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Now-a-days we listen more often than before. is a global phenomenon and the term “Climate Change” is indeed a straightforward expression for such a complex subject. In fact, has more than we can comprehend from this phrase and that is why it is quite essential to go at defining in today’s scenario. In the present glossary of researchers and scientists, climate modification as a term is no longer in use and effect. The reason behind this is that we have come to realize the effect of the changes we make to our environment will eventually increase the temperature in many parts of the world, but at the same time will also be decrease in temperature for few parts of the planet. This however, creates a general imbalance in the climate of the world which in turn leads us to the phrase, “Climate Change.”

While wondering the effects of the climate change, the things you know of as climate modification is actually referred to as global a global phenomenon of climate change. However, with all the details and statistics we have in hand at present, we can definitely conclude that the world is unquestionably warming with the temperatures rising like never before. is a global problem with many natural disasters started taking shape; the general awareness of this factor is really low. For the better understanding of the issues associated with the climate change, we require a simple definition for in relation to the warming of the planet. And this definition needs to be the one that brings us the essence of this problem without compromising the simplicities. However, the easiest and most precise definition is that is the effect greenhouse gases have on the earth’s overall climate. Greenhouse gases include carbon dioxide and methane, but are not limited to these two.

While learning more about climate change, we need to understand few important facts associated with it. The first fact is that is both a natural phenomena and one catalyzed by us. For instance, greenhouse gases are a natural part of the biosphere and would exist if man did not. In fact, these gases are a vital component to the existence of life on this planet. It is due to the existence of the greenhouse gases, the temperature on planet earth does not average zero degrees! These naturally occurring gases help to keep the temperature at a desirable 59 degrees. But, the climate change, which is due to the greenhouse gases, is not indeed natural. In fact, the problem we are facing is the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. These gases act as thermal blankets for the atmosphere. The more gas in the atmosphere, the thicker the blanket and the less heat escapes from earth. In the last 80years, we have been releasing this gases into our atmosphere and thus helping them to form a blanket. On the other hand, we are reducing forests around the planet, which are the natural plant collection that absorb greenhouse gases. This double whammy is starting to show negative results, the increased heating of our world, and thus the beginning of the dreaded climate change.




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Effects of climate change on ticks and tick-borne diseases in europe
Zoonotic tick-borne diseases are an increasing health burden in Europe and there is speculation that this is partly due to climate change affecting vector biology and disease transmission. Data on the vector tick Ixodes ricinus suggest that an extension of its northern and altitude range has been accompanied by an increased prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis. Climate change may also be partly responsible for the change in distribution of Dermacentor reticulatus. Increased winter activity of  I. ricinus is probably due to warmer winters and a retrospective study suggests that hotter summers will change the dynamics and pattern of seasonal activity, resulting in the bulk of the tick population becoming active in the latter part of the year. Climate suitability models predict that e...
Climate change and malaria in canada: a systems approach
This article examines the potential for changes in imported and autochthonous malaria incidence in Canada as a consequence of climate change. Drawing on a systems framework, we qualitatively characterize and assess the potential direct and indirect impact of climate change on malaria in Canada within the context of other concurrent ecological and social trends. Competent malaria vectors currently exist in southern Canada, including within this range several major urban centres, and conditions here have historically supported endemic malaria transmission. Climate change will increase the occurrence of temperature conditions suitable for malaria transmission in Canada, which, combined with trends in international travel, immigration, drug resistance, and inexperience in both clinical and lab...
The cost of conservation: the national wildlife refuge system
More than a century ago, the federal government established the National Wildlife Refuge System (NWRS) to conserve fish, wildlife, and plants, as well as their habitats; today the NWRS manages more than 40 million hectares of federal land on 548 individual refuges. However, several reports warn that the system lacks the financial and personnel resources—including biologists—necessary for carrying out its mission effectively. A report prepared for the NWRS by Management Systems International (MSI), an international development firm, determined that three core NWRS operations have been severely affected by declining funding: (1) law enforcement, (2) the pace of realty acquisition, and (3) biological surveys and monitoring. MSI also determined that the NWRS has failed to meet so...
