Jim Matthews Gives Joe Hoeffel His Wish:

Attack the employees, drive them to a union.


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Thanks, Jim.

 

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This Day In History

Today is a very special day here in the Gorgeous Commonwealth. It is the first day of Deer Season. When I was a kid growing up in Western Pennsylvania it was a school holiday. There was no point in having classes because most of the students would be absent anyway. I don’t know if they still do that, but if they don’t they should. Just be sure that if you have to be out in the woods and fields tomorrow and aren’t carrying a gun you wear bright colors. That way you make an easy target.

On this day in 1782 Britain recognized American independence — well, sort of. The process was actually quite protracted. Military operations against the colonists effectively ended at Yorktown in October, 1781; then political support for the war collapsed in Britain, forcing the resignation of Prime Minister Lord North in March, 1782; one month later the Commons voted to end the war; and negotiators meeting in Paris signed preliminary peace articles on November 30th. The Treaty of Paris formally ending the war and recognizing American independence was not signed until September of the following year, and the Confederation Congress did not ratify it until January, 1784. But it is safe to say that the matter of American independence was not an issue after the signing of the preliminary articles of peace.

Entering the Building:

Jonathan Swift [1667] still the greatest satirist in the English language.

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) [1835] not bad at satire himself and still IMHO the greatest American writer.

Theodore Mommsen [1817] German historian of Rome, revered in his day, and still considered important. One of his biggest fans was Mark Twain who once wrote, “I would have walked a great many miles to get a sight of him….”

Winston Churchill [1874] who in a recent poll was voted the “Greatest Englishman of All Time”. He may well be. He distinguished himself as a statesman and orator, as a military officer, historian, journalist, and artist. Like Mommsen he won the Nobel Prize for literature. In government he held positions as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary, First Lord of the Admiralty, Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War, and Chancellor of the Exchequer before being elected Prime Minister in 1940. He was one of the great war leaders of modern times. He has his detractors, many of them, but nobody can dispute that he was one of the greatest figures of modern times. If you want to learn more about him this is a good place to start.

And a very “Happy Birthday” to Radu Lupu pianist extraordinare. I had the privilege of hearing him perform last year. It was a great experience. I would post a link to one of his performances but all of his solo work seems to have been removed from the internet.

Leaving the Building:

Cleopatra VII [30 BC]. Last of the Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt, consort of Caesar and Antony, and one of the most romanticized figures in history. This site has links to a lot of online resources on her. Oh, by the way, she was not black — she was Macedonian, a descendant of Ptolemy, one of Alexander’s generals.

 

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PA Native among 4 Cops Assassinated in Washington State

As was their custom, four Lakewood, Washington police officers met at a local coffee house before their shift began, to exchange information, catch-up on paperwork and browse the internet. This morning, things went horribly wrong:

The officers – three male and one female – were in full uniform and wearing bulletproof vests, sitting in Forza coffee shop near 116th Street and Steele Street on the east side of the Air Force base at about 8:30 a.m., preparing for their shift when the suspect walked in, went up to the counter as if to order coffee, then turned and opened fire.

[Pierce county sheriff's spokesman Ed] Troyer called it an “ambush.”

“They had marked police cars, marked uniforms, there were other people inside the facility, they weren’t shot, wounded or hurt or even aimed at, just the police officers were,” said Troyer.

It wasn’t clear whether the officers even had time to draw their weapons to return fire, Troyer said.

“This was more of an execution. Walk in with the specific mindset to shoot police officers,” Troyer said.

NBC10 is reporting that one of the officers is a Pennsylvania native:

One of four Lakewood police officers shot and killed in an ambush at a coffee shop in Parkland, Washington Sunday morning was from the Lehigh Valley area, according to family members.

Officer Mark Renninger, 39, was born and raised in Bethlehem and went to Washington State because of his military service, according to his brother Michael Renninger

It’s believed that one of the officers may have had time to get a shot off and that the assailant may be wounded. Police have a suspect:

Pierce county sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said they are looking for Maurice Clemmons, 37.

