1) Floods in Oz
As Australia’s sea levels rise, safe land is vanishing and costs are huge. Climate Council forecasts more than 267,000 coastal properties will be damaged by flooding by 2100, costing hundreds of billions of dollars. Agricultural damages are among $855.1bn in economic losses projected Australia-wide by the end of the century due to coastal flooding, according to a Climate Council report.
The report forecasts that more than 267,000 coastal properties and 2m hectares (4.9m acres) of Australian land will be damaged by flooding by 2100 as sea levels rise. Queensland (93,157 properties), NSW (71,210) and Western Australia (51,366) are the three states with the greatest number of homes at risk. The Gold Coast, Brisbane and Melbourne are the metropolitan areas expected to be worst affected.
2) Cats Lick Each Other
Why do cats lick each other? So many different reasons.
3) Electric Water Corrodes
It’s easy to understand why salt water is so corrosive. The salt splits into rather active anions of Sodium + and Chloride -. They then start off the corrosion process by reacting with the surface of the metal.
But it’s always been a mystery how pure water (just H2O, no Sodium + or Chloride -) can set off corrosion. The mystery has been solved. As the droplets of water roll across the surface of the metal, they pick up an electrical charge – which can start off the corrosion process.