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11:02:43 PM Weatherwatch: Winters in northern hemisphere set to get colder
Guardian - UK

Indeed the chilly winters of 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 caused many to question whether global warming was happening at all. Ironically, it turns out that these harsh winters may be a consequence of global warming. Careful analysis of northern hemispher [more]

11:02:43 PM Study plugs gap in global warming puzzle
ABC Online - Australia

Heating up Researchers claim to have solved the 'missing energy' discrepancy between atmospheric and ocean temperature measurements and at the same time showing that the Earth continues accumulating heat last decade. The study, published in Nature .. [more]

10:22:46 PM Solid waste management
Himalayan Times - Kathmandu,Nepal

People do not realise that solid waste reduction and recycling helps in addressing global climate change. They are not aware that the trash they toss away leads to emissions of greenhouse gases. Each kilo of trash tossed emits approximately 200 grams [more]

9:03:21 PM Second Brookline Climate Week adds art to the science of global warming
Old Colony Memorial and Plymouth Bulletin - Plymouth,MA,USA

By Teddy Applebaum/tapplebaum@wickedlocal.com Climate Week is back and it's bigger, greener, and more artistic. There's also a polar bear. “I think what's exciting this year is the arts element, because people are often deeply moved by art,” said eve [more]

9:03:21 PM Geoengineering and global food supply
EurekAlert - Washington,DC,USA

This has led some to explore drastic ideas for combating global warming, including the idea of trying to counteract it by reflecting sunlight away from the Earth. However, it has been suggested that reflecting sunlight away from the Earth might itsel [more]

2:38:40 PM Runaway warming and Wyoming rock
Billings Gazette

For reasons unknown, during the transition between the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, a sudden surge of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere prompted an extreme version of global warming, producing droughts and floods, widespread species extinctions and  [more]

2:32:23 PM Space News: What happened to all the snow?
Lake County News - Lakeport,CA,USA

"The Mammoth Mountain ski resort in the Sierras of California got more than 200 inches of snow last December," said NASA climatologist Bill Patzert of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "This December they got less than 10 inches. ... [more]

1:39:50 PM First 'major' snowfall this winter blankets Mercer
Bridgeton News - Bridgeton,NJ,USA

New Jersey has had just two measurable snowfall events recorded by the state climatologist in the last three months. The first was the infamous “Snowtober” event that blanketed the county with 3 to 7 inches of snow just two nights before Halloween, . [more]

9:37:55 AM Global warming could be similar across ecosystems
Economic Times - India

LONDON: The impact of global warming could be similar across ecosystems, regardless of local environmental conditions and species. A team from Queen Mary's School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, which went to Iceland to study a set of ... [more]

9:37:55 AM Global warming: Arctic ozone on the edge?
Summit County Citizens Voice

March 2011: Strongly reduced ozone values (left, dark blue) and significantly increased concentration of chlorine monoxide (right, red) that is directly involved in ozone degradation. GRAPHIC COURTESY KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. ... [more]

9:37:55 AM Global warming and crazy fish
Record-Searchlight

"Ocean acidification is happening quickly because of human activity. About 200 years ago, people started burning more fossil fuels, such as coal. This activity releases carbon dioxide into the air. Carbon dioxide insulates the planet and causes ... [more]

9:37:55 AM Teaching against climate change deniers
Human Events - Washington,DC,USA

The organization is determined to silence global warming deniers, and is unfurling an aggressive effort to teach America's schoolchildren that climate change is real and is being caused by human activity. The NCSE has created a website filled with .. [more]

9:15:28 AM Biodiversity crisis: Habitat loss and climate change causing 6th mass
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA

Bay Area Indymedia The world is losing species at a rate that is 100 to 1000 times faster than the natural extinction rate, with the challenges of conserving the world's species larger than mitigating the negative effects of global climate change. .. [more]

8:30:45 AM Their View: Decisions based on science, not propaganda
Las Cruces Sun-News - Las Cruces,NM,USA

NRSP has billed him as "retired professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg." In 2006, Ball wrote a letter to the Royal Society identifying himself as "Professor of Climatology, University of Winnipeg." But that university had never had a  [more]

5:34:53 AM Agents of (spotting) change: New Maine program trains citizens to
SunJournal.com - Lewiston,ME,USA

Lewiston Sun Journal Scientists are still struggling to predict the severity and consequences of global climate change, though few now argue about its existence or the fact that it has been made worse by human endeavors. In 2009, University of Maine  [more]

5:34:53 AM 7 Ways to Survive and Thrive in 2012 and Beyond
The Good Men Project

The next half dozen years will likely see rapid, global climate change coupled with the beginning of the end of the petroleum era and a reorganization of the planetary energy regime, a major shock to the global financial system, and unprecedented foo [more]



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