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The Pacific Ocean is now warming 15 times faster than it used to
2013-10-31 20:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Its conservatives favorite science-denying talking point: that global warming has slowed down, or even stopped altogether, over the last 15 years. Its bogus, of course. Read Chris Mooneys great feature for a full breakdown of how the myth has been spread. (Among other dishonest shenanigans, conservatives are using 1998 as their baseline because it was an unusually warm year due to El Nio.) But there is a grain of truth to it: Average global surface-air temperatures have been rising at a slower...
Emerging economies nearing half of global warming emissions
2013-10-31 19:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Total greenhouse gas emissions by China and other emerging nations since 1850 will surpass those of rich nations this decade, complicating U.N. talks about who is most to blame for global warming, a study showed on Thursday. Developing nations accounted for 48 percent of cumulative emissions from 1850 to 2010, according to the study by the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, research group Ecofys and the European Commission's Joint Research Center. "Somewhere in the current decade...
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Unprecedented warming uncovered in Pacific depths
2013-10-31 19:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: The effects of climate change are being felt almost a kilometre down in the biggest ocean on Earth. A new record of water temperatures shows how the Pacific has warmed and cooled since the last ice age. It shows that the ocean has warmed 15 times faster in the last 60 years than at any time in the previous 10,000. The fact that the heat of global warming is penetrating deep into the oceans is yet more evidence that we are dramatically warming the planet, says Yair Rosenthal of Rutgers University...
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Guest view: State businesses taking huge hit under new global warming laws
2013-10-30 04:41:46| Trucking - Topix.net
In recent years, we have seen our elected officials speak about the importance of streamlining government regulations to help foster a pro-jobs climate in California.
Prince Charles: Syria Conflict Is Partly Down To Global Warming, World Economic
2013-10-30 02:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The environment is a "significant" factor in the Syrian conflict that has killed more than 100,000 people, Prince Charles has claimed. The heir to the throne said a drought and the the depletion of natural resources was one of the key reasons for the bitter fighting. In a keynote speech to Islamic business leaders, Charles said this had been "inexplicably" not reported by the media. "The tragic conflict in Syria provides a terrifyingly graphic example, where a severe drought for the last...
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