Category Archives: Global Warming

Arctic Warming Overtakes 2,000 Years of Natural Cooling

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

Arctic temperatures have been dropping for the last 2,000 years. Since 1900, temperature anomaly has turned positive, indicating temperatures started becoming warmer than the long term average, new research indicates. The study, which incorporates geologic records and computer simulations, provides … Continue reading →

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Our best guess about global warming may be wrong

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

Fifty-five million years ago, the world was a much warmer place. The poles were ice-free year-round. Palm trees grew in Alaska. Forests stretched right into the Arctic Circle. There, swamps like those in today’s southeastern United States hosted alligators, snakes, … Continue reading →

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Silk Road threatened by melting glaciers

Posted on June 16, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

The Chinese gateway to the ancient Silk Road is being flooded — and the culprit, researchers say, is climate change. Melting glaciers sitting above the Hexi corridor in Gansu province, once an important trading and military route into Central Asia, … Continue reading →

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Zero-emission vehicle

Posted on June 14, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

A car that has neither an engine nor a muffler will debut on the Japanese market next month. Developed by Mitsubishi Motors Corp. the “i-MiEV” is the world’s first mass-produced zero-emission minicar that does not need an internal combustion engine … Continue reading →

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