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Multifold increase in heat extremes by 2040
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08/15/2013 - Extremes such as the severe heat wave last year in the US or the one 2010 in Russia are likely to be seen much more often in the near future. A ...
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Carbon Dioxide Removal: Assessing potentials - and risks
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06/24/2013 - With global greenhouse-gas emissions continuing to rise and a possibility that international cooperation in climate policy will continue to be ...
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Floods in the light of climate change
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06/21/2013 - The nationwide floods have been keeping the country´s attention for some time now. This week, the Minister for the Environment, Peter Altmaier, ...
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Research on Antarctica awarded with prize for upcoming scientists
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05/03/2013 - For her research on climate change and the Antarctic ice shield, Ricarda Winkelmann was awarded with a young scientists prize. The Natural ...
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A cold March despite of climate change
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03/28/2013 - March 2013 in Europe has been somewhat cold. How this might be linked to global warming was shown by a study by PIK scientist Vladimir Petoukhov ...
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Permafrost soil thawing accelerates climate change despite more abundant vegetation
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2013/03/13 - Global warming affects permafrost soils, for instance in Siberia, in two opposing ways. Their thawing accelerates decomposition processes in the ...
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Naturkundemuseum and PIK link history and future
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03/08/2013 - Naturkundemuseum Berlin, Germany´s leading natural history museum, and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research have agreed to work ...
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Weather extremes provoked by trapping of giant waves in the atmosphere
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02/25/2013 - The world has suffered from severe regional weather extremes in recent years, such as the heat wave in the United States in 2011 or the one in ...
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Global warming has increased monthly heat records by a factor of five
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01/14/2013 - Monthly temperature extremes have become much more frequent, as measurements from around the world indicate. On average, there are now five times ...
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Why early Earth was no snowball: Illuminating the ”faint young Sun paradox”
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12/17/2012 - In the early history of planet Earth, the Sun was up to 25 per cent less luminous than today. Yet there is strong evidence that the Earth’s ...
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