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<font size="+1"><i>May 4, 2017 </i></font><br>
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warming</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>portends
an increase in Quebec forest fires: researcher</span></a></h2>
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initial;">With<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">global warming</b>, drought in
Quebec will increase in the next few years as well as forest
fires, professor and researcher Yves Bergeron said Wednesday.</div>
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<b><font size="+1"><a
href="https://indivisibleeb.org/2017/04/19/help-defend-the-environment-from-your-couch/">Help
defend the environment from your couch!</a></font></b><br>
<blockquote>As of today, the EPA had received just over 9,000
comments. (To put this in perspective: the FCC received 3.7
million comments when net neutrality was threatened. We have less
than two weeks and a long way to go.)<br>
I'm working with Indivisible Berkeley and Indivisible East Bay,
both of which are trying to rally more participation in this
process, and we are hoping to partner with environmental NGOs that
- we imagine - are already doing something to gather comments. We
have partnerships with OFA and volunteers willing to phone bank -
but we'd love some guidance on what, specifically, to ask of
people, and which people to target. Please let us know if your
group would like to work with us!<br>
Indivisible East Bay's call-to-action: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://indivisibleeb.org/2017/04/19/help-defend-the-environment-from-your-couch/">https://indivisibleeb.org/2017/04/19/help-defend-the-environment-from-your-couch/</a><br>
Indivisible Berkeley's call-to-action: <a
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href="https://www.indivisibleberkeley.org/epa">https://www.indivisibleberkeley.org/epa</a><br>
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<blockquote> A pamphlet issued by the federal government months ago
states that climate change could be playing a role in flooding in
the St. Louis area...the EPA ..document ... says climate change
means more heavy precipitation and flooding for Missouri.<br>
... over the past half century, rainfall during the wettest four
days of the year has increased 35 percent. The amount of water
flowing in most streams during the worst floods has increased by
more than 20 percent, the EPA says.<br>
An expert also said that increased development along rivers is
also to blame.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/humans_are_better_at_rapid_change_than_we_think_20170503">http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/humans_are_better_at_rapid_change_than_we_think_20170503</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/humans_are_better_at_rapid_change_than_we_think_20170503">Humans
better at rapid change than we think</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> A new study provides evidence that humans are capable
of radically altering the world around us, and offers hope in the
face of climate change.<br>
LONDON, 3 May, 2017 - Human beings often forget that we have an
invaluable ability, says a study by two British social scientists:
we can change the world around us, and our treatment of it, more
quickly and more significantly than we realise...<br>
..rapid, radical transitions are more possible than we suppose,
the study says.<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.newweather.org/2017/04/24/new-study-how-did-we-do-that-the-possibility-of-rapid-transition/">http://www.newweather.org/2017/04/24/new-study-how-did-we-do-that-the-possibility-of-rapid-transition/</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="http://www.newweather.org/2017/04/24/new-study-how-did-we-do-that-the-possibility-of-rapid-transition/">New
study: How did we do that? The possibility of rapid transition</a></b><br>
The study is published by the New Weather Institute and the STEPS
Centre, University of Sussex and was funded by the UK's Economic
and Social Research Council. Lessons drawn from the study
include:<br>
<b>- </b><b>Fairness matters</b>: to be accepted, rapid change
must be seen to be fair. This is especially true if and where
there is any perceived sacrifice to be made for the greater good.<br>
<b>- We're actually good at change:</b> New social norms can
quickly take root in everything from working patterns, to
transport use, attitudes surrounding prejudice, and patterns of
consumption.<br>
<b>- Public leadership is needed</b>: Initial public investment
in a sector or activity can leverage larger levels of investment
from other sources.<br>
<b>- There's no one path:</b> Rapid transitions can result from
bottom up and top down approaches, but ensuring that top down
approaches are equitable and inclusive is a key challenge.<br>
<b>- Inaction costs:</b> It matters always to be clear about both
the costs of inaction and the benefits of action.<br>
<b>- Pleasant surprises do happen:</b> Change always brings with
it unplanned and unexpected consequences - but it can also bring
unintended benefits.<br>
<b>- Agitation is necessary:</b> Agitation in the face of
overwhelming odds, and even likely failure, can be a common and
necessary feature of great achievements. Movements for race and
gender equality, and against colonialism and homophobia, show
