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Climate Change: Geothermal Heating In West Antarctic Ice Sheet Measured By Scientists
2015-07-13 07:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
HNGN: Heat flowing from the base of the West Antarctic ice sheet is surprisingly high, a new study has revealed. Researchers at the University of California in Santa Cruz probed the sediments in the ice sheet in Antarctica and have uncovered that a flow of heat emanates from its geothermal sources below, according to a press release. The researchers, however, said that this is not a "new phenomenon" that can be attributed to climate change. "The ice sheet developed and evolved with the geothermal...
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Climate change muddies algae solutions
2015-07-13 06:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toledo Blade: In 2013, leading Great Lakes scientists convinced a state task force that western Lake Eries annual onslaught of toxic algae could be reversed in only a year or two if the vast Maumee River watershed across northwest Ohio and into Michigan and Indiana could achieve an ambitious 40 percent reduction in phosphorus loading. Most of that load comes from agriculture, in the form of animal manure and commercial fertilizer that escapes fields after heavy rains. Now, just as that lofty goal is...
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Aging population could drive Obama's climate change policies
2015-07-12 20:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: The world's population is aging at the very time that immediate action on climate change has become crucially important. And we ignore the shared link between these two global patterns at our own risk. Consider: The number of people 60 and older on Earth has doubled since 1980, and is forecast to reach 2 billion by 2050 -- jumping from 11% to 22% of the total population during the first half of this century, according to the World Health Organization. In the U.S. alone, adults 60 and older made...
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Wary of Climate Change, Vanuatu Villagers Seek Higher Ground
2015-07-12 12:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Many people living in this coastal village in Vanuatu believe the March cyclone that sent waves surging through their homes was the latest and most dramatic sign of climate change. They are now considering rebuilding their entire community on higher ground. Cyclone Pam struck the Pacific archipelago three months ago, blasting the islands with winds of 270 kilometers (168 miles) per hour, killing at least 11 people and affecting 180,000 more by destroying their homes and crops. Many residents saw...
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Climate change: Controversial 'cloud brightening' project proposed Moss Landing
2015-07-12 01:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mercury News: A team of elder Silicon Valley scientists is building an audacious device that might solve one of humanity's most profound dilemmas -- a "cloud whitener" designed to cool a warming planet. The men -- retired physicists, engineers, chemists and computer experts from some of Silicon Valley's top tech companies -- have been meeting four days a week for seven years in the Sunnyvale lab of the Marine Cloud Brightening Project to design a tool that creates perfectly suspended droplets of water resembling...
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