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Quake Revealed Deficiencies of China’s Military

July 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment

China
’s deployment of its armed forces to the May earthquake got good marks for public relations, but the effort left some veteran P.L.A.-watchers underwhelmed.

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Midwest Climate Disaster Predicted in 2000

July 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment

In 2000, the National Assessment Synthesis Team of the US Global Change Research Program published “The Climate Change Impacts on the United States: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change,” with regional overviews of possible and likely changes due to global warming.

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Key Differences In Mississippi Levee Failures vs ‘05 (audio)

July 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The such horribly high numbers of deaths and billions of dollars of devastation, it’s easy to lump the Mississippi River levee failures of 2008 into the same group as the ones which killed thousands of people in 2005. There are key differences, though, and global warming was an influence in both disasters and it’s important to candid about them.

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