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...they're wrong the consequences could be extremely dire. "It takes a lot of land to make a small amount of energy," Searchinger says. "Academic studies have concluded that if the world gets even 10% of its energy from these new kinds of crops, most tropical forests will probably disappear." (Read "The Clean Energy Scam...
...study by the U.S. Geological Survey found that two-thirds of the polar bears on the planet could disappear by mid-century if Arctic ice keeps melting. So when the Bush Administration bowed to pressure from environmental groups last year and finally listed the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) - admitting that melting sea ice was the reason - it was considered a rare green coup. Since the ESA mandates the government protect endangered species from hazards, listing the polar bear as threatened by global warming would appear to require Washington to control carbon emissions. Some green...
...programs currently being created by the national government will be failures if Phelps and his colleagues are right. Or, better said, the programs will only build jobs for a short period. The rise in employment because of federal intervention will disappear when the government can no longer afford to pay for the buttressing or the electorate turns against the deficit that the spending programs build. The Administration's plan, which has been so heatedly debated, to save 3 million to 3.5 million jobs, will only be an elaborate trestle with its base set on limestone...
TIME: The H1N1 flu virus could disappear now but return in a more dangerous form in the fall at the start of the next flu season. What should we do to prepare between now and then...
...Star Trek, J.J. Abrams' re-spiffing of the 1960s TV series. Jackman-Wolverine may be able to defeat evil geniuses, lab-made supervillains and his nasty half-brother, but he's unlikely to withstand the challenge of a teenage James Kirk. As for Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, it will disappear into the ether, and McConaughey can go back to being tickled...