I just watched David Keith’s talk on geoengineering on TED. He mentions at the end of the talk an interesting problem with global politics that is probably going to be more and more prevalent this century. The problem is this: let’s say that the United States is against shooting sulfur into the atmosphere to cool [...]
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HR 2702 & HR 3240: Bring Sean Goldman Home!
On April 22, 2000. A S.W.A.T. team working in conjunction with the INS and on orders from the Attorney General of the United States stormed into a home in Miami-Dade County and forcibly removed a child named Elian Gonzalez and returned him to his father in Cuba on June 28, 2000. Elian’s mother had stolen him away [...]
The Graph Everyone’s Talking About…
Just in case you haven’t seen it elsewhere, Paul Krugman has a nifty graph of average global temperature since 1880.
The graph can’t tell you what it means, but it can tell you that rising average temperatures is real.
Top 10 Proven Oil Reserves-Some Musings on Strategy
From the CIA Factbook:
Top 10 Proven Oil Reserves by Nation:
World 1,295,000,000,000 PCT of World Total
Saudi Arabia 266,800,000,000 20.6%
Canada 178,800,000,000 13.8%
Iran 132,500,000,000 10.2%
Iraq 115,000,000,000 8.9%
Kuwait 104,000,000,000 8.0%
United Arab Emirates 97,800,000,000 7.6%
Venezuela 79,730,000,000 6.2%
Russia 60,000,000,000 4.6%
Libya 39,130,000,000 3.0%
If I’m not mistaken then, these ten countries possess almost 83% [...]
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