Troyer said Clemmons has an extensive violent criminal history from Arkansas, including aggravated robbery and theft. He has also recently been arrested and charged in Pierce County for assault on a police officer and for rape of a child.

Officer Mark Renninger is survived by his wife, two daughters and a son. Donations for the officers’ families can be sent to: LPIG Benevolent Fund at PO Box 99579 Lakewood, WA 98499.

 

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Absentee Rate to Soar Tomorrow

6abc

Pennsylvania’s biggest draw for hunters is set to begin with the start of the 12-day firearms deer season.

About 750,000 hunters statewide are expected to take to the field on Monday. However, rain is forecast in some areas.

Hunters are expected to kill between 80,000 and 90,000 deer on opening day. That’s almost one-third of the 300,000 deer that game officials estimate will be harvested over the course of the season.

 

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Crosby Hat Trick on Hat Night

Ok, that’s pretty sweet.

 

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Disappearing Railroad Blues

I spent a little time wandering around the South Hamburg railroad yards today. As a child I lived in a railroad town on the Pennsy main line. Railroading was a vibrant culture back in those days and it saddened to me to see the state to which it has fallen. The line of rusting and abandoned rolling stock stretches for mile after mile after mile along Rte. 61 north of Reading. Like I said, sad, at least for those of us old enough to remember what once was.








 

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PSU’s Mann Defends Himself

Reuters

Michael Mann, co-author of the Copenhagen Diagnosis and lead author of the UN IPCC Third Assessment Report, blamed skeptics for taking the personal emails out of context.

“What they’ve done is search through stolen personal emails—confidential between colleagues who often speak in a language they understand and is often foreign to the outside world. Suddenly, all these are subject to cherry picking,” he said.

They’ve turned “something innocent into something nefarious,” Mann added.

The vital point being left out, he said, is that “regardless of how cherry-picked,” there is “absolutely nothing in any of the emails that calls into the question the deep level of consensus of climate change.”

This is a “smear campaign to distract the public,” said Mann. “Those opposed to climate action, simply don’t have the science on their side,” he added.

and neither does Dr. Mann.

 

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Mann: To Be Investigated by University

About the hockey stick, and no doubt influenced by the “leak.”

WattsUpWithThat:

In November 2005, Representative Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) requested that the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) convene a panel of independent experts to investigate Professor Mann’s seminal 1999 reconstruction of the global surface temperature over the past 1,000 years. The resulting 2006 report of the NAS panel (http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11676) concluded that Mann’s results were sound and has been subsequently supported by an array of evidence that includes additional large-scale surface temperature reconstructions.

In recent days a lengthy file of emails has been made public. Some of the questions raised through those emails may have been addressed already by the NAS investigation but others may not have been considered. The University is looking into this matter further, following a well defined policy used in such cases. No public discussion of the matter will occur while the University is reviewing the concerns that have been raised.

 

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Boy Scout to Union Boss

Morning Call:

Hauling brush and old tires out of the woods in Allentown early Friday, members of the Service Employees International Union learned an Eagle-Scout-to-be is just as forgiving as he is trustworthy, loyal and helpful.

The Eagle Scout service project of Kevin Anderson, 17, of Upper Saucon Township was caught up in a national media firestorm after Nick Balzano, an Allentown union official, threatened to file a grievance over Kevin’s work clearing a trail in Kimmets Lock Park. Conservative pundits seized on the remark as evidence of the SEIU’s ”thuggery,” and Balzano later resigned.

To show there were no hard feelings, SEIU members from as far away as Philadelphia and New Jersey accepted Kevin’s invitation to help with the project Friday.

”They completely agreed — to come out, to help, to make amends,” said Kevin, a member of Troop 301 of Center Valley. ”I’m just glad it’s all coming together.”

A great ending to a lousy story.

Reports that the boy stood around drinking coffee and “supervising” are not true.

(tip to Scott Ott)

 

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Black Friday Levity!

Today, millions of people went out shopping for the bargains which stores invariably offer on the day after Thanksgiving. I now offer the pros and cons of Black Friday, for the amusement of my fellow retail workers.

