Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Greenhouse physics forecasts a future without polar bears - KansasCity.com
The atmospheric circulation patterns and very warm temperatures that created this winter’s weak ice development may reflect the natural chaos in the climate system as much as global warming.
Frost Killing Crops In Yakima | KIMA CBS 29 - News, Weather and Sports - Yakima, WA - Yakima, Washington 29 | Local & Regional
YAKIMA -- Local farmers are calling these conditions the worst frost this season. Temperatures have been down in the 20's and Action News discovered many crops have already died.

It looks like a winter wonder land in April.
Who Really Thinks That Global Warming is a Lie? | Naked Niche
These global cooling wingnuts are the same people that think that the Redcoats are coming and therefore everyone needs a sub-machine gun in their closet.
Welcome Back, Carter — MasterResource
The enduring belief that heavy subsidies for uneconomic technologies will make them competitive in the marketplace led him to promote through subsidies the installation of what would now be considered primitive technologies.
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Encouraging consumers to buy wildly uncompetitive technology is not the way to promote technological advance.
- Bishop Hill blog - Churnalism
Here's a fascinating new tool - Churnalism.com. It allows you to enter the text of a press release and find out how much of it was copied and pasted by UK newspapers.

I tried a Friends of the Earth press release about small-scale energy generation and found that around half ended up unaltered in (guess where)...the Guardian.

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