Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became clear that what at first appeared to be solely a security incident--albeit a significant one--was something quite different.
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Everyone knows Tibet is high, and glacially cold, which is why many scientists call it the Third Pole. But, unlike the other Poles, Tibet is intensely sunny, and Lhasa, the capital, is actually closer to the equator than Miami, Cairo, Baghdad, New Orleans, Delhi or Shanghai ... The heating of the Tibetan Plateau is so strong that scientists have recently discovered how much Tibet drives the monsoon rains that all of Asia’s farmers, and cultures, depend on. The heating of the Plateau generates such an intense low pressure, over a land as big as western Europe, that heavy rain clouds building up over distant tropical oceans are drawn deep inland ...
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