Breathe in, Breathe out. A Guide to Our Atmosphere

Welcome back to another certified banger of a blog (the final countdown starts playing in the background). The last post for this series has to do with engineering and yet another exciting discovery. Last week it was a lake (exciting right) but this week it is something that we probably use every day, cars.  The evolution of the car and the internal combustion engine has seen the want for humans to have their 4 wheeled friends move faster and faster. Back when the first cars were invented in the late 1880s, the last thing people cared about what was was coming out the exhaust. The main focus was creating a machine that would get someone from point A to point B quickly. As time has gone on, us humans have gathered a better understanding of the harmful effects that internal combustion engines have on the environment due to emissions of green house gasses, harmful gasses and particulate matter.  The evolution of cars and engine technology has seen companies veer away from inter...

If you google " The Most Important Debates of the 21st century " you will find a range of widely debated topics by various philosophers and academics. The 'Anthropocene Start Date' debate was never mentioned but I just wanted to let you know. Anyway, let's have a chat about the  Anthropocene  and why this debate, maybe, should be on that google search.  The Anthropocene is argues to be a new geological Epoch describing a period where human activity has has an undeniable impact on the environment. The reason why the Anthropocene is such a debated topic (amongst Geographers (I promise)) is because two questions need to be answered: 1. Is the Anthropocene a definable Epoch? and 2. If it is, when does it start? Due to a recent discovery of l ake sediment in Canada , an answer has (pretty much) been found.  Lake Crawford's sediment provides the equivalent of a history book with details of the past centuries' environments. This is important because of the track...