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Opinion

No denying global warming now

Olivier Simon | February 14

The first installment of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was released Feb. 2. Painstakingly assembled and vetted by more than 1,200 scientists and policy experts from 113 countries, it's an 18-page rundown of the meatiest observations, projections and uncertainties in modern climate change science - a preview of the findings of the larger report, which will be hundreds of pages long and released in sections throughout the year.

Opinion

Hard to ignore global warming

Olivier Simon | January 26

While a few fringy folks continue to deny the existence of, or human role in, climate change, the issue has been gradually advancing in public consciousness - no thanks to our media and political apparatus, which continue to grossly misrepresent it.

Opinion

Prepare U.S. for more patriots

Olivier Simon | December 5

Not too long ago, this nation marked with mixed emotion - and the usual smear of indifference - the crossing of the 300 million inhabitants mark. Who was this lucky newborn baby? You might call him or her America's 300 millionth patriot. What is the challenge he or she embodies? Overpopulation.

Opinion

Time ripe for Dems to go green

Olivier Simon | November 16

This midterm election could be summed up by Shakespeare - to Bush or not to Bush? That was the question. The answer was a resounding "not," though the midterm results were much more a measure of Republicans' failure than of Democratic success. Throw the rascals out, people thought, and throw they did.

Opinion

Column: Leave the nuclear beast in peace

Olivier Simon | October 24

Since the dawn of the Atomic Age, nuclear-energy issues, carrying the terrifying implications that they do, have always been simmering in one way or another, whether it's Chernobyl, the doomsday clock making its march toward midnight or frustration about uranium isotopes seeping into aquifers that cute 5-year-olds drink from.

Opinion

Column: Bush's space plan a distraction

Olivier Simon | February 3

I could not help but find it incredibly apt when a week or so ago a correspondent on "The Daily Show" explained the president's new proposition for manned missions to the moon and Mars in the following way: "This shows that the president has officially given up on Earth.

Culture

Column: Bush's space plan a distraction

Olivier Simon | February 3

I could not help but find it incredibly apt when a week or so ago a correspondent on "The Daily Show" explained the president's new proposition for manned missions to the moon and Mars in the following way: "This shows that the president has officially given up on Earth.