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Global watming through the enhanced greehouse effect is one of the major and most uncertain forces of global environmental change presently facing the earth. This book is a guide to the scientific and policy debate concerning the roles of agriculture, forestry and other activities leading to global warming. The influence of land use on the greehouse effect is important, not only in terms of net emissions of greenhouse gases, but also in the potential to reduce emiss… More >>
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Reuben James Runquist is finally facing facts; at eighty, he is stuck with a retirement condo in an environment that is decidedly MAI (“not” in Thai) Shangri-La! The climate has “flipped”, global sea levels have risen seven meters, plagues have killed hundreds of millions, and worldwide transportation and commercial infrastructures have collapsed. Reuben is reduced to a subsistence existence in the high-tech but questionably secure “Panic Room” of his barricaded con… More >>
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First, U.K. Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett discusses her address to the United Nations General Assembly and the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Then, Sir Richard Branson, Chairman and CEO of the Virgin Group, and famed venture capitalist and partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers, Vinod Khosla, discuss their global environmental intiatives, the threat of global warming, and the potential of green technology. They also discuss Branson’s $3 billion commitmen… More >>
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