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...ecologist at Stanford University who has made no secret of his research into the possible effectiveness of geoengineering schemes - even as many of his colleagues have shied away from the subject, partly out of concern that it would wrongly convince people that there is a cheaper way to counter global warming. Since SuperFreakonomics was published, however, Caldeira has claimed that Levitt and Dubner mischaracterized his views. He says he's in favor of researching geoengineering in order to gauge its effectiveness and its potential side effects, but he still believes it should only be used...
...naysayers, the folks who would pretend that this is not an issue, they are being marginalized. But I think it's important to understand that the closer we get, the harder the opposition will fight and the more we'll hear from those whose interest or ideology run counter to the much needed action that we're engaged in. There are those who will suggest that moving toward clean energy will destroy our economy -- when it's the system we currently have that endangers our prosperity and prevents us from creating millions of new jobs. There are going...
...election they held in August!), the Obama administration will have to make up its mind in the next several weeks on the recommendations of the McChrystal Report, which argues for sending in 40,000 or more additional soldiers. The choice comes down to whether America wants to focus on counter-terror operations—keeping troop levels constant and instead using target bombs and drones to prevent al-Qaeda from fully reconstituting—or counter insurgency, which is what we did in Iraq and involves a far greater investment in troops, time, and money but might one day result...
Ballooning federal debt will be a big theme, maybe the biggest, advanced by Republicans in the midterm elections. To counter the impression Republicans are trying to create that universal health care is going to grow the deficit, Obama has wisely made this claim a tough sell by insisting that health-care reform be deficit neutral. Why not take something that Republicans currently are clamoring for, in spite of the fact that it costs a staggering amount of money, and force them to prove their fiscal-conservative bona fides? Surely, the Republicans will oppose any surtax and lose...
...couple of years ago, there was some hope that the scourge of meth addiction, which was especially bad in rural America, might dissipate. In 2005, Congress had curbed over-the-counter sales of pseudoephedrine, the main ingredient of the psychostimulant drug methamphetamine, also known as crystal meth or ice. After that, the number of clandestine meth labs in the U.S. plummeted...