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November 26, 2007
Category: roundup
Sipping from the internet firehose... This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup...
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November 21, 2007
Category: politics
Army bribes soldier with signing bonus to risk life and limb. Soldier cripled for life and can't fight any more. Army wants its signing bonus back because soldier has not completed tour of duty. I mean what the hell planet...
Posted by coby at 11:47 AM • 4 Comments •
November 19, 2007
Category: alternative energy
Hydrogen powered cars have such an immediate and naive appeal. I mean just imagine nothing but water vapour coming out of your exhaust pipe! What could possibly be wrong with that? Well as with most deus ex machina solutions to...
Posted by coby at 11:17 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: roundup
Sipping from the internet firehose... This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup...
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November 16, 2007
Category: humour
Okay, so I've used this before on the old site, it is just too hilarious not to call to attention at least one more time! Steven Colbert's Tek Jansen shows us the (f?)utility of time travel to alter the past....
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November 14, 2007
Category: roundup
Sipping from the internet firehose... This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup (N.B. Sorry it is late, this is my fault, not Harvey's...)...
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November 13, 2007
Category: other blogs
"Optimism is a moral imperative. That said, it needs to be reality-based optimism. Sometimes the things we want to work aren't the things that are going to work." says Michael Tobis on Gristmill. It is a good essay on dealing...
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November 12, 2007
Category: politics
Last Friday, I noticed a breaking story, potentially a huge media scandal, involving Democratic front-runner Hilary Clinton. What was it? Voter supression? Campaign finance fraud? Some ancient skeleton rattling free from her closet? Not so much.... A waitress in an...
Posted by coby at 8:30 AM • 3 Comments •
November 6, 2007
Category: news
According to a recent poll from PIPA (Program on International Policy Attitudes), commissioned by the BBC, people world wide are ready and willing to pay more for energy supplies in order to combat climate change....
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November 5, 2007
Category: other blogs
Reading a post on Deep-Sea News, and considering some of the recent worries about it I've read and considered on my own it occurs to me that, like flouride in drinking water, ocean fertilization is promising to be a great...
Posted by coby at 3:09 PM • 3 Comments •
