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World Drifting Off-track for Two Degree Climate Limit
2013-06-11 00:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: LONDON, UK, June 10, 2013 (ENS) -- The world is heading toward a skyrocketing global temperature increase of at least 3.6 degrees and up to 5.3 degrees Celsius, rather than the two degree Celsius increase that most scientists say is the safe upper limit, finds a report released today by the International Energy Agency. Today the IEA advanced four policies to keep the two degree goal alive. All are in the energy sector, which accounts for about two-thirds of the world`s greenhouse gas emissions....
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Russia evacuates 'drifting' Arctic research station as ice floe melts
2013-05-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Russia's environment ministry has ordered the urgent evacuation of 16 scientists from a research station on an Arctic ice floe near Canada because the ice around it is disintegrating at an alarming rate, giving the station little chance of survival. The emergency has sparked a wider debate among Russian Arctic researchers over how to continue their work amid rapidly changing climate conditions, and in an atmosphere in which the race for newly uncovered Arctic resources has become one of the most...
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Mexican smoke drifting our way
2013-05-25 02:18:01| Waste Management - Topix.net
Smoke drifts north toward the Texas Gulf Coast from Mexico in these imagaes provided by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, which obtained them from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Vaughn Gittin Jr. Takes Second in North American Professional Drifting Season Opener in Long Beach
2013-05-23 00:03:03| K&N Racing News
The side-by-side, smoke spewing, tire chunk tossing drama that is Formula Drift continues to draw larger crowds with every event.
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