Once-frosty pelicans take wing thanks to rescue effort

ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) - The Wildlife Center of the North Coast recently released 14 California brown pelicans that were stranded in this winter's snowstorms and taken in for treatment.

In December and January, the Olney wildlife center received 35 ailing, emaciated and frostbitten pelicans that didn't make it to California before the bitter cold hit Oregon. The birds were part of a major stranding event that affected an estimated 300 to 400 pelicans in the region.
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Some of the birds needed surgery on their feet because the frostbite had killed part of their bones. The center is making sure all the birds had at least half their foot web back before releasing them.

Will hurricanes skip state for a fourth season?

TAMPA - For Florida residents, the big question is whether the state can make it through the fourth storm season in a row without a hurricane crossing its shoreline.

Global-warming doubters - Jessica's Well

I was resistant to all of these things because I smelled them being sold as a religion. I've no problem with a supernatural religion, as long as its adherents don't blow themselves and others up--for you cannot disprove their tenets. You can't prove them, either, but then who knows? They might be true and if they promote good and generous behavior I'm all for them. But the secular religions cause in me severe distress and even more of a curled lip of disdain because we are told that we must believe something and therefore verifiable facts simply don't enter into it. A fact? The very cheek! Bring out the modern Iron Maiden! Cut his funding!

How refreshing to find, and on the Senate website, not something that I'd normally refer to as authoritative about anything other than Senators' self-importance, some Global Warming Doubters.

And it is also refreshing to think that it is just possible that the Holy Gore will become even more preposterous as he continues his well-paid jeremiad and hypocritical hair-shirt environmentalism. I long for the day when he cannot draw a crowd at a run-down shopping mall and the only people who are not laughing at him are those remaining on the environmental tit.