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Posted by admin in Global Warming on 01 16th, 2010 | No Comments
Winter in Florida
Very light dusting of snow seen in the eastern Jacksonville area. Light snow also fell in parts of central Florida, which briefly accumulated slightly in parts of Marion County. Sleet was widespread and snow was isolated across the Orlando area and also in Melbourne. Isolated flurries were even reported...
Creative Oasis Isolated under a roof
Biosphere 2 is a 3.15-acre (12,700 m2) structure originally built to be a man-made, materially-closed ecological system in Oracle, Arizona by Space Biosphere Ventures, a joint venture whose principal officers were John P. Allen, inventor and Executive Director, and Margret Augustine, CEO. Constructed...
Posted by admin in Global Warming on 09 5th, 2009 | No Comments
Temperature Will Soar in Some U.S. States Within the Century
The heat is on. We all know climate change is a very real and very dangerous fact of life, and many people are changing their lives in an attempt to stop it. But just how hot could things get?
The Nature Conservancy has developed a new online tool called the ClimateWizard, which maps past and projected...
Posted by admin in Global Warming on 09 5th, 2009 | No Comments
Investment in geo-engineering needed immediately
Experiments on giant sunshades for the Earth and vast forests of artificial trees must begin immediately, according to the Royal Society, to ensure such mega-engineering plans are available as a safety net in case global talks to combat climate change fail.
The scientists spent a year assessing geo-engineering...
Posted by admin in Global Warming on 09 5th, 2009 | No Comments
Arctic at warmest levels in 2,000 years or more
New research shows that the Arctic reversed a long-term cooling trend and began warming rapidly in recent decades. The blue line shows estimates of Arctic temperatures over the last 2,000 years, based on proxy records from lake sediments, ice cores and tree rings. The green line shows the long-term cooling...
Posted by admin in Global Warming on 08 27th, 2009 | No Comments
Oil companies undermining climate partnership
Early in 2007, a coalition of big companies broke ranks with corporate America and declared that global warming was a real, grave threat.
The United States Climate Action Partnership changed the national debate over warming. Executives from member companies such as DuPont, Ford Motor Co. and PG&E...