clearly how progressive political change from above - by
governments and others - often has its roots in long fought
struggles from below.<br>
<b>- Accepting boundaries triggers innovation:</b> Setting new
parameters around consumption - such as introducing safe limits on
the burning of fossil fuels - can unleash innovation and reveal
great, nascent adaptive capacity. Businesses, societies and whole
economies adapt to new 'rules of the game' remarkably quickly.<br>
<b>- Value experiences, not 'stuff'</b>: Material consumption of
'stuff' in rich industrialised countries can be substituted by
spending on experiential activities that benefit well-being.<br>
Click <a
href="http://www.newweather.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/How_Did_We_Do_That_WEB.pdf">here
to download the report: How did we do that? The possibility of
rapid transition</a> PDF file <br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/save-lives-supercomputers-dive-hearts-natures-worst-tornadoes/">http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/save-lives-supercomputers-dive-hearts-natures-worst-tornadoes/</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/save-lives-supercomputers-dive-hearts-natures-worst-tornadoes/">To
save lives, supercomputers dive into the hearts of nature's
worst tornadoes</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> Leigh Orf chases tornadoes across America's central
plains, but not from inside a pickup truck. His preferred vehicle
is a computer.<br>
Orf, a University of Wisconsin-Madison meteorologist, creates
computer simulations of supercell thunderstorms — and the twisters
they spawn — from the safety of his lab. Even when they don't
yield twisters, supercells are some of the most powerful and
deadly forms of severe weather, and like many in his field, Orf
wants to understand their inner mechanics.<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Leigh+Orf+Univeristy+of+wisconsin">https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Leigh+Orf+Univeristy+of+wisconsin</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Leigh+Orf+Univeristy+of+wisconsin">Unlocking
the Mysteries of the Most Violent Tornadoes -- Leigh Orf</a></b><b>
see many YouTube videos </b><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHhKI0T3t78">Tornadogenesis:
30 meter simulation of a violently tornadic supercell
thunderstorm.</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsO6xUHn5ME">20 meter
simulation of multiple-vortex EF5 tornado embedded within its
parent supercell</a><br>
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<blockquote> But many are incensed by what they felt was the gall of
Stephens to take on climate change as his first column, and then
to obliquely suggest that the data underlying climate science may
be flawed, just like the data that predicted a Hillary Clinton ...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060053997">https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060053997</a><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060053997">Scientists
demand New York Times correct column</a></b></font><br>
Hannah Hess, E&E News reporterPublished: Wednesday, May 3,
2017<br>
Scientists are calling on The New York Times to publish a more
comprehensive correction to columnist Bret Stephens' "inaccurate
and misleading statements" about climate change.<br>
Prominent figures — including Michael Mann, Katharine Hayhoe,
Michael Oppenheimer, John Abraham and Ben Santer — have signed an
open letter protesting Stephens' inaugural column.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climatefactsfirst.org/">https://www.climatefactsfirst.org/</a><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a href="https://www.climatefactsfirst.org/">An
Open Letter From Climate Experts</a></b></font><br>
A CHANGING POLITICAL CLIMATE SHOULDN'T CHANGE NYT'S DEDICATION TO
FACTS<br>
We are deeply concerned about inaccurate and misleading statements
about the science of climate change that appeared in Climate of
Complete Certainty by Bret Stephens (April 28, 2017). While
"alternative facts", misconceptions, and misrepresentations of
climate science are unfortunately widespread in public discussion,
we are dismayed that this practice appeared on the editorial page
of The New York Times.<br>
There are opinions and there are facts. Stephens is entitled to
share his opinions, but not "alternative facts."<br>
Fact: The N. Hemisphere warmed substantially more than claimed by
the writer...<br>
...We call on the Times to publish a more comprehensive correction
to the inaccuracies that appeared in Stephen's column and to avoid
such errors in the future by fact checking columns as carefully as
they do news stories.<br>
There is certainly a place for a variety of well-informed opinions
when it comes to societal responses to climate change. But it must
be made clear that there are facts that are not subject to
opinion.<br>
If you are a scientist,<a
href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScIG-SXtJqjHnUesIYs4Tc1FbI_jxq3aBv82N3TQvAZ61Fj6w/viewform?usp=sf_link">
click here to add your name to the letter</a>.<br>
Concerned members of the public<a
href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/new-york-times-dont-publish-climate-science-misinformation?source=direct_link&">,
click here to take action.</a><br>
