Aug 18, 2007

Air travel latest target in climate change fight

Christian Science Monitor, MA 
The UN International Panel on Climate Change says perennial improvements have made planes 70 percent more efficient than they were 40 years ago.
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Doha Bank holds seminar on climate change in Turkey

Peninsula On-line, Qatar 
Doha ��� Doha Bank Deputy CEO R Seetharaman, while addressing the business community over the Global Warming and Climate Change conference in Turkey, ...
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Arctic ice cover the smallest size ever recorded

Canada.com, Canada 
... last week by another climate expert at the University of Illinois that all-time records for maximum meltage of the polar ice cap will be "annihilated" ...
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Climate change campaigners strip naked on melting glacier

ABC Online, Australia 
Greenpeace hopes the images will highlight the vulnerability of the earth to climate change. (AFP: Fabrice Coffrini) Nearly 600 volunteers have stripped for ...
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Aug 17, 2007

APEC climate change declaration criticised

ABC Online, Australia 
As revealed on Lateline last night, the draft of the APEC leaders' declaration on climate change, energy security and clean development focuses primarily on ...
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More debate ahead on emissions

NorthJersey.com, NJ 
By COLLEEN DISKIN New Jersey was one of the first states to join a multi-state effort to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, but it may be one ...
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EU emissions trading scheme an 'embarrassing failure,' think tank says

Environmental Data Interactive, UK 
The European Union Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) was set up for operations in January 2005 as the "largest multi-country, multi-sector ...
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Top suburbs costing the Earth

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 
SHOPPING has been exposed as the big culprit in rising water use and greenhouse gas emissions - and Sydney's most affluent suburbs are the worst offenders.
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Campaigners glue themselves to UK transport dept in climate change ...

Forbes, NY 
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Demonstrators from the ongoing climate change protest at London Heathrow Airport glued themselves to Britain's Department of ...
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Climate change ruffles winter birds

Reuters.uk, UK 
LONDON (Reuters) - Climate change is disrupting the habits of birds which normally migrate to and from Britain in winter, the Royal Society for the ...
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Aug 16, 2007

Blogger forces Nasa to admit global warming figures error

Times Online, UK 
Nasa officials have admitted that for the past seven years they have used the wrong temperature statistics to assess global warming trends.
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Carbon credit market up 41% in 6 months to euro 15bn

Business Standard, India 
Global greenhouse gas emission trade in the first six months of 2007 totalled euro15.8 billion (Rs 90700 crore), up 41 per cent from the year-ago period, ...
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Global Warming Already Cited in Hurricane Dean Story

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By PJ Gladnick | August 16, 2007 - 18:45 ET It has been less than a day since Tropical Storm Dean has developed into a hurricane and already global warming ...
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`Climate change may trigger hunger crisis`

Business Standard, India 
PTI / New Delhi August 17, 2007 Climate change is likely to trigger a "risk of hunger" in India by affecting cereal production by as much as 18 per cent ...
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Junkscience in Global Warming Theory?

Hawaii Reporter, HI 
By Michael R. Fox Ph.D., 8/16/2007 8:41:03 AM In spite of what some call a national debate on global warming, there really hasn't been one.
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Before the next disaster strikes - The humanitarian impact of ...

ReliefWeb (press release), Switzerland 
Consider the adaptation mechanisms of two mammals: polar bears and humans. Polar bears have evolved over thousands of years to adapt to a harsh climate.
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Contracts, ties to Stevens probed

Seattle Times, United States 
Veco won a five-year NSF contract in 1999 to provide logistics and support for polar research, although it had no previous experience in that field.
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Save our spears

Economist, UK 
Among its causes: resistance to moves by governments or environmentalists to limit the hunting of seals and polar bears. The Inuit say that with their ...
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Arctic sea ice set to hit new low

BBC News, UK 
Dr Serreze added that it was very likely that sea ice cover in the polar region was starting to respond to human induced climate change, resulting from a ...
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Analysis: evidence still shows global warming

Times Online, UK 
... statistics have left Nasa with egg on its face, but should have little long term effect beyond handing global warming-deniers a propaganda coup.
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Germany's Merkel heads to Greenland for talks on global warming

International Herald Tribune, France 
AP BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel headed to Greenland on Thursday with her environment minister for talks with local counterparts on global warming, ...
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Is global warming to blame for all the rain?

