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	<title>Guns, Germs &#038; Steeled</title>
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	<description>Commentary from Dr. Stephen C. Nodvin</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
	
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		<title>Energy independence isn&#8217;t Big Oil&#8217;s job</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=239</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=239#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Nodvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Published: Saturday, July 12, 2008 in The Nashua Telegraph
Big Oil&#8217;s prime goal to reward investors
The op-ed column &#8220;Energy independence isn&#8217;t Big Oil&#8217;s job&#8221; (June 28 in the Nashua Telegraph) got it exactly right. Like all corporations, &#8220;Big Oil&#8217;s&#8221; primary responsibilities are to make a profit and to work to maximize the return to their investors.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Govenor Patrick of Massachusetts Signs Historic Energy Bill</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=238</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=238#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Nodvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
On July 2, 2008, Governor Deval Patrick signed an historic energy bill at the Museum of Science in Boston.  The bill signing was a wonderful event. In the picture above, you see the signing officials on stage and in the front row from right to left you see Keith Bergman (our colleague from The Climate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still &#34;living and kicking&#34;</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=237</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=237#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Nodvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have not posted to the blog in a while but I am still &#8220;living and kicking&#8221; as my grandfather used to say.
I have been busy. Last year I was selected to be one of former Vice President Al Gore&#8217;s &#8220;Climate Messengers&#8221;. In less than a year, I gave over 40 presentations on climate  change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America Competes Act</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=234</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=234#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Nodvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In August, Congress passed and President Bush signed into law the America Competes Act of 2007.  Taking seriously the National Academies’ “Rising Above the Gathering Storm” report and the Council on Competitiveness’ “Innovate America” report that I discussed on this blog previously, here  and here, politicians in Washington garnered the political will to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Head of Industry-funded &#8220;Environmental&#8221; Group Charged</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=216</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=216#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Nodvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Political Interference in Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The president of an industry-funded front group with an environmental-friendly sounding name was charged Wednesday with tax evasion and obstruction of justice as part of the continuing federal criminal investigation into lobbying practices in the Jack Abramoff corruption scandal. This supposed environmental group is just one of many industry supported front-groups number of other front-groups with environmental-friendly or consumer-friendly sounding names which, in fact, work primarily to block any honest-to-goodness attempts to protect the environment, preserve human health, or support the best interests of consumers and the public.]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats Vote FOR &#038; Republicans Vote AGAINST War Funding</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=213</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=213#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2007 01:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Nodvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess the Republicans just couldn't stomach providing minimum wage earners a basic pay raise that might actually bring their earning potential anywhere close to being able to keep up with inflation.]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Change Model Projections Likely Conservative</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=212</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=212#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 10:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Nodvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Global climate models are doing a good job of projecting the direction of global warming trends.  But the current models have been underestimating the magnitudes and the rapidity in which the Earth is warming and in which the warming is impacting local and global Earth processes.]]></description>
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		<title>Public Acceptance of Evolution</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=211</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2007 19:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Nodvin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is good to know that the United States is ahead of Turkey (the country) in public acceptance of evolution.

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		<title>Bush Administration Proposed Cuts for FY2008 Environmental Funding</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=209</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=209#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 23:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Nodvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At a time of increasing environmental awareness by American citizens, the Bush Administration has included yet more cuts in environmental related funding in its proposed FY2008 budget.
It is time to contact your representatives in Congress and let them know that the environment is a priority and that funding should not be cut.
Here are some highlights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CNN Hosts Disinformation Program on Global Warming</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=207</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=207#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2007 16:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Nodvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One really has to wonder just how far the American &#8220;news&#8221; media is willing to move away  from the Principles of Journalism. In 1997, the Committee of Concerned Journalists of the Project for Excellence in Journalism outlined nine Principles of Journalism (below).  Ten years after the formulation of these principles, it appears that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Disinformation on Global Warming &#038; Climate Change from Exxon Mobil</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=206</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=206#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 13:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Nodvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, if you read the reports that Exxon Mobil was softening its stance on climate change, you can forget those false pronouncements right now.
Exxon Mobil has launched the latest salvo in its multi-million dollar, decades long disinformation campaign on climate change.
Exxon Mobil backed front groups, American Enterprise Institute and Pacific Research Institute have released a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-generals: Global warming threatens U.S. security</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=204</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=204#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Nodvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Climate change can act as a threat multiplier for instability in some of the most volatile regions of the world, and it presents significant national security challenges for the United States. Accordingly, it is appropriate to start now to help mitigate the severity of some of these emergent challenges. The decision to act should be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Military Funding and the Iraq War</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=203</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=203#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Nodvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[President Bush is inadvertently drawing attention to the huge amounts of money directed to military spending in the United States.

