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Twitter / bryanrwalsh: Average iPhone uses more energy ...

Average iPhone uses more energy than a medium-sized refrigerator—and doesn't even keep beer cold: http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/programs/economic-growth/bracing-for-the-cloud/ …

Twitter / dbiello: you know what's a bigger threat ...

you know what's a bigger threat to the grid than the 2003 blackout? solar power http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=us-electrical-grid-better-prepared-than-2003-blackout-ask-the-experts …

Twitter / Chris_C_Horner: I've long argued easiest way ...

I've long argued easiest way to cool temps is re-open closed cold-weather stations. This cd work, too. Geoengineering http://fxn.ws/1d3HDkj

Distorted data? Feds close 600 weather stations amid criticism they're situated to report warming | Fox News

Data from hundreds of weather stations located around the U.S. appear to show the planet is getting warmer, but some critics say it's the government's books that are getting cooked -- thanks to temperature readings from sweltering parking lots, airports and other locations that distort the true state of the climate.

Indeed, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has closed some 600 out of nearly 9,000 weather stations over the past two years that it has deemed problematic or unnecessary, after a long campaign by one critic highlighting the problem of using unreliable data. The agency says the closures will help improve gathering of weather data, but critics like meterologist and blogger Anthony Watts say it is too little, too late.