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Behind the oil boom lurks oil well depletion
2013-03-18 12:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: With the media awash in stories telling us how much oil is being discovered around the world, there is one word which the optimists quoted in these stories refuse to utter: Depletion. The simple fact is that depletion never sleeps. It starts as soon as an oil well begins production and goes on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Furthermore, it is not exactly news that oil is being discovered all around the world. The industry has been spending record amounts to find it. Whats critical is the...
Study finds depletion of Antarctic ozone trumps GHG increase in shifting Southern Hemisphere jet-stream
2013-02-01 18:30:27| Green Car Congress
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The Enduring Effects of Ozone Depletion
2013-02-01 14:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: One of the most sobering realities of climate change is that even if all greenhouse gas emissions came to an abrupt halt tomorrow, climbing temperatures, rising seas and extreme weather would still be in the global forecast for perhaps hundreds of years because of the carbon dioxide already released into the atmosphere. To get some perspective, the story of the ozone hole over Antarctica illustrates how even a relatively small perturbation in the atmosphere can have wide-reaching and long-lasting...
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