Mr. Bush is claiming that Congress&#8217; attempts to limit the length of the Iraq war by placing language to such effect in the $124 Billion supplemental bills will hurt American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
What Mr. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poor Nations to Bear Brunt of Global Warming Impacts</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=202</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=202#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 02:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Nodvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have read my previous post: &#8220;It’s Official: U.S. Pollutes to HELP Millions of Poor,&#8221; you know that some global warming deniers (including some in the Bush Administration) are now making the ridiculous claim that efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions would keep “hundreds millions of people in poverty” in China and India.
Of course the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karl Rove&#8217;s PowerPoint on John Sununu</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=200</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=200#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Nodvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Boy, the news for John Sununu just keeps getting worse!
The Washington Post reports, that in a January 26 Jan. videoconference, Karl Rove deputy J. Scott Jennings, directed to the chief of the GSA and as many as 40 agency officials stationed around the country listing the names of Democratic candidates considered beatable and Republican lawmakers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Official: U.S. Pollutes to HELP Millions of Poor</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=198</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=198#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Nodvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In a stunning revelation, United States Deputy Energy Secretary Clay Sell has now explained America&#8217;s humanitarian role in acting for many years as the world&#8217;s largest producer of greenhouse gas emissions.
George W. Bush and other representatives of the Administration had previously stated that a major reason why the United States was only one of two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP (and esp. Senator Sununu) should catch up with their constituents</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=197</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=197#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Nodvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GOP should catch up with constituents


              By Mark Mellman          


THE HILL: March 27, 2007


With Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) working overtime to convince America that the GOP is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Pressure on Senator Sununu</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=196</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=196#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Nodvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You can usually tell when a politician is going into defensive mode. Yesterday Senator John Sununu attacked me in a letter to the the editor of the Nashua Telegraph.
Today, the New York Times published an article from North Conway, New Hampshire talking about how Sununu is feeling the heat.
even among the ladies and gentlemen of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Sununu Accuses Me of Fabrication</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=194</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=194#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Nodvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to my Letter to the Editor of the Nashua Telegraph, John Sununu writes his own letter to the newspaper and accuses me of fabrication.
My response is below.
================================
 Sununu: Letter had erroneous information
The Nashua Telegraph: Published: Saturday, Mar. 24, 2007
I write to correct a series of false statements in a letter to the editor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Larouche emerges with attacks on Al Gore and Climate Science</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=190</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=190#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Nodvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have not heard of Lyndon Larouche, you will soon.
Lyndon Larouche is:

a convicted criminal who spent 6 years in prison for conspiracy and mail fraud
a political extremist
a conspiracy theorist
a cult leader
someone who has been accused to be an anti-Semite

Even the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation has said that Larouche &#8220;leads what may well be one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Senator Sununu Running Scared?</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=189</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=189#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Nodvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Senator  Sununu Running scared?

