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...biggest gaps in climate science is our understanding of how the major ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica will respond to warming temperatures. The science is so foggy that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - which recently came under attack for hyping the impacts of global warming - has refrained from estimating how fast those ice sheets could melt and contribute to sea level rise. Dorale's paper suggests the possibility that ice sheets may respond much more dynamically to changes in temperature, forming and melting at rates that are quicker than previously thought. "There might be a feedback with regards...
...first two periods, Bellamy was mostly able to sit back and watch her teammates dominate the play on the other end of the ice. The Crimson was relentless on the attack, outshooting the Huskies, 12-5, in the first frame before exploding for 26 shots in the second...
John Brennan, Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, is now President Barack Obama's official attack dog in an escalating war of words with Republicans. He has taken on the task of appearing in the media to systematically rebut what he says are politically motivated criticisms of the Administration's counterterrorism tactics. Brennan is a good pick for the job. A longtime CIA official who was blocked by the Democratic left from becoming the head of the CIA because of his service under former President George W. Bush, Brennan has the look of a prizefighter and presents...
...published Tuesday in USA Today, John Brennan, the top White House counterterrorism aide, chastised members of Congress for "misrepresenting the facts to score political points" in their criticism of the handling of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Christmas Day bomber. Then he added what looked like a political attack of his own. "Politically motivated criticism and unfounded fear-mongering only serve the goals of al-Qaeda," Brennan wrote. Predictably, this caused another round of criticism, with Missouri Senator Kit Bond, the ranking Republican on the Intelligence Committee, responding by announcing that Brennan is part of a "political mess at the White...
...Alireza Beheshti, a close aide of Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the presidential candidate who was declared the loser in June to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Beheshti has the status of a living martyr for the opposition and is enduring his second period of detention since the election (he has survived a heart attack in prison). He is also the son of one of the primary architects of the Islamic revolution. According to the website, Beheshti's wife informed Rafsanjani from a safe hiding place that security forces had attempted to arrest her too. The story then has an enraged Rafsanjani confronting the Supreme...