news.bbc.co.uk - 3/12/2009
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BBC: Carbon dioxide emissions from modern society are turning the ocean more acidic and some sea creatures are already suffering, according to research to be discussed at a major global science conference. Studies in the Southern Ocean by Australian scientists found that the shells of tiny ...
westcoastclimateequity.org - 3/17/2009
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westcoastclimateequity.org —
Message from Copenhagen Climate Science Congress: For many
key parameters, the climate system is already moving beyond...
the patterns of natural variability within which our society and economy have developed and thrived. These parameters include global ...
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Risk of extreme climate change accelerating
guardian.co.uk - 3/10/2009
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guardian.co.uk —
Paying drivers to scrap their old cars and
buy new ones will do nothing to catalyse a...
low-carbon transport revolution The magic numbers spin before our eyes. No one can grasp the scale of the handouts, or understand how public money that didn't ...
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This scam is nothing but a handout for motor companies, ...
guardian.co.uk - 3/10/2009
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guardian.co.uk —
Chemical change placing 'unprecedented' pressure on marine life
and could cause widespread extinctions, warn scientists Human pollution...
is turning the seas into acid so quickly that the coming decades will recreate conditions not seen on Earth since ...
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Carbon emissions creating acidic oceans not seen since ...
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DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science —
... than prior to the industrial revolution due to rising ocean acidity. The world’s oceans currently absorb about 50% of global carbon emissions but there is a price: they are becoming more acidic – an ...
Environmental Film Festival Underway in DC
TreeHugger —
... this week in Copenhagen. Already, ocean acidity has increased about 32% since pre-industrial times, according to the BBC . Director Barbara Ettinger and husband Sven Huseby, an environmentalist, were inspired by an article by Elizabeth Kolbert in The New Yorker , " ...
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