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IBM's Bluefire supercomputer seen as potential tool to predict global weather
South Florida Sun-SentinelIt's as fast as 25,000 high-end laptops linked together. It has enough capacity to store 30 million novels. And someday, it might help keep you safe in severe weather. This is the Bluefire, an IBM supercomputer so powerful that scientists think it will...Tags: International Business Machines Corporation, Computer Hardware, Meteorological Disasters, Natural Disasters, Tropical Weather
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House Democrats unveil draft climate change bill
Associated Press WriterWith the presidential election less than a month away and the economy reeling, House Democratic leaders unveiled a proposal to reduce the gases blamed for global warming from power plants, transportation and factories by 80 percent come 2050. The...Tags: California, Rick Boucher, Environmental Pollution, Transportation, John McCain
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Journal Advocates Lower Birth Rate To Save Planet
Chicago TribuneThere are plenty of ways to cut your carbon footprint, whether it's driving less or buying an energy-efficient refrigerator. But the British Medical Journal, in a recent editorial, urged a more controversial one: having fewer children. With 60 million...Tags: Conservation, Ecosystems, Demographics, Family Planning, Newspaper and Magazine
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No football players here: Glossy Penn State trading cards highlight academics, not athletes
Associated Press WriterSTATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) _ Perennial college football powerhouse Penn State University is promoting glossy trading cards similar to those collected by sports fans. Only, there's no card for Hall of Fame football coach Joe Paterno or any of his Nittany...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Football, Penn State Nittany Lions, Government, Academic Progress
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House Democrats unveil draft bill to address gases blamed for global warming
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) _ With the presidential election less than a month away and the economy reeling, House Democratic leaders on Tuesday unveiled a proposal to reduce the gases blamed for global warming from power plants, transportation and factories by 80...Tags: California, Rick Boucher, Environmental Pollution, Transportation, John McCain
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Video: Climate change
Spin CycleHere's one of the exchanges, on climate change:......Tags: Conservation, Ecosystems
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Climate change: Bad Q, bad A
Spin CycleStill kind of murky whether Palin thinks human activity causes global warming. She has said in the past it doesn't, but has been ambiguous during the campaign. Does Ifill know how to do a follow-up? Biden nails this answer --...... -
Climate change: The quote
Spin CycleHere's what Palin said in response to the question on climate change: ???We know it's real, I'm not one to attribute every activity of man to the changes in the climate. There is something to be said also for man's......Tags: Conservation, Ecosystems
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World Bank president says Group of 7 is outmoded and should be replaced with larger group
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) _ The Group of Seven industrialized countries is outmoded and should be replaced with a new entity that would include growing economies in Asia and Latin America, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said Monday. He said the financial...Tags: Conservation, Ecosystems, Government, Financial Markets, Diplomacy
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German test plant may lead to clean coal power
Chicago Tribune correspondentSPREMBERG, Germany — In this old industrial town in the heart of the former East Germany, researchers have launched what could be a revolution for a much-maligned fuel: the world's first nearly emission-free coal-fired power plant. Coal-burning...Tags: Conservation, Natural Resources, Energy Resources, Alternative Energy, Ecosystems
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Exploding myth of 1970s global cooling "consensus"
Maryland WeatherWhen global warming skeptics set out to undermine the current scientific consensus that the planet is warming up, they often point to a 1975 article in Newsweek magazine that was titled 'The cooling world.' The story cited research on increasing......Tags: Conservation, Literature, Ecosystems, Weather Science, Global Warming
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Clean the Air With Your Own Personal CO2 Scrubber
KickingTiresThose intrepid Canadians are up to their environmental hijinks again. Scientists at the University of Calgary have built a machine that will suck carbon dioxide out of the air in an attempt to mitigate the effects of climate change. The......Tags: Conservation, Ecosystems, iPhone
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