or a powerful condemnation of our species? And who the heck built them?

What if I told you that America has its own Stonehenge?

These giant stones were set up on a hillside outside, of all places, Atlanta in 1980. The man who had them built remains unknown, as does the monument’s true purpose. In fact, other than their half-million-dollar price tag, almost nothing is known about the stones at all. They’re composed of 119 tons of solid granite and have coded messages that are engraved into them in the world’s eight most commonly spoken languages.

These rectangular pillars are also precisely crafted to track astrological and solar cycles. There are some who interpret the messages here as a sign of the end of days. Others theorize that they’re a call for genocide on a massive scale. So what’s the message they contain? Who built them? Why are they located on a remote hillside in Georgia? And, of course, what are they intended to guide us toward?

How and why the Guidestones were built have never been answered. But here’s what we do know: The monument didn’t just appear out of nowhere.

On a summer day in 1979, a man using the alias R. C. Christian shows up at the Elberton Granite Finishing Company, presents very detailed and specific plans, and tells them he wants to build the Georgia Guidestones. The only details we have about the man is that he was balding, with a fringe of white hair, and had an accent that suggested he was from one of the Plains states. Also, he had money—a lot of money. And the only thing he absolutely demanded was that he remain completely anonymous. To this day, no one has been able to figure out who he is.

What Christian commissioned, though, was no small undertaking. In fact, even with as deep a history of working with granite as Elberton had, they’d never encountered anything like the request from “R. C. Christian.”

In fact, even if there was nothing more to the Georgia Guidestones than the stones themselves, the monument would be exceptionally impressive—a testament to the skills and abilities of the granite company R. C. Christian hired.

But there is more to the Guidestones than the granite slabs. Much more. Some say it’s mysterious, others say it’s sinister.

The stones were unveiled during a public ceremony in 1980. They were controversial immediately. Supporters like Yoko Ono praised their message as a stirring call to rational thinking. But opponents attacked them, calling them the Ten Commandments of the Antichrist.

So what’re the messages on the stones? First, you need to know that each message appears in English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, and Russian—the eight most widely spoken languages on Earth—which means the ten lines on each slab are intended for all of the world’s inhabitants.

But as for the messages themselves, the first nine, reading up from the bottom, seem to be a benign call to higher thinking: Don’t be a cancer on the earth; seek harmony; balance personal rights with social duties; avoid petty laws; resolve international conflicts in a world court; protect people with fair laws; rule with reason; unite humanity with a new language; and guide reproduction wisely. But it’s the topmost directive on the stones that stops everyone cold:

Maintain Humanity Under 500 Million In Perpetual Balance With Nature.

Here is what is written on the Georgia Guidestones:

1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.

2. Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.

3. Unite humanity with a living new language.

4. Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.

5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.

6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.

7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.

8. Balance personal rights with social duties.

9. Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.

10. Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.

A human population under 500 million would certainly be more “in balance” with nature.

But To achieve a population under 500 million would mean that more than 7 billion of us would have to die. Or be killed.

Exactly. The directive makes some believe that the Guidestones are calling for the mass murder of billions of innocent people—a global genocide that would kill the vast majority of the human race.

Which interpretation is accurate? Or is there another interpretation altogether?

The only way to find out is to decode who—or what—is behind the creation of the Guidestones themselves.

No question, whoever built the Georgia Guidestones, they were determined to protect their anonymity. So to find out more about the mysterious R. C. Christian, we began by talking to Guidestone historian Raymond Wiley, coauthor of The Georgia Guidestones: America’s Most Mysterious Monument. According to Wiley, the pseudonym R. C. Christian is a clue itself—a fairly blatant one—that hearkens back to a 15-century physician and mystic named Christian Rosenkreutz, the idea of the Rose Cross, and the secretive organization known as the Rosicrucians.

Christian Rosenkreutz is said to have founded the secretive Rosicrucian Society in Germany in the early 15th century, but some dispute that the man even lived at all. Some people say he’s not even real. Others say he’s more than one person.

