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Deep sea: Our reliance on & ignorance Earth's largest environment
2014-08-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Voice of Russ: The deep ocean is the single largest environment on the planet, and yet we know relatively little about it. A new study aims to raise awareness about how reliant we are on the deep sea - for everything from fish to oil and metals. VoR's Brendan Cole spoke to Dr. Bhavani Narayanaswamy one of the study's authors, from the Scottish Association for Marine Science. The study, published in the Biogeosciences journal brings together chunks of previous research to offer a more coherent account of our...
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Online retail guru: Why optimism and ignorance are important for entrepreneurs
2014-07-16 10:56:27| Grocery - Topix.net
Steve Leveen, right, chairman and co-founder of Levenger consumer products company, speaks to Austin Business Journal Editor Colin Pope on Tuesday at the ABJ Face2Face event at Whole Foods headquarters in Austin.
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While our planet melts, GOP pleads ignorance
2014-06-07 14:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Olympian: And theres a word that should get everybodys attention. Last month, two groups of scientists, publishing separately in the journals Science and Geophysical Research Letters, issued reports that came to alarmingly similar conclusions: The melting of the West Antarctic ice sheet has reached a point of no return. If greenhouse gases stopped spewing forth tomorrow, wed still face the grim prospect of steadily rising seas from this unstoppable melt. So it would be a good idea to save what ice we still...
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Willful ignorance in Wyoming
2014-05-25 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York times: The year has already produced three alarming reports involving climate change. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reaffirmed the overwhelming consensus among scientists that the planet is warming, that humans and the burning of fossil fuels are largely responsible, and that the world must take aggressive, concerted action. The federal National Climate Assessment described frightening changes, including unusually severe and persistent droughts, already occurring in...
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Australia: Climate change: when ignorance a recipe for disaster
2013-11-11 13:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canberra Times: The Philippines had several days' notice that a super typhoon was on its way and it warned its people long and often. Many evacuated. But, for an estimated 10,000 who today lie dead, there was no defence against its brute force. As tropical cyclone Haiyan continued across the South China Sea to assault Vietnam, where the government had evacuated some 900,000 people in anticipation, one question being asked is whether it is the strongest on record. The answer? Based on the estimate by the US...
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