Obama made the remarks at the White House with Attorney General Loretta Lynch and FBI Director James Comey. He had asked his team to look for executive
actions he can take to curb gun violence in the country.
Obama said although the steps will not solve every violent crime or prevent every mass shooting, it will potentially save lives and spare families the pain
and extraordinary loss as a consequence of a firearm being in the hands of the
wrong people.
"I'm also confident that the recommendations that are being made by my team here are ones that are entirely consistent with the Second Amendment and
people's lawful right to bear arms," he said.
In his weekly radio address on Friday, Obama blasted Congress for failing to act on curbing gun violence.
"We know that we can't stop every act of violence. But what if we tried to stop even one? What if Congress did something -- anything -- to protect our kids
from gun violence?" he said.
On Thursday Kyle Long Bears Jersey , Obama will participate in a live Town Hall event with CNN's Anderson Cooper on reducing gun violence in the country.
GENEVA, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- Researchers have developed a novel and more accurate method to measure ocean temperatures by using the concentration of
noble gases in Antarctic ice, which helps to conclude on the changes in sea
temperature from the last ice age to the present day, according to a press
release by the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
(EMPA) on Friday.
An international team of researchers, including those from EMPA and the University of Bern Pat O'Donnell Bears Jersey , has come up with the method that uses ice cores from Antarctica to more accurately measure average global ocean temperatures over the
past 24,000 years, during which the transition from the last ice age occurred.
The layers of permanent ice in that region form an "archive of the atmosphere" that contains trapped bubbles of air and other gases known as noble
gases, including krypton, xenon and argon.
As cooling water absorbs noble gases from the atmosphere and warming water releases them Zach Miller Bears Jersey , the concentration of noble gases in these ice core bubbles can help scientists estimate the average temperature of the ocean at the time.
Using this method, the researchers identified an increase of 2.6 degrees Celsius in average ocean temperature over a period of 10,000 years, which has
been published in the scientific journal Nature.
The team also believe that the method could in theory be useful for monitoring current temperature changes, and not just large-scale changes like
the shift from the last ice age to the current warm age.
That is important because as the global climate warms Sam Acho Bears Jersey , most of the extra heat is absorbed by the oceans. Until now, measurements of average ocean temperature have been very complicated to
produce and are often distorted by variations in location, season, and ocean
depth.
According to EMPA, the basic idea of using the connection between the concentration of noble gases in the atmosphere and the average ocean temperature
is correct and that the method works. ?
