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...what was it? An oil slick? Some sort of immense, amorphous organism adrift in some of the planet's most remote waters? Maybe a worrisome sign of global climate change? Or, as folks who followed the blob via the Internet wondered, was it something insidious and perhaps even carnivorous like the man-eating jello from the old Steve McQueen movie that inspired the Alaska phenomenon's nickname? (Read Richard Corliss's review of The Thing, a sci-fi film set in the Arctic...
...consider myself somewhat of a hot-pot connoisseur, having indulged in many delicious regional varieties, including the characteristically tasty Xi’an hot pot, the lamb hot pot of the Northeast, and the Sichuan duck-gizzard hot pot, known to be one of the spiciest foods on the planet. Yet, I continue to be impressed and surprised by the gusto and creativity with which the Chinese attack fine cuisine...
...accounting that would examine the range of individual emissions within countries. Thanks to economic growth, there are well-off people in almost every nation in the world - and the global middle class and wealthy, in India or Indiana, are responsible for most of the carbon emissions heating up the planet. "By taking this down from nations to the level of the individual, it provides a better mechanism for figuring out how to fairly distribute global emission reductions now and in the future," says Shoibal Chakravarty, a physicist at the Princeton Environmental Institute and a lead author of the PNAS paper...
...more Australians than French producing high levels of carbon emissions (above 10 metric tons of CO2 a year). The researchers then compiled those numbers to get a global estimate of how carbon emissions are distributed individually; unsurprisingly, about half of the world's emissions in 2008 came from the planet's 700 million richest people. (See the top 10 green stories...
...think this represents a nice path for distributing the share of the work of cutting emissions between countries," says Chakravarty. The Copenhagen negotiations will be hard fought, but the Princeton paper offers hope that we can find a fair way to climate justice, when every person on the planet will have their fair share of the atmosphere...