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Empieza la promoción de la última parte de Harry Potter (y las reliquias de la muerte)

Harry Potter y las reliquias de la Muerte empieza su carrera de promoción. Sí, estamos a un año vista, pero la última parte de la saga del mago de Howarts lo merece. A la primera imagen oficial que que la que salen los tres amigos caminando, hoy se suma esta otra con harry en posiciòn defensiva, en la que el protagonismo recae en él, en Daniel Radcliffe, en Harry Potter.
La versión en la gran pantalla del libro se estrenará en dos mitades, el 19 de noviembre de 2010 y el 15 de julio de 2011. Pero hoy, a casi un año vista, ya tenemos la primera imagen oficial de la última parte de las aventuras de Hogwarts.

La películas películas serán dirigidas por David Yates, encargado de las dos últimas entregas, y escritas por Steve Kloves. John Williams, que compuso la música para las primeras tres películas, ha expresado su interés en volver para cerrar la saga.
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint y Emma Watson repetirán sus papeles como Harry Potter, Ron Weasley y Hermione Granger,mientras que Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, Timothy Spall, David Thewlis, Helen McCrory, Robbie Coltrane, Jason Isaacs, Julie Walters y David Heyman confirmaron que volverán a encarnar los personajes Bellatrix Lestrange, Ojoloco Moody, Peter Pettigrew, Remus Lupin, Narcissa Malfoy, Rubeus Hagrid, Lucius Malfoy , Molly Weasley y Dobby respectivamente
La séptima y última novela, Harry Potter y las reliquias de la Muerte (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows), fue publicada en inglés el 21 de julio de 2007, cerrando la serie que duró una década. En español fue publicado el 21 de febrero de 2008.

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Declaración de la XIX Cumbre Iberoamericana

Los jefes de Estado y de Gobierno que asistieron a la XIX Cumbre Iberoamericana firmaron este martes la Declaración de Lisboa, que recoge iniciativas para impulsar la innovación y el conocimiento.

Estos son los acuerdos más importantes:

1. Diseñar e implementar políticas públicas de mediano y largo plazo, fiscales, financieras o de crédito, para empresas, especialmente pequeñas y medianas, y universidades, para promover la innovación y el conocimiento. (si claro, mientras las empresas sean de ellos)

2. Fortalecer las instituciones de innovación y promover la cooperación. (cooperación para seguir gobernando ellos mismos)

3. Promover la creación de un programa para la investigación aplicada e innovación tecnológica, cuya definición estará a cargo de responsables de los países y de la secretaría iberoamericana (SEGIB). (si claro innovar en como robar sin que los pillen)

4. Promover e incentivar la inversión en infraestructura de comunicación, apoyando el acceso generalizado a la Banda Ancha, en particular en sectores de menores posibilidades y en áreas rurales. (cotratos de construcción a sus empresas constructoras)

5. Ejecutar programas de alfabetización digital y tecnológica para garantizar la apropiación social del conocimiento. (si claro, controlando internet y así malinformar a la población)

6. Incentivar una mayor cooperación entre el sector académico en sus distintos niveles, centros de investigación y empresas públicas y privadas, (si claro)

7. Desarrollar o promover programas que garanticen la transferencia de tecnologías a los países en desarrollo, a fin de encontrar soluciones a problemas económicos, ambientales y sociales de la región. (es si po, que los países ricos les entreguen desarrollo tecnológico para sus empresas a bajo costo)

8. Promover la colaboración internacional en ciencia y tecnología teniendo como objetivo la solución de los problemas económicos, ambientales y sociales de la región. (yaaaa!!!)

Además, la Cumbre emitió comunicados contra el embargo de Estados Unidos contra Cuba y de apoyo a la iniciativa Yasuní ITT de Ecuador para dejar de extraer 846 millones de barriles de petróleo de este Parque Nacional amazónico a cambio de financiación internacional. (era que no)

Ante la falta de consenso sobre las elecciones del domingo en Honduras, Portugal, como anfitrión de la Cumbre, emitió una declaración que recoge la postura común de condena al golpe de Estado ocurrido en Honduras el 28 de junio y exige la restitución del presidente depuesto, Manuel Zelaya. (obvio, no les dije, cooperación internacional para mantenerse en el poder)

Ocho de los 22 mandatarios iberoamericanos no asistieron a la cumbre. (los ocho que no forman parte de esa "cooperación internacional")

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Major sea level rise likely as Antarctic ice melts

The Southern Ocean is the world's most important feeding ground for whales

Sea levels are likely to rise by about 1.4m (4ft 6in) globally by 2100 as polar ice melts, according to a major review of climate change in Antarctica.

