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...said his ideal political platform would include: a 17% flat tax; private social security; arctic drilling; revoking Jimmy Carter's passport...
...Svalbard is the ultimate backup - or as Fowler calls it, the "Noah's ark of seeds." The vault was built on the far northern Norwegian island of Longyearbyen, where the Arctic cold helps keeps the seeds viable, in case the electricity that powers the vault's cold storage should ever go. (Seeds can remain dormant but alive for centuries if they're kept cool and dry.) The location isn't an accident - should something truly horrific happen, from extreme climate change to nuclear war, remote Svalbard should remain protected, capable of rebooting global agriculture. "This is an insurance policy...
...consensus in the 1970s; there was not. Will asserts that there has been no global warming in the past 10 years, citing the World Meteorological Organization; the WMO actually says that the world has been warming since 1998. Will claims that the University of Illinois’s Arctic Climate Research Center has said that global sea levels are at the same level as in 1979; the center quickly responded, clarifying that they had claimed no such thing. These are only three examples; the full list of the piece’s distortions is much longer...
...priority than in 2006. Such general apathy frustrates and puzzles adherents of the green movement—all indicators, after all, point to nothing less than impending doom. They thrust forth pamphlets full of statistics (bright red), CO2 graphs (alarmingly inclined), and before-and-after images of Arctic ice caps (now you see ’em, now you don?...
...cratering American economy? Actually, the President used a version of the line multiple times during his first week in office - a week that, rather than offering the catharsis of a bright new American morning, summoned the groaning image of a supertanker attempting a U-turn in a tiny Arctic bay. The weather in Washington was cold and cloudy. The President seemed overcast as well, stowing his megawatt smile as he acknowledged one of the more depressing days in U.S. economic history - the day that major companies laid off more than 75,000 employees. I barely saw him smile all week...