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While U.S. Christian Right leaders made headlines when international pressure forced them to retract support for Uganda's notorious Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009, a new report by Political Research Associates shows that U.S. Christian Right groups continue to build organizational strength and campaign to inscribe homophobia and anti-abortion politics in the constitutions and laws of African countries in the years since. The U.S. Christian Right's most recent efforts are documented in the new report Colonizing African Values: How the U.S. Christian Right is Transforming Sexual Politics in Africa. The report authored by Rev. Dr. Kapya Kaoma, an Anglican priest originally from Zambia, investigates the Pat Robertson-founded American Center for Law and Justice, the Mormon-led Family Watch International, and the Roman Catholic Human Life International, as well as a network of Christian dominionists known as the Transformation Movement or New Apostolic Reformation. The report details ACLJ's efforts to influence the constitution-writing process in Zimbabwe and Kenya, and the anti-LGBT and anti-reproductive justice activities of the other groups in such countries as Uganda, Malawi and Zambia.
The U.S. Christian Right's most recent efforts are documented in the new report Colonizing African Values: How the U.S. Christian Right is Transforming Sexual Politics in Africa.
The report authored by Rev. Dr. Kapya Kaoma, an Anglican priest originally from Zambia, investigates the Pat Robertson-founded American Center for Law and Justice, the Mormon-led Family Watch International, and the Roman Catholic Human Life International, as well as a network of Christian dominionists known as the Transformation Movement or New Apostolic Reformation. The report details ACLJ's efforts to influence the constitution-writing process in Zimbabwe and Kenya, and the anti-LGBT and anti-reproductive justice activities of the other groups in such countries as Uganda, Malawi and Zambia.
Competitive Enterprise Institute’s space technology and policy analyst, Rand Simberg, recently wrote a blog post in which he compared Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann to former university football coach and convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky. CEI published the post on its own blog, and the National Review decided it was appropriate to pass along. Michael Mann has rightly demanded that the National Review retract the blog post and issue a public apology.
Michael Mann, whose research has been the subject of eight independent investigationsexonerating him against charges of scientific misconduct, is right to aggressively defend himself against defamation of character. Especially in an age where scientists receive death threats simply for doing their jobs.
Erickson said he disagrees with the criticism that the NCAA sanctions are worse than the death penalty. "I think the death penalty would have been far, far worse for the program and the university over the long run," he said.
"I think the death penalty would have been far, far worse for the program and the university over the long run," he said.
"We took a lot of punches. Penn State has taken a lot of punches over the last six months," Bill O'Brien said at Big Ten media day, "and it's time to punch back." Against what? Against whom? Against the monster this program harbored for so long? Or do you mean to punch back against the critics and those who said maybe football was less important than atonement? Where's the effort at reconciliation? The restoration of trust in your own community? Where's the contrition? Financial compensation, no matter how lavish, is not by itself restitution. Money alone heals no one.
Against what? Against whom? Against the monster this program harbored for so long? Or do you mean to punch back against the critics and those who said maybe football was less important than atonement?
Where's the effort at reconciliation? The restoration of trust in your own community? Where's the contrition? Financial compensation, no matter how lavish, is not by itself restitution. Money alone heals no one.
After decades of digging, paleoanthropologists looking for fossilized human bones have established a reasonably clear picture: Modern humans arose in Africa some 200,000 years ago and all archaic species of humans then disappeared, surviving only outside Africa, as did the Neanderthals in Europe. Geneticists studying DNA now say that, to the contrary, a previously unknown archaic species of human, a cousin of the Neanderthals, may have lingered in Africa until perhaps 25,000 years ago, coexisting with the modern humans and on occasion interbreeding with them. The geneticists reached this conclusion, reported on Thursday in the journal Cell, after decoding the entire genome of three isolated hunter-gatherer peoples in Africa, hoping to cast light on the origins of modern human evolution. But the finding is regarded skeptically by some paleoanthropologists because of the absence in the fossil record of anything that would support the geneticists’ statistical calculations.
The geneticists reached this conclusion, reported on Thursday in the journal Cell, after decoding the entire genome of three isolated hunter-gatherer peoples in Africa, hoping to cast light on the origins of modern human evolution. But the finding is regarded skeptically by some paleoanthropologists because of the absence in the fossil record of anything that would support the geneticists’ statistical calculations.
For decades, scientists have known that the effects of global climate change could have a potentially devastating impact across the globe, but Harvard researchers say there is now evidence that it may also have a dramatic impact on public health. As reported in a paper published in the July 27 issue of Science, a team of researchers led by James G. Anderson, the Philip S. Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, are warning that a newly-discovered connection between climate change and depletion of the ozone layer over the U.S. could allow more damaging ultraviolet (UV) radiation to reach the Earth's surface, leading to increased incidence of skin cancer.
As reported in a paper published in the July 27 issue of Science, a team of researchers led by James G. Anderson, the Philip S. Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, are warning that a newly-discovered connection between climate change and depletion of the ozone layer over the U.S. could allow more damaging ultraviolet (UV) radiation to reach the Earth's surface, leading to increased incidence of skin cancer.
Lastly we emphasize that, because chlorine activation depends exponentially on water vapor and temperature, and in turn that the forcing of climate may well control the convective injection of water into the lower stratosphere, the idea that ozone “recovery” is in sight because we have controlled CFC and halon release is a potentially significant misjudgment. We have focused in this paper on conditions in the summer lower stratosphere over the US because that is the region for which we have direct experimental evidence of deep convective injection. Similar conditions may hold elsewhere, for example over the Tibetan plateau, north of the Asian Monsoon. The point is not that we know exactly when ozone will begin to decrease over the mid-latitude NH in summer if convective injection of water continues or increases, but rather that (1) the photochemical system controlling the concentration of ozone in the stratosphere is extraordinarily sensitive to the convective injection of water vapor that occurs over populated areas in summer, (2) the response of ozone to chlorine dimer and chlorine/bromine catalytic cycles is extremely sensitive to the altitude of penetration of convective injection, and (3) were the intensity and frequency of these convective events to increase irreversibly as a result of climate forcing by the continued addition of CO2 and CH4 to the atmosphere, decreases in ozone and associated increases in UV dosage would also be irreversible.
We have focused in this paper on conditions in the summer lower stratosphere over the US because that is the region for which we have direct experimental evidence of deep convective injection. Similar conditions may hold elsewhere, for example over the Tibetan plateau, north of the Asian Monsoon.
The point is not that we know exactly when ozone will begin to decrease over the mid-latitude NH in summer if convective injection of water continues or increases, but rather that (1) the photochemical system controlling the concentration of ozone in the stratosphere is extraordinarily sensitive to the convective injection of water vapor that occurs over populated areas in summer, (2) the response of ozone to chlorine dimer and chlorine/bromine catalytic cycles is extremely sensitive to the altitude of penetration of convective injection, and (3) were the intensity and frequency of these convective events to increase irreversibly as a result of climate forcing by the continued addition of CO2 and CH4 to the atmosphere, decreases in ozone and associated increases in UV dosage would also be irreversible.