Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Trees' spring awakening is becoming less and less sensitive to altitude

Source: differences
Details: Science Daily Global warming means that more trees at higher altitudes are being exposed to this temperature range. Conversely, such periods are becoming less frequent at low altitudes. As a result, buds may be able to emerge from dormancy increasingly early high up on mountains and increasingly late lower ...

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My Internet Mea Culpa

Source: NewCo Shift
Details: But I doubt it, because we have bigger problems within a single generation â€" global warming, social justice â€" that I thought the internet would help with. But it isn't. With both of these explanations for what went wrong, there is still a strong argument to keep at it. If we knew, 100%, that eventually the ...

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Canada says Santa left North Pole due to global warming.

Source: Brinkwire (press release)
Details: A statement on the Policy Horizons Canada website says thanks to rising global temperatures, rapidly melting Arctic ice and increasing destructive drilling ... The humorous blog post comes as part of a series of Christmas themed posts about emerging policy concerns, one of which is global warming.

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Global Warming Is a Slow-moving Civilization-ending Catastrophe

Source: HuffPost
Details: The federal government is now hiding the risks of global warming. Indeed, it is resurrecting the “1984” terror world of George Orwell. The Trump administration “sees burning more fossil fuels as the path to global energy dominance.” This kind of thinking and policy defies reason and national security.

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=== News - 1 new result for [global warming] == Japan aims to slash price of hydrogen fuel Nikkei Asian Review Japan will also promote the use of fuel cell buses and forklifts. Abe emphasized the innovative role that hydrogen can play in national energy security and the problem of global warming, and said that the government would work to quickly implement the measures outlined in the basic strategy. (Nikkei).

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PJ O'Rourke Revisits the Back Porch with an Engine, the Pickup Truck

Source: Car and Driver (blog)
Details: They are commodious enough for your yoga class, even if the namaste makers want to turn the climate control up to global-warming panic and practice Bikram inside the truck. But there's nothing effete about these pickups. Their styling is aggressive enough to make Peterbilts hide behind interstate ...

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The meaning of life, according to a spaceship

Source: The Outline
Details: Robinson assumes that disaster is inevitable â€" that the ship will crash into the Sun or that global warming has and will continue to cause the sea to rise. Angry optimism basically says that everything will crash but maybe what comes after will be better. I may have trouble with optimism, but I'm coming ...

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Stephen Hawking's Six Wildest Predictions From 2017—From a Robot Apocalypse

Source: to the Demise ...
Details: Newsweek In July, Hawking told the BBC that humanity is at a “tipping point” where global warming would become so bad that Earth will “become like Venus, with a temperature of 250 degrees ... According to Hawking, the global population has been doubling every 40 years, and our planet can only take so much.

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Humans to Blame for Higher Drought Risk in Some Regions

Source: Eos
Details: For more than a decade, observational and numerical modeling studies have predicted that anthropogenic emissions would cause warming that could change ... Meanwhile, the authors say, addressing anthropogenic global warming should remain a central strategy to maintain water supplies and food ...

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The top science videos of 2017

Source: Cosmos
Details: The gradual worldwide sweep of global warming is hard to visualise. This video makes it seem easy. Read more. Explosive failures in rocket landing. How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster. Info. Shopping. Tap to unmute. If playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device. Your browser does ...

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Proof of Climate Change Found in the Arabian Sea per New Study

Source: Edgy Labs (blog)
Details: A study conducted by researchers from Princeton University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) suggests that cyclone formations in the Arabian Sea were caused by global warmingâ€"an alleged proof of climate change. In October 2014, a cyclone unusually formed off the ...

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Floods, fires and climate crisis in the Pacific

Source: The Japan Times
Details: While multiple factors, from soil erosion to unregulated urbanization, help turn hazards into disasters, runaway global warming is proving to be a tipping point for catastrophes. It's time for politics, economics and the media to deepen actions on the new climate reality. Droughts, fires, storms and floods are ...

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Zen and the art of snow shoveling

Source: Aspen Daily News
Details: Still, I have heard people with more than half a brain mutter, “I don't believe in global warming,” while pointing to streaks in the sky as evidence of chem-trails, which are apparently government-sponsored airplanes spraying aluminum on us to combat global warming, which is apparently a Chinese hoax ...

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Climate Change Is Happening Faster Than Expected, and It's More Extreme

Source: InsideClimate News
Details: There's also an increasing chance global warming will affect a key North Atlantic current that carries ocean heat from the tropics toward western Europe, according to a 2016 study. It shows the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current weakening by 37 percent by 2100, which could have big effects on ...

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A New Year's Resolution Option to Slow Climate Change

Source: Public News Service
Details: Scientists say if people across the globe switched to a diet full of nuts, beans, fish and less meat, global warming could be reduced by up to 15 ... Maya Almaraz, a postdoctoral researcher at the university, says while people may feel helpless when it comes to an issue as large as a warming planet, the ...

