The short - but eventful - life of Ike - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Amazing photos, as always from The Big Picture. The Wall Street Journal also has a new photo blog.
“It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create in [sic] allusion of rapid global warming. Other scientists of the same environmental whacko type jumped into the circle to support and broaden the “research” to further enhance the totally slanted, bogus global warming claims. Their friends in government steered huge research grants their way to keep the movement going. Soon they claimed to be a consensus.
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There is no run away climate change. The impact of humans on climate is not catastrophic. Our planet is not in peril.” —John Coleman, Founder of The Weather Channel Founder | NewsBusters.org
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There is no run away climate change. The impact of humans on climate is not catastrophic. Our planet is not in peril.” —John Coleman, Founder of The Weather Channel Founder | NewsBusters.org
“Authorities say the owner of the barn reported seeing a cow blown in the air by the high winds.”
—wcco.com → Lileks at buzz.mn
“The good news? January has eleven hours to go. January is the worst of it; January seems eternal. February is a quick spring to the bipolar mess of March, which feeds our hopes and dashes them in the course of a few days; it thaws, blizzards, rains, freezes, the last convulsions of winter before it tears itself apart and trickles down the drain. Here comes the home stretch.”
—James Lileks on winter in Minnesota.