Sunday, June 21, 2009

Norwegian oil giant to lead on climate change
MONGSTAD (AFP) - Norway's most polluting industrial site, the Mongstad oil refinery, is now looking to lead the way on fighting climate change.
One-sided reporting | Jacksonville.com
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While I disagree with the man-made global warming alarmists, I find the media's cluelessness to their lack of objectivity galling. Think I'm wrong?

Find several articles from a major media outlet about skeptics of man-made global warming, then compare. Why is it that a mere reader like me can easily see this and professional editors can't?

TOM SMITH
[Iowa goes brown?] Harsh winter leaves mark on flowers, trees, crops | DesMoinesRegister.com | The Des Moines Register
The thermometer says another Iowa summer has arrived. But winter continues to hang around in the form of dead trees, flowers, plants and shrubs that were unable to rebound from one the snowiest and coldest seasons on record.

The state's summer palette might be a bit heavy on brown as a result.

"We've had some real damage here," Bob Atha of Appleberry Farm in Marshalltown said. "I don't know about other places, but we're expecting about half the apples we had last year, maybe a little less than half."
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Experts call it "winterkill," and it's been reported from the alfalfa fields of Ontario to the wheat stands of Kansas to golf courses in Massachusetts.

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