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TIME.com: The Bush administration asked the National Academy of Sciences to investigate global warming, and the Academy's panel reported that - contra President Bush's campaign claim that the science of global warming was inconclusive - the planet is indeed getting warmer as a result of human activities. The President travels to Europe next week, where he'll have to defend his administration's stance on global warming and the Kyoto treaty. Where does the Academy's study leave...
...been saying for a long time that there's a lot of uncertainty about the science of global warming. But what this report is saying is that despite uncertainties on a variety of questions, there's enough certainties to draw certain basic conclusions, one of them being that the planet's temperatures are rising as a result of human activity...
...fact, Kraft is ultimately responsible for the music in every movie and TV show released by 20th Century Fox. In his job, Kraft may spend one day convincing Sting to write a hit song and the next helping Danny Elfman write fitting music for Planet of the Apes...
...birders could be an even stronger one. "Everywhere I go," says Sibley, "I meet or hear about some eight-year-old who's obsessed with birds." And eight-year-old environmentalists, as many a parent can attest, are natural activists, ready to do whatever it takes to save the planet...
Sometimes one picks up a sign that the country must be here somewhere, like the half-buried Statue of Liberty they came upon in Planet of the Apes. Senator McCain's admirably stubborn efforts on behalf of campaign-finance reform, for example. But the general citizenry does not seem very interested in public policy, does not seem interested in anything, in fact, except the frequent sightings of Alan Greenspan mounting the steps of the Capitol. What about Cash-In America? How's this for a clever title? America: Interest Without Principle...