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Cooling Pacific has Dampened Global Warming, Research Shows
2013-08-29 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Cooling waters in the tropical Pacific Ocean appear to be a major factor in dampening global warming in recent years, scientists said on Wednesday. Their work is a big step forward in helping to solve the greatest puzzle of current climate change research why global average surface temperatures, while still on an upward trend, have risen more slowly in the past 10 to fifteen years than previously. Waters in the eastern tropical regions of the Pacific have been notably cooler in recent years,...
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Global Warming Hiatus Tied to Cooler Temperatures in Pacific Ocean: A Study
2013-08-28 23:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: A team of researchers believe they have identified the cause behind the much-cited slowdown in global warming that has taken place over the last decade and a half or so, pointing to cooler temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean as the likely cause. Between 1950 and 2000, global temperatures rose at a rate of 0.13 degrees Celsius per decade, according to NOAA. Since then, however, this rate has dropped to roughly 0.05 degrees Celsius, Raw Story reports. This so-called "global warming hiatus"...
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Study Ties Global Warming Hiatus to Pacific Cooldown
2013-08-28 20:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Scientists probing the mystery of the so-called "global warming hiatus" may have made a breakthrough. According to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, a persistent area of unusually cool sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean could explain why, despite ever-increasing amounts of manmade greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, global average surface temperatures have increased at a slower rate during the past 15 years. By running sophisticated computer models that...
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Silicon Valley water district moves to join global warming divestment movement
2013-08-27 01:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Jose Mercury News: In the 1980s, hundreds of American cities, states and universities sold their investments in South African companies as part of a protest against that country's former apartheid government. Now, environmental groups are trying to duplicate that effort, but with global warming polluters in the role of villain. And, just as with South African divestment a generation ago, the Bay Area is at the head of the parade again, prompting cheers from environmentalists and jeers from skeptics who say the whole...
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Ocean Acidification Could Amplify Global Warming, Study Says
2013-08-26 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The increasing acidification of the worlds oceans caused by rising concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide not only poses a threat to marine creatures, but also could lead to an intensification of planetary warming, according to a new study. A team of U.S., British, and German researchers conducted experiments in seawater enclosures, known as mesocosms, showing that the increasing acidification of the ocean leads to a drop in production of an important sulfur compound, dimethylsulphide, or...
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