Pro: Today is the biggest day of the year for sales, and the only day where people will line up outside the store for hours in order to hand you their money.
Con: The merchandise is sold at such a deep discount that when all is said and done you’ll be lucky to break even on the day.

Pro: On your way to work, you’ll probably drive past some other store that is going to do about a thousand times more business than your store will do. You’ll laugh cruelly at the employees of that store, knowing that as bad as you’re about to have it, they have it much worse.
Con: You work at Wal-Mart or Target. In which case NOBODY has it worse than you.

Pro: You get to leave work at 2PM!
Con: That’s because you started at 5AM!

Pro: Lovely ladies will be out in force looking to you for deals, and they’ll give you a big happy smile when you get them that item they’ve been looking for.
Con: Those lovely ladies have been up since 2AM after feasting on tryptophan-filled sleep-inducing turkey the night before and look like death warmed over.

Pro: Oh yeah? Well you store clerks look like crap, too.
Con: Touche’!

Pro: People who wait in line in the cold for three hours are very happy when you get them what they’re looking for.
Con: People who come into the store six hours after the sale started curse you out when you tell them that the doorbusters were sold out five hours ago, because you should have known that they were going to sell out fast and ordered at least ten thousand of them to have on hand.

Pro: People understand that it’s Black Friday, so it’s very hectic and it’s best just to be patient.
Con: There is always one customer who doesn’t realize that it’s Black Friday, and who starts yelling about WHY IS THIS TAKING SO LONG because this isn’t a special day or anything, it’s definitely not the busiest shopping day of the year.

Pro: You will be amazed at how well you get to know your store’s inventory in one day.
Con: That’s because you will have to tell people about a thousand times that you’re all out of the doorbusters.

Pro: Black Friday brings a lot of new customers into your store who have never been there before.
Con: And you’ll see them again on Saturday as they return the doorbusters they bought on impulse but have absolutely no use for.

Pro: Black Friday eventually ends.
Con: Until next year!

 

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This Day In History

Recovering from Thanksgiving overeating festival — so posting is late and will be short today.

Today is “National Pins and Needles Day” — it was originally a publicity gag for a Broadway show — “Pins and Needles” back in 1937. Today it is more generic as a day of excitement and anticipation. Something’s coming…, coming soon…, what will it be?

On this day in 43 BC Octavian, Lepidus, and Antony form the Second Triumvirate in Rome. This is traditionally considered to mark the end of the Roman Republic. The three men had been strong supporters of Julius Caesar and after his death two years earlier they had joined forces to hunt down and kill his assassins. To cement their alliance and to prevent future conflict they agreed to share the rule of Rome after the assassins were dead. Brutus and Cassius were killed in two battles at Phillipi in 42 BC, other republicans were hunted down and murdered, and for ten years thereafter the triumvirs ruled Rome as absolute dictators, dividing the empire among themselves. The whole thing eventually fell apart because Octavian and Anthony were bitter enemies, each determined to eliminate the other. In the end Octavian won the power struggle and emerged as the supreme power in Rome. HBO’s series “Rome” presented a highly fictionalized and entertaining account of these events as seen by some men in the ranks.

And on this day in 511 Clovis, King of the Franks, died. He was the first leader to unite all of the Frankish tribes under his rule and under his command the Franks conquered most of Gaul. He also introduced Christianity in his realm. His achievements shaped the course of Western European history for centuries to come.

And on this day in 1966 the Washington Redskins defeated the New York Giants. The score? 72-41. Wow!

Entering the building:

Charles A. Beard [1874], the greatest of America’s “Progressive” historians.

Jimi Hendrix [1942] rock guitarist.

Leaving the building:

Baby Face Nelson [1934], taken down by the FBI.

Eugene O’Neill [1953], “Ah Wilderness!”

 

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RIP Al Alberts

Longtime Philadelphia media fixture Al Alberts died Friday at his home in Florida. He hosted a local childrens talent show for 32 years, and retired in 2000.

 

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A new name for health care reform

I’ve been listening to some of the debate regarding the health care bills going through Congress (all that I can stomache anyway)  The most recent debate has been on how they’ll pay for the bill should it become law.  There’s been ideas floated about that would include a 1% income tax on anyone earning over $30,000 a year, another idea that supposedly would shift the tax burden to the upper income levels, etc.

