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Preventing an Arctic cold war
2013-03-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: JUST a quarter-century ago, and for millenniums before that, the Arctic Ocean was covered year-round by ice, creating an impregnable wilderness that humans rarely negotiated. Today, as the effects of global warming are amplified in the high north, most of the ocean is open water during the summer and covered by ice only in the winter. This unexpected transformation has radically altered the stakes for the Arctic, especially for the eight nations and indigenous peoples that surround it. But while...
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Did Climate Change Spark the War in Syria?
2013-03-13 12:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Care2: Could global warming have played a role in instigating the ongoing, and bloody, war that has been going on in Syria for nearly two years, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 70,000 and a million Syrians forced to flee from their homes, thousands to other countries? Unprecedented food price rises were fundamental triggers for the Arab Spring, writes Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed in the Guardian. A 2008 global rice shortage led to a steep rise in prices, setting off food riots in the Middle East,...
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China calls for cooperation rather than war in cyber space
2013-03-11 13:27:53| InfoWorld: Top News
China's foreign minster on Saturday called on nations to cooperate on Internet security, rather than wage cyber warfare, as he denied accusations in a recent report that the country's military was behind hacking attacks. "Cyber space needs not war, but rules and cooperation," said foreign minister Yang Jiechi during a press conference. "We oppose cyber space becoming a new battlefield, and to using the Internet as a new tool to interfere in another country's internal affairs."
AMD takes war with Intel to a whole new level with rocket-launching desktop PC
2013-03-06 19:55:02| Extremetech
At SWSW Interactive 2013, AMD will be showing off a mini-ITX PC that doubles up as a rocket launcher. The custom PC was built for AMD by Ben Heck, the rather famous modder who has brought us the Xbox 360 laptop, and portable versions of just about every old-school game console in existence.
EU fires latest shot in solar trade war as customs official ordered to record Chinese imports
2013-03-06 06:36:51| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The simmering trade dispute between the EU and China over subsidies for solar technologies ratcheted up another notch yesterday after it emerged that EU customs officials have been instructed to record the number of Chinese solar panels being imported. The move potentially paves the way for the introduction of retrospective import tariffs, if an on-going EU probe concludes that Chinese solar technology manufacturers are benefitting from illegal subsidies that allow them to sell panels below cost...
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