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Climate change and public policy
This is what happens when policy makers want simple answers and when policy advisors are not as careful about uncertainty and complexity as the scientists are.
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Charles and Camilla at Hay festival
The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall are to attend the opening day of the Hay Literary Festival in Powys.
Tracking my progress towards a slimmer, fitter me
This humor blog is about my personal search for signs of intelligent life in the universe and in my neighborhood.
How that jives with U.S. policy towards Cuba as expressed in the agency's decades-long attempts to poison Castro's cigars or otherwise vaporize him, is not explained in the CIA's dryly accurate The World Factbook 1999 , although the frequently invoked specter of national security comes to mind.
City Councilor Rob Consalvo names advisers to mayoral campaign
City Councilor Rob Consalvo announced Wednesday that several political advisers had joined his campaign for mayor, including Democratic strategist Tad Devine, who worked on presidential campaigns of Al Gore and John F. Kerry.
MEDIAAl Jazeera Is the Best Thing to Happen to Journalism - Unless It Isn't
It always seemed a little improbable that Arab sheiks could save American journalism.
Global warming debunked: NASA report verifies carbon dioxide actually cools atmosphere
Practically everything you have been told by the mainstream scientific community and the media about the alleged detriments of greenhouse gases, and particularly carbon dioxide, appears to be false, according to new data compiled by NASA's Langley Research Center.
EDITORIAL: A climate milestone
For Al Gore , it's "a sad milestone." Scientists have announced that the level of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere has reached a "record" level of 400 parts per million.
Newsweek in 1975: Tornado outbreak blamed on global cooling
Over the past several years, one of the knee-jerk reactions from political and media personalities following natural disasters has been to blame man-made global warming.
Lyndhurst law firm hires Washington insider
The Lyndhurst -based law firm Scarinci Hollenbeck has recently opened a Washington office, headed by Moises "Moe" Vela, a former senior White House adviser.
President Obama almost personally pulled the trigger on Osama bin Laden. But with these scandals – sorry, but he was playing golf and doesn't know a thing.
Bacon lovers begone as Vancouverites urged to go vegetarian on 'Meatless Monday'
Vegetables will be the name of the game on 'Meatless Monday" as Vancouverites are urged to go vegetarian on June 10 to educate people about how going meat-free can reduce their carbon footprint, minimize water usage, cut down on fossil fuel dependence as well as improve their health.
Previous dishonorees include GHW Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Gates, Henry Kissinger, Tony Blair, Shimon Peres, Margaret Thatcher, Alvaro Uribe, Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, and Alan Greenspan among others.
As part of his reinventing government initiative of 1993, Vice President Al Gore proposed removal of the Federal Aviation Administration air-traffic control system from the federal budget - the same FAA recently at the center of our sequestration follies.
Re: Climate Reality talk comes to Camden
Environmental lawyer Sharon Tisher will present a slide talk on Climate Reality: Connecting the dots between extreme weather and global warming at Camden Public Library Tuesday, June 4, at 7 p.m. Tisher teaches environmental law and energy policy courses in the School of Economics and Ecology and Environmental Sciences Program at the University of ... (more)
Andy McSmith's Diary: Is Ian Katz right for Newsnight?
Andy McSmith is a senior reporter at The Independent. He has vast experience in political journalism and has also appeared on documentaries for BBC Radio 4. BBC's Newsnight has been through seven turbulent months, taking in the Jimmy Savile and Lord McAlpine fiascos, and last night's apology for a "misleading and unfair" item about the Help for ... (more)
Al Gore and Bono invest in Biz Stone's mystery startup
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has picked up some interesting celebrity investors for his mysterious mobile startup Jelly.
From 1981 to 2013 NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies has been headed by Dr.
Former Democratic colleague hits back at Markey over Confederate flag flap
Jones, whose band was disinvited from performing at a Tuesday fundraiser over Jones' support for the Confederate flag , took to the Boston Globe op-ed page to strike back at his former colleague.
Expo 2015's priority status shown in cuts exemption
Rome, May 15 - In its efforts to pull the country out of recession, the government has made no secret that Expo Milan 2015 is "the heart of Italy's recovery," as Premier Enrico Letta recently put it.