Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
These, naturally, are by no means the only issues upon which the President should focus. Other policy issues such as salmon restoration, charter forests, wetlands restoration, biotechnology, and clean air also come to mind as important environmental topics. Of course, the likelihood that all these matters will be settled over the tenure of his next four years is far-fetched, and no one should expect miracles from any Administration, leave alone this one. But it is clear that this President has a unique opportunity to make an imprint on weighty subjects with the clout and support few of his predecessors ever enjoyed. Only time will tell if he can do so effectively.
Yale holding conference on conferring personhood on animals
Consider Immelt's non-sequitur: "I'm a businessman. That's all I care about, is jobs." Since when is creating jobs all that businessmen care about? Don't get me wrong, I know a lot of businessmen. Most love giving people productive jobs to do. But if all businessmen cared about was creating jobs, most of them would go out of business. Good businessmen care about creating and satisfying customers, and in the case of publicly held corporations like GE they care about increasing shareholder value. Or, at least, that is what they are supposed to care about.
On June 13, 2002, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its Report to the President on New Source Review (NSR), a program created by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 to regulate emissions from new or substantially modified factories and power plants. We have been asked whether the recommendations for NSR reform contained in EPA's 2002 Report to the President are justified by the record and consistent with the need for continued protection and improvement of air quality, Congressional intent, and benefit-cost analysis.
The FOE claim that any President can possibly "protect communities" is absurd. That is a lie.
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In view of the damage done by this ethical approach this report calls for a public debate on alternative approaches to intergenerational equity and for an end to the measures that are currently being used to address it.
The GOPthe entity that prides itself as "the party of ideas"began losing its identity a few years ago from an ideological standpoint.
2015 US Budget Plan includes permanent PTC
Mark Feldhausen, associate superintendent for educational services, this week sent a letter to parents who complained, including the wife of U.S. Rep. Lee Terry of Nebraska, outlining the committee's findings.
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Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for CFACT and the Congress of Racial Equality. He is the author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power Black Death available in German and English from CFACT Europe.
Amazon deforestation in 2009 declines to lowest on record Annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell below 10,000 square kilometers for the first time since record-keeping began, reported Brazil's Environment Minister Carlos Minc on Sunday. No more committee action on climate - Patrick O'Connor and Lisa Lerer - POLITICO.com The bills path through Congress is reminiscent of The Little Engine That Could, with a determined core of Democrats pushing the legislation forward despite significant opposition from many of their own colleagues. ... But Peterson, a blunt, independent-minded chairman, has become something of a stalking horse for other Democrats who would rather not vote on the bill but wont speak out for fear of angering Waxman and the speaker. Some dislike the legislation itself, while others are quietly prodding their leaders to take up health care reform before addressing climate change.
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Bwin To Maintain Majority Ownership in PartyGaming Merger:
Meanwhile, protesters think all we have to do is spread the wealth around. Sounds enticing, doesn't it? Kind of like your parents raising your allowance only now you and your friends are old enough to vote on getting your allowance raised. Cool!
A slew of new and highly regarded environmental books in 2004 is testimony to the persistence of environmental apocalyticism, despite growing signs of environmental progress in the United States and the developing world. The persistence of doomsaying is an indicator of the staleness of popular environmental thought, which is increasing removed from political reality and closed-minded toward innovative thinking about real environmental problems and their solutions.
KY hospital sues SEIU for harassing phone calls:
Hur hgt pris mste vrlden betala fr den grna galenskapen? frgar tnkaren Walter Russell Mead. Hur mnga r kommer att frloras, hur mycket trovrdighet, hur mycket frslsade pengar innan vi har en miljrrelse som har den intellektuella stringens, politiska visdom och mognad, nykter bedmningsfrmga som krvs fr att ta fatt i de stora frgor som vi str infr?
The super PAC Restore our Future, which supports Romney, attacked Gingrich in the days before the election for having so much in common with President Obama, such as supporting cap and trade and expressing belief in climate change.
My guess is that 2012 will hold more good news for lukewarmers, both in terms of supportive scientific findings, and also in a migration of folks towards the middle of this issue. As being lukewarm becomes a bit more comfortable, I imagine that more folks will join the happy middle?and maybe my lunch calendar will start to fill up!
These changes give poorer countries a demographic dividend. For several decades the bulk of their population will be of working age, with relatively few dependents, old or young. This should lead to higher per capita incomes and production levels. Nations with low fertility rates, meanwhile, will face major fiscal and political problems. In a pay-as-you-go pension system, for example, there will be fewer workers to finance the pensions of retirees; people will either have to pay more in taxes or work longer.
