The project was launched at the Science Museum, London, as part of Climate Week.
News Day falls right in the middle of the UK's first ever Climate Week and the event could be a good way to look at issues around climate change.
The findings were published in Nature Climate Change this week.
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The Scientific Method struck a valiant blow against climate denialism in Germany this week, as scientists from around the globe gathered to sort out climate change facts from fiction.
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Vertex labs are packed with workstations that tap 112 Pentium chips in parallel, capable of crunching 110 gigaflops per second, roughly the same computing power used to produce the National Weather Service's two-week global climate model.
For instance, the Hadley Centre for climate research in the UK, published research only this week suggesting that forests will speed up climate change in the future, as the soil will start to emit more greenhouse gases than the trees absorb as the temperature builds up.
This week, the Climate Corps class of 2010 completed its first three weeks.
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The National Climate Data Center announced this week that 2012 was the hottest year on record, crushing the previous hottest year, 1998, by a full degree.
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The outlook issued last week by the Climate Prediction Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration calls for "considerable activity" this hurricane season in the Atlantic.
On November 28th, in Durban, South Africa, a two-week conference about global climate change begins.
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The latest round of U.N. climate change negotiations kicked off this week in Doha, Qatar, launching a 10-day slog that, as usual, faces low expectations.
Hardly a day goes by without some climate scare, and earlier this week we found a terrific example of how biased the reporting on this issue has become.
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Last week at the Doha climate conference, 200 nations agreed to extend the Kyoto Protocol to 2020 and back in the US, a report showed that Americans installed a record-breaking 3.2 gigawatts of rooftop photovoltaic panels in 2012.
The report is meant to inform negotiators at the COP18 climate meeting that begins in Doha next week.
Earlier this week the independent Committee on Climate Change (CCC) published its second report for the Welsh government on climate change.
Which makes it all the more unfortunate that last week's "Independent Climate Change Email Review, " commissioned and funded by the University of East Anglia and chaired by Muir Russell, the former Vice Chancellor of the University of Glasgow, amounts to a 160-page evasion of the real issues.
By contrast, Al Gore was this week in Kyoto speaking for America on climate change.
On the main stage of global affairs this week we have the much touted UN climate change conference in Copenhagen.
The government and its banks are likely to need more financing than they did a week ago because of the deteriorating economic climate.
Over the past month, a series of reports have surfaced in the news media speculating about the significance of a small meeting of climate scientists sponsored by the IPCC taking place next week in Lima, Peru.
Surely this country could reduce CO2 emissions a little more than 7% in 10 years and meet the modest target set out in the Senate climate bill, which appears likely to be introduced next week.
But rather than thank them for their support, the Anti-Defamation League, which is supposed to be dedicated first and foremost to defending Jews from anti-Semitism, published a special report this week where it insinuated that they cultivate a climate of hatred and paranoia which could endanger Jews among others.
About 10, 000 people from around the world are starting a second week of meetings to talk about how to curb climate warming.
The justices' rulings this week have prompted lawmakers to call for a national climate change policy, which would obviously have a long-term investment impact on industries that produce global warming emissions.
With climate negotiations apparently going nowhere - reports from Bonn this week indicate a whole new outbreak of division - is there scope in Rio for a Big Idea on energy?
The major task of this two-week conference has been untangling of the diplomatic spaghetti from climate agreements that have grown piecemeal over the past 15 years.
True, there have been conferences around the globe (Rio, Cancun, Kyoto, Copenhagen, etc.) and last week, the United Kingdom pledged GBP 150 Million to climate funding.
Buiter stopped by Bloomberg Radio last week to talk, ostensibly, about the current global economic climate (downloads as an mp3).
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Swapping out meat just once per week would also help reduce the emissions that are contributing to climate change and extreme weather.
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