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Obama-Biden Transition Project Co-Chair Valerie Jarrett took some time on November 13th 2008 to give the viewers of Change.Gov an update on how the transition is progressing and highlighting some of the major moves that have occurred thus far.

http://lukeford.net/archives/updates/081029.htm Marc Gafni says the internet has allowed haters such as neo-Nazis to take their case to the world. The internet allows anybody to slime anyone. This hatred borders on the satanic.

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(PEI series Pt 2) Speaker: Richard C. J. Somerville, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. Discussant: Elizabeth Harman, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University (Oct 7, 2008 at Princeton University) In 2007, an international group of experts completed a definitive assessment of recent research on climate change science. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) calls warming of the climate system "unequivocal" and attributes most of the observed recent global warming to human activities, with a confidence level of 90% or more. As human activities continue to modify the climate system, what will the implications be for rising sea level, hurricanes, and water supply? This talk first summarizes key scientific findings and then examines policy options. Worldwide emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change continue to increase each year. Nations will accept constraints on their freedom to emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases only when they are satisfied that they are being treated justly and equitably. Ethical concerns underlie the differing rights and obligations of both developed and developing countries. Intergenerational equity requires people today to consider the planet that their descendants will inherit. The prospect of intentional geoengineering to counter human-caused climate change also raises profound questions of equity and ethics. This is part two of a 5-part "Ethics and Climate Change" series sponsored by the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) and the University Center for Human Values.

President George W. Bush held a refresher ethics session for his staff because people are finding out about the crazy things they've been doing.

US Senate Candidate Mark Begich unveils his ethics pledge at a press conference in Anchorage. He is joined by Vic Fischer and Nick Moe.

Speaker: Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University Discussant: George Philander, Professor of Geosciences, Princeton University (Sep 30, 2008 at Princeton University) Climate change raises old ethical issues in a new way. The old issues are essentially those of justice in distribution, as familiar as the old problem of sharing a pie between many hungry people. How should we divide up the capacity of our atmosphere to absorb our greenhouse gases? Justice between generations is also obviously relevant. But these issues arise in new ways that threaten our traditional sense of what is right and what is wrong. Hence climate change presents a new and particularly difficult moral challenge. This is part one of a 5-part "Ethics and Climate Change" series sponsored by the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) and the University Center for Human Values.

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