Growing Interest in the Climate Change Dividend

Reuters - Judith Nemes
By Judith Nemes A two-year old Climate Change Market Index developed by HSBC in Britain is getting attention from at least one of the biggest pension fund investors on this side of the pond, signaling to US-based manufacturers that positioning ...
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Swine Flu: The Global-Warming Solution

Lew Rockwell, CA - Tom Chartier
Nevertheless, things are warming up all over. You may not actually notice any Global Warming since the rate is incrementally minute over a long period of time. Only scientists with carefully measured data and Al Gore can see it.
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US Sen Reid: Health Bill Easier To Pass Than Climate Change

Wall Street Journal - Patrick Yoest
Reid sought to tamp down expectations for climate change legislation, which he named as the issue that would cause him the most headaches before the 2010 elections. He said he expected that the Senate would have legislation written - but not ...
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Global Warming: Another Goverment Scam!

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The graphs which are very important to this article can be found online at joannenova.com.au/globalwarming/skeptics_handbook_2-1.pdf. Below it the text contained in the article but the graphs provided allow for no logical rebuttle.
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Climate Change

ATWOnline, MD - Perry Flint
By Perry Flint To truly transform our economy, protect our security and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy. So I ask this Congress to send me legislation ...
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Reid sees global warming debate as a big “headache”

The Hill, DC - Alexander Bolton
sees global warming legislation as his biggest headache in this Congress. Compared to cracking down on carbon emissions, which many Democrats fear could hurt the economy, Reid sees healthcare reform almost as a proverbial walk in the park.
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Swine Flu Surprise and Possible US Global Warming Move

ProPublica, NY - Olga Pierce
... to extend the treaty to include hydrofluorocarbons, coolants used in refrigerators, air conditioners and aerosol sprays. If the administration pursues this option, it would offer an anti-global-warming alternative to the Kyoto Protocol, ...
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NZ glacier findings upset climate theory

New Zealand Herald, New Zealand
Geologist David Barrell of GNS Science, Victoria University geomorphologist Andrew Mackintosh and glaciologist Trevor Chinn of the Alpine and Polar Processes Consultancy have helped provide definitive dating for changes in glacier behaviour.
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Lisa Jackson Is Leading Where We Want to Go: To a Clean Energy Future

Huffington Post, NY
On April 17, 2009, the EPA declared its authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, which means, for starters, that the EPA will detail the threats posed by global warming to both public health and welfare. This move is a green light for the EPA to ...
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Business-As-Usual Will Bring a Global Warming Tipping Point in 40 ...

Discover Magazine, NY
That's the scenario described in two new studies, both published in Nature, that paint an ominous picture of global warming. A worldwide temperature rise of just a few degrees may not sound like much, but it would lead to wide-scale environmental ...
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Climate Catastrophe: Are We That Stupid?

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Reaching this level of carbon dioxide by the end of the century was presented as a worst-case scenario if nothing is done to curtail emissions in a 2000 special report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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UCSD Scientists Say Climate Change Altering Ocean

KPBS, CA
A UC San Diego study shows that climate change is altering the ocean ecosystem. KPBS Environment Reporter Ed Joyce tells us what the scientists have discovered. In the first broad study of its kind, scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography ...
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Thune introduces indirect land use bill

Biodiesel Magazine, ND
"Congress has asked EPA to apply greenhouse gas emission standards that reflect ethanol's proven environmental benefits. However, with the EPA's current decision that is pending at the White House, I am concerned that EPA's action could have a ...
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Pro-Con | Should the EPA handle tougher pollution limits including ...

Kansas City Star, MO
President Obama's executive order on greenhouse gas emissions is a refreshing first step toward reversing the government's harmful inaction on climate change. With a stroke of his pen, Obama repudiated eight years of the Bush administration's ...
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NYS to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

WIVB, NY
Governor David A. Paterson today announced that more than 30 communities across the State have made the Climate Smart Communities Pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Climate Smart Communities program partners the State with local governments ...
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The Politics of Species Protection in Alaska

New York Times, United States
The state's legal arguments focus on the US Fish and Wildlife Service's heavy reliance on climate and population modeling in the case of the polar bear and on the National Marine Fisheries Service's listing of a distinct population in the case of the ...
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Uncovering mysteries at Earth's poles

Mother Nature Network, GA
... seals, gray whales, bowhead whales, and polar bears-and on land, including the permafrost, or permanently frozen ground. There's a focus on hydrology-the study of water flow-in anticipation that river flows will increase as the climate warms.
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Global Warming is Especially Evident in the Arctic

Opposing Views, CA
... Belgian explorer Alain Hubert, co-founder of the International Polar Foundation, are trekking across Greenland's Humboldt Glacier, getting a firsthand glimpse of the area of the world showing the most obvious and advanced signs of global warming.
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UN's Top Climate Change Official: A New Willingness to Tackle ...

