Friday September 5th, 2008
Planet News Feed
Asian Pollution Could Spur U.S., European Warming
from Reuters
Asian pollution from Asian power plants, cooking and heating could create summer hot spots in the central United States and southern Europe by mid-century, U.S. climate scientists reported on Thursday.
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Warming Oceans Make Strongest Storms Stronger
from Reuters
As the world's oceans get warmer, the strongest tropical storms get stronger, climate scientists reported on Wednesday as the remnants of Hurricane Gustav spun out over the central United States.
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Climate Fight Hit By Global Slowdown
from Reuters
The fight against global warming is in danger of being downgraded on more urgent fears over energy security, heightened by a Russian war with Georgia, and a global economic slowdown.
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Raft Made of Junk Bottles Crosses Pacific
from MSNBC
Tanned, dirty and hungry, two men who spent three months crossing the Pacific on a raft made of plastic bottles to raise awareness of ocean debris finally stepped onto dry land.
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Arctic Ice Second-Lowest Ever; Polar Bears Affected
from Reuters
Arctic sea ice shrank to its second-lowest level ever, U.S. scientists said on Wednesday, with particular melting in the Chukchi Sea, where polar bears were recently seen swimming far off the Alaskan coast.
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Could $100 Oil Turn Dumps Into Plastic Mines?
from Reuters
Sparked by surging oil, a dramatic rise in the value of old plastic is encouraging waste companies across the world to dig for buried riches in rotting rubbish dumps.
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Will the Green Movement Kill the Meal Tray?
from CNN
Crammed on middle linebacker Derek Walker's plate are beef, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, spinach and a roll. In the other hand, he balances a salad and a bottle of hot sauce. He lumbers through the small, tabled-filled cafeteria and plunks down without spilling a drop.All without a tray.
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Global Warming Time Bomb Trapped in Artic Soil
from Yahoo News
Climate change could release unexpectedly huge stores of carbon dioxide from Arctic soils, which would in turn fuel a vicious circle of global warming, a new study warned Sunday.
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Christians See Climate Change As Moral Issue
from Reuters
Morality should be a spur for stronger action to fight climate change, which threatens food and water supplies for the poorest in Africa, a group of Christian activists said on Saturday during U.N. climate talks.
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Scientists Urge U.S. to Protect Economy From Climate
from Reuters
Eight scientific organizations urged the next U.S. president to help protect the country from climate change by pushing for increased funding for research and forecasting, saying about $2 trillion of U.S. economic output could be hurt by storms, floods and droughts.
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