So the real controversy is what minimum level of solar energy at 65N is the threshold for the descent into an ice age and how unstable the weather becomes near that threshold.

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Exacting a threshold by which utility companies must supply green energy is not just arbitrary but also expensive, forcing consumers to buy products that they may not typically select, the groups say.

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But Harvard orthopedic surgeon George Theodore, who helped conduct the Dornier study, claims that the failed studies are flawed because they used low-energy shock-wave pulses that were below the threshold needed to have a heel-healing effect, unlike the successful FDA studies that used higher energies.

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Meanwhile, participants for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change prepared for meetings in Bonn, grappling with a convergence of new data from the International Energy Agency suggesting that humanity will be unable to prevent temperatures from exceeding the catastrophic threshold of a 2 degree Centigrade increase across the planet.

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When I point to recent reports from the World Bank and International Energy agency calculating that on current trends we have no chance of keeping within the 2C temperature threshold set by political leaders, she agrees.

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