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BREAKING NEWS: US Science Report Proves All Out Effort To Fight Climate Change Needed Right Now Or Everyone Is Screwed. Get It?

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We don’t have but a handful of years to step up with a drastic, all out, game-changing World War II like response or you will have doomed your children to a disaster-filled miserable existence from which they will not be able to recover or escape. Climate Report Details Energy, Agriculture Harm – Reuters India.

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We Are ALL Tongan

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But surprisingly, a subject Elizabeth didn’t know a lot about is Tonga’s frontline role as a victim of the climate change crisis. Today all 3000 inhabitants of the Carteret Islands have been relocated as they become the first climate change refugees. They were “placed.&#. Mine too of course.

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Study findings suggest that switching from coal to natural gas would do little for global climate

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The study will appear next month in the peer-reviewed journal Climatic Change Letters. Relying more on natural gas would reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, but it would do little to help solve the climate problem. However, the effects of natural gas on climate change have been difficult to calculate.

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Berkeley Lab scientists find that large undersea methane releases could overwhelm the Arctic Ocean’s ability to consume the gas

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A two-part study by scientists from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Los Alamos National Laboratory provides a detailed scenario based on a novel combination of two computer models of how climate change could impact millions of tons of methane frozen in sediment beneath the Arctic Ocean.

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Researchers Find Warming Arctic Current Triggers Release of Methane from Methane Hydrate

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Methane released from gas hydrate in submarine sediments has been identified in the past as an agent of climate change. The data were collected from the royal research ship RRS James Clark Ross, as part of the Natural Environment Research Council’s International Polar Year Initiative. Westbrook, G.

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4,000 Robots Roam the Oceans, Climate in Their Crosshairs

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In the puzzle of climate change, the Earth’s oceans are an immense and crucial piece. But gathering accurate and sufficient data about the oceans to feed climate and weather models has been a huge technical challenge. heat is generally driven westward and towards the poles , being lost as it escapes to the atmosphere and space.

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Greenius Gets Groove On with Greenpeace & GRID Alternatives

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I was there to help Greenpeace collect petition cards urging President Obama to take a stronger leadership role on climate change and to go to Copenhagen and take personal responsibility for the USA’s role in the talks. And if YOU are planning on being alive over the next 20 years – you will not escape.

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