GENEVA Cheap Carter Hutton Jersey , Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- Researchers have developed a novel and more accurate method to measure ocean temperatures by using the concentration of noble gases in Antarctic ice, which helps to conclude on the changes in sea temperature from the last ice age to the present day, according to a press release by the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) on Friday.
An international team of researchers, including those from EMPA and the University of Bern Cheap Jake Allen Jersey , has come up with the method that uses ice cores from Antarctica to more accurately measure average global ocean temperatures over the past 24,000 years, during which the transition from the last ice age occurred.
The layers of permanent ice in that region form an "archive of the atmosphere" that contains trapped bubbles of air and other gases known as noble gases, including krypton Cheap Kyle Brodziak Jersey , xenon and argon.
As cooling water absorbs noble gases from the atmosphere and warming water releases them, the concentration of noble gases in these ice core bubbles can help scientists estimate the average temperature of the ocean at the time.
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The team also believe that the method could in theory be useful for monitoring current temperature changes, and not just large-scale changes like the shift from the last ice age to the current warm age.
That is important because as the global climate warms, most of the extra heat is absorbed by the oceans. Until now, measurements of average ocean temperature have been very complicated to produce and are often distorted by variations in location Cheap Paul Stastny Jersey , season, and ocean depth.
According to EMPA, the basic idea of using the connection between the concentration of noble gases in the atmosphere and the average ocean temperature is correct and that the method works.
HARARE, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Thursday accused some unnamed officials in his ruling ZANU-PF party of trying to trigger economic havoc as a ploy to effect regime change and oust him.
Mugabe said the recent price increases of some basic commodities and manipulation of currencies on the market was meant to incite people to rise up against the government.
"There are those who are manipulating the currency so they can trigger inflation and cause panic buying. Those people are saboteurs and they are amongst us Cheap Dmitrij Jaskin Jersey , they are like Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus. They are among us and let us expose and shame them," Mugabe said while burying Maria Msika, the widow of former Vice President Joseph Msika at the National Heroes Acre in Harare.
Mugabe said the people pushing for economic chaos wanted to push him out of power but he vowed that he was not going anywhere as yet.
He said he was put into the position by people and it will be the people again who will choose his successor when he decides to step down.
"I did not take the position by force. When the time comes, the people will choose who they want to succeed me but for now I am fully and firmly still in charge Cheap Alexander Steen Jersey ," Mugabe said.
His party is battling intense infighting by factions vying to succeed him even though the veteran leader has been endorsed by his party as its presidential candidate in next year's polls when he will be 94.
In recent days, Zimbabwe has witnessed a spate of price increases of some basic commodities, with retailers citing foreign currency shortages.
Social media rumors at the weekend claiming imminent shortages of basic goods also fueled panic buying and hoarding of basic goods and fuel by consumers and motorists, prompting government to issue a stern warning to people abusing social media to spread alarm and despondency in the country.
Mugabe said the "saboteurs" will not succeed in their plans to cause economic havoc as government was closely watching and monitoring the situation.
The Zimbabwean government introduced bond notes in November 2016 as a way to alleviate cash shortages in the economy but the surrogate currency which was officially pegged at par with the U.S. dollar has been gradually losing its value to the greenback on the parallel market.
The government recently secured a 600 million U.S. dollars forex stabilization facility from Afreximbank and has reassured the nation that there will be no shortages of goods due to foreign currency shortages.
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