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...overwhelming consensus among scientists is that global warming is real and the long-term consequences could be disastrous even by Hollywood standards. Global temperatures are expected to rise as much as 10°F by the year 2100. Rising temperatures could melt the ice caps, which would raise the sea level globally, swamping coastal cities like New York. Droughts would follow in some places, torrential rains in others, devastating agriculture. It doesn't take Dennis Quaid to connect the dots. Climate change isn't science fiction; it's already happening. And when the oceans rise and the rain starts falling, Republicans...
...really see the deal with Vodafone being too different." Growth could still be on hold. The Ultimate To-Do List With limited funds to tackle the globe's most pressing challenges, how would you best divvy up the cash? That's the question leveled at this week's Copenhagen Consensus, a roundtable of nine leading economists who aim to draw up a global to-do list ranking, by return on investment, 36 proposed solutions to earth's 10 biggest challenges. Would reducing greenhouse gases or communicable diseases benefit us more than better education or sanitation? It would be good...
...group’s report also recommends creating extensive arts space. Thompson, who is also senior adviser to the president, said that planners reached a consensus about the need to expand arts facilities...
...There’s pretty much a consensus that we don’t want that,” she said...
...Bush's displeasure animated the Rumsfeld critics, who along with the press interpreted the move as an attempt to make him the fall guy for the growing scandal. Democrats may have, for the moment, saved the White House, which had begun to imagine the specter of a bipartisan consensus among nodding wise men that Rumsfeld, whom Bush never intended to remove, was finished. Instead, that claim was taken up vocally by partisan Democrats, including House minority leader Nancy Pelosi and presidential challenger John Kerry. At the White House, officials exhaled, happy that the situation was playing out along party lines...