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Though he cracked jokes and pointed enthusiastically at vibrant red, spiking temperature graphs, Richard B. Alley, a professor of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University, ended his presentation at yesterday’s Harvard climate change symposium with a grave warning...
Alley, the Penn. State professor focused on the sensitivity of the Arctic to climate change, saying that glacial melting as a result of even a minute increase in temperature “affects the ocean currents, it affects the wind currents, it affects a lot of things...
...police issued nearly 70 citations for trespassing to the crowd, which had gathered to camp out in front of the Massachusetts State Legislature as part of The Leadership Campaign, a month-long effort encouraging sleeping in public places to draw attention to climate change. The Campaign is currently calling on Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 to introduce a bill to power Massachusetts with 100 percent renewable energy...
...security crumbles, militants find it easier to operate, according to the risk consultancy Eurasia Group in a research note on Nov. 5. "The Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is establishing more sophisticated infrastructure in Yemen," the report said. "A collapse or severe weakening of the Yemeni state would likely send millions of refugees into Saudi Arabia, threatening stability there." (See TIME's pictures of Saudi women...
...Tokyo, trying to hold fast to its campaign promises to resolve the base issue in step with the needs of Okinawans, has felt diplomatic pressure from the U.S. State Department over the past few weeks to make a firm decision to enable the terms of the 2006 agreement on Futenma. In late October, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates pushed Hatoyama to uphold Japan's end of the 2006 agreement. "Secretary Gates played the bad cop so that President Obama won't have to," says Michael Green, senior adviser and Japan chair of the Center for Strategic and International Studies...