Sunday, January 11, 2009

Put kangaroos, camels on Australian eco-menu: scientists
[to farm kangaroos] "You would need ten-feet [three-metre] high fencing similar to the deer industry," Brown said.
More snow, then severe cold takes aim at city -- chicagotribune.com
THURSDAY COULD BRING THE CITY ITS COLDEST DAY IN NEARLY 13 YEARS.  The real weather story will be the intense cold that invades the area later this week. Temperatures will plunge in the wake of Wednesday's storm, falling well below zero by Thursday morning. With arctic air gripping the area, Thursday's highs are expected to remain below zero—something that has not happened here since February 1996. Gusty northwest winds will accompany the bitterly cold weather, sending windchills to dangerous levels of 30 degrees below zero—or lower.
American Thinker: Christianity and the Round Planet
Many people, like me, grew up believing that when Columbus sailed to America in 1492, Christians at the time thought that he would fall off the edge of the world. Not only were we taught this in school, but even serious historians like Daniel Boorstein, in his book, The Discoverers, states as historical fact that European Christians thought the world was flat. This sure makes Christians sound ignorant, doesn't it? There is only one problem: there is not a lick of truth to it.
Should RSS correct their lower troposphere satellite data ?
Disagreement between greenhouse models and observed trends now becomes quite obvious and strengthens the NIPCC conclusion that Nature, not human activity, rules the climate.

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