Such increased summer melting has an immediate local temperature effect, and it also will affect sea level.

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According to a study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change, turbines can raise the local temperature -- albeit slightly.

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But it doesn't work through local temperature or rainfall changes.

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How will it affect local climates - the sum of temperature, rainfall, and everything else that makes up the local weather.

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This raises the temperature of their local environment by ten to twenty degrees.

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In an area of a few tens of square kilometres around this tower, the researchers will place further sensors in the soil and in local streams, to measure temperature, carbon-dioxide and nutrient levels, along with rates of root growth and the activities of microbes.

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We were operating in a near perfect vacuum with the temperature well above 200 degrees Fahrenheit with the local gravity only one sixth that of Earth.

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As of 14:00 local time (05:00 GMT) on Friday, the temperature of water inside the cooling pool at reactor 3 was 15.1C, well below the safety limit of 65C, Tepco said.

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