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Climate panel forecast: Higher seas, temperatures
2013-09-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Top scientists have a better idea of how global warming will shape the 21st century: In a new report, they predict sea levels will be much higher than previously thought and pinpoint how dangerously hot it's likely to get. In its most strongly worded report yet, an international climate panel said it was more confident than ever that global warming is a man-made problem and likely to get worse. The report was welcomed by the Obama administration and environmental advocates who said it made a strong...
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Statoil discovers gas in Barents Sea's Iskrystall well
2013-09-24 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Statoil, with its partners Eni Norge and Petoro, has discovered gas in the Iskrystall prospect in production licence (PL) 608 in the Barents Sea.
Louisiana's Gulf Coast adapts to global warming's rising seas
2013-09-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Marketplace: In southern Louisiana, the coast is moving. The sea is overtaking the land...pretty fast, too. Stronger hurricanes and tropical storms predicted for coming decades will wash away more of it. And while you often hear people invoke the rich cultural heritage as a reason to save the region, theres a lot of rich oil and gas companies that would like protection, too. Terrebonne Parish is the setting for "Beasts of the Southern Wild," last years Oscar-nominated film about a magical little girl and...
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Seas may be rising faster than predicted: scientists
2013-09-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The melting of Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets is accelerating and may trigger faster sea level rise than predicted, according to leaked details of the forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. Greenland's ice added six times more to sea levels in the decade through 2011 than in the prior 10 years, according to details of a draft 2200-page study by the UN agency, obtained by Bloomberg. The Antarctic experienced a five-fold increase, prompting the UN to raise its forecast...
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Rising seas are subject of study
2013-09-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vineyard Gazette: Seas around the Vineyard are rising slightly faster than the global average and Island planners should prepare for significant sea level rise by the end of the century, a new climate change report has found. The Vineyard Conservation Society report examines the effects of climate change on the Martha's Vineyard and its surroundings. Sea level rise, health, ecology, emissions, severe weather and ocean acidification are all topics covered in the report. Loss of wetlands increases erosion issues...
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