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<b><a
href="https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WAGOV/bulletins/1984528">Inslee
among 12 governors urging Trump to keep U.S. in Paris Agreement</a></b><br>
<blockquote> OLYMPIA - Gov. Jay Inslee and 11 other governors <a
href="http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTcwNTAzLjcyOTgxOTUxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE3MDUwMy43Mjk4MTk1MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2ODU5NTg2JmVtYWlsaWQ9c2FtLnJpY2tldHRzQGdvdi53YS5nb3YmdXNlcmlkPXNhbS5yaWNrZXR0c0Bnb3Yud2EuZ292JnRhcmdldGlkPSZmbD0mZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&&&101&&&http://governor.wa.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017-05-03_GovernorsLetter-Paris.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery">sent
a letter to President Trump today</a> urging the administration
to continue the United States' involvement in the international
Paris Climate Agreement. Inslee issued the following statement:<br>
"Climate change is already affecting our state and nation in
damaging ways, and an international response at all levels of
government is essential to avoiding its worst impacts. American
leadership is crucial to the success of that international effort,
and continued U.S. participation in the Paris Agreement is our
nation's moral responsibility....<br>
The United States was one of 195 nations that signed the Paris
Climate Agreement in December 2015. As of April 2017, 144 counties
have formally ratified it. The agreement went into effect in
November.<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/05/03/is-this-the-earliest-full-climate-documentary/">https://climatecrocks.com/2017/05/03/is-this-the-earliest-full-climate-documentary/</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/05/03/is-this-the-earliest-full-climate-documentary/">Is
this the Earliest Full Climate Documentary?</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote>Hard to watch, but essential to understand. What we knew
and when we knew it.<br>
Leo Hickman in Carbon Brief:<br>
On the evening of Tuesday, 8 December, 1981, the UK's only
commercial TV channel, ITV, broadcast an hour-long documentary
called "Warming Warning".<br>
It was among the earliest occasions - possibly the earliest <font
size="-1">-</font> anywhere in the world where a major
broadcaster aired a documentary dedicated solely to the topic of
human-caused climate change.<br>
The documentary, which was made by the now-defunct Thames
Television, has sat in the archives largely unseen ever since.
Until now.<br>
.................<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/DMjnvfkeJJ0">https://youtu.be/DMjnvfkeJJ0</a></font><br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/DMjnvfkeJJ0">Climate Change - Warming
Warning - 1981</a><br>
Thames Televisions 'Warming Warning'<br>
First Shown: 08/12/1981<br>
.....................<br>
I got an inquiry today about whether this was the earliest major
documentary on climate science. In my archive I have a mention of
the problem towards the end of an NBC Network News broadcast on
the original Earth Day in 1970.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/o0YLMuPA_Jo">https://youtu.be/o0YLMuPA_Jo</a></font><br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/o0YLMuPA_Jo">Greenhouse Warning on Earth
Day 1970: NBC News</a><br>
Listen to the end. News coverage of nationwide environmental news
coverage on the first Earth Day in 1970.<br>
Prominently featured, warnings about a greenhouse effect, and a
warming earth.<br>
...............<br>
One obvious connection to make is the science that was being done
at companies like Exxon in the late 70s, early 80s, that matched
the conclusions being reached at NASA, NOAA, and major research
institutions.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/aannOZw2shY">https://youtu.be/aannOZw2shY</a></font><br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/aannOZw2shY">What Exxon Knew</a><br>
Newly released documents show that scientists at Exxon Oil
Corporation conducted research on climate change and the
greenhouse effect in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Their
conclusions were in accord with mainstream scientific groups in
academia, NASA, NOAA, and the Department of Energy, showing that
global warming posed a serious problem, with potential
"catastrophic effects."<br>
..................<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/OmpiuuBy-4s">https://youtu.be/OmpiuuBy-4s</a></font><br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/OmpiuuBy-4s">Global Warming: What We
Knew in 82</a><br>
I interviewed climate scientists Mike MacCracken in 2012, about
his work at the same time, as leader of a task force for the
Department of Energy on climate change and the CO2 problem. Mike
was doing some research in collaboration with Exxon scientists at
the time, and was on the same page.<br>
.................<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/ox5hbkg34Ow">https://youtu.be/ox5hbkg34Ow</a></font><br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/ox5hbkg34Ow">Climate: What did We Know
and When Did We Know it?</a><br>
I've been collecting archival footage documenting early climate
communication. That was the basis for this recent video, comparing
early 1980s projections of climate change, with current
observations.<br>
