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“No one can be comfortable at the prospect of continuing to pump out the amounts of carbon dioxide that we are at present… Sequestration is difficult. But if we don’t have sequestration I see very little hope for the world.”

Ron Oxburgh, chairman of UK branch of oil firm Shell (The Guardian, 17 June)

“This is perfectly reasonable, since a non-working missile defense system should be sufficient to deter a non-existent threat from Iran or North Korea.”

Bob Park, editor of the American Physical Society’s “What’s New” newsletter, on the US Senate Armed Services Committee’s decision to deploy the…

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