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How can we Stop Global Warming?

November 1, 2007 – 5:41 am

Oceana protecting the worlds oceans

Most global warming pollution comes from burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas) including driving cars and trucks. Any serious effort to deal with global warming must involve changes in the way we use and produce energy, including the development of more fuel-efficient vehicles.
The most recent report by the Intergovernmental [...]

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Brown haze ‘heating up’ South Asia

August 10, 2007 – 6:13 am

Maryke Steffens
7 August 2007
Source: SciDev.Net

Lead researcher,
Veerabhadran Ramanathan,
with unmanned aircraft

Brown clouds of pollution that stretch over the Indian Ocean during the dry season are warming the climate just as much as greenhouse gases, say scientists.
According to a study, published last week (2 August) in the journal Nature, these ‘atmospheric brown clouds’ could be directly responsible for [...]

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