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Scientists Warn of Climate Shift Within Decades, Research

2016-03-23 06:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Canada Journal: The warning was made in a paper released on Tuesday citing research led by retired NASA scientist James E. Hansen, according to The New York Times. Co-authored by 18 other scientists, the paper apparently suggests the worlds nations were wrong in believing they could bring the crisis to a non-hazardous level with previously suggested limits to global warming. By the end of the century, climate change could produce storms and a rise in sea level that would obliterate much of the worlds coastal...

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Scientists Track Sloshed Tweeters in Real Time

2016-03-21 20:45:21| TechNewsWorld

Applied machine learning techniques can identify tweeters' behaviors in real time and locate them to within 100 meters, according to a paper Rochester University computer scientists published earlier this month. The team focused on discovering patterns of alcohol use in urban and suburban settings to better understand where and how people drink.

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Eat less meat to avoid dangerous global warming, scientists say

2016-03-21 20:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Growing food for the worlds burgeoning population is likely to send greenhouse gas emissions over the threshold of safety, unless more is done to cut meat consumption, a new report has found. A widespread switch to vegetarianism would cut emissions by nearly two-thirds, it said. In three decades, emissions related to agriculture and food production are likely to account for about half of the worlds available carbon budget - the limited amount of carbon dioxide and its equivalents that can...

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Targeting Climate Change Scientists

2016-03-17 08:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Eurasia Review: Our climate and environmental scientists are some of the best in the world. We wouldnt stop supporting out elite Olympic athletes just as theyre winning gold medals. -- Andrew Holmes, President, Australian Academy of Science, Feb 9, 2016 It is hardly a popular thing to be a gloomy Cassandra, and various climate change scientists have been wondering just how far to go with being dark about the earths future. Each time data is released, the negativity increases. The politicians, depending on...

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