President Bush’s final words as he left the recent G8 summit?:
“Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.”
The UK’s Daily Telegraph reports what happened next:
“He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.”

Yes, folks, that’s the President of the United States, […]

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Citing grave concerns over water supplies, Saudi Arabia has decided to cease growing wheat entirely by 2016.

Saudi Arabia’s population has more than tripled in the past 30 years, from seven million to over 24 million. As you might expect, that many people requires a significant amount of additional water.
But I wonder: what else might be […]

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