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Fossil fuel divestment campaign's victory in Australia will be a moral one \| Alexander White	22.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Global climate divestment campaigns led by 350.org and Bill McKibben will have a larger moral impact than financial one Journalist and climate activist Bill McKibben is in Australia in June on his epic Do The Math tour , which aims to highlight the danger of fossil fuel company oil and coal reserves and encourage divestment. The tour was kick started by McKibben's Rolling Stone article, Global Warming's Terrifying New Math , which argued that in order to stay below the 2C warming limit, the global economy has a budget of less than 565 gigatons of carbon dioxide. Unfortunately, fossil fuel companies have reserves of carbon from oil, coal and gas of almost 3000 gigatons — far exceeding the climate's safe limit if it were to all be burned. This "math" has been known for some years before McKibben's article. The Potsdam Institute wrote about humanity's carbon budget back in 2009 , noting that even if we stayed within budget, we still had a 25% chance of going over 2 degrees warming. ...
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Climate change after cosmic impact may have wiped out wooly mammoths (Cached)	21.5.2013	New Kerala: Andhra Pradesh
Washington, May 21 : A new research has found evidence of a major cosmic event near the end of the Ice Age, which resulted in a climate change that forced many species, including wooly mammoths, to die.
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Oklahoma City tornadoes: live Q&A - The Guardian	21.5.2013	Google News India
Oklahoma City tornadoes: live Q&A The Guardian Experts answer your questions on the Oklahoma City tornadoes: what are tornadoes, how are they classified and how are they formed? Share · Tweet this. Email. Guardian readers. guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 21 May 2013 17.38 BST. Jump to comments (…) ... Survivors pulled from Oklahoma tornado debris as toll falls Reuters How to help Oklahoma tornado victims Washington Post Reporters: Jasmine Coleman, Victoria Park, Michael Hirst and Aidan Lewis BBC News Wall Street Journal CNN NDTV all 3,002 news ...
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Cosmic impact wiped out woolly mammoths? (Cached)	21.5.2013	Zee News : Science and Technology
Woolly mammoths - the gigantic cousins of modern day elephants - may have died as a result of climate change following a major cosmic impact near the end of the Ice Age.
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Cosmic impact wiped out woolly mammoths?	21.5.2013	Latest News
Woolly mammoths - the gigantic cousins of modern day elephants - may have died as a result of climate change following a major cosmic impact near the end of the Ice Age. A catastrophic event in Earth's history around 12,800 years ago scorched the ...
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Biofuels a boon for Brazil's rural poor, but obstacles remain elsewhere \| Paige McClanahan	21.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
While biofuels have facilitated slow but positive change for farmers in Brazil, other countries have been less successful Biofuels have long been hailed as one of the potential answers to climate change. Their environmental credentials are controversial , but a handful of countries are now looking at them from another angle entirely: they want to use biofuels to try to reduce poverty among rural smallholder farmers. Such efforts are in full force in Brazil, a country that is home to both a sizeable biofuels industry and about 4.1m small-scale family farms. But while some of the country's biofuels policies have fallen short, others have proved a boon to the rural poor. Smallholder farmers have seen their incomes rise thanks to the introduction of more progressive standards and new rules on contract negotiations. "The numbers show that the farmers in Brazil … have been earning far more than they were before – not only in absolute quantities, but also as a percentage of the whole value ...
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'Climate change may spell disaster for coastal economy'	21.5.2013	newindianexpress.com

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Global warming likely to be slower than predicted (Cached)	21.5.2013	Zee News : Science and Technology
Global average temperatures will warm about 20 per cent more slowly than expected over the coming decades, scientists have predicted.
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The northern great game (Cached)	21.5.2013	IE: Columns
By being admitted as an observer to the Arctic Council, India has secured a toehold in a region of growing geo-economic significance
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Species on the brink of fading away	20.5.2013	Deccan Herald - Supplements
Species on the brink of fading away
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Global warming likely to be slower than predicted (Cached)	20.5.2013	Rediff: Business
The recent downturn in the rate of global warming will lead to lower temperature rises in the short-term, scientists said.
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Global warming likely to be slower than predicted (Cached)	20.5.2013	Hindustan Times: World
Global warming likely to be slower than predicted
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Heatwave deaths in New York city could rise by up to 22%, study shows	19.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
New temperature norms under climate change will increase weather-related deaths in metropolitan areas in coming decades New York city could experience up to 22% more deaths from extreme summertime heat in the coming decade under global warming, according to a study of the impact of climate trends. The higher deaths will be partially offset by a reduction in deaths due to the milder winters predicted in Manhattan. Overall, however, the net effect of the new temperature norms under climate change would be to increase weather-related deaths in New York city by up to 6.2% a year by the 2020s, according to the scientists. The study, published in Nature Climate Change , predicted oppressive summer temperatures would exact an increasingly heavy toll on people living in metropolitan areas such as Manhattan in the coming decades. The numbers would not be significantly offset by milder winters, the study found, and deaths due to extreme temperatures would rise more dramatically in the later ...
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Warming extremes 'not as likely'	19.5.2013	BBC: Front Page
Global temperature rises will be slower in the coming decades say researchers but the long term picture is consistent.
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Mars bombarded by over 200 space rocks per year: NASA (Cached)	16.5.2013	Zee News : Science and Technology
Scientists have estimated that the red planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of comets per year.
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Mars hit by over 200 small asteroids or bits of comets per year (Cached)	16.5.2013	New Kerala: India News
Washington, May 16 : Using images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), scientists have estimated that the red planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of comets per year forming craters at least 12.8 feet (3.9 meters) across.
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Stranger than fiction (Cached)	15.5.2013	Down to Earth
Novel >> Climate Change • The UK The Science Museum, London, has published its first work of fiction. The novel Shackleton’s Man Goes South, has been written by the museum’s former writer-in-residence Tony White. Shackleton’s Man Goes South explores the political, social and cultural impacts of climate change. “The story is a desperate journey in a hot world—an escape to Antarctica rather than from it,” White told The Guardian.
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Space tourism won`t hurt environment: Richard Branson (Cached)	14.5.2013	Zee News : Science and Technology
Richard Branson has said that his firm Virgin Galactic`s rocket-powered space tourism flights will have only a minor impact on the climate change.
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'Best estimate' of melting ice caps	14.5.2013	BBC News - Science & Environment
Experts have come up with their most accurate estimate yet for the impact of melting ice sheets and glaciers on sea level.
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GROVER the NASA rover takes on Greenland ice sheet	14.5.2013	New Scientist: Opinion
GROVER the NASA rover takes on Greenland ice sheet
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