Alarmist professor takes part in bogus climate change study with hockey team captain

Scott Rutherford, an assistant professor in the department of environmental science at Roger Williams University, is co-author of a scientific paper that made international news last week with its findings of warming in Antarctica, where earlier studies had tracked more cooling.

The paper in the journal Nature was picked up in hundreds of publications and Web sites as far away as Australia and South Africa.

“It’s kind of neat,” Rutherford said last week of all of the attention.

Rutherford had studied with one of the key authors, Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University, a speaker at last fall’s Honors Colloquium on Climate Change at the University of Rhode Island.
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“Will this end the debate? No,” Rutherford said. “There are some people who will not accept anything as proof. There’s nothing you can do about that. I just keep my head down and keep doing science.”

But can't butter also be used as butter?: Colleges convert cooking oil into biodiesel

The State University of New York melted down a 900-pound butter sculpture from the state fair last summer to help power its vehicles.

Should the Obama administration ban the Snuggie to save us all from deadly kidney stones?

ALBANY, N.Y. — The recent run of single-digit temperatures has Tina Carstensen craving the Snuggie she ordered in early December.

Now that the cult-like robe of hokey infomercial fame has become fodder for late-night talk shows and Twitter feeds, hers isn't expected to arrive until February.
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In early December, the $20 Snuggie ranked No. 8 on Shoppers Advantage's list of top holiday gifts. It was the only nonelectronic nestled among the Wii, cell phones and GPS systems.

"As more people stay home with the heat down, the Snuggie has emerged at the right time," says Jill Spiegel, a Minneapolis-based pop culture expert.