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Three centuries of geek-milestone devices in one epic auction
2013-05-09 23:27:24| CNET News.com
A German "Auction of Firsts" includes relics and creations from tech luminaries from Pascal to Woz and Jobs. [Read more]
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Australia: Climate change signals raining down but proof will take centuries
2013-02-02 08:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: For Australia, 2013 looks like being a "year of living extremely" if January is anything to go by. The Bureau of Meteorology says January was the hottest ever month in just over a century of records. Nationwide, the January average maximum temperature anomaly was 2.28 degrees, "a substantial increase" on the previous record of 2.17 degrees set in 1932. And, thanks to the unusual scale of the massive heatwave that dominated the first half of January, all states and territories posted above-average...
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At current CO2 concentrations, sea level set to rise about 30 feet during the next few centuries
2013-01-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Summit Voice: Even if atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations were to be stabilzed at today`s levels of about 400 parts per million, sea levels would gradually increase by about 30 during the next few centuries, according to researchers who calibrated CO2 levels against sea level for the past 40 million years. The study sought to pinpoint the 'natural equilibrium` sea level for CO2 concentrations ranging between ice-age values of 180 parts per million and ice-free values of more than 1,000 parts per million....