Published in The Nashua Telegraph: Thursday, Mar. 22, 2007

This is in regard to the article in The Telegraph on March 15, “Sununu calls for attorney general’s ouster.”Sen. John Sununu knows that in 2004 New Hampshire “turned blue” and voted  Democratic in the general election for president. He also knows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ides of March 2003: Iraq War</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=188</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=188#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Nodvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Frank Rich writes in the New York Times today:
&#8230;a revisionist history of the White House’s rush to war, much of it written by its initial cheerleaders, has already taken hold. In this exonerating fictionalization of the story, nearly every politician and pundit in Washington was duped by the same “bad intelligence” before the war, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republican Attempts to Redefine Approved Climate Legislation</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=186</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=186#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Nodvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After years of inaction, the U.S. Congress has finally taken a step forward on the global warming issue: they formed a committee!  Politicians love to form committees rather than take action. And to make sure this committee cannot take actions, it is explicitly forbidden in the legislation &#8220;to have have any legislative jurisdiction and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Al Gore&#8217;s Energy Bill</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=185</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=185#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, what appears to be a corporate-funded, industry  front group, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, has  severely criticized Al Gore for his energy use.  The  &#8220;Report&#8221; from the group appears to have been well timed to have been  released just after the film &#8220;An Inconvenient Truth&#8221; won two Oscars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grading Climate Policy</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=184</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is progress being made in the implementation of climate policies on a state-to-state basis? Have states made progress over time? And can we actually access or grade the progress of states relative to the implementation of climate stabilization policies?
In turns out that 18 environmental NGOs, coordinated by the Clean Water Fund Massachusetts, have been able [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No shame: Bush &#8220;committed to environmentalism&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=182</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current administration is &#8220;committed&#8221; to using props to put positive slants on its policies. When President Bush &#8220;landed&#8221; on the aircraft carrier to tout &#8220;Mission Accomplished&#8221; his handlers had the military turn the ship for the photo-op so that the city of San Diego would not be seen in the background.
As a former National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Deniers New Strategy: Live with it!</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=179</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After years of first denying global warming was occurring, then admitting it was occurring but that it was &#8220;natural&#8221; (and that humans could not have anything possibly to do with warming on a global scale, now one of the lead deniers, Patrick Michaels (ExxonMobil funded), now says that scientists of course knew that green house [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Billion Bulbs</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=178</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeff Foster  has written to me about a new project his company, Symmetric Technologies, has started.The project is a social change/environmental awareness project:
 OneBillionBulbs.com.
The group&#8217;s goal is to get large numbers of people to try a few compact fluorescent (CFL) light bulbs by highlighting the cost savings, energy savings and reduced greenhouse gas emissions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Register for Northeast Climate Impacts Briefing: January 18</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=177</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received this invitation from the Union of Concerned Scientists:
You are invited to a special phone and web briefing on the  findings of the Northeast Climate Impact Assessment, “Climate Change in the U.S.  Northeast.” Join UCS and authors of the report for a 40 minute presentation,  followed by a question and answer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Holiday Reflection</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Dec 2006 19:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Presented at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashua, New Hampshire
Christmas Eve Service: December 24, 2006
When Steve Edington, our minister,  asked me if I would speak at tonight&#8217;s service about the meaning of the holiday season to me, I realized how much my perception of the season has changed over the years.
Growing up in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future Climate of New Hampshire and the Northeast?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2006 22:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
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Six years ago when I moved back to New England I thought to myself (somewhat in jest) that, with global warming, it would not be long before my family would again be able to experience the climate of the state that we were leaving, Tennessee, in our new home state of New Hampshire. According to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dirty Tricks:  Top aide to N.H. congressman resigns</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=173</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 02:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top aide to N.H. congressman resigns


By ANNE SAUNDERS, Associated Press WriterTue Sep 26, 7:18 PM ET
A top aide to U.S. Rep. Charles Bass (news, bio, voting record) resigned Tuesday after disclosures that he posed as a supporter of the Republican&#8217;s opponent in blog messages intended to convince people that the race was not competitive.
Operators of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tough fight coming for New Hampshire&#8217;s Congressman Bass</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=172</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 21:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following was published in the Letters section of the Nashua Telegraph on September 13, 2006.
             Tough fight coming for Congressman Bass             
Stephen Nodvin, Ph.D., Nashua
Published: Wednesday, Sep. 13, 2006
Dear Editor:
 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Side effects&#8221; of the Internet Revolution</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=171</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2006 00:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note:  I originally published this synopsis to my website on December 2002 as part of a review of Webcredibility. (See http://www.nodvin.net/nodvin/webcredibility/ ).  I am now teaching a seminar course on Critical Thinking  and I decided to repost the original writing to this blog.


It is true that almost anyone can put up a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazing Animation: &#8220;The Inner Life of a Cell&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=170</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Sep 2006 20:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a biologist and scientist, the animation, &#8220;The Inner Life of A Cell&#8221; below is amazingly beautiful.
This is a terrific example as to how, through the power of art, the extreme  beauty and wonder of life can be demonstrated.
Through this animation, one does not have to be a scientist nor understand  how to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-evolutionists proclaiming Darwin &#8220;evil&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=169</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Aug 2006 16:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RawStory  is reporting: &#8220;New Christian broadcasting TV special featuring Ann Coulter links Darwin to Hitler.&#8221;
&#8220;Author and Christian broadcaster Dr. D. James Kennedy connects the dots between Charles Darwin and Adolf Hitler in Darwin’s Deadly Legacy, a groundbreaking inquiry into Darwin’s chilling social impact,&#8221; announces a press release issued by Florida&#8217;s Coral Ridge Ministries.
According to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush casts first veto: stem cell research</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=168</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
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Reuters- Washington D.C.