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Monday, December 25, 2017

Despite Trump Effect, Global Push Against Climate Change On a Rise

Source: The Quint
Details: The Trump administration's decision, earlier this year, to pull out of the historic 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, saying the Obama-era deal was an attempt to diminish the US economy and take jobs away, has not stopped incredible global momentum to curb global warming. Environmental advocates ...

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Saving the world - with sea water from Whitby

Source: The Northern Echo
Details: SCIENTISTS have developed a new way of reducing global warming - using scrap metal and sea water from Whitby. A team at the University of York have come up with a technology that could capture more than 850 million tonnes of unwanted carbon dioxide in the each year. High levels of carbon ...

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=== News - 1 new result for [global warming] == Science Journals Might Be 'More International' but Not Their Editorial Boards The Wire The deforestation of peat woods in Southeast Asia releases large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, exacerbating global warming. At the same time, the malaria problem is more multifaceted in Cambodia than in Canada, but remains that much less represented in the medical literature.

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Letter: A 'liberal deplorable' feeling more hopeful

Source: Albany Times Union
Details: I am in favor of universal health care, renewable energy, combating global warming, protecting the environment, preserving open space, respect for others, free early education, support for higher education, accessible voting rights, truth and honesty in government, an equitable taxation policy, free ...

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Need for a balanced view of colonial history

Source: The Times
Details: Where do “liberals” get the idea that they have a God-given right to inflict their beliefs on other people? Whether it is the excoriation of the BBC for a single deviation from the party line on global warming or the moral blackmail of companies for advertising with “proscribed” newspapers, the cognoscenti ...

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Spades, saplings and sheep: Iceland battles to restore long-lost forests

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Details: “Afforestation is among the least painful ways of dealing with global warming” both in terms of its relatively low economic cost and the lack of need for people to change their behavior, Eysteinsson said. “Changing behaviour is painful because it is so difficult. Someone who is used to driving their own car ...

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Climate science and policy frameworks

Source: Daily Times
Details: From the website to the market outlook, the Global Change Impact Study Centre (GCISC) has been revamped in a short span of time. From a slow paced ... Pakistan is among countries most affected by climate change despite its negligible contribution to global warming. It is true that we are an ...

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Spring foliage appearing too early in the Alps?

Source: swissinfo.ch
Details: Because of global warming, trees in the Alps are coming into leaf earlier than they used to â€" which could have negative consequences for forest ecosystems. In the early 1960s, spring came to the mountains about five weeks after arriving in the lowlands â€" as observed by the appearance of leaves on the ...

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College reverberates with shabad recitals

Source: The Tribune
Details: The volunteers participated in the poster-making competition on the theme of 'Global Warming'. A group discussion on 'Havocs of Polybags' was held among the volunteers, where they pledged not to use polythene bags. They emphasised the use of various eco-friendly alternatives of polybags such as ...

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'Downsizing': What Went Wrong with Alexander Payne's Social Satire

Source: IndieWire
Details: For one thing, “Downsizing” is aimed at audience concerns about global warming and eco-sustainability. That's not an easy sell. And Paramount never figured out how to reach audiences with this feathered fish â€" neither arthouse nor mainstream, critics-friendly nor Oscar contender, with a mediocre 63 ...

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Unsafe

Source: Philippine Star
Details: As 2017 draws to a close, we wonder if the world has become a safer place for humanity. There are enough reasons to argue it has not: that the world has become more polarized, more terrorized and more vulnerable to calamities associated with global warming. The instruments modern civilization ...

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Bill Sutton: Facing up to the threat of global destruction

Source: New Zealand Herald
Details: For the most part they avoid political controversy, but on this all-important topic, global warming, increasing numbers of them are speaking out. We must listen to them before it's too late. Comparing "climate change" with nuclear war shows us both similarities and differences. Differences include the ...

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Alps once again shoulder the image of Switzerland abroad

Source: swissinfo.ch
Details: Such events, the international resonance of which attest to a lasting interest in the unpredictable power of the mountains, had both a positive and negative impact for the country's image, said Presence Switzerland. While they show the ongoing threat of global warming to the country's geography, the ...

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Ipsos poll: Only 18 per cent think Turnbull government is doing a good job

Source: on climate change
Details: The Sydney Morning Herald One in two Australians believe climate change is already damaging the Great Barrier Reef and causing more extreme storms, floods and droughts. But only 18 per cent think the Turnbull government is doing a good job tackling global warming, a new poll has found. Play Video. Replay Video. Play Video

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It's in the Air! Record Methane Emissions Trigger Norwegian Climate Alarm

Source: Sputnik International
Details: Ever-rising emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, have triggered the concern of Norwegian climate researchers, who suggest its effect can exceed that of carbon dioxide, which is more commonly blamed for global warming. While the international emphasis in fighting climate change has ...

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2017 in review: Despite 'Donald Trump effect', global momentum on climate

Source: change gains
Details: India Today In a major initiative, the World's No.1 polluter, China, this week announced plans to start a market-based carbon-trading system, initially in over 1,700 power-generating firms, to keep global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius and aiming to cut greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels. Taking the lead ...

