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| Outlook: cloudy Future of global carbon market is uncertain news.bbc.co.uk |
Denmark: 65 world leaders for UN climate summit COPENHAGEN (AP) -- Sixty-five world leaders have said they will attend the Copenhagen climate summit in December, and several more have responded positively to invitations, Danish officials said Sunday.... hosted.ap.org |
Darwin debate Mark Brake (Letters, 9 December) and others have questioned the statements we made in our letter of 7 December, concerning Darwin's originality. What Darwin wrote and thought before 1857 can be verified by reading his notebooks and essays, freely available online (http://darwin-online.org.uk/). This is the scientific approach – to allow anyone to verify the facts of the matter for themselves. Darwin was an excellent writer, and is not difficult even for readers today.Brian CharlesworthDeborah CharlesworthEdinburgh• I love it when scientists refer to the "invisible college", so often unaware that this description of the Pure Temple of Science originated not with the Royal Society but with the Rosicrucian Manifestos, which purported to be written by a secret society of esotericists dedicated to Kabbalah, astrology, alchemy and hermeticism.John AndrewLondonCharles DarwinEvolutionguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
Mars rover stuck in Martian sand NASA's Mars rover Spirit, which has spent six years on the red planet, has struck sand and all attempts to extricate it have failed. abc.net.au |
New smog rule could be a surprise to some counties LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Parts of the country that haven't worried about air pollution may soon be in the fight California has faced for decades: cleaning up smog.... hosted.ap.org |