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Explosion and Fire on GOM Deepwater Drilling Rig

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central time in the United States Gulf of Mexico (GOM); the rig was located approximately 41 miles offshore Louisiana on Mississippi Canyon block 252. The Deepwater Horizon is a fifth-generation, Reading & Bates Falcon RBS-8D design rig built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in 2001. The Deepwater Horizon. Click to enlarge.

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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

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The Council of European Ministers adopted the limit as policy on behalf of the European Union in 1996, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) subsequently employed the limit as context in its Third Assessment Report (TAR), published in 2001. [ ºC in some areas, and as high as 6 ºC in polar regions.