House OK’s Bill for U.S. to Stay in Paris Climate Accord

Economic Damages Under House Bill 393

David G. Tucek INTRODUCTION The 2005 Missouri General Assembly adopted House Bill 393 This paper focuses on parts of House Bill 393 that are likely to change the manner in which economists calculate damages or which will have other impacts on their relationships with the court and with attorneys. In some instances the bill is unclear about how damages should be calculated, and the authors revie...

Will oncologists applaud the Paris Accord? Time to rethink global mega-conferences.

It is ironic that the signing of the Paris Accord1,2, on 12 December at the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference, coincided with the last large-scale global oncology conference of 2015: the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. While international representatives from 195 nations met in Paris and pledged to limit global warming, more than 7500 conference attendees from more than 90 coun...

The Economic Climate for the Farm Bill Debate

The 1996 Farm Bill was debated and passed during one of the best of times in U.S. agriculture and has presided over one of the worst of times in terms of crop prices, market incomes, and government payments. While it is not fair to lay all of crop agriculture’s price and income problems at the feet the 1996 legislation, it is fair to assign it much of the blame. Expectations were that the passa...

Climate Impacts of the Paris Agreement

Climate, ecological release and bill dimorphism in an island songbird.

Sexual size dimorphism is expected to be more pronounced in vertebrates on islands, particularly in trophic characters, as a response to decreased interspecific competition for food. We found (based on measurements of 1423 museum specimens) that bill size dimorphism was greater in island than mainland populations of song sparrows. However, dimorphism varied among islands and was positively corr...