Archive for April 7th, 2008

NASA urges further cuts

7th 2008f April, 2008, Peter

James Hansen, the head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, has said that our targets for carbon emissions reductions are not adequate, and should be cut further.
“Hansen says the EU target of 550 parts per million of C02 - the most stringent in the world - should be slashed to [...]

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Open outcry hand signals

7th 2008f April, 2008, Peter

Today’s New York Times has published photographs of the hand signals used by traders in open outcry trading markets. The signals are modeled by Raymond Carbone, an oil trader, and are those used on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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