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CRIME NOTES CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Stop calling Off course on Dance: Brazil Music: The
Dad, really! the golf course hip hop debut Steel Wheels
WHERE: Ruthven Museum
WHEN: Wednesday at
about 11:20 a.m.
WHAT: A subject was
reportedly fed up with
unwanted calls from a fam-
ily member. The family
member was asked to stop
calling, University Police
reported.
WHERE: University Golf
Course
WHEN: Wednesday at
about 8 a.m.
WHAT: Two vehicles col-
lided, resulting in signifi-
cant damage and possible
injury, University Police
reported.
WHAT: 11 youngdancers
from Rio de Janeiro dance
under the direction of inter-
nationally renowned Mou-
rad Merzouki
WHO: University Musical
Society
WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m.
WHERE: Power Center for
the PerformingArts
Racquetball I fell! No, I
remorse don't need help. Sex and Media
WHAT: A fiddle, upright
bass, mandolin and four-
part harmony create a soul-
ful mountain sound that has
warmed people across the
country. Tickets are $20.
WHO: Michigan Union
Ticket Office
WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m.
WHERE: The Ark
Double bass
WHAT: Justyna Grudzins-
ka plays Bach, Henze, Fryba
and Bartok.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Today at 8 p.m.
WHERE: Moore Building
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A month ago, man-with-
out-fear Alex Honnold
climbed the vertical face
of a 2,500 foot mountain
in Mexico...without a rope,
Gawker reported. Fellow
free-solo maniacs say the
climb may be the hardest in
the history of the sport.
The Michigan hockey
team travels to Min-
neapolis for a season-
defining series against
No. 2 Minnesota in a match-
up of college hockey's win-
ningest teams.
>> FOR MORE, SEE SPORTS, PAGE 7
Facebook has finally
recognized that the
world has more than
men and women. Users
can now choose between 50
terms to identify themselves,
like androgynous, intersex
and bi-gender, the Associated
Press reported.
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WHERE: Intramural
Sports Building
WHEN: Wednesday at
about 7:10 p.m.
WHAT: An unattended
wallet, earbuds and jacket
were taken from outside a
racquetball court, Univer-
sity Police reported.
WHERE: Don Canham
Natatorium
WHEN: Wednesday at
about 10:40 p.m.
WHAT: Someone fell but
declined medical assistance
when it was offered, Uni-
versity Police reported.
Conference
WHAT: 30 leading schol-
ars in the area will come
together to talk about trends
in how sexual content has
been distributed.
WHO: Screen Arts and
Culture Graduate Student
Association
WHEN: Today from 1:30
p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
WHERE: North Quad,
Room 2435
New study reveals methane
output higher than expected
Kerry meets with Chinese
officials on North Korea
'U' researchers and space sciences, collaborated
with co-authors from Stanford
say leaky tanks are University, the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Harvard
a leading cause of University and 11 other institu-
tions across the country.
uinexpected emissions Kort said the team assessed the
last 20 years of methane research
By AMABEL KAROUB to identify how much methane
Daily StaffReporter is really being released and how
much of this methane comes from
A recent University study the natural gas industry. Meth-
revealed the amount of methane ane is the primary component of
emissions in the United States is natural gas, which meets roughly
higher than previously believed - a quarter of the energy demand in
a lot higher. the United States.
The study, which was pub- "Our, team reviewed about
lisbed Thursday in Science 200 different papers," Kort said.
Magazine, reported the actual "We tried to assess, 'What do all
percentage of methane in the these studies say, is there a consis-
atmosphere is 50 percent greater tent story here?' What we found
than current inventories say. In is, indeed it looked like official
2011, methane accounted for 9 inventories underestimate how
percent of all human greenhouse much methane is being emitted
emissions, according to the Envi- into the atmosphere."
ronmental Protection Agency. Kort attributed the higher
To investigate national meth- amount of released methane, in
ane levels, Eric Kort, assistant part, to a very small number of
professor of atmospheric, oceanic faulty vessels holding natural
-H-,o
gas, which can allow significant
amounts of methane to leak
out into the atmosphere. Kort
referred to these leaks as "super-
emitters."
According to one study of nat-
ural gas components, "A fraction
much smaller than 1 percent is
responsible for more than half of
the emissions," Kort said. "You
know when you look at these
individual studies that a kind of
super-emitter problem exists,
where a small fraction of sources
are responsible for a large amount
of the emissions."
In recent years, natural gas has
become a popular, more environ-
mentally friendly replacement
for coal as a fuel and heat source.
However, natural gas the ben-
efits can be offset by these meth-
ane leaks, Kort said. Even so, the
study found burning natural gas
is still better for the climate than
burning coal.
In addition to releases from
natural gas, Kort said other
sources, such as petroleum sys-
tems, livestock and wetlands are
also responsible for methane in
the atmosphere. As a next step,
researchers will attempt to pin-
point the locations of high meth-
ane release.