The sound of silence at the environmental protection agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created on 2 December 1970 to ???establish and enforce environmental protection standards, conduct environmental research, provide support to others combating environmental pollution, and assist the White House Council on Environmental Quality in developing and recommending to the President new policies for environmental protection.??? In its early years, the EPA made sweeping changes to improve the environment and health of the United States and its citizens. In the 1970s, the EPA, among numerous other accomplishments, banned the use of DDT, set the first national standards limiting industrial water pollution, and banned the use of chlorofluoro??carbons in most aerosol cans. Yet 38 years after the inception of the agency, its funding and mora...
Christine maggiore and the price of skepticism
Questioning theories is usually a healthy pursuit, but in some cases -- such as Christine Maggiore's HIV theories -- the risks outweigh criticisms. Christine Maggiore, who was diagnosed with HIV in 1992, waged a long, bitter campaign denouncing the prevailing scientific wisdom on the causes and treatment of AIDS. She fiercely contested the overwhelming consensus that the HIV virus causes AIDS, and that preventive approaches and antiretrovirals can help thwart the disease's spread and prolong the lives of those who suffer from it. Her campaign ended this week with her death at age 52. Her challenge, however, continues, as Maggiore's argument -- that scientific consensus, no matter how established, remains subject to objection -- runs through de...
Diamonds, the younger dryas & extinctions
We report abundant nanodiamonds in sediments dating to 12.9 ± 0.1 thousand calendar years before the present at multiple locations across North America. Selected area electron diffraction patterns reveal two diamond allotropes in this boundary layer but not above or below that interval. Cubic diamonds form under high temperature-pressure regimes, and n-diamonds also require extraordinary conditions, well outside the range of Earth's typical surficial processes but common to cosmic impacts. N-diamond concentrations range from 10 to 3700 parts per billion by weight, comparable to amounts found in known impact layers. These diamonds provide strong evidence for Earth's collision with a rare swarm of carbonaceous chondrites or comets at the onset of the Younger Dryas cool interval, producing m...
Study shows competition not climate change led to neanderthal extinction
In a recently conducted study, a multidisciplinary French-American research team with expertise in archaeology, past climates, and ecology reported that Neanderthal extinction was principally a result of competition with Cro-Magnon populations, rather than the consequences of climate change. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Nasa climate expert makes personal appeal to obama
One of the world's top climate scientists has written a personal new year appeal to Barack and Michelle Obama, warning of the "profound disconnect" between public policy on climate change and the magnitude of the problem.With less than three weeks to go until Obama's inauguration, Professor James Hansen, who heads Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, asked the recently appointed White House science adviser Professor John Holdren to pass the missive directly to the president-elect.In it, he praises Obama's campaign rhetoric about "a planet in peril", but says that how the new president acts in office will be crucial. Hansen lambasts the current international approach of setting targets through "cap and trade" schemes as not up to the task. "This approach is ineffectual and not commen...
Slowdown of coral growth extremely worrying, say scientists
This study has provided the first really rigorous snapshot of how calcification might be changing," marine biologist Ove Hoegh-Guldberg of the University of Queensland in Australia told Science. "The results are extremely worrying."Endangered habitatsClimate changeClimate changeguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
A letter to obama
We write to you as fellow parents concerned about the Earth that will be inherited by our children, grandchildren, and those yet to be born (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Nasa's james hansen warns barack obama on climate change
Current approaches to deal with climate change are ineffectual, one of the world's top climate scientists said today in a personal new year appeal to Barack Obama and his wife Michelle on the urgent need to tackle global warming.With less than three weeks to go until Obama's inauguration, Prof James Hansen, head of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, asked the recently appointed White House science adviser Prof John Holdren to pass the missive directly to the president-elect.Obama spoke repeatedly during his campaign about the need to tackle climate change, and environmentalists fervently hope he will live up to his promises to pursue green policies.The letter, from Hansen and his wife Anniek, is a personal plea to the first couple. It begins: "We write to you as fellow parents con...