For the members of the society, Rosenkreutz was a doctor who had spent a lifetime gathering what he called sacred knowledge. Studying ancient Turkish, Sufi, and Persian paths toward understanding, as well as Western medical knowledge, he supposedly traveled through the Middle East, being instructed by masters of ancient wisdom.

When he returned, Rosenkreutz supposedly founded his own church to pass on the learning to make sure that it didn’t die with him. So, at first, all the members were doctors. Each one took an oath to heal the sick without payment, to maintain the secrecy of the fellowship, and to find a replacement for Rosenkreutz before he died.

The sacred knowledge is said to include elements of alchemy and psychic manipulation. Yup. Modern Rosicrucians are believed to have even been able to tap the ultimate power of the human mind. Some think the sect has evolved and they now seek to protect and guide humanity away from its own destruction. Others have accused the Rosicrucians of being out-and-out evil. To be clear, there are offshoots of Rosicrucians everywhere.

Think about this—if you had a vision of an American Stonehenge, a massive granite creation bearing your philosophy for the world, and you possessed the resources to underwrite its creation, would you want to keep your name out of it? For most of us, I think the answer would be “probably not.” Our egos and our vanity might insist that we take at least some of the credit. Yet among the inscriptions on the monument is the announcement that their byline is a pseudonym. Is this humility—or deliberate misdirection?

Human nature and the role vanity plays in it would seem to rule out one name often mentioned as a possible source of funding for the Guidestones: Ted Turner, media mogul and one of America’s largest individual owners of real estate. At one point, Turner argued that the earth would be better served by a far smaller population than our present numbers, a statement that generated much controversy at the time. But while the ideas expressed on the stones, if interpreted benignly, do reflect Turner’s well-known global harmony and environmental concerns, modesty, humility, and anonymity are not qualities often—or maybe ever— associated with the man once widely referred to as the “Mouth of the South.”

So if the man behind the Georgia Guidestones wasn’t Turner or, probably, any other high-profile, well-heeled philanthropist or visionary, who was he?

Only a few people ever met him. One was attorney Wyatt Martin, who handled the legal matters related to the Guidestones, and who signed a vow never to discuss his client, a vow he has kept.

Another was Hudson Cone, who was present at the granite company when the Guidestones were being created. Cone remembers Christian as a tall, balding man, with a fringe of white hair. He was well spoken and comported himself well. He gave no indication of who—or what—he represented.

That ambiguity, Cone believes to this day, was deliberate.

“Any time you have something with an air of mystery around it,” he said, “you invite different interpretations.”

Those differing interpretations, Cone insists, are one of the things that have kept the Georgia Guidestones at the center of so much speculation and public interest. He has had people tell him that the site is the holiest spot, while others argue that it’s a profane location, a focal point for satanic power and ultimate evil.

Cone doesn’t believe that the spot or the Guidestones are evil. In fact, he thinks that the questions the Guidestones raise are themselves its truest purpose.

“I believe it was put here to stimulate curiosity,” Cone said.

That, too, makes a lot of sense to me. What better way to get people talking—and thinking —about the nature of our relationship to the world and to one another—than by creating an enormous mystery . . . and presenting that mystery in the world’s great languages so that all can participate in the discussion?

One question that has remained throughout our investigation of the Georgia Guidestones—why Georgia? Why were the stones placed on their particular site?

Turns out there’s a serious—and mysterious—reason for that as well.

The theory of Earth Changes, first propounded by the mystic Edgar Cayce early in the 20th century, argues that we are rapidly approaching a time of devastating changes to the surface of the earth. Those changes could be the result of earthquakes, asteroid or comet impact, super volcanoes, solar flares—whatever. As we’ve seen, particularly in terms of the 2012 believers—but also as with previous apocalypse believers such as those who feared the end of the world would accompany the new millennium, or those who saw global devastation coming as Halley’s Comet returned, or any of the hundreds of other doomsday faiths that have come and gone—the specific details of the actual apocalypse vary from believer to believer, and some of them have already been proven inaccurate.

What matters for the purposes of decoding the Guidestones is the consequences of the devastation.

And those consequences include a radically altered surface of the earth—a surface that will lack many of the most familiar features of the world we know.

What sort of features?

Minor things like: California, New York City, parts of Florida, and other landmasses throughout the world.

