World Climate Report » Not So Hot in East China
Figure 2. Proxy sea surface temperature from the East China Sea (see text for description of acronyms). The points are 25-yr average temperatures, the solid line is a running three-point mean (from Wu et al., 2012).
Dispatches from Rio and Nepal: Knife Fights Over Firewood - NYTimes.com
[Revkin] I’m convinced that in the world’s poorest places, the transformative power of access to affordable energy — enabling everything from homework to better health to a home business using a sewing machine — trumps concerns about climate implications.
Remarks at the U.S.-Africa Clean Energy Finance Initiative Launch
[Hillary Clinton] We are all here in Rio because we understand that sustainable development holds the key to our shared future to both our economic success and our environmental security.
Climate Change and Eric Holder Conspiracies - The Consequences of Believing Nonsense - Esquire
In other words, we're all going backwards, and not forwards, on the most critical environmental issue in the history of the planet. The Chinese are going backwards because they're hopelessly overindustrialized and because they're short-sighted. We're going backwards just because we're stupid and an entire half of our acceptable political dialogue — most certainly including one of our two political parties — is palpably insane.
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Someone should tell the nurses that more than just a few people will have to make a pretty good living if they have any hope of maintaining their high wages in the healthcare industry. A lower middle class that's largely working in retail or food service becasue energy costs have forced their jobs overseas will never be able to support the 20% of GDP that healthcare is likely to consume by 2020.
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