A giant 'black box' will gather all climate data for future civilizations to learn from -- and is meant to be indestructible to the climate crisis itself.
Every time new climate research is published, news headlines are posted or tweets are shared, a giant steel box perched on a granite plain in the Australian state of Tasmania will be recording it all.
With its thick steel walls, battery storage and solar panels, the developers of"Earth's Black Box" say the city bus-sized structure will be indestructible to the climate crisis itself and is meant to outlive humans.Eventually, its creators hope, the black box will tell future civilizations how humankind created the climate crisis, and how we failed or succeeded to address it. Rain fell at Greenland's summit this year for the first time.
Twist in negotiations leads COP26 president to apologize 03:11The steel monolith will document all climate-related conversations and artifacts from the past, present and future including land and sea temperature changes, ocean acidification, the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, human population, energy consumption, military spending, policy changes and more.
World leaders reach COP26 agreement to fight climate change 03:06Much like the Rosetta Stone, he said, they plan to use multiple formats of encoding including mathematical symbolism for their longer-term analogue steel plate inscriptions, which would include instructions necessary to decode the box by whoever uncovers it.
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