As George Monbiot indicates (Comment, 25 June), the failure of the Rio+20 sustainable development conference to offer any real solutions is a disaster.
Dots indicate comments, with size corresponding to comment length.
The following graph summarizes the week's conversation: the x axis indicates time (Monday through Friday) and dots indicate comments (a bigger dot means a longer comment).
Caveats indicates comments that include the word "but".
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The teen said the teacher indicated the comment was a joke that went too far because of "the things happening in the world right now".
The sarcastic crowd now has a variety of winky faces to indicate a comment's smartass quotient and tone -- a critical innovation, if you ask me.
For example, using the Python language the hash or number sign indicates a comment.
A "C" in the first line on the punch card indicated a comment line.
There were substantially more comments indicating high concern than low concern (106 vs.39 comments).