Bray People, Ireland 
Last Thursday morning, we took to the streets of Bray to ask people if they believe that global warming is to blame for Ireland's wettest summer in years or ...
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Protesters demand greenhouse gas cut

Baltimore Sun, United States 
Even though that effort was blocked by Senate Democratic leaders, O'Malley signed a narrower law designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from all new ...
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Canada's next crisis?

Toronto Star,  Canada 
In a thought-provoking speech to the Canadian Bar Association this week, Lougheed warned that tough action by Ottawa to curb greenhouse gas emissions could ...
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GOP holdouts are on our side

North County Times, CA 
Brown wants to use the California Environmental Quality Act to enforce last year's ambitious Assembly Bill 32, the "greenhouse gas bill" that aims to reduce ...
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Climate Change Fund Has Strong Growth Potential

Korea Times, South Korea 
Nicolas Huber, senior portfolio manger at Deutsche Asset Management, told reporters that corporations, which face the climate change issue early and act ...
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NBC Nightly News Joins Newsweek in Smearing Global Warming 'Deniers'

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Thompson's conclusion echoed: "The scientific debate is no longer over society's role in global warming. It is now a matter of degrees.
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UK Climate-Change Protests Spread Beyond Heathrow (Update1)

Bloomberg 
The action is part of a week-long campaign centered at Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, against the aviation industry and climate change.
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Positives in climate change

The Press, New Zealand 
If good water is available, climate change could have positives for Canterbury. TIM CRONSHAW reports. Despite the doomsayers, climate change could have many ...
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UN climate change meet: `Carbon-neutral` arrangements

Zee News, India 
New York, Aug 16: To set an example ahead of an international conference on climate change, a UN body will try to make all travel, accommodation and other ...
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Take a stand, Pat

Camden Advertiser, Australia 
With the revelation that some Western Sydney Liberal MPs deny the existence of climate change, you've got to ask what Pat Farmer thinks about such an ...
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Climate change threatens wind farms

ABC Online, Australia 
The peak wind energy industry body says Australia's climate change policies are threatening the viability of wind farms. Energy company AGL has abandoned ...
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Farmers, green groups unite to fight climate change

ABC Online, Australia 
By environment reporter Sarah Clarke Farmers say they are at the front line of climate change (File photo). (Getty Images: Mark Dadswell) It might be ...
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Aug 15, 2007

Scientists warn on climate tipping points

Guardian Unlimited, UK 
Some tipping points for climate change could be closer than previously thought. Scientists are predicting that the loss of the massive Greenland ice sheet ...
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Farmers band together to fight climate change

ABC Online, Australia 
By Environment reporter Sarah Clarke Farmers and other country groups are uniting in a new alliance to fight climate change.
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Global Warming Lawsuits Impacting Climate Change Debate

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America's courts are likely to become the real battleground where the war over anthropogenic global warming is waged. With this in mind, all eyes are on a ...
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Want to cut global warming? Dig into your pockets

International Herald Tribune, France 
By Michael Fitzgerald NEW YORK: Global warming is by nature a big-enough problem to create the kind of necessity that could be mother, father and midwife to ...
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Colorado: Conference Touts Natural Gas

Forbes, NY 
... kicked off a three-day conference Monday by promoting natural gas, a cleaner-burning fossil fuel, as a weapon against increasing greenhouse gas levels.
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Humble mosses may help greenhouse gas concerns

National Post, Canada 
... permafrost as "a time bomb waiting to go off" that could spark a "vicious cycle" of greenhouse gas emissions, warmer temperatures and increased melting.
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Fall is the time to see the polar bears

San Jose Mercury News,  USA 
By ELLEN HALE AP Writer A mother polar bear nurses her baby in the brush and snow off Hudson Bay, in this photo taken in November 2006.
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Coal plant will undermine carbon aspirations - Greens

Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand 
Ms Fitzsimons warned the process of converting lignite to diesel and then burning the diesel produced more greenhouse gas emissions than producing diesel ...
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Does Your Sustainability Report Address Climate Change Risks?

