Archive for January, 2007
Friday, January 19th, 2007
Global Warming Watch 12: Tropical Fish Off the Coast of Norway
Reuters reports:
Parts of the North Atlantic are setting winter heat records, allowing species ranging from swordfish to jellyfish to thrive beyond their normal ranges in a shift linked by many scientists to global warming.
Temperatures in Arctic waters off northern Europe at the tail end of the Gulf Stream, for example, are about 6.7 Celsius (44.06 […]
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Sunday, January 14th, 2007
The New American Way
Bob Herbert documents the America-in-Iraq style reconstruction of New Orleans:
What is actually happening is worse than anyone had imagined.
New Orleans is a mess. It was brought to its knees by Katrina, and is being kept there by a toxic combination of federal neglect and colossal, mind-numbing ineptitude at the local level.
The police department here is […]
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Sunday, January 14th, 2007
Fight Club on Al Jazeera
And via Unfogged comes this dramatic clip from an Al Jazeera political chat show, which nearly dissolves into fisticuffs over the question of whether or not Saddam Hussein is a martyr. It’s like the Iraq civil war in miniature.
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Sunday, January 14th, 2007
Global Warming Watch 11: There Will be Snow, Dammit
Via DCist, a man in Rockville has had it with the warm winter:
If you’re looking for snow, a home in Rockville, Md., has a front yard full of it.
The home is located on Westbury Road, just off Route 28.
The homeowner rented a snow-blowing machine and covered the front of the home with snow, NBC4 […]
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Sunday, January 14th, 2007
Global Warmish Watch 10: Spontaneous Combustion
From Faster, Please:
things are so hot in Iran right now that Iranian-made automobiles are setting themselves on fire all over the place. In the past six months, some seven hundred vehicles have spontaneously combusted in Tehran alone. Most of them seem to be local versions of the French Peugeot 405.
Hot as hell.
Contra Michael Ledeen, however, […]
