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...rise in sea level would be truly catastrophic if it happened by the end of this 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How High Will the Seas Go in a Warmer World? | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

Senior Fellow Houghton announced earlier this week that he would be stepping down from the six-person Harvard Corporation—the University’s highest governing body—at the end of the academic year...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Report Details Proxy Voting | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

While the Obama administration has shown drastic improvement when compared with the country’s previous stance on climate negotiations, the U.S. simply must go further. Considering the conference’s imminent end, failing to act now could lead to a disappointing—and unacceptable—outcome...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Greening the Globe | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

...better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again ... who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joe Klein's Annual Teddy Awards | 12/17/2009 | See Source »

...anger against his firm and Wall Street in general. His claim that he and his colleagues were "doing God's work" was openly mocked. Washington is still contemplating ways to rein in finance-industry risk-taking, pay and profits. Expect more outrage soon as Goldman hands out huge year-end bonuses, which could average more than $700,000 per employee, just as Main Street's unemployment checks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME's People Who Mattered 2009 | 12/17/2009 | See Source »

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