“The furniture will fly. It will be almost too realistic.”
John van de Lindt of Colorado State University on an experiment that will subject a full-scale replica of a wooden Californian town house weighing 40 tonnes to a simulated earthquake of magnitude 6.7 (LA Times, 13 November)
“They’re going to shift the burden on us.”
Rajendra Pachauri, India’s climate change expert and chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, on developing countries like China, India, Brazil being asked to curb emissions, while emissions in developed countries continue to rise unabated (The New York Times, 7 November)
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