Conducted by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), it says that warming seas are accelerating melting in the west of the continent.

Ozone loss has cooled the region, it says, shielding it from global warming.

Rising temperatures in the Antarctic Peninsula are making life suitable for invasive species on land and sea.

The report - Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment - was written using contributions from 100 leading scientists in various disciplines, and reviewed by a further 200.

Rising seas: A tale of two cities

SCAR's executive director Dr Colin Summerhayes said it painted a picture of "the creeping global catastrophe that we face".

"The temperature of the air is increasing, the temperature of the ocean is increasing, sea levels are rising - and the Sun appears to have very little influence on what we see," he said.

SCAR's report comes 50 years to the day after the Antarctic Treaty, the international agreement regulating use of the territory, was opened for signing, and a week before the opening of the potentially seminal UN climate summit in Copenhagen.

High rise

Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projected that the global average sea level would probably rise by 28-43 cm (11-16in) by the end of the century.

But it acknowledged this figure was almost certainly too low, because it was impossible to model "ice dynamics" - the acceleration in ice melting projected to occur as air and water temperatures rise.

Launching the SCAR report in London, lead editor John Turner from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) suggested that observations on the ground had changed that picture, especially in parts of the West Antarctic ice sheet.

"Warmer water is getting under the edges of the West Antarctic ice sheet and accelerating the flow of ice into the ocean," he said.

Glaciers: If the world's mountain glaciers and icecaps melt, sea levels will rise by an estimated 0.5m Thermal expansion: The expansion of warming oceans was the main factor contributing to sea level rise, in the 20th Century, and currently accounts for more than half of the observed rise in sea levels Ice sheets: These vast reserves contain billions of tonnes of frozen water - if the largest of them (the East Antarctic ice sheet) melts, the global sea level will rise by an estimated 64m

By the end of the century, he said, the sheet will probably have lost enough ice alone to raise sea levels globally by "tens of centimetres".

The remainder of the projected rise would come from melting of the Greenland cap, melting of mountain glaciers in the Himalayas and Andes, and the expansion of seawater as it warms.

A number of research teams have come up with similar projections.

But this is the first time that an international body such as SCAR has endorsed the likelihood that sea levels will rise enough to threaten some of the world's biggest cities by the end of the century.

Cold store

The Antarctic Peninsula - the strip of land that points towards the southern tip of South America - has warmed by about 3C over the last 50 years, the fastest rise seen anywhere in the southern hemisphere, according to the report.

But the rest of the continent has remained largely immune from the global trend of rising temperatures.

More and more tourists are visiting the exotic Antarctica shores each year

Indeed, the continent's largest portion, East Antarctica, appears to have cooled, bringing a 10% increase in the sea ice extent since 1980.

This report backs the theory that it has bucked the global trend largely because of ozone depletion - the chemical havoc wrought over 30 years by chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other agents in the stratosphere above the polar region.

"We used to have a big blanket of ozone, and when we took it away we saw a cooling," said Professor Turner.

"The Antarctic has been shielded from the impacts of global warming."

But, the report concludes, that will not last forever.

The ozone hole is expected to repair itself in about 50 years, now that the Montreal Protocol has curbed the use of ozone-destroying substances.

As it does so, the SCAR team predicts that greenhouse warming will come to dominate the temperature change across Antarctica, as in other parts of the planet.

Doubling of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere would warm the continent by 3-4C, it says.

The majority of Antarctica is so cold that a rise of this magnitude in air temperature would have little impact.

But more warming of the oceans would speed ice loss still further, the report concludes.

On the basis of declines seen around the Antarctic Peninsula, it would also be expected to bring significant reductions in the abundance of krill, a key foodstuff for baleen whales and other animals.

Among humankind, the frozen continent was once a preserve of explorers and scientists.

But now, about 30,000 tourists a year visit, some setting foot on outlying parts of the peninsula.

This increased human traffic, plus the warming on land and sea, are going to change the region's ecology, according to Julian Gutt, allowing organisms to enter and survive that were previously excluded through climate or simple geography.

"A good candidate is the stone crab (aka king crab) such as those found throughout Norwegian waters - they're more than a metre across from toe to toe.

"There are hints of it hopping across from South America - and that could completely change the ecosystem on the sea floor," said the Alfred Wegener Institute researcher.

About one third of one percent of Antarctica's land surface is ice-free; but already, non-native species are competing with native mosses for this meagre resource, Dr Gutt noted.

By Richard Black 
Environment correspondent, BBC News website

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