U.S. News & World Report, DC
By Kent Garber Major developing countries like China are doing far more to address climate change than most Americans realize, the top climate change official at the United Nations said yesterday after a meeting in Washington of ministers from the ...
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Phasing Out Coal Power in Canada?

New York Times, United States
By Ian Austen Canada's plans for greenhouse gas emission controls are a bit of a mystery at the moment. The current Conservative government quickly renounced the country's commitments under the Kyoto Accord, which were made by a previous Liberal ...
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Countries Meet to Negotiate Global Climate Pact

Washington Post, United States
Delegates from an array of nations described the two-day session as a trust-building exercise in which representatives could share blunt perspectives about how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Shyam Saran, special envoy for Indian prime ...
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Humans Halfway to Causing Dangerous Climate Change

Wired News
By Alexis Madrigal When human injection of carbon into the atmosphere reaches one trillion tons, dangerous climate change with average global warming of over two degrees Celsius will likely occur, a new analysis finds. And humans are hurrying toward ...
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Major Economies Conclude Climate Change Talks

SustainableBusiness.com, NY
Two days of high-level diplomatic discussions in Washington DC may have improved the chances of reaching agreement on an international climate change treaty by the end of the year, despite the lack of any concrete proposals. Delegates from the world's ...
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New York-sized ice shelf collapses off Antarctica

Independent, UK
An area of an Antarctic ice shelf almost the size of New York City has broken into icebergs this month after the collapse of an ice bridge widely blamed on global warming, a scientist said today. "The northern ice front of the Wilkins Ice Shelf has ...
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The media laps up fake controversy over climate change

guardian.co.uk, UK
There are three kinds of climate change denier. There are those who simply don't want to accept the evidence, because it is too much to bear, or because it threatens aspects of their lives that they don't want to change.
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International Relations at the era of global warming

American Chronicle, CA
The concept Global warming is controversial in International Relations in which experts have different point of view about how to deal with global warming .Politicians , Businesspeople , industrialists are challenged ,but they tackle the issues ...
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Canada aims to end traditional coal power: report

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He told the Globe and Mail newspaper that new coal plants would have to include technology to capture greenhouse gas emissions and inject them underground for permanent storage. Ottawa also plans to impose absolute emission caps on utilities' existing ...
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UW seaglider is milestone in climate change research

Seattle Post Intelligencer
Researchers have long known that the waters around the Arctic Sea can reveal much about the pace and nature of climate change. A seaglider is prepared for deployment in Davis Strait by Avery Snyder and Adam Huxtable, field engineers with the University ...
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India For Climate Adaptation Without Cap On Development

RTT News, NY
(RTTNews) - India rejected Tuesday any cap on its development in the name of 'climate change', as New Delhi asserted that climate-change negotiations should consider overriding developmental objectives of Third World nations, reports say.
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Climate Change Is Coming, Is Your Company Ready?

Environmental Leader, CO
This goal is consistent with the EU goal of a 60-80 percent reduction from 1990 levels, existing state goals (~50-80 percent below either 1990, 2000 or 2005 levels), and the United Nation's climate change panel's estimate of a 50-85 percent reduction ...
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The Greenest 100 Days, Part 2

Daily Green
According to the League of Conservation Voters, she voted for the environment in 90% of chances, and she's now voting for the environment every time she meets with foreign leaders to discuss international action on global warming.
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World's largest economies start push for agreement on climate

MiamiHerald.com, FL
... Todd Stern, said Tuesday that he was "a bit more optimistic" that the world could solve the global warming crisis after meeting with high-level officials from the countries that produce the bulk of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
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Climate Change Partnership Between Germany and VA

WHSV, VA
This is the second bilateral climate change agreement signed by Kaine. In February, Kaine signed a similar agreement with the United Kingdom. "Virginia is pleased to have been a principal US state to collaborate with Germany on global warming and ...
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Proposed animal gas tax revisited because of EPA finding

