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Oklahoma Looks to Cooler Weather to Ease Drought
Wed,3 Oct 2012 02:17 PM PDT
Yahoo! Contributor Network -  The cooler temperatures in Oklahoma predicted for Thursday and the five days thereafter might put a dent in the effects of the extreme and exceptional drought conditions. The chances of showers for Thursday, Friday and Saturday would be even more appreciated by the Sooner State's residents if the precipitation comes their way.
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Romans, Han Dynasty were greenhouse gas emitters: study
Wed,3 Oct 2012 01:35 PM PDT
Reuters -  OSLO (Reuters) - A 200-year period covering the heyday of both the Roman Empire and China's Han dynasty saw a big rise in greenhouse gases, according to a study that challenges the U.N. view that man-made climate change only began around 1800. A record of the atmosphere trapped in Greenland's ice found the level of heat-trapping methane rose about 2,000 years ago and stayed at that higher level for about two centuries. ...
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Weather trims Ivorian cocoa output by 2 pct
Wed,3 Oct 2012 05:07 AM PDT
Reuters -  ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Cocoa output from the world's top grower Ivory Coast slipped by 2.3 percent during the 2011-12 season compared with the previous year's bumper crop due to drier, windier weather, sector regulator CCC said on Wednesday. Cocoa arrivals to ports in the country - the best gauge of production - totaled 1,475,756 million tonnes, down from a record 1,510,664 tonnes during the previous season, CCC director Massandje Toure told journalists. ...
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Will Climate Change Slow Marathon Times?
Tue,2 Oct 2012 11:35 AM PDT
LiveScience.com - Climate change is blamed for melting ice, shrinking animals and brewing more intense storms around the globe — but is it slowing the top finish times at the Boston Marathon? Not yet, researchers found, though future increases in temperature could mean fewer records are broken. Full Story | Top |
How asteroid dust could help us cool down Earth
Mon,1 Oct 2012 11:37 AM PDT
The Week (RSS) - Scientists in Scotland have developed an unorthodox plan to help fight climate change: They want to trigger a far-off asteroid to spew a large dust cloud into space. This dust would function as a cosmic shade to block some of the sun's harmful radiation from reaching Earth. Who's behind the project? And is it even feasible? What you need to know:What's the plan, exactly? Space experts at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland want to send a spaceship to an asteroid near Langrange point L1, "a site where the gravitational pull of the sun and the Earth balance each other to keep an object ... Full Story | Top |
Scientists Propose Asteroid Dust Shield to Combat Global Warming
Mon,1 Oct 2012 09:59 AM PDT
Yahoo! Contributor Network - According to Space.com, a group of scientists in Scotland are publishing a paper in the journal Advances in Space Research that contemplates using asteroid dust to shield the Earth from solar radiation, thus mitigating the effects of global warming. Full Story | Top |
UK plan to merge Antarctic, ocean research stirs science row
Mon,1 Oct 2012 06:02 AM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - A British government plan to merge its Antarctic research division with a centre studying the oceans has triggered protests from scientists who said it would cut studies of polar climate change and rising sea levels. They said the British Antarctic Survey had a strong history of discovery including, in 1985, of a hole in the ozone layer that protects the planet from harmful solar rays. That helped spur a 1987 United Nations treaty on damaging chemicals. ... Full Story | Top |
Kenya FY tea earnings seen up, output to drop
Mon,1 Oct 2012 12:14 AM PDT
Reuters -  NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's tea export earnings are expected to rise 1 percent year on year to 110 billion shillings in 2012, despite a forecast drop in production, the industry regulator said on Monday. The Tea Board of Kenya said production was expected to fall by 5 percent to 360 million kgs this year, after frost and delayed rains hurt growth of tea bushes earlier in the year. "We have experienced severe weather conditions during the first few months of the year," Sicily Kariuki, the board's managing director, told a news conference. ...
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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 |
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