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Sea levels may rise 69 centimeters until 2100 on ice melt

2013-05-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: Sea levels may rise as much as 69 centimeters (27 inches) through 2100 as water temperatures rise, glaciers melt in the Andes and Himalayas and ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica shed water, European scientists said. The new estimate exceeds a previous forecast of as much as 59 centimeters by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007, which didnt fully account for the effects of melting ice, researchers with the independent Ice2sea project of 24 institutions in Europe...

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TV bakery enjoys astonishing Facebook melt down

2013-05-14 22:30:17| CNET News.com

Amy's Baking Company Bakery Boutique & Bistro -- which featured on "Kitchen Nightmares" -- decides to fight critics by calling them "punks" -- and a lot, lot worse. [Read more]

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Seattle to melt buyback guns into peace bricks

2013-05-07 14:40:33| IT Services - Topix.net

The Seattle Police Department collected more than 700 guns during a buyback in January, and now city officials have a plan for what to do with them.

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With Arctic sea ice vulnerable, summer melt season begins briskly

2013-05-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Christian Scienc Monitor: After a record loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean last year, the 2013 melt season has begun at the top of the world, with ice vanishing in April at a faster pace than it did this time last year. Summer sea ice a key player in Earth's climate system and one whose decline is widely taken as a prominent sign of global warming has been shrinking in extent since satellites first started to build a consistent record of the ice in late 1978. Ice losses in 2007 set a melt-season record, only...

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