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Paramount Resources confirms oil reserves at Grand Rapids formation in Canada

2013-01-11 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology

Cavalier Energy has confirmed oil reserves at the Grand Rapids formation in its 100% owned in-situ oil sands leases in the Hoole area of Alberta, Canada, through independent evaluation.

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Leaked Report Confirms Human-Induced Climate Change

2013-01-10 15:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Scientific American: A rogue reviewer posted a draft this week of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's next report, in a bid to promote climate change denial. Instead the draft reaffirms humanity's starring role in global warming, which, along with sea level rise is now "unequivocal. Also human caused CO2 increases are now "virtually certain" to be responsible for trapping extra heat. And it is "extremely likely that human activities have caused more than half of the observed increase in global average surface...

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2012 Hottest Year On Record For Lower 48 States, NOAA Confirms

2013-01-08 19:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Huffington Post: Its official: 2012 was the warmest year on record in the lower 48 states, as the country experienced blistering spring and summer heat, tinderbox fire weather conditions amid a widespread drought, and one of the worst storms to ever strike the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2012 had an average temperature of 55.3°F, which eclipsed 1998, the previous record holder, by 1°F. That was just off Climate Centrals calculation in mid-December,...

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Valve confirms Linux Steam Box for 2013, but can it really disrupt PC and console gaming?

2013-01-07 21:13:54| Extremetech

Only a few weeks ago, the so-called "Steam Box" was confirmed by Valve's managing director Gabe Newell as hardware designed to play well in the living room with big screen TVs. Now, more details are being given by Valve engineer Ben Krasnow. Unsurprisingly, this new machine will be running some variant of Linux, and will be unveiled publicly later in the year at a large gaming event like the Game Developers Conference or the Electronic Entertainment Expo.

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