Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Local Homeless Man Dies of Apparent Hypothermia - Noozhawk.com
A 56-year-old man died Sunday after being found with a low core body temperature, marking the 31st homeless death in Santa Barbara this year.
Global Warming Could Fuel 'Compost Bombs' - Tech Talk - CBS News
One of Earth's biggest stores of carbon dioxide sits locked within the decaying vegetation found in peatlands, which range from tropical peat swamps to Arctic permafrost. A fast-warming world could transform those peatlands into a "compost bomb" that would dump huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, British researchers have calculated.
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The rapid rise in the temperature of peat that would follow the "compost bomb" scenario could even cause spontaneous combustion, Wieczorek said.

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