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...criticisms most frequently lobbed at Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth is that he has his facts wrong about the snows of Kilimanjaro. Yes, those immortal snows are vanishing (actually, they're glaciers, but we can blame Ernest Hemingway for that bit of poetic license), as Gore's global-warming documentary contends, but they've been receding since the early 1900s at least - long before the planet began to warm...
...this back-and-forth might suggest on first blush that the scientists are arguing over whether global warming is even happening. That would be a mistake. While he doesn't think Thompson's case is proven, Mote has no doubt that the climate is changing and that humans are largely responsible; he just doesn't think Kilimanjaro's glaciers are being melted out of existence...
MOHAMED NASHEED, President of the Maldives, after his Cabinet held an underwater meeting to urge U.N. leaders to pass climate-change legislation at a December summit in Copenhagen. The archipelago has warned that rising sea levels triggered by global warming put it at risk of being submerged...
Tough economic times have hurt Harvard's typically favorable public image, leading to a 20 percent decline in media representations of Harvard over the past nine months, according to The Global Language Monitor, a site that recently brought you the "Top Politically (in)Correct Words and Phrases of the Past Year" (number 1 was Swine Flu, FYI). We get that cutbacks don't exactly make Harvard look good, but how did they translate that into a number like 20 percent? Regardless, the site ranked Harvard as the university with the third best media image this...
...place of Harvard, Global Language Monitor said that this year our Cambridge neighbor MIT had the best image in the media. Number two? University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. That one we really don't understand. (Maybe no press is good press...