You might say that 1712 was the beginning of the end.

In that year, Thomas Newcomen invented the first commercially successful steam engine, improving on earlier designs of other inventors to create a simple, strong engine that could power mechanical work and pump water out of coal mines.
The engine sparked the Industrial Revolution, transforming civilization in […]

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BBC News reports that:
Delegates from more than 150 countries are meeting in Vienna to discuss ways to widen and extend the United Nations Kyoto protocol on climate change.
Guess who’s not there? Why, the worst polluter in the world, of course.

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