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Standing on the seemingly endless ice cap, where blinding white stretches in all directions, I find it hard to imagine ever losing Greenland. But the island has surrendered an average of 150 billion tons of ice over the past four summers, melting away like the cubes of glacier--dating back to 1816--that the scientists drink in glasses of whiskey at a farewell party. As it warms, we'll probably lose more, but the hope is that through projects like NEEM, we will finally understand our climatic past before meeting our uncertain future. The scientists here think we're running...
...Hawaii? First and foremost, some time at Hawaii's justifiably famous beaches. Obama, who spent much of his childhood near Hawaii's best-known beach, Waikiki, is a big fan of bodysurfing. His favorite spot is a place called Sandy's Beach on the windward side of the island. Much of Oahu outside of Waikiki is for locals - in fact, the island has permitted the construction of only four hotels outside of Waikiki - and the eastern coast, where Sandy's is found, is no exception. Known as "breakneck beach" for its 5- to 10-ft. waves that crash into...
...Illinois Senator is likely to make one public appearance during his time in Hawaii: at a rally on Magic Island, a park peninsula between Honolulu and Waikiki, according to the Honolulu Advertiser. He has previously said he'd like to give a speech at Punchbowl National Cemetery, where his grandfather, Stanley Dunham, a World War II veteran, is interred, though the campaign hasn't disclosed yet if he will do so on this trip...
...island has felt the changes of his rising celebrity, and if Obama decides to do some reminiscing, he may find some surprising new faces at his old haunts. Teachers, students and parents at Punahou, the ?lite school that Obama attended for eight years on scholarship, don't quite know what to make of the Japanese tour buses that have begun to stop at their 76-acre campus; Obama's East Asian fans routinely photograph the banyan tree he likely climbed during fifth-grade recesses and surely speculate on which apartment he lived in with his grandparents on Wilder Street across...
...climate change world. In December 2009, the capital of Denmark will host the 15th meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, better known as the UN climate change summit. It happens every year - the most recent one was held last December on the Indonesian island of Bali - but Copenhagen will be special. The Kyoto Protocol, which now commits nearly every developed nation except the U.S. to specific cutbacks in greenhouse gas emissions, expires in 2012. Given the lag time in such mind-bendingly complex international negotiations, we need to have a plan in place by the start...