The original design by Simpson is often designated as an IGY neutron monitor . From that link:
Barack Obama delivers a speech on the opening day of the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) in Le Bourget, near Paris, France, November 30, 2015. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe.
Qui tam is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur , meaning Who sues on behalf of the King as well as for himself. Such actions are brought by an informer or relator. Usually, these cases are filed under some statute which establishes a penalty for particular violations, and monetary damages are split between the relator and the state or other institution. In popular parlance, these relators are known as whistle-blowers.
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At a press briefing this morning, representatives of the G8 leaders insisted that much had been achieved on climate change. And the announcement, for its certain there will be one at about 10.15am EST, is expected to be a compromise that would allow both Europe and America to claim victory. Leaked documents from last night, show no agreement, only an impasse.
Health Care, Climate Change and Nobel Economics
(WASHINGTON, DC, OCTOBER 27,1998) --General Motors, Monsanto, British Petroleum, and the World Resources Institute (WRI), today called for actions to reduce the risk of climate change. The group announced that for proactive leaders there are major business opportunities in meeting the climate challenge, if the policy environment is right. The comments were made at a Washington, DC, press briefing introducing the collaboration entitled "Safe Climat~e, Sound Business."
These debates also replayed old progressive debates on how to engage in American politics. Moderate progressives, who believed that liberal progressivism was to blame for prior defeats, emphasized the role independents would play in the election and counseled ameliorative incremental measures. Liberal progressives, who believed that lack of boldness and improper campaign tactics were responsible for prior defeats, focused on policies that would energize liberal progressiveswho supposedly normally do not voteto show up at the polls.
How can the politicians make sure America never experiences another Rita? They need to go straight to the top. Disasters are exacerbated by moving the responsibility for things up, up and awayas far from the things themselves as possible.
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Agreement signed at Gaborone October 5, 2006; entered into force November 19, 2006. With annex.
"The purpose of the whole exercise" was to "force the nation's major metropolitan areas to reduce levels of ozone and particulates and greenhouse gases all within the same regulatory framework," says Cohen. "Had the court not faulted the way EPA arrived at its new standards the country could well be on the way to implementing a treaty the Senate will probably never ratify."
If you want to read all the gory details in this sordid case, visit www.OregonStateOutrage.com. If you want to tell OSU what you think of its actions, send a message to President Ray at pres.office@oregonstate.edu and todd.simmons@oregonstate.edu in the OSU press office.
advisers to help orchestrate the drawdown of troops and prioritize achievable
Speaking afterwards to reporters, Kosciusko-Morizet said the United States "has yet to back" to the proposal, citing questions of sovereignty.
Emails acquired by CEI showed that Carlin's boss rejected the report's findings because they "do not help the legal or policy case for this decision," according to Fox News.
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American pediatricians, as might be predicted, are cautiousthey are a cautious bunch in my experience and conservative about interventions.
Just look at the actions of our governor and folks like Joe Arpaio. If it really were the case that illegal immigrants are all criminals uninterested in legal work, then why is so much recent legislation aimed at business owners that hire illegal immigrants? Or at day labor centers? Why are all of Sheriff Joe's immigration sweeps raiding lawful businesses rather than, say, crack houses? After all, if illegal immigrants are all just drug dealers not looking for real work, why spend so much time looking for them, uh, doing real work?
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Churchman, C.W. (1948): Theory of experimental inference. Macmillan, New York, 292 pp.
For President Obama, our first post-American president, surrendering sovereignty seems perfectly reasonable, consistent with his essentially European social-democratic worldview. Obama sees his foreign-policy role less as an advocate for America's "parochial" interests and more as a "citizen of the world," in his own phrase.
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From an op-ed in today's WSJ titled "In Defense of Carbon Dioxide" by Harrison Schmitt, an adjunct professor of engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an Apollo 17 astronaut, and a former U.S. senator from New Mexico; and William Happer, professor of physics at Princeton University and a former director of the office of energy research at the U.S. Department of Energy:
CEI: With the late Julian Simon you wrote It's Getting Better All the Time. Is it really? Why? And what do you mean by that?
