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The Deadly $125-Billion ICBM Boondoggle

Union of Concerned Scientists

As far back as 2012, he recommended doing away with the ICBMs, taking US nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert, and reducing the number of deployed US nuclear warheads—estimated at the time at 2,150 —to 900. I’d be happy to put that mission on the submarines.” Cartwright, meanwhile, has spoken out numerous times on the topic.

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CMIP6: Not-so-sudden stratospheric cooling

Real Climate

2012) described the issues as ‘mysterious’, but efforts to better correct the record for non-climatic effects soon bore fruit, and the ‘mystery’ became history ( Maycock et al., 692-697, 2012. Thompson et al. Thompson, D.J. Seidel, W.J. Long, and R. Maycock, W.J. Randel, A.K. Steiner, A.Y. Karpechko, J.

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The 5th International Conference on Regional Climate

Real Climate

2012) and account for random regional climate variations on scales up to decades. The “law of small numbers ” implies a minimum number of independent simulations in an ensemble (Rabin, 2002). 775-779, 2012. 775-816, 2002. TAKAYABU, H. KANAMARU, K. DAIRAKU, R. BENESTAD, H.V. STORCH, and J.H.

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Book Review: the New Sustainability Advantage

Edouard Stenger

“ First published in 2002, a second 10-year anniversary version was published in 2012. This is the one I read. If the case for sustainability was compelling then, imagine how much more it is now that renewable energy sources such as solar and wind are at grid parity.

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

In 2002, Scientific American named Dr. Mann one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology, and in 2012, he received the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geophysical Union. Dr. Mann received his undergraduate degrees in Physics and Applied Math from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.S.

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Microfluidic systems for the skin: Quantitative sensing of biomarkers in sweat

Physics World

He joined Bell Laboratories as a member of technical staff in the Condensed Matter Physics Research Department in 1997, and served as director of this department from the end of 2000 to 2002.

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Gov. Shapiro Issues Order Directing Agencies To Set Deadlines For Permit Reviews, Requires Money-Back Guarantee If Deadlines Not Met; A Similar Program Started At DEP In 1995

PA Environment Daily

From 1995 to 2002, over 125,000 permit applications were reviewed under the program and only 22 missed the review deadlines. In 2012, Gov. Tom Corbett updated the program by issuing Executive Order 2012-11 making changes to the program that built on the successes of the original order, Gov.

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