NASA; climate change; and how three speakers at JPL informed me about greenhouse gases

Last night, G. Ripley checked out the JPL in la canada flintridge, CA. NASA JPL is jet propulsion laboratory. Brian W. was the host of the Von Karma Lecture on 'NASA: climate change in the 21st century and beyond.' The three speakers were Dr. Graeme Stephens; Dr. Kate Marvel; and Dr. Brian Kahn. Graeme is from Australia and South Africa; and he spoke about radioactive impacts plus cirrus cloud frequency. He spoke about water cycles, and how 97-98% of the earth is covered with water. He spoke about albedo also, which is the sunlight of the earth. After Dr. Graeme S. spoke, the next speaker was Dr. Brian Kahn. Brian talked about ECF, effective cloud fraction. He mentioned the ABI, which is the advanced baseline imager. Both acronyms are important in climate change. Brian mentioned that there is a 41 degree shift in Fahrenheit, over the past 10 years. This huge increase in the temperature is part of global warming. He mentioned that clouds will not save us from global warming. He mentioned that carbon dioxide is emitted, and this is CO2. His last question to everyone was 'will climate change be bad for the world?'; and the crowd was very happy to hear this question in such a relevant topic. The last speaker was Dr. Kate Marvel. She spoke about water vapor, which is H2O. She is from the Goddard Institute of Space Studies. She mentioned that emissions have to be cut. She mentioned that clouds and storms on a weather map are effective. The clouds on a weather map, are good for forecasting also. There are geostationary satellites, which are important in the sky and in space. The two major greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide, and water vapor. After she finished her speech, all three of the speakers answered questions from the crowd. It was a very informative night for me. I asked a question to Dr. Marvel; and to Dr. Kahn. Both of them answered my questions, about greenhouse gases and ECF. As G. Ripley closes this piece, the reader will find out different parts of climate change to be interesting. It was my first time at JPL; and the 75 minutes there were fun and exciting for me. The JPL has a visitor center, which covers the nine planets and telescopes/satellites too. As this weblog post comes to an end, enjoy the picture above of a space satellite. Good bye, earth citizens!!

Javascript; Netscape; and Brendan Eich make G.Ripley discover more on WWW

Today, G. Ripley covers Javascript; Netscape; and Brendan Eich. Javascript is a programming language, that is commonly abbreviated as JS. Javascript was created in 10 days, by Brendan Eich during his working life at Netscape in 1995. Javascript was supposed to complement Java, yet it became a language that you could stick right into a web page. Javascript became a success, as more web developers wanted to use it to create powerful websites. Javascript is connected to all parts of a web browser, even though it had many bugs and it was a rushed, get it out the door product. One of the main goals of Javascript was to implement this new language, into the Netscape Navigator web browser. At the time, Netscape and Microsoft had started the web browser wars. Next, let's look at Netscape and its origins. Netscape is widely known by its three major leaders/founders: 1. Jim Clark; 2. Marc Andreessen; and 3. James Barksdale. Barksdale served the company in the role of CEO, while Andreessen is the man that hired Brendan Eich. Jim Clark has a PhD, and he is a career entrepreneur. Jim Clark founded Silicon Graphics; Netscape; Healtheon; and myCFO. He is also the main subject [focus] in the book, 'The New New Thing' written by Michael Lewis in 1999. Third, Marc Andreessen helped Kipp Hickman to create SSL at Netscape Communications. SSL is secure sockets layer. It is a standard secure protocol for making encrypted links between a web server; and browser in online communication. Andreessen received his bachelor's degree in computer science from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1993. These days, Andreessen is a huge part of Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm in modern day Menlo Park. Andreessen is very much known for founding other startup companies such as Opsware [later renamed to Loudcloud], and Ning. Fourth, Netscape Communications was sold in Fall 1998 to AOL for $4.2 billion. Yet, the Netscape navigator disappeared in 2002. Brendan Eich became the co-founder of the mozilla community. The mozilla community is part of the mozilla foundation, which started the firefox web browser. Firefox is an open source project, and one of the top web browsers in 2018. For the reader, the last paragraph will cover Javascript again. Finally, JavaScript is one of the major pieces that advertisers use for web tracking. Brendan Eich is the CEO of Brave software, which has a main product that is written in Javascript; C; and C++. Brave is that cool product. It is an open source web browser created by Brave software co.; based on the chromium web browser. The WWW is the world wide web, and enjoy the image above of Brendan Eich and the mozilla firefox logo. Hope the reader enjoyed another story replete with facts on Javascript; Netscape; Brendan Eich; and Marc Andreessen. Au revoir!!