Environmental Leader, CO 
Can you imagine a food company that isn't thinking about how climate change may affect their supply chain in the coming decades? ...
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City Adopts Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Plan

Opinion250 News, Canada 
By 250 News Prince George is setting some targets for greenhouse gas emissions as it moves forward with the Partners in Climate Protection Plan.
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Arctic Animals Play Starring Role in Climate Change Film

Voice of America 
The world's north polar ice cap is melting. Over the last three decades, the area of the Arctic Ocean covered by sea ice at summer's end has shrunk ...
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Landfills latest target in global warming fight

ABC Online, Australia 
Some of Australia's largest waste companies have joined forces with environmentalists to stop landfills from contributing to global warming.
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Global warming 'masked'?

American Thinker, AZ 
on global warming, like Custer's cavalry when all those screaming Sioux warriors came charging over the hill. Charge!! Backward! With NASA suddenly erasing ...
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An Arctic Journey

CBS News, NY 
In part two of his series, Sieberg takes a look at how global warming affects the food chain - from plankton to polar bears...
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Aug 14, 2007

Green Legislative Breakthrough?

AlterNet, CA 
"We need to elect Democrats next year," said the young man, "to work on issues like Iraq and global warming." Implicit in this pitch, similar to one on the ...
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State seeking to cut CO2, curb global warming

Bizjournals.com, NC 
... of recommendations for the governor on what Colorado can do to curb emissions of carbon dioxide and cut the state's contribution to global warming.
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Global Warming Simplicities

Washington Post, United States 
Global warming is among the latest. Unfortunately, self-righteous indignation can undermine good journalism. A recent Newsweek cover story on global warming ...
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Scientists warn Arctic sea ice is melting at its fastest rate ...

Independent, UK 
Most polar specialists agree that as more ice is lost in summer, the Arctic is liable to heat up faster than normal as a result of a positive feedback in ...
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Lock Down at Bank of America to Protest Coal Investments

It's Getting Hot In Here, DC 
... in to arrest the heads of Progress Energy for perpetuating the greatest threat humanity has ever faced - climate change," an anonymous polar bear said.
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Gore's 'truth' not only one: objector

National Post, Canada 
Oswald Czolgosz, who believes environmental activists such as Al Gore are suppressing debate about global warming, spent about $3000 to have a dissenting ...
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Claim that Vista DRM causes full CPU load and global warming debunked!

ZDNet 
As for Gutmann's theory that this additional work load will jack up power consumption and cause global warming, it's clear Gutmann's theory on power ...
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US calls for co-op with China on climate change

Xinhua, China 
Connaughton is touring Asia to promote cooperation on environmental protection and climate change. During his week-long visit to China, Connaughton has met ...
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Morgan Stanley Launches Carbon Bank

Forbes, NY 
Under the new service, clients will calculate their carbon footprint using the standards of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative.
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Study Estimates Carbon Cutting Costs

Forbes, NY 
Over the past year, power industry officials have been gearing up for what many see as an inevitable move to regulation of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Climate Change Dominates International Water Conference

Environment News Service 
Controlling climate change is necessary to make the most of an increasingly scarce resource, the prime minister said, urging the completion of a successor ...
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Aug 13, 2007

Nirranda gas well trial

Warrnambool Standard, Australia 
Yesterday the committee delivered its findings on the role that the technology would play in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It recommended tax-based ...
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FACTBOX-Five facts on Australia's greenhouse gas emissions

Reuters AlertNet, UK 
Here are five facts about Australia's greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, likely to be key issues in national elections tipped for November.
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Wolfowitz 'tried to censor World Bank on climate change'

Independent, UK 
On one occasion, the White House's pointman at the bank, the now disgraced Paul Wolfowitz, personally intervened to remove the words "climate change" from ...
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Shattered Consensus: True State of Global Warming

