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Cuba Jamming Ham Radio? Listen For Yourself

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As anti-government protests spilled onto the streets in Cuba on July 11, something strange was happening on the airwaves. Florida operators reported the signals were loudest there, enough to make communication with hams in Cuba impossible. Valladres explains he escaped from Cuba to the United States in a raft in 2005.

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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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Based on calculations by the International Energy Agency (IEA), 75% of the growth in the world’s energy demand from 2005 to 2030 will come from developing countries. China recently surpassed the US as the world’s biggest producer of GHGs. According to the IEA, global energy demand will grow 55% by 2030.