Word: protocols
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...quick, cheap fix would turn out to be a trap. And while Levitt and Dubner say the fix is appealing at least in part because it's politically impossible to imagine the world agreeing on a common carbon cap - pointing to the problems with the Kyoto Protocol - in reality, the geopolitics of geoengineering are even tougher. Would the world stand idly by if China unilaterally decided to begin geoengineering our collective climate? What if the U.S. did? And even if we did allow geoengineering to commence, could we agree on what an acceptable global temperature would...
...century and found that it could end up increasing global greenhouse-gas emissions instead of reducing them. In the second paper, another team of researchers led by Tim Searchinger of Princeton University uncovered a potentially damaging flaw in the way carbon emissions from bioenergy are calculated under the Kyoto Protocol and in the carbon cap-and-trade bill currently being debated in Congress. If that error in calculation goes unfixed, a future increase in biofuel use could end up backfiring and derailing efforts to control global warming, according to the paper. "Biofuels can be an important part of the portfolio...
Given how limited the impact of the Kyoto Protocol has been, the effects of that error have been modest so far. But if the U.S. adopts a cap-and-trade system with the same mistake, or if the world agrees to a truly global successor to Kyoto, the blowback could be enormous. As long as biofuels are incorrectly treated as 100% carbon neutral, they'll represent an economical way for companies to offset their greenhouse-gas emissions and comply with a tightening carbon cap. One study estimates that if the world were to meet a 50% "cut" in global greenhouse...
Perhaps, but the release of the trial's full data has not quelled the early criticism that bubbled up around it. Some researchers contend that the second and third analyses of the data - including the "per protocol" analysis, which included only the 12,450 volunteers who received all six vaccine or placebo injections and completed the trial and the "intent to treat" analysis, which included everyone except the previously HIV-infected participants - show that the results are not statistically significant. Both analyses found the vaccine to be just 26% effective - that figure is empirically low, but further, the analyses relegate...
...women of B-51 have established a quirky protocol for entering the adjoining suite, which is inhabited by several Kirkland...