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Draft IPCC report predicts sea levels to rise a metre by end of century
2013-09-19 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Sea levels could rise a metre by the end of the century, according to the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The ABC has obtained a final draft of the report ahead of its official release next Friday. While average land and sea temperatures will continue to rise, it shows the planet is heating at a slower rate. The IPCC predicts anything more than 4 degrees Celsius is unlikely this century. Professor Steve Sherwood from the University of New South Wales...
Today's oil prices rise as Fed decides to continue stimulus
2013-09-19 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
The US Federal Reserve's decision to continue with the current monetary stimulus programme has given momentum to oil prices today.
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What Big Questions Remain about Sea Level Rise?
2013-09-19 00:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: The world's leading climate scientists kicked up a storm in 2007, when they issued their best estimates of how quickly the oceans would swell as the globe warms. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projected that sea levels would rise by somewhere between 18 and 59 centimetres by the last decade of this century an upper limit that seemed far too low to other scientists, given the pace of melting in Greenland and other changes. We were hugely criticized for being too conservative,...
General Mills 1st-qtr sales rise on acquisitions
2013-09-18 19:20:24| Agriculture - Topix.net
General Mills reported better-than-expected sales for its fiscal first quarter on Wednesday, as the packaged food maker benefited from a mix of new products in the U.S. and acquisitions overseas.
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Climate costs rise like sea levels with delayed action on climate change
2013-09-18 17:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Many of the readers have visited Charlestons Market, just a couple blocks from the harbor, where my business is located. Tourism is our lifeblood as it is for our city. So when our low-lying area of Charleston is flooded from heavy rain and tourists think twice before wading through more than a foot of water to shop, Im concerned and very worried about even worse flooding problems in the future. Charleston, like all of South Carolinas coastal tourism communities, is significantly threatened...
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