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Wall on climate change comes down

It is a start. That's the best assessment of the agreement produced by the 190-some governments at the United Nations climate change conference in Bali, Indonesia, earlier this month. After an abrupt... Read more . . . ...full story at Japan Times

from Japan Times on Sat, Dec 22 2007

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