That’s scary.

But according to Cayce’s Earth Changes theory, it turns out that in addition to the changes that would alter the physical face of the world, there are “safe zones” that would ride out the earth changes, and in doing so provide a psychic focus for the energies needed to rebuild the world.

Where are those safe zones?

You guessed it—one of them is in rural Georgia. (See Exhibit 8B, page 56, for a map.)

It’s where the Guidestones stand, meaning they’re ready to help the survivors of the earth changes rebuild the world. And rebuild it better.

I believe that the Georgia Guidestones are, on one level, exactly what they appear to be—a tool for getting people to think about the nature of existence, and the ways in which that existence could be improved.

I think that there’s a good chance that the person behind them was a Rosicrucian.

But I also think that there’s a motivation for the stones that may have been overlooked, and that the motivation lies in the times during which they were commissioned and created.

The Georgia Guidestones came into being in the late 1970s and early 1980s—a time of enormous international tension between the United States and the then-existing Soviet Union. At the heart of those tensions: tens of thousands of nuclear warheads, an arsenal of destruction aimed at each other’s throats and more than capable of bringing civilization down in a mass of radioactive rubble.

They were among the scariest times in human history—and a reminder that we don’t need an apocalypse beyond our control to end the world. For more than half a century, we have held the power to do it ourselves. Self-inflicted genocide by nuclear bombs controlled by our governments: No secret cabals need apply.

And I think that it was the possibility of just such a nuclear holocaust that prompted R. C. Christian to create the message he placed on the Georgia Guidestones. A message intended for the survivors of a global nuclear holocaust. A message designed to help them restore a balance to the earth—and to avoid the mistakes that destroyed their ancestors.

That, I think, is the purpose of the Georgia Guidestones, and that’s the message we decoded during our investigation.

Of course, there’s one person, if he’s still alive, who knows whether or not my interpretation is accurate, and that’s R. C. Christian, but he’s not talking.

I just hope that he does come forth, and tell us whether or not any of our interpretations of the Georgia Guidestones are accurate. Or if there is another interpretation—perhaps brighter, perhaps darker—that we may have overlooked.

Until then, we have the Georgia Guidestones themselves, speaking their message to the ages—and to each of us in their own way.

What a Wonderful World 75 Absolutely Fascinating Facts About Planet Earth
Read these 75 interesting facts about Earth to learn more about our planet.
Ah, Earth. We may not think about our planet on a day-to-day basis, but the world we live in is a pretty interesting place. The third rock from the sun—and to this day, the only one with known intelligent life—there are plenty of fun Earth facts that we all learned from a young age. Still, there are even more fascinating facts about Earth most of us don't know.

Keep reading for 75 absolutely fascinating facts about the Earth.

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75 Facts About the Earth
1. Earth is not a perfect sphere.
Yes, we've all been taught that the Earth is not flat, but it may shock you to learn that it's not perfectly spherical either. As the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) points out, Earth spins while gravity pushes toward the center and a centrifugal force, perpendicular to Earth's axis, pushes out. This results in a bit of a tilted shape—not a perfect sphere.

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2. The circumference of Earth is 24,901 miles.
That's 40,075 kilometers and here's how it works: According to Space.com, gravity is constantly pushing bodies of water and earth into a kind of "spare tire" shape (remember: not a perfect sphere).

3. Earth has an uneven gravitational field.
The surface of Earth is rocky and bumpy, so it can't have an even gravitational field. It would, however, if it was perfectly spherical. Instead, Earth has lots of gravity anomalies—both positive and negative.

4. Earth is a terrestrial planet.
It's also known as a telluric or rocky planet. A terrestrial planet simply refers to a planet that's mostly composed of silicate rocks or metals. Other terrestrial planets in the Solar System include Mercury, Venus, and Mars.

5. Melting glaciers have an impact on Earth's shape.
That "spare tire" around Earth—or as some experts call it, the "waistline"—may be a direct result of melting glaciers that are an impact of climate change.

