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Public Opinion On Climate Change Not Altered By Scandals
2014-05-21 22:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: In 2009, hacked emails from the University on East Anglias Climatic Research Unit allegedly showed misconduct by climate researchers a development dubbed climategate. Several months later, news reports surfaced that an error had been made in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes fourth assessment report regarding the rate of ice melt in the Himalayas. While those skeptical about the existence of climate change seized on these reports as evidence of biased climate science, opinions...
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Climate change projections not altered due to shale gas discoveries
2014-05-16 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
A study by two Duke University researchers has found that the switch from coal to natural gas is likely to offset the emissions from abundant shale gas discoveries.
Climate Change Cause Of Coqui Frog's Altered Calls
2014-04-16 22:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Changes in the Puerto Rican climate over the past three decades have caused small but significant changes to the coqui frog, the territory`s national animal. UCLA biologists have found that not only have male coquis become smaller, but their mating call has also become shorter and higher pitched. Authored by Peter Narins, UCLA distinguished professor of integrative biology and physiology and of ecology and evolutionary biology, and Sebastiaan Meenderink, a UCLA physics researcher, the study examined...
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There Is No Question That We Live in a World Already Altered by Climate Change
2014-03-31 06:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Slate: Yesterday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released Part 2 of their Assessment Report. Part 1 came out in September of 2013, and showed unequivocally that climate change is real, and human influence is the root cause. Part 2 deals with the impacts of climate change, and what might be done to minimize the effects. The technical summary is an interesting if depressing read. It concatenates the results from scientific journals in the field, giving what is essentially the position of the...
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Trucking company claims Union Pacific official altered evidence in...
2014-03-10 13:41:00| Railroads - Topix.net
Lawyers for the trucking company involved in the 2011 tractor trailer crash into an Amtrak train filed new documents saying they have new evidence supporting their claim that Union Pacific Railroad altered or destroyed evidence to make it look like the truck driver was at fault, not the rail companies.
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