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Study Finds East Siberian Arctic Shelf Showing Instability and Widespread Venting of the GHG Methane; Releases May Be Much Larger and Faster Than Anticipated

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The East Siberian Arctic Shelf is a methane-rich area that is a shallow seaward extension of the Siberian tundra that was flooded during the Holocene transgression 7 to 15 thousand years ago. In April 2007, they conducted a winter expedition on the sea ice.

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IPCC Scientist Says Climate Change Likely to Accelerate More Quickly and Be More Damaging Than Predicted

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There is a real risk that human-caused climate change will accelerate the release of carbon dioxide from forest and tundra ecosystems, which have been storing a lot of carbon for thousands of years. We don’t want to cross a critical threshold where this massive release of carbon starts to run on autopilot.

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Chevron leveraging information technology to optimize thermal production of heavy oil with increased recovery and reduced costs

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Vertical steam injection wells are not effective in areas with limited available surface locations, expensive surface locations (swamp, tundra), or for supporting individual, ‘thin’ (~. Reducing steam generation requirements and optimizing the generation process reduces the GHG overhead associated with the production of heavier oil.

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Researchers Predict Permafrost Thaw Will Intensify Climate Change More Quickly Than Previously Thought; Melting of Greenland Icesheet Could Drive More Water Than Previously Thought to North American Northeast

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The 2007 assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projected that sea levels worldwide could rise by an average of 7 to 23 inches (18 to 59 cm) this century, but many researchers believe the rise will be greater because of dynamic factors in ice sheets that appear to have accelerated the melting rate in recent years.

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Toyota sellers: Room in lineup for a Ford Maverick fighter

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An unabashed Toyota fan — Gates has been promoting Toyotas in Kentucky since he was once 18 — he’s been soliciting for a compact Toyota pickup “since back in the Jim Press days,” he mentioned, relating to the longtime emblem govt who left the corporate in 2007. “The quality small truck is Toyota’s DNA.

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