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- -07-07-10 Hawaii Governor Vetoes Civil-Unions Bill (Time.com)
"After weeks of lobbying and political maneuvering, the governor of the Aloha State vetoed a controversial measure Tuesday that would allow same-sex and unwed heterosexual couples the same protections under the law that married couples have." 07-10
- -04-10-11 Hawaii State Health Official Explains Obama's Birth Certificate (MSNBC News)
"The Hawaiian state health official who personally reviewed Barack Obama's original birth certificate has affirmed again that the document is 'real' and denounced 'conspiracy theorists' in the so-called 'birther' movement for continuing to spread bogus claims about the issue."
"Moreover, she added, her boss at the time, Lingle who was backing John McCain for president would presumably have to be in on any cover up since Fukino made her public comment at the governor's office's request. 'Why would a Republican governor who was stumping for the other guy hold out on a big secret?' she asked."
"Her second point one she made repeatedly in the interview is that the shorter, computer generated 'certification of live birth' that was obtained by the Obama campaign in 2007 and has since been publicly released is the standard document that anybody requesting their birth certificate from the state of Hawaii would receive from the health department."
"Even Fukino accepts that her comments are not likely to end the matter for the die-hard birthers. Trump and other skeptics have questioned why the original birth certificate has not been released."
"But Wisch, the spokesman for the attorney general's office, said state law does not in fact permit the release of 'vital records,' including an original 'record of live birth' even to the individual whose birth it records."
"Hawaiian officials say that the certification is, in fact, only one piece of abundant evidence of Obama's birth in Hawaii. Joshua Wisch, a spokesman for the Hawaii attorney general's office, noted that a public index of vital records, available for inspection in a bound volume at the Health Department's Office of Health Status Monitoring, lists a male child named 'Obama II, Barack Hussein' as having been born in the state."
Editor's Note: The latest "birther" to claim that Obama may not have been born in the United States, Donald Trump, ordered his own "birth certificate" for viewing and received the same type of document the White House has released for Obama. Trump could not fail to know that what Obama released to prove his birth is what is legally available to everyone. No states release the original birth certificate. 04-11
- Study: Iron to Boost CO2 Sequestration in Oceans (SOEST.Hawaii)
"We conclude that based on the SOFeX results and currently available technology, oceanic large-scale iron fertilization not appears a feasible strategy to remove anthropogenic CO2 from the atmosphere." 10-2021
- Hawaii Travel Guide
- Hawaii State Public Library System
- Hawaii - Islands of Aloha (Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau)
Provides highlights of the islands, including accomodations, events, pictures, and more. 7-00
- Hawaii (Weber Publications)
Includes a great deal of basic information, such as geography, legislature, flag, motto, bird, flower, motto, nickname, and so forth. Also has a link to the state capital, Honolulu. 10-00
- Hawaii: 04-15-07 Don Ho, Singer, Dies (New York Times)
"Don Ho, an entertainer who defined popular perceptions of Hawaiian music in the 1960s and held fast to that image as a peerless Waikiki nightclub attraction, died yesterday in Honolulu. He was 76." 04-07
- Obama Background (CNN News)
"Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan father and a white mother from Kansas, born in Hawaii, raised in Chicago, was an little-known Illinois state Senator as recently as late last year."
"Now, he's the state's Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, the subject of major features in The New Yorker and The New Republic magazines, the odds-on favorite to win the seat being vacated by Republican Peter Fitzgerald -- and he's getting the Democratic convention's glamour slot, giving the keynote address in the heart of prime time." 7-04
- Sharks Navigate Using Magnetic Fields (CNN News)
"Marine scientists in Hawaii have confirmed sharks can spot changes in magnetic fields."
"The discovery adds weight to the long-held theory that the fish possess an internal compass to guide them over long distances." 12-04
- Olympus Mons on Mars (ASK and Astronomer for Kids)
"The highest mountain and volcano in the solar system is on the planet Mars. It is called Olympus Mons and is 16 miles (24 kilometers) high which makes it about three times higher than Mt. Everest. In addition to being very tall, it is also very wide (340 miles or 550 kilometers) and covers an area larger than the entire chain of Hawaiian islands. Olympus Mons is a very flat mountain which slopes by only 2 to 5 degrees. It is a shield volcano built up by eruptions of lava." 01-06
- Whales, Humpback (PBS.org)
"Graceful and magnificent, humpback whales inspire awe in young and old alike. These marine mammals travel great distances to take advantage of the best breeding grounds and feeding spots. North Pacific humpbacks, for example, mate and give birth in Hawaii and then travel to Alaska each summer to feed." 06-06
- The Keeling Curve (Wikipedia.org)
Displays the level of monthly average carbon dioxide concentration at Mauna Lao Observatory in Hawaii from 1960 to 2018. The parts per million changed from 315 to 411.
