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A decade of climate science confirmed what we knew

Over the last decade, scientists learned a great deal about the climate, much of it concerning the connection between global warming and extreme events — heat waves, hurricanes, floods, droughts and wildfires. There has been, for many years, an understanding that a warmer world would be a more temperamental one, and measurements upon measurements show average temperature is rising in ...

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Aston needs new passengers in 2020

Aston Martin’s parent company hopes to take on some new passengers in 2020. They’ll be clambering aboard the luxury carmaker as it careens headlong towards a decisive fork in the road. The reputation of Chief Executive Officer Andy Palmer depends in large part on bringing the market value of Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings Plc back towards the 4.3 billion ...

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Carlos Ghosn’s drama is much better than Netflix

The shock arrest and defenestration in 2018 of Carlos Ghosn, a jet-setting polyglot who bestrode the car industry for decades as head of the Renault-Nissan alliance, always had a cinematic quality to it: There was his detention in Japan shortly after disembarking from a private aircraft; the allegations (strenuously denied by Ghosn) of undeclared income and misappropriated funds; the grim ...

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