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Looming Danger of Abrupt Climate Change
2013-12-26 10:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CounterPunch: The National Research Council of the National Academies (NRCNA) has pre-published (available to the public as of Dec. 2013), an extensive 200-pg study: Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change, Anticipating Surprises. The goal of the report is to prepare society to anticipate the otherwise unanticipated before it occurs, including abrupt changes to the ocean, atmosphere, ecosystems and high latitude regions. The NRCNA timescale for abrupt climate change is defined as years-to-decades. The history...
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Small gas leak on Little Mountain posed no danger
2013-12-22 07:56:12| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Larry Deklinski/Staff Photo Firefighters watch for the arrival of a off-road vehicle transporting personnel to the south face of Little Mountain, off Trevorton Road in Coal Township, where a "small leak" in the Sunoco Logistics gas pipeline was reported Friday afternoon.
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Oilsands environmental agency in danger of folding
2013-12-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Edmonton Journal: A key environmental agency working to clean up the oilsands is within weeks of folding, but board members say theyre still hopeful Environment Minister Diana McQueen will find a way to renew its industry funding. The Fort McMurray-based agency, which needs about $5 million to $8 million from the energy industry to carry on, does technical reports on issues such as air and water pollution and most of its recommendations are adopted as government policy. This is the second year the oil industry...
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Bitcointalk.org warns passwords in danger after DNS attack
2013-12-02 14:16:07| InfoWorld: Top News
A popular bitcoin discussion forum warned on Monday that some user passwords may have been intercepted after the site's DNS (Domain Name System) registrar was breached. An attacker found a flaw in Bitcointalk.org's domain name registrar, a company based in Japan called Anonymous Speech, wrote an administrator for the forum who goes by the nickname "Theymos." Anonymous Speech could not immediately be reached for comment.
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Island biodiversity in danger of total submersion with climate change
2013-11-14 02:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Sea level rise caused by global warming can prove extremely destructive to island habitats, which hold about 20% of the world's biodiversity. Research by C. Bellard, C. Leclerc and F. Courchamp of the University of Paris Sud look at 3 possible scenarios, from optimistic to very pessimistic, to bring attention to the dangers in store for some of the richest biodiversity hotspots worldwide. The study was published in the open access journal Nature Conservation. Despite climate change having received...
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