BEST OF 2007

2007 was a year of extremes. The world experienced a series of record-breaking weather events this year, from flooding in Asia to heat waves in Europe, snowfall in South Africa and wildfires in California. America faced its worst summer drought since the Dust Bowl years of the Depression.

While Mother Nature is continuing to unfold the consequences of global warming daily, we are finally starting to see this issue take a front seat, where it belongs. Local governments, corporations, schools and individuals are stepping up to the plate to meet this challenge.

As a group of engineering undergrads from MIT who helped launch the Vehicle Design Summit say, "We are the people we have been waiting for."

We commend some great action in 2007 and hope that 2008 will be the year that the magnitude of the political and personal response matches the magnitude of this urgent problem. And now for StopGlobalWarming.org's 200 .............. ( 全文 )

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