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The Changing Climate

The Times They Are a-Changin'It's getting warmer, ice is melting, sea's are rising, things are changing. Climate Change has my full attention. This Tumblr mostly goes about the changing climate, but also about e.g. the Eiffel tower in Paris, France. I believe that science can do a lot to help us to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change and other enviromental problems. I realize that politician and big companies will do nothing to solve the problems untill activist citizens and shareholders force them to do something. It needs activist in all forms and ways to protect our Earth and future from disaster. Most Used Tags(MUT) climate change global warming climate science science is cool temperature CO2 climate ice sea ice glacier melting sea level rising <a href="http://climate-changing...

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Sir George Everest, CB, FRS, FRAS, FRGS (4 July 1790 – 1 December 1866) was a British surveyor and geographer who served as Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843.

After receiving a military education in Marlow, Everest joined the East India Company and arrived in India at the age of 16. He was eventually made an assistant to William Lambton on the Great Trigonometric Survey, and replaced Lambton as superintendent of the survey in 1823. Everest was largely responsible for surveying the meridian arc from the southernmost point of India north to Nepal, a distance of about 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi), a task that took from 1806 to 1841 to complete. He was made Surveyor General of India in 1830, retiring in 1843 and returning to England.

In 1865, the Royal Geographical Society renamed Peak XV – at the time only recently identified as the world's highest peak – to Mount Everest in his honour. Andrew Scott Waugh, his protégé and successor as surveyor general, had been responsible for putting his name forward in 1856. Everest's name was used as a compromise due to the difficulty of choosing between multiple local names for the mountain. He initially objected to the honour, as he had had nothing to do with its discovery and believed his name was not easily written or pronounced in Hindi.