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United Kingdom: Flood protection measures: government criticised for dragging feet
2013-02-01 10:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Association: The government has been too slow in bringing in measures to protect homes and businesses from the "shattering" impact of flooding, MPs said on Friday. The Commons environment, food and rural affairs committee said the draft water bill would help increase competition in the provision of water supplies, but that ministers were not showing enough urgency in implementing measures to improve the country's resilience to flooding and drought. A report from the committee criticised the failure to create...
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Humans have already set in motion 69 feet of sea-level rise
2013-01-31 14:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Last week, a much discussed new paper in the journal Nature seemed to suggest to some that we neednt worry too much about the melting of Greenland, the mile-thick mass of ice at the top of the globe. The research found that the Greenland ice sheet seems to have survived a previous warm period in Earths history - the Eemian period, some 126,000 years ago - without vanishing (although it did melt considerably). But Ohio State glaciologist Jason Box isnt buying it. At Mondays Climate Desk...
Johns Manville renews lease with Crescent Real Estate for 118, 865 square feet in downtown Denver
2013-01-31 06:00:00| Nonwovens Industry Breaking News
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Humans Have Already Set in Motion 69 Feet of Sea Level Rise
2013-01-31 02:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: Last week, a much discussed new paper in the journal Nature seemed to suggest to some that we needn`t worry too much about the melting of Greenland, the mile-thick mass of ice at the top of the globe. The research found that the Greenland ice sheet seems to have survived a previous warm period in Earth`s history--the Eemian period, some 126,000 years ago--without vanishing (although it did melt considerably). But Ohio State glaciologist Jason Box isn`t buying it. At Monday`s Climate Desk Live...
DARPA shows off 1.8-gigapixel surveillance drone, can spot a terrorist from 20,000 feet
2013-01-28 17:07:43| Extremetech
DARPA and the US Army have taken the wraps off ARGUS-IS, a 1.8-gigapixel video surveillance platform that can resolve details as small as six inches from an altitude of 20,000 feet (6km). ARGUS is by far the highest-resolution surveillance platform in the world, and probably the highest-resolution camera in the world, period.
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