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Vector to perform MRO services for Canada's Sea King T-58 engines
2015-09-14 01:00:00| Naval Technology
Vector Aerospace has signed a contract with the Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) to carry out all maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services for T-58 engines of the Sea King helicopter fleet.
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Climate Change's Worst-Case Scenario: 200 Feet of Sea Level Rise
2015-09-11 20:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Sheldon Glacier with Mount Barre in the background, Antarctica. A new study estimates that if nations were to burn all their fossil fuel reserves, the Antarctic ice sheet would almost entirely disappear, raising sea levels as much as 200 feet worldwide. Credit: British Antarctic Survey If you ever wondered what the worst-case scenario for climate change would look like, a set of researchers shared your curiosity. Their answer, which they published Friday, is scary: sea levels nearly 200 feet higher...
Just How Much Could Sea Rise from Burning Fossil Fuels? A Lot
2015-09-11 20:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Sea levels stand to rise by a staggering 164 feet (50 meters) or more if the world goes for broke on fossil fuels, burning all its attainable resources. That's because the Antarctic Ice Sheet would melt entirely from the warming caused by those emissions, concludes a study published Friday in Science Advances. The researchers say their paper offers the first long-term look at how carbon dioxide emissions from oil, coal, and natural gas would affect the entire ice sheet. "If we don't stop dumping...
Smrbukk South Extension, Norwegian Sea
2015-09-11 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
The Smrbukk South Extension is an improved oil recovery (IOR) project that has been developed by Statoil with a total investment of Nkr3.5bn ($424.8m).
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Peter Dutton overheard joking about rising sea levels in Pacific Island nations
2015-09-11 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has been overheard quipping about the plight of Pacific Island nations facing rising seas from climate change. Mr Dutton was involved in a conversation with Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who had just returned from lengthy talks focused on climate change with Pacific Island leaders in Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea. Noting that today's meeting on Syrian refugees was running a bit late, Mr Dutton remarked that it was running to "Cape York time", to which Mr Abbott...
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