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    Our cooling world

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    Moscow terrorist bombing kills 35

    Reports are 35 dead, more than 100 injured. A suicide bomb was set off at the arrivals terminal at Domodedovo, Moscow's busiest airport. A terrible waste of life. On the radio on the way home from work today they were linking this to the ongoing insurgency in Southern Russia. President Medvedev...
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    The health& wealth of the world over 200 years, in 4 minutes

    Nice illustrative use of statistics :D YouTube - Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four
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    Our cooling world

    The climate change signal, once you eliminate the variance introduced by exogenous factors like El Nino and Volcanic forcing:
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    AGW Denial, The Greatest Scam in History?

    About time someone started cleaning up the mess of professional deniers.
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    What to do about global warming

    We don't need any ideas, we need good ideas. Ingenuity, not anything goes.
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    Republican congressman introduces Patriot Act extension

    Bill H.R. 67 Don't look now but Congress is poised to pass, with very little media attention, the Screw the 4th Amendment Act, aka another Patriot Act reauthorization. Rep. Mike Rogers has submitted the bill to do so because the last reauthorization expires at the end of February. To show...
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    What to do about global warming

    Yeah, doesn't seem practical...think of all the miles of road. Trade peak oil for peak minerals.
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    Our cooling world

    YouTube - Evaporating Water in -30C in Yellowknife, NWT
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    Retirement investing question

    For long term investments like my retirement plan, are there certain classes of funds that do better over the long term historically than others? I'm currently invested in an S&P/TSX composite index fund, one bond index fund, and a Fidelity asset allocation fund. I choose these funds because...
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    What to do about global warming

    Green jobs growing in California, Next 10 says | Greenspace | Los Angeles TimesGreen jobs at clean-tech or alternative-energy companies are flourishing in California, with nearly a quarter of them based in Los Angeles, a study has found.Employers offering jobs in fields such as solar power...
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    What to do about global warming

    You can buy it right now. Strawman, nobody is asking you to starve. And you don't eat electricity do you?? And if you're so worried about efficiency, I assume you must have audited your home? How efficient is your energy consumption right now??
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    What to do about global warming

    The amount of energy from the sun that hits the surface of the earth is about 20,000 times the amount of energy consumed by humans. Think of how many people you could employ building manufacturing and infrastructure that harnesses energy from our energy [/FONT]nourished planet.
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    AGW Denial, The Greatest Scam in History?

    Look for yourself. Trend up to 1999: Extrapolated trend and the next decade of data: And with 2010:
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    AGW Denial, The Greatest Scam in History?

    No, masturbation involves stimulation of genitals, orgasms, hormonal changes, and the release of gametes. Spawning of salmonids produces gametes without stimulating genitals, without orgasm, and without hormonal changes associated with orgasm. The fish are anaesthetized and physical pressure is...
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    AGW Denial, The Greatest Scam in History?

    Reported. Keep your porn to yourself sicko.
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    AGW Denial, The Greatest Scam in History?

    No. Google scientific method Cletus. It will be more beneficial than your pisci-porn surfing.
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    AGW Denial, The Greatest Scam in History?

    So let's see your data then. What was your hypothesis? How did you set out to test it? How do your results compare to others in that field of study? You have to actually perform it though Beaver, I would have thought that much was obvious even to an obsessive member of the Castor family like...
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    AGW Denial, The Greatest Scam in History?

    Science is a method. Anyone who is using the scientific method to study and build knowledge is a scientist. There is no rigid definition that disqualifies multiple disciplines from studying the same broad topics. Science evolves as the knowledge and implications evolve. Interdisciplinary just...
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    AGW Denial, The Greatest Scam in History?

    Are you really that stupid Cletus? A "Climate Scientist" is a scientist who studies the climate. Researchers considered climate scientists come from many different backgrounds, like atmospheric science, meteorology, oceanography, atmospheric chemistry, and other geosciences. The mitigating...