Avalanche Deaths and Hazards Rattle Ski Country in the West - NYTimes.com

Since Dec. 14, avalanches have caused 13 deaths in the United States and 23 total in North America — one in a roof slide and the others in skiing, snowboarding, snowmobiling and ice-climbing incidents, according to Dale Atkins, vice president for the avalanche rescue commission at the International Commission for Alpine Rescue.

…Unless You’re Filthy Stinking Rich — Climate Resistance: Challenging Climate Orthodoxy

The BBC executives have got the wrong end of the stick entirely. If there is an environmental movement, it’s not grass-roots. It’s populated by the very Lieutenant-Colonels, rock-chicks, Crown Princes, trustafarians and ‘Tory scum‘ that the BBC are trying to reach out to. It’s Not Easy Being Green just gives privileged people one more reason to feel pretty damned pleased with themselves. The show is also mis-named; being green is easy - you only have to devote all your time, attention and resources to it, and make your lifestyle the subject of a reality TV show. It’s just a mystery why everyone else doesn’t do it.

Science is a process | January 7, 2009

Lee Freese’s letter (Jan. 4) is a demonstration that well expressed, reasonable sounding bovine scatology is still that.
Climate change is not “established science.” It is a fact on the basis of many lines of evidence. The climate is always changing. The real issue is whether a significant percentage of the change, especially warming, is anthropogenic. Many experts, not “a few”, dispute that. By the way, science in this context is not a thing or an opinion poll. It’s a process to pursue knowledge.
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Larry L. Morrison