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- Fred W. Friendly (1915-1998)

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- Aldous Huxley

"If you have ever injected truth into politics, then you have no politics."
- Will Rogers

Friday, July 6, 2012

Science news (climatology)

A study from the University of Melbourne definitively links the shrinking of Arctic ice caps to a combination of melting sea ice (already posing a serious threat to the polar bear) and global climate warming.   Unfortunately, this study probably doesn't have near enough money behind it to begin to overcome the political power of even one mid-sized coal-fired power company. 

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