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The 2008 State of the Future report looks at trends in world affairs ten years down the road, based on data from the past 20 years. The idea of the State of the Future, said Jerome Glenn, Director of the Millennium Project and co-author of the report, is not just to improve education or business, but to improve the whole society. Hear more from Glenn on the State of the Future.
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In this Clear Voices for Science podcast, John Barry of Shell talks about managing CO2 emissions through a technology called carbon dioxide capture and storage, to help deal with the problem of global warming.
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We know that the C02 concentration in the atmosphere has gone up measurably in recent years. We also know that it's not what's happened so far that is the problem.- John Barry, Shell International
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