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The Future of Mountain Glaciers Is Bleak
2015-04-06 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Melting ice in Greenland and Antarctica get far more attention, but mountain glaciers around the world -- in the Rockies, the Andes, the Himalayas and other ranges -- are melting as well as the planet heats up. All told, say climate modelers, the water they release could contribute about a foot's worth of the 3 to 6 feet of sea level rise projected by 2100. But those models only describe the melting of glaciers in the broadest terms -- as an aggregate. Just like projections for global temperature...
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Washington state rain no cure drought, due to bleak snowpack
2015-03-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Californians take note: It is possible to have rain - lots of it - and still be plagued by drought. Just look at tiny Forks, Wash., which bills itself as the wettest town in the contiguous United States. As of Thursday, 26.6 inches of rain had fallen on the Olympic Peninsula hamlet since Jan. 1, nearly twice what Los Angeles averages in an entire year. And yet on Friday, Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee declared droughts on the Olympic Peninsula, which has three separate rainforests; as well as on...
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VICE takes on climate change, and guess what its pretty bleak!
2015-03-06 20:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The third season of VICE on HBO premieres tonight, and the star of the very first episode is - you guessed it! - Shane Smith climate change! Smith, founder of the now-massive media company, has made climate change his preferred cause célbre in recent years. After measuring melting ice in Greenland last season, hes At It Again with trips to West Antarctica and Bangladesh: West Antarctica being where the most ice is melting the fastest, and Bangladesh being where sea-level rise is most...
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Oil and gas industry in 'bleak' 2014
2015-02-24 01:01:06| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The UK offshore oil and gas industry saw its worst performance for four decades last year, according to a survey by Oil & Gas UK.
With Oil Fields Under Attack, Libya's Economic Future Looks Bleak
2015-02-15 22:15:04| Energy - Topix.net
The headquarters of the National Oil Corporation in Tripoli are gleaming, the floors marble, the offices decked out with black leather chairs and fake flowers. It seems far from the fighting going on over oil terminals around the country.
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