Wilson County News, TX
EPA Supreme Court ruling that greenhouse gas emissions met the Clean Air Act definition of an air pollutant. At that time, the court suggested the EPA administrator determine if new motor vehicles cause or contribute to air pollution.
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Barack Obama: A good start

guardian.co.uk, UK
It remains to be seen how much he will give at the climate change summit in Copenhagen. There are also large questions about what he will get in return. An outstretched hand requires a response, and Iran's will not be swiftly given.
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Is Hillary Clinton really backing her climate change rhetoric?

guardian.co.uk, UK
Hillary Clinton says the US is "no longer absent without leave" on climate change, but is she really backing up her rhetoric with sufficient resources? Hillary Clinton waves to the crowd at the National Building Museum in Washington.
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In Climate Change Debate, It's All About Jobs

U.S. News & World Report, DC
Betty Sutton, a Democrat, wants Congress to tackle climate change, but she has some concerns. She represents Ohio's 13th District, which includes Akron, where the unemployment rate is 10.3 percent. "I certainly want jobs," Sutton said last week, ...
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Jet fuel from oilseeds emits less greenhouse gas | KXNet.com North ...

Reiten Television KXMB Bismarck, ND
(AP) A new study says jet fuel made with the oilseed crop camelina could cut greenhouse gas emissions by 84 percent compared with jet fuel from petroleum. The study was done by the Sustainable Futures Institute at Michigan Technological University.
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Specter: What Will Pa. Senator's Defection Mean for Climate ...

Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY
Getting 60 votes is crucial for all sorts of big-ticket legislation-especially climate change. But Sen. Specter's support won't come free. Hailing from a coal-rich manufacturing state, Sen. Specter is especially sensitive to two issues when it comes to ...
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21 Ways Faith Groups Are Combating Global Warming

Campus Progress, DC
Religious communities across the country are celebrating Earth Day every day this year by taking long-term, sustainable steps to help reduce global warming. Faith communities are greening their houses of worship and advocating for policies and ...
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Clinton says US fully engaged in fighting climate change

International Business Times, NY
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told representatives of the world's 17 major economies that the United States is fully engaged in issues relating to climate change and is "no longer absent without leave" in the matter.
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Climate change hitting entire Arctic ecosystem, says report

guardian.co.uk, UK
Extensive climate change is now affecting every form of life in the Arctic, according to a major new assessment by international polar scientists. In the past four years, air temperatures have increased, sea ice has declined sharply, surface waters in ...
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Venice 'example of global warming'

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Warnings that the tourist hot spot will face heavy downpours throughout the day come after Charles warned Italians it was an example of the dangers posed by global warming. The tour will be focused on Venice's regeneration projects but the couple will ...
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Could deadly swine flu be caused by climate change or polluted water?

Examiner.com
According to Steven Sanderson, head of the Wildlife Conservation Society, "even minor (climate) disturbances can have far reaching consequences on diseases". He added, "The term 'climate change' conjures images of melting ice caps and rising sea levels ...
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Climate Change Means Shortfalls In Colorado River Water Deliveries

Science Daily (press release)
But if human-caused climate change continues to make the region drier, scheduled deliveries will be missed 60-90 percent of the time by the middle of this century, according to a pair of climate researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, ...
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Compacted 'Earth' maintains message

UM Maneater, MO
By Patrick Daugherty Early in "Earth," we are given a stark reminder of a 21st century truth: it sucks to be a polar bear right now. And in 2009, if you don't care about the environment, it also certainly sucks to be you. You're admonished as a heretic ...
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Ny-Alesund, the world's most northern human settlement

BBC News, UK
It is 3am, the sun is shining, and a polar bear has been spotted heading directly to the camp. Welcome to a typical Saturday night in Ny-Alesund. Situated at 79 degrees North, Ny-Alesund is the world's most northern civilian human settlement, ...
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Dems delay climate change bill

Politico, DC
By PATRICK O'CONNOR | 4/27/09 1:05 PM EDT Updated: 4/27/09 2:43 PM EDT Photo: AP Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are postponing consideration of their landmark climate change measure, as moderate Democrats on the panel continue to ...
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Climate change hearing on Capitol Hill highlights politics and ...