...................<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=sdALFnlwV_o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=sdALFnlwV_o</a></font><br>
<a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=sdALFnlwV_o">Climate
Science 1956: A Blast from the Past</a><br>
Here, a vinyl recording from General Electric in 1956 is a
discussion of climate science in very early days.<br>
..................<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-AXBbuDxRY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-AXBbuDxRY</a></font><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-AXBbuDxRY">Climate
Change 1958: The Bell Telephone Science Hour</a><br>
and of course, beloved and avuncular "Dr. Frank Baxter" delivered
the message in a 1958 "Bell Telephone Science Hour", a segment
directed by Frank Capra ("It's a Wonderful Life").<br>
.................more:<br>
Thatcher, 1989: "What we are now doing to the world, by degrading
the land surfaces, by polluting the waters and by adding
greenhouse gases to the air at an unprecedented rate—all this is
new in the experience of the earth. It is mankind and his
activities which are changing the environment of our planet in
damaging and dangerous ways. "<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/Fys5Z63xCvA">https://youtu.be/Fys5Z63xCvA</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107817">http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107817</a><br>
-------------------------<br>
Lyndon Johnson, 1965:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/nov/05/scientists-warned-the-president-about-global-warming-50-years-ago-today">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/nov/05/scientists-warned-the-president-about-global-warming-50-years-ago-today</a><br>
..........................<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/UQfYKbKdlBM">https://youtu.be/UQfYKbKdlBM</a></font><br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/UQfYKbKdlBM">Isaac Asimov How People Can
Save The Earth for Humans</a><br>
Asimov, 1989, referring back "at least 20 years", 1969:<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climatesolutions.org/article/1493757494-thanks-quarter-million">https://www.climatesolutions.org/article/1493757494-thanks-quarter-million</a><br>
<b><font size="+1"><a
href="https://www.climatesolutions.org/article/1493757494-thanks-quarter-million">Thanks
a quarter million+</a></font></b><br>
<blockquote> by KC Golden on May 2, 2017<br>
Of the 200,000 people who came to the People's Climate March in DC
last Saturday, I got to thank maybe 300 personally. I spent much
of the day overcome with gratitude. This will have to do as my
thanks to the other 199,700, and the over 100,000 others who
marched in over 370 places around the country and the world....<br>
...But worse than the incredulity is the guilt. Just saying what
we do makes people squirm, because it pokes their denial. The vast
majority of people are not climate science deniers per se, but
we're ALL in some form climate denial - some kind of psychological
accommodation that allows us to put one foot in front of the other
when we're clearly on a path that leads over a cliff. By naming
our work, we challenge that. Not too many people turn around and
walk away, but many seem to wish they could. Some feel compelled
to explain why they had to drive a car that day, as if we might
issue a carbon citation.<br>
So people who work on climate carry a lot of fear and shame -
their own, and some of the ambient guilt of people who come to
associate them with this overwhelming threat we all create. We
humans (especially humans of privilege) spend a great deal of
psychic energy trying to find some darkness to put the climate
crisis in, someplace out of the center of our consciousness, where
the glare of existential horror and our own complicity isn't quite
so harsh. Shining a light into those dark corners can be thankless
work....<br>
Marching along, signs and spirits high, it even becomes possible
to imagine that the tide might turn fast enough to save a decent
future. You can glimpse - with the vision of 400,000 diverse eyes
- how the transition might renew community, advance justice,
enhance economic security, rebuild democracy. Too many days, we
can't help but feel we are alone with these possibilities and the
necessity of reaching toward them. In our isolation and fear, we
wonder whether they're real. But not last Saturday, and -with the
immense collective energy of the marches fresh in our hearts - not
any day soon.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climatesolutions.org/article/1432250679-we-have-met-wrong-enemy">https://www.climatesolutions.org/article/1432250679-we-have-met-wrong-enemy</a><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="https://www.climatesolutions.org/article/1432250679-we-have-met-wrong-enemy">(opinion)
We have met the wrong enemy</a></b></font><br>
by KC Golden on May 22, 2015<br>
By all means, let's find ways within our reach to reduce our oil
consumption. But let's also get real: We are not going to save
ourselves from climate chaos by gnashing our teeth about our own
complicity or calling protestors hypocrites. That's just letting
Shell walk all over us and get away with torching the future. If
you prefer to focus on personal responsibility, think of the Polar
Pioneer as an avatar for our own wastefulness and consumerism.
