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Omar Y.
Lived in the Washington, D.C., area for about 10 years, interned with a regional transportation agency there. Originally from Tucson, Arizona, now in Richmond, Va.
How can we cut through ignorance and denial about Global Warming?
Some think colder winters mean that global warming isn't happening when such extremes are actually evidence it is in full swing. Others are trying to blame sunspots, of all things, while ignoring the steady increase in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere that has occurred since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. What will it take to educate these people and convince them of the inconvenient truth?
18 AnswersEnvironment2 decades agoCan I use rpm to compare gas mileage between cars?
For example, if I know one car's engine is running at 3,000 rpm at 70 mph and another car's engine runs at the same rpm at 80 mph, can I tell the gas mileage of each at those speeds? This is a assuming a 1.5-liter 4-cylinder engine for both.
5 AnswersOther - Cars & Transportation2 decades agoWhat is the basis for the Fahrenheit scale?
Zero Celsius means water freezes; zero Kelvin means zero molecular activity – what does zero Fahrenheit mean?
1 AnswerOther - Science2 decades ago