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While the effect Twitter had on the scale of the protests following the disputed Iranian election remains uncertain (there are only 19,000 registered Twitter users in Iran, while estimates for the number of protestors range from a few hundred thousand to three million), there is no doubt that Twitter played an essential role in broadcasting the events on Tehran’s streets to the world.Jour

In addition to initiating an extensive cap-and-trade regime to curb domestic greenhouse gas production, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 will also create a new National Climate Service to advance understanding of climate variability and change, and provide timely and authoritative information to the government, public-, and private-sectors on climate variations and trends, as