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Here is another image of the cold weather "blob":


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Those people have no idea what they are missing...

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James Hansen (Head of NASA's Goddard Institute) in Newsweek .

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In 2001, when I spoke to Vice President Dick Cheney's cabinet-level Climate Task Force, I was more sanguine about the climate situation. It seemed that the climate impacts might be tolerable if the atmospheric carbon dioxide amount was kept at a level not exceeding 450 parts per ( Read more... )

Lady GaGa is really Frenchy, from Grease.


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Here is a longish but fascinating article on the use of industrial windmills in 17th and 18th century Europe.

I loved it. Lots.


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A hominid is any member of the biological family Hominidae (the "great apes"), including the extinct and extant humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. This classification has been revised several times in the last few decades. These various revisions have led to a varied use of the word "hominid": the original meaning of Hominidae referred ( Read more... )

Ok, this has everyone a little confused, but I think Obama handled it well, since he is a very capable guy. His response:

I am both surprised and deeply humbled by the decision of the Nobel Committee ( Read more... )