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21st Century Energy Outlook: Quite Similar To The Last Two Centuries
2014-04-09 11:38:54| Energy - Topix.net
But the speaker, Anthony Alexander, the chief executive of FirstEnergy Corp., offered a vigorous defense of that 20th century invention - nuclear power.
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Corals dont lie: Centuries rising sea levels and temperature data revealed
2014-04-01 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: AIMS scientists together with a team from The University of Western Australia, CSIRO and the University of San Diego have analysed coral cores from the eastern Indian Ocean to understand how the unique coral reefs of Western Australia are affected by changing ocean currents and water temperatures. The research was published today in the international journal Nature Communications. The findings give new insights into how La Nia, a climate swing in the tropical Pacific, affects the Leeuwin current...
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Global warming not stopped, will go on for centuries - WMO
2014-03-24 18:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: There has been no reverse in the trend of global warming and there is still consistent evidence for man-made climate change, the head of the U.N. World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Monday. A slow-down in the average pace of warming at the planet's surface this century has been cited by "climate sceptics" as evidence that climate change is not happening at the potentially catastrophic rate predicted by a U.N. panel of scientists. But U.N. weather agency chief Michel Jarraud said...
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Melting of Antarcticas Pine Island glacier may continue for centuries
2014-02-21 17:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The rapidly melting Pine Island glacier in West Antarctica may be the biggest contributor to rising sea levels over the next few decades, a new study has suggested. The research, published in the journal Science, found that the largest glacier in Antarctica may be recreating 8,000-year-old history. Scientists from the US, UK and Germany found that the glacier also thinned in the Early Holocene, in a melt that may have lasted for centuries. The Pine Island glacier has currently been thinning...
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03.10: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women
2014-02-18 23:35:14| Powells Books Events Calendar
The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women (Wisdom Publications) is a collection of 100 koans and stories of Buddhist women from the time of the Buddha to the present day — stories which are extraordinary expressions of freedom and fearlessness. Editor Florence Caplow will be joined in conversation by contributors Jan Chozen Bays, Gyokuko Carlson, Sallie Tisdale, and Jacqueline Mandell. This event is sponsored by the Zen Community of Oregon.
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