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Bitcoin is considered as Virtual gold but mining it contributes to the

Source: global warming
Details: Firstpost What barely five years ago was a hobby for "bedroom miners" has mushroomed into a massive, but unregulated, industry that some observers fear is a bubble waiting to explode, potentially causing damage similar to the sub-prime mortgages fiasco that caused the global economic crisis a decade ago.

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Canada govt website claims Santa is moving to South Pole

Source: Deccan Chronicle
Details: It turns out that a Canadian government website has claimed Santa Claus is relocating his workshop, elves, reindeer to the South Pole to escape the effects of global warming. The statement as published on Policy Horizons Canada website says that rising global temperatures, rapidly melting Arctic ice ...

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Sustainable energy balance needed to meet rising global demand, say experts

Source: Financial Express
Details: “We believe that the only possible way to achieve sustainable development and preserve the environment of our planet is to create a green energy balance. The solution of the global warming problem lies in the transition to green carbon-free electrical energy generation, to the energy of the atom, sun, ...

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Sunday, December 24, 2017

Paris Agreement: Despite 'Donald Trump effect', global momentum on climate

Source: change gains
Details: Financial Express The Trump administrations decision earlier this year to pull out of the historic 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, saying the Obama-era deal was an attempt to diminish the US economy and take jobs away, has not stopped incredible global momentum to curb global warming. Environmental advocates ...

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Letter: Global Warming and promoting tree plantation in the province

Source: The Balochistan Point (press release) (blog)
Details: The issue of global warming has alarmed the entire world. Our earth can be the victim of natural destruction with the continuous rise in the temperature. According to the experts, if global warming is not ceased, the sea level will increase and hundreds of islands can be flooded and vanished. Global ...

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Christmas Is the Perfect Time to Mock Liberals, and Other Random Thoughts

Source: Townhall
Details: Yeah, 2017 has been a terrible year for Gaia. But she struck back with hurricanes and fires, which are totally the result of global warming. Of course, the recent run of years where there were no big hurricanes or fires were not indicative of a lack of global warming because you hate science, or something.

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Jhimli - Compassion for environment and nature features big in Christmas

Source: messages of priests
Details: Times of India This refrain was heard from Father Pradip Nanda, priest at the St John's Cathedral (233 years old) who pointed out that peace cannot be achieved when global warming is staring at us. "We have to work consistently to bring peace to nature which lies battered. The Lord came here not only for us but for ...

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Conservation Corner: Coffee growers play key role for birds

Source: Spartanburg Herald Journal
Details: As if habitat loss and degradation were not enough, global warming is already affecting bird distribution and ranges. On Sept. 18, 2014, a New York Times headline read, “Climate Change Will Disrupt Half of North America's Bird Species, Study Says.” The seven-year study was conducted by Audubon ...

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=== News - 1 new result for [global warming] == All I want for Christmas is . . . Lowell Sun All I want for Christmas is for the president to reverse the status of our nation as the only one in the world not supporting the international initiative committed to combating global warming. All I want for Christmas is for the discredited Steve Bannon to continue in his role as chief political strategist for the ...

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Policy Horizons Canada says Santa has moved his workshop, elves and

Source: reindeer
Details: Daily Mail The humorous blog post comes as part of a series of Christmas themed posts about emerging policy concerns, one of which is global warming. In other tongue-in-cheek messages Horizon mention Santa buying a self-flying sleigh and even investing in Bitcoin. However, the site's latest blog post focuses ...

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Lichens give researchers clues on changing temperatures, pollution

Source: The Mainichi
Details: Up until then, the northern limit of the lichen had been the Izu Peninsula in central Japan, but due to the effects of global warming and the heat island phenomenon caused by urbanization, there is a possibility that its distribution may spread further northward in the future. Ohmura operates a website ...

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A freezing December is 'the paradox of global warming'

Source: 동아일보
Details: “The 'cutting wind' each morning is quite peculiar. Another cold wave is expected at the last week of this year and I am very nervous about it,” said Jeong Tae-jin, who has been working for 11 years at the Baengnyeongdo Meteorological Station, which is located in the very front line of all domestic ...

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Christmas: From pagan rite to global holiday

Source: Daily Nation
Details: Christmas: From pagan rite to global holiday .... Given the current and real crisis of environmental degradation and the reality of global warming, reforestation has become a world-wide and national priority. The tree, and especially indigenous species, is emerging as a symbol of life. The tree evokes the ...

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NJOROGE: Christmas: From pagan rite to global holiday

Source: Daily Nation
Details: Given the current and real crisis of environmental degradation and the reality of global warming, reforestation has become a world-wide and national priority. The tree, and especially indigenous species, is emerging as a symbol of life. The tree evokes the Garden of Eden (Gen 2:1-2) with its tree of life.

