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Trick-or-treaters dodge rain, wind

2013-11-01 07:41:58| Steel - Topix.net

Brendan O'Malley, 5, dressed as The Thing from The Fantastic Four, leads his brothers and sisters trick-or-treating in a Worthington neighborhood.

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Geoengineering the Climate Could Reduce Much Needed Rain, Study Suggests

2013-10-31 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World: A proposed method to reduce future global warming could alter precipitation patterns throughout the world, according to a study led by scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Known as geoengineering, the approach could cause a 4.5 percent decrease in the global average precipitation, the study found. "It's very much a pick-your-poison type of problem," co-author John Fasullo said in a statement. "If you don't like warming, you can reduce the amount of sunlight reaching...

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Rain Sensing Wipers

2013-10-21 17:38:28| Auto Dealers - Topix.net

Just spent the better part of the day, Friday, with a BMW having an issue with the automatic rain sensing wipers.

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Corruption in Peru Aids Cutting of Rain Forest

2013-10-19 03:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: Afraid the police would tip off suspects, Francisco Berrospi kept local officers in the dark when he headed into the rain forest as a prosecutor to investigate illegal logging. Sometimes it hardly seemed to matter, though. Even when he managed to seize trucks, chain saws or illegally harvested trees, judges would often force him to give them back, he said. Bribes were so common, he said, that one anticorruption official openly encouraged him to take them. The power of the logging industry here...

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