Longannet is at the centre of scottish power's plans to prove coal can provide britain and other countries with a key component in the pursuit of energy security, affordability and sustainability
On the banks of the Firth of Forth, the Longannet power station dominates the wintry horizon, a massive box in the shadow of its skyscraper chimney stack.Conceived more than 40 years ago and completed at the beginning of the 1970s, long before climate change became a central tenet of the energy debate, Longannet was designed with stunning industrial simplicity and symmetry.Britain's second-largest coal-fired power station was a product of a time when electricity generation was based on a technology now dismissed by modern engineers, not entirely without affection, as "burn and boil". You burned the fossil fuel, and used the heat to boil water, which drove the turbines to generate electricity.Today, Longannet is at the centre of its owner ScottishPower's plans to demonstrate there is more t...
Which technologies are set to change everything?
"Through science we create technology and in using our new tools we recreate ourselves." So says the intro to edge.org's annual New Year challenge to the world's greatest thinkers. This year it is asking "What will change everything ? What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?" And as ever, the great and the good have responded to the call. Geneticist Craig Venter, psychologist Steven Pinker, novelist Ian McEwan, philosopher Dan Dennett, physicist Paul Davies and cloning pioneer Ian Wilmut are just some of the overwhelmingly male-dominated list of more than 110 respondents.For Pinker, the exercise is doomed to fail:I have little faith in anyone's ability to predict what will change everything. A look at the futurology of the past turns up many chas...
Climate change may stress the u.s. public health system.
Climate change may stress the U.S. public health system. Am J Nurs. 2009 Jan;109(1):21 Authors: PMID: 19112250 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Nursing)
The edge question: leading thinkers predict the future
Flying cars, personal jetpacks, holidays on the moon, the paperless office ? the predictions of futurologists are, it seems, doomed to fail. The only thing predictable about the future is its unpredictability.But that has not stopped edge.org ? the online intellectual salon ? asking which ideas and inventions will provide humanity's next leap forward. In its traditional New Year challenge to the planet's best thinkers it asks, "What will change everything ? What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?"World-changing technology has a habit of arriving out of the blue and turning society on its head. The printing press, electricity, antibiotics, the pill, mobile phones and the internet have all transformed human experience in ways that their inve...
Misc. link-lovin'
I've been really terrible at spreading around some link love this year, largely because my time to read other blogs has been significantly diminished due to my other responsibilities. However yesterday I was able to do a tiny bit of catching up. I've not blogged much on HIV denial recently (no time, alas, to keep the comments cleaned up). However, regular readers may recall how much the HIV folks hated to be compared to creationists. ERV points out a post by an evolution denier championing HIV denial as well. Birds of a feather... In a related vein, James muses what should be done about "pseudoskeptics", period. His focus is on climate change but the same arguments and questions can be posed about those denying HIV, germ theory, evolution, etc. To switch the focus from anti-science t...
British engineers have developed a new environmentally friendly cement that is carbon-negative
Cement, a vast source of planet-warming carbon dioxide, could be transformed into a means of stripping the greenhouse gas from the atmosphere, thanks to an innovation from British engineers.The new environmentally friendly formulation means the cement industry could change from being a "significant emitter to a significant absorber of CO2," says Nikolaos Vlasopoulos, chief scientist at London-based Novacem, whose invention has garnered support and funding from industry and environmentalists.The new cement, which uses a different raw material, certainly has a vast potential market. Making the 2bn tonnes of cement used globally every year pumps out 5% of the world's CO2 emissions - more than the entire aviation industry. And the long-term trends are upwards: a recent report by the French ban...
