NASA has produced a dramatic video that shows how carbon dioxide travels through the earth’s atmosphere over a period of one year. It is an incredible video, but note how little carbon dioxide is produced in the southern hemisphere.
Six people, including the two Palestinian perpetrators, were killed in a horrific attack inside a Jerusalem synagogue. The incident is the latest in a string of violent acts in the city over recent weeks. Israel will undoubtedly respond to the attack, so the cycle of violence will continue. The Palestinian Authority condemned the attack while Hamas praised the “high-quality revenge attack”. According to the New York Times:
“Relatives identified the attackers as two cousins, Odai Abed Abu Jamal, 22, and Ghassan Muhammad Abu Jamal, 32. They were said to be motivated by what they saw as threats to the revered plateau that contains Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock.”
The Institute for Economics and Peace has published its annual Global Terrorism Index. The index noted that “[o]f the 17,958 people who died in terrorist attacks in 2013, 82 percent were in one of five countries: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria, and Syria.” Contrariwise, the index noted that:
“Meanwhile, between 2000 and 2013, the report found, around 5 percent of terrorism-related fatalities occurred in the 34 wealthy countries of the OECD. In 2013 specifically, there were 113 terrorism-related deaths in OECD countries—0.6 percent of the worldwide total. Six of these took place in the United States.”
Terrorism is mostly the bane of poorer countries.
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