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Ice sheet collapse 135,000 years ago to help scientists explain dramatic climate changes
2015-06-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The discovery of a massive ice sheet collapse 135,000 years ago could help scientists understand the processes that control the planet's dramatic climate changes. An international team of scientists has found that the dramatic collapse at the end of the penultimate ice age caused extensive changes in the climate and triggered the last interglacial sea level peak, which well exceeded its present levels. The team, which included scientists from the Australian National University (ANU), disproved...
Scientists raise permafrost alarm at UN climate talks
2015-06-09 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Scientists issued a dire warning Tuesday to UN climate negotiators in Bonn of a vicious global warming cycle that will be unlocked with the thawing of carbon-bearing permafrost. There may be 1,500 billion tonnes of carbon locked away in permafrost -- perennially frozen ground covering about a quarter of exposed land in the Northern Hemisphere -- said Susan Natali, a researcher with the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts. The carbon will be released incrementally as global temperatures...
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Climate Scientists Helped Create a Spurious Pause in Global Warming
2015-06-09 15:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was in a bind. The world's premier scientific body on the climate had found, in a 2013 report, that it is extremely likely (95 percent confidence) that human activities are responsible for most of the observed warming of global temperatures since 1951. The panel was more certain than it had ever been in the past. Yet the lay public did not seem to care. Polls have repeatedly shown that climate change is not a priority for most people. So the...
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Scientists targeted for cuts working on politically charged issues
2015-06-08 18:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The group of state Department of Natural Resources scientists that Republican lawmakers targeted for cuts has been working on a number of politically charged issues in recent years, including climate change, pollution and mining. Republicans say the cuts are designed to refocus the DNR on more practical research projects that help hunters and anglers. But Democrats say the GOP wants to slap the researchers down as political payback. It has to be political, Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, a member...
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Scientists power a fitness tracker with household WiFi
2015-06-05 21:04:39| Wireless - Topix.net
Wireless electricity transmission sounds... dangerous, but the ability to do it could transform the internet of things. Researchers from the University of Washington have charged a JawBone UP24 fitness tracker with nothing but ordinary WiFi.
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