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Sea cucumbers may save Great Barrier Reef

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 8:39 PM EST (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Seeded by Richard Farmer

Tropical sea cucumbers and their faeces could save coral reefs from the harmful impacts of climate change, scientists have found. Scientists at One Tree Island, the University of Sydney’s research station on the Great Barrier Reef, say sea cucumbers reduce the impact of  …

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Greenpeace activist: Why Oz shouldn't Bankroll Coal & HRL proposal

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 5:45 PM EST (New Matilda)
Seeded by Gideon Polya

Julien Vincent: "A company called HRL want to build a commercial-scale coal-fired power station at Morwell, Victoria, using their coal-gasification technology which makes a brown coal power station as clean as black coal (that is, dirty).

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NS analysis: Why the UK's £1 trillion debt is no cause for panic

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 5:35 PM EST (New Statesman Contents)
Seeded by Gideon Polya

UK current debt levels (now £1 trillion) , measured as a percentage of GDP, are historically low. As the graph provided shows, the national debt has actually been higher for 54 of the last 100 years ands is now 60% of GDP (over 250% after WW2)  .

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Scientists Aboard Iberian Coast Ocean Drilling Expedition Report Early Findings

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 2:10 PM EST ()
Seeded by Colorado Bob

"We set out to understand how the Strait of Gibraltar acted first as a barrier and then a gateway over the past six million years," says Javier Hernandez-Molina of the University of Vigo in Spain and co-chief scientist for Expedition 339.

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Climate-driven heat peaks may shrink wheat crops

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:36 PM EST (PhysOrg.com)
Seeded by Colorado Bob

Excess heat beyond the plant's tolerance zone damages photosynthetic cells. Fluctuations in wheat yields in India have also been attributed by farmers to temperature, most recently a heat wave in 2010 blamed for stunting plant productivity. To further test these experiments a …

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Burt Rutan on Schooling the Rogues | Watts Up With That?

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:41 PM EST ()
Seeded by space guy

Do the study yourself. Look at how and why the data are manipulated, cherry-picked and promoted. I will bet if you did, you too would be shocked. The mark of a good theory is its ability to be falsified by new data.

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Forget global warming - it's Cycle 25 we need to worry about (and if NASA scientists are right the Thames will be freezing over again) | Mail Online

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:12 PM EST (the Mail online)
Seeded by space guy

‘Nature is about to carry out a very interesting experiment,’ he said. ‘Ten or 15 years from now, we will be able to determine much better whether the warming of the late 20th Century really was caused by man-made CO2, or by natural variability.’

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Can the economy bear what oil prices have in store?

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:04 AM EST (Science Daily)
Seeded by Colorado Bob

The "tipping point" for oil supply appears to have occurred around 2005, says Murray, who compared world crude oil production with world prices going back to 1998. Before 2005, supply of regular crude oil was elastic and increased in response to price increases.

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NASA Video Illustrates 130 Years of Global Warming, Hansen Expects New Global Temperature Record Within 3 Years

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 8:49 AM EST (Think Progress)
Seeded by McSpocky

In 1880, when modern global temperature records began, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were at 285 parts per million. In 2011, they are were over 390 parts per million.

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An Illustrated Guide to Climate Change in 2011

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 8:35 AM EST (Think Progress)
Seeded by McSpocky

These facts are just part of why all national academies of science on the planet and every major geophysical scientific society agree that humans are fundamentally changing the climate. CO2 in the atmosphere continues its inexorable rise The heart of the climate problem  …

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