The question of the season is “” What will happen to Santa Claus (and Superman) when the North Pole is ice free in the summer?
On our current path, that seems inevitable by the end of the decade. Rear Admiral David Titley, the U.S. Navy’s chief oceanographer and director of its climate change task force, “predicts an ice-free Arctic in late summer by 2020.”
It might be better titled, “A tale of two generations.” It is palindromic — so be sure to watch it until the end:
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By William Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project.
In June 2008, I was one of several speakers at the World Investment Conference in the French resort town of La Baule. The keynote speaker at dinner one night was Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
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Language Intelligence: Lessons on persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga.
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