Happy New Year!

By illconsidered on January 2, 2015.

Other original images can be viewed here. (No, they are not New Year's, but they are fireworks!)

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And a wonderful new year to you and yours.

Eli

freddy wishes eli halpern rabbt and the rest of the AGW associates also a prosperous and personally happy year. freddy is however already anxious that a new climate contract will not be signed in Paris COP21.

Hey there! Could you email me please? SciBling business.

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