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Study: Earth more sensitive to carbon dioxide than previously thought

Study: Earth more sensitive to carbon dioxide than previously thought

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In the long term, the Earth's temperature may be 30-50% more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide than has previously been estimated, reports a new study published in Nature Geoscience this week.


Study: Slowdown in warming last year not permanent

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created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (12) | comments 19

(AP) -- Cooler temperatures in North America last year do not mean global warming is easing, government and academic scientists said Friday.


Acid test: Study reveals both losers and winners of CO2-induced ocean acidification

Acid test: Study reveals both losers and winners of CO2-induced ocean acidification

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created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- As the world’s seawater becomes more acidic due to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide, some shelled marine creatures may actually become bigger and stronger, according to a new study.


Big freeze plunged Europe into ice age in months

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created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (17) | comments 7

In the film, 'The Day After Tomorrow' the world enters the icy grip of a new glacial period within the space of just a few weeks. Now new research shows that this scenario may not be so far from the truth after all.


CO2 levels rising in troposphere over rural areas

CO2 levels rising in troposphere over rural areas

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created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Spanish researchers have measured CO2 levels for the past three years in the troposphere (lower atmosphere) over a sparsely inhabited rural area near Valladolid. The results, which are the first of their kind ...


First comprehensive review of the state of Antarctica's climate

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created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (11) | comments 3

The first comprehensive review of the state of Antarctica's climate and its relationship to the global climate system is published this week by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). The review - Antarctic ...


Hawaiian hot spot has deep roots

Hawaiian hot spot has deep roots

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created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hawaii may be paradise for vacationers, but for geologists it has long been a puzzle. Plate tectonic theory readily explains the existence of volcanoes at boundaries where plates split apart ...


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'Super-river' formed the English Channel

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created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Anglo-French scientists studying sedimentary deposits in the Bay of Biscay have concluded that Britain and France were separated by a "super-river" during three periods of glaciations, ...


Samoan Tsunami wave was 46 feet high

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created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(AP) -- The tsunami that killed more than 200 people in the Samoan islands and Tonga earlier this year towered up to 46 feet (14 meters) high - more then twice as tall as most of the buildings it slammed into, scientists ...


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Quake prediction model developed

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created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The third in a series of papers in the journal Nature completes the case for a new method of predicting earthquakes.


Antarctica served as climatic refuge in Earth's greatest extinction event

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created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0

A new fossil species suggests that some land animals may have survived the end-Permian extinction by living in cooler climates in Antarctica. Researchers have identified a distant relative of mammals that apparently survived ...


System 97W's 'castle wall' breached, and opened up to dissipation

System 97W's 'castle wall' breached, and opened up to dissipation

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created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The "walls" of System 97W have been breached, and residents in the Western Pacific Ocean no longer have a tropical cyclone to worry about today. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center cancelled their "formation ...


New study cites lower rate of quakes along some subduction zones

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created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Most earthquakes occur along fault lines, which form boundaries between two tectonic plates. As the relative speed of the plates around a fault increases, is there a corresponding increase in the number of earthquakes produced ...


A closer look at the Hudson Canyon shows why the canyon is critical for fish

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created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

A series of newly discovered pits in the bottom of the Hudson Canyon, 100 miles southeast of New York Harbor, may be a key ingredient for the abundant and diverse marine ecosystem in and around the canyon, according to research ...


Sea Level Is Rising Along U.S. Atlantic Coast, According to New Data Analysis

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created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of environmental scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania has shown that sea-level rise along the Atlantic Coast of the United States was 2 millimeters faster in the 20th century ...