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Dates: during 2000-2009
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Carbon: An Overlooked Climate Factor | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...discovery was worth the wait. Analysis of the water ice may give scientists an eons-long look at environmental history: any ice lurking in the shadows of lunar craters would have been there for a long, long time - billions of years, even. On Earth, for example, scientists get their best information about the planet's climatic history from ancient air trapped in polar ice, says Greg Delory of the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. Similarly, the lunar poles are record keepers of conditions over long periods. They are the dusty attic of the solar system, says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now It's Official: There Is Water on the Moon | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

Needless to say, I can’t wait to see what the new office is going to look like next season, let alone what a Draper bachelor pad will hold. If Joan’s return is evidence of anything, it’s that change is coming, and those who can see it coming just in time will be the ones to make...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Mad Men’ Reflects American Spirit | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By STEPHANIE R. MCCARTNEY, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Greg M. Epstein | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Xi Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hillel Dining Hall: Full of Crap? | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

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