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Will the Paris Agreement Take Effect Before Obama Leaves Office?

Edit The Atlantic 22 Apr 2016
John Kerry kisses his two-year-old granddaughter after signing the Paris Agreement Mike Segar / Reuters ... Enter your email address. powered by TinyLetter ... If we’re lucky, the five-month gap between when the treaty was completed and when everyone signed it will confuse undergraduates for decades to come; if we’re enormously lucky, the scene today will be replayed in every climate-change documentary montage made in the late 2090s ... ....

L&I; identifies dangerous buildings

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 09 Nov 2015
ISSUE . CITY DEMOLITIONS. L&I; identifies dangerous sites ... But in an editorial ("L&I; probe is tardy, Nov ... Users can choose the map function to aggregate data, and savvy users - including staff at Philly.com - are combining data in useful ways ... 17 ... 5.4 degrees by 2050, or to an unthinkable 170 degrees in parts of the Persian Gulf by the 2090s (letter, Tuesday), it's difficult to take seriously threats that seem so far in the future ... 2) ... ....

Why Nuclear Power is Not “Low Carbon”

Edit CounterPunch 05 Feb 2015
The UK government is committed to massively subsidising new nuclear reactors, based on the claim that they generate ‘low carbon’ electricity ... What is the carbon footprint of renewable electricity? ... A conservative estimate for the future LCA of nuclear power for power stations intended to continue operating into the 2090s and beyond would assume the lowest uranium concentration currently in proven sources, which is 0.005% ... 1....

The Long Shadow, TV review: Mussolini was a British spy? They don’t tell you that ...

Edit The Independent 02 Oct 2014
The joy of learning about history is that everything connects. When you’re a kid, you gain a base understanding of the world. Who’s the prime minister, who we’re at war with this time, what the capital of Switzerland is (that one still gets me), that kind of thing ... Seriously, ask me about Nazis ... It all connects ... They had the Weimar Republic. We got Wimpey Homes ... And we might be due for a peaceful decade in, ooh, about the 2090s ... ....

Testing times ahead for skifields, experts say

Edit Otago Daily Times 23 Jun 2014
One scientific paper suggests that by the 2040s, maximum snow depth could range between 90% and 102% of present levels but by the 2090s this could drop to between 46% and 74%. This translated into estimates of ski days from 125 days in 2010 to 99 to 126 in the 2040s and dropping to 52 to 110 in the 2090s, the paper said ... The issue was discussed last night at a Queenstown Winter Festival event. ''Queenstown 2040 ...  . ....
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