Neanderthals lost out from competition not climate change
The Neanderthals were out-classed by the upstarts and just couldn't compete. In a recently conducted study, a multidisciplinary French-American research team with expertise in archaeology, past climates, and ecology reported... (Source: FuturePundit)
Climate change effects on imperiled sierra frog examined
Climate change can have significant impacts on high-elevation lakes and imperiled Sierra Nevada Yellow-legged frogs that depend upon them. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Competition, not climate change, led to neanderthal extinction, study shows
Neanderthal extinction was principally a result of competition with Cro-Magnon populations, rather than the consequences of climate change, according to a new study. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Neandertals on a stick
Neanderthal Extinction by Competitive Exclusion: Despite a long history of investigation, considerable debate revolves around whether Neanderthals became extinct because of climate change or competition with anatomically modern humans (AMH). ... We apply a new methodology integrating archaeological and chronological data with high-resolution paleoclimatic simulations to define eco-cultural niches associated with Neanderthal and AMH adaptive systems during alternating cold and mild phases of Marine Isotope Stage 3. Our results indicate that Neanderthals and AMH exploited similar niches, and may have continued to do so in the absence of contact. ... The southerly contraction of Neanderthal range in southwestern Europe during Greenland Interstadial 8 was not due to climate change or a change ...
Climate change could dramatically affect water supplies
It's no simple matter to figure out how regional changes in precipitation, expected to result from global climate change, may affect water supplies. Now, a new analysis has found that the changes in groundwater may actually be much greater than the precipitation changes themselves. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
A new refrigerant with a good backstory
The fact that EPA has just approved a safer and more environmentally sound refrigerant is amazing news in itself. But the story behind this new product is even more amazing. The material, called HCR-188c, is a hydrocarbon blend of common materials (among them ethane, propane, isobutene, normal butane) that have no ozone depleting potential and very little in the way of greenhouse gas type of heat trapping. Even better, appliances require only a quarter the amount as current refrigerants (hydrochlorofluorocarbons, HCFCs, and hydrofluorocarbons, HFCs), costs 20 cents per charge compared to 62 cents, and draw one third less power. Who is the inventor? His name is Hawaiian former auto mechanic Richard Maruya who developed it in a small home lab on his patio. He has been doggedly trying to brin...
'war on terror' social science funding announced
Wired has the list of funded projects from the Pentagon's new $50 million 'Minerva' programme that supports social science research intended to have a strategic benefit for the 'war on terror'. Named after the Roman goddess of wisdom and war, the project is part of the US Government's increasing reliance on social science to fight the 'war on terror' and it comes in the wake of the controversy over its Human Terrain System. However, a key difference is that the Human Terrain System is a team of social scientists employed by the US Army to directly assist the military with its ongoing operations, while the Minerva project funds university research. The seven funded projects cover sociology, psychology, religious studies and political science and Wired gives brief rundown: Susan Shirk ...
Climate change may boost contact with pollutants
Title: Climate Change May Boost Contact With PollutantsCategory: Health NewsCreated: 12/27/2008 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 12/29/2008 (Source: MedicineNet Asthma General)
Climate change may boost contact with pollutants
Title: Climate Change May Boost Contact With PollutantsCategory: Health NewsCreated: 12/27/2008 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 12/29/2008 (Source: MedicineNet Allergies General)
Climate change may boost contact with pollutants
Title: Climate Change May Boost Contact With PollutantsCategory: Health NewsCreated: 12/27/2008 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 12/29/2008 (Source: MedicineNet Cancer General)
Climate change may boost contact with pollutants
Title: Climate Change May Boost Contact With PollutantsCategory: Health NewsCreated: 12/27/2008 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 12/29/2008 (Source: MedicineNet Lungs General)
Africa: climate change threatens livelihoods
Climate change will affect the Zambezi River basin more severely than any other river system in the world, according to Kenneth Msibi, Water Policy and Strategy Expert for the Southern African Development Community (SADC). (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Study shows competition, not climate change, led to neanderthal extinction
(Public Library of Science) In a recently conducted study, a multidisciplinary French-American research team with expertise in archaeology, past climates and ecology reported that Neanderthal extinction was principally a result of competition with Cro-Magnon populations, rather than the consequences of climate change. The study was published in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Climate change and heat-related mortality in six cities part 2: climate model evaluation and projected impacts from changes in the mean and variability of temperature with climate change. - gosling sn, mcgregor gr, lowe ja.
