Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century and its projected continuation. According to the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the 20th century.[A] Most of the observed temperature increase since the middle of the 20th century was caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases, which results from human activity such as fossil fuel burning and deforestation.
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Centrist Asia-Pacific Democrats International (CAPDI) members are holding a three-day conference in Makassar, South Sulawesi, to call for peace and push for reconciliation between countries in the region. CAPDI chairman Jusuf Kalla said on Mon ...
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Oslo: Extreme global warming is less likely in coming decades after a slowdown in the pace of temperature rises so far this century, an international team of scientists said on Sunday. Warming is still on track, however, to breach a goal ...
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I just read an interesting article on the connections of Henry David Thoreau's observations made at Walden Pond in the 1850s to global climate change today. Thoreau spent several years obsessively examining the ...
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Scientists have said that the recent downturn in the rate of global warming will lead to lower temperature rises in the short-term. Since 1998, there has been an unexplained "standstill" in the heating of ...
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Children dwelling at places with abundance of toxic waste in Indonesia, India and Philippines may develop high quantities of lead in their blood circulation. This adversely affects their level of intelligence and alleviates their risk of mental retar ...
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Overfishing has reduced fish populations and biodiversity across much of the world's oceans. In response, fisheries are increasingly reliant on a handful of highly valuable shellfish. However, new research by the University of Yo ...
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The D-Wave computer is 3,600 times faster than a normal computer It's classed as a 'quantum computer' because it uses qubits that can be perform multiple calculations at the same time These faster speeds mean it can tackle more complex problems, such as ...
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