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...There are some of us who believe that the problem of warming is as bad as the First and Second World Wars combined," Branson told TIME in a recent interview at the climate summit in Copenhagen. "It's that serious, and you know the key is carbon, [but] there's no war room coordinating the attack on carbon...
...Carbon War Room's goal is first to raise awareness about the carbon problem within industries, then to publicize and spread the best solutions. In the case of shipping, the solution may be as simple as installing scrubbers - of the sort already used in planes and cars - that would vastly reduce emissions of SOx, NOx and black carbon. Older and more polluting ships will need to be replaced by models that are more efficient, and eventually carbon-based bunker fuels will need to be swapped out for low-carbon alternative fuels. The Carbon War Room is looking to start...
Although the Crimson led 38-35 at the break, the Colonials still managed to shoot 46.2 percent from the field in the opening frame. In the second half, Harvard’s defense took over. The Crimson held George Washington to just two points over the first 9:24 of the period and 18 points in the entire half. Defensively, it was Harvard’s stingiest half of the season...
...first half they were running on us a little bit,” freshman forward Kyle Casey said. “[In the second period we] got back on transition defense a lot. That...
...China's Supreme People's Court resumed reviewing all death-penalty cases following public anger at a number of questionable convictions, among them the case of a man who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for murdering his wife - who later turned up alive. In the first half of 2008, the Supreme People's Court overturned about 15% of the death sentences that were forwarded to it, an official told the state-run China Daily newspaper...