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3,000 lack power in Carson City; restoration isn't likely soon
2013-06-09 02:39:04| Semiconductors - Topix.net
About 3,200 Carson City residents are without power, and it could be "hours" before service is restored, an NV Energy spokeswoman says.
Climate slowdown means extreme rates of warming 'not as likely'
2013-05-19 19:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Scientists say the recent downturn in the rate of global warming will lead to lower temperature rises in the short-term. Since 1998, there has been an unexplained "standstill" in the heating of the Earth's atmosphere. Writing in Nature Geoscience, the researchers say this will reduce predicted warming in the coming decades. But long-term, the expected temperature rises will not alter significantly. The slowdown in the expected rate of global warming has been studied for several years...
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Extremes in weather more likely
2013-04-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Columbus Dispatch: Weather experts and climatologists say people nationwide should not be surprised by more-extreme weather and warmer weather. In central Ohio, climate-change models show that strong spring storms and hotter, dry summers will be the norm, said Jeff Rogers, state climatologist and a professor of geography and atmospheric sciences at Ohio State University. With climate change, there is going to be losers, and there is going to be winners, Rogers said. Currently, Ohio is a winner in that were...
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Stuxnet Strikes Again? Not Likely
2013-01-02 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Iran boasted last week that its malware fighters fended off another attack on its infrastructure by the notorious Stuxnet computer worm. Stuxnet targeted a power plant and some other industries in the southern part of the country, but Iranian computer experts were able to thwart the attack, a provincial civil defense official claimed. The original Stuxnet attack two years was aimed at Iran's nuclear development program.