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Conference report urges municipalities to act on climate change

Source: The Hants Journal
Details: “For me the Thinkers Retreat acknowledges the fact that asserting First Nations treaty rights could be a game changer when it comes to finding local solutions to global warming,” said Heming. “These rights can effect change by facilitating ways around political barriers and proposing new ideas for ...

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Religious harmony is India's treasure, says Dalai Lama

Source: The Hindu
Details: “In today's world, with global warming and increasing population, an individual's future depends on the rest of the world. We have to develop a concern for other human beings without being self-centred or short-sighted. We need a sense of global responsibility,” he said. He also spoke about the ...

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=== News - 3 new results for [global warming] == Paris Climate Agreement and the US Withdrawal: The Way Forward Mainstream International efforts have been continued under the auspices of the United Nations to forge a collective action to combat the daunting challenges of this global problem. Since 1992, all the world's governments had been pledging to take preventive measures that could avoid dangerous warming of the ...

Source: Letter: Recognize impact of natural gas
Details: The Columbian Gov. Jay Inslee is an environmental champion with two blind spots. He needs to recognize that natural gas is as bad as bunker fuel in terms of global warming, and that global warming is an emergency. The recent rain in Texas set a U.S. continental record, and California's wildfires are insane. We've run ... The Justice Department moves to dismiss youth climate lawsuit Jefferson Public Radio A group of 21 youths is suing the US government for its failure to protect their future by preventing harmful global warming impacts, but the Trump administration says the case should be dismissed. In May 2016, a group of young people aged 9 to 21 filed a groundbreaking lawsuit in Oregon federal court ... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Unsubscribe from this Google Alert: Create another Google Alert: Sign in to manage your alerts:
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Ensure compliance withrules, CM tells new firm

Source: The Hindu
Details: The objectives of the HFCS such as initiatives for projects aimed at reducing global warming and for investing in means of production were good, he said. CPI(M) leader and president of the HFCS M. Shajar said there was communal propaganda against the new venture. This was not an institution for ...

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=== News - 2 new results for [global warming] == 2017 in Photos: Capturing the Causes and Impacts of Climate Change DeSmog (blog) The year 2017 was, in many ways, stormy. It brought more storms super-sized due to global warming and more people, including scientists, taking to the streets in response to the political climate. This year for DeSmog I continued documenting a range of issues related to climate change, from extreme ...

Source: 'Virtual gold' may glitter, but mining it can be really dirty
Details: Phys.Org ... currencies, bitcoin's recent stratospheric price rises have propelled it from the chat forum-hosted depths of nerddom into the global consciousness. ... used for mining is generated, the virtual currency can have a very real impact by adding pollutants into the air and contributing to global warming. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Unsubscribe from this Google Alert: Create another Google Alert: Sign in to manage your alerts:
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Letter: California on fire but LaMalfa remains in denial

Source: Chico Enterprise-Record
Details: Twenty-five years ago, I wrote two articles concerning scientific warnings about global warming and climate change for a nationally distributed magazine. And for 25 years, LaMalfa has been a climate denier, ignoring the obvious, risking our future. Vote LaMalfa out in 2018, no matter what your political ...

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=== News - 1 new result for [global warming] == LETTER: She deserves lump of coal Lima Ohio Here's the problem: At no point in this long column does the writer acknowledge the overwhelming scientific consensus that, as the main driver of anthropogenic global warming, the burning of fossil fuels, especially coal, is destroying our planet. Let me offer an analogy. It would be like a pharmaceutical ...

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Virtual gold may glitter, but mining bitcoin contributes to global warming

Source: The Japan Times
Details: Depending on how the electricity used for mining is generated, the virtual currency can have a very real impact by adding pollutants into the air and contributing to global warming. What barely five years ago was a hobby for “bedroom miners” has mushroomed into a massive, but unregulated, industry ...

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Saturday, December 23, 2017

White Christmases are becoming a daydream

Source: The Times
Details: It's beginning to look a lot like . . . asbestos. When Bing Crosby was dreaming of a White Christmas during the final scene of the 1942 film Holiday Inn, the “snow” that fell around him was fibres of the deadly material, scattered from above by stagehands. Fortunately, creating the illusion of Christmas snow ...

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=== News - 1 new result for [global warming] == Trump lands on Santa's 'Naughty List,' but he won't get a lump of coal Bradenton Herald Why? Because of the constant lying, even to your supporters. For your bigotry, and for putting the rich and powerful ahead of the poor and middle classes. You're on the Naughty List, Donnie, because of your decisions against health insurance, the EPA, global warming, women's and LGBT rights and for ...

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'Virtual gold' may glitter, but mining it can be really dirty

Source: New Straits Times Online
Details: The cryptocurrency, which allows anonymous transactions unrestricted by global borders, is popular with tech heads, people suspicious of government and ... used for mining is generated, the virtual currency can have a very real impact by adding pollutants into the air and contributing to global warming.

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Turbines blow hot, cold on financial benefits for local towns

Source: Worcester Telegram
Details: The state, he noted, has an aggressive renewable portfolio standard and the most aggressive greenhouse gas targets in the nation under the 2008 Global Warming Solutions Act, which requires the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent below the 1990 baseline emissions level by 2020 and ...

