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		<title>Tipping point for coral reefs?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Climate change has a tremendous impact on fauna living in coral reefs along with the corals themselves. Animals that live in the corals are moving to more suitable water temperatures as their habitats are heating up, while also being impacted by the increased presence of carbon dioxide in the oceans. This has resulted in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ihrr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13094237&amp;post=3226&amp;subd=ihrr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Body scanners, health risk and politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A news agency specialised in investigative reporting in the US, ProPublica, released an informative series of reports (here, here and here) on the use of body scanning technology by the Transport Security Agency, who is responsible for implementing and regulating travel security measures under the Homeland Security Act of 2002.  After its 10th anniversary, many people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ihrr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13094237&amp;post=3122&amp;subd=ihrr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AGU days 2 and 3: some notable talks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theweightyscientist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sharpest amongst you will have noticed that I have fallen badly behind with blogging.  Unfortunately I have found myself so busy from dawn into the evening that reserving time to blog has been a struggle. So to try to address that here are some notable talks that I have attended in the last two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ihrr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13094237&amp;post=3216&amp;subd=ihrr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inside AGU 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Words alone can&#8217;t express the immensity of the AGU Meeting.  It is a truly spectacular event.  So here is the first of a couple of posts featuring photos of different parts of the meeting to give a sense of the atmosphere. I&#8217;ll start with the poster hall, which I think is really the backbone of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ihrr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13094237&amp;post=3188&amp;subd=ihrr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can we communicate climate science effectively?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brettcherry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The environmental and economic problems of climate change are both universal as well as specific to different parts of the world.  This requires effective communication about climate change science that has the potential to inform people&#8217;s understanding on both a national and local scale.  Climate science communication is a strong theme of this AGU Meeting.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ihrr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13094237&amp;post=3171&amp;subd=ihrr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Great Disasters of the 21st Century</title>
		<link>http://ihrr.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/great-disasters-of-the-21st-century/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theweightyscientist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday (Monday) morning I also attended a session run by the Natural Hazards division on Great Disasters of the 21st Century.  First up was Mark Bove from Munich Re, who talked about two different aspects of natural hazards.  The first was to highlight the increasing levels of loss associated with natural disasters – in particular [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ihrr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13094237&amp;post=3162&amp;subd=ihrr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tsunami warning systems and public risk perception</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brettcherry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American Geophysical Union Meeting is an immense science conference, the largest of its kind in the world.  Taking place in the multilevel citadel known as the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco, it lies within the city’s technological landscape and seedy urban environment.  I was fortunate enough to catch the first session of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ihrr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13094237&amp;post=3142&amp;subd=ihrr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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