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:: 9.12.2003 ::
From the Daily Grist email newsletter:
CHENEY REACTION
Appeals Court Rejects Bush Attempt to Withhold Energy DocumentsA federal appeals court yesterday rejected the Bush administration's argument that it should not have to release documents related to Vice President Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force, marking the fourth -- yes, fourth -- time the judiciary has told the White House the information must be made public. The suit against the Veep was brought by the Sierra Club and Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, both of which sought to learn who participated in the task force and what role Cheney played in it. Now that the appellate court has ruled against it, the Bush administration's only remaining options are to appeal the case to the Supreme Court or turn over the requested documents. "The vice president has been told by multiple courts that he is not above the law. Perhaps now he will give up his legal stonewalling and begin complying with court orders to turn over his secret energy task force documents," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. Original article in the Washington Post.
Another article from today's Grist:
U.K. Calls on PC Users to Help With Global Climate ExperimentConcerned about the world's climate and wondering how you can help improve scientific understanding of it? Wonder no more. If you own a PC, you can become part of what's being billed as the world's largest climate-prediction experiment. Organized by a coalition of British universities and corporations, the experiment is expected to produce "the world's most comprehensive probability-based forecast of 21st century climate." How? Individual computer-users who join the experiment will download a unique version of a climate model developed by the Hadley Centre, one of the world's most important headquarters for climate science. The model will run when the computer is on but no other applications are in use, and the results will be sent back to the organizers via the Internet when the experiment is complete. "Together, participants' results will give us an overall picture of how much human influence has contributed to recent climate change, and of the range of possible changes in the future," said Oxford University's Myles Allen. Story in BBC News; join the experiment - help predict the effects of global climate
change, right there on your personal computer!
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