6. The planet is constantly spinning.
It may be hard to wrap your brain around, but here on Earth, we're constantly spinning. According to Space.com, Earth spins as fast as 1,000 miles per hour but it depends where you're standing on the planet. At the equator, you'd be moving the fastest; at either the North or the South Pole, you would—surprisingly—not be moving at all.

7. Earth is about 4.54 billion years old.
That's a lot of birthdays! The National Center for Science Education has been able to determine this approximate age through dating rocks and meteorites that have been found here.

8. Earth's gravity is uneven, too.
Not a perfect sphere and not perfect gravity, either. Earth's uneven shape means that its mass is distributed unevenly as well, which means that the gravity has to be uneven to boot. Certain areas of Earth have gravitational anomalies—lower gravity than other regions. One such place is the Hudson Bay of Canada.

9. Earth's continents were once known as Rodinia.
We know—you've heard of Pangea; not Rodinia. But hear us out a sec—800 million years ago, the tectonic plates of Earth came all together, uniting each of the continents and it was called Rodinia. It eventually broke apart and re-collided, which resulted in the formation of the Appalachian Mountains in North America and the Ural Mountains in Russia and Kazakhstan.

10. Pangea came to be 250 million years ago.
After Rodinia, came Pangea. The separated continents came together again—this time called Pangea. In this version of Earth's continents, there was one universal ocean. After 50 million years of Pangea, it broke apart again, this time into two masses known as Gondwanaland and Laurasia. It broke apart a final time into the seven continents and oceans we recognize and learn about today.

11. The first-ever Earth Day was instituted in 1970.
Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson founded Earth Day with the hopes of increasing public awareness of environmental concerns. The date April 22 was chosen to maximize students' involvement as it served as a mid-point between students' Spring Break and final exams of the year.

12. Asia is the largest continent.
Asia spans 1,7139,445 square miles and is home to some of the most densely populated countries in the world (China, India, and Indonesia—to name a few).

13. Sixty percent of Earth's population lives in Asia.
With more than 40 countries through the continent of Asia—some of which are the most populated countries of all—it's not hard to wrap your head around the fact that 60 percent of the world lives there.

14. The driest place on Earth sits adjacent to the biggest body of water.
The Atacama Desert in Chile is known as the driest place in the world, but despite it being dry-to-the-bone, the desert is actually right next to the biggest body of water on Earth—the Pacific Ocean. Though it's hot in the Atacama Desert, its temps average at about 63°F.

15. NASA actually studies the Atacama Desert for insights on other planets.
The Atacama Desert is one of the most extreme climates there is on Earth, so of course, it makes sense that NASA uses it as a tool, studying it to find further insight as to how life may be able to exist on other planets with such extreme climates.

16. Days on Earth are increasing.
Yup—they're getting longer. At its inception 4.54 billion years ago, a day on Earth would have registered as six hours long. Nowadays, we all know that a day lasts 24 hours, but that's ever-changing. In fact, the days increase by 1.7 milliseconds every century.

17. Humans may weigh differently depending on where they stand.
If you weighed yourself at the equator, you would weigh less than if you weighed yourself at one of Earth's poles, Live Science says. But not by a lot. Your weight at the equator would likely be about 0.5 percent less than at the poles.

18. Africa is the second-largest continent.
Africa covers about 5,000 miles—more than three times the wingspan of the U.S.

19. The world's largest hot desert is in Africa.
The Sahara is Earth's largest hot desert. Surprisingly though, it's not the world's largest desert...

20. Europe is the second smallest continent in size but the third largest in population.
Europe spans 1.634 million mi² but has an estimated population of 748,859,982 as of 2023.

21. Antarctica is Earth's fifth-largest continent.
It may not be the largest or even the smallest continent (it's kind of just stuck in the middle) but Antarctica stores most of the world's freshwater—but more on that later.

22. The Antarctic Ice Cap contains 70 percent of Earth's freshwater.
According to the American Museum of Natural History, only a little over 3 percent of the world's water is freshwater. The rest (96 percent) is salt—or saline—and is found in the ocean.

23. About 90 percent of Earth's freshwater is locked in ice.
That freshwater located in Antarctica? About 90 percent of it isn't even water at all—it's locked inside frozen polar ice sheets.

