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Dillon Patel

White House report says people cause global warming - 27 August 2004 - New Scientist - 0 views

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main cause global warming white house humans

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  • White House report says people cause global warming
  • People are responsible for the spike in global warming in the last 30 years, says a new US government report.
  • enact policies to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
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  • Our Changing Planet
  • climate change research by 13 government agencies.
  • The document reports that global warming in the first half of the 20th century, estimated at 0.2°C above pre-industrial temperatures, "was likely due to natural climate variation", including increased solar activity.
  • can only be explained when factors related to human activity
  • "There's nothing else we can blame it on, really,"
  • "If we don't put the changes in carbon dioxide into our models, we don't get global warming out."
  • "Well over 98% of scientists competent in this area would agree with that," he told New Scientist.
  • "The big question is what effect this will have on climate policy," Janetos told New Scientist.
  • that would be big news indeed."
  • Trenberth agrees, saying Bush's policy thus far has been to "take whatever nature throws at us
  • "Bush has said that if we do something about emissions, it will hurt the economy,"
  • Others experts have lobbied the government to regulate carbon dioxide through the Clean Air Act.
  • "This research will help decision makers and managers in the US and other countries evaluate and respond to climate change."
  • Dillon Patel on 14 Nov 10
     
    According to the white house, humans are the main cause. Reliable source.
golan elzur

BBC - Ethics - Animal ethics: Experimenting on animals - 1 views

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animals ethics

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  • eriments are widely used to develop new medicines
  • Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products.
  • Two positions on animal experiments In favour of animal experiments: Experimenting on animals is acceptable if (and only if): suffering is minimised in all experiments human benefits are gained which could not be obtained by using other methods
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  • Against animal experiments: Experimenting on animals is always unacceptable because: it causes suffering to animals the benefits to human beings are not proven any benefits to human beings that animal testing does provide could be produced in other ways
  • Are animal experiments useful? Animal experiments only benefit human beings if their results are valid and can be applied to human beings. Not all scientists are convinced that these tests are valid and useful.
  • Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products.
  • In November 2008 the European Union put forward proposals to revise the directive for the protection of animals used in scientific experiments
  • The proposals have three aims: to considerably improve the welfare of animals used in scientific procedures
  • to ensure fair competition for industry to boost research activities in the European Union
  • The main changes proposed are:
  • to make it compulsory to carry out ethical reviews and require that experiments where animals are used be subject to authorisation to widen the scope of the directive to include specific invertebrate species and foetuses in their last trimester of development and also larvae and other animals used in basic research, education and training to set minimum housing and care requirements to require that only animals of second or older generations be used, subject to transitional periods, to avoid taking animals from the wild and exhausting wild populations to state that alternatives to testing on animals must be used when available and that the number of animals used in projects be reduced to a minimum to require member states to improve the breeding, accommodation and care measures and methods used in procedures so as to eliminate or reduce to a minimum any possible pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm caused to animals
Shawn Shin

Source 5 : Obama's Opinion about Nuclear Weapon - 0 views

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  • Mr. Obama argued for a slower course, saying, “We are going to want to make sure that we can continue to move towards less emphasis on nuclear weapons,” and, he added, to “make sure that our conventional weapons capability is an effective deterrent in all but the most extreme circumstances.”
  • “I’m not going to parse that right now,” he said, sitting in his office as children played on the South Lawn of the White House at a daylong Easter egg roll. But he cited the example of North Korea, whose nuclear capabilities were unclear until it conducted a test in 2006, which it followed with a second shortly after Mr. Obama took office.
  • “I think it’s safe to say that there was a time when North Korea was said to be simply a nuclear-capable state until it kicked out the I.A.E.A. and become a self-professed nuclear state,” he said, referring to the International Atomic Energy Agency. “And so rather than splitting hairs on this, I think that the international community has a strong sense of what it means to pursue civilian nuclear energy for peaceful purposes versus a weaponizing capability.”
  • Shawn Shin on 15 Nov 10
     
    This article is a great source! I have higlighted the part where obama's opinion about the Nuclear Weapon is well shown.
Anushka Gandhi

Osama bin Laden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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Osama bin Laden

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  • Bin Laden and fellow al-Qaeda leaders are believed to be hiding near the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
    • Anushka Gandhi
      Anushka Gandhi on 14 Nov 10
       
      One of those many possiblities of Osama's whereabouts
  • Beliefs and ideology
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      Anushka Gandhi on 14 Nov 10
       
      His strong beliefs urged him to help form the Islamist movement Al-Qaeda and a number of activites, bombings, etc including the most important event- 9/11 attacks in the US.
  • "Allah knows it did not cross our minds to attack the towers but after the situation became unbearable and we witnessed the injustice and tyranny of the American-Israeli alliance against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, I thought about it. And the events that affected me directly were that of 1982 and the events that followed – when America allowed the Israelis to invade Lebanon, helped by the U.S. Sixth Fleet. As I watched the destroyed towers in Lebanon, it occurred to me punish the unjust the same way (and) to destroy towers in America so it could taste some of what we are tasting and to stop killing our children and women." – Osama bin Laden, 2004[
    • Anushka Gandhi
      Anushka Gandhi on 14 Nov 10
       