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Two Fed officials favor aggressive easing options:
For four years, Obama's actions have undermined his rhetoric on transparency and on standing up to the special interests. So it's fitting that he'll kick off his second four years with reduced disclosure regarding large contributions from politically connected corporations.Timothy P.Carney, The Examiner's senior political columnist, can be contacted at /* */!function(t,e,r,n,c,a,p){try{t=document.currentScript||function(){for(t=document.getElementsByTagName('script'),e=t.length;e--;)if(t.getAttribute('data-cfhash'))return t}();if(t&&(c=t.previousSibling)){p=t.parentNode;if(a=c.getAttribute('data-cfemail')){for(e='',r='0x'+a.substr(0,2)|0,n=2;a.length-n;n+=2)e+='%'+('0'+('0x'+a.substr(n,2)^r).toString(16)).slice(-2);p.replaceChild(document.createTextNode(decodeURIComponent(e)),c)}p.removeChild(t)}}catch(u){}}()/* */ His column appears Monday and Thursday, and his stories and blog posts appear on washingtonexaminer.com.
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I especially like his reminding us of Charles Dickens?s Bleak House and Mrs. Jellyby, the so called ?telescopic philanthropist? who tries to help at a distance, but neglects her own children. I also like his point that by asking for a higher discount rate ?it is not that we do not care about distant generations. It is that we do care about the present generation and about our children?s generation? (p. 83).
While Sanger delves into the Obama team's exertion of American power to discern a policy style, James Mann is interested in their deliberate efforts to devise a foreign policy framework matching their
Lee Lane is resident fellow and codirector of the AEI Geoengineering Project.
8 Robert Kagan, "Power and Weakness," Policy Review (June/July 2002).
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As you read this, I'm doing two things in separate browser windows. First, I'm shopping around for that Shelby limited edition turbo pacemaker that I've always wanted. The other is shopping around for a private health insurer in Quebec that can help me get that puppy installed. Yeah, baby !
Joseph Bast is president of The Heartland Institute and coauthor of Eco-Sanity: A Common-Sense Guide to Environmentalism (Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1996). Jay Lehr, Ph.D., is science director of The Heartland Institute and editor of McGraw-Hill's Standard Handbook of Environmental Science, Health, and Technology. James Taylor is managing editor of Environment & Climate News, a national monthly publication produced by The Heartland Institute.
The homeowner would not only require the other experts to be men but also to have male, technical attitude to this technical question.
Yes, we have problems. Some people are using terror to achieve their goals, and we don't seem to be able to stop themafter all this time, Ralph Nader is still on the loose.
The White House is giving fishermen and lobster boats who rely on the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument seven years to leave the area after regional fishing groups lobbied the administration to allow for fishing to continue in the region.
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Quoted in Donald Gillies' submission to the House of Commons Science and Technology COmmittee. H/T Judith Curry.
For owners of sports utility vehicles (SUVs), that pretty much sums up the last holiday season. They went into Thanksgiving under fire from the "What Would Jesus Drive?" campaign. Then the New Year started with Arianna Huffington's charge that they were aiding Osama bin Laden. To top it off, in late January the head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) declared that SUVs were simply too deadly for his children.
The duos first book called on policymakers and businesspeople on the right to show they had better ideas for protecting the environment and creating jobs than government did. The new book is a collection of essays by various businesspeople and scientists to be edited and stitched together by Gingrich and, mostly, Maple, a former chief executive of the Palm Beach Zoo.
Health Care. As table 2 shows, about half (almost 47 percent) of the indirect energy consumed within health care involves the preparation of pharmaceuticals. Physician services come next, accounting for roughly 18.5 percent of health care's indirect energy use. Some of this energy consumption is undoubtedly well spent, but some of it may result from bad incentive structures that encourage doctors to use unnecessary and energy-intensive tests and machinery. In addition, prescription drug waste is extensive. As Representative Tim Murphy (R-Ohio) observes on his web site, unused medications may account for as much as $1 billion in wasted drug costs among elderly Americans each year, and waste at long-term care facilities is quite high. The value of unused drugs in long-term care facilities may be as high as $378 million, with more than 90 percent of the wasted medication due to change in prescription, death, or transfer of the resident.
James K. Glassman is a resident fellow at AEI.
Now that BP is "back to petroleum," perhaps now its moniker should be "Beyond Puff-power."
The Cooler Heads Digest is the weekly e-mail publication of the Cooler Heads Coalition. For the latest news and commentary check out the Coalitions website, www.globalwarming.org.
