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    Top Gear host hits the wall on climate science

    Then who's going to build all those cool little toys for you that makes modern life so convenient? When you start acting like beasts you're going to end up living like one when you kill off all the people qualified to make modern life possible. And anyone who's communicating online- which...
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    Top Gear host hits the wall on climate science

    Until 1979 it wasn't widely accepted that mass extinctions ever occured, we now understand that the global environment can and does go through periodic upheavals that wipe out high percentages of existing species. Catastrophism was treated with derision until there was no room for meaningful...
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    This summer may see first ice-free North Pole

    The Arctic ice pack and the Greenland Ice Sheet are two different issues, the one is land based and thousands of feet thick in places and will withstand warming much longer. The Arctic sea ice pack is metres thick and has thinned by about half in recent decades and is vulnerable to rapid melting...
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    This summer may see first ice-free North Pole

    back under your bridge troll It's a prediction of events that are influenced by highly complex systems, not a train schedule. We're just coming out of period that has seen the temporary conjunction of the deepest and longest solar sunspot minimum(which means less solar radiance) and one of...
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    This summer may see first ice-free North Pole

    Your own article contradicts what you're saying. And somehow I doubt that volcanic activity in the Arctic is melting ice cover worldwide, it's global warming doing the job, not volcanos almost 15,000 feet below the ocean surface. And New York isn't going to be flooded when the Arctic ice...
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    Stan Lee's SuperHumans

    I was watching this show on DVD the other day, there are some amazing people out there, almost in the superhero catagory. Bob Munden has reflexes so fast he can make two pistol shots look and sound like one. Bob Munden - Super Humans - YouTube
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    Oil Sand Myths

    For me the big one is we need it. The Myth is us Canadians are so soft we need to keep relying on fossil fuels to survive no matter the long term consequences...put another way what's going on could be analogous to burning candles in a sunken sub to play poker. You might have a good time but...
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    Tough love Conservative style

    It's no revelation that real wages haven't keep pace with rising costs over the years resulting in many people working at or below the subsistance level in this country and others in the developed world. But according to Jim Flaherty Canadians should be unquestioningly grateful for the little we...