Previous assessments of the impacts of climate change on heat-related mortality use the"delta method"to create temperature projection time series that are applied to temperature-mortality models to estimate future mortality impacts. The delta method means ... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Climate change may stress the u.s. public health system.
Page: 21DOI: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0000344025.65908.2b (Source: AJN)
Warmer temperatures could lead to a boom in corn pests
Climate change could provide the warmer weather pests prefer, leading to an increase in populations that feed on corn and other crops, according to a new study. Warmer growing season temperatures and milder winters could allow some of these insects to expand. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
No quick or easy technological fix for climate change, researchers say
Global warming can be reversed, some are arguing, with a "geoengineering" fix, such as flying a giant blimp and spraying liquefied sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere. But a professor in the UCLA Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences sees no evidence there is any quick or easy technological fix. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Emerging public health issues due to climate change
Pandve Harshal TIndian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2008 12(3):142-142 (Source: Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine)
Climate change, stones link will tax health resources
Rising temperatures associated with global warming may be accompanied by a significant, costly increase in the incidence of kidney stones. Climate change may increase stone incidence rates by up to 30% in some regions. (Source: UrologyTimes - Stone Disease)
Obama fulfills pledge, names science advisor
During the campaign, then candidate Obama pledged to make the appointment of a presidential science advisor a priority if elected president. On 20 December, President-elect Obama officially fulfilled his pledge when he publically announced that Dr. John Holdren had been selected to serve as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The announcement was the focus of Obama’s weekly ‘radio’ address (available at: http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/thesearchforknowledgetruthandagreaterunderstandingoftheworldaro/ ). The announcement also included the announcement that Dr. Jane Lubchenco would head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the selection of Dr. Harold Varmus and Dr...
Obama selects marine biologist for top spot at noaa
President-elect Obama has selected Dr. Jane Lubchenco to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In 2004 Lubchenco received the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) Distinguished Scientist Award, which has been presented annually since 1972 to individuals who have made significant contributions in biological science, with a focus on the fields of integrative and organismal biology. Dr. Lubchenco’s research interests cover a broad range of disciplines, including marine biology, biodiversity, climate change, and environmental sustainability. Lubchenco is an innovative marine scientist and has been a prominent advocate for marine conservation research. Moreover, she has also been a powerful and articulate voice over the years for the role of science ...
Bush administration finalizes esa rule change
On 11 December 2008, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne announced that the Bush Administration would issue a final rule making changes to the implementation of section 7 of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The final rule changes, proposed on 15 August 2008, were published in the 16 December 2008 Federal Register and will take effect on 15 January 2009. Announcing the rule changes, Kempthorne said, “I am confident that we have taken a common sense approach, developed over months of work, to adopt needed and legally appropriate changes to our existing regulations.” Some members of Congress and the scientific and environmental communities have expressed concern over how quickly the Administration reviewed approximately 235,000 comments received during the 60-day public co...
Now in the aibs bookstore: "communicating science: a primer for working with the media"
Evolution, climate change, stem cell research -- Scientists are frequently called upon to provide expert information on hot button issues that pervade the daily news headlines, yet most find themselves woefully unprepared for the bright lights of the television studio or leading questions from a newspaper journalist. A new publication from AIBS, "Communicating Science: A Primer for Working with the Media," by Holly Menninger and Robert Gropp in the Public Policy Office, will prepare scientists for successful and effective media interviews. Recognizing that many scientists are reluctant to engage in media outreach, "Communicating Science" outlines compelling reasons for scientists to interact with the media and describes key differences between journalism and science that may not be appare...
Towards an integrated framework for assessing the vulnerability of species to climate change
Climate change is a major threat to global biodiversity. A novel integrated framework to assess vulnerability and prioritize research and management action aims to improve our ability to respond to this emerging crisis. (Source: PLoS Biology: Archived Table of Contents)
Why carry out a longitudinal birth survey?
