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As Barack Obama begins his second year in office, the public’s priorities for the president and Congress remain much as they were one year ago. Strengthening the nation’s economy and improving the job situation continue to top the list. And, in the wake of the failed Christmas Day terrorist attack on a Detroit-bound airliner, defending the country from future terrorist attacks also remains a top priority. At the same time, the public has shifted the emphasis it assigns to two major policy issues: dealing with the nation’s energy problem and reducing the budget deficit. About half (49%) say that dealing...

Time magazine, November 26, 2007 (Michael Grunwald): [Georgia's] drought was a natural event transformed into a natural disaster by human folly. And while it's still hard to say whether global warming caused any particular drought or flood or fire, it's going to cause more of all of them. Time magazine, June 24, 1974: In Africa, drought continues for the sixth consecutive year, adding terribly to the toll of famine victims... Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.

San Francisco - Ever since rock music emerged as a popular art form in the 1960s its visionaries have dreamed about it changing the world. Now comes its chance to save the planet. On Saturday, hundreds of performers and politicians, thousands of fans and billions of viewers around the world will join forces in support of Live Earth. This precedent-setting event, subtitled Concerts for a Climate in Crisis, hopes to raise consciousness about the threat of global warming by holding round the clock concerts on every continent - including Antarctica, where Nunatak, a band made up of five British scientists...