24. Antarctica is technically a desert.
Hard to believe, right, given all that fresh water and ice? But it's true, as Antarctica sees an average of about 2 inches of precipitation per year.

25. Earth kinda, sorta has other "moons."
Well, kind of. Called 3753 Cruithne and Asteroid 2002 AA29 —two asteroids that also orbit the sun—are sometimes considered Earth's "moons" even though they don't really fit the bill. Both asteroids remain very close to Earth—as close as 3.9 million miles every 95 years.

26. The Amazon is Earth's biggest rainforest.
Located in the South American Amazon, the world's biggest rainforest is where more than 30 million people and one in 10 known species on Earth call home.

27. The deepest point on the ocean floor is 36,200 feet below sea level.
It's located in the Mariana Trench, according to NOAA.

28. Earth has a type of "recycled" rock cycle.
Come again? Earth has a rock cycle—igneous rocks transform to sedimentary rocks, then to metamorphic, then back again. Some scientists and experts think of this or refer to it as a "recycled" ground since the rocks change cyclically.

29. Earth's lowest point not covered by the ocean is 8,382 feet below sea level.
But it's impossible to get to. That's because it's located under layers and layers of ice in the Bentley Subglacial Trench in Antarctica.

30. The lowest point on land is the Dead Sea.
Found between Jordan, Israel, and West Bank, the lake known as the Dead Sea is located 1,400 feet below sea level, the European Space Agency (ESA) says.

31. About 6,000 lightning strikes happen on Earth per minute?
Per minute!

32. Greenland is the world's largest island.
It's about one-fourth the size of Australia and is the world's largest island that is not a continent in and of itself.

33. There are billions of people living on Earth.
As of 2023, that number is as big as 8.021 billion.

34. Earth is approximately 93 million miles away from the sun.
According to Space.com, that's 150 million kilometers away.

The Earth is approximately 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from the sun, according to Space.com. At this distance, it takes about 8 minutes and 19 seconds for sunlight to reach our planet.

35. It takes 8 minutes and 19 seconds for sunlight to reach us.
Being that we're 93 million miles away, that's how long it takes for the sun's rays to hit our planet.

36. Earth may have actually had two moons at one point.
And no, we're not talking about 3753 Cruithne and Asteroid 2002 AA29. According to Space.com, it's possible (but not proven) that Earth might have had another moon—one about 750 miles wide. Scientists that buy into this theory hypothesize that this tiny moon may have crashed into the other one.

37. The largest living thing in the world is a fungus.
A massive fungus, at that! Known as the honey mushroom (or Armillaria), this fungus spans 2,200 acres across Oregon.

38. The oldest shark in the world is a Greenland Shark.
In fact, according to Live Science, Greenlands are so old they don't even have backbones. These sea creatures grow to be as mature as 392 years old.

39. Greenland has the lowest population of any country on Earth.
A 2016 census found that 55,847 people lived in 836,330 square miles in Greenland with most communities sitting on the coastline.

40. Earth used to be purple... apparently.
Some experts—like Shil DasSarma—believe that Earth may have been purple at one point in time. Fueling that fire is the fact that ancient microbes may have relied on a different molecule other than the green chlorophyll to grab the sun's rays. Instead, that molecule—retinal—could have made things we know as green today look more purple.

41. The moon may have been formed as the result of a collision.
Not a ton of information is known about how the moon was created, but one hypothesis claims that a planet, asteroid, or perhaps a comet—called Theia—collided into Earth, resulting in debris flying into space. That debris may have formed the moon as we know it today.

42. One of Earth's coolest phenomena is the Auroras.
Known colloquially as the Southern Lights or Aurora Australias, Aurora Borealis, or Nothern Lights, Auroras happen when particles from the sun collide with the upper atmosphere of Earth near the poles. According to Space.com, this results in a sort of rainbow of lights twinkling in the sky, like a crystal in the sun.

43. Earth's magnetic north pole is moving northward.
NASA has said that Earth's magnetic north pole has slowly moved northward by more than 600 miles since the early 19th century. As of right now, the pole is moving at about 40 miles per year.

44. Earth experiences a pole reversal every 200,000 to 300,000 years.
According to Nature, Earth's poles reverse approximately every 200,000 to 300,000 years.

