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Climate Change
Is the Drought in the US Southwest becoming Permanent?

Is the Drought in the US Southwest becoming Permanent?

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(By Bobby Magill) Is the West’s Dry Spell Really a Megadrought? (via Climate Central) By Bobby Magill Follow @bobbymagill SAN FRANCISCO — The drought that has been afflicting most of the Western states for the past 13 years may be a “megadrought,” and the likelihood is high that this century could see a multi-decade dry spell…

Energy
Avoiding the Nightmarish “Four Degree World” of 2060:  We must Act Now (Giesen)

Avoiding the Nightmarish “Four Degree World” of 2060: We must Act Now (Giesen)

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Tom Giesen writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: Global warming’s disasters once seemed far off and science-fictional. It is now becoming clear to the scientific community that, to the contrary, very bad things could happen beginning relatively soon. For Baby Boomers, from the the Cuban Missile Crisis or the assassination of John F. […]

Iraq
U.S. Releases First Of Seized Iraqi Papers

U.S. Releases First Of Seized Iraqi Papers

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Reprinted for research purposes. washingtonpost.com > World > Middle East U.S. Releases First Of Seized Iraqi Papers By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, March 17, 2006 Responding to pressure from Congress, Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte yesterday released the first handful of Iraqi documents out of more than 2 million captured […]

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