In spite of technological progress throughout the world, ill health, both physical and mental, is widespread [ndash] but much of this is preventable. With rapid globalisation, populations in both industrialised and developing countries are being exposed to various stresses and to new environmental factors, such as those related to climate change and to an increasing range of chemicals of unknown effect. There is substantial evidence that exposures to environmental risk factors in pregnancy and childhood have a major influence on health and development even into adulthood and future generations. In this paper we discuss the importance of longitudinal studies in identifying the processes underlying health and developmental problems and thus, by using the strengths of birth cohort studies, id...
Normative productivity of the global vegetation
Conclusions: The departure from Miami model's worldview cannot be simply ignored. It requires thorough examination using modern observational tools and techniques for model-data fusion. Stability of normative knowledge is not its ultimate goal -- the norms for estimates of terrestrial productivity must be evidence-based. (Source: BioMed Central)
Plantwatch
If proof were needed of the cold end to autumn, then Tim Sparks has evidence. He studies phenology, the timings of the seasons, and each year on the same dates in autumn he photographs the trees outside his offices at Monks Wood, Cambridgeshire. On 2 December this year the trees were bare of leaves - whereas on the same date in 2005 the leaves were still largely green.It just shows how the British climate blows hot and cold from year to year. Some commentators, though, see this year's cool weather as proof that climate change doesn't exist. But by looking back over decades and centuries of old phenology records we can see an unmistakeable pattern of rising temperatures.One particularly important study dates back to 1736, by Robert Marsham, a wealthy landowner at the village of Stratton Str...
Prepare for longer emergencies due to climate change: emo
The rise of freak weather storms as a result of global warming means that New Brunswickers should add extra water and supplies to their emergency stockpile, according to the director of the provincial Emergency Measures Organization. (Source: CBC | Health)
Fix for global warming? scientists propose covering deserts with reflective sheeting
A radical plan to curb global warming and so reverse the climate change caused by our rampant burning of fossil fuels since the industrial revolution would involve covering parts of the world's deserts with reflective sheeting, according to an article in the International Journal of Global Environmental Issues. The heat reflecting sheets could be used to cover arid areas and not only reflect the sun's heat back into space by increasing the Earth's overall reflectivity, or albedo, but also to act as an anti-desertification measure. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Rudolf's kin more than just santa's ride
(Wildlife Conservation Society) Better known as reindeer during the holiday season, caribou are also central to the health and vitality of the Far North. Revered by many cultures, the caribou could soon become endangered by threats such as oil exploration and climate change, according to a new book by authors from the Wildlife Conservation Society and the World Wildlife Fund. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Editorial: green futures
Editorial: Politicians hope green revolution can rescue jobs and economy, as well as the planet (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Pre-senile dementia is not an illness, it's a "social" problem
I have only recently come across Phil Hope MP. He is the Minister of State for Caring. Really. He is also a shit. If I were Dr Rant, or the DK, I would use a stronger word, but I am not, so "shit" will have to do. Phil Hope's voting record shows classic signs of Blairite lobby-fodder. He is strongly in favour of foundation hospitals, student top up fees, restrictive anti-terrosism laws, the Iraq war, replacing Trident and banning fox hunting but is luke wam on gay rights and climate change. Oh, and he has never rebelled against his government. At the risk of being drawn into another medical Jobbygate, may I repeat that he is a shit. A fraudulent, dishonest, malevolent shit.All NHS GPs in England are to be trained to spot the early symptoms of dementia, under government plans. Ministers ...
Obama announces science & technology team
Change.gov: Remarks of the President-Elect Barack Obama on his science & technology team: Over the past few weeks, Vice President-Elect Biden and I have announced some of the leaders who will advise us as we seek to meet America's twenty-first century challenges, from strengthening our security, to rebuilding our economy, to preserving our planet for our children and grandchildren. Today, I am pleased to announce members of my science and technology team whose work will be critical to these efforts. Whether it's the science to slow global warming; the technology to protect our troops and confront bioterror and weapons of mass destruction; the research to find life-saving cures; or the innovations to remake our industries and create twenty-first century jobs--today, more than ever befor...

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