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Midwest to feel the heat of global warming
2013-01-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Summit Voice: The Midwest could be among the regions hit hardest by climate change, according to a trio of University of Michigan researchers who authored sections of the recent national climate assessment. The region is likely to face frequent and more intense heat waves, water quality degradation and public health threats, with increasing risks to Great Lakes ecosystems. "Climate change impacts in the Midwest are expected to be as diverse as the landscape itself. Impacts are already being felt in the forests,...
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Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers and Air-Cooled Coolers
2013-01-17 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Since 1995, NRG Heat Exchangers has been designing and manufacturing high quality shell and tube heat exchangers and air-cooled coolers for the international oil and gas, petrochemical and power generation industries. In 2010, we joined forces with F
02.04: Heat: Adventures in the World's Fiery Places
2013-01-15 00:37:52| Powells Books Events Calendar
In an adventurous ride through the most blisteringly hot regions of science, history, and culture, scientist and nature writer Bill Streever sets off to find out what heat really means. His new book, Heat: Adventures in the World's Fiery Places (Little, Brown), guides you as you firewalk across hot coals and sweat it out in Death Valley, experience intense fever and fire, learn about the invention of matches and the chemistry of cooking, drink crude oil, and explore thermonuclear weapons and the hottest moment of all time — the big bang. Written in his signature spare and refreshing prose, Heat is an adventurous personal narrative that leaves readers with a new vision of an everyday experience.
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The heat is on as the New York Times closes its environment desk
2013-01-15 00:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Late last week, the New York Times made news when it broke that the paper has shuttered its environment desk. The change isn't supposed to result in any layoffs, and the managing editor for news operations, Dean Baquet, told the news site Inside Climate that it "is purely a structural matter" they haven't lost interest in covering environmental issues. The reporters will just be doing it from other formal desks. The change is still disheartening, to put it mildly. Compelling, well-reported...
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Global warming has increased monthly heat records by a factor of five
2013-01-14 16:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Monthly temperature extremes have become much more frequent, as measurements from around the world indicate. On average, there are now five times as many record-breaking hot months worldwide than could be expected without long-term global warming, shows a study now published in Climatic Change. In parts of Europe, Africa and southern Asia the number of monthly records has increased even by a factor of ten. 80 percent of observed monthly records would not have occurred without human influence on climate,...
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