Then it dawned on me, the reason why this health care debate hasn’t been completed so far is that it really doesn’t have a snazzy name.  Remember when Bush was in office the education reform measure went by “No Child Left Behind.”  We’ve had a “War on Terror.”  Well, if the Adminstration wants to get this thing done soon, before everyone bolts on it, they need to come up with a catchy name.

And to get the ball started, I’ll do my part and offer my own suggestion.  This suggestion kind of sums up all the debate I’ve heard so far.  Let me know what you think:

No Dollar Left Behind.

 

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Matthews & Hoeffel: Spinning the Ethics Defeat

On the topic of the Montgomery County ethics ordinance preventing certain officials from running for political office.

The Intelligencer:

Hoeffel, the driving force behind the enactment of the legislation, repeatedly has maintained that no one department was the target of the legislation. However, in support of the legislation, Hoeffel has cited what he has claimed was inappropriate political activity in the district attorney’s office, particularly when Castor served as district attorney.

Following Nicholas’ ruling, Hoeffel said, “We need more ethics and less politics in the Montgomery County courthouse. This ethics policy was a good faith attempt to achieve that.”

He noted that the ban on political activity still remains for employees directly under the commissioners’ supervision. These employees range from the administration’s own employees such as the chief and deputy operating officers and members of the county solicitor’s office to members and certain employees in the assessment appeals board to the purchasing director.

“So we got court approval for most of our employees subject to the resolution,” said Hoeffel. “It’s a good day, not a bad day.”

No, Mr Hoeffel. You didn’t get approval for the other offices. I imagine they will be suing you too. That’s not even a sincere attempt at spin. That’s just outright deceit.

Better yet is Chairman Matthews explanation.

Matthews said that one of the major reasons he worked to include the district attorney’s office in the ethics legislation was to get back at Castor, his former running mate, because of Castor’s attempt to use the same legislation to go after his friends in county government. This would include long time Matthews ally, county Solicitor Barry M. Miller who worked on various Matthews political campaigns.

“I wanted him (Castor) to hurt, to feel the pain,” said Matthews. “He (Castor) was directing all his efforts at my friends so they could not be in politics, so I figured we could throw in the DA’s office and see if he likes that.”

Everyone together now….. awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww…….

Commissioners Matthews and Hoeffel should really get on the same page on this ordinance. If only for the history books. Hoeffel says no one was targetted, except you know that Castor fella….. and Matthews says, no it was definitely Castor.

…. and so much for Hoeffel’s “win.”

Matthews said he will seek the repeal of the ethics legislation now that Nicholas has ruled that it does not apply to the personnel in the row offices, claiming it is not fair to other employees to have restrictions while row office employees have none.

 

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PSU’s Mann: Climate Enforcer

That’s a pretty nice climate you have there…. it’d be a shame is something happened to it.

This past September, [Penn State's Michael] Mann told a New York Times reporter in one of the leaked emails that: “Those such as [Stephen] McIntyre who operate almost entirely outside of this system are not to be trusted.” Mr. McIntyre is a retired Canadian businessman who fact-checks the findings of climate scientists and often publishes the mistakes he finds—including some in Mr. Mann’s work—on his Web site, Climateaudit.org. He holds the rare distinction of having forced Mr. Mann to publish a correction to one of his more-famous papers.

As anonymous reviewers of choice for certain journals, Mr. Mann & Co. had considerable power to enforce the consensus, but it was not absolute, as they discovered in 2003. Mr. Mann noted to several colleagues in an email from March 2003, when the journal “Climate Research” published a paper not to Mr. Mann’s liking, that “This was the danger of always criticising the skeptics for not publishing in the ‘peer-reviewed literature’. Obviously, they found a solution to that—take over a journal!”

