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...compromises involved in getting even a deal that delegates could only agree to "take note of" may have stripped it of much of its operational significance. The accord contains no deadline to draft a legally binding treaty, no emissions-cut requirements, and only the vaguest reference to helping countries cut back on deforestation - a goal that many had hoped might be one of the few concrete achievements from Copenhagen. The Europeans, still the only bloc of nations with truly binding carbon caps, were unhappy, hoping for a far stronger agreement. "There is light and there is shadow," said German Chancellor...
...century. But there is no suggestion in the study that the rise is imminent. "We can only give a thousand-year average," says Kopp, meaning that it might well take a millennium for sea level to go up that much. The rise would be inevitable, though: even if we cut back emissions today, concentrations of greenhouse gases will continue to increase, albeit more slowly. As a result, if temperatures go up by as much as 2°C (3.5°F) by the end of the century - the upper limit of temperature rise that climate scientists consider safe - they...
...effort to bolster sustainability efforts and cut energy costs, the Harvard College Library system has implemented lighting changes, including installing occupancy sensors and reducing lighting use in campus libraries...
...stencil cut out of from the bottom of the box,” Kaiser says. “And when no one was looking, I would set it down on the ground and take a can of spray paint and spray it inside the box. It just looked like I was fiddling around...
...Gatorade's parent, has said it will drop its Tiger Focus drink - whatever the heck that was - though the company insists it made that decision before the scandal. Gatorade is noncommittal about its 2010 plans. The company's "G" rebranding campaign has been a total disaster. So it can cut some losses, save some money and perhaps appease some shareholders by letting Tiger go. However, Woods reaches Gatorade's core market, the sports fans who emulate their heroes. The ones who, as the company famously framed it in the early '90s, want to "be like Mike." If Tiger rebounds...