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UN Panel to Blame Mankind for Climate Change, Explain Warming 'Hiatus'
2013-09-23 08:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A United Nations panel of experts met on Monday to review a draft report that raises the probability that climate change is man-made to 95 percent and warns of ever more extreme weather unless governments take strong action. Scientists and officials from more than 110 governments began a four-day meeting in Stockholm to edit and approve the 31-page draft that also tries to explain a "hiatus" in the pace of global warming this century despite rising greenhouse gas emissions. The Intergovernmental...
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Amid 'uncertainty', scientists blame mankind for global warming
2013-09-18 12:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Top climate scientists will blame mankind more clearly than ever for global warming next week but may struggle to drive home the message in a report that uses the term "uncertainty" 42 times. The 'language gap' between scientists and the policy makers, public and media they seek to alert is proving hard to bridge. Scientists say uncertainty is inevitable at the frontiers of knowledge - in, for instance, calculating how much of Greenland will thaw or how fast temperatures will rise by 2100 - but...
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'Two planets not enough to sustain mankind'
2013-08-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Cape Argus: We are using 50 percent more resources than the Earth can sustainably produce, and unless we change course not even two planets will be enough to sustain mankind. This is the message from Morne du Plessis, chief executive of WWF-SA, on Earth Overshoot Day. This is the day of the year when people have used as much renewable natural resources as our planet can regenerate in one year. The day was initiated by the Global Footprint Network, which uses ecological footprint data to measure what...
One Star-Spangled Mohawk for Mankind
2013-08-06 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
IRVINE, Calif. – It's here. August 6th – the date that animated every space science Ph.D. into giddy teenagers. Glued to YouTube, our eyes fixated for "seven minutes of terror," we waited. And then, with two words, every confidence in NASA was restored. The Mars Rover Curiosity landed. <br /> <br /> Eruptions of applause followed by a string of hugs filled JPL's control room; and we, the onlookers, basked in the glory that we were able to witness a piece of history ...This story is related to the following:Spacecraft
Facebook's one small step for mankind
2013-04-06 13:00:00| CNET News.com
commentary The announcement of Facebook Home may not signal the end of the infuriating relationship people have with the technology they use. But it's a move in the right direction. [Read more]
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