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As legislators in Washington DC debated a climate change bill that would levy new taxes on businesses and potentially cost consumers, political theatre was in full view Friday at the House of Representatives. The House Energy and Commerce Committee ...
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Greenpeace Protesters Scale Crane, Display Giant Banner

Washington Post, United States
By Theola Labbe-DeBose Seven protesters from the environmental group Greenpeace scaled a construction crane next to the State Department early this morning and unfurled a large banner protesting global warming, part of a dramatic demonstration that ...
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Time low in global warming fight: Prince Charles

AFP
ROME (AFP) - Time is quickly running out in the battle against global warming, and history will judge the world's response to the crisis, Prince Charles of Britain told Italian lawmakers Monday. "If we are to bequeath to our children a world that is ...
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Scope of clean energy, climate bills takes shape

CNET News, CA
by Martin LaMonica Policies now being considered to boost renewable electricity generation and efficiency at utilities will make it cheaper to comply with caps on greenhouse gas emissions, said members of the Energy Future Coalition, ...
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Climate change protest at Commons

BBC News, UK
The protesters, from the group Climate Rush, say their actions are designed to be a wake-up call for the government. It is 100 years to the day that a suffragette chained herself to the same statue as part of the campaign to secure votes for women ...
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Building Sector Needs to Reduce Energy Use 60% by 2050

Environmental Leader, CO
A new study on energy efficiency in buildings (EEB) indicates that the global building sector needs to cut energy consumption in buildings 60 percent by 2050 to help meet global climate change targets. According to The World Business Council for ...
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Duke Energy's mystery plan to solve the climate change dilemma

ScienceBlogs
For a man who make a lot of money emitting greenhouse gases into the planet's biosphere, he sure seems to grok the climate crisis. And he seems to be sincere about transforming his business into a carbon-neutral supplier of electriticy.
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Final dispatch from climate change summit

Alaska Dispatch, Alaska
In my preliminary report on the Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change, I stated the conference was not a production to bash America, and that in my view, its primary themes centered on adaptation and mitigation of the effects of global ...
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Obama keeps climate pledge, but Congress is key

AFP
Obama has urged Congress to create such a market and has included in his first budget proposals a call to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 14 percent by 2020, compared to their 2005 level. Responding to the president's appeal, ...
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A happy alliance: royal divorcees swap gifts with the Pope

Times Online, UK
He said scientific predictions on global warming were "ever more alarming" and called for "collaboration between communities, nations and continents" to provide a "global response". The prince said: "I believe strongly that the response we make to the ...
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Shaping Policy On Climate Change

Chemical & Engineering News
But Congress and the Obama Administration, backed by businesses, agree that the job of curbing greenhouse gas emissions and combating climate change is best handled by federal legislators rather than EPA. Waxman and Markey are expected to formally ...
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Debate is over

Concord Monitor, NH
I agree with you that the issue of anthropogenic global warming has an overwhelming amount of data to support it, and in a perfect world, we would be moving on to practical steps the nations of the world need to take. The opponents (many well-financed ...
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Flu epidemic fear grips world

Washington Post, United States
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Diplomats from the world's biggest greenhouse gas polluters including the United States, China and India are set to take part in a forum on Monday at the US State Department aimed at getting a UN agreement to curb global warming.
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Obama's Democrats drag feet as US opens international climate talks

Earthtimes (press release), UK
The draft bill echoes Obama's pledge to aggressively tackle greenhouse-gas emissions, lowering them by about 15 per cent by 2020 compared to the 2005 level and 80 per cent by 2050. It would introduce a cap-and-trade programme, which essentially ...
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Selling The Green Economy

Washington Post, United States
As Congress begins considering anti-global-warming legislation, environmentalists hold out precisely that tantalizing prospect: We can conquer global warming at virtually no cost. Here's a typical claim, from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF): "For ...
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Washington forum draws worst greenhouse polluters

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Environmentalists and others see US commitment to fighting climate change as key to any global pact. "Without US leadership, a global warming agreement in Copenhagen will be largely out of reach," said Jake Schmidt of the Natural Resources Defense ...
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Q+A: How does climate change hit GDP?

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(Reuters) - Southeast Asia faces one of the world's highest climate change bills, the Asian Development Bank said on Monday, unless the region adapts to climate change and joins the rest of the world in cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
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The truth about climate change is that we know the bad truth

Daily Star - Lebanon, Lebanon
By John Theodore Houghton Many people ask how sure we are about the science of climate change. The most definitive examination of the scientific evidence is to be found in the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its last ...
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Charting a clear course for clean energy

Denver Post, CO
That's because President Obama had, in 92 days, set the nation in a new direction when it comes to transitioning to a clean energy economy, stopping global warming, and protecting the environment. Take day 6, when President Obama directed his brand new ...
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