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By David Corn - Politics DailyHere's a bet that I probably won't be able to collect upon: I wager that in 50 years, historians gazing back at now will pay less attention to the Iraq war, the Afghanistan war, or even the economic downturn. They will wonder why present and past administrations did not sufficiently respond to the threat of human-induced climate change. If the scientific consensus is on the mark, the planet is likely to heat up by several degrees in the next half-century, and this will cause all sorts of severe consequences: droughts and other extreme weather, disease, species extinction, water shortages for ...
Genetically Engineered Salmon: FDA Says It's Safe, but Consumers Say 'No Way'
By Alison Fairbrother - Politics DailyBack in September, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found that a genetically engineered fish grown in a lab was "as safe as food from conventional Atlantic salmon," and will "not have a significant impact on the quality of the human environment." Conclusions were based largely on data prepared by AquaBounty Technologies, the company that manufactures the synthetic salmon. "There is a reasonable certainty of no harm from consumption of food from this animal," the FDA wrote. Since then, dozens of consumer and environmental organizations, commercial and recreational fishery associations, ...
Missile Mishap Revives Alarm Over Nuclear Arsenal
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News
(Oct. 27) -- Computer glitches, hardware failures and unexplained communication outages happen all the time. But when the affected systems control nuclear-armed missiles, it gets a little scary. That's why Saturday's brief malfunction at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming, disconnecting 50 intercontinental ballistic missiles of the 450-ICBM-strong U.S. arsenal from their human controllers, has raised concerns just two years after a Defense Department panel said there had been "an atrophy of the Air Force's nuclear mission." USAF / AFP / Getty Images An Air Force technician inspects an ...
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