- -04-26-11 CNN Investigation Results: Obama Was Born in the U.S. (CNN News)
"A new CNN investigation reveals what most analysts have been saying since the 'birther' controversy erupted during the 2008 presidential campaign: Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. Period."
"Could Obama's 1961 birth announcement in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin be a fake? Some conspiracy theorists say yes. Longtime Honolulu newspaper reporter Dan Nakaso says no."
" 'It's not possible,' Nakaso said. 'Under the system that existed back then, there was no avenue for people to submit information that way. ... The information came directly from the state Department of Health.' "
"Indeed, as CNN confirmed, all birth announcements at the time came directly from hospital birth records."
"Rick Smethurst, a 2008 John McCain voter who now lives in Obama's childhood home in Hawaii, counts himself among the doubters. He said he wants to find someone who saw Obama immediately after the president was born."
"Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie said he did. Abercrombie, a Democrat, was friendly with Ann Dunham, Obama's mother, and remembers celebrating the birth."
"Professor Alice Dewey of the University of Hawaii was a faculty adviser to Dunham and also knew the future president when he was a child. She called the controversy 'funny.' She said there is 'no way' Obama wasn't born in the state."
Editor's Note: The article starts with a large posting of Obama's Certification of Live Birth, the legal evidence necessary to prove the place and time of a birth. In addition, President Obama released his actual Certificate of Live Birth, the "long form." Obama's Birth Certificate is available Here. 04-11
- -04-28-11 Editorial: It's Not About His Birth, It's About His Race (CNN News)
I will not click on the link to view the long form of President Obama's birth certificate. I will not participate in this final humiliation -- in the president's reluctant acquiescence in this ongoing smear."
"The release of the president's long-form certificate proving his birth in Hawaii will not stop the attempts to discredit his leadership. The so-called 'birther' movement veils a much more basic challenge to Obama's legitimacy. And yes, that challenge has a great deal to do with his race.
"Now, even the first black president has been compelled to present proof that he 'belongs' in the White House. No Harvard degree, no Nobel Prize -- not even the support of a majority of voters in this vast country is enough. More will always be required.
"That's why so many of us are disturbed by the president's decision to give in and release the long-form document." 04-11
- The Keeling Curve (Wikipedia.org)
Displays the level of monthly average carbon dioxide concentration at Mauna Lao Observatory in Hawaii from 1960 to 2018. The parts per million changed from 315 to 411.
- -01 Widgets for Websites on CO2 Levels in the Air (CO2Now.org)
"CO2Now.org distributes the world's latest data for atmospheric CO2 as measured at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. This is where high-precision CO2 monitoring was started in March 1958 by Dr. Dave Keeling of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The Mauna Loa Observatory is a remote location where CO2 is well mixed in the atmosphere, more than two miles above sea level." 06-12
- -Carbon Storage Capacity of Forests (Grist.org)
"As the climate warms, public lands may become even more valuable in Americas effort to fight greenhouse gas emissions because climate change may increase the amount of carbon federal public lands in the lower 48 states are able to store by nearly 20 percent by 2050, a new study shows."
"The study, conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey and published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first of its kind researching the carbon storage and sequestration potential on federal land. It considered only carbon storage potential on federal land in the lower 48 states, excluding Hawaii and Alaska."
"Forests remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in tree trunks, roots and other woody biomass, creating what scientists call a 'carbon sink a reservoir of stored carbon. When a forest is cut down or burns, however, the carbon is released back into the atmosphere, contributing to climate change.""
"Editor's Note: The study indicates that 14 billion tons of carbon could be sequestered by forests in the United States by 2050. 06-2019
- -Coral Reef Bleaching Crisis (CBS News)
"Triggered by global warming and the El Nino, record hot ocean water is causing fragile coral to go white and often die, threatening picturesque reefs that are hotspots of marine life, experts say."
"The spread of sickly white started more than a year ago in Guam, then devastated Hawaii, infected the rest of the tropical Pacific and the Indian oceans and has now infested Florida and the Caribbean. On Thursday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and international reef scientists pronounced it a global coral bleaching event, only the third in recorded history."
"Even though coral reefs are one-tenth of 1 percent of the ocean floor by area, they are home to 25 percent of the world's fish species, Eakin said." 10-15
- Pearl Harbor Memorial (MSNBC News)
"About 2,000 sailors, veterans, community leaders and guests bowed their heads Wednesday in remembrance of the attack on Pearl Harbor that hurled the U.S. into World War II 64 years ago." 12-05
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