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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

Jacobson first showed in 2000 that black carbon was the second-leading cause of global warming after carbon dioxide in terms of radiative forcing and, in 2002, that its control would be the most effective method of slowing warming. Emissions from ocean-going ships which burn minimally refined bunker fuel are primary sources of black carbon.

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With this Ruby Laser, George Porter Sped up Photochemistry

Cars That Think

As if to prove his point about thermodynamics, Porter wrote and presented a 10-part TV series called “The Laws of Disorder” for the BBC. (He He had already established himself as an excellent science communicator in an episode of the BBC’s “Eye on Research.”) He also worked with BBC television to broadcast the Christmas Lectures.

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