The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic
Richard Muller/ New York Times
Call me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Last year… I concluded that global warming was real and… humans are almost entirely the cause.
West Bank’s Emerging Silicon Valley Evades Issues of Borders
Isabel Kershner/The New York Times
The technology industry has an advantage in that it is less affected by borders, checkpoints, and other barriers to movement. In the West Bank, a growing tech sector is learning to exploit this opportunity.
World Bank says rising food prices a concern, ready to help
Doug Palmer/Reuters
The World Bank is ready to assist governments in dealing with a rise in grain prices that is putting millions of people at risk and could result in long-term consequences.
Retiring Envoy to Afghanistan Exhorts U.S to Heed Its Past
Alissa J. Rubin/ New York Times
The American diplomat most associated with the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan says that American policy makers need to learn the lessons of the recent past as they weigh military options for the future, including for Syria and Iran:
The Strategic Consequences Of The Euro-Crisis: Cracks In NATO, New Euro Map
Harald Malmgren and Robbin Laird/ AOL Defense
The Euro crisis is not simply a financial dynamic. It is the end of a period of history, the confluence of several trend lines: the unification of Germany, the end of the Soviet Union, the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the expansion of NATO, the expansion of the European Union, and the creation of the single currency together constitute a unique period in modern European history.
Iran says to keep Hormuz open as long as it serves its interests
Zahra Hosseinian/ Reuters
Iran will keep the vital Strait of Hormuz shipping lane open as long as the waterway served its interests, a military commander was on Monday quoted as saying.
Pakistan to push for intel share at U.S. talks
Praveen Menon / Reuters
Pakistan’s spy chief will call for an end to U.S. drone strikes in its tribal areas bordering Afghanistan and push for a sharing of technology and intelligence during a visit to Washington this week, the country’s interior minister said on Monday.
Leon Panetta: Syria’s Bashar Assad dooming himself
AP/ Politico
Syrian President Bashar Assad’s use of helicopter gunships to counter a civil uprising will prove to be “a nail in Assad’s coffin,” Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Sunday at the outset of a five-day Mideast tour.
On Our Flashpoint Blog
LOTS of tension brewing in the South China Sea
Prachi Naik
A small two-square-mile island in the South China Sea is finding itself at the center of an alarming multistate power struggle with tangible implications for American national security concerns.
Tidal Energy Comes to the US
Catherine Foley
The nation’s first commercial tidal energy project was dedicated on Tuesday in Eastport, Maine, marking a milestone for the future of renewable energy in the US.
Geoengineering: A Far Off Solution to Climate Change
Carl Grote
With further research needed for geoengineering techniques, curbing carbon emissions remains our best bet for combating climate change.
The Biggest Challenge to American Solar Manufacturing
Matthew Baker
Chinese competitors have been accused of selling modules below production costs. In selling modules at what American producers claim are unreasonably low prices, Chinese manufacturers are unfairly reducing the ability for American manufacturers to compete.
CNOOC Makes Bid for Canadian Tar Sands
Nick Cunningham
This week, the China National Offshore Oil Cooperation (CNOOC) made a big move into Canadian tar sands.
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