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It's Hard to Argue With Climate Change When You See Over 100 Years of Data at Once
2016-02-18 16:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mic: It's no secret there's a huge disparity between what Americans think about climate change and what most scientists think about climate change. Opinions on climate change vary, but there are a few indisputable facts that are hard to ignore. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that traps heat in our atmosphere. Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide. Humans have burned a lot of fossil fuels over the last couple centuries, which in turn has released more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and...
Al Gore says 'we will prevail' in fight against climate change
2016-02-18 10:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: Al Gore is bullish on the future of humanity and our ability to confront climate change, telling the TED conference in Vancouver, "We are going to win this. We will prevail." It's been 10 years since Gore's first TED Talk, when he delivered a slide show about the climate crisis, months before the release of Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. On Wednesday, he brought good news about the exponential adoption of solar and other renewable energy sources, the closing of U.S. coal...
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Climate change activists disrupt Utah oil and gas auction
2016-02-18 01:34:14| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
In this Tuesday Feb. 16, 2016 photo, environmental writer Terry Tempest Williams with her bidding number walks on the hallway of the Bureau of Land Management's Salt Lake City office. Oil and gas industry officials have said environmental writer Tempest Williams' bid on at least 800 acres is insignificant.
Sunken El Faro investigation reveals captain sent email seeking change in direction of sail
2016-02-18 01:00:00| Ship Technology
A recent review of Tote Maritime's cargo ship El Faro's last fatal voyage has revealed that the captain aboard the ship, Michael Davidson, had in an email to Tote officials sought a change in route in order to veer the ship off the course of hurrican
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How climate change will affect western groundwater
2016-02-18 00:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: By 2050 climate change will increase the groundwater deficit even more for four economically important aquifers in the western U.S., reports a University of Arizona-led team of scientists. The new report is the first to integrate scientists' knowledge about groundwater in the U.S. West with scientific models that show how climate change will affect the region. "We wanted to know, 'What are the expectations for increases and decreases in groundwater as we go forward in this century?'" said lead...
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