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SpaceX Falcon 9 launch scrubbed by wayward cruise ship

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Fairing recovery north of Cuba ~596km downrange. Nonetheless, each scrubbed launch likely costs the company several hundred thousand dollars and wastes hundreds or even thousands of work-hours. CSG -2 LHAs from SLC-40 NET 27 Jan 23:11 UTC, altern. 28 Jan to 01 Feb. Booster LZ1 landing. Dogleg maneuver to SSO azimuth.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, a think tank, and author of “Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming,” correctly states, “For almost 20 years, from Rio to Kyoto to Copenhagen, we’ve been wasting time, pursuing the failed strategy of cutting carbon-dioxide emissions.