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The 3rd Annual Global cooling music festival

August 21st, 2009 · No Comments

The 3rd Annual Clean Air Clear Stars Music Festival is a 3 day event raising money to protect the environment and raise awareness about the effects of Global Warming. Dandy Warhols, Robby Krieger join 30 other indie bands to fight global warming in a 3 day event beginning on Friday 18th September.

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Hybrid and pure electric cars – the next ten years

July 1st, 2009 · No Comments

Dr Peter Harrop, chairman of IDTechEX has issued a reporting detailing the current and future development of hybrid and pure electric cars.
A radical change in attitude to electric vehicles has occurred in 2009, resulting in huge new financing from governments and tough new laws that will boost sales. Now all car makers must offer electric [...]

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Google Causes Global Warming?

February 5th, 2009 · No Comments

Is Google destroying the planet one search at a time?  The recycling market has gone bust. And check out “That’s Just Weird.”

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Ocean ‘fertilisation’ team ordered to halt global warming experiment

January 26th, 2009 · No Comments

The team planned to drop 20 tons of iron sulphate into waters around the Antarctic to stimulate the growth of plankton, which would take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Environmentalists had claimed that the experiment – aimed at creating a 186-square-mile bloom of plankton between Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope so big [...]

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Global warming increasing death rate of US trees, scientists warn

January 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

Trees in the western United States are dying twice as quickly as they did three decades ago and scientists think global warming is to blame.
In their surveys, ecologists found that a wide range of tree species were dying including pines, firs and hemlocks and at a variety of altitudes. The changes can have serious long-term [...]

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Asia on the global warming boil

January 13th, 2009 · No Comments

For anyone interested in the weather, the good news is that 2008 was cooler than the previous year. The bad news is that the world is still getting hotter and that greater variability in weather brought on by climate change resulted in or contributed to extreme weather that killed hundreds of people in Southeast Asia [...]

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Europe shivers, but world is getting hotter

January 12th, 2009 · No Comments

It might feel cold in Europe but the world is getting hotter and global warming remains a danger, the United Nations weather agency WMO said Friday.
“The Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, Michel Jarraud, has stressed that we mustn’t confuse the current weather that we’re seeing with global warming,” WMO spokeswoman Gaelle Sevenier told a [...]

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Ancient Soil Replenishment Technique Helps In Battle Against Global Warming

December 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Former inhabitants of the Amazon Basin enriched their fields with charred organic materials-biochar-and transformed one of the earth’s most infertile soils into one of the most productive. These early conservationists disappeared 500 years ago, but centuries later, their soil is still rich in organic matter and nutrients.
Now, scientists, environmental groups and policymakers forging the next [...]

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Arctic ice volume lowest ever as globe warms: U.N.

December 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Ice volume around the Arctic region hit the lowest level ever recorded this year as climate extremes brought death and devastation to many parts of the world, the U.N. weather agency WMO said on Tuesday.
Although the world’s average temperature in 2008 was, at 14.3 degrees Celsius (57.7 degrees Fahrenheit), by a fraction of a degree [...]

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Melting ice may slow global warming

December 8th, 2008 · No Comments

Collapsing antarctic ice sheets, which have become potent symbols of global warming, may actually turn out to help in the battle against climate change and soaring carbon emissions.
Professor Rob Raiswell, a geologist at the University of Leeds, says that as the sheets break off the ice covering the continent, floating icebergs are produced that gouge [...]

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