Tuesday, May 21, 2013

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The Oklahoma Mega-Twister Is More Weather Than Climate Change | TIME.com
The people of Moore, Oklahoma were victims of weather, and bad, bad luck.
How to Understand the Scale of the Oklahoma Tornado | Smart News
Fortunately, at least, casualties will likely be below the record set by the the March 1925 tornado that swept through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, the one that stayed down for 3.5 hours. That storm killed 695 people. Advances in early detection and warning systems have brought the deaths caused by tornadoes down over time, and one can only hope that people were able to seek shelter from the dark side of nature.
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Danny Weston: my new hero

[Mine too]
Matt Ridley has joined the real climate debate | Myles Allen | Environment | guardian.co.uk
The relevant comparison is not with the 2.5C response of one model, but with the average of climate models used by the UN's climate science panel in its upcoming major report, which is 1.8C. Now 1.3C is 30% less than 1.8C, but this is hardly a game changer
The Greening Of Gore's Bank Account - Forbes
With his estimated wealth exceeding $200 million, Albert Arnold Gore has come a long way from the time he began a career in government politic. But it hasn’t all been a green path. He can thank some earlier events for paving over muddy ground, a time when his father, Al Gore Sr. met Occidental Petroleum’s CEO Armand Hammer at a cattle auction in the 1940s.

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