      What urged Osama to take this deadly step of the 9/11 attacks on the US....
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  • Claims as to the location of Osama bin Laden have been made since December 2001, although none have been definitively proven and some have placed Osama in different locations during overlapping time periods.
    • Anushka Gandhi
      Anushka Gandhi on 14 Nov 10
       
      True statement. This can be used in research paper while including reports of Osama's hiding locations
  • On October 18th 2010, Osama bin Laden is alive and well and living comfortably in a house in the north-west of Pakistan protected by local people and elements of the country's intelligence services, according to a senior Nato official
    • Anushka Gandhi
      Anushka Gandhi on 14 Nov 10
       
      Most recent update of Osama's 'whereabouts' reported by a Nato official.
Shumona Raha

Euthanasia- Is mercy killing justified? - 0 views

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euthanasia mercy killing

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  • On June 14 2005 , the newspaper headlines sprang the news that the central Government in India was mulling over the idea of legalising euthanasia
  • There are many religious and humanistic societies which protest against this mercy killing.
  • That can be done by a drug overdose, a lethal injection, or the withdrawal of medical support.
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  • Voluntary euthanasia is when the person who is killed requests to be killed. On the other hand, non voluntary euthanasia is when a person made no request and gave no consent.
  • When it is a doctor who helps another person to kill themselves it is called "physician assisted suicide."
  • Why keep a burden around? All you are doing is justifying your self seeking nature by getting rid of a problem.
  • Supporters of euthanasia argue that "mercy-killing" is necessary because patients, particularly those with terminal illness, experience uncontrollable pain. They argue that the only way to alleviate the pain is to eliminate the patient. What else can we do? They ask.
  • The medical expenses are so high when lifesaving medicines from good companies cost the earth.
  • In the west, nobody bothers much about old people because they are bundled up into old people's homes whenever the children think them a burden, physical, emotional and financial. But in India, grandparents are still a power in the house and the family.
  • Remember that the old and elderly are a valuable fabric of the Indian society
  • A terminally ill patient is suffering physically. But he's also suffering from mental and social pain. The social pain is that he is a financial burden upon his family. His children have to take time off their busy lives to take him to the doctor. Sometimes patients are reluctant to report that they are feeling any pain, because it will be a trouble to their family members.
Harshil Asnani

What Are Advantages Of Fast Food? - 0 views

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food fast india good

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  • If you are traveling and don't have much time to eat in an established restaurant, picking up "fast food" to eat; if you work out of the house and have a short lunch break, "fast food" is an advantage.
  • it's a smaller portion than normal meals.
  • it's cheap
Puja DeGamia

Media, Eating Disorders and Girls: Focusing on Appearance Alone is Not Healthy for Girls - 1 views

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Media Eating Disorders and Girls

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  • There is enormous pressure from the media on young girls to be thin.
  • Models can be seen everywhere with their skeleton frames sticking out suggesting this is the body image one should strive for.
  • Eating disorders are so common in models that it seems to get glamorized to young girls.
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  • “15% of young women have some kind of disordered eating patterns.” (Random House, eating disorder
  • The media reinforces this standard by promoting dolls like barbies which no girl or woman could ever seriously look like.
  • he proportions are all wrong and the measurements when converted to full size are freakishly absurd.
  • Girls and teenagers are self conscious enough about their body image without being bombarded with air brushed perfection which sometimes borders on looking cartoon like with their lack of blemishes and freckles.
  • Young girls are starting to diet at younger ages and exposure from the media promoting beauty contests doesn't help this.
  • There has been some progress on the promotion of ultra thin models and in some place they've been banned.
Puja DeGamia

BBC NEWS | Europe | France targets anorexia in media - 0 views

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France targets anorexia in media

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  • The bill targets pro-anorexia websites
  • The French National Assembly has passed a groundbreaking bill which seeks to criminalise the promotion in the media of extreme thinness.
  • nd publications that encourage girls and young women to starve themselves.
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  • It will affect websites, fashion houses, magazines and advertisers.
  • those found to have encouraged severe weight loss could be fined up to 45,000 euros and face three years in prison.
  • "Encouraging young girls to lie to their doctors, advising them on foods that are easier to regurgitate and inciting them to beat themselves up each time they eat is not freedom of expression," Ms Bachelot told the assembly.
  • It is necessary because we know now that we have a risk to some part of the population, young girls, who are pressed by different types of lobbies and the risk is increasing."
  • he law could also affect the fashion industry and magazine editors who publish photographs of extremely thin models.
  • Page last updated at 21:43 GMT, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 22:43 UK E-mail this to a friend Printable version
  • he BBC's Emma Jane Kirby in Paris says that with 40,000 anorexics in France, many parliamentarians feel the law cannot come soon enough.
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