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NASA Spacecraft Confirms Martian Water, Mission Extended July 31, 2008 Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. The lander's robotic arm delivered the sample Wednesday to an instrument that identifies vapors produced by the heating of samples...

Bangladesh gaining land, not losing: scientists DHAKA, July 30 (AFP) Jul 30, 2008 New data shows that Bangladesh's landmass is increasing, contradicting forecasts that the South Asian nation will be under the waves by the end of the century, experts say. Scientists from the Dhaka-based...

More ice than expected in parts of the Arctic 2008-07-24 Ice at Spitsbergen (Barentsphoto.com) New data from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute shows that there is more ice than normal in the Arctic waters north of the Svalbard archipelago. In most years, there are open waters in...

Almost a million more square kliks than last year. Brr.

MARGARET WENTE From Tuesday's Globe and Mail July 29, 2008 at 10:41 AM EDT Should cartoonists get danger pay? Maybe it's time. Canada's own Barry Blitt has gone to ground after his infamous, satirical New Yorker cover depicting the Obamas as gun-toting Islamic militants. Obama fans hated it...

Jordin Sparks Makes a Virginity Vow BE interactive Young singer Jordin Sparks says that she plans on being a virgin until she gets married. The 18-year-old American Idol winner has made a vow of chastity and even wears a purity ring to show her dedication to her Christian beliefs, reports...

Cycle 24 still isn't doing anything.

Gloomy summer headed toward infamy CHILLY: Anchorage could hit 65 degrees for fewest days on record. By GEORGE BRYSON gbryson@adn.com Published: July 24th, 2008 12:10 AM Last Modified: July 24th, 2008 04:56 PM The coldest summer ever? You might be looking at it, weather folks say. Right...

An inconvenient ruling Tuesday, 22nd July 2008 The ever wise (and droll) Philip Stott says it all here about the eye-opening media spinning of the Ofcom ruling on the Channel Four documentary, The Great Global Warming Swindle. As Philip notes, the only thing that matters is that Ofcom ruled...

The sky is falling on Gore again By Henry Lamb (07/21/0) Al Gore has certainly secured his place in history. His Academy-Award-Pulitzer-Prize-winning prediction that climate change will raise sea levels by 20 feet will be studied by future history students, along with the predictions of Malthus...

Al Gore's Doomsday Clock July 22, 2008; Page A17 Al Gore gave a speech last week "challenging" America to run "on 100% zero-carbon electricity in 10 years" -- though that's just the first step on his road to "ending our reliance on carbon-based fuels." Serious people understand this is absurd...

“Consensus” on Man-Made Warming Shattering By Dennis Avery Saturday, July 19, 2008 The “consensus” on man-made global warming may have received a mortal wound. Physics & Society, The journal of the 46,000-member American Physical Society, just published “Climate Sensitivity Revisited,”...

Do as Al says, not as Al does Lorne Gunter, National Post Published: Monday, July 21, 2008 On Thursday, former U. S. vice-president Al Gore delivered a major address calling on his country to abandon all fossil fuels within 10 years. By 2018, U. S. electricity and fuel should come entirely...

Shifting of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation from its warm mode to cool mode assures global cooling for the next three decades. Don J. Easterbrook, Dept. of Geology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA Addressing the Washington Policymakers in Seattle, WA, Dr. Don Easterbrook said...

Challenging the basis of Kyoto Protocol Vladimir Radyuhin Russian scientists deny that the Kyoto Protocol reflects a consensus view of the world scientific community. As western nations step up pressure on India and China to curb the emission of greenhouse gases, Russian scientists reject...

A sun spot formed today. First one in about three weeks but it's a cycle 23 spot; still looking for cycle 24.

No smoking hot spot David Evans | July 18, 2008 I DEVOTED six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian Greenhouse Office. I am the rocket scientist who wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia's compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, in the land...

Myth of Consensus Explodes: APS Opens Global Warming Debate "Considerable presence" of skeptics The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in...