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=== News - 1 new result for [global warming] == A greener Christmas Trinity News The methane and carbon dioxide gas created by landfill as this waste decomposes is contributing to the greenhouse gas effect and global warming. When food decomposes in landfills, methane is produced, a greenhouse gas that is approximately thirty times more potent than carbon dioxide.

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​Climate change destruction is the 'New Normal'

Source: China.org.cn
Details: Two years ago, then French President Francois Hollande hosted the United Nations Conference of Parties on Climate Change (COP 21), at which the Paris Accord came into effect with the full support of the vast majority of nations forming Planet Earth. Two years later, his successor, Emmanuel Macron, ...

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Why Modern India Should Fear The Great Droughts That Ended Indus Valley,

Source: Vedic Eras
Details: IndiaSpend This is important in the light of global warming, rising ocean temperatures and the fluctuation in the monsoon India has seen in the last 10-15 years, especially if you consider that civilisation is now spread across the region where the Indus Valley civilisation flourished as well as in regions to the east of ...

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Can humanity make peace with its death?

Source: Salon
Details: Global warming is reaching a crisis point, and while it's impossible to predict how exactly that will end, humanity's extinction is certainly within the realm of plausibility. The threat of nuclear war has loomed over our species since that fateful day in 1945 when Harry Truman dropped an atomic bomb on ...

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Global warming resistant corals will be tested in the ocean by 2019

Source: Next Big Future
Details: Corals adapted to cooler water can be crossed with other species from warmer regions so that the hybrids withstand heat better. * Another approach is to toughen up the symbiotic algae that live in the coral animals' tissues and provide them with food. Leela Chakravarti, one of van Oppen's team, pushed ...

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=== News - 1 new result for [global warming] == Letters to the editor, December 23 Denton Record Chronicle A study released Tuesday in the journal Scientific Reports found that snowfall on the highest peak in the Alaska Range has more than doubled since the start of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-19th century. We all remember scientists like David Viner who concluded that, by now, winter snowfalls ...

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Adorable polar bear cub falls backwards in shock as seal pops through ice

Source: in sweet new BBC ...
Details: Mirror.co.uk And, just weeks ago, footage of a starving polar bear captured by National Geographic similarly gave a hint at the "soul-crushing" reality of global warming. But the BBC's upcoming one-off documentary is much less bleak and focuses on the cute and fluffy side of the life of polar bear cubs. Snow Bears ...

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Gov't Website Claims Santa Will Move To The South Pole To Escape Global

Source: Warming
Details: BOE Report (press release) A Canadian government website claims Santa Claus signed an international agreement to relocate his workshop to the South Pole to escape the effects of man-made global warming in the Arctic. The website for Policy Horizons Canada, a government website, notes that due to “rapidly melting Arctic ice ...

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The Polar Bear, Climate Change's Poster Child, Ignites Controversy

Source: EcoWatch
Details: "One starving bear is not scientific evidence that man-made global warming has already negatively affected polar bears, but it is evidence that some activists will use any ploy to advance their agenda and increase donations," wrote Crockford. Half of her pointâ€"the part about over-extrapolatingâ€"is valid.

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Good News for Holiday Travelers Close to Home - Subzero Christmas Windchill

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
Details: In the first application, Trump cited "global warming and its effects," including rising sea levels and water erosion, as reasons for the wall, Politico reported, despite his statements calling global warming and climate change "a total hoax." Global warming was not listed as a reason in this application..." ...

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Climate change in Lapland: The impact of global warming in the land of

Source: Santa Claus
Details: The Independent Lapland occupies a happy space in the popular imagination as a winter wonderland, occupied by reindeer, elves and Father Christmas. The real life Lapland, however, is increasingly facing up to the grim reality of global warming. Besides being the name of Swedish and Finnish provinces, Lapland is ...

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ICE AGE EARTH: Global FREEZE lasting 120 YEARS threatens 'more intense'

Source: winters from 2019
Details: Daily Star In order to prevent catastrophic global warming, almost every country has signed up to a United Nations climate pact, whose aim is to keep global temperatures below 2C. But Dilley, a former NOAA meteorologist, argues that Earth is “coming off” a 230-year global warming cycle and moving on to a ...

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The Justice Department moves to dismiss youth climate lawsuit

Source: PRI
Details: A group of 21 youths is suing the US government for its failure to protect their future by preventing harmful global warming impacts, but the Trump ... court alleging that the failure of the US government to act on global warming violates the constitutional rights of young people to life, liberty and property.

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Roach: Money talks

Source: Channel3000.com - WISC-TV3
Details: Anecdotally, as a small business owner with a staff that consists of more than 40 percent educated millennials, and as a father of three in the same demo, I can tell you that they are almost uniformly fond of choice, gay rights, voting equity, a healthy environment and a belief in global warming. They don't ...

