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Comprehensive assessment concludes black carbon second-most important human emission in warming climate
2013-02-07 18:30:21| Green Car Congress
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2013-01-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living on Earth: The US government has released its third National Climate Assessment for public comment. This comprehensive report finds humans unquestionably responsible for recent climate disruption, and warns that global temperatures could rise as much as ten degrees by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions go unchecked. Host Steve Curwood talks about the climate report with Carol Browner, President Obama's former director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy. Transcript CURWOOD: The...
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Assessment of Offshore Wind Energy Potential in the United States
2013-01-16 20:08:00| Transmission & Distribution World
The development of an offshore wind resource database is one of the first steps necessary to understand the magnitude of the resource and to plan the distribution and development of future offshore wind power facilities
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Developments in Soil Salinity Assessment and Reclamation
2013-01-16 01:06:33| Springer Environmental Sciences titles
Innovative Thinking and Use of Marginal Soil and Water Resources in Irrigated AgricultureThis important addition to the technical literature of ecology is a storehouse of information on marginal soils and waters from around the world. Soil salinity is considered the most important component of land degradation in arid and semi-arid regions, it is dynamic, spreading globally in over 100 countries and covering more than one billion hectares. It is causing significant losses in ...
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By the Numbers: Analyzing the U.S. National Climate Assessment
2013-01-15 19:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Resources Institute: The draft U.S. National Climate Assessment was released last week, confirming that the climate is changing, that it is primarily due to human activities, and that the United States is already being adversely impacted. These top-line messages should come as no surprise, as they reconfirm the major findings of previous National Climate Assessments and of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes recent reports. But the 1,000-plus pages of the Assessment also carry important findings--many...
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