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Birth Rate Drops but Population Grows: Environmentally, It's Bad News
By Bonnie Erbé - Politics DailyMy colleague Tom Diemer last week described a study that may show Americans are having fewer children due to the recession: "Taking into account the population, which grew, the birth rate in 2009 was 13.5 for every 1,000 people, the Associated Press said. That marked a second straight year of fall-off and a drop from 14.3 in 2007, before the full force of the recession hit. More babies were born in 2007 than in any year in the nation's history." Does a recession-driven drop in the fertility rate mean those of us who are worried about human overpopulation and its impact on the environment can ...
Opinion: Yes We Can -- Move Beyond Oil
By not in system - AOL News(July 12) -- The Gulf of Mexico oil catastrophe has become the first defining moment of Barack Obama's presidency -- and not just because of the disaster's enormity or his administration's response. Rather, this has been the first real test of whether Obama is simply a very accomplished politician -- or something greater. To be an effective president, you must, of course, be a very good politician. But to be a great president -- the kind they erect monuments to (or at least name an airport after) -- requires something more than counting votes and working the phones. It requires an ability to ...
Seven Things Republicans Were For, Before They Were Against Them
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyI happened to be in the room the day John Kerry said he had voted for a war-financing bill before he voted against it. Republicans appropriated the sentence (uttered at a 2004 town hall for veterans in Huntington, West Virginia) and used it to paint Kerry as a flip-flopper. Six years later, it's a better fit for the GOP than it ever was for him. So many Republicans have changed their ideas on so many major issues that it's hard to keep up. With the return of Congress this week, two of those issues – campaign finance disclosure and climate change – could play out in the Senate over ...
While We Debate Climate Change, the Rest of the Planet Prepares for Mass Migration
By Bonnie Erbé - Politics DailyWhile we here in the good old U.S. of A. are still debating climate change (whether it exists, whether it is man-made) the rest of the planet not only agrees it is real, but is planning for its impact on mankind. One such change has generated a term hardly ever heard in the United States but well known to the rest of the globe: environmental refugee. We let ourselves be held back by those who refuse to admit sea temperatures are rising due to human activity. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is busily planning how to handle the fallout when larger portions of the globe become uninhabitable. ...
Coast Guard's Icebreaker Fleet Frozen in Port
By Richard C. Paddock - AOL NewsSAN FRANCISCO (June 30) -- The U.S. Coast Guard won't have any heavy icebreakers available for polar operations for at least six months because of mechanical breakdowns in its small, aging fleet, officials say. The Polar Sea, one of the Coast Guard's two heavy icebreakers, suffered extensive engine problems, which likely will take until next year to repair. The Polar Sea's sister ship, the Polar Star, is undergoing a major refitting, which will be completed in 2013. Dana Goward, director of the Coast Guard Office of Assessment, Integration and Risk Management, said Tuesday that the lack of ...
Climate Scientists Urge Aggressive Action to Curb Global Warming
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyIn what's being called "the most comprehensive report ever on climate change," the National Academy of Sciences urged aggressive action to curb global warming, including a cap-and-trade program and taxes on carbon emissions. Three studies requested by Congress issued Wednesday provide the broad outlines for a national strategy to deal with climate change, The Los Angeles Times reported. Two more studies are still to come. Bold actions are necessary because "climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming ... concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear ...
Vets' Message: Foreign Oil Dependence Threatens U.S. Security
By Annie Snider - Politics DailyA photo of a smiling Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad peeked out from behind the clutch of Iraq war veterans that gathered on Capitol Hill recently to press Congress to pass climate change legislation. "I found myself not taking out the terrorists, not securing Iraq, but protecting oil," said retired Marine Corps sniper Matt Victoriano, who served two tours of duty in Iraq in 2003 and 2004. He came to Washington with Operation Free, a project that takes veterans around the country to talk about the connection between national security, energy and climate change. They point to the billions ...
Fox News Refuses to Air Climate Bill Ad
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyFox News is refusing to air an advertisement connecting a climate bill to U.S. national security interests. A spokesman for VoteVets, a liberal group founded by veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, said the network claimed the ad was "too confusing," Politico reported. The 30-second ad pushes the belief that climate legislation would have national security benefits by reducing the oil profits of hostile Middle Eastern countries. "Every day Congress doesn't pass a clean energy climate plan our enemies get stronger," the ad's narrator says. A VoteVets spokesman questioned the ...
Immigration Decision Endangers Climate Change Bill
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThe decision by Arizona's Gov. Jan Brewer to sign a tough immigration bill for her state has endangered unrelated, but highly anticipated, climate change legislation, which has now been put on hold by its sponsors on Capitol Hill. Sen. Lindsey Graham, the lead Republican sponsor of the climate bill, sent a letter Saturday to supporters of the measure threatening to abandon the effort without assurances from President Obama that climate change, and not immigration reform, will be his highest legislative priority. Following Graham's announcement, the bill's Democratic sponsor, Sen. John ...
Obama's Deep-Space Plan Puts NASA on a Bold Course
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyIt's been nearly 41 years since NASA, after a series of technological small steps (not to mention a few missteps) and giant leaps, was able to fulfill President John F. Kennedy's seemingly far-fetched promise: to put a man on the moon within the decade. Since then, though, NASA's directive has been less clear. Should it concentrate again on the moon to understand it better? Should its sights be trained on goals closer to home, on earth and environmental science? Or perhaps it should be looking much farther afield, toward the final frontier -- deep space? ...
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