xmllint update
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My friend Kelli has started to blog her triathlon training. The woman is fearless. Now I eagerly await her first entry about a rest day.
A commenter sent me off in pursuit of the Thomas Jefferson climate change quote, with good results. The full text is here (search on “Beck”, second occurrence), a July 16, 1824 letter from Jefferson to one Lewis Beck, who had apparently sent Jeffeson something he had written on the climate of the west. The quote …
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Stink bugs are showing up in London, another global warming clue. But the real fun here is the source of the research – Max Barclay, who is described in the stories as curator of beetles at the Natural History Museum in London. How cool a title is that?
There are a couple of news reports out about a new Hadley study on the synergistic effects of greenhouse warming and the urban heat island. The urban heat island effect, often