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Post by clone on Jul 19, 2012 9:00:44 GMT -8
E-Mail Leak on Climate Is Unsolved Published: July 18, 2012 A British police unit on Wednesday formally closed its criminal investigation into the unauthorized publication of thousands of sensitive scientific e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s climate change research institute, saying that it could not identify the hacker. The investigation by the unit, the Norfolk Constabulary, into the data leak concluded that the hacking was a “sophisticated and carefully orchestrated attack” on the university’s digital data files by an unknown outsider operating remotely online. The police put to rest speculation that the release was the work of a mischievous or disgruntled insider at the university’s Climatic Research Unit. more: www.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/science/earth/british-close-case-on-climate-e-mails-with-no-suspects.html
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Post by clone on Jan 16, 2013 7:06:53 GMT -8
People know that Japan is a country that eats whale meat, but Japanese people may not have much of an appetite for it after all. The amount an average Japanese person eats in one year is a mere 23.7g – that is virtually the same weight as half a chocolate bar or a slice of ham. www.dauphinlibre.be/ikan1.htmWaves of anger: Japan tsunami victim aid spent on whalers, officials and fighter pilots | Published: 01 November, 2012, 00:20 Edited: 01 November, 2012, 09:46. A quarter of Japan’s tsunami relief fund has been spent on unrelated projects, including renovating a government office and subsiding whaling. The revelations have ignited outcry as more than 320,000 tsunami victims remain displaced. rt.com/news/japan-tsunami-relief-fund-697/Japanese appetite for whale meat wanes | Posted Tue Nov 27, 2012 5:06pm AEDT. The poll also found that 90 per cent of respondents expressed opposition to the use of government money to build a new factory ship for whaling. www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-27/japanese-appetite-for-whale-meat-wanes/4395142
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Post by Ozone O3 on Apr 23, 2013 15:40:40 GMT -8
Ozone layer holes causing sunburn among whales Explosive new theory on Ozone hole | 11:44 AM Thursday Sep 20, 2012 By Westport News A Punakaiki-based scientist has come up with a new theory on the cause of the hole in the ozone layer. Bill Hartley believes Starfish Prime, an American upper atmospheric nuclear test he witnessed in 1962, is partly to blame for the hole. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10835274
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Post by 478 ppm on May 8, 2013 7:51:08 GMT -8
Global carbon dioxide levels near worrisome milestone Concentrations of greenhouse gas will soon surpass 400 parts per million at sentinel spot. 30 April 2013 When monitoring started, the CO 2 level stood at 316 p.p.m., not much higher than the 280 p.p.m. that characterized conditions before the industrial revolution. But since the Hawaiian measurements began, the values have followed an upward slope that shows no sign of levelling off (see ‘On the rise’). Emissions of other greenhouse gases are also increasing, pushing the total equivalent concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere to around 478 p.p.m. in April, according to Ronald Prinn, an atmospheric scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. www.nature.com/news/global-carbon-dioxide-levels-near-worrisome-milestone-1.12900
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Post by O3 insecticide on Mar 10, 2014 10:23:03 GMT -8
Ozone layer holes causing sunburn among whales Explosive new theory on Ozone hole | 11:44 AM Thursday Sep 20, 2012 By Westport News A Punakaiki-based scientist has come up with a new theory on the cause of the hole in the ozone layer. Bill Hartley believes Starfish Prime, an American upper atmospheric nuclear test he witnessed in 1962, is partly to blame for the hole. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10835274New ozone-depleting chemicals discovered in the atmosphere earthsky.org/earth/new-ozone-depleting-chemicals-discovered-in-the-atmosphereBut this new discovery, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, will raise questions over the continuing effectiveness of the treaty. Dr. Johannes Laube led the study. He said: We still don’t know the source of these chemicals. Illegal activity is one possibility, but there are also lots of loopholes and caveats in the Montreal Protocol that may need addressing.
For example, it seems that an exemption was granted for CFC-113a in 2003 for the manufacture of an insecticide.
And there are problems with the reporting system. Uses have to be reported but they’re not made public. So it’s possible that CFC-113a has been reported somewhere, but we can’t track it. The team analyzed air samples collected from the pristine air above Tasmania, as well as bubbles trapped in deeply buried snow on the Greenland ice sheet, to get a picture of global CFC gas concentrations over time.
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Post by Poo-nado on Jan 30, 2015 22:00:09 GMT -8
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