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Climate Change Takes a Toll on Heritage Buildings
2016-04-10 17:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indian Express: Among the many things that are being destroyed in natural calamities are heritage structures and mitigating climate change is an urgent need to protect these valuable edifices, according to speakers at the fourth annual lecture on Safety and conservation of heritage structures at IIT-Madras to mark World Heritage Day. After events like the December floods, the focus on conservation too is moving from individual buildings to the larger issue of climate change. Anthropogenic effects of climate...
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Radiation deniers: pro-nuclear environmentalists and the Chernobyl death toll
2016-04-07 12:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: Just as climate change deniers leap from scientific uncertainty over the precise impacts of greenhouse gas emissions to certainty of little or no impact at all, so 'pro-nuclear environmentalists' conflate uncertainty of the mortality arising from Chernobyl and other nuclear disasters to certainty of few if any deaths, writes Jim Green. Their position is equally indefensible. With few if any exceptions, self-styled pro-nuclear environmentalists peddle flapdoodle and tommyrot regarding the Chernobyl...
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Long's Law, Toll Bridges, And Durable Competitive Advantage
2016-03-17 14:05:52| Beverages - Topix.net
Long's Law states that long-term free cash flow margins in any industry over a multi-decade time frame tend towards the inverse of the number of competitors in that industry. For example, in an industry with three competitors, FCF margins will tend towards 33.33% or 1/3.
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Arctic on Thin Ice as Extreme Heat Takes a Toll
2016-03-03 15:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: For the second month in a row, the Arctic has set a record for lowest ever sea ice extent, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Ice extent is 448,000 square miles below average for February and 200,000 square miles lower than the previous record-low February. The region has experienced extreme heat over the past few months, with temperatures reaching as high as 23°F above average. Sea ice usually hits its annual low in September, but these early records have scientists concerned for...
Perle Systems Reveals How Golden Gate Bridge Switched from Manned Toll-booths to An All-electronic Toll System
2016-03-01 11:31:07| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
There is no question that human-powered toll booth jobs are near extinction losing out to cost-saving technology. By switching to an all-electronic payment system, the Golden Gate Bridge Authority estimates it will save $16 million over eight years, while speeding up travel time. Instead of manned toll-booths...
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