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Ocean plays crucial role in regulating Earth's climate: Study
2014-10-26 02:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ANI: A new study has revealed that circulation of the ocean plays an equally important role in regulating the earth's climate. According to the study, say the major cooling of Earth and continental ice build-up in the Northern Hemisphere 2.7 million years ago coincided with a shift in the circulation of the ocean - which pulls in heat and carbon dioxide in the Atlantic and moves them through the deep ocean from north to south until it's released in the Pacific. The ocean conveyor system, Rutgers scientists...
Wildfires Play Bigger Role in Climate Change than Previously Thought
2014-08-04 22:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Wildfires and other types of fires involving plant matter play a much bigger role in climate change and human health than previously thought, according to a recent study. Scientists have long known that biomass burning - burning forests to create agricultural lands, burning savannah as a ritual, slash-and-burn agriculture and wildfires - figures into climate change and public health. But this study, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, is the first to measure the degree...
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Home computers help scientists assess climate role in UK's wet winter
2014-03-04 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Citizen scientists can help to solve a critical question raised by England's wettest winter in at least 250 years: was climate change to blame? Spare home computer time lent to researchers at the University of Oxford will allow an intensive modelling effort to determine whether global warming made the deluge more likely. The role of climate change in the downpours, that resulted in at least 1bn of flood damage, has been fiercely debated. The prime minister, David Cameron, told parliament he...
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UN official: Role in climate fight is 'sacred'
2014-01-23 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: The top climate official at the United Nations has described her role in pushing nations to contain the Earth's shifting climate as a "sacred" job. "We are truly defining the quality of life for our children," Christina Figueres, the U.N.'s executive secretary for climate, told USA TODAY on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "We have to do everything we can because there is no plan B because there is no planet B," she said. "I fully intend...
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Climate change role in cold snap triggers debate
2014-01-12 06:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toledo Blade: North America's sudden fascination with the swirling, icy-cold air mass called the polar vortex has -- if nothing else -- expanded the meteorological vocabulary of millions of people, from late-night talk-show hosts tossing around their quips to ordinary people who share opinions on Facebook, Twitter, and other forms of social media. But it's also quietly opened up an ethical debate among mainstream scientists over how hard they should promote any and all possible links between climate change...