"We're trying to improve our
ability now to use different space
and airborne observations to
identify regions where emissions
are larger than accounted for to
identify what source is the cause
for that - if it's coming from cows
or oils or gas."
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After leadership
purge in isolated
country, China's
influence unclear
BEIJING (AP) - U.S. Sec-
retary of State John Kerry is in
China on a difficult diplomatic
mission.
Kerry is meeting senior Chi-
nese officials on Friday in Beijing
to seek their help in bringing a
belligerent North Korea back to
nuclear disarmament talks.
Atthe same time, he's demand-
ing that China roll back a series of
increasingly aggressive steps it
has taken to assert itself in ter-
ritorial disputes with its smaller
neighbors.
Kerry faces a tough sell on both
counts.
The extent of China's influ-
ence with North Korea is unclear
following a purge in the isolated
country's leadership.
And, China has angrily dis-
missed U.S criticism over its
moves in the East and South
China seas that have alarmed U.S.
allies like Japan and the Philip-
pines.
In Seoul, South Korea, on
Thursday, Kerry made clear the
Obama administration is putting
new emphasis on getting North
Korea back to stalled six-nation
talks aimed atcgetting it to give up
nuclear weapons.
"Let me be clear," Kerry said.
"The United Stateswill not accept
North Korea as a nuclear-armed
state. We will not accept talks for
the sake of talks. And the DPRK
must show that it will negotiate
and live up to its commitments
regarding denuclearization."
Efforts toward that end, he
said, would rely heavily on China,
North Korea's only friend, put-
ting pressure on Pyongyang.
"China has a unique and criti-
cal role that it can play," he said.
"No country has a greater poten-
tial to influence North Korea's
behavior than China, given their
extensive trading relationship
with the North."
But China's leverage with the
North is being tested.
Diplomats say Beijing received
no prior warning ahead of the
December arrest and execution
of North Korean leader Kim Jong
Un's uncle, Jang Song Thaek, who
had been considered Pyongyang's
point man on China affairs and
was a strong promoter of free
trade zones being set up along
their mutual border.
That came on the heels of
Pyongyang's snubbing of Beijing's
wishes when it conducted a mis-
sile test in late 2012, followed by
the underground detonation of a
nuclear device last spring.
Jang's removal was seen as
depriving Beijing of its chief
conduit into the North Korean
regime and in the weeks that fol-
lowed the leadership found itself
at a loss as to how to proceed. A
delegation of Chinese diplomats
led by the Foreign Ministry's
deputy head of Asian affairs vis-
ited Pyongyang last week in a
sign that Beijing was attempting
to renew dialogue with Kim's
government, although it remains
to be seen whether the North was
any more receptive to China's
pleas to return to the nuclear
talks.
Those discussions involving
the twoKoreasthe United States,
China, Russia and Japan, broke
down at the end of 2008 and U.S.
officials say they see no point of
restarting talks until Pyongyang
shows an authentic desire to
make good on its prior commit-
ments to dismantle its nuclear
programs.
Meanwhile, making the U.S.
case for restraint and clarifica-
tion on the competing territorial
claims and China's bitter dispute
with Japan may be even tougher
for Kerry.
Since sometimes violent anti-
Japanese protests rocked major
cities in late 2012, Beijing has
continually stepped up its rheto-
ric against Tokyo, dispatching its
diplomats to make China's case
in the global media and at inter-
national forums, even dogging
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe's recent trip to Africa.
Recent weeks have seen
China's ambassador to London
compare Japan to the evil Lord
Voldemort of the Harry Potter
books in the pages of Britain's
Daily Telegraph newspaper. On
Thursday,theofficialChinaDaily
newspaper devoted a half page to
grievances against Japan, while
the Foreign Ministry revived
the case of a 2010 confrontation
between a Chinese fishing boat
and Japanese coast guard ships
to demand an apology and com-
pensation from Tokyo.
More worrisome, Chinese
patrol vessels have maintained a
more-or-less constant presence
in waters surrounding the dis-
puted Diaoyu islands in the East
China Sea, forcing the Japanese
coast guard to go onthe defensive
to avoid a clash.
Chinese ships have also
stepped up their presence in the
South China Sea, particularly in
regards to the Philippines, which
is seen by Beijing as weak and
overly dependent on the U.S. for
protection. Diplomats are con-
cerned that Beijing may be plan-
ning to declare an air defense
zone above those heavily tra-
versed waters, further raising the
chances of confrontation with
American surveillance planes
and other military flights.
U.S. officials traveling with
Kerry said he would urge the
Chinese to show restraint, cool
down its rhetoric and actions,
and clarify its claims consistent
with international law.
"The perception in the region
and in the United States that is
generated by the incremental
actions that China has been tak-
ing ... is one of a country that is
asserting its position through
extra-legal and non-diplomatic
means," one official said. "That's
not a good image of China, and
it is not a pattern of behavior by
China that the U.S. or others
want to see."
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