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Worldwatch Institute - China Watch, Food, Renewable Energy, News, Natural Disasters & Peacemaking, e2 - Eye on Earth, News Story, Commentaryhttp://www.worldwatch.org/node/5786 [Worldwatch Institute - China Watch, Food, Renewable Energy, News, Natural Disasters & Peacemaking, e2 - Eye on Earth, News Story, Commentary] James Hansen: This was the culmination of years of work, going back at least to three papers between 1981 and 1982, [discussing] carbon dioxide and climate change in the journal Science, other trace gases in Geophysical Research Letters, and sea level, also published in Science. What was different in 1988 was that I had a more comprehensive paper completed and in press at Journal of Geographical Research, which was the attachment to my 1988 testimony.

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SWJ Bloghttp://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/2008/06/4-june-swj-news-oped-think-tan/ [SWJ Blog] 4 June SWJ News, Op-Ed, Blog, and Events Roundup: Resolving the global food crisis could cost as much as $30 billion a year and wealthier nations are doing little to help the developing world face the problem, United Nations officials said Tuesday. At a UN food summit attended by dozens of world leaders, Jacques Diouf, head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, opened the meeting by sharply criticizing wealthy nations who he said were cutting back on agriculture programs for the world’s poor and ignoring deforestation - while spending billions on carbon markets, subsidies for farmers and biofuel production.

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