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US east-coast cities are 'sitting ducks' for storms, says top Obama scientist
2013-01-15 21:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Cities on the United States east coast are "sitting ducks" for the next big storm because of the destruction wrought by hurricane Sandy, one of Barack Obama's top scientists warned on Tuesday. Marcia McNutt, who last week announced her resignation as director of the US Geological Survey, told a conference that Sandy had left coastal communities dangerously exposed to future storms of any size. "Superstorm Sandy was a threshold for the north-east and we have already crossed it," McNutt told...
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Solar forcing effect on climate change 'extremely small': IPCC scientist
2013-01-15 14:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Changes in solar radiation, known as solar forcing, have had only a very small effect on climate change, a member of the UN's top panel of climate scientists said today. The comment, made by a member of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), followed the leak of a draft IPCC report late last year, which included comments on the effect of solar forcing on climate change. At the time of the leak, the climate change skeptics blog, Watts Up With That, drew attention to what...
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Solar forcing effect on climate change 'extremely small': IPCC scientist
2013-01-15 02:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
IPS: Solar forcing effect on climate change 'extremely small': IPCC scientist Home Jobs Newsletter Sections... Home Business + Economy Environment + Energy Health + Medicine Politics + Society Science + Technology search Become an author Sign up as a reader Sign in Search Academic rigour, journalistic flair Latest ideas and research From the curious...
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Scientist: Hawking is 'brain in a vat'
2013-01-12 21:43:20| CNET News.com
commentary To celebrate Stephen Hawking's 71st birthday, a fellow scientist suggests that perhaps it is the machines rather than the man who should be celebrated. She compares him to Darth Vader. [Read more]
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Top Australian climate scientist: Heat wave encroaching on entirely new territory
2013-01-12 13:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: Australia`s top government-appointed climate commissioner says this week`s heat wave is occurring amid record-breaking weather around the world. "This has been a landmark event for me," professor Tim Flannery told Climate Desk from his home in Melbourne. "When you start breaking records, and you do it consistently, and you see it over and over again, that is a good indication there`s a shift underway - this is not just within the normal variation of things." Flannery is perhaps best known in the...
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