Word: kyoto
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...cartoon shows a yawning globe of the Earth grasping onto the Kyoto Accords, the expanding mouth of the globe representing the ozone hole. Let’s get the facts straight here. The ozone hole is created by chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs); CFCs have been successfully phased out of many developed countries due to the Montreal Protocol signed by many nations in 1987. The primary ozone hole still exists in the Antarctic because CFCs have a very long residence time in the atmosphere...
...other hand, the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 comes from the work of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, which specifically deals with “greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol,” including Carbon Dioxide. If the cartoonist wanted to make a real political statement, she should have drawn a globe that was sweating while clinching onto the Kyoto Accords (but, of course, many other cartoonists have done this in other newspapers...
Keith Fullerton Whitman, electronic musician extraordinaire, has performed in locales ranging from Berlin to Kyoto, made internationally acclaimed albums under two different aliases and earned the respect and awe of music makers and fans around the world. And he’s our next door neighbor...
It’s telling that European views on those issues have been as full of irritation, resentment, ridicule and Schadenfreude as they have been in “big” politics—on Iraq, the Kyoto Treaty and the International Criminal Court. At every single stop on a German book tour in support of my book OFFSIDE: Soccer and American Exceptionalism, I was asked whether American arrogance was to blame for the fact that the U.S. never developed a soccer culture comparable to that in most of the world. When the U.S. was awarded the World...
Whitesides is a former chair of the Harvard chemistry department. In addition to being named a recipient of the Kyoto Prize, he was also named a recipient of the Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award earlier this year...