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...first time that evidence of the earth's rising temperatures was "unequivocal"-and that this warming was more than 90% likely the result of human activity. We are locked into some amount of climate change: the IPCC reported that even if we managed to end all greenhouse-gas emissions today, the earth would continue to warm through the rest of the century because of the amount of carbon we have already added to the atmosphere. But if the 600 international scientists who authored the assessment have fingered the culprits behind global warming, the question now becomes how the world will...
...Temperatures Depending on greenhouse-gas emissions, global temperatures will rise between 1.1?C and 6.4?C by 2100. If carbon levels double from the pre-industrial norm-something many experts say is a lock-the IPCC believes the mercury will rise by about 3?C, accompanied by longer and more intense heat waves...
...front-runners? Five out of six contenders are figureheads whose job is to make the election look presentable, observers say. Though clan leaders involved with natural gas, cotton and other businesses all have power aspirations, they have given way to one candidate endorsed by the late dictator's powerful security apparatus: Deputy Premier Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov. The morning after the dictator's death, the Speaker of the National Parliament - who, under the Constitution, was to become acting President - was dismissed and arrested. The Constitution did not allow new Acting President Berdymukhammedov to run in the February election, but the rubber-stamp...
...does it matter who rules Turkmenistan? The country is home to the world's fifth largest natural gas deposits. It also borders Iran, where a radical regime covets nukes, and Afghanistan, where the Taliban continue to fight NATO forces. The specter of increasing Islamic extremism in Turkmenistan endangers energy markets and raises the possibility of a further breakdown of regional stability...
...Will Niyazov's successor pursue reforms? Berdymukhammedov has hinted at greater openness, fighting drug trafficking from Afghanistan and restoring some educational facilities his predecessor closed. A failure to reform could leave Islamic extremists in charge of a gas-rich state in a volatile region...