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Cold wave conditions intensify in Kashmir Cold wave conditions intensify in Kashmir SRINAGAR: Cold wave conditions intensified in Kashmir on Friday as mercury plunged by two degrees in Srinagar, while the minimum temperature elsewhere in the valley stayed mostly 10 degrees below freezing point, officials said. Srinagar city recorded a low of minus 7.7 degrees Celsius – plunging more than two degrees from minus 5.6 degrees Celsius the previous night, the officials said. Qazigund – the gateway town to the valley – recorded a minimum of 10.8 degrees Celsius – down from minus 10.5 degree...

Opinion: The shallowness of the opposition to Keystone XL Benjamin Zycher Everything old is new again: The Biden administration is revoking the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, opposed during the Obama years, favored during the Trump term, and now disfavored yet again. But one reality is eternal: The arguments against Keystone XL are as weak today as ever.   The all-purpose climate argument is the central focus: Keystone XL supposedly would worsen anthropogenic (manmade) climate change.  The pipeline would transport 830,000 barrels per day of Canadian crude oil, the total greenhouse ...

Commentary: Benjamin Zycher - Shallowness behind pipeline opposition Benjamin Zycher FacebookTwitterEmail But one reality is eternal: The arguments against Keystone XL are as weak today as ever. The all-purpose climate argument is the central focus: Keystone XL supposedly would worsen anthropogenic (manmade) climate change. The pipeline would transport 830,000 barrels per day of Canadian crude oil, the total greenhouse gas emissions from which would be about 150 million metric tons per year, or about 0.3 percent of the world total. If we apply the EPA climate model using the least favorable s...