to walk into the neighborhood and get to inertia, that is community policing. community policing is a much broader concept. to put this, this is absolutely so. we have more police and then what we have had in many years. this is a tool to slug it is talking to the neighbors and trying to anticipate what might happen in the neighborhood is like having the patrol in some areas, just like it is improving our technologies that we can get better. this is simply a tool. peres and approximately 1600 robberies in the city in the first six months. that's still represents a 4% reduction. we have a city where on any given day, there is 1.3 million people interacting in a 49 square mile area. nexpublic safety is a journey, t a destination. we have to get better. this is an area where we are working on the two friends but the cold is committee members will be a bird to seek help. we are looking to have a very diverse group of experts that will be providing the services to people. these are people who will train on crime prevention strategies, how to avoid becoming a victim.

there's a lot of inertia in the system. we all have cars and you can't change power plants overnight and et cetera, et cetera. but in fact the earth response to climate is not going to make too much difference until about the middle part of the century between all those scenarios. through 2050 a climate model is sort of a climate model no whatter what you do with it. in fact if you stop all , co2 emissions today. fossil fuel is the reason it's increasing because fossil means it's stored in the ground and now we're putting it in the air and burning it. it's recycled by the ecosystem and so forth. if we stopped everything today, it's estimated there's another half degree and full degree of warming in the system because the earth is not in a balance. that's why we're warming up. we are gaining more heat from solar radiation than infrared, the reason is it's being intercepted by the ozone and others and it's a little more than a watt per square meter right now. but in the sort of mid range scenario we are out of balance by abou

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