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Las Vegas Holds Key To Abrupt Climate Change
2015-11-10 05:23:42| pollutiononline Home Page
According to new U.S. Geological Survey research published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, springs and marshes in the desert outside Las Vegas expanded and contracted dramatically in response to past episodes of abrupt climate change, even disappearing altogether for centuries at a time when conditions became too warm.
Abrupt changes in food chains predicted as Southern Ocean acidifies fast
2015-11-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The Southern Ocean is acidifying at such a rate because of rising carbon dioxide emissions that large regions may be inhospitable for key organisms in the food chain to survive as soon as 2030, new US research has found. Tiny pteropods, snail-like creatures that play an important role in the food web, will lose their ability to form shells as oceans absorb more of the CO2 from the atmosphere, a process already observed over short periods in areas close to the Antarctic coast. Ocean acidification...
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Abrupt Climate Change is Here
2015-02-02 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CounterPunch: Is abrupt climate change already here? There are some serious scientists who believe it is already here. If their analysis is correct, the world could turn nearly uninhabitable within current lifetimes. In that regard, the American public is overly, dangerously casual about the prospects/risks of abrupt climate change. This is found in numerous studies and polls, e.g. according to a Pew Research Global Attitudes Project, in an international survey of 39 countries, Americans were among the least...
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Permafrost soil: Possible source of abrupt rise in greenhouse gases at end of last Ice Age
2014-11-20 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] medien@awi.de 49-471-483-12007 Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven/Germany, 20 November 2014. Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have identified a possible source of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases tha…
Philadelphia Impounds 5 UberX Drivers on Service's (Abrupt) Launch Weekend
2014-10-27 05:02:42| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Catching UberX drivers is pretty easy and, when that happens, it's a $1,000 fine and towing fees.
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