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The Breakthrough Institute - How Electricity and TV Defused the ‘Population Bomb’

How does TV act as a contraceptive? Lewis notes it may be because "many of its offerings provide a model of middle class families successfully grappling with the transition from tradition to modernity, helped by the fact that they have few children to support." It may not be TV generally, but rather soap operas specifically that paint a vision for poor women of how much better life with fewer kids might be.

Record 98F Yesterday (hottest May 14 in Minnesota history; wet, potentially severe weekend on tap) | StarTribune.com

An omen for another sweltering summer to come? I doubt it. Overall I'm still predicting a cooler, wetter, stormier summer for Minnesota. Last year's debilitating drought will be a dusty memory for most of the state in a few weeks.

Last summer saw 31 days above 90F; I expect closer to 10-15 this year.

My Epiphany! | Real Science

I was riding my bicycle in the mountains, and suddenly it all became clear.

CO2 is a greenhouse gas, which has increased by one part per ten thousand over the last century. There was a hurricane last summer, and a drought. The evidence is overwhelming.

We can no longer ignore the tenets of faith which have been passed down by the holy trinity of James Hansen, Al Gore and Barack Obama. It is essential to turn over your money and your freedom, in order to prevent any more US made CO2 molecules from entering the atmosphere.

Fuzzy math: In a new soon to be published paper, John Cook claims ‘consensus’ on 32.6% of scientific papers that endorse AGW | Watts Up With That?

You have to wonder how somebody can write (let alone read) the claims made here in the press release by Cook with a straight face. It gives a window into the sort of things we can expect from his borked survey he recently foisted on climate websites which seems destined to either fail, or get spun into even stranger claims.