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...laid to rest any doubts that global warming is real - and outlined the frightening consequences of continued inaction. At the release of the IPCC's final summary last month, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon - who has made climate change a top priority of his administration - laid out the threat in stark terms. "The world's scientists have spoken clearly, and with one voice," he said. "I expect the world's policymakers to act the same...
...whole process can seem frustratingly slow, considering how dire the threat of climate change is - as if we were convening a town hall meeting to decide to put out a fire that is already raging. "Getting 185 countries around a negotiating table is a difficult way to run the world," says Andrew Deutz, who heads the Nature Conservancy's International Institutions and Agreements team. "But the advantage of the UN process is that it's about the process. It can continue to evolve." That's already begun to happen in recent years, as consensus on global warming has grown...
...form of his 6;8 frame for some much needed help in the post. “[In Unger], we’re anticipating having another player upfront with the experience and size we need,” Amaker said.Unger will join Harvard’s leading low-post threat, junior Evan Harris, down low to thwart the Michigan attack.Lin and junior Drew Housman will also be asked to be more aggressive on offense.“They need to continue [to drive into the paint]”, Amaker said. “We need to have Jeremy...
...December 16 date for lifting the emergency, though seemingly arbitrary, is in fact a not-so-subtle threat to opposition parties and the ambitions of former Prime Ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif. Sharif and his party favor boycotting the elections, while Bhutto is leaning toward participating. Now, Musharraf has given each of them a deadline. "The 15th is the last day for the withdrawal of nomination papers" says Ahsan Iqbal, a spokesman for Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz Party, referring to the last date the candidates can formally withdraw from the race. That may be enough to force...
...base. His administration has politically and economically enfranchized the majority poor for perhaps the first time in Venezuela's history and he has been very skillful at whipping up that mass of his support by portraying contests like this as martial resistance to the threat of yanqui imperialism. "This is a battle, a political war, an international conflict!" he shouted on the referendum campaign stump in Caracas this month. "The U.S. wants a Venezuela on its knees, but the Bolivarian Revolution will struggle until death...