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Raw Story & Warming in Arctic reverses 8,000 year old...

Rated Sep 04 • 2 reviews • science, global warming • rawstory.com

Warming in Arctic reverses 8,000 year old cooling trend
By Agence France-Presse
Published: September 4, 2009

From the page: "An abrupt warming of the Arctic has reversed a cooling trend that began about 8,000 ago, according to a study published Thursday which sheds light on the threat of rising sea levels and climate change.

Increased greenhouse gas emissions appear to have overridden the natural cooling caused by a wobble in the Earthâ€s axis which has been gradually pulling the planet away from the Sun.

This wobble has cooled summer temperatures by an average of about 0.2 degrees Celsius per thousand years, the study published in the journal Science found.

But Arctic temperatures began to rise at the beginning of the 20th century even though the orbital cycle that produced the cooling continued.

The result was summer temperatures that were about 1.4 degrees Celsius warmer than they should have been by the year 2000, according to the study which mapped Arctic temperatures for every decade of the past 2,000 years."

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New toy.. on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Rated Sep 03 • 1 review • photography • flickr.com

New toy..
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Rated Sep 03 • 1 review • photography • flickr.com

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Lockheed locked in on clean energy |...

Rated Sep 03 • 1 review • alternative energy, otec • honoluluadvertiser.com

Lockheed locked in on clean energy
Company's moving ahead with OTEC work off Kahe Point
by Greg Wiles
September 3, 2009

Lockheed Martin Corp. is progressing with plans to build a 10-megawatt OTEC electrical generation plant off O'ahu in 2013, and possibly a 10-times-larger plant here or elsewhere two years after."

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Rated Sep 02 • 1 review • photography • flickr.com

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Daily Dose - Liberals Target Grassley on Public Option...

Rated Sep 02 • 1 review • politics, healthcare • washingtonpost.com

Liberals Target Grassley on Public Option
By Dan Eggen
Aug. 31, 2009

From the page: "A television ad set to debut in Iowa and the Washington area in coming
weeks features an Iowan who says he voted for Grassley and other Republicans but is unhappy with their opposition to providing a public health insurance program as part of the health-care reform legislation."

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Raw Story & AFL-CIO threatens Democrats over public option

Rated Sep 02 • 0 reviews • politics, healthcare • rawstory.com

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