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Global warming: Apocalypse perhaps a little later
2013-03-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economist: IT MAY come as a surprise to a walrus wondering where all the Arctics summer sea ice has gone. It could be news to a Staten Islander still coming to terms with what he lost to Hurricane Sandy. But some scientists are arguing that man-made climate change is not quite so bad a threat as it appeared to be a few years ago. They point to various reasons for thinking that the planets climate sensitivity--the amount of warming that can be expected for a doubling in the carbon-dioxide level--may not...
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Rock the undead with zombie apocalypse guitar
2013-03-18 18:02:52| CNET News.com
Decked out with bullet casings and a mock grenade, this axe will tell zombies you mean business. Just don't forget the chords to "Monster Mash." [Read more]
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Riding the apocalypse
2013-01-31 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canberra Times: Afew years ago, I took part in a panel discussion on the future as part of the Brisbane Festival of Ideas. My two co-panellists quickly declared their optimism (although both were fully across the challenges). I'd decided that morning to ''come out'' and admit I was a pessimist. ''Pessimist'' was a pejorative term, I said, but pessimists had the consolation of being right. I realised more than five years ago, with the evidence of the growing effects of global warming, that we'd left it too late;...
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Avoiding a climate-change apocalypse
2013-01-08 13:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: As you may have noticed, the end of the year was all about the end of the world. Mayan doomsday prophesies. Rogue planets on a collision course with Earth. Fear-mongering about an artificial "fiscal cliff.' House Republicans doing, well, what they usually do. Fortunately, for now, life as we know it continues. And scary as all of this sounds, the real horror show, the true existential threat, is yet another crisis of our own making: the catastrophic effects of climate change. There's no need...
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