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Feb.10.2013
Last year, most of our winter in Northern Minnesota was snowless. The ground remained brown in the dead way of November. There were a few snowfalls but they soon melted. Global warming seemed very real. startribune.com
I’d never experienced any winter like that in Minnesota....
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Dec.03.2012
It's 5:40 AM and my hair is wet from my shower. My work systems are powering up to begin the work day, start a new work week and work month, and finish a work year as we sprint into December and the end of 2012.
Ten years ago, 2012 seemed so far away. Now the calendar's last page is...
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Oct.31.2012
A couple years ago there were blizzards and record snow fall (at least since humans have been keeping records) and there have been hurricanes, like Katrina that decimated New Orleans and the coastal areas in the Gulf, and typhoons, and tornadoes, and all kinds of extreme weather. Everywhere I...
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Oct.28.2012
Let's see. The debates.
The president said, `Global warming is a huge threat to man's continued existence.'
Romney replied, `Yes, and when I am elected I will save us.'
`Oh? What's your plan?' said Obama, eyebrow raised.
`Air conditioning,'' said Romney.
`Not bad,' conceded the president. `But don'...
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Oct.11.2012
By Dennis Loo
As Rebecca Solnit put it in admonishing the Left to support Obama’s re-election: Obama may be killing innocent children abroad, but that’s not new for American presidents (!!), and Obama at least is promoting health care in ways that Mitt Romney wouldn’t.
In other words, even if the...
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Aug.23.2012
SAN FRANCISCO--When I was young, I used to eat food taken from a supermarket's garbage bin. We first came to America from Vietnam in the mid 70s as refugees, and my eldest brother got a job working in a supermarket across from our crowded, ramshackle apartment. Among his many chores he...
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Aug.04.2012
In our front yard here in Illinois there is a perfectly shaped crescent of dormant grass. The brown patch exactly follows the shadow pattern of a giant sycamore tree to the south of our yard. The grass beneath this sycamore has hung in there through a summer of drought. But where the sun strikes...
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Aug.04.2012
A week or two ago I wrote a piece, somewhat wise guy and satirical, on global warming. The idea of Greenland thawing out for the first time in the memory of climatologists scared me. After all, what does anything else matter – getting your work published or produced, great reviews, winning the...
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Apr.23.2012
A group that includes 8 astronauts, has had enough of NASA making unsubstantiated claims and taking a political position regarding climate change.
Live Science recently published a letter addressed to the Honourable Charles Bolden Jr, NASA Administrator, dated 28 March 2012 and signed by 49...
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Apr.06.2012
Poem-a-day Challenge for National Poetry Month
#6
NEWS FLASH! In an incredible breakthrough, archeologists have found and decoded a 60-million-year-old dinosaur text which argues that climate change is a myth and no species are at risk.
This proves that modern conservatives really do honour...
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