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Earth May Be Warming Even Faster Than Expected – Slide Show

Earth May Be Warming Even Faster Than Expected – Slide Show

glacier-breakdown ◄ Back Next ► Picture 1 of 5 Scientists have thought that if planetary warming could be kept below a 2-degree Celsius increase, perils such as catastrophic sea-level...

 

What are the Tar Sands?

What are the Tar Sands?

In the Canadian Boreal forest just downstream of the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains are the Canadian tar sands. The region contains some 2 trillion barrels of oil, but getting to it will mean destroying an area larger than the state...

 

How Tar Sands Oil is Going to Multiply Global Warming?

How Tar Sands Oil is Going to Multiply Global Warming?

James Hansen has been publicly speaking about climate change since 1988. The NASA climatologist testified to Congress that year and he’s been testifying ever since to crowds large and small, most recently to a small gathering of religious...

 

More Oil from Canada’s Tar Sands End of Climate Change Talk

More Oil from Canada’s Tar Sands End of Climate Change Talk

The remote northern corner of Alberta is home to the tar sands, a sprawling deposit of thick, heavy oil that is among the most greenhouse gas–intensive forms of petroleum to produce. In the past decade Canada has become the U.S.’s primary...

 

Effects of Global Warming: Winter Wakes Up Your Mind–and Warm Weather Makes it Harder to Think Straight

Effects of Global Warming: Winter Wakes Up Your Mind–and Warm Weather Makes it Harder to Think Straight

Imagine you are on trip and find yourself running low on a few necessities. You stop by a small convenience store to stock up and are immediately faced with the usual suspects: cramped aisles lined with chips and candy, a “beer cave” in...

 

Global Warming May Demonstrate Extreme Effects by Slowing “Planetary Waves”

Global Warming May Demonstrate Extreme Effects by Slowing “Planetary Waves”

Global warming may have caused extreme events such as a 2011 drought in the United States and a 2003 heatwave in Europe by slowing vast, wave-like weather flows in the northern hemisphere, scientists said on Tuesday. The study of meandering...

 

How to build an electricity producing Solar Panel

How to build an electricity producing Solar Panel

Greedy Fellows!! Do you know what a solar panel is anyway? It is mainly a box that holds an array of solar cells. Solar cells are the things that do the real work of conversion from sunlight into electricity. However, it takes a lot of cells...

 

Lack of water and energy could cause war

Lack of water and energy could cause war

A worldwide lack of water and energy supplies could spark wars, warns former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Delivering the opening address at the Earth Dialogues forum in Brisbane, Mr Gorbachev said resources such as water had become so...

 

Cellular Towers in Developing Nations Are Making the Move to Solar Power

Cellular Towers in Developing Nations Are Making the Move to Solar Power

When a sweeping power failure blacked out 700 million people in India last July, the cell sites that connect nearly one billion mobile phone users in the country were largely unaffected. The vast majority of Indian cell-phone base stations,...

 

Natural Gas Vehicles Could Eliminate Energy Crisis

Natural Gas Vehicles Could Eliminate Energy Crisis

Geopolitical issues are driving up the cost of oil and eroding U.S. energy security and could trigger another recession, according to energy experts. But fuels derived from natural gas could help avoid a future oil crisis if they’re poised...

 
 
 
 
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