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I want to make a proper lj post but the next ones I have queued up are about stilt bugs and moldy mushrooms--doesn't seem fair after you guys were so generous kicking in to renew my paid account ( Read more... )

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Is the United States the only nation where large numbers of literate people don't believe in man-made climate change? I believe in man-made disbelief of science, which is almost as scary as large-scale famine caused by droughts and floods. I did meet a nice Australian lady on my trip to Greenland who had her doubts about man-made climate change, ( Read more... )

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It has become a fashion in our day, to notice short weather patterns and blame them on Global Climate Change. To be sure, by definition, Global Climate Change is a factor in every meteorological event. But it is specious reasoning to cite, for example, the fact that this winter in Boston was unusually warm, as a trend that we can blame on "global ( Read more... )

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