In fact, over the past 20 million years, our planet has settled into a pattern of a pole reversal about every 200,000 to 300,000 years, according to the journal Nature. As of 2012, however, it has been more than twice that long since the last reversal.

45. The most recent scheduled pole reversal actually hasn't happened.
In fact, 2012 marked double the amount of time since the last pole switch.

46. All across the world, Earth is home to 8.7 million species.
That we know of! According to National Geographic, that includes plants and animal species.

47. The world's largest tree is the General Sherman.
A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than 2,000 years old.

The General Sherman giant sequoia is the largest known stem tree by volume on the planet. The trunk of the tree contains slightly more than 52,500 cubic feet (1,486.6 cubic meters) of material.

48. The oldest tree in the world is almost 5,000 years old.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the oldest—verified—tree in existence is a bristlecone pine, nicknamed Methusela. As of 2020, Methusela was deemed 4,852 years old.

49. The Pacific Ocean contains more than half of Earth's free water.
In fact, you could actually squeeze all of the continents into the Pacific basin. It's that big.

50. The hottest place on Earth is Libya.
More specifically, El Azizia, Libya. The hottest ever recorded temp in El Azizia was 136 °F (57.8 °C) back on September 13, 1922, NASA Earth Observatory records show.

51. Mountain ranges were made by the Earth's shifting rocks.
Called tectonic plates, the movements that Earth's underground, shifting rocks make actually drive the formation of mountain ranges—including the Himalayas, which formed some 40 or 50 million years ago.

52. The coldest temp Earth has ever seen came from Russia.
At Russia's Vostok Station, temperatures were recorded as low as -128.6 °F (-89.2 °C) on July 21, 1983.

53. Glaciers are retreating, causing sea levels to rise.
It's one of the many terrible effects of climate change. That also means that we're losing a lot of the world's freshwater.

54. The moon experiences moonquakes, just as Earth experiences earthquakes.
Moonquakes, however, aren't nearly as powerful as earthquakes, but they are, in fact, caused by the moon's tidal relationship with Earth.

55. We don't actually know what the tallest mountain on Earth is.
But we can narrow it down to two! Mount Everest's summit is higher above sea level than the summit of any other—about 29,029 feet high. But Everest is actually, technically tied with Mauna Kea because when measured from the base of the summit below sea level to its top point, Mauna Kea measures 56,000 feet.

56. Some hikers have summited Everest without oxygen.
Speaking of Mount Everest, did you know that people have actually climbed the mountain without the help of oxygen before? Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler became the first to do so on May 8, 1978, according to Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology.

57. The Pacific Ocean is Earth's largest ocean basin.
It covers about 63 million square miles, after all.

58. The wettest place in the world is Mawsynram.
When it comes to annual rainfall, Mawsynram, India takes the cake with over 10,000 millimeters of rain per year. You can thank monsoon season for that!

59. The most snowfall per year happens in Japan.
Surprising? Perhaps, but Aomori City, Japan may just be the snowiest place in the world. On average, Aomori City experiences 312 inches of snowfall annually.

60. The world's largest living structures are coral reefs.
What's a living structure, you ask? Well, a coral reef is, in fact, alive. According to NOAA, coral reefs are a crucial part to thousands of species per unit of any of the other ecosystems on Earth.

61. Oceans cover about 70 percent of Earth's surface.
According to NOAA, about 70 percent of the surface of Earth is covered in oceans.

62. However, humans haven't even discovered all of Earth's oceans.
But that doesn't mean we've explored it all! The NOAA adds that we—meaning, humans—have only discovered about 20 percent of Earth's waters.

63. The largest earthquake to hit Earth occurred in Chile.
With a massive magnitude of 9.5, the world's largest earthquake took place in Bio-Bio, Chile on May 22, 1960.

64. About 20 percent of the U.S. is a coastline.
However, that's not including Alaska.

65. Stromboli Volcano is the world's most active volcano.
Contrary to popular belief, of course, as historically, Kilauea—in Hawaii—has been recorded as such. But it's not true. Located off the coast of Italy, the aptly-named Stromboli Volcano has been non-stop erupting for more than 2,000 years.

