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November 19, 2009 | Posted by Michael McCarthy, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Research Intern - 8:08am | 0 Comments
- The U.S. Army is researching casualties associated with fuel convoys in our current warzones, according to the DOD Energy Blog. (Full report here.)
- Wired reports on the U.S. Navy's Arctic Roadmap, which was researched and presented by the Navy's Task Force Climate Change to deal with maritime security concerns in a melting Arctic.
- Green Inc. features a debate about whether President Obama's presence at Copenhagen will make a workable climate deal more likely or not.
- The New York Times reports that long-term changes in ocean chemistry are making them less efficient at absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Meanwhile, Scientific American asks a hard question: is it even possible to reliably calculate carbon dioxide emissions and its presence in the atmosphere?
- Russia has been known to coerce Ukraine by cutting off its natural gas supplies, and now Ukraine is returning the gesture by doubling the fees they charge Russia to transport gas through their territory to other European countries.
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