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Senate leaves town with HHS, NASA nominees in limbo

Source: Bristol Herald Courier (press release) (blog)
Details: FILE- In this Nov. 29, 2017, file photo, Alex Azar, President Donald Trump's nominee to become Secretary of Health and Human Services, testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate has left town for the year ...

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Climate Change & Anthropocene Extinction 43: Expert explains biodiversity

Source: graph Royal Society ...
Details: Bits Of Science Now due to thermal climate inertia we are at current CO2 levels already committed to substantial extra warming. But of course the pace of the temperature trend also depends on the global future emissions outlook and on remaining uncertainties surrounding climate sensitivity â€" or the politically most ...

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Rise in CO2 a cause for concern

Source: The Hans India
Details: Former Vice-Chancellor of Acharya Nagarjuna University V Bala Mohan Das said it would be helpful for various educational institutions to create awareness about the global scenario in connection with climate change and global warming. Besides, it also helps to carry out local campaign and action ...

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Bumbling Climate-Denying Trump Nominee For Top Environmental Position Is

Source: Blocked By Senate ...
Details: Jezebel Hartnett White, doyenne of climate denial, who has called carbon dioxide the “gas of life” and compared belief in global warming to “paganism,” is famously coal-friendly and voted for the construction of a new coal-fired plant as head of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality under Rick Perry.

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So, let's talk green: Cut down a car, ride a tree!

Source: Deccan Chronicle
Details: Carbon that is burnt in the form of fossil fuels when we run an industry or run a car is clogging the atmosphere to an extent that is causing global warming at an unprecedented scale. This is resulting in extreme climate events like floods and droughts, causing forest fires and acidification of the oceans, ...

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New lab-bred super corals could help avert global reef wipeout

Source: The Guardian
Details: One of the most promising is coral hybrids, and new experiments by Van Oppen's team have shown that corals adapted to cooler water can be crossed with other species from warmer regions so that the hybrids withstand heat better. “I am very excited because the results are so promising,” she said, ...

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Friday, December 22, 2017

The Energy 202: The biggest environmental and energy stories of 2017

Source: Washington Post
Details: Just 33 days later, Trump made one of the biggest announcements of the year, declaring his plan to withdraw from the landmark global warming accord. In a June 1 speech from the Rose Garden, the president said: “It is time to put Youngstown, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, ...

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Climate change predicted to drive more migrants to Europe

Source: News24
Details: The study published on Thursday in the journal Science concludes that the number of asylum-seekers to the EU could rise by more than a quarter by 2100 even if global warming slows. It forecasts that asylum requests could almost triple by the end of the century if current rates of global warming ...

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'Idiotic Use of Statistics': Expert Destroys Study Linking Refugees to

Source: Climate Change
Details: The Western Journal Global warming activists have seized upon a study purporting to link temperature changes to mass migration from the third world to Europe, in an apparent attempt to attack the Trump administration. The study, published Friday in the journal Science, found that “temperatures that deviated from the ...

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Global warming may boost asylum-seekers in Europe, say researchers

Source: The Express Tribune
Details: NEW YORK: Climate change is forecast to massively boost the number of asylum seekers in Europe by century's end if warming trends continue, US researchers said Thursday. The study in the journal Science is the latest in a body of research that shows how weather shocks such as droughts â€" made ...

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Global warming may boost asylum-seekers in Europe

Source: The News International
Details: NEW YORK: Climate change is forecast to massively boost the number of asylum seekers in Europe by century´s end if warming trends continue, US researchers said on Thursday. The study in the journal Science is the latest in a body of research that shows how weather shocks such as droughts ...

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This is what global warming would do to the 'Game of Thrones' planet

Source: Yahoo News
Details: The warring inhabitants of Westeros â€" one of the four known continents in the Game of Thrones world â€" dread the planet's long, unforgiving winters. But a global warming event there, stoked by an influx of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, would likely be even more dire. Earlier this week, University ...

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Study: Global warming may boost asylum-seekers in Europe

Source: Dhaka Tribune
Details: Climate change is forecast to massively boost the number of asylum seekers in Europe by century's end if warming trends continue, US researchers said Thursday. The study in the journal Science is the latest in a body of research that shows how weather shocks such as droughts â€" made worse as the ...

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It's Not the Heat. It's the Humidity.

Source: Slate Magazine
Details: The study's model predicts that in many places in the world, under worse estimates for global warming rates, those temperatures could stretch for up to 100 to 250 days a year by 2080. The most devastating effects would happen in northern India, eastern China, the coastal Middle East, and in parts of the ...

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President Trump gets approval to build controversial wall at seaside Irish

Source: resort
Details: Golf.com The earlier application had referenced climate change and global warming as reasons for sea level rise and the need for the wall; the new application omitted any such references. Trump International Golf Links bought the resort at Doonbeg, County Clare in 2014 at auction for 8.7 million euros. The sea ...

