Would it be completely sustainable to shred 700 tires for each and every child in the world?

And the Obama girls’ swing set was also carefully selected for its green attributes — including recycled, shredded tires (1,400 of them), as well as non-toxic dyes.

British scientist blames China's brutal 2008 winter on global warming?

Last year China felt the impact of climate change. It was evident in the blizzards and flood and the frequent droughts in Guangdong province, UK's Chief Scientific Adviser John Beddington says, according to the China Daily.

Note that CO2 caused China's 2008 snow to melt so quickly that only nearly 500,000 buildings collapsed

Chenzhou was one of the most severely damaged cities in the rare winter snowstorms caused by a lingering, brutal winter. Meteorologists called it "the worst of its kind in five decades" for many of the regions in southern China hit from mid-January till February.
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Statistics later showed that as a result of the snowstorms, nearly 500,000 buildings collapsed and 1.69 million homes were damaged in south China.