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NOAA: 2012 Hottest & 2nd-Most Extreme Year On Record
2013-01-08 20:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: It's official: 2012 was the warmest year on record in the lower 48 states, as the country experienced blistering spring and summer heat, tinderbox fire weather conditions amid a widespread drought, and one of the worst storms to ever strike the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2012 had an average temperature of 55.3°F, which eclipsed 1998, the previous record holder, by 1°F. That was just off Climate Central's calculation in mid-December,...
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2012 warmest year ever for US, 2nd most 'extreme'
2013-01-08 19:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC: If you found yourself bundling up in scarves, hats, and long underwear less than usual last year, you weren't alone: 2012 was the warmest year on record in the contiguous United States, according to scientists with The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The average temperature for 2012 was 55.3 degrees Fahrenheit, 3.2 degrees above normal and a full degree higher than the previous warmest year recorded -- 1998 -- NOAA said in its report Tuesday. All 48 states in the contiguous U.S....
Extreme Reality makes your camera a 3D gaming system
2013-01-08 18:09:22| CNET News.com
Bye-bye Kinect? This software-only approach gives you full-body control for games with your standard Webcam. [Read more]
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Extreme Weather Blocks Shell's Attempt to Recover Oil Rig
2013-01-06 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dow Jones: Unsteady seas thwarted Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA.LN, RDSA) and the U.S. Coast Guard's attempts Sunday to retrieve Shell's oil rig from an Alaskan island where it has been grounded for nearly a week. Shell's Kulluk oil rig crashed into the uninhabited Sitkalidak Island off the south Alaska coast late Monday after stormy seas pried it loose from tug boats that had been pulling it to Seattle for maintenance work. The Kulluk had been drilling exploratory wells in the Arctic waters as part of Shell's...
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Extreme weather a peril for vulnerable
2013-01-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Australia's most vulnerable people are at greater risk of injury and death because community organisations cannot cope with extremes of weather, says the country's peak social services group. The Australian Council of Social Service has found a poor level of preparation for extreme weather among community organisations, with the likelihood many would permanently collapse. Such an outcome would leave society's most disadvantaged people, including the elderly, mentally ill and the homeless, ''at...
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