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Swings In North Atlantic Oscillation Variability Linked To Climate Warming
Using a 218-year-long temperature record from a Bermuda brain coral, researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have created the first marine-based reconstruction showing the long-term behavior of one of the most important drivers of climate fluctuations in the North Atlantic.
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King tides — a glimpse of future sea level rise
King tides are natural events that happen twice a year. The tides predicted for many parts of the east coast between 8am and 10.30am on Monday morning are around 40 to 50 cm higher than the average ‘spring tide’ (the highest tide in the monthly moon cycle).
Dr McInnes says observing the king tide can assist communities to plan and prepare for the effects of climate change.
“This king tide is not caused by climate change, but it can help us picture what our coastlines might look like in the future.”
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Canada’s forests, once a help on greenhouse gases, now contribute to climate change
In an alarming yet little-noticed series of recent studies, scientists have concluded that Canada’s precious forests, stressed from damage caused by global warming, insect infestations and persistent fires, have crossed an ominous line and are now pumping out more climate-changing carbon dioxide than they are sequestering.
Worse yet, the experts predict that Canada’s forests will remain net carbon sources, as opposed to carbon storage “sinks,” until at least 2022, and possibly much longer.
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Garmin reveals program to chart cheapest route
Garmin International Inc. this week unveiled a free update for its Nuvi line of personal navigation devices designed to save drivers gas.
Garmin’s ecoRoute software uses a car’s gas mileage and the current price of gasoline to compute the route that uses the least fuel. The software is a free update to some Nuvi models.
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Mandelson targets more than one million low carbon jobs by 2015 – Carbon Offsets Daily
The UK’s low carbon industries could deliver “more than a million jobs… by the middle of the next decade”, according to business secretary Peter Mandelson who today trailed a package of new measures designed to support the emerging sector.
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Apple risks green makeover with CSR snub – 09 Jan 2009 – BusinessGreen
Apple’s launch of new green products at this week’s Macworld show has been overshadowed by the company’s attempts to quash shareholder requests for more corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting.
The company issued a proxy filing on Wednesday in which it urged shareholders to vote against a shareholder resolution proposed by As You Sow, an environmental group co-sponsored by the New York City Office of the Comptroller and the Green Century Equity Fund.
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New Balloon Successfully Flight-Tested Over Antarctica
NASA and the National Science Foundation have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly designed super pressure balloon prototype that may enable a new era of high-altitude scientific research. The super-pressure balloon ultimately will carry large scientific experiments to the brink of space for 100 days or more.
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To mitigate climate change, Peru, one of the poorest countries with 30% population living under $2, 10% under $1 a day, planting 512,820 trees daily to capture more than 570,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually. Who’s next?
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