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Charges by parts of the US energy industry that a recent report on global climate change has been 'scientifically cleansed' should not be allowed to undermine efforts to win political support for abatement strategies.
In evaluating the cost of phasing out chlorofluorocarbons, it pays to look not only at current damage to the ozone layer but also at what might have happened had our use of these chemicals continued unimpeded.
A mature galaxy has been discovered in an early phase of the Universe apparently too young to contain it. Is this the end of the theorists' favourite cosmology, the Einstein–de Sitter model?