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Divergent impacts of warming weather on wildlife disease risk across climates Global Warming

Divergent impacts of warming weather on wildlife disease risk across climates

Climate change alters disease risksClimate change appears to be provoking changes in the patterns and intensity of infectious diseases. For example, when conditions are cool, amphibians from warm climates experience greater burdens of infection by chytrid fungus than hosts from cool regions. Cohen et al. undertook a global metanalysis of…
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November 19, 2020
‘Past a point of no return’: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero still won’t stop global warming, study says Global Warming

‘Past a point of no return’: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero still won’t stop global warming, study says

Doyle Rice   | USA TODAY Humanity is beyond the point of no return when it comes to halting the melting of permafrost, a new study says.To stop the warming, "enormous amounts of carbon dioxide have to be extracted from the atmosphere."Some experts are skeptical of the computer model used in…
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November 12, 2020
New refrigerants and system configurations for vapor-compression refrigeration Global Warming

New refrigerants and system configurations for vapor-compression refrigeration

AbstractThe high global warming potential of current refrigerants in cooling equipment based on the vapor-compression cycle has triggered a major effort to find and implement more environmentally benign alternatives. Here, we review the basics of the vapor-compression cycle together with the safety, environmental, and thermodynamic constraints that have led to…
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November 12, 2020