President Bush, looking confused      and disoriented upon his return from the G-8 summit, responded to reporters      questions about the stem cell research bill recently passed by the United      States Senate. Mr. Bush said &#8220;I don&#8217;t know how else [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anne Coulter: Literary Thief</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=167</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2006 03:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Los Angeles Times reported on June 17, plagiarism is a huge problem in American educational systems.  In the Times article, John Barrie head of iParadigms, a company that tracks digital information and assesses plagiarism states, &#8220;Students are using the Internet like an 8-billion-page, cut-and-pastable encyclopedia.&#8221;  Barrie&#8217;s plagiarism analysis service, turnitin.com,  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turning the Corner in Iraq: Are we there yet?</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=164</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I wrote last week, it seems that we are approaching the worst possible outcomes in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Ariana Huffington found more DARK READING in our government&#8217;s own data on hostilities in Iraq. The data speak for themselves.  As summarized by the  LA Times:

On average, nearly 80 Iraqis were killed or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Worst Possible Outcome: Iraq &#038; Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=163</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 01:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the news was unsettling. Despite ongoing statements for years now from people in the Bush administration that the end to hostilities in Iraq are &#8220;just around the corner&#8221;, we hear that more, not less troops are going to be deployed in that country.
Over two years ago, I wrote about my deja-vu experience relative to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Ready to Make Nice</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2006 13:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dixie Chicks strike a blow against the hatred and xenophobia that pervaded the U.S. for too many years now.

 
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		<title>And now, President Al Gore</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2006 13:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our President, Al Gore, on Saturday Night Live.
President Al Gore
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		<title>American Lag Phenomena kicks in, Bush 29% Approaching Nixon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2006 23:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Some critics of President Bush are celebrating. I am not. According to the latest Harris Interactive Poll, Bush&#8217;s approval ratings have fallen to 29%, significantly lower than 43% in January 2006.
On May 10, the New York Times published a detailed analysis of NYT/CBS polls trends on the public approval ratings of the President (login required). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Parks and Forests for Sale: Take 2</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=151</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2006 16:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
NATIONAL FORESTS TO ALLOW CORPORATE ADS — Local Restrictions on Liquor and Tobacco Advertising Will Be Preempted
 
For Immediate Release: March 23, 2006
Contact: Chas Offutt (202) 265-7337NATIONAL FORESTS TO ALLOW CORPORATE ADS — Local Restrictions on Liquor and Tobacco Advertising Will Be Preempted
Washington, DC — The U.S. Forest Service is opening its landscapes, roads, marinas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fire Sale: Our National Parks and Forests</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2006 15:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[America's national debt has reached an all time high.  What can be done? Our politicians and those currently running our government have proposed some possible solutions to reducing the debt that amount to the giving away of our National Heritage: Our National Parks.]]></description>
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		<title>60 Minutes to Highlight Consequences of Global Warming</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=147</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2006 04:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
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On Sunday, Feb. 19, at 7 p.m. ET/PT, the CBS News Magazine 60 Minutes will highlight a segment on the consequences of global warming.  In the segment, Bob Corell, one of the world&#8217;s foremost authorities on climate change states, &#8220;The oceans in the Northern Hemisphere are the warmest they’ve been on record.&#8221;The show highlights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush&#8217;s Proposed FY2007 Budget Changes</title>
		<link>http://blog.nodvin.net/?p=146</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2006 22:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New budget plan squeezes education, Medicare;
$2.77 trillion proposal boosts defense spending, cuts other programs
Proposed percentage increases and decreases in the FY2007 Budget as proposed by the Bush Administration:

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		<title>Positive News: Improving Student Literacy and American Competitiveness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2006 20:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been very important positive developments on U.S. efforts to improve student literacy and American competitiveness. Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives have begun to take seriously reports in recent months regarding declining literacy in college graduates and the poor performance of our high school students (particularly in math and science) compared to their peers in other countries. The President addressed the issue in his State of the Union Address. The current poor state of literacy in America's student and adult populations is serious and is negatively impacting America's global competitiveness.   The Senate and the House have begun to make serious legislative efforts to address these problems.  The President gave the problems lip-service in his State of the Union Address. However, his proposals are either minimal or appear to include hidden agendas to reduce health and environmental protections and to promote the financial interests of Mr. Bush's wealthy constituent base.]]></description>
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		<title>Communication Strategies of the Intelligent Design Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2006 23:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LaurieGG</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It is important to note that while its advocates now deny it, Intelligent Design directly evolved from an earlier version of this theory, called Creation Science. Creation Science was developed to find evidence to support the Christian story of creation. When the Supreme Court ruled in 1987 that this "theory" was, indeed, not science but a religious belief and could not be taught in American public schools, the concept of "Intelligent Design" was invented as a new way to introduce the same ideas into the public classrooms under the guise of science.]]></description>
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		<title>National Sanctity of Human Life Day, 2006</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Nodvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[President George W. Bush declared January 20, 2006 to be National Sanctity of Life Day in America.
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