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Recent Arctic Warming Reverses Millennia-long Cooling Trend

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The decade from 1999 to 2008 was the warmest in the Arctic in two millennia; Arctic temperatures are now 2.2 °F These results indicate that recent warming is more anomalous than previously documented, says Darrell Kaufman of Northern Arizona University, the lead author of the study. C) warmer than in 1900. Kaufman, et al.

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California Headed Toward “Worst Drought Ever Recorded”; Governor Declares State Of Emergency

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Ancient bristlecone pines tell a story through dendrochronlogy about droughts over the past 11,000 years in California and Arizona. Barnett and Pierce used what they consider conservative metrics, assuming that the effects of climate change on the Colorado Basin began in 2007, and using only the last 100 years of riverflow.

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Researchers Sequence the Maize (Corn) Genome

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This new maize sequence provides significant refinements over the draft sequence that was announced in February 2008, including the elimination of redundancy and improvements in the ordering and orientation of chromosomal segments. and included the University of Arizona, Iowa State University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

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MIT Battery Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Electric Cars : Gas 2.0

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Nissan Updates on Nissan Green Program 2010; New Vehicle CO2 Needs to Be Reduced 90% by 2050

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According to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), global CO 2 concentration in the atmosphere should be stabilized below 450 ppm, Nissan noted. Introduction of an original EV test vehicle in August 2008. Raleigh, N.C. and Washington, D.C. The reduction target was 7%.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. As Senators Graham, Kerry and Lieberman try to resuscitate the climate change bill by introducing a revised bill in mid-to-late April, twenty-three U.S. Western Climate Initiative (WCI). Overview of RGGI.

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