66. Rocks have been known to "walk" at The Racetrack Playa, Death Valley.
In a specific part of Death Valley National Park in California—known as The Racetrack Playa or The Racetrack—rocks have been known to "walk" on their own. According to NASA, these ice-encrusted "sailing stones" as they're called retain meltwater from the hills above, allowing the wind to pick them up and throw them around. This phenomenon has been known to leave "racetrack" imprints on the ground—hence its moniker.

67. One stroke of lightning heats the air to about 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
That translates to 30,000 degrees Celsius. In other words, hot!

68. Humans tend to live near the coastline.
What can we say? We love a coastal view. In fact, coastlines are where 40 percent of the U.S. population makes their home, according to NOAA.

69. Earth is actually sprinkled with "cosmic dust."
As in, interplanetary material. According to Astronomy Magazine, as much as 100 tons of said cosmic dust sprinkle down onto Earth. Where does this dust come from? As a comet comes in close contact with the sun, its ices vaporize, releasing tiny particles into space that then float down onto Earth's surface.

70. The coldest place on Earth is in Antarctica.
Antarctica certainly takes the cake for Earth's coldest place. After all, temps get as low as -100 °F with the unimaginable wind chill (that's -73 °C).

71. There could be as much as 20 million tons of gold hidden in Earth's oceans.
That's according to Forbes. However, that 20 million tons of gold is diluted by each liter of seawater. Above water, comes out to about 13 billionths of a gram of gold in each liter of seawater.

72. There's also undissolved gold in the seafloor.
But, as you can imagine, it's nearly impossible to get to. However, if we could get to it, the NOAA says if we distributed it evenly, each individual could go home with nine pounds of gold.

73. Earth is home to three deadly, explosive lakes.
We're not kidding. Nyos, Monoun, and Kivu are three crater lakes located above volcanic earth. Located in Cameroon, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, each of these lakes is situated on top of magma. The surface emits carbon dioxide into the lakes, leaving a layer of carbon dioxide that eventually can be released by way of the explosion. And yes—it's deadly. Just think of how much CO2 and explosion like that would release!

74. The world's longest mountain range is actually underwater.
Shocking—right?! Known as the mid-ocean ridge, the world's longest mountain range is an underwater chain of volcanoes that spans 40,389 miles, according to NOAA.

75. Over the millions of years, sea levels have changed.
Sea levels on Earth have not always remained the same. According to NASA, sea levels have been anywhere from 230 feet higher than they are now to 390 feet lower in the past.

Many climate change scientists do not agree that global warming is happening.

The apocalyptic tone that Smith adopted in relation to the environment bears little relation to reality. In his editorial Smith asserts, “virtually all scientists agree that global warming is happening.” Global warming is now joining the list of “what everyone knows.”

Whether most scientists outside climatology believe that global warming is happening is less relevant than whether the climatologists do. A letter signed by over 50 leading members of the American Meteorological Society warned about the policies promoted by environmental pressure groups. “The policy initiatives derive from highly uncertain scientific theories. They are based on the unsupported assumption that catastrophic global warming follows from the burning of fossil fuel and requires immediate action. We do not agree.” Those who have signed the letter represent the overwhelming majority of climate change scientists in the United States, of whom there are about 60. McMichael and Haines quote the 1995 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is widely believed to “prove” that climate change induced by humans has occurred. The original draft document did not say this. What happened was that the policymakers’ summary (which became the “take home message” for politicians) altered the conclusions of the scientists. This led Dr Frederick Seitz, former head of the United States National Academy of Sciences, to write, “In more than sixty years as a member of the American scientific community. I have never witnessed a more disturbing corruption of the peer-review process than the events that led to this IPCC report.”

Policymaking should be guided by proved fact, not speculation. Most members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change believe that current climate models do not accurately portray the atmosphere-ocean system. Measurements made by means of satellites show no global warming but a cooling of 0.13°C between 1979 and 1994. Furthermore, since the theory of global warming assumes maximum warming at the poles, why have average temperatures in the Arctic dropped by 0.88°C over the past 50 years?

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