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Connecting all the science disciplines related to the physical health of Planet Earth.
Historical, Current, Future Models.
Climate change factors.
Orbit fluctuations - obliquity, eccentricity, precession.
Moon & Sun's effects on Earth - tides, gravity, rotation...
Ocean temperatures affecting climate.
Meteorology, vulcanology.
Historical, Current, Future Models.
Climate change factors.
Orbit fluctuations - obliquity, eccentricity, precession.
Moon & Sun's effects on Earth - tides, gravity, rotation...
Ocean temperatures affecting climate.
Meteorology, vulcanology.
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Australian PM urges parliament to approve carbon cuts - Yahoo! NewsAustralian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd urged parliament Tuesday to approve legislation aiming to slash carbon pollution by up to 25 percent by 2020 ahead of next month's global talks on climate change. Rudd said Australia had to get "real" about climate change by introducing the cap-and-trade ...
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Climate science update: from bad to worse - Yahoo! NewsThe planet could warm by seven degrees Celsius (10.8 degrees Fahrenheit) this century, a figure that lies at the farthest range of expert predictions made only two years ago, scientists said on Tuesday. The study is the biggest overview on global warming since the UN Intergovernmental Panel on ...
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Business of Green - Looking for Wind Energy, Some Consider Turbines at Sea - NYTimes.comSeeking Wind Energy, Some Consider the Sea LAST June in a fjord in southwestern Norway, a 213-foot-tall wind turbine did something large wind turbines normally don’t do: it headed out to sea. Towed by tugboats, the newly built turbine, with three 139-foot rotor blades and a 2.3-megawatt ...
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Living on Earth: Carbon Saturated Ocean[THEME] YOUNG: From the Jennifer and Ted Stanley Studios in Somerville, Massachusetts - this is Living on Earth. I'm Jeff Young. Developments in both science and politics on climate change: The US and China agreed to cooperate on cleaner and more efficient forms of energy. But world leaders ...
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'Catastrophic' warning as fires flare in Australia - Yahoo! NewsAustralian firefighters battled dozens of bush blazes on Friday as record-breaking hot weather sparked "catastrophic" warnings in two states, just months after the country's worst ever wildfire disaster. Major lightning storms set off about 100 blazes in South Australia alone, most of which had ...
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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 31 minutes ago
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3Living on Earth: Carbon Saturated OceanThat would be the same Creator that entrusted stewardship of the Earth to man? What worries me is the ethic (or lack thereof) that allows greed and selfish materialism to destroy the planet that sustains all of us in the name of endless economic benefit (read that: ever-increasing profits) to ...Geoffrey Ames added 38 hours ago
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11Living on Earth: Carbon Saturated OceanYou could get worried about this sort of thing. Or you could trust the creator to help us at some point.Murray Peat added 2 days ago
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1Shun beef to stop climate change, says India - Yahoo! NewsDUH! India by far and away has the largest number of methane producing cattle at 281,700,000, followed by Brazil (100 million LESS), China, and only then the USA. SO, if reducing the number of cattle will help, India is on the front lines. So what will it be - eat some of those cows? ...JDP added 3 days ago
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1Katrina negligence ruling could cost feds - Crime & courts- msnbc.comOf course, "on appeal" may shunt the case up to the more "conservative" courts (including the "supreme" one), where there is a history of overturning any "niggling" judgments for reimbursing "we the people" for BOTH corporate and governmental negligence.JDP added 4 days ago
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