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From the Amazon rainforest to human body cells: quantifying stability
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01/07/2013 - The Amazon rainforest, energy grids, and cells in the human body share a troublesome property: they possess multiple stable states. When the ...
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IPCC calls for expert reviewers
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03/04/2013 - In the run-up to the publication of its fifth assessment report which will present the state of climate science next year, the Intergovernmental ...
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Schellnhuber to advise EU Commission’s President in new capacity
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02/28/2013 - The President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, yesterday in Brussels met the newly appointed members of his Science and Technology ...
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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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Earth League: International network established by leading research institutes
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02/14/13 - Leading research institutes from more than 10 nations joined forces last week in London and launched the “Earth League”. As a global alliance of ...
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New faces in Board of Trustees and Scientific Advisory Board
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01/29/2013 - The two supervisory bodies of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research both show a new line-up in 2013. The head of the executive board ...
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Early emissions peak more relevant than emissions reduction rate: study
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01/14/2012 - Avoiding negative impacts of global warming depends more on starting early to let greenhouse-gas emissions decline than on the rate of reductions ...
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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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Shareholder liability: key to energy systems transformation
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01/08/2013 – Assigning full liability for environmental impacts to the shareholders of corporations would reduce the rigidity of the fossil-nuclear energy ...
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"The best way to predict the future is to shape it": Schellnhuber at the World Climate Summit COP 18
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The opening film of the COP 18 world climate summit in Doha, Qatar, featured many things, but just one scientific institution - the Potsdam Institute for ...
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