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How new coal power plants let climate goals go up in smoke
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09/17/2015 - The window of opportunity for a global fossil fuel phase out is closing faster than expected. In particular poor but fast-growing developing ...
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Burning all fossil energy would raise sea-level by more than 50 meters – and eliminate all ice of Antarctica
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09/11/2015 - Burning all of the world’s available fossil-fuel resources would result in the complete melting of the Antarctic ice sheet, a new study to be ...
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"A Worst-Case Scenario of Climate Change"
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"Burning the currently attainable fossil fuel resources is sufficient to eliminate the (Antarctic) ice sheet,", resumes a new PIK-study by an international ...
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"Antarctica Ice Melt if All Fossil Fuels Are Burned"
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"To be blunt: If we burn it all, we melt it all," resumes PIK-scientist Ricarda Winkelmann, who led an international research team that explored the ...
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"Facing Natural Hazards" – the Second international Potsdam Summer School will Start on 14 September 2015
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09/11/2015 - The growing world population, climate change, rapid urbanisation, and the international interdependence of economies are all increasing our ...
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Debate in the run-up to Paris
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09/10/2015 - What´s in store at the next climate conference, COP21, later this year? This week, staff of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ...
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CO2 removal cannot save the oceans – if we pursue business as usual
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08/03/2015 - Greenhouse-gas emissions from human activities do not only cause rapid warming of the seas, but also ocean acidification at an unprecedented rate. ...
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Snowball Earth: algae triggered cooling millions of years ago
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08/27/2015 - The advance of certain algae was probably one key contribution to an almost complete glaciation of the Earth millions of years ago. The consequent ...
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How network dynamics shape collaboration
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08/25/2015 - From the Earth System to the human brain, from families to Facebook – complex networks can be found everywhere around us. Describing the structure ...
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Renowned climate scientists explain climate change
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08/18/2015 - In the run-up of the international climate negotiations in Paris, leading German climate scientists explain climate change and its impacts in an ...
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