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Virtual Earth plays out fate of life on planet
2014-04-22 23:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: We can simulate the climate and we can even simulate babies. Now, we can simulate life on Earth, too - the vast and complex interactions of the living organisms on our planet. Named Madingley, after the village in Cambridgeshire, UK, where the idea was dreamed up, it's a mathematical model that could help us predict the future. It could tell us what would happen if all the bees disappeared, the difference it would make if pandas died out, and what the world might have looked like if humans had...
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A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet Premiers Earth Day on PBS
2014-04-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Mark Kitchells 1990 Oscar nominated documentary, Berkeley in the Sixties, covered the campus activism that disrupted the House Un-American Activities Committees hearings, launched the Free Speech Movement, fought the police at Peoples Park and inspired student spokesman Mario Savio to declare: There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you cant take part Youve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all...
As politicians dither, we must act to save planet
2014-04-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Herald: The latest United Nations report on the impacts of climate change is playing out like a Greek tragedy. In the Greek myth, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy by Apollo. When she failed to return his love, Apollo issued a curse so that her prophecies would not be believed. Climate scientists, who for over two decades have been sending us warnings about global warming, must feel like Cassandra -- cursed by Apollo. The 772 scientists who wrote and edited the UN report warn that world leaders...
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The Tax Breaks That Are Killing the Planet
2014-04-16 15:40:56| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
ExxonMobil, the world's largest oil company, hauled in a $32.6 billion profit last year.
A boycott to save the planet (by Desmond Tutu)
2014-04-16 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hindu: Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects. This week in Berlin, scientists and public representatives have been weighing up radical options for curbing emissions contained in the third report of the UN`s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The bottom line is that we have 15 years to take the necessary steps. The horse...
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