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China National Offshore Oil commences production from two South China Sea oil fields
2013-01-02 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
China National Offshore Oil (CNOOC) has begun production at two oil fields in the Pearl River Mouth Basin of the South China Sea.
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Arctic Climate Change: sea ice changes increase light absorption, ocean warming
2013-01-01 18:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bay Area Indymedia: As multi-year sea ice is replaced with thinner first year sea ice, the properties of the sea ice change to allow more light through to the water beneath increasing ocean warming and more melting of sea ice. The study was conducted by scientists with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association from the research vessel Polarstern. The scientists used a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to go under the summer sea ice with spectral radiometers. Light transmittance...
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Is Climate Change causing an exponential rate of Ice sheet Mass Loss, sea level rise?
2013-01-01 18:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bay Area Indymedia: The thesis that Hansen has put forward for several years is that Ice Sheet collapse is a non-linear process: that with the inclusion of amplifying climate feedbacks it is likely to follow an exponential rate of acceleration - a doubling rate. It might be a 10 year doubling time, or less. This will lead to extensive sea level rise, perhaps in the order of 5 metres this century. But accurate data measurements of ice mass loss via laboriously estimating mass input and output has only been available...
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