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Red Rackham's treasure
Perfect for collectors--this large format facsimile edition shows off Hergé's artwork as it was meant to be seen. Join Tintin and Snowy--the world's greatest adventurers--as they solve thrilling mysteries around the world! Tintin and Captain Haddock set sail aboard the Sirius to find the sunken remains of the Unicorn ship and notorious pirate Red Rackham's treasure. With old documents leading the way, fancy diving equipment and a shark shaped sub, they're ready for their ocean adventure-but are they ready for the twists and turns their journey takes?
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Fossil fuels in a trillion tonne world
This Perspective assesses the global balance between fossil-fuel carbon supply and the sufficiency of carbon stores for climate-change mitigation.
The useful energy services and energy density value of fossil carbon fuels could be retained for longer timescales into the future if their combustion is balanced by CO
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recapture and storage. We assess the global balance between fossil carbon supply and the sufficiency (size) and capability (technology, security) of candidate carbon stores. A hierarchy of value for extraction-to-storage pairings is proposed, which is augmented by classification of CO
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containment as temporary (<1,000 yr) or permanent (>100,000 yr). Using temporary stores is inefficient and defers an intergenerational problem. Permanent storage capacity is adequate to technically match current fossil fuel reserves. However, rates of storage creation cannot balance current and expected rates of fossil fuel extraction and CO
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consequences. Extraction of conventional natural gas is uniquely holistic because it creates the capacity to re-inject an equivalent tonnage of carbon for storage into the same reservoir and can re-use gas-extraction infrastructure for storage. By contrast, balancing the extraction of coal, oil, biomass and unconventional fossil fuels requires the engineering and validation of additional carbon storage. Such storage is, so far, unproven in sufficiency.
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Cigars of the Pharaoh
Tintin accompanies an eccentric Egyptologist, Dr. Sarcophagus, as he searches for the lost tomb of the Pharaoh Kih-Oskh. When Dr. Sarcophagus disappears, Tintin finds a clue that leads him to India in an attempt to help his new friend before it is too late.
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Understanding Interdependent Climate Change Risks Using a Serious Game
Anthropogenic climate change calls for rapid and enormous cuts in emissions of CO₂ and other greenhouse gases to mitigate future impacts. Even with these, however, many changes will continue to occur over the next 20–30 years adding to those already observed. Adaptation is crucial and urgent, but identifying strategies is complex and requires dialogue and cooperation among stakeholders, especially for infrastructure that exhibits interdependent risks in that failure in one type may impact others. A serious game was codeveloped with infrastructure operators to communicate climate projections and climate hazards to them; identify potential interdependencies, cascading impacts, cumulative effects, and vulnerability hot spots; and engage them to improve cooperation and enable a shared understanding of cross-cutting climate risks and interdependencies. In the game, players provide present-day infrastructure services in the Inverclyde district, Scotland, as they experience a plausible decade of 2050s weather characterized by a sequence of hazard events. This sequence was extracted from climate model projections to ensure scientific plausibility. The infrastructure operators were responsible for drinking water and gas supplies, road and rail transport, wastewater treatment, and civil infrastructure. When playing the game the participating U.K. infrastructure providers felt that although there were challenges, they could cope with 2050s climate change. None of the projected hazard events were anticipated to cause catastrophic impact cascades on infrastructure. The game was positively received, and the study suggests it is a useful tool to both communicate climate hazards and explore potential interdependent risks by bringing together stakeholders’ individual expertise in an engaging way.
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The blue lotus
A sequel to the Cigars of the Pharoah. Tintin, a master of disguise, has a close shave with a mad master swordsman, has to avoid trouble with the military, and has to find the real mastermind behind the opium shipments.
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The broken ear
In this adventure Tintin hears of a robbery at the Museum of Ethnography. A sacred tribal object from the Arumbaya tribe has been stolen. Tintin embarks upon a journey to find out the truth behind the object's disappearance.
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