Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Lee Kuan Yew said America will remain the world’s dominant power in the 21st century only if it is the dominant Pacific power. Global stability will be shaped by how the US handles China. Graham Allison at Harvard said that since 1500, war resulted
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Marco Lambertini at The World Wildlife Foundation said: More than half of the world’s vertebrates have disappeared between 1970 and 2010, primarily due to exploitation (37%), habitat degradation (31%), habitat loss (13%), and global warming (7.1%). Meanwhile the human population has nearly doubled. Latin America’s biodiversity dropped 83%,
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: The International Programme on the State of the Ocean said the health of the oceans is deteriorating even faster than had previously thought, and says conditions are ripe for the sort of mass extinction event that has afflicted them in the past. IPSO said the oceans have
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Robert Bryce at the Manhattan Institute writes: Any transition away from our existing energy systems will be protracted and costly. Energy transitions occur over decades, even centuries. Coal use in the US is declining, but it is soaring in the developing world and booming in Europe. Global carbon
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jeremy Grantham at GMO said: Commodity prices fell for a hundred years by an average of 70 percent, and then from 2002 basically everything tripled and regained the whole decline in 6 years – tobacco was the only commodity that fell. The game changed because of the
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Leaked UN documents show ice in Antarctica and Greenland is disappearing faster and may drive sea levels higher than predicted this century. Greenland’s ice added 6 times more to sea levels in the decade through 2011 than in the previous 10 years, while Antarctica had a 5-fold increase. Walt
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: For 340 consecutive months, the Earth has been warmer than historic averages. 28 years ago, the Arctic was covered by ice throughout the year as it had been for centuries, but every summer two-thirds of it melts to water. In 2012, 46 commercial ships were allowed
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Gail Whiteman at Erasmus University and other scientists say that the release of large amounts of methane from thawing permafrost in the Arctic could cost $60 trillion, or roughly the size of the global economy in 2012, with impacts most likely to be felt in developing countries, which are more
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: 16 of the 29 US states requiring utilities to buy renewable energy are considering paring back those mandates after a plunge in natural gas prices. Read the full article at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-23/u-s-states-turn-against-renewable-energy-as-gas-plunges.html Click here to receive free and immediate email alerts of the latest forecasts.
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: The UN’s World Meteorological Organization said concentrations in the atmosphere of the three main gases blamed for global warming all rose in 2011 to their highest since records began. The additional carbon dioxide will remain in the atmosphere for centuries, causing further warming and impacting all aspects of life on Earth
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