New perils, then, but also new promises. The maritime dimension is an opportunity for European allies to go beyond the "EU sandbox" and play a global role at relatively little cost, if only because public opinion will always find a maritime commitment more palatable than a continental one. For many allies like Norway and Greece, a greater maritime commitment on the part of NATO would also be a way to display niche capabilities (it's not as if the U.S. Navy had a surplus of mine-sweepers) that they don't necessarily possess in land operations. Last but not least, for a country like France, a middle-sized power as a land power but a maritime superpower of sorts (the third largest EEZ in the world thanks to its South Pacific possessions), a greater maritime commitment would be a way to maintain a leadership position. When it comes to NATO, to be sure, France, since 1958, has never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity. With Chirac and Villepin gone, however, it may well be that France will no longer confuse History with histrionics, and volonte de puissance with capacite de nuisance.
The difficulty for plaintiffs in all of these climate change lawsuits is that their legal theories have little basis in positive law or judicial precedent. The common law theories relied on by U.S. plaintiffs require courts to make vast leaps from prior judicial rulings, while the international law claims made elsewhere require courts to extract concrete legal rules from vague principles like fairness, sustainability, and the precautionary principle.
Nurse caught on CCTV turning off paralyzed patient's life support machine:
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Vclav Klaus, preface to the Czech edition of Nigel Lawson?s ?Appeal to Reason? (?Vra?me se k rozumu. O globln m oteplovn st? zliv? a bez emoc ?, Doko?n Publishers, Prague, 2009); translated from Czech by Michaela Dvo?kov.
rubber hits the road as it inevitably will, to conquer Congress.
Since NEPA was enacted, however, prodding by environmentalists and decisions by compliant judges have expanded its coverage to such an extent that courts now interpret the term "human environment" to include not just tangible ecological harms that affect people and human communities, but also impacts that are economic, social, cultural, historic, or aesthetic. One decision by a federal district court in Minnesota illustrates just how liberally the statute is interpreted:
How unfortunate that this is not required reading in the schoolroom. Meanwhile, please do have a look.
When you store it in a freezer, it tastes different, Oomittuk said.
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"While most Transportation Security Administration employees are busy groping people or taking naked pictures of them, the cops say one of those employees was putting fliers' electronics down his pants."
China's one-party autocracy can ignore such arguments. Our two-party democracy can't. Thomas Friedman may lament what Barack Obama on Wednesday night called "bickering." But in a democracy citizens don't always take the advice of their betters, even that of Friedman and the three experts he quotesa climateprogress.org blogger, a former Clinton budget official, and a "global trade consultant who teaches at Baruch College."
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we felt that we needed to voluntarily withdraw the paper in press with the journal, amend the text and add some extra supplementary material justifying our method...
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on the impact of the new rules:
The implications of such a finding are enormous; most commentators say fostering growth is a critical driver of support for developing countries. As the excellent new book by AEI visiting scholar R. Glenn Hubbard and Columbia Business School lecturer William Duggan, The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty (Columbia Business School Publishing, 2009), explains, most aid, though well intentioned, actually undermines the local business sectors in the poorest nations and should be refocused to help local businesses. Prosperity Index data broadly support this conclusion.
Roger Bate is a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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12. Paul Ehrlich chimed in, predicting in his 1970 that "air pollution is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone." Ehrlich sketched a scenario in which 200,000 Americans would die in 1973 during "smog disasters" in New York and Los Angeles.
Indians applaud President Obama's open appreciation and acknowledgement not only of Indian history and culture, but of the independent path India took toward prosperity. This path, which included a socialist economy and non-alignment, was one of the key causes for estrangement between these two democracies during the Cold War era.
What I think folks are missing who make this argument about precedent is that while many examples exist of the Executive Branch excercising proprietorial discretion, the circumstances are without precedent in both scale and well as in its explicit defiance of legislative intent. One can argue that Reagan's executive actions vis a vis immigration provide a precedent, for example, but Reagan was essentially following the intent of then-recent Congressional legislation, arguably just fixing flaws with executive orders in the way that legislation was written. What he did was what Congress wanted.
A key element of AWEDs efforts ispublic education. Towards that end, every 3 weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream mediaabout energy and environmental matters. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.
Benjamin Zycher is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
Moghissi brilliantly quotes Thomas Jefferson in his presentation, who said, "I know no safe repository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it away from them but to inform their discretion by education."
UN Watch - Top Rights Prize Nominee Supports Killing Israelis
The plan drew immediate criticism from the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Americans and Europeans will ignore this Dutch court decision at their peril. The ruling will be cited widely as similar cases come before courts around the globe. It should be roundly dismissed for what it isa blatant affront to democratic government and a dangerous departure from the rule of law.