Hawaii Reporter, HI 
By Michael R. Fox Ph.D., 8/13/2007 12:58:29 PM This book - Shattered Consensus: True State of Global Warming - was edited by Patrick Michaels and Reviewed ...
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Heat on Australia PM over climate skeptic MPs

Washington Post, United States 
By Rob Taylor CANBERRA (Reuters) - A report questioning climate change and calling global warming a "natural phenomenon" on Monday led to accusations ...
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Rendell's global warming plan still in the workshop

PennLive.com, PA 
Ed Rendell, who has been outspoken on the need to limit emissions of global warming gases, has not delivered on a promise to come up with his own strategy ...
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DiCaprio brightens up on gloomy green outlook

Reuters 
By Bob Tourtellotte LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Tired of global warming doom and gloom? Here's something new from Hollywood's king of green, Leonardo DiCaprio: ...
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Australian Lawmakers Doubt Global Warming Fears

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... Four members of Prime Minister John Howard's party Monday dismissed the idea human activity is altering the environment and causing global warming.
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Dominion Realigns Business Units to Reflect Strategic Refocusing

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"We want to see if this expertise can be transferred to help ourselves and others reduce greenhouse gas emissions." Also new will be a Governance Department ...
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Govt to obtain CO2 emission credits via CDM projects

The Daily Yomiuri, Japan 
Japan will be the first country to implement government-led CDM projects among industrialized countries that are obliged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions ...
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Governor enlists team to address global warming

The News-Press, FL 
Charlie Crist took another step today in his fight against global warming, naming 21 members of an "action team" to recommend sweeping changes in state ...
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Scientists: Newsweek Erred in Global Warming Coverage

Newswise (press release) 
Newswise - A recent Newsweek magazine cover story on global warming contained significant errors and used outdated scientific material in its representation ...
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UK 'ambitious' on climate change

BBC News, UK 
Downing St has said its climate change targets are "ambitious" but it remains fully committed to renewable energy. It was responding to a report in the ...
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Top White House Advisor on Environment Visits the World's Largest ...

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By capturing the previously vented methane gas and converting it into electricity, the Caterpillar generator sets will significantly reduce greenhouse gas ...
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Jerry Brown's latest battle

San Jose Mercury News,  USA 
It's not surprising he's joining the battle on global warming." And perhaps it's not surprising that Republicans have turned the former governor, ...
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Global warming? Look at the numbers

National Post, Canada 
That's been a common refrain for environmentalists, too, and one of the centrepieces of global warming hysteria: It's been really hot lately -- abnormally ...
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Australian governing party lawmakers doubt human contribution to ...

International Herald Tribune, France 
AP CANBERRA, Australia: Four Australian governing party lawmakers rejected on Monday the idea that humans are causing global warming, the conclusion reached ...
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Coalition MPs question cause of climate change

The Australian, Australia 
FOUR Coalition MPs have questioned the consensus that humans are causing climate change, against the findings of a government-dominated committee.
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Aug 12, 2007

Climate change strategy

Mid Devon Star, UK 
By Mid Devon Star Reporter PEOPLE in Exeter are being given the opportunity to help shape the way the city deals with climate change.
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Paralyzing fog of certainty on climate

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA 
It's the same story run repeatedly in mainstream media: the overwhelming majority of scientists believe the debate on global warming is over -- but if there ...
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Canadian landfills look to make cash from trash

CTV.ca, Canada 
Those piles of garbage in landfills create about three per cent of the country's total greenhouse gas emissions, including 23 per cent of all methane ...
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States plan to expand emission trading

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 
STATE Labor governments are pushing to expand their proposed national emissions trading scheme aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as they step up ...
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High-fliers ready to slow down global warming

Economic Times, India 
12 Aug, 2007, 1656 hrs IST, PTI NEW DELHI: Travellers around the globe are becoming more conscious about global warming and are keen to make significant ...
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Canadian Premiers Wrap Meeting Without Agreement On Greenhouse Gas ...

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One issue that was highly debated was whether the provinces should implement a cap-and-trade system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Newsweek Editor Calls Mag's 'Global-Warming Deniers' Article ...

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