Whatever makes you mad enough, determined enough, unambivalent
enough to actually stand up and stop them before they wreck
everything - feel that.<br>
Let's forgive ourselves for being part of the only system there
is. But let's change the damned system so we can do what we know
is right, necessary, and possible: make the transition from fossil
fuels to a clean energy economy. We don't have to do it overnight.
We don't have to forsake all fossil fuel use and the jobs that
depend on it. We just have to keep moving in the right direction,
and stop the fossil fuel industry from digging the hole so deep we
can't get out. If we fail to do that, there will be ample
opportunity to feel guilty down the road.<br>
1: And while I'm kvetching, PLEASE don't evince guilt about your
lifestyle with me. I'm a guilty slob too, and we get nowhere by
blaming ourselves for living our lives in the only energy system
there is. Yes, take personal responsibility and live more
sustainably. But don't do it out of penance or shame; do it to
regain your power and take back your money; do it with attitude.
And also be real: if we don't take collective responsibility as
citizens, confront egregious perpetrators, regain our power, and
wage a clean energy revolution, our vegan diets and LED bulbs
won't amount to much. Our sense of complicity and hypocrisy is a
huge albatross. I implore you to cast it off or morph it into
ferocity. Please read and share Bill McKibben's "The question I
get asked the most." My own take, with thanks to Naomi Oreskes and
Kathleen Dean Moore, is in "We have met the wrong enemy" - written
in response to trolls who swarmed around kayaktivists protesting
the Polar Pioneer. <br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<a
href="https://theconversation.com/can-bill-nye-or-any-other-science-show-really-save-the-world-76630"><font
color="#666666" size="-1">https://theconversation.com/can-bill-nye-or-any-other-science-show-really-save-the-world-76630</font><br>
<b>Can Bill Nye - or any other science show - really save the
world?</b></a><br>
<blockquote> But what deserves to be successful isn't always what
ends up winning hearts and minds in the real world. In fact,
empirical data we collected suggest that the viewership of such
shows - even heavily publicized and celebrity-endorsed ones - is
small and made up of people who are already highly educated,
knowledgeable about science and receptive to scientific evidence.<br>
Today's fragmented and partisan media environment fosters
selective exposure and motivated reasoning - that is, viewers
typically tune in to programming that confirms their existing
worldview. There are few opportunities or incentives for audiences
to engage with scientific evidence in the media. All of this can
propagate misleading claims and deter audiences from accepting the
conclusions of sound science. And adoption of misinformation and
alternative facts is not a partisan problem. Policy debates
questioning or ignoring scientific consensus on vaccines, climate
change and GMOs have cut across different political camps.<br>
After publication, "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" host Neil
deGrasse Tyson responded to this article in a comment.:<br>
... You might instead ask how much worse everything might be, had
all these pop-science forces not been in play over these recent
years. How many more science deniers would we have? Or better
yet, sum the pop-science media forces and ask, "Who has seen none
of them?". My guess is that your analysis will require
revision....<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
<font color="#666666"><b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2010/05/04/olbermann-names-will-krauthammer-in-worst-perso/164226">http://mediamatters.org/video/2010/05/04/olbermann-names-will-krauthammer-in-worst-perso/164226</a></b></font><font
size="+1"><b><br>
<a
href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2010/05/04/olbermann-names-will-krauthammer-in-worst-perso/164226">This
Day in Climate History May 4, 2010 </a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
<font size="+1">MSNBC's Keith Olbermann rips syndicated columnist
George Will for continuing to peddle myths about wind energy<i>.<br>
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