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...Kopp and his colleagues gathered data from a wide range of individual studies to put together a global picture. "We reviewed data from 40 sites," he says, including evidence from ancient coral reefs, eroded beaches and telltale sediments laid down in the ebb and flow of 125,000-year-old tides. The bottom line: local effects and faulty assumptions may have led to an underestimate. "It's unclear," says Kopp, "why the Southern Hemisphere would have been warmer than we thought." It may have to do with changes in ocean circulation, but nobody knows at this point...

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

...text throughout the week—eerily similar to the personal account of China’s actions at last year’s climate talks in Paris, shared with me by a prominent scientist who served in the U.S. delegation there. If China is up to its old tricks, calls for greater transparency seem, at best, confused...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad | Title: Into Thin Air | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard Business Review unveiled a revamped Web site yesterday morning, complementing a recent redesign of its print magazine in what HBR officials have identified as a modernizing effort aimed at increasing the 88-year-old publication’s accessibility...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HBS Magazine Undergoes Facelift | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

...irony of using a platform for peace for a defense of war. Yet the disconnect goes still deeper. With more clarity than ever before, Obama’s speech peeled away his slick exterior to reveal the inner workings of his moral universe—a universe that is old-fashioned, even unfashionable, and far more controversial than many of his most ardent admirers realize...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: The Moral Imagination | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

Indeed, Obama’s speech speaks to a real, often ignored, distinction between those who think of the world “morally” and those who don’t. It’s an old canard that lumping things in moral categories necessitates a conservative mindset. Some conservatives think this way, and so do some liberals, like Obama. The latter camp, on the other hand, is not “immoral,” but rather “amoral”—for better or worse, it simply doesn?...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: The Moral Imagination | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

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