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...warming the planet - black carbon has a relatively brief life span. It remains just a few weeks in the air before it falls to earth. That's key, because if the world could reduce black carbon emissions soon, it could help blunt warming almost instantly. "You can wait a week or a month and the totals in the atmosphere can be significantly different," says Eric Wilcox, an atmospheric scientist with NASA. Meanwhile, if we were to vastly reduce new CO2 emissions immediately, the billions of tons that already exist in the atmosphere would keep warming the planet for decades...
...read there’s another book or two in the works. Any tip offs about your next book project?GME: I decided ultimately to wait for this book to create some discussion before making a decision about how the next book should be framed. Because, I really do see this book as a conversation, and I don’t want to be the only person dictating the terms of that conversation. I think that the next book will be my response to some of the questions that this book is raising...
Kosher diners will have to wait one more night before they can eat at Hillel again. The dining hall, which closed last night due to a sewage leak on the kitchen floor, will be closed again tonight...
...Chris Hartman, executive director of the Fairness Campaign in Louisville, Ky. Hartman's group has successfully pushed for a local ordinance giving gays there protection against discrimination at work and in housing, but so far has been unsuccessful in convincing lawmakers to allow gay marriage. "LGBT Americans have been waiting decades to see simple civil rights, and many of them are running out of time - we cannot wait forever...
...energy watchdog based in Paris, could add extra weight to the negotiations leading up to the climate-change summit in Copenhagen next month, when leaders will attempt to come to an agreement on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol's limits on greenhouse-gas emissions. "Saving the planet cannot wait," reads the agency's annual World Energy Outlook report, which was released on Tuesday. "The time to act has arrived." (See pictures of new ways to boost energy efficiency...