A new report says climate change will lead to mass migration in the coming decades as tens of millions of people flee their homes due to drought, floods, storms and rising sea levels. Authored by the United Nations University, the non-governmental organization CARE International and Columbia University in New York, the report paints a bleak picture. It cites estimates by the International Organization for Migration that climate change might force some 200 million people from their homes by 2050. While concerns about climate change induced migration are not new, one of the study’s authors, Charles Ehrhart, says this already seems to be happening. ‘What is quite new about this report is it helps people understand much more about what we’re going to see and also the fact that we already may be seeing the beginnings of this pattern,’ said Charles Ehrhart. The study examines the situation of some 2,000 households on five continents. Ehrhart, who is CARE International’s climate change coordinator, says there are two broad types of migration due to climate change. Floods and other disasters generally spark short-term migration, while long-term weather patterns like sparser rainfall and more frequent droughts generally lead to long-term […]
Here we go again. The radical agenda of single cause voting is rearing its ugly head again, just as we thought we had gotten beyond it. Flying under the radar of mainline news broadcasts radical Republicans are trying to pass legislation which will declare all fertilized embryos within the wombs of American Women, or in the Petri Dishes of Fertility Clinics citizens of the United States fully protected by all the laws that currently protect those of us on this side of the birth canal. That is to say if they have their way Fertilized Eggs will be People. Five States so far have introduced legislation to this effect: Maryland, North Dakota, Montana, South Carolina, and Alabama. In the mean time, the Republican Party across the country is attempting to breathe life back into its moribund caucus with this rabid and radical agenda. This is a breath taking assault on the reproductive rights women of America as it will effectively render them merely housing units for the unborn. Consider for a moment the radical implications of this legislation. If a conceptus is a citizen at the moment sperm unites with egg how will the constabulary know […]
WASHINGTON — Unlike the labor market collapse that killed millions of U.S. jobs in a matter of months, the nation’s return to peak employment will not be nearly as uniform nor as swift. While signs indicate that the worst of the recession may be over, only six metropolitan areas across the country are expected to regain their pre-recession employment levels by the end of 2009, according to projections from IHS Global Insight, a leading economic forecaster. The areas poised for a jobs rebound later this year are: Anchorage, Alaska; Champaign-Urbana, Ill.; Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; Columbia, Mo.; Laredo, Texas; and the Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux areas of Louisiana. Only five areas are expected to see a similar jobs recovery in 2010: Las Cruces, N.M. and El Paso, San Antonio and the McAllen-Edinburg-Pharr and Austin-Round Rock areas of Texas. Most of the country - 286 of 325 metro areas covered in the IHS analysis_ aren’t likely to regain their pre-recession employment levels until at least 2012. Of these areas, 112 probably won’t return to their recent peaks until 2014 or later. These include Rust Belt towns such as Cleveland, Dayton and Akron, Ohio; Detroit, Warren and Flint, Mich.; the […]
A prisoner who says he was tortured while being held for nearly four years as a suspected terrorist can sue former Bush administration lawyer John Yoo for coming up with the legal theories that justified his alleged treatment, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled Friday. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White’s decision marks the first time a government lawyer has been held potentially responsible for the abuse of detainees. ‘Like any other government official, government lawyers are responsible for the foreseeable consequences of their conduct,’ White said in refusing to dismiss Jose Padilla’s lawsuit against Yoo. If Padilla, now serving a 17-year prison sentence on terrorism charges, can prove his allegations, he can show that Yoo ‘set in motion a series of events that resulted in the deprivation of Padilla’s constitutional rights,’ White said. White, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, noted that Padilla’s lawsuit accuses Yoo of helping to design administration policy on detention and torture, and then crafting legal opinions to justify it – stepping outside the usual role of a lawyer. Yoo, a UC Berkeley law professor, was an attorney in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel from 2001 […]
It is every dieter’s nightmare: hopping on to the scales after weeks of forgoing steak for salad, only to find they haven’t lost an ounce. Now researchers at the University of Bristol claim to have found a simple explanation for this phenomenon: when people choose lower-calorie dishes, they just compensate by eating bigger portions. These findings are sure to come as a blow to the diet industry, which makes millions selling low-calorie foods, but should make cheering reading for any dieters sworn off their favourite fatty foods. The study also showed that when faced with foods they liked, participants did not pick bigger portions of them than of any other food. ‘A person’s perception of how full a meal will make them feel will no doubt affect portion size,’ said Lisa Miles, a nutritionist at the British Nutrition Foundation. ‘It’s so important to be aware of behavioural triggers for over-eating.’ The researchers, who studied the responses of 76 people to 18 different foods, found that people quickly learnt if food offered fewer calories per serving and upped their portion size to compensate. ‘We know from experimental studies that eating large portions does not necessarily mean that you […]
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