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Snow at Highest Elevations No Longer Pure - Yahoo! NewsThe pure white snow atop the Andes Mountains may not be so pure after all. Scientists have found traces of toxic pollutants called PCBs in snow samples taken from Aconcagua Mountain, the highest peak in the Americas. While the overall PCB levels were quite low, the results show that these ...
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Climate projections underestimate CO2 impactThe climate may be 30-50 percent more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide in the long term than previously thought, according to a recent study published in Nature Geoscience. Projections over the next hundreds of years of climate conditions, including global temperatures, may need to be ...
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Governments turn to cloud seeding to fight droughtIn this photo taken Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009, Pacific Gas and Electric Meteorological Technician Steve Tissot, climbs a ladder to inspect a cloud- seeding machine near Lake Almanor, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. Faced with crippling droughts, governments and utilities throughout the western ...
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UN: 2000-2009 likely warmest decade on record - Yahoo! Newshis decade is on track to become the warmest since records began in 1850, and 2009 could rank among the top-five warmest years, the U.N. weather agency reported Tuesday on the second day of a pivotal 192-nation climate conference. Only the United States and Canada experienced cooler conditions ...
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Big storm targets Midwest with snow, wind - Yahoo! NewsA fierce wintry storm moved into the nation's midsection Tuesday, covering roads with deep snow that was set to be followed by high winds, creating blizzard conditions. The storm already blanketed much of the mountain west and drenched Southern California with rain. In the Phoenix area, fierce ...
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1Snow at Highest Elevations No Longer Pure - Yahoo! NewsSop much for "the [snow fed] water from pure mountain streams". How convenient for the corporate water barons.JDP added 4 days ago
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1UN: 2000-2009 likely warmest decade on record - Yahoo! NewsAnd the cooler conditions in the USA and Canada are RIGHT IN LINE with some of the global warming climate models that predict wetter weather for several parts of those countries (clouds and rain making it cooler).JDP added 6 days ago
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1White House Pushes Back on Climate Change Email Controversy - Political PunchTypical of the supreme hypocrites that are many Republicans and most global warming "skeptics". They blithely overlook the years of astroturffing by business "conservatives" (who seek only to conserve and increase their own wealth, and nothing else), oil and coal companies, etc. - including ...JDP added 11 days ago
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1Climate change in Kuwait BayClimate change doubters point to local variations as "proof" that there is no man-made climate change. HOWEVER, local variations ARE to be expected and DO NOT PROVE any such thing!JDP added 2 weeks ago
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1Australian PM urges parliament to approve carbon cuts - Yahoo! NewsEven a "conservative" "frontier" based country is starting to get serious about climate change. Of course, they have been drying up and burning up for the last few years. Let us hope it doesn't take that everywhere for other governments to come their senses.JDP added 3 weeks ago
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