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• As a result of the Industrial Revolution, the British economic predominance in the 19th century paved the way for a colonialism of large geographical reach that spread the English language in the world.

    

  More importantly, the strong political and military predominance of the U.S. after World War II paved the way for a substantial economic and cultural influence that displaced French from the sphere of diplomacy and fixed English as the standard for international communication.

• (Aug. 25, 2006) — Why are so many people dying on Mount Everest, asks doctor and climber, Andrew Sutherland in this week's BMJ?  It used to be thought that it would be physiologically impossible to climb Mount ...  > read more

    Older Climbers Face Uphill Battle On Mount Everest (Aug. 20, 2007) — While some claim that 60 is the new 40, new research shows that 60-year-olds cannot keep up with 40-year-olds on Mount Everest, and suffer a sharply higher chance of dying if they do reach the ...  > read more

• • see a chart showing the increas of globle temperature in its origin (Microsotf Word)
• Figure 3: the observed increase in global-average  surface air temperature anomalies are relative to 1961-1990 average.  Figure from UK CIP 

• Other evidence for changes  in the global climate include:

   
   
  • an increase in night-time   temperatures over many land areas at about twice the rate of day-time   temperatures;
   
  • an increase in the length   of the freeze-free season in many Northern Hemisphere mid-to-high latitude   land areas;
   
  • more intense rainfall events   over many Northern Hemisphere mid-to-high latitude land areas;
   
  • a near worldwide decrease   in mountain glacier extent and ice mass;
   
  • a decrease in Northern Hemisphere   sea-ice amounts and a substantial thinning of Arctic sea-ice in late   summer

• Figure 5:   a good fit between observed and model-simulated global temperature is   obtained only when both natural and human factors are included in the   model simulation. Temperature change is relative to the 1880-1920 average.   Figure from the UK CIP

   

   

   

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• In 1999, the price of oil hovered around $16 a barrel. In July 2008, it reached a peak of $147 a barrel. By the end of the year, as most of the world fell into recession, prices plunged to below $49 a barrel, a roller coaster ride that left both producers and consumers confused and wrung out. Prices were still far higher than they had been at the beginning of the decade, but oil-producing countries that had reshaped their economies around the huge influx of revenues faced a suddenly altered landscape.