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Plants Blamed for Human Deaths in Heat Waves

Normally, plants absorb ozone through stomata, small holes in their leaves. Heatwaves cause closed stomata, absorbing less ozone. More ozone buildsup in air. … found this loss of ozone absorption resulted in estimated 460 additional human deaths in U.K. during hot summer … Continue reading

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USA & China Aim – Phase Down Use Potent Greenhouse Gases Known As HFCs

This is Xi’s first meeting with Obama as the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, which is the analogue to the Chinese presidency. Recently China has made news on plans to cut carbon emissions but then appeared to partially walk some of that … Continue reading

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How clouds affect climate change

Denialists claim clouds are biggest contributors to warming. Actually they can add and subtract and balance one another out. Cycle time is hours or days. Meanwhile CO2 accumulates and lingers, for thousands of years. From Skeptical Science…Nevertheless, both of these … Continue reading

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Record snowstorms not inconsistent with warming world

The science behind this is clear: Warmer temperatures cause more water to evaporate into the atmosphere, and warmer air holds more water than cooler air. The air’s “water-holding capacity,” in fact, rises about 7 percent with each Celsius degree of … Continue reading

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Change of mind by friend of Nick Minchin

Bombshell: Koch-Funded Study Finds ‘Global Warming Is Real’, ‘On The High End’ And ‘Essentially All’ Due To Carbon Pollution Richard Muller is one of the key folks, included in the ABC doco, who’s been discrediting Climate Change for many years. … Continue reading

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Energy/Corporate – Leading by example

Here’s another example of large corporations starting to lead by example, sizeable users of electricity, disconnecting themselves from bargain basement deals offered by big, dirty coal power barons Facebook leading by example contributed by Ray Astbury

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