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the national railroad route in china

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http://bbs.railcn.net/viewthread.php?tid=449755

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the national railroad route in china

here are the legends, from top to bottom on the map:

passenger routes

new routes

electrified railway

potential railroad sites

inter-city railway routes

container stations

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emission reduction rate in china

Submitted by yabonancygaoc on

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http://forum.gsean.org/read-htm-tid-34237.html

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emission reduction rate in china

the part in the legend before the numbers translate to: progressing by:

the gray legend translates to: Not in a development

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clean technological companies' locations in china

Submitted by yabonancygaoc on

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http://www.jiangsu.env.cn/env/jiangsu/index2011-01-12.html

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clean technological companies' locations in china

left  column is the legends bar for the developed industries

right column is the legend bar for the developing industries

from top to bottom, here are the different types of companies for both the developed and developing(they are all the same, in the exact same order):

energy conservation industry

new informational technology industry

biological industry

high tech manufacturing industry

new energy industry

new material industry

new energy automobile industry

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desertification levels throughout china

Submitted by yabonancygaoc on

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http://blog.china.alibaba.com/blog/cnlizongfa/article/b0-i21118982.html

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desertification levels throughout china

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lakes

no desert

water flowing sand dunes

semi-flowing sand dunes

semi-fixed san dunes

fixed sand dunes

gobi desert

areas of extreme drought

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Delayed action on climate to result in irreversible change and high costs

Submitted by ward on
Delayed action on climate to result in irreversible change and high costs
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The physics of Earth’s natural systems show that a delay—of even a decade—in reducing CO2 emissions will lock in large-scale, irreversible changes. If carbon dioxide emissions do not begin to trend down this decade, it will be nearly impossible to stabilize the climate at any acceptable level.

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http://www.climateworks.org/news/item/?id=719ba5a6-4040-7c00-6791-e7789df81ca9

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Weather disasters seen costly sign of things to come

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Molly O'Toole
Weather disasters seen costly sign of things to come
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is on a pace in 2011 to set a record for the cost of weather-related disasters and the trend is expected to worsen as climate change continues, officials and scientists said on Thursday.

"The economic impact of severe weather events is only projected to grow," Senator Dick Durbin said at a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Financial Services and Government, which he chairs. "We are not prepared. Our weather events are getting worse, catastrophic in fact."

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http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110729/us_nm/us_climate_disasters_hearing

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