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UK marine energy industry enjoys £22m funding wave
February 3rd, 2010 
Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin
Business Green: The Carbon Trust will today announce the long-anticipated award of its £22m Marine Renewables Proving Fund (MRPF), dishing out freshing funding to six marine energy firms to help them prepare their wave and tidal energy systems for the water. Atlantis Resources, Aquamarine Power, Hammerfest Strom UK, Marine Current Turbines, Pelamis Wave Power and Voith Hydro were selected to receive grants under the scheme, which was launched last year and is designed to bridge the funding gap that ...
Australia: Report undercuts Kevin Rudd’s Great Barrier Reef wipeout
February 3rd, 2010 Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin
Australian: KEVIN Rudd's insistence that the Great Barrier Reef could be "destroyed beyond recognition" by global warming grates with new science suggesting it will again escape temperature-related coral bleaching. The Prime Minister yesterday put the reef at the centre of political combat over climate policy, telling parliament it would be obliterated in the worst-case scenario that "temperatures went through the roof". But for the second year running, the reef has defied predictions of ...
Sea level rise may sink island nations
February 3rd, 2010 Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin
Discovery News: There are few legal precedents for how these nations can exist without dry land. Island states need to act now if they want to preserve even their ocean territories. Sea level rise from anthropogenic global warming could erase some island states from the face of the Earth -- but those nations could survive even without land, say researchers. Governments and people of lost islands could survive "in exile," build structures to mark their submerged territory, retain their ...
The Bigger Kahuna: Are More Frequent and Higher Extreme Ocean Waves a By-Product of Global Warming?
February 2nd, 2010 Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin
Scientific American: Armand Thibault looked out over the Pacific's rumbling winter waves from his balcony in Neskowin, Ore. "The predicted high tide today is a 10.1 [feet]," he relayed via YouTube on Friday, January 29. "I'm very glad we don't have a storm surge behind this one. Tomorrow is supposed to be a 10.2, so it should be interesting." Fortunately, Neskowin didn't experience a storm surge on Saturday either. But like a growing number of seaside towns along the Pacific Northwest coast, it is only a ...
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February 2nd, 2010 Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin
National Public Radio: Construction crews are battling the Pacific Ocean to save a cliff-top apartment building in Pacifica, a San Francisco suburb. It's the kind of scenario likely to occur up and down the West coast in years to come, as climate change and rising sea levels threaten oceanfront properties. Copyright (c) 2010 National Public Radio(r). For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. ROBERT SIEGEL, host: From NPR News, it's ALL ...
