CLIMATE CHANGE
Chlorofluorocarbons
Ozone Depletion, History And Politics (National Academy of Sciences)
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/Ozone/history.html
Banning Chlorofluorocarbons: Epistemic Community Efforts to Protect Stratospheric Ozone
http://ideas.repec.org/a/tpr/intorg/v46y1992i1p187-224.html
Geoengineering
20 Reasons Why Geoengineering May Be A Bad Idea
http://www.thebulletin.org/files/064002006_0.pdf
Has the Time Come For Geoengineering?
http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/roundtables/has-the-time-come-geoengineering
Dan Whaley, CEO of Climos and co-author in this series, is a customer of mine.
Global Warming
Frequently Asked Questions — From the report accepted by Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(I hand this out to people in the cab when the discussion, especially, but not limited, to global warming deniers)
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-faqs.pdf
James Hansen — Hansen is the premier climatologist in the United States and the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The following set of articles are by or about him:
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/
*The Threat To The Planet
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19131
*Climate target is not radical enough – study
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/07/climatechange.carbonemissions
*The Shadow on American Democracy
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/20080125_AmericanShadow.pdf
*Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/3/21/censoring_science_inside_the_political_attack
Right Wing Response/Denial/Role
Rush Limbaugh on Michael Crichton, Charles Heston: You Can't Destroy Earth
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/estack/you_cannot_destroy_the_earth.guest.html
Free Republic blog entries about global warming
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?s=LIMBAUGH%3A+The+Crichton%2FHeston+Takes+on+GLOBAL+WARMING&ok=Search&q=quick&m=any&o=score&SX=483a8d77d7a1fdf76fb3b36205fa3199f4ecd1a4
More Free Republic comments on global warming
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/globalwarming/index?tab=comments
Warming Draws Evangelicals Into Environmentalist Fold
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/07/AR2007080701910_pf.html
ENERGY
Oil
US House Takes On Big Oil
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0118/p01s01-usec.html
Pollution
China overtakes US as world's biggest CO2 emitter
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/jun/19/china.usnews
World's biggest polluters won't cut back on fossil fuel
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/World's_biggest_polluters_won't_cut_back_on_fossil_fuel
EVOLUTION
Early animals
Platypus Genome Explains Animal's Peculiar Features; Holds Clues To Evolution Of Mammals
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080507131453.htm
Human Evolution
Anthropologists Find 4.5 Million-year-old Hominid Fossils In Ethiopia
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/01/050121091108.htm
FOOD
Food Shortages (cf. Ethanol)
World Food Supply Is Shrinking, U.N. Agency Warns
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/18/business/worldbusiness/18supply.html?pagewanted=print
Soaring Food Prices Putting U.S. Emergency Aid in Peril
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/29/AR2008022904029.html
HEALTH
Abortion
The Abortion Doctor
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/01/22/abortion_doctor/
The Revolution Interview: Dr. Susan Wicklund
http://revcom.us/a/116/wicklund-interview-en.html
MIDDLE EAST
Iraq
Iraq Does Not Exist Anymore
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/8/21/iraq_does_not_exist_anymore_journalist
Warnings Unheeded on Guards in Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/23/AR2007122302442_pf.html
Seven Questions: Is the Surge Working In Iraq?
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3982
Meet the Press transcript for Dec. 2, 2007 Interview with Sen Jim Webb
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22065949/print/1/displaymode/1098
NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION
The Seventh Decade – Jonathan Schell on “The New Shape of Nuclear Danger.”
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/12/7/the_seventh_decade_jonathan_schell_on
POLITICS
Bush Administration
Corruption
Scientific Integrity in Policymaking, Executive Summary, Union of Concerned Scientists, 2004
http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/scientific_integrity/RSI_final_exsum_1.pdf
Resistance
Why We Resist
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Why+We+Resist,+Chris+Hedges&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
SOCIETY
Gay Marriage
New York to Back Same-Sex Unions From Elsewhere
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/nyregion/29marriage.html?ei=5087&em=&en=13254a7b3eb36d85&ex=1212292800&pagewanted=all