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Breathing new life into climate policy: Kemp
2013-06-24 10:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Shale has killed climate policy. Now the International Energy Agency is trying to bring it back to life. Following the shale revolution, policymakers can no longer count on peaking oil and gas supplies and soaring fuel prices to save the world from potentially catastrophic climate change. As the peak-oil panic of 2008 recedes, it has become clear that there are more than enough fossil fuel reserves to cook the planet many times over. "The world is drifting further and further from the track...
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The breathing ocean: Reducing the effects of climate change
2013-06-21 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Each year, between the burning of fossil fuels and the clearing of old growth forests, humans put about 10 petagrams of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere. A petagram is one quadrillion grams. Ten petagrams is equivalent to the mass of Halley's comet, to put it in perspective. Having a steady amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is necessary to ensure stable average temperatures across the globe. Ideally, carbon output and uptake would balance out, as it has for centuries. But since the industrial...
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'Conscious Clothing' measures the junk you're breathing
2013-06-05 21:10:52| CNET News.com
Add "pollution intake" to your quantified-self profile. A prize-winning system calculates particulate matter inhaled and transmits the data in real time via Bluetooth. [Read more]
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Breathing Easier: How Houston Is Working To Clean Up Its Air
2013-05-30 09:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The Houston area produces about a quarter of the nation's gasoline, and about a third of the plastics that are in our cars, cupboards and just about everywhere else. So it is no surprise that this heavily industrial area has a problem with air pollution. But in the past decade, Houston's air has improved dramatically. How that happened is a tale of good science, new technology and a Texas law that prompted companies along the Houston Ship Channel to disclose their emissions. This image, from...
Give Google Glass some breathing room
2013-05-03 01:49:49| CNET News.com
Glass is indeed an experiment, "a living debate on wearable tech," and much of that debate will center around what app developers do with the high-tech specs. [Read more]
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