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Global warming may boost asylum-seekers in Europe: study

Source: Citizen
Details: Next, they combined this data with projections of future warming. Under what is considered an optimistic scenario, an increase of average global temperatures of 1.8 C would increase applications by 28 percent by 2100 â€" meaning 98,000 extra applications to the EU each year. “If carbon emissions ...

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Climate Change Could Triple Number Of Asylum Seekers To EU By 2100

Source: IFLScience
Details: ... the team found that as the mercury rose beyond this optimum, the number of asylum seekers from these countries didn't just increase; they also accelerated. Assuming that no other factors play a role in this regard, the researchers simply extrapolated this trend to 2100 based on various global warming ...

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How Many Times Did You Beat Your Wife?

Source: Canada Free Press
Details: The climate change argument presupposes the validity of its foundational premise of global warming. When it became abundantly clear that the earth's temperature always fluctuates and was in fact cooling the global warming enthusiasts disingenuously changed the name of their campaign from “global ...

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How The Trump Conundrum Will Affect America's Long-Term Health

Source: The Federalist
Details: I listed four main things: withdrawal from the Iran deal, withdrawal from the Paris agreement on global warming, the appointment of at least one good ... Trump even appointed a global warming skeptic as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, who set about turning it into a pro-energy agency.

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Global warming could drive 660000 more people per year to Europe

Source: PBS NewsHour
Details: The number of asylum seekers fleeing their home countries to the European Union will increase 188 percent â€" to 660,000 applications per year â€" by 2100 if carbon emissions and global warming continue on their current path, according to new estimates published Thursday in Science Magazine.

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Introduction: Global power and influence in 2018 & beyond

Source: WikiTribune
Details: On global issues, the abstention or absence of the United States has created a vacuum in international fora on world trade, global warming, international development policy, and in UNESCO. And while the United States is withdrawing, China is gradually gaining influence in many of these areas.

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Marylebone boys' school students talk Feminism and Global Warming!

Source: Shout Out UK
Details: Feminism, global warming and changing the curriculum are on the agenda â€" not for parliamentary debate, but for students at Marylebone boys' school. After 12-weeks of Shout Out UK's Political Literacy Course, a group of students at Marylebone boys' school put their political knowledge and public ...

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Climate change seen causing big rise in migrant flow to EU by 2100

Source: Economic Times
Details: OSLO: Rapid global warming could almost triple the number of migrants reaching the European Union by 2100, adding to factors such as war and ... On Monday, US President Donald Trump, who doubts global warming is man-made, dropped climate change from a list of national security threats, aides ...

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Thursday, December 21, 2017

Global warming puts Santa's delivery system at risk

Source: Irish Times
Details: While this Christmas delivery service has been in business for aeons, global warming is putting its future at risk. Research shows that the extent of Arctic ice in the winter is rapidly declining each year, due to the continual rise in temperature in these regions driven by climate change. While still adequate ...

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Global warming will cause more volcanic eruptions - scientists

Source: Newshub
Details: A new study warns global warming will have a new and devastating effect - more and larger volcanic eruptions. A historic analysis of glacial melting shows volcanic eruptions tend to increase, as glacial coverage shrinks. The report, published in Geology, focused on volcanoes in Iceland several ...

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Migrant set to treble as climate warms

Source: The Times
Details: The flow of migrants into Europe will almost treble by the end of the century if global warming continues at its present pace, scientists have predicted. Since 2015 more than 2.5 million people have applied for asylum in the European Union and 11,000 are thought to have drowned while attempting to ...

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Global warming may boost asylum-seekers in Europe: study

Source: Yahoo Singapore News
Details: Climate change is forecast to massively boost the number of asylum seekers in Europe by century's end if warming trends continue, US researchers said Thursday. The study in the journal Science is the latest in a body of research that shows how weather shocks such as droughts -- made worse as the ...

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Global warming could cause asylum applications in Europe to nearly triple,

Source: study suggests
Details: The Independent Asylum seeker numbers in Europe could rise dramatically due to climate change, even in optimistic warming scenarios, according to new research. Researchers at Columbia University found a worst-case scenario for climate change could increase the number of asylum seekers in EU countries in 2100 ...

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Global warming could cause surge in European asylum seekers in coming

Source: decades
Details: Mashable Now a new study, published in the journal Science, shows that the current surge in refugees may be a preview of what's to come due in large part to global warming. Studies have already tied climate change to the civil war in Syria and raised red flags about how climate change can serve as a threat ...

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Study Claims Global Warming Will Cause 'More Frequent Volcanic Eruptions'

Source: BOE Report (press release)
Details: A new study claims to have found a link between glacier size and volcanic activity, suggesting that current global warming could eventually lead to more eruptions. Climate scientists agree that volcanic eruptions can affect the global climate, but now some researchers are going even further to claim that ...

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Algae Growth Speeds Up Greenland's Melting

Source: Scientific American
Details: Further study is needed to determine how sea levels could be affected by more rapid growth of algae that is expected as a result of global warming. The study also has implications outside of the Arctic, the authors found. Other areas of the world covered in ice, including the Himalayas, also have algae ...

