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Summary .   U. S. Secretary of State John Kerry visited China and Indonesia in February 2014 to promote international support for combating global warming.   He is making this issue a major theme of his tenure in office.   In China he discussed upcoming negotiations on a new worldwide climate treaty with his hosts.   In Indonesia he spoke on the critical nature of the problem of worsening global warming, and on the importance of reaching international accord to limit further emissions.   He is personally committed to making global warming be a central theme in U. S. diplomatic efforts. Recent U. N.-sponsored meetings to negotiate a treaty to replace the expired Kyoto Protocol have stalled on the issue (among others) that is the same as the   one that arose originally when the Kyoto Protocol was negotiated: a split between already industrialized countries and developing countries based on the contention by the latter group that mature countries have ...

Summary .   TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, L.P has applied for approval to construct a pipeline from Canada to a pipeline terminal in Oklahoma in order to ship “tar sands” oil to refineries on the U. S. Gulf Coast.   The State Department has evaluated the application in its Environmental Impact Statement.   The U. S. must weigh this application to determine whether it meets the national interest.   This post presents a Comment submitted by this writer recommending that the application not be approved, for several reasons. I. Introduction : The Department of State (DOS) is evaluating the Presidential Permit Application of TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, L.P. (the Application) to determine whether the project serves the national interest.   DOS weighs “a wide range of factors, including … environmental… and economic impacts; [and] foreign policy”, among others.   In this regard DOS issued its Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (Final SEIS) ...

My dear readers, once again I apologise for taking so long to post a new publication. My travel to Brazil was very intense and in the last few weeks as imagined I just could not do another thing except enjoy my beloved ones and the warm Sea waters of João Pessoa's beaches reaching nearly 30 C degrees in very Sunny days - outside the water, temperatures went as high as 39 C degrees, that is warm! Sunset at White Cape Beach - João Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil From Brazilian warm, colourful and vibrant Summer I got in a plane to Lisbon which was a bit lower around 11 C degrees but not as low as Amsterdam that was around 0 C degrees. When I got off the train in Groningen, North of the Netherlands Kingdom, where I happily have been living for the last year, I was surprised by a foggy -2 C degrees just 23 hours after leaving my beloved parents' home - the fastest trip ever for this route due to flights on time and etc.  Three days after the previous photo was taken, on the other side...