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    Earth in crosshairs of gigantic solar storm

    A sunspot, 62,000 miles across - so big it would dwarf the Earth - is releasing gigantic solar flares that could in theory wreak havoc with electrical communications ranging from handheld electronics such as iPhones to sections of the power grid. Nasa has detected two X-class solar...
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    Iraq Buys F-16s, Strengthening Its Air Force

    WASHINGTON—Iraq has finalized a deal to buy advanced U.S. fighter jets, the first step toward building a modern postwar air force, officials said. Associated Press A Lockheed Martin F-6 Fighting Falcon performs during a demonstration flight at the 49th Paris Air Show at le Bourget airport in...
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    Snowtire And Many Other Oddities Seized In BC Prisons

    I can understand prisoners using a Bible for rolling papers, smuggling porn, pills and weed but why would someone have a brand new Michellin snowtire? The data obtained by The Sun contains details of 2,444 separate seizures at the province’s nine federal prisons. That’s more seizures than...
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    You had your chance and now they will come for the jobs....

    Foreign Oil Companies To Help Ease Labour Shortages... Foreign national oil companies (NOCs) will likely increase their presence in Canada’s oil sands, with one or two non-Chinese deals likely be struck in the next year, Deloitte predicted in a new report. Their role could help the sector...
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    This summer may see first ice-free North Pole

    WOW! I got it's warmest in August...who would have thunk? When do we all drown from rising sea levels?
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    This summer may see first ice-free North Pole

    Really? One month showed it all? How was your summer? Above or below average?
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    This summer may see first ice-free North Pole

    Notice how the drought hot spots are all on the lee side of the cold spots?
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    This summer may see first ice-free North Pole

    So why is the Atlantic and Indian cooling along with the Pacific? Coincidence?
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    This summer may see first ice-free North Pole

    Atmosphere eh? What keeps our atmosphere in place? What were temps in Kenya 10,000 years prior to that? Higher or lower?
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    This summer may see first ice-free North Pole

    What are the other reasons?
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    This summer may see first ice-free North Pole

    NOAA Scientists Link International Droughts and Ocean Temperatures Sometimes patterns cross and blammo....a perfect storm of bull****. 1998-2002...wasn't that the last solar cycle peak as well?
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    This summer may see first ice-free North Pole

    No no no. Facts are facts bub. Cool oceans make for droughts and light weight storms. Look up the causation for the drought in India and up into Russia. When did in the Indian Ocean become la Ninaesque?
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    This summer may see first ice-free North Pole

    How about the obvious droughts in TX and Africa and lack of hurricane season for the Atlantic? You don't need a graph for that do you?
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    This summer may see first ice-free North Pole

    Since when do two oceans cool at the same time in la Nina? Co-indkydink? Brown's gas and bull****?
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    This summer may see first ice-free North Pole

    Nope not posts at all. He just happens to live in a climate directly driven by ocean temps. What did the oceans drive this year? A goal post moving tractor?
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    This summer may see first ice-free North Pole

    Stuff a bar magnet up your snowball's ass and you'd be on to something.
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    This summer may see first ice-free North Pole

    Speak up Ton...How was your summer? Nice and chilly?
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    This summer may see first ice-free North Pole

    Yes indeed it is a cooling force. Which nakes for nasty droughts inland.
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    This summer may see first ice-free North Pole

    Sure do. Why are other oceans cooling too? Why did the Atlantic cool off of the west coast of Africa? It's not part of La nina. Is it? Why was la Nina extended another year? Did the models predict that?