Seven current healthcare trends include doctors leaving the public system, a shortfall in primary care, underutilization of medical treatment, "superbugs," virtual health care, climate change, and radical self-redesign and enhancement.
Karl Rove flees the country, Schwarzenegger calls Bush administration approach to global warming "bogus," Antarctic ice shelf on verge of collapse, U.S. terrorist watch list tops one million.
For someone who has experienced "freaky weather" in the Antarctic up close and personal, reports this week that baby Antarctic penguins are freezing to death due to "freak rain storms," came as no surprise.
Pelosi's decision to share the stage with Gore is an interesting one. She clearly knew he was coming. But can Gore manage to stay out of the political arena as he skirts so close to it?
People give you this whole rap about how easy saving the planet is. Change a light bulb and save the world. Yes and no. How about we consider it a start rather than an end destination?
Many people know that cutting down on driving and making changes around the house can save money and reduce global warming. But did you know that tinkering with your diet can help too?
The real challenge isn't that we can't afford a carbon-free economy -- because it's not that big a bill. The awesomely difficult -- perhaps impossible -- challenge will be getting it done in a decade.
I am told that Gore opposes atomic energy. But if so, his public silence -- and lack of action -- is deafening. If he really wants to have a lasting impact, he must join us in publicly opposing nuclear power.
"Proposing to drill for small amounts of oil that will be sold to China as a solution to our rising gas prices makes about as much sense as responding to an attack from Afghanistan by invading some other country."
You do have some control over your carbon footprint -- maybe more than you think. Let's look at how choices at home, on the road, and at the store can fight global warming.
We must stop putting carbon into the air in the first place -- not take it out afterwards -- and we must start moving towards a carbon-free chemical fuel -- hydrogen -- now to begin veering away from catastrophe.
Turning your engine off while sitting in your car is not only a no brainer, but it can also lead to peace on earth...in my neighborhood, anyway.
It is impressive that, after all these years of idiocy and bad policy making, that George W. Bush is able to shock me as well. And, it wasn't only national leaders who were in shock.
At a time when we need to cut our emissions by at least 80 percent to curtail destructive climate change, the idea of nearly doubling global warming pollution from liquid coal ought to be tossed aside.
McCain and Obama recognize how linked our country's fortunes are to the rest of the world -- the United States must again become the world's great persuader, not only its enforcer.
Corn may be environmentally detrimental, but it is difficult to pin the systemic problems in our international markets solely on biofuels.
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This is what happens when you let Republicans run the government. What did you expect?
My father helped found the EPA in the early '70s. Were he alive today, he'd be ashamed and disgusted to see what W has done to it - not that it got through the years of Reagan and both Bushes unscathed, and even the Clinton era wasn't terribly friendly to the EPA...
We must find ways to protect the EPA from political mischief.
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"refused to appear before Congress, [...snip...] he was busy."
Sounds like contempt to me.
Yeah, in a certain sense the politicization of this vital science IS treason - to life, to the people, to the values ascribed in the constitution. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite meet the definition described in the Constitution. Darn.
We need new laws that prohibit the politicization of the administration of our government. That is, making agencies lie, such as the EPA, must be against the law.
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I think that contempt requires a subpoena rather than an invitation. Maybe they can do that. Maybe monkey's will fly out of my ...
As for a Constitutional Convention,,, it's due. I think we should start with a parlimentary format, wherein the leaders of the party are selected by the representatives that are elected and if they don't perform, they don't get to last out their term. Plus VOTERS should be able to self initiate a recall election for every elected office.
Perhaps he won't explain his conclusion because he can't. When it comes to understanding science, the law and the many complex issues of facing our government, most of the Bushies are dumb as a stump, loyal as a dog, but dumb.
If "climate change" is a crisis... how do we accomplish a "static climate" - more to the point, when has the climate ever NOT been changing?
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