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...Earth is rising is abundant and convincing, but I suspect I would be preaching to the converted if I were to summarize it here. The bottom line is that the scientific community has come to a clear consensus that the evidence of a warming trend is “unequivocal?? and that human activity has “very likely” been the main cause for that change over the last 50 years. It is thus troubling that one in five Americans remain unconvinced by the vast majority of the scientific community that we have an immediate...
...must be made. However, his willingness to compromise on issues he has been so principled on in the past is jarring. On Jan. 17, this paper’s staff published an editorial endorsing Senator John McCain for the Republican nomination, praising among other things his “unequivocal?? stance on torture. The Harvard Crimson wasn’t alone in admiring McCain’s staunch opposition to torture. Democrats, Republicans, and Independents alike commended McCain for standing up against the current administration to ban the use of torture in the War on Terror. His courage...
...local weatherman cannot say that any given storm or heat wave is caused by climate change. Rather, climate change affects the average. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, “Warming of the climate system is now unequivocal??The global average net affect of human activities…has been one of warming.” As a result of this warming, “widespread changes in precipitation amounts, ocean salinity, wind patterns and aspects of extreme weather including droughts, heavy precipitation, heat waves and the intensity of tropical cyclones...
...evidence about what counts for good teaching,” Skocpol said. The report calls the student CUE evaluation an “incomplete and imperfect” means of assessment and recommends that the faculty explore additional forms of evaluation. Still, the task force was “unequivocal?? in recommending that all professors who teach classes over a certain size be required to submit themselves for CUE evaluation, Skocpol said. That measure would be one of the few proposals requiring an official vote of the Faculty, according to Skocpol, although she said discussion of the report?...
...task force was “unequivocal?? in recommending that all professors who teach classes over a certain size be required to submit themselves for CUE evaluation, she said...