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Windows 8.1 RTM; Facebook Tweaks Gifts; 'Pavlov Poke' Cures Facebook Addiction
2013-08-26 18:34:00| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
From the latest on Windows 8.1 to the new Facebook addiction cure, here's what you missed over the weekend.
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Are we too hooked on oil to face the consequences of our addiction?
2013-08-08 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Few people would put the West Midlands town of Dudley at the centre of world history. Yet former oil executive Gary Kendall credits the British coal-mining town with setting in motion a global energy system that could jeopardise our very existence. In 1712 Thomas Newcomen introduced his revolutionary steam engine. The breakthrough machine burned coal, to create steam, to spurt out subterranean water, to dig deeper in Dudley's pits. Deeper mines meant greater coal production, which warmed more homes...
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Symptoms of Fossil Fuel Addiction
2013-07-18 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Like smokers who put off quitting until their health starts to suffer, were learning what happens when bad habits catch up with us. Were witnessing the terrible effects of fossil fuel addiction every day: frequent, intense storms and floods, extended droughts, rapidly melting Arctic ice, disappearing glaciers, deadly smog and pollution, contaminated waterways and destroyed habitats. Transport accidents are also increasing as governments and industry scramble to get fuels out of the ground and to...
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America's Most Profitable Addiction: Sugar
2013-07-14 22:29:30| Grocery - Topix.net
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James Hansen: Fossil fuel addiction could trigger runaway global warming
2013-07-10 12:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The world is currently on course to exploit all its remaining fossil fuel resources, a prospect that would produce a "different, practically uninhabitable planet" by triggering a "low-end runaway greenhouse effect." This is the conclusion of a new scientific paper by Prof James Hansen, the former head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the world's best known climate scientist. The paper due to be published later this month by Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A (Phil....
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