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United Kingdom: Taxpayers to fund hundreds of fracking boreholes across country
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 22nd, 2014
Guardian: Hundreds of government-funded boreholes are set to be drilled across Britain to try to persuade the public that a looming shale gas boom can be developed safely, the Observer has learned. Sensors in the boreholes would detect possible water pollution or earthquakes caused by fracking and the information would be made public.
“We will be taking the pulse of the sub-surface environment and will reveal if things are going wrong, but also if they are going right,” said Professor Mike Stephenson, director...
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Expanding agriculture production among major factors contributing to climate change
Posted by Delhi Daily News: None Given on November 22nd, 2014
Delhi Daily News: An increase in agriculture production has a negative impact on the atmosphere across the globe by contributing to climate change, according to a recent report.
The recent study has revealed that the considerable increase in the carbon dioxide concentrations is due to a rise in farm productivity. Hence, the rise in pollution levels is attributed not only to electronic products, vehicles and mills but also to crops.
Farms throughout the world have become more productive, particularly in the West...
The future of the planet and the irresponsibility of governments
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 22nd, 2014
Inter Press Service: Less than a week after everybody celebrated the historical agreement on Nov. 17 between the United States and China on reduction of CO2 emissions, a very cold shower has come from India.
Indian Power Minister Piyush Goyal has declared: "India's development imperatives cannot be sacrificed at the altar of potential climate change many years in the future. The West will have to recognise we have the needs of the poor".
This is also a blow to the Asia policy of U.S. President Barack Obama, who...
What’s behind snowmageddon that hit the US this week?
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 22nd, 2014
New Scientist: Winter has come early to the US this year, with temperatures plunging below freezing across much of the continental US this week. Intense snowstorms dumped almost 2 metres of snow in a few places such as Buffalo in New York state (above), trapping people in cars and buses. So what has caused this unseasonal weather?
Cold air is usually trapped in the Arctic by the winds that circle the pole - the polar vortex. The strongest winds found high up in the atmosphere are called the polar jet stream....
Half of Americans Think Climate Change Is a Sign of the Apocalypse
Posted by Atlanta: None Given on November 22nd, 2014
Atlanta: Snowmageddon, snowpocalypse, snowzilla, just snow. Superstorm Sandy, receding shorelines, and more. Hurricanes Isaac, Ivan, and Irene, with cousins Rammasun, Bopha, and Haiyan.
The parade of geological changes and extreme weather events around the world since 2011 has been stunning. Perhaps that's part of why, as the Public Religion Research Institute reported on Friday, "The number of Americans who believe
that natural disasters are evidence of the apocalypse has increased somewhat over the...