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Review of the year: Climate Change
Michael McCarthy Independent.co.uk December 31, 2005
You see it in heat, you see it in ice, you see it in storms. Climate change without doubt became the critical environmental issue of 2005. The evidence of global warming occurring here and now mounted up during the year and is proving ever harder to ignore, even by habitual sceptics.
America's weather was extreme this year
SETH BORENSTEIN Knight Ridder Newspapers December 31, 2005
It's not just your imagination. America's weather went wild this year.
The Psychology of Global Warming: Alarm-ist Versus Alarm-ing
Bill Blakemore ABC News December 31, 2005
Journalism has no precedent for a story of the scale or seriousness of global warming. The vast majority of credible climate scientists - well over 95 percent, according to specialists in assessing scientists' opinions - agree that the average temperatures of the oceans, the land surface of the planet and the lower atmosphere (anything lower than the tip of Mount Everest) have been climbing at an accelerating rate. The same specialists say that nearly as many scientists agree that manmade greenhouse gas emissions are a significant factor - and a good many say the only significant factor - in the dangerous global warming now under way. If 95 of the world's best, most experienced experts in child well-being were to tell you that your child was under lethal attack - and with dramatic signs already visible if you only look - would you say, "I think I'll wait until the other five experts are convinced before I do anything about it?" It would be the other way around, and yet that is how a lot of people - and some parts of what's called "the mainstream media" - often seem to be reacting to what the vast majority of scientists are telling us.
The devil in the deep blue sea
ANTHONY R. WOOD Knight Ridder Newspapers December 31, 2005
Hundreds of miles from any land, the waters of the North Atlantic suddenly developed an oddly deep-blue hue and turned incongruously warm. Patches of peculiar brown seaweed rode the surface, and the ocean brewed mild, damp winds that the muscular 20-year-old could feel on his skin. To the sailor, Benjamin Franklin, it was a puzzle, one that would baffle and bedevil him for decades. It would take him 40 years to figure out what he had encountered back in 1726. He had crossed a moving, meandering mass of warm water, 300 times stronger than the flow of all the rivers emptying into the Atlantic Ocean. It was a force more powerful than a million nuclear plants. Franklin would call it "the Gulf Stream," following the lead of generations of whalers.
Apollo Now
William Greider The Nation December 31, 2005
The tragedy of New Orleans provides Americans with an ominous metaphor for understanding our future. We did not fix the levees, though we were warned. That is a simple way of expressing the national predicament in this new century. As a society, we are engulfed by similar vulnerabilities-forms of ecological and economic deterioration that are profoundly more threatening than an occasional hurricane. And we have been told. Yet we are not "fixing the levees." Preoccupied with current desires and discontents, this very wealthy nation has lost sight of its future.
Some soldiers gloss over war dangers
Matthew D. LaPlante The Salt Lake Tribune December 30, 2005
Calling home: Their news from Iraq is often tempered with half-truths and fibs
Battles on the home front
TOM DAVIS NorthJersey.com December 30, 2005
Army Spec. Dexter Williams grew accustomed to war. He wasn't ready for life back home. "I drive over potholes on the roads here and I think of the explosives," said Williams, of Newark. Most of his Teaneck-based Army National Guard comrades have been home for weeks. But every day is still a battle. What was once ordinary is now a hassle - caring for the kids, paying the bills, buying holiday gifts. "It's difficult, but it's just something we have to get through," said Spec. Harry Vanvliet, 37, of Maywood.
Some veterans face job challenges
KECIA BAL The Tribune-Democrat December 30, 2005
Though it has been more than two months since Army Reservist Timothy Treagner returned from Iraq, he still has to pause and ask his wife for their new address. “There are so many changes to get used to,” he said. “You kind of have to look around and figure where you fit in.” His well-tending job was the last thing he wanted to worry about, but there was no getting around it. Treagner’s bosses offered him the same type of position – only in another state. “They said it was the only way I could have my job back,” Treagner said. Some soldiers are experiencing similar situations – returning from Iraq and Afghanistan to find their jobs have been taken or are rearranged.
Only one Medal of Honor given in Iraq, Afghan wars
Tom Vanden Brook USA TODAY December 30, 2005
American troops have been fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan for more than four years, but just one soldier from those wars has received the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military honor for bravery. The lack of such medals — by comparison, two were awarded for fighting in Somalia — reflects today's unconventional warfare and the superior weaponry of U.S. forces, military experts say. It's not that today's troops lack valor, but they lack opportunities to display it in the extraordinary way that would merit the Medal of Honor.
History, myth and the shifting sands of Iwo Jima
David McNeill Independent.co.uk December 30, 2005
The bloody battle between America and Japan brings out nationalism on both sides. Now Clint Eastwood is trying to give a balanced account.
VCS Weekly Update: Is the VA Redefining Trauma
Veterans for Common Sense December 30, 2005
This week, the Washington Post reported on an increasingly politically charged debate in Washington centered on one of the most serious costs of war -- post traumatic stress disorder, and its impact on war veterans.
A Political Debate On Stress Disorder The spiraling cost of post-traumatic stress disorder among war veterans has triggered a politically charged debate and ignited fears that the government is trying to limit expensive benefits for emotionally scarred troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Shankar Vedantam Washington Post December 30, 2005
Iraqi vote shows lack of Sunnis in army
Richard A. Oppel Jr. The New York Times December 29, 2005
Voting results of Iraqi military and police forces from the Dec. 15 parliamentary election were made public on Monday and indicate that Iraq's security forces, touted as largely representative of the population, in fact have few Sunnis in their ranks.
Kurds in Iraqi army proclaim loyalty to militia
Tom Lasseter Knight Ridder Newspapers December 29, 2005
Kurdish leaders have inserted more than 10,000 of their militia members into Iraqi army divisions in northern Iraq to lay the groundwork to swarm south, seize the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and possibly half of Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, and secure the borders of an independent Kurdistan.
U.S. Raises Doubts Over Iraq Prison Control
The Associated Press December 29, 2005
The Bush administration suggested Tuesday that prisons in Iraq where hundreds of detainees apparently were abused were only "nominally" under the control of the central government in Baghdad. While the central government, with U.S. help, is trying to take charge of these prisons the Interior ministry, which runs them may have its own way of doing things, suggested State Department spokesman Adam Ereli. "The problem has clearly not been solved and the problem is widespread," Ereli said.
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