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  • America Today: Crisis? What Crisis?
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bill Frist, the Senate majority leader, is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
    He sold all his stock in HCA, which his father helped found, just days before the stock plunged. Two years ago, Mr. Frist claimed that he did not even know if he owned HCA stock.
    According to a new U.S. government index, the effect of greenhouse gases is up 20 percent since 1990.
    Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a 33-year-old Wall Street insider with little experience in regulation but close (…)

  • Blair falls into line with Bush view on global warming
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Geoffrey Lean and Christopher Silvester
    Tony Blair has admitted that he is changing his views on combating global warming to mirror those of President Bush - and oppose negotiating international treaties such as the Kyoto Protocol.
    His admission, which has outraged environmentalists on both sides of the Atlantic, flies in the face of his promises made in the past two years and undermines the agreement he masterminded at this summer’s Gleneagles Summit. And it endangers talks that (…)

  • Global warming? You better believe it
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Derrick Z. Jackson
    AS THE MEDIA screams about the one-two punch of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the question becomes how many more times does America need to be knocked to the canvas before we answer the bell on global warming.
    The only talk from our leaders is about rebuilding. In his address to the nation from a ghostly New Orleans, President Bush said, ’’When one resident of this city who lost his home was asked by a reporter if he would relocate, he said, ’Naw, I will rebuild but (…)

  • This is global warming, says environmental chief
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As Hurricane Rita threatens devastation, scientist blames climate change
    By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor
    Super-powerful hurricanes now hitting the United States are the "smoking gun" of global warming, one of Britain’s leading scientists believes.
    The growing violence of storms such as Katrina, which wrecked New Orleans, and Rita, now threatening Texas, is very probably caused by climate change, said Sir John Lawton, chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. (…)

  • Rita and Katrina have ideologues spinning
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Don Williams
    This is what we’re up against.
    If an unpleasant possibility rears its head in the real world-one that runs counter to pet policies of ideologues—they simply decree it isn’t so and move on. That’s how ideologues so often operate. Take these lines from a column that ran in newspapers, including this one Sept. 9. Charles Krauthammer wrote: “This kind of stupidity merits no attention whatsoever, but I’ll give it a paragraph. There is no relationship between global warming and (…)

  • Last Gas...
    22 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "And they said her name was Rita..."
    She came ripping up the gulf like a bad Godzilla swarm, Mother Nature’s take on B-flick horror, Headed straight for the refineries like a tight-wound white steamroller, Storm surges higher than twenty feet.
    Those silvery Moonlight beaches of Galveston I remember will never be the same.
    The pundits were screaming five bucks plus and lines at the pumps, The stocks were at the bottom and digging for China, Guess they had a bamboo handle on the shovel, (…)

  • Stop Selling Our Heritage for Crooked Oil: Save Arctic Wildlife Refuge!
    22 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Arctic Folly By Jimmy Carter www.washingtonpost.com
    Congress is about to make one of those big decisions that marks an era. Unless wiser heads prevail, it may do it badly — making the wrong decision in the wrong way and about the wrong place. At stake is America’s greatest wildlife sanctuary, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. To dissuade Congress from this environmental tragedy, Americans must rally, and quickly.
    Congress had its Pyrrhic energy victory this summer, with a new energy (…)

  • Global warming ’past the point of no return’
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Steve Connor, Science Editor
    A record loss of sea ice in the Arctic this summer has convinced scientists that the northern hemisphere may have crossed a critical threshold beyond which the climate may never recover. Scientists fear that the Arctic has now entered an irreversible phase of warming which will accelerate the loss of the polar sea ice that has helped to keep the climate stable for thousands of years.
    They believe global warming is melting Arctic ice so rapidly that the (…)

  • Great Apes Doomed to Extinction for Want of Budgetary Scraps from West
    15 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Treaty offers world’s last chance to save great apes Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor UK Independent
    The agreement sets targets for slowing the loss of great apes and their forest habitats by 2010, and for securing their future in the wild by 2015
    They are man’s closest cousins and they are staring into the abyss. But in one of the most important environmental treaties, hope has been offered to stop the headlong slide towards extinction of humankind’s nearest relatives, the great (…)

  • KATRINA’S TRANS-ATLANTIC WAVES : German Minister Stands Behind Criticism of Bush
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    German Environmental Minister Jürgen Trittin remains stolid in his assertion that Hurricane Katrina is linked to global warming and America’s refusal to reduce emissions. He may be right, but the timing of his tirade is way off.
    Germany’s Minister of the Environment, Jürgen Trittin of the Green Party, on Tuesday unleashed a firestorm of criticism in the United States over comments he made in a newspaper column directly linking the natural catastrophe in the American South to global (…)