Palin believes that global warming exists but does not believe it to be man-made. She also supposedly hates polar bears and supports shooting wolves from helicoptersAlthough it's clear that she has made global warming into a political issue rather than a scientific one--and in fact, contradicts McCain on the causes of global warming--there's ( Read more... )

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(courtesy of racingpenguins)The truth is that I'm out of touch with America ( Read more... )

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080618/full/news.2008.898.html

First paragraph:Europe is losing its snow, and Alpine resorts that depend on winter tourism are very worried. A new study shows that the snow shortage in the Swiss Alps has not come about ( Read more... )

European Space Agency: Northwest Passage Open for the First Time in History

For those who don't know their geohistory, the NWP is the route explorers once hoped existed in the Arctic--north of Canada--that would save ships from having to go all the way south to Cape Horn (southernmost point in South America) in order to move between the Atlantic ( Read more... )

Our house was flooding and there was no where to go but upstairs. It was me, my father, and my sister, in our old house--from before Dad remarried. Everyone was younger except for me ( Read more... )