Sandy A Warning Rising Seas Threaten Nuclear Plants (via Climate Central) By Bobby Magill Follow @bobbymagill As Hurricane Sandy barreled ashore a year ago, the storm forced the shutdown of several Northeast coastal nuclear power reactors, including the Oyster Creek…
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Warming Oceans Will Affect The Planet’s Poorest
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LONDON – Greenhouse gas emissions from industry and power generation have begun to trigger ocean changes that will impose huge costs to the poorest people on the planet.
Chinese scientists light new path to the internet
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Chinese scientists have created a revolutionary way to connect to the internet using LED-based lightbulbs, Xinhua reports. Coupled with special microprocessors embedded in the bulbs, four computers were capable of connecting to the internet at very high speeds: 150 megabits…
Supreme Court to hear greenhouse gas case
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Source: The Hill Author: Ben Geman The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to review whether the Environmental Protection Agency has the power to require greenhouse gas permits for big stationary pollution sources such as power plants, factories and refineries. The…
Up to Five Billion Face ‘Entirely New Climate’ by 2050
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Up to Five Billion Face ‘Entirely New Climate’ by 2050 (via Climate Central) By Andrew Freedman Follow @afreedma The mean annual climate of the average location on Earth will slip past the most extreme conditions experienced during the past 150…
[OPINION] Stop Demonizing Iran
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Not everyone wants the United States to improve relations with Iran. Some prefer war instead. Not because Iran is a threat to the American people, or the Israelis, but because a friendly Iran would no longer furnish the convenient enemy the hawks in the United States and Israel need.
Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to 3 American researchers
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(via The Jersey Tomato Press) The Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded to 3 Americans, all researchers. This prize was just announced by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. This year’s prize was awarded jointly to these…
World Vasectomy Day is Oct. 18
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World Vasectomy Day is being held on Oct. 18, when surgeons around the world have undertaken to perform the operation, in many cases before a live audience while others will be filmed. The event will be launched in front of a live…
Obituary: Novelist Tom Clancy
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Tom Clancy, who has died aged 66, was the author of gung-ho techno-military thrillers which generated many millions of dollars, a number of successful films, and a franchise of equally popular – and profitable – video games. In Clancy’s books,…
What We’re Seeing Now: Climate Scientists Get Swift-boated
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The word early from scientists gathered in Stockholm is clear: The planet is changing, and humans are the cause. But the message from media outlets in the days and weeks leading up to Friday’s release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment presented a far murkier picture: Global temperatures haven’t risen in the past 15 years, Arctic Sea ice is growing and scientists are scrambling to explain why.
