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Global Warming and Potential Water Contamination Resulting from Fracking for Hydrocarbons: A Relationship?
2014-02-24 01:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EP Online: Contaminated water, presumed to be from drilling into and fracturing (fracking) hydrocarbon-bearing rock strata, has been in the news for some time now. And so have global warming and air pollution issues associated with transporting and burning fossil fuels. Are these headliners connected? Of course. Before I delve into the issues, be it known that we all use fossil fuels. I don't know of any exception. Here's the basic scenario: find the fossil fuel sources, recover them, and then process, distribute,...
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Global warming wont cut winter deaths, U.K. study says
2014-02-24 00:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: "Positive effects will include modest improvements in cold-related mortality and morbidity in some areas due to fewer cold extremes, shifts in food production and reduced capacity of disease-carrying vectors." However, a report in the journal Nature Climate Change on the situation in England and Wales said climate warming would likely not decrease winter mortality in those places. It suggested more volatile winters, with swings from cold to mild linked to rising greenhouse gas emissions, might...
Volcanic eruptions contributed to global warming pause, scientists claim
2014-02-23 20:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The impact of volcanic eruptions on global warming could provide a new explanation for the so-called pause used by sceptics to deny climate change is happening, scientists have said. According to a study in the US, models for predicting the rate at which temperatures around the world would rise from 1998 onwards did not take into consideration the measurable impact volcanoes can have. Rather than contributing to global warming, eruptions release particles into the air that reflect sunlight...
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Volcanoes Partly to Blame for Global Warming 'Pause'
2014-02-23 19:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Cooling caused by volcanic eruptions accounts for 15 percent of the recent global warming "pause," the mismatch between actual warming and climate-model predictions, according to a new study. The slowdown in global warming, sometimes called a pause or hiatus, started in 1998, when Earth's average surface temperatures halted their feverish rise. The average rate of warming was 0.31 degrees Fahrenheit (0.17 degrees Celsius) per decade between 1970 and 1998, but dropped to 0.072 F (0.04 C) per decade...
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Study suggests clearcutting and snow farming as global warming mitigation
2014-02-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Summit County: Snow farming is nothing new for ski area operators, who have long been cultivating the white stuff to help keep their slopes covered. Now, a recent study by researchers at Darthmouth College suggests that snow farming could also make sense on a larger scale, in the context of climate-change mitigation. In a novel look at forests and snow, their report says that replacing forests with snow-covered meadows may provide greater climatic and economic benefits than if slow-growing trees are left standing...
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