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...elected. Bush has criticized Clinton's decision, calling it a threat to national security, as well as an inadequate long-term solution. However, Bush's plan to decrease oil prices is simply for the United States to produce more oil, in part by opening up the currently protected Arctic Wildlife Refuge to drilling. Not only is Bush wrong on national security--the Pentagon told the administration that the release wouldn't jeopardize military effectiveness and the oil companies will replenish the reserves in the next two months--but he would also trade environmental protection for lower oil prices...
...George W. Bush is fond of saying the Clinton administration doesn't have an energy policy. He may have just been proven wrong. But this one makes drilling the Arctic Wildlife Refuge look positively Solomonic...
...DEGREES NORTH (Norway) Contestants race from Norway to the Arctic Circle. In extreme conditions. On foot. One trekker is voted off the glacier every two days...
...fact," says Claire Parkinson of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, whose satellites have long kept an eye on the polar ice cap, "it happens many, many times every year." Sometimes the openings can be hundreds of miles long, explains the Jet Propulsion Lab's Ronald Kwok, another Arctic observer...
Even so, the scientists did not dispute the many other signs of warming in the Arctic. It's just that one opening in the ice, even at the pole itself, doesn't mean a polar meltdown. But what about those ivory gulls? Aren't they pretty rare birds in a locale known more for fauna like polar bears? Not really, explains the Audubon Society's John Bianchi, who points out that the tough gulls are regular inhabitants of the Arctic Ocean. "If you've got open water at the pole or anywhere else up there," he says, "you're going...