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=== News - 1 new result for [global warming] == Nuclear Energy Pros And Cons: The True Advantage Of Nuclear Power Science Trends In a time where many people rightly worry about global warming, it must be said that nuclear power contributes very little to it. Why? Because its generation only produces relatively little carbon dioxide (CO2). So, if you are concerned about the environment and, specifically, global warming, then you ...

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Forests destroyed in wildfires not recovering due to climate change,

Source: scientists reveal
Details: The Independent In hot, dry climates like those found in the western US, wildfires are often a natural part of the environment, contributing to the cycling of nutrients and growth of new plants. However, a new study published in the journal Ecology Letters suggests increasing global temperatures may be preventing this ...

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Should AGU Have Fly-in Meetings Anymore?

Source: Eos
Details: Attendees' air travel to and from this meeting was responsible for more than 5 millionths of total global carbon emissions, even though these attendees .... AGU prides itself on being a leader on the issue of global warming, and many sessions are devoted to the consequences of anthropogenic CO2 ...

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Global warming: Fake News From the Start

Source: The Heartland Institute
Details: President Donald Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change because it is a bad deal for America. He could have made the decision simply because the science is false. However, most of the American and global public have been brainwashed ...

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Search For Global Warming Yields Snow

Source: Accuracy in Academia
Details: And leaves academics stunned. “A study released Tuesday in the journal Scientific Reports found that snowfall on the highest peak in the Alaska Range has more than doubled since the start of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-19th century, which researchers attribute to climate change,” Valerie ...

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Climate change: Soil animals cannot explain self-reinforcing effect

Source: EurekAlert (press release)
Details: However, additionally, climate change is also being intensified on its own, because global warming is also causing the natural carbon cycle to change. Although on Earth, carbon is constantly converted from solid compounds into gaseous CO2 and vice versa, warmer temperatures can further enhance ...

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Suing Big Oil over climate change, Santa Cruz eyes wildfire, storm costs

Source: SFGate
Details: While some experts say the suits contain solid research on the effects of fossil fuels on global warming, as well as more information on what executives knew about those effects, convincing a judge or jury of a specific connection between an oil company's practices and local damages may be tough.

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=== News - 1 new result for [global warming] == Reuters Math Error Creates Ten Times the Global Warming in Exxon Story says Friends of Science ... PR Web (press release) This means Reuters stated a global warming figure which is ten times the scientific estimate. This error may have been more consequential for markets and the general public in the United States where the Fahrenheit temperature scale is the standard. Friends of Science Society says the real climate ...

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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

=== News - 2 new results for [global warming] == Global warming brings jackals to Western Europe The Week UK Jackals have been spotted in Western Europe, driven across the Alps by global warming and the decline of rival species. Sightings were reported by hunters in the Haute-Savoie region of France and confirmed by mammal experts at the University of Geneva who analysed footage from automatic camera ...

Source: A climate cure worse than the disease
Details: The New Times The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN's climate panel, estimates that in about 60 years, global warming will cost the planet between 0.2% and 2% of GDP. That's a problem, but it's not the end of the world. Right now, the net cost of global warming is actually close to zero. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Unsubscribe from this Google Alert: Create another Google Alert: Sign in to manage your alerts:
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Earth Today | Caribbean climate research 'to di worl' - Data show region in

Source: peril at 1.5 degrees ...
Details: Jamaica Gleaner THE CARIBBEAN'S research work on a world warmed to 1.5 degrees Celsius versus two degrees, and its impact on the region, recently went global, thanks to a presentation delivered by a respected local scientist at the climate talks in Bonn, Germany, in October. In his presentation, Professor Michael ...

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AU launches Global Centre for Environment and Energy

Source: Times of India
Details: ... Global Centre for Environment and Energy (GCEE) on Wednesday. GCEE will undertake scientific studies in the areas of alternative sources of energy, climate change and global warming, technology innovation to address energy and sustainability issues, energy efficiency policies and technologies, ...

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Tom Rodd: WV can lead on climate change (Gazette)

Source: Charleston Gazette-Mail
Details: In 2016, Friends of Blackwater published a report supported by 100 peer-reviewed scientific citations that documented the impact of global warming and climate change on the Allegheny Highlands and Blackwater Falls region. That report quoted former United Mine Workers President and current ...

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Hurricanes, heat waves, fires ravaged planet in 2017

Source: Rappler
Details: Experts say global warming can make certain events, like floods, drought and hurricanes, more frequent and sometimes worse. Among the fiercest storms seen this year were severe monsoon rains in Bangladesh, India and Nepal that killed more than 1,200 people and affected 40 million people, ...

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Warming waters have made life in the Arctic much less predictable

Source: Irish Times
Details: Back in the fjords of Arctic Norway, the unique behaviour displayed by and between the humpback and killer whales may point to how human-induced global warming can change local ecosystems in ways we don't fully understand, or in ways that have fully played out. Worryingly, it is unlikely to be the ...

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