The scare quotes around “peer-reviewed literature,” by the way, are Mr. Mann’s. He went on in the email to suggest that the journal itself be blackballed: “Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal. We would also need to consider what we tell or request of our more reasonable colleagues who currently sit on the editorial board.” In other words, keep dissent out of the respected journals. When that fails, re-define what constitutes a respected journal to exclude any that publish inconvenient views. It’s easy to manufacture a scientific consensus when you get to decide what counts as science.

Scientists ought to welcome criticism, as that is the basis for forming a more correct understanding of reality.

 

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Green Group: Pa Is Awful

Fifth worst in the country!

An environmental group claims new data indicates that Pennsylvania’s coal-fired power plants are among the “oldest and dirtiest” in the country, and are among the biggest contributors to global warming.

Coal is the dirtiest of all fuels, according to PennEnvironment’s Nathan Wilcox, and Pennsylvania ranks fifth nationwide for the most carbon dioxide pollution from power plants.

… wrote Nathan Wilcox on his computer, bathed in a mixture of florescent and incandescant lighting, in his comfortably warmed office…. which he works at because he drove there in his gasoline powered vehicle…. constructed from steel which came from open pit mines in third world countries.

He says coal plants dominate Pennsylvania’s electricity supply, yet they do not have to meet any global warming pollution standard:

“So advancing wind energy and solar power is great, but if you still have these oldest plants that are allowed to pollute at the same levels they have for decades, we’re not going to be able to get to the pollution reductions that scientists are calling for.”

The “scientists” that are fudging the data to provide excuses for do-gooding neo-fascists like you and the environmental movement to tell us how to better live our lives?

Those same scientists?

 

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Thanksgiving Traditions

Turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, your crazy uncle.

Swordplay.

A black western Pennsylvanian has been charged with attempted homicide for using an 18-inch sword to stab a drunk white man who yelled racial slurs at his own dog and the suspect.

Forty-four-year-old Vernon Bridges, of Ambridge, allegedly stabbed 48-year-old Ronald Book with an 18-inch blade concealed in a cane on Thanksgiving. Police say the blade went in Book’s abdomen and came out his back.

 

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Global Warming Fallout Continues

Drudge has several good links up regarding the recently leaked data from the East Anglia Climate Research Unit in the UK. “Climategate”, as it is predictably being called, is continuing to gain momentum and may well put the final nail in the coffin of global warming hysteria.

For those of you who don’t know, I am an environmental engineer by trade, and my specialty is air pollution control. I have long been a skeptic of anthropogenic global warming, and it has nothing to do with my political views. The problem has been the scientific method which the global warming industry has been built upon. Science is supposed to be a transparent process where theses, methods, results, and conclusions can be tested, challenged, and revised in the pursuit of the truth. Climate science has been anything but that. Alternative theories to global warming have been dismissed, critics have been ostracized from the debate, and analytical methods have been shrouded in secrecy. Furthermore, the conclusions of climate researchers have been processed and disseminated through political channels like the UN rather than through scientific channels such as reputable peer-reviewed journals.

Perhaps most unsettling to me, though, is the mantra that “the science is settled” and that scientists have reached a “consensus” about global warming which dare not be questioned. That attitude moves climate research from the realm of science to the realm of faith. Add to that the insistence of politicians that we must do something NOW! NOW! NOW! or D-I-S-A-S-T-E-R will strike and all the alarm bells go off.

Hindsight is 20/20, so when the dust settles it will be tempting to say that we should have seen global warming for the hoax it was and, but for a little common sense, we would have. That’s not all there is, though. The sad fact is that people have lost the ability to think critically. They accept rather than question. I suspect that’s due in part to an educational system that doesn’t encourage critical thought, extreme informational overload, and general scientific illiteracy. Short of a complete retooling of our educational system, I don’t know how we can fix that. I do know, however, that if global warming dies the death it deserves, we will have dodged a bullet. In the meantime, we can use this scandal as learning opportunity. When the next manufactured crisis comes along we can ask the right questions and hold the right people accountable and end the insanity before it ever begins.

