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I always grow a few tomato plants. I even grew some during the cold '70s. I don't think I've ever waited past the Fourth of July to pluck my first bright red fruit.

Mark Kirk Denies Report He's Out Of Senate Race, Deciding Over Weekend

A potential sticking point for Kirk, Cilliza reported, is his vote for the administration's climate change bill and a potential primary with state GOP chairman Andy McKenna

Don't tax us over shaky science | www.azstarnet.com ®

...I am concerned about our country's response to global warming/climate change. There is a dangerous "group think" that can decimate our fragile economy by persuading citizens to support big tax hikes on energy.

Avaaz Action Factory helps Senators pump it up and make a STRONG climate bill « It’s Getting Hot In Here

As part of the Campus Progress lobby day, the Action Factory stepped up to organize a mass-action involving over 60 people in a guerilla aerial photo. Co-organizing with Energy Action Coalition and Chesapeake Climate Action Network, a team of letter captains, 50 volunteers walked into the Senate Hart office building and formed a ‘flash-mob’ spelling out STRONG in front of the baffled police. (See above photo)

This rapid-response call for a STRONG bill was followed by a group of 30 in strongmen outfits, Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger shirts and Powershift09 shirts to visit the offices of primary targets in the fight for a strong climate bill: Senators Levin (D-MI), Snow (R-ME) and McCaskill (D-MO).

Alarmist Emily Gertz: Fatalistic Friday: Americans still "confused" about global warming

A recipe for climate disruption:

* Take the American public

* Add 10-plus years of slick global warming disinformation campaigns aimed at both pubilc and journalists

* Season with gaps in science education

Stir vigorously to blend.

The result: A populace that -- at the same time it's burning enormous quantities of oil and coal, which produces most of the excess heat-trapping greenhouse gas pollution in the atmosphere -- remains uncertain, doubtful, and sometimes significantly misinformed when it comes to both the science and the reality of global warming.