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Inhofe to UN Climate Conference in Durban

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Natural Gas Commercials are BULL!!!! Total Breakdown of Corporate Responsibility Exposed by Satire. Ironic News Report!

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Natural Gas Commercials are BULL!!!! Total Breakdown of Corporate Responsibility Exposed by Satire. Ironic News Report!

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Forumschiste.com L'Émission, édition septembre 2011

Aujourd’hui, la plus récente version de Forumschiste... more

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The military: unlikely advocate for green?

Keith Menconi: "So long as the military's short-term considerations... more

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Deadly flash floods in Pittsburgh

Severe storms hit the Midwest on Saturday and are expected later in the Northeast,... more

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Ancient Glacial Melting Shows That Small Amount of Subsurface Warming Can Trigger Rapid Collapse of Ice Shelves

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Article: Climate Change: It's bad and getting worse

how about 225,000 people added to the planet everyday and no chance for changing that

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Greenland's ice sheet melted the most it has in over a half century last year

Greenland's ice sheet melted the most it has in over a half century last year, US... more

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Warming oceans cause largest movement of marine species in two million years:scientists

Warming ocean waters are causing the largest movement of marine species seen on Earth... more

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Industry and residents square off over water as severe drought continues in Texas

With nearly 65 percent of Texas experiencing exceptional drought, water is becoming... more

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Floods kill 24 as rains pound north Nigeria city

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NOAA makes it official: 2011 among most extreme weather years in history

The devastating string of tornadoes, droughts, wildfires and floods that hit the United States this spring marks 2011 as one of the most extreme years on record, according to a new federal analysis.

Just shy of the halfway mark, 2011 has seen eight $1-billion-plus disasters, with total damages from wild weather at more than $32 billion, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Agency officials said that total could grow significantly, since they expect this year's North Atlantic hurricane season, which began June 1, will be an active one.

Overall, NOAA experts said extreme weather events have grown more frequent in the United States since 1980. Part of that shift is due to climate change, said Tom Karl, director of the agency's National Climatic Data Center.

"Extremes of precipitation are generally increasing because the planet is actually warming and more water is evaporating from the oceans," he said. "This extra water vapor in the atmosphere then enables rain and snow events to become more extensive and intense than they might otherwise be."

But for some kinds of extreme weather, teasing out a contribution from climate change is more difficult.

The second half of April brought a swarm of tornadoes that leveled parts of the Midwest, including the twister that killed 151 people in Joplin, Mo. So far, 2011 has seen the sixth-highest number of tornado deaths on record, prompting many people to wonder whether climate change has played a role. So far, scientists say there's no good evidence for or against a climate change influence on tornado behavior.

Meanwhile, computer models predict that droughts -- like those that have scorched large swaths of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona this year -- will become stronger and more frequent as climate change continues. But because patterns of drought vary widely from decade to decade, that makes it "very difficult and unlikely that we're going to be able to discern a human fingerprint, if there is one, on the drought record in the foreseeable future," Karl said.

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With warming, Arctic is losing ground

Arctic coastlines — a third of the globe’s total shores — are retreating an average of a half meter annually, a 10-nation regional assessment concludes. A warming climate is the apparent cause, according to a related Alaskan study that also calculates the amount of carbon and other nutrients in soil being washed into Arctic waters.

On average, shorelines in the region retreat about a half meter per year, although annual erosion in some regions now exceeds 8 meters, the new State of the Arctic Coast Report estimates. That rate is higher than anywhere else on the planet — and escalating. It’s something that scientists had suspected, but until now had not amassed sufficient data to confirm, notes Volker Rachold, executive secretary of the International Arctic Science Committee in Potsdam, Germany. The organization copublished the new report along with the Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone Project, the Arctic Council’s Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme and the International Permafrost Association.

Arctic coasts have proven especially vulnerable in recent decades, Rachold notes, because here “ice is what holds everything together.” So with global warming, which is exaggerated in the Arctic, coastal sediments have been coming unglued.

A related new analysis, focusing just on erosion along Alaska’s nearly 2,000-kilometer Beaufort Sea coast, finds land losses now are twice the rate typical of the 1950s through 1980. Chien-Lu Ping of the Palmer Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and his colleagues quantified the rates and then, for the first time, correlated erosion risk with soil type.

On average, Ping says, 70 percent of the Arctic coastline is ice — sometimes present as tiny crystals, other times as major blocks meters or more on each side. In the April 20 Journal of Geophysical Research, Ping’s team reports that height above sea level and ice content were the primary predictors of erosion risk along nonrocky coasts.

The most ice-rich soils face “double jeopardy” from warming, Ping explains. Icier soils initially expand to create high bluffs, which are more vulnerable to undercutting by warming waters and wave action as seas are increasingly freed of year-round ice cover. And as warming air thaws icy patches in the region’s permafrost, affected soils can sink to sea level or below.

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New Madrid 2011 Earth Quake Imminent? HAARP Kills Birds? Proof Fema Drills

The Governments are set up for handling these potential disasters through FEMA early... more

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WikiLeaks cables reveal how US manipulated climate accord

Hidden behind the save-the-world rhetoric of the global climate change negotiations... more

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The Warming of Antarctica: A Citadel of Ice Begins to Melt

The fringes of the coldest continent are starting to feel the heat, with the northern... more

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Poor accuse Japan of jeopardizing UN climate talks

Developing countries accused Japan on Wednesday of reneging on promises to extend the... more

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Deep Sea Lavas Bake Sediments, Add to Warming

One of the places where Nature was thought to suck up and bury atmospheric carbon may... more

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http://www.thepetitionsite.com/31/stop-illegal-mining-in-forests-by-mining-mafia

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/82036/i-might-seek-cbi-help.html Lokayukta... more

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