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Pakistan-India monsoon floods: Averting future disasters
2014-09-13 03:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: After yet another devastating flood, experts say that what Pakistan and India need to do is build more dams and reservoirs. It makes these annual disasters all the more tragic that for most of the year both countries have little rain. Yet after leaving more than 450 dead and a swathe of destruction on both sides of the border, much of the water dumped on the Kashmir and Punjab regions in the past 10 days will now be wasted. Critics say both the Indian and Pakistani governments have repeatedly...
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Averting Disastrous Climate Change Could Depend Unproven Technologies
2014-04-15 00:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MIT Technology Review: Carbon conundrum: One way to decrease the amount of carbon in the atmosphere would be to reverse the kind of deforestation shown here in Victoria, Australia. A U.N. climate report released on Sunday concludes that there may still be time to limit global warming to an increase of two degrees Celsius or less, which could help the world avoid the worst effects of climate change. But doing so will depend on making extraordinary changes to energy infrastructure at a much faster pace than is happening...
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IPCC climate report: averting catastrophe eminently affordable
2014-04-13 12:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Catastrophic climate change can be averted without sacrificing living standards, according to a landmark UN report published on Sunday. It concludes the transformation required to a world of clean energy and the ditching of dirty fossil fuels is eminently affordable. The authoritative report, produced by 1250 international experts and approved by 194 governments, dismisses fears that slashing carbon emissions would wreck the world economy. It is the final part of a definitive trilogy that has...
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09.24.13 -- A Novel Approach To Averting The Spectrum Crisis
2013-09-23 03:08:01| rfglobalnet News Articles
09/24/13RF Globalnet Newsletter
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A Novel Approach To Averting The Spectrum Crisis
2013-09-19 12:50:20| rfglobalnet News Articles
We’re teetering on the brink of a mobile broadband catastrophe. And if machine-to-machine (M2M) communications and the Internet of Things (IoT) are even half as big as anticipated, we’re headed right over the edge. But fear not — salvation is on the wayfrom, of all places, Idaho.
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