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11:43:20 PM Global warming helps Arctic algae suck CO 2
Register - London,England,UK

There's good news for folks worried that atmospheric CO 2 levels in the Arctic have passed 400ppm for the first time: a vast CO 2 -sucking phytoplankton bloom has been discovered beneath Arctic ice – and it may thank global warming for its presence. [more]

11:43:20 PM San Francisco Global Warming: City Gets Re-Imagined With A Watery Future
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

Huffington Post Stokle and Burrito Justice have created a map of what the City by the Bay would look like after global warming causes said bay to rise by 200 feet. We'd say that what they produced was terrifying in an "Inconvenient Truth" sort of way [more]

11:43:20 PM Scientist plan to fight global warming would make the sky brighter
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA

Scientists are getting ready to fight global warming. One idea they're playing with is to release aerosols in the atmosphere, which would cause the sky to be brighter and whiter. Currently there are no comments. Be the first to comment! [more]

11:12:00 PM West Chester Growers Market Preview
Patch.com

Applied Climatology LLC: This week, we are bringing several new varieties of perennials to the Market: Cimicfuga 'Chocoholic', Dianthus 'Apple Slice', Echinacea 'Aloha', Echinacea 'Pink Poodle', Raspberry 'Fall gold' (yellow berries) & Black Raspberr [more]

9:20:08 PM Five scariest things about global climate change
Record-Searchlight

On this 10-minute segment, Hank discusses the five scariest things about global climate change. "So if you are here for a worst-case scenario, there it is. Everything dies and the entire Earth smells like 20 billion rotten eggs. And guess what? [more]

9:20:08 PM Rio + 20 And Thereafter — Is Ghana Prepared?
Ghana

In addition to these three agreements, two legally-binding Conventions that aim to prevent global climate change and the eradication of the diversity of biological species were opened for signature. These were the UN Framework Convention on Climate . [more]

8:05:05 PM If you thought this spring seemed really hot … then you were correct!
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

Climatological spring ended on June 1, and this year marked one of the hottest on record in the northeast, according to Jessica Rennells, a climatologist and extension support specialist at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University. [more]

7:02:15 PM France Calls on Europe to Commit itself Against Global Warming
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba

08 de junio de 2012, 12:15Paris, Jun 8 (Prensa Latina) French President Francois Hollande called on Europe to engage in the fight against global warming, despite the economic and financial crisis affecting the continent. Opening a forum dedicated to  [more]

7:02:15 PM Republicans prepare for effects of global warming by ignoring the
Milford Daily News - Milford,MA,USA

Milford Daily News (blog) By Pat Cunningham GOP lawmakers in North Carolina have a new solution to rising sea levels, caused by global warming: scrap the scientific evidence pointing to rising sea levels. A state-appointed science panel warned offici [more]

7:02:15 PM COLUMN-Drill for income with energy stocks
Reuters - NY,USA

Although I have severe reservations about energy companies' role in global warming - they can be doing much more to promote clean/alternative energy - energy companies that pay healthy, consistent dividends still make sense. [more]

4:41:39 PM Forecasters call for steamy June to kick off summer
Le Mars Daily Sentinel - Le Mars,IA,USA

State Climatologist Harry Hillaker, with the Iowa State Climatologist's Office, Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, explained reasons for the above average June temperatures. "We've been warmer than normal for eight months in a row," [more]

3:32:07 PM Global warming hits home for 'Island President'
Wisconsin State Journal

Mohamed Nasheed fights to save his country, the Maldives, from being submerged as a result of global warming in “The Island President.” Most arguments around global warming center on what will happen, or what won't happen. [more]

12:22:39 PM COLUMN: Smart grid equals worse than a dumb idea
Gaston Gazette - Gastonia,NC,USA

The first fact you need to know is that there is no man-made Global Climate Change Catastrophe. Environmentalists have gone from Chicken Little lunatics to modern day scam artists. Ice Age predictions in the 1970s turned into Global Warming in the .. [more]

12:22:39 PM Study proves climate threatens turtles
Drexel University The Triangle Online

Working with the predictions of global climate change due to global warming, Drexel's researchers foresee an increase in frequency of the El Nino weather pattern. This correlates with a sharp decline in leatherback turtle hatchling survival during th [more]

9:10:28 AM Global warming: Cornell researchers say melting Arctic ice may be setting
Summit County Citizens Voice

Summit County Citizens Voice By Summit Voice SUMMIT COUNTY — Evidence continues to mount that melting Arctic ice is having a significant effect in the mid-latitudes, where most people live, and it's not something that's going to take decades to devel [more]

9:10:28 AM When hitting 400 is not good: Levels of key greenhouse gas pass
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post WASHINGTON — The world's air has reached what scientists call a troubling new milestone for carbon dioxide, the main global warming pollutant. Monitoring stations across the Arctic this spring are measuring more than 400 parts per mil [more]

2:56:16 AM Climate change boosts under ice life
Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand

Such under-ice blooms invisible to satellites may be on the rise as a result of global climate change, pushing the Arctic's most productive season to earlier in the year. The finding also suggests that researchers may be dramatically underestimating  [more]

2:31:32 AM Global warming: May the second-warmest on record; 2012 now tracking
Summit County Citizens Voice

Summit County Citizens Voice By Summit Voice SUMMIT COUNTY — May temperatures across the US were 3.3 degrees above the long-term average, making it the second-warmest May on record for the country, according to the monthly state of the climate report [more]



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