Tuesday, December 08, 2009

To the Editor: Save the Earth, get rid of trappings of Christmas | News from The Post-Standard -
[Mary Armstrong] I believe we should think about doing away with Christmas. Our planet is in big trouble, and giving up Christmas would help to save it in many ways.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966) (TV) - Memorable quotes
Grinch: I must stop this whole thing! Why, for fifty-three years I've put up with it now. I must stop Christmas from coming... but how?
Noteworthy "chill" over Montana
Already cooling off from yesterday's "high" of -8 at Cut Bank. Are we heading for between 40 and 50 below tonight somewhere in MT?
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Will Howard on Science and Politics
The apparent collusion to manipulate this adversial system evidenced by the emails, if true, would tend to compromise the credibility of this system. If true, it tends to make scientists like me look like fools or liars for stressing the strength of our adversial system.
Is global warming causing hungry polar bears to resort to cannibalism? | Mail Online
But this theory is disputed by Inuit leaders in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, who claim it is wrong to connect the bears' behaviour with starvation.

Kivalliqu Inuit Association president Jose Kusugak said: ‘It makes the south – southern people – look so ignorant.

‘A male polar bear eating a cub becomes a big story and they try to marry it with climate change and so on, it becomes absurd when it’s a normal, normal occurrence.’

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