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Summary of decisions from Durban climate conference

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Governments at the COP17 meeting decided to adopt some form of a universal legal agreement on climate change as soon. The next major UNFCCC Climate Change Conference, COP 18/CMP 8, will take place 26 November to 7 December 2012 in Qatar, in close cooperation with the Republic of Korea. as possible, but not later than 2015.

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Eugene H. Spafford: Malware Nemesis

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Spafford ’s more than three decades as professor of computer sciences at Purdue University , in West Lafayette, Ind., Indeed, the field didn’t really exist when he graduated from the State University of New York at Brockport with a bachelor’s degree in math and computer science in 1979. During Eugene H.

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de Boer Resigns from UNFCCC

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de Boer will be joining the consultancy group KPMG as Global Adviser on Climate and Sustainability, as well as working with a number of universities. Copenhagen did not provide us with a clear agreement in legal terms, but the political commitment and sense of direction toward a low-emissions world are overwhelming. Yvo de Boer.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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Oxford takes the handoff In 1976, John Goodenough [left] joined the University of Oxford, where he headed development of the first lithium cobalt oxide cathode. The University of Texas at Austin It was the first of many false starts for the rechargeable lithium battery. But he found no takers. Sony, however, did more than “confirm” it.

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New mobile phone app identifies driver phone use, enabling action to reduce distracted driving

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A team from Rutgers University and Stevens Institute of Technology have designed and tested a smart phone application that can pinpoint where in the car a cell phone user is sitting—i.e., 08, the legal limit. Source: Yang et al. Click to enlarge.

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UC Davis ITS study suggests hastening consumer adoption of plug-ins will require innovation on the sales side

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Among their initial findings: PEV buyers universally report lower satisfaction with the dealer purchase experience than buyers of conventional vehicles. These expose dealers to legal liability for misstatements or for communicating misleading information to customers. —Cahill et al. Cahill, Eric, Jamie Davies-Shawhyde, Thomas S.

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Met Office: Current Decade Already Hottest On Record

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The Met Office is currently negotiating with national meteorological and hydrological services that maintain the stations, and plan to release the remaining records as soon as they are legally able to do so. “ press conference in Copenhagen. Research Unit, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom. long-term average of 14.0 °C.

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