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MNsure board gets sobering technology update
2014-06-19 05:03:33| IT Services - Topix.net
MNsure hired Deloitte Consulting LLP for $5 million in April to be its new general contractor and provide a roadmap for overhauling the state's online health care marketplace.
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The 5 most sobering charts from IPCC climate report
2013-09-29 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The first installment in the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest scientific assessment on climate science came out on Friday, and it's loaded with dense terminology, expressions of uncertainty, and nearly impenetrable graphics. But we'll make it simple for you. Here's what you need to know, in number and chart form. Global average surface temperature change to date in degrees Celsius. Credit: IPCC Working Group I. 1.6°F: Amount that globally averaged combined land...
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A sobering new climate report for California
2013-08-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KQED Science: An immediate and growing threat. Thats how Californias lead environmental agency and the Governors office describe climate change in the latest in a series of periodic reports on the subject. The report cites already discernible impacts of climate change and attempts to pinpoint the main drivers no pun intended. In California, nearly 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions come from the transportation sector trains, planes and automobiles, and the last in particular. According to...
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Keeling's son ponders a sobering milestone
2013-05-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: When the history of humanitys struggle to combat climate change is written, few characters will play as prominent a role as Charles David Keeling. A geochemist, Keeling developed an accurate method of measuring CO2 in the atmosphere, and in 1958 began recording background levels of the gas at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. That was the start of the famous Keeling Curve, which has tracked the steady rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Those levels have soared from 315 parts per million when...
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Surface Pro reviews are in and the results are sobering
2013-02-06 16:27:23| InfoWorld: Top News
Microsoft started sending out review units of its new Surface with Windows 8 Pro tablet (better known as the Surface Pro) several weeks ago, but reviewers were all under a gag order until last night at 6 p.m. Redmond time.