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Pray for Rain
Thu,27 Sep 2012 02:56 PM PDT
National Journal - The weather forecast could have a big effect on America's economic forecast next year. The more rain, the better. Full Story | Top |
Lightning Still Largely a Mystery
Thu,27 Sep 2012 06:43 AM PDT
LiveScience.com -  Some 44,000 thunderstorms rage worldwide each day, delivering as many as 100 lightning bolts to the ground every second. These dramatic, deafening flashes of electricity recharge the global battery by keeping the ground flush with negative electric charge and maintaining the ionosphere's positive charge. Lightning turns the Earth into an electric circuit, and it may have even delivered the spark that got life started in the primordial soup.
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Sweden's H&M: Q3 profit rose slightly
Wed,26 Sep 2012 11:47 PM PDT
Associated Press - Swedish fashion retailer Hennes and Mauritz on Thursday reported a tiny 1 percent rise in third-quarter net profits, saying that although its clothing lines sold well in the beginning of the summer, the European financial crisis and poor weather conditions in August restrained consumption more than expected at the end of the period. Full Story | Top |
Why Politicians Need to Think Like Scientists
Wed,26 Sep 2012 10:14 AM PDT
LiveScience.com -  Global warming, counterterrorism efforts that profile Muslims, the shift to electronic voting machines — lawmakers grappling with these issues and others could benefit greatly from some scientific thinking, says a U.S. congressman and physicist.
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Church of England chooses new leader to weather storms
Wed,26 Sep 2012 08:50 AM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Church of England officials met in secret on Wednesday to choose the next Archbishop of Canterbury, a centuries-old role with the modern task of preventing 80 million Anglicans worldwide from splitting over gay marriage and women bishops. The new church leader must reconcile modernists and traditionalists, and stem a long-term decline in church attendance, a difficult juggling act that some see as a poisoned chalice. ...
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Anglican church chooses new leader to weather storms
Wed,26 Sep 2012 08:48 AM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Church of England officials met in secret on Wednesday to choose the next Archbishop of Canterbury, a centuries-old role with the modern task of preventing 80 million Anglicans worldwide from splitting over gay marriage and women bishops. The new church leader must reconcile modernists and traditionalists, and stem a long-term decline in church attendance, a difficult juggling act that some see as a poisoned chalice. ...
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Undecided Voters Care About Global Warming, Report Finds
Mon,24 Sep 2012 01:29 PM PDT
LiveScience.com -  Only about 7 percent of likely voters have not yet decided whether they will support Barack Obama or Mitt Romney in the 2012 election, a new national survey finds. But on the topic of climate change, at least, these undecideds look more like Obama supporters than Romney voters.
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Another iPhone Fail: Siri Gives New Yorkers Weather for Texas
Mon,24 Sep 2012 11:49 AM PDT
Mashable -  Autumn in New York, and the temperatures are starting to turn with the leaves. Take Monday, when the city that never sleeps basked in a very pleasant, breezy 65 degrees. Unless you took out your iPhone and asked Siri for the weather, that is -- then it became a barely bearable 91 degrees.
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Siri is fouling up weather forecasts for major cities and suffering from intermittent outages
Mon,24 Sep 2012 11:45 AM PDT
BGR News -  New York iPhone users who ask Siri for a weather forecast this week might be surprised to learn that the Big Apple is expected to register temperatures in the mid-90s for the next several days. Of course, that's not the actual New York weather forecast, but a weather forecast for the town of New York that's located in Texas. MacRumors reports, and BGR has independently confirmed, that Siri is coming up with the wrong results for weather requests in several towns, including the particularly egregious example where Siri pulls up the weather in New York, Texas when asked for weather in New York. BGR also experienced intermittent connectivity issues with Siri on Monday, although it's unknown whether this is related to
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Toepfer cuts forecast of UK wheat crop after bad weather
Mon,24 Sep 2012 09:09 AM PDT
Reuters - HAMBURG (Reuters) - Britain's 2012 wheat crop is likely to fall to 13.80 million tonnes from the 2011 crop of 15.25 million tonnes partly because of poor harvest-time weather, Germany's leading grain trading house Toepfer International said on Monday. Toepfer, which has extensive grain trading interests in Britain, had in August forecast the British wheat crop at 14.32 million tonnes. "In the United Kingdom, the harvest was only 90 percent completed by mid-September," Toepfer said. "The wheat quality is therefore very poor. ... Full Story | Top |
Balancing food, weather, and population
Mon,24 Sep 2012 06:47 AM PDT
Christian Science Monitor - Cyclical or secular? That's the question economists, historians, climatologists, farmers, consumers – just about anyone with an interest in the future, which is more or less everyone – are trying to answer. Full Story | Top |
Boost for carbon capture from new non-toxic absorber
Sun,23 Sep 2012 10:07 AM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Researchers have created a new material that could solve some of the problems holding back projects to combat global warming by capturing and burying carbon emitted from power stations. The material, made from aluminum nitrate salt, cheap organic materials and water, is non-toxic and requires less energy to strip out the carbon when it becomes saturated, the scientists said. ... Full Story | Top |
The nation's weather
Sun,23 Sep 2012 01:56 AM PDT
Associated Press - Wet weather will diminish across the East Coast on Sunday as a low pressure system in eastern Canada lifts northeastward and away from the region. Flow around the system will continue producing lake effect rain showers across the southeastern shores of the Great Lakes, but shower activity will be light and widespread. Full Story | Top |
Senate votes to shield U.S. airlines from EU's carbon scheme
Sat,22 Sep 2012 01:27 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate unanimously passed a bill on Saturday that would shield U.S. airlines from paying for their carbon emissions on European flights, pressuring the European Union to back down from applying its emissions law to foreign carriers. The European Commission has been enforcing its law since January to make all airlines take part in its Emissions Trading Scheme to combat global warming, prompting threats of a trade fight. ... Full Story | Top |
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