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Gore Calls for Immediate Freeze on Heat-Trapping Gas Emissions
Former Vice President Al Gore called yesterday for a popular movement in the United States to seek an “immediate freeze” in heat-trapping smokestack and tailpipe gases linked by most scientists to global warming.
Sep 19, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, National, Science, Environment,
In Gamble, Calif. Tries to Curb Greenhouse Gases
In the Rocky Mountain States and the fast-growing desert Southwest, more than 20 power plants, designed to burn coal that is plentiful and cheap, are on the drawing boards. Much of the power, their owners expected, would be destined for the people of California.But such plants would also be among the country’s most potent producers of carbon dioxide, the king of gases linked to global warming. So California has just delivered a new message to these energy suppliers: If you cannot produce power with the lowest possible emissions of these greenhouse gases, we are not interested.
Sep 15, 2006
Topic: Science, Environment,
‘Embryo-Safe’ Experiment Just Another Fraud
None of the 16 embryos involved in the study by medical director Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) survived. All were harmed; none were viable; none were spared.
Sep 7, 2006
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research, Science,
New Questions Emerge Over Stem-Cell Research Claims
Controversy continues to build over a claim that biotechnology researchers produced stem cells without harming embryos, as outside scientists question whether a fundamental element of the reported experiment undercuts the central contention of the research.
Sep 5, 2006
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research, Science,
Embryos preserved in stem-cell creation
Scientists yesterday reported that they have devised a way to create human embryonic stem cells that does not harm embryos. Cell extraction was criticized on moral grounds by Richard M. Doerflinger, deputy director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities. “It is widely believed that one cell of a very early embryo may separate and become a new embryo, an identical twin,” he said yesterday.
Aug 24, 2006
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Social Issues, Science, Issues,
In New Method for Stem Cells, Viable Embryos
Biologists have developed a technique for establishing colonies of human embryonic stem cells from an early human embryo without destroying it. This method, if confirmed in other laboratories, would seem to remove the principal objection to the research.
Aug 24, 2006
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Social Issues, Science, Issues,
Stem Cells: The Hope and the Hype
The stem cell debate is so politically loaded that it’s tough to tell who’s being straight about the real areas of progress and how breakthroughs can be achieved. TIME sorts it out
By NANCY GIBBS
Time Magazine, July 30, 2006
Aug 18, 2006
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Legislation, Issues,
Some Scientists See Shift in Stem Cell Hopes
Stem cell research, which scientists say has been slowed by government policy, may yield better drugs before cell therapies are found.
Aug 15, 2006
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Human Rights, National, Social Issues, Science,
Gore isn’t quite as green as he’s led the world to believe
Al Gore has spoken: The world must embrace a “carbon-neutral lifestyle.” To do otherwise, he says, will result in a cataclysmic catastrophe. “Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb,” warns the website for his film, An Inconvenient Truth. “We have just 10 years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tailspin.” But if Al Gore is the world’s role model for ecology, the planet is doomed.
Aug 10, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, National, Social Issues, Science, Environment,
Science’s stem-cell scam - Washington Times
July 22, 2006 Washington Times Commentary by Michael Fumento.
“Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) receive tremendous media attention, with oft-repeated claims they have the potential to cure virtually every disease known. Yet there are spoilsports, myself included, who point out ESCs have yet to even make it into a human clinical trial. This is even as alternatives — adult stem cells (ASCs) from numerous places in the body as well as umbilical cord blood and placenta — are curing diseases here and now and have been doing so for decades. And that makes ESC advocates very, very angry.”
Jul 22, 2006
Topic: Family, Living, Health, Life, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Legislation, Social Issues, Issues, Adoption,