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GOP senators oppose probe of scientists who question climate change
2015-03-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AL: A group of Republican senators have voiced opposition to an investigation by a Democratic congressman into funding sources of scientists skeptical of the impact of climate change. The GOP members of the Senate's Environment and Public Works committee sent a letter last week to University of Alabama in Huntsville President Robert Altenkirch expressing their position. John Christy, director of UAH's Earth System Science Center and the state's climatologist, is among those targeted in an investigation...
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Q&A: Female scientists face same obstacles everywhere
2015-03-06 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Curt Rice is head of Norway's governmental committee on gender balance in research, and has advised the European Science Foundation on encouraging more women to take up science careers. He has also written extensively about the barriers that women face in science, and ways to overcome them. Rice disagrees with commonly held views that these barriers are much more profound and complicated for women in developing countries. Ahead of International Women's Day on 8 March, he argues that the challenges...
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Scientists capture first ever image of light acting as a particle and a wave
2015-03-03 22:50:44| Extremetech
The first photograph of light as both a wave and a particle could give a boost to quantum computing.
Scientists now know why global warming has slowed down and its not good news for us
2015-02-27 14:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: It's been called the "hiatus,' "pause,' or "slowdown' and has been a favored meme of climate skeptics for years. Despite the continued increase of greenhouse gas emissions from us, rise of global surface temperatures has been easing since 1998. Two new studies published this week examine the origins of the"pause,' and, surprisingly, suggest that it may persist for years even in our notably warming world. The first study, published on Feb. 26 in the journal Science, looked into likely causes....
AkzoNobel Scientists Receive Two Honors at 2015 SSPC GreenCOAT Show
2015-02-27 06:00:00| Coatings World Breaking News
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