Tipper Gore [Allegedly] Isn't Buying Masseuse's Story: People.com

Further debunking all the speculation of a contentious breakup to their marriage, the friend points out that Al and Tipper were together on a weeklong family vacation last month, just two weeks after going public with their split.

"They were on a lake in Tennessee, with all the kids and grandkids. Doing lake stuff – waterskiing [using a fossil-fueled boat?!], cooking [meat?!] out," says the friend close to the Gores. "They continue to be a tight family. That's not going to change."

Canada: Cold weather causes low raspberry yields

The recent chilly weather has not been good news for the raspberry growers of British Columbia. The growing season got off to a difficult start because the honey bees which pollinate the raspberry flowers don't like the cold.

Climategate: No whitewash, but CRU scientists are far from squeaky clean | Fred Pearce | Environment | The Guardian

Many will find the report indulgent of reprehensible behaviour, particularly in peer review, where CRU researchers have been accused of misusing their seniority in climate science to block criticism. Brutal exchanges in which researchers boasted of "going to town" to prevent publication of papers critical of their work, and in which they conspired to blacklist journals that published hostile papers, were dismissed by Russell as "robust" and "typical of the debate that can go on in peer review".
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The report is far from being a whitewash. And nor does it justify the claim of university vice-chancellor Sir Edward Action that it is a "complete exoneration". In particular it backs critics who see in the emails a widespread effort to suppress public knowledge about their activities and to sideline bloggers who want to access their data and do their own analysis.

Most seriously, it finds "evidence that emails might have been deleted in order to make them unavailable should a subsequent request be made for them [under Freedom of information law]". Yet, extraordinarily, it emerged during questioning that Russell and his team never asked Jones or his colleagues whether they had actually done this.

Secrecy was the order of the day at CRU.

ABC News Watch: Cargo Croc Science - Crocodiles dive less in warmer waters

Crocodylus johnstoni has thrived despite massive changes in temperatures for 100s of 1000 years. It has survived at least 4 ice ages over the past million years and the associated major swings in temperature and precipitation and changes in prey species. It has survived warmer and colder conditions. Its biggest enemy at present is the cane toad, yet ABC help promote "Summer" as its major threat.