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By Annie Snider - Politics DailyWhile Congress struggles to take up climate legislation, the Navy is full steam ahead on the issue. This week, the Navy released the most detailed military document to date outlining a strategy for meeting the security challenges posed to its operations by melting ice, rising seas, and shifting patterns of precipitation and drought. "We must ensure our Navy is fully mission-capable and ready to meet national requirements in the future," said Rear Adm. David Titley, who leads the Navy's Task Force Climate Change, which authored the document. "That responsibility includes anticipating the ...
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By Zubin Jelveh - AOL News(Dec. 31) – If you've sipped at all from the certifiable torrent of retrospectives that have appeared in the past few weeks, you've been reminded why the 2000s were a period we'd all surely like to forget. This was a decade the started with a recession, terrorist attacks and two wars, then ended with a more severe recession, a thwarted terrorist attack – and the same two wars. In between, we endured disasters that killed thousands and cost billions, watched the Internet wreak its transformative havoc and witnessed the coarsening of both our popular culture and our politics. ...
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