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New Study Shows that Sea Level Rise Resulting From Collapse of West Antarctic Ice Sheet Would be Non-Uniform; Some Regions to See Levels Much Higher Than Previously Predicted

Green Car Congress

Recent projections of sea-level rise after a future collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (for example, the Fourth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report) assume that meltwater will spread uniformly (eustatically) across the oceans once marine-based sectors of the West Antarctic are filled.

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Can Software Save the World at a Profit?

Cars That Think

Can software save the world from climate change and other environmental threats? We’re not going to know the answer to that question for a very long time, but a venture capital firm is betting that companies that develop business management software for addressing climate change can be profitable while they are trying.

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Can the World’s Largest Cruise Ship Really Be Climate-Friendly?

Baua Electric

On Tuesday, in a ceremony that, of course, involved a soccer ball, the Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi pressed a button and a bottle of champagne smashed against the bow of Icon of the Seas, christening the world’s largest cruise ship at its home port of Miami. 27 — is the size of a small city.

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Voltari’s electric patrol boat offers government and security applications at over 50 mph

Baua Electric

We saw a couple of the Volatari 260s up close during the 2023 Miami Boat Show and spoke with Heaps directly as he walked us around the vessels. The all-electric patrol boat was designed with military, government, and other security applications in mind and can handle rough waters at high speeds.

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GM: Let's Hash Out Open Plug-In Car Standards

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Now, with a national renewable portfolio standard in the works, chip and solar equipment maker Applied Ma… House Dems Unveil Climate Plan: Carbon Cuts, National RPS and More $$$ GigaNET Posts Where In the World Is Open Source Software? version, with cell phones and mobile devices.

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Travel 2025: ‘Friend-Finding Tours,’ Private Islands and a Mixed Bag of Prices

Baua Electric

MSCs largest ship, the World America, will begin sailing out of Miami in April with a family-oriented district packed with water slides, a ropes course, bumper cars, roller rinks and an over-the-water swing. For those hoping to avoid soaring temperatures, openings in cooler climates also offer seclusion.

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We Are ALL Tongan

Creative Greenius

But surprisingly, a subject Elizabeth didn’t know a lot about is Tonga’s frontline role as a victim of the climate change crisis. Today all 3000 inhabitants of the Carteret Islands have been relocated as they become the first climate change refugees. They were “placed.&#. Mine too of course.

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