 

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Things Supposedly Caused by Global Warming

A partial list:

Acne, agricultural land increase, Afghan poppies destroyed, poppies more potent, Africa devastated, Africa in conflict, African aid threatened, African summer frost, aggressive weeds, Air France crash, air pressure changes, airport malaria, Agulhas current, Al Qaeda and Taliban Being Helped, Alaska reshaped, moves, allergy season longer, alligators in the Thames, Alps melting, Amazon a desert, American dream end, amphibians breeding earlier (or not), anaphylactic reactions to bee stings, ancient forests dramatically changed, animals head for the hills, animals shrink, Antarctic grass flourishes, Antarctic ice grows, Antarctic ice shrinks, Antarctic sea life at risk, anxiety treatment, algal blooms, archaeological sites threatened, Arctic bogs melt, Arctic in bloom, Arctic ice free, Arctic ice melt faster, Arctic lakes disappear, Arctic tundra to burn, Arctic warming (not), Atlantic less salty, Atlantic more salty, atmospheric circulation modified, attack of the killer jellyfish, avalanches reduced, avalanches increased, Baghdad snow, Bahrain under water, bananas grow, barbarisation, beer and bread prices to soar, beer better, beer shortage, beer worse, beetle infestation, bet for $10,000, big melt faster, billion dollar research projects, billion homeless, billions face risk, billions of deaths, bird distributions change, bird loss accelerating, bird strikes, bird visitors drop, birds confused, birds decline (Wales), birds driven north, birds face longer migrations, birds return early, birds shrink, bittern boom ends, blackbirds stop singing, blackbirds threatened, Black Hawk down, blood contaminated, blue mussels return, bluetongue, brain eating amoebae, brains shrink, bridge collapse (Minneapolis), Britain one big city, Britain Siberian, British monsoon, brothels struggle, brown Ireland, bubonic plague, budget increases, Buddhist temple threatened, building collapse, building season extension, bushfires, business opportunities, business risks, butterflies move north, carbon crimes, camel deaths, cancer deaths in England, cannibalism, caterpillar biomass shift, cave paintings threatened, childhood insomnia, Cholera, circumcision in decline, cirrus disappearance, civil unrest, cloud increase, coast beauty spots lost, cockroach migration, coffee threatened, coffee berry borer, cold climate creatures survive, cold spells (Australia), cold wave (India), computer models, conferences, conflict, conflict with Russia, consumers foot the bill, coral bleaching, coral fish suffer, coral reefs dying, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink , coral reefs twilight, cost of trillions, cougar attacks, crabgrass menace, cradle of civilisation threatened, creatures move uphill, crime increase, crocodile sex, crops devastated, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, curriculum change, cyclones (Australia), danger to kid’s health, Darfur, Dartford Warbler plague, deadly virus outbreaks, death rate increase (US), deaths to reach 6 million, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, depression, desert advance, desert retreat, destruction of the environment, dig sites threatened, disappearance of coastal cities, disasters, diseases move north, dog disease, Dolomites collapse, dozen deadly diseasesor not, drought, ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, early marriages, early spring, earlier pollen season, Earth axis tilt, Earth biodiversity crisis, Earth dying, Earth even hotter, Earth light dimming, Earth lopsided, Earth melting, Earth morbid fever, Earth on fast track, Earth past point of no return, Earth slowing down, Earth spins faster, Earth to explode, earth upside down, earthquakes, earthquakes redux, El Niño intensification, end of the world as we know it, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis, English villages lost, equality threatened, Europe simultaneously baking and freezing, eutrophication, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (human, civilisation, logic, Inuit, smallest butterfly, cod, ladybirds, pikas, polar bears, possums, walrus, toads, plants, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, a million species, half of all animal and plant species, mountain species, not polar bears, barrier reef, leaches, salamanders, tropical insects) experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, fading fall foliage, fainting, famine, farmers benefit, farmers go under, farm output boost, fashion disaster, fever, figurehead sacked, fir cone bonanza, fires fanned in Nepal, fish bigger, fish catches drop, fish downsize, fish catches rise, fish deaf, fish get lost, fish head north, fish shrinking, fish stocks at risk, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, flames stoked, flesh eating disease, flies on Everest, flood patterns change, floods, floods of beaches and cities, flood of migrants,

Read the whole thing here.

HT: Jonah

 

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!!

 

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