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Hotter, weirder: How climate has changed Earth

2014-12-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: In the more than two decades since world leaders first got together to try to solve global warming, life on Earth has changed, not just the climate. It's gotten hotter, more polluted with heat-trapping gases, more crowded and just downright wilder. The numbers are stark. Carbon dioxide emissions: up 60 percent. Global temperature: up six-tenths of a degree. Population: up 1.7 billion people. Sea level: up 3 inches. U.S. extreme weather: up 30 percent. Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica: down...

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Hotter and more unpredictable: Climate change already affecting Earth

2014-12-02 13:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: In the more than two decades since world leaders first got together to try to solve global warming, life on Earth has changed, not just the climate. It's gotten hotter, more polluted with heat-trapping gases, more crowded and just downright wilder. U.S. and China reach historic climate change agreement Obama urges world to follow U.S. lead on climate change The numbers are stark. Carbon dioxide emissions: up 60 percent. Global temperature: up six-tenths of a degree Fahrenheit. Population: up...

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Crude oil redux: Rare earth elements, and their strategic stranglehold of modern life

2014-11-28 14:01:05| Extremetech

Many have relaxed about the Chinese stranglehold over rare earth elements, but the crisis is far from averted.

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'The Practice of Cloud System Administration' Brings Network Management Down to Earth

2014-11-26 01:17:33| TechNewsWorld

The Practice of Cloud System Administration, Volume 2 is a look into IT gone bad in some companies, and how doing it right can salvage enterprise use of cloud computing. The authors make 11 statements about computers and their networks on the first page of the book's preface. They ask which statements are true. You most likely will get numerous wrong answers.

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Six vital steps world leaders must agree to take to protect Earth

2014-11-22 23:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: 1 Global warming must be limited to 2C Every year, carbon emissions from cars, factories and power plants across the planet rise inexorably. The resulting elevation in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere mean that in 30 years temperatures on Earth will be 2C hotter than they were in pre-industrial times, scientists say. This is the maximum temperature that they believe the world can tolerate without there being devastating environmental consequences: spreading deserts, worsening storms and widespread...

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