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Obama back in New Jersey with friend Chris Christie to survey Hurricane Sandy recovery

Wed, 29 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By David Nakamura - May. 29 (Comment) - ASBURY PARK, N.J. — Talk about a public display of affection. President Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s unlikely “bromance,” sparked last fall amid a natural disaster and a presidential campaign, blossomed into full flush Tuesday on their very public second date. ...

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GOP Congressmen Who Begged For Federal Aid In Disasters Striking Home Districts Vote Against Sandy Aid

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - Jan. 05 (Opinion) - The first piece of the aid bill to assist victims of Super Storm Sandy passed the House of Representatives today, providing $9.7 billion to fund the National Flood Insurance Program so that claims made by victims who purchased flood insurance from the government program can get their money. Without the additional funding, [...]

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The World Is Ending, Please Update the Home Page

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By David Carr - Dec. 06 (Opinion) - Let’s say, just for giggles, that the word was ending. Could be an alien invasion, a pandemic or nuclear annihilation. If one of those scenarios became a news event, how would it be covered? That question was posed by Andrew Fitzgerald, one of the partic

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Mind-boggling tornado count, deaths raise hard questions about causes, warnings & response

Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Andrew Freedman - May. 25 (Opinion) - Given the sheer volume of the tornado chatter, the online equivalent to a twister’s whipping winds, it’s useful to take a step back and review the important questions that need to be asked at this point, while reminding ourselves of what is generally known.

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New Orleans trembles at the power of the Mississippi

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Jim Gabour - May. 17 (Opinion) - The drama of drowned pets and submerged homes to the north, coupled with cutaways to worried looks on the faces of New Orleanians to the south, makes for excellent ratings.

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Why nuclear power is still a good choice

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Mark Lynas - Apr. 10 (Opinion) - Perspective is needed when deciding between nuclear and other power sources. Renewable energy and conservation aren't enough in the real world. And burning fossil fuels will only worsen global warming. What a strange turn of events. Instead of uniting the environmental movement in renewed opposition to nuclear power, the Fukushima disaster in Japan has divided it still further. An increasing number of green advocates, including some very prominent voices, have declared their support for nuclear power as a clean energy option, even as radioactive water accumulates and the timeline for cleaning up the contaminated areas extends by decades. Can they be serious? They can. The irony of Fukushima is that in forcing us all to confront our deepest fears about the dangers of nuclear power, we find many of them to be wildly irrational — based on scare stories propagated through years of unchallenged mythology and the repeated exaggerations of self-proclaimed "experts" in the anti-nuclear movement. As the British environmental writer George Monbiot has pointed out, if we took the scientific consensus on nuclear energy as seriously as we take the scientific consensus on climate change, we environmentalists would be telling a very different story.

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Why we're still split over the atom

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - By Deborah Smith - Mar. 20 (Opinion) - The Fukushima nuclear crisis will have a lasting impact in Australia. Comfortably reliant on enormous coal reserves - and with Homer Simpson helping shape attitudes to nuclear power - Australia is most unlikely to adopt this energy source to tackle climate change in the near future. Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl disaster, with community concerns focused on the hazards of a warming world, there had been signs of a public reconsideration of nuclear as a low-carbon option. But any fledgling support is now likely to evaporate, researchers say. Advertisement: Story continues below Australians have long tended to have polarised views on nuclear energy. And those in each camp still see things very differently after events of the past week in Japan.

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Japan’s real disaster

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Gregg Easterbrook - Mar. 16 (Opinion) - The situation in Japan is horrific — but because of the earthquake and tsunami, not because of the malfunctioning atomic reactor station. The earthquake and its awful aftermath killed at least thousands of people, perhaps tens of thousands. That is an unspeakable tragedy. The damaged reactors at Fukushima haven’t killed anyone, and while posing a clear danger, especially to workers heroically fighting the malfunction, the odds are that any harm to public health will be minor, if public health is harmed at all.

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The Scariest Earthquake Is Yet to Come

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Newsweek - By Simon Winchester - Mar. 13 (Opinion) - The tsunami that struck Japan was the third in a series of events that now put California at risk.

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Why Doesn't the World Care About Pakistanis?

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Mosharraf Zaidi - Aug. 23 (Comment) - The United Nations has characterized the destruction caused by the floods in Pakistan as greater than the damage from the 2004 Asian tsunami, the 2005 Pakistan earthquake, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake combined. Yet nearly three weeks since the floods began, aid is trickling in slowly and reluctantly to the United Nations, NGOs, and the Pakistani government.

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After the volcano: Earthly powers

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Apr. 22 (Opinion) - One of the things that went missing in the shadow of that volcanic dust was a sense of human power. And as with the quiet skies, this absence found a welcome in many hearts. The idea that humans, for all their technological might, could be put in their place by this volcano—this obscure, unpronounceable, C-list volcano—was strangely satisfying, even thrilling.

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How Long Will Iceland's Volcano Keep Planes Grounded?

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Scientific American - By Katherine Harmon - Apr. 16 (Interview) - As the volcano in Iceland continues to erupt, travelers in Europe are left to wonder how long local airspace will remain closed. A volcanologist from the Smithsonian explains why this eruption could cause long-term disruption

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Are We Paying FEMA to Watch TV and Complain?

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Fox News - By John Gibson - Oct. 05 (Opinion) - FEMA should stop watching TV and get housing and emergency plans together. And if they have any extra time they should come on TV and explain what they're doing. Are we really paying federal bureaucrats to watch TV and complain?

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