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...said the NYPD seeks to “gather intelligence and deploy resources” to combat terrorism, while also making an effort to “protect the civil liberties of our citizens.” Kelly joined Nick Hardwick, the chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), which handles complaints against police in England and Wales, and Kathleen M. O’Toole, the commissioner of the Boston Police Department and a member of the Patten Commission. During the Northern Ireland peace process, the Patten Commission was responsible for recommending a set of policing reforms that were...
Five years of research by several hundred scientists on the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) tell a different story. Global temperatures have increased by approximately 0.5 degrees Celsius in the last half-century. And according to the IPCC’s 2001 report, “most of the warming observed over the past 50 years is attributable to human activities...
...writing science fiction, imagines that he has been able to develop in his spare time an understanding of climate science that is superior to that of the hundreds of full-time scientists working in the field,” McCarthy says. He notes that reports from the highly-regarded IPCC and the National Academy of Sciences “contradict Crichton's assertions on practically every point...
...other area of science, the case for human-induced global warming has some uncertainties - and like many pro-business lobbyists, President Bush has proclaimed those uncertainties a reason to study the problem further rather than act. But while the evidence is circumstantial, it is powerful, thanks to the IPCC's painstaking research. The U.N.-sponsored group was organized in the late 1980s. Its mission: to sift through climate-related studies from a dozen different fields and integrate them into a coherent picture. "It isn't just the work of a few green people," says John Houghton, one of the early...
...report, the IPCC was particularly keen on wind power. The E.U. produces 70% of the world's wind-generated energy, with Germany, Spain and Denmark leading. The Netherlands will soon be getting into the game in a big way, building one of the world's largest wind farms some 8 km offshore, a remote location that can take advantage of brisk sea breezes while keeping the noisy mills out of human earshot...