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Google X Collecting Genetic Data for 'Baseline' Health Project

2014-07-25 19:38:43| PC Magazine Software Product Guide

Google X's Baseline Study will anonymously collect genetic data from 175 volunteers in the name of disease prevention.

As climate changes, world weather agency calls for new baseline

2014-07-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Age: The World Meteorological Organisation says it`s time to shift climate baselines because global warming is increasingly setting a new "normal" for weather conditions. The widely used 1961-90 baseline should be retained as a "stable reference" for climate study but a more current data set -- updated every decade -- should be adopted to gauge changes in heatwave and rainstorm frequency already under way, the WMO said. "Rising atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are changing the Earth`s...

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Baseline for normal weather needs to be updated due to climate change, says UN agency

2014-07-10 13:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: The World Meteorological Organisation`s (WMO) Commission for Climatology has said the current baselines for weather are out of date and must be updated more frequently due to the impacts of global warming. Currently, the official existing baseline is based on climate averages of 1961-1990 and is only updated once every 30 years. During this time weather variables such as temperature rises and rainfall are measured and climate normals are created from the averages. These averages can be calculated...

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