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Simon Harrison

Arctic Melt Raises Sea Levels and Reinforces Global Warming - 0 views

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    If you want to see global warming's signature, look to the Arctic. Up north, the air is warming and the ice is melting. As all of that reflective ice goes away, the Arctic Ocean is soaking up more sunlight, further enhancing warming. Melting Arctic ice is also contributing significantly to sea level rise.
Simon Harrison

Climate Change warming impacts - 0 views

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    An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Global Warming Impacts: How We Know Inaction Is the Gravest Threat Humanity Faces
Simon Harrison

Recent warming trend is significant after all - 0 views

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    What a difference a year makes. In February 2010, climate sceptics were crowing about apparent admissions from Phil Jones at the Climate Research Unit (CRU) in Norwich, UK, that warming trends over the period 1995 to 2009 were "not statistically significant"
Simon Harrison

Study suggests rising CO2 in the past caused global warming - 0 views

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    A scientific conundrum that has puzzled climate experts for years may have been solved with the publication of research showing how an increase in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere contributed to rising temperatures millions of years ago.
Simon Harrison

Ocean acidification is latest manifestation of global warming - 1 views

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    Carbon dioxide pollution adds to threat to world's oceans and marine species
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    Acidity is measured by its pH (power of hydrogen) value. Fresh water has a pH reading of 7. Readings below that are considered to be acidic. Those above 7 are alkaline. Surface sea water had a reading of 8.2 a century ago.
Simon Harrison

Global Warming Effects Map - Effects of Global Warming - 0 views

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    "Observational evidence from all continents and most oceans shows that many natural systems are being affected by regional climate changes, particularly temperature increases." -Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2007 Explore the signs of global warming on this map or Google Earth.
Simon Harrison

Global warming study finds no grounds for climate sceptics' concerns - 0 views

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    The world is getting warmer, countering the doubts of climate change sceptics about the validity of some of the scientific evidence, according to the most comprehensive independent review of historical temperature records to date. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, found several key issues that sceptics claim can skew global warming figures had no meaningful effect.
Simon Harrison

Warm blast hits UN climate summit - 0 views

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    The global weather agency says the world continues to warm, as words fly over Canada's stance on emissions and finance.
Simon Harrison

Why is it so hard to stop climate change? - 1 views

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    The science of global warming is clear and so are the solutions, yet the world is moving in reverse. Why? Emissions are rising by record amounts, and time is running out to avoid catastrophic warming. What is going wrong and how can the problems be solved?
Simon Harrison

We know the terrible legacy of our love of fossil fuels. But will it stop us? No chance - 0 views

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    Not a tonne of coal or a barrel of oil will be left in the ground if money can be made from extracting and burning it Build a bunker with a vegetable plot on some high but sheltered ground and leave it to your grandchildren: dangerous levels of climate change now look all but inevitable.
Dale Bard

Climate change: Key influencers in the debate - 0 views

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    Climate change remains the most divisive issue of our age. As countries prepare to meet for the latest round of international talks to stop global warming, who are the key people influencing the debate?
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    Climate change remains the most divisive issue of our age. As countries prepare to meet for the latest round of international talks to stop global warming, who are the key people influencing the debate?
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