Climate change occurs when changes in Earth's climate system result in new weather patterns that last for at least a few decades, and maybe for millions of years. The climate system is comprised of five interacting parts, the atmosphere (air), hydrosphere (water), cryosphere, biosphere, and lithosphere. The climate system receives nearly all of its energy from the sun, with a relatively tiny amount from earth's interior. The climate system also gives off energy to outer space. The balance of incoming and outgoing energy, and the passage of the energy through the climate system, determines Earth's energy budget. When the incoming energy is greater than the outgoing energy, earth's energy budget is positive and the climate system is warming. If more energy goes out, the energy budget is negative and earth experiences cooling.
Macnas is a performance company based at the Fisheries Field in Galway, Ireland. Its public performances are noted for being "pioneering, inventive and radical" in style. The company has been credited with changing the nature of public entertainment in Ireland and is regarded as highly influential within the field of spectacle performance.
Global warming is a long-term rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system, an aspect of climate change shown by temperature measurements and by multiple effects of the warming. Though earlier geological periods also experienced episodes of warming, the term commonly refers to the observed and continuing increase in average air and ocean temperatures since 1900 caused mainly by emissions of greenhouse gasses in the modern industrial economy. In the modern context the terms global warming and climate change are commonly used interchangeably, but climate change includes both global warming and its effects, such as changes to precipitation and impacts that differ by region. Many of the observed warming changes since the 1950s are unprecedented in the instrumental temperature record, and in historical and paleoclimate proxy records of climate change over thousands to millions of years.
Urodidae or "false burnet moths" is a family of insects in the lepidopteran order, representing its own superfamily, Urodoidea, with three genera, one of which, Wockia, occurs in Europe.
Titanio is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.
Patricia Forde, former Director of the Galway Arts Festival and children's author, born c. 1960.
The Autostichinae are a subfamily of moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. Like their relatives therein, their exact relationships are not yet very well resolved. The present lineage was often included in the concealer moth family (Oecophoridae), but alternatively it is united with the Symmocidae sensu stricto to form an expanded family Autostichidae.
Macna camiguina is a species of snout moth in the genus Macna. It was described by Georg Semper in 1899 and is known from the Philippines. It was described from Camiguin de Mindanao, from which its species epithet is derived.
Macna coelocrossa is a species of snout moth in the genus Macna. It was described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1911. It is found in Australia.
Macna minanga is a species of snout moth in the genus Macna. It was described by Georg Semper in 1899 and is known from Luzon in the Philippines.
Macna oppositalis is a species of snout moth in the genus Macna. It was described by Francis Walker in 1866. It found on Aru, New Guinea and the Raja Ampat Islands.
Macna platychloralis is a species of snout moth in the genus Macna. It was described by Francis Walker in 1866. It is found on Java.
Macna atrirufalis is a species of snout moth in the genus Macna. It was described by George Hampson in 1897. It is found in New Guinea and on Ambon Island.
Macna darabitalis is a species of snout moth in the genus Macna. It was described by Pieter Cornelius Tobias Snellen in 1895. It is found on Java.
Macna ignebasalis is a species of snout moth in the genus Macna. It was described by George Hampson in 1897. It is found in New Guinea.
Macna pomalis is a species of snout moth in the genus Macna. It was described by Francis Walker in 1859. It is found in Bhutan, Malacca and Singapore.
Macna rubra is a species of snout moth in the genus Macna. It was described by George Thomas Bethune-Baker in 1908. It is found in New Guinea.
Macna leitimorensis is a species of snout moth in the genus Macna. It was described by Pagenstecher in 1884. It is found on Ambon Island.
Macna rufus is a species of snout moth in the genus Macna. It was described by George Thomas Bethune-Baker in 1908. It is found in New Guinea.
