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'Old Farmer's Almanac' still spots cold in Web age (AP)

'Old Farmer's Almanac' still spots cold in Web age

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created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(AP) -- Doris Smith Mills often comes across past editions of the "Old Farmer's Almanac" lying around her family's 110-year-old Westport, Mass., farm. She believes previous Smiths read it for entertainment ...


Global monsoon drives long-term carbon cycles in the ocean

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created May 08, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Monsoon is a global system, and many arrays of evidence indicate that it drives long-term cyclicity of the carbon reservoir in the global ocean. The new view is introduced in a substantial paper in Issue 7 (April 2009) of ...





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A new dawn for climate prediction

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created Jul 18, 2007 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Scientists must develop new, more adaptive approaches to predicting and monitoring climate, say climate modellers from the University of Exeter. In a 'perspectives' article published in leading journal Science, Professor Peter ...


Paleoecologists offer new insight into how climate change will affect organisms

Biology / Ecology

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

An article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science written by a team of ecologists, including Robert Booth, assistant professor of earth and environmental science at Lehigh University, examines some of the po ...


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Mild hurricane season considered over

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created Nov 08, 2006 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

The National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center in Camp Springs, Md., has said the tame 2006 hurricane season has ended early.


New climate forceasting system to be created

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created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (10) | comments 7

(AP) -- The World Climate Conference has approved the creation of a new climate forecasting system to help countries adapt to climate change and enable them to better prepare for natural disasters, officials said Friday.


Targeted investments in climate science could present enormous economic savings across the globe

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created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Targeted investments in climate science could lead to major benefits in reducing the costs of adapting to a changing climate, according to new research published by scientists from the UK's National Centre for Atmospheric ...


Britain's top climatologist backs global warming claims

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created Mar 28, 2005 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 0

One of Britain's leading climate change experts has thrown his weight behind the claim that global warming is being caused by human activity in a report published today by the Institute of Physics. The report by Professor Ala ...


Cold and ice, not heat, episodically gripped tropical regions 300 million years ago

Cold and ice, not heat, episodically gripped tropical regions 300 million years ago

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created Jul 31, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 3

Geoscientists have long presumed that, like today, the tropics remained warm throughout Earth's last major glaciation 300 million years ago.


Petascale climate modeling heats up

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created Sep 04, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (13) | comments 2

The development of powerful supercomputers capable of analyzing decades of data in the blink of an eye mark a technological milestone capable of bringing comprehensive changes to science, medicine, engineering, and business ...


Germany unveiled a supercomputer which should be in a position to model even tornados

Germany unveils world's largest weather supercomputer

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created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Germany Thursday unveiled the world's most powerful weather supercomputer that scientists hope will provide critical data on global warming for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).


Mediterranean Sea level could rise by 61 cm

Mediterranean Sea level could rise by 61 cm

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created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (32) | comments 0

A Spanish-British research project has come up with three future scenarios for the effects of climate change on the Mediterranean over the next 90 years, using global models from the Intergovernmental Panel ...



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