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polar red writes:
The BBC reports that the ice coverage of the North pole is at a record low, with the new record beating the old record with 23%. Scientists expect the North pole to be ice-free in summers in only 6 years.
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polar red writes:
The German government has studied the rate of cancer close to Nuclear power plants, and has found you'd better not live close to them: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2994904,00.html
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polar red writes:
The new IPCC report indicates higher chances of Humans causing GW than before. from 66%-90% in 2001 to >90% likely now, with temperatures rising between 1.8 and 4C, leading to 28-43cm higher sea levels by 2100, and more than 66% chance of impact on storm intensity. BBC news link
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polar red writes:
Since a few years, scientists find a new type of warm wind flowing to the north pole; it could seriously affect the ice-cap, and is seen as evidence of global warming(natural or man-made)
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polar red writes:
According to ESA, The hole in the ozone-layer above the Antarctic has been reduced. A ray of hope for environmentalists? After the banning of asbestos, DDT, and other vile chemicals, science has been proven right again.
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polar red writes:
While the new http://www.ipcc.ch/IPCC-report is being published, even after changes being made to the original text by world leaders, the final text concludes among other things that poor people will be hit hardest
and that actual climate change is measured, it is no longer only from models that we learn that climate change is possible.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6532323. stm