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...environmental groups, he insisted that the plan "includes 11 of the Sierra Club's 12 solutions" to the energy crunch. But even a loose reading of the plans shows at most three similarities. The Sierra Club, for example, wants the country to use nonhydro renewables such as wind and solar power for 20% of its energy by 2020. Cheney, by contrast, aims for only 2.8%. "If Bush really believes these plans are similar," says Sierra Club president Carl Pope, "then Arthur Andersen must be checking his math." The bottom line is that Cheney's plan calls for $33 billion...
Harvard astronomers plan to take advantage of a rare opportunity this spring to see all of the planets in our solar system in a single evening...
...spokesperson Christine E. Lafon said the special alignment is a vivid demonstration that the solar system is formed like a disk...
...only other suggestion [than the greenhouse effect] that is occasionally made is solar variability, yet the amount of change in solar radiation is not sufficient for this change and would not cause the patterns that one sees today,” McCarthy said...
Cycles in solar activities, called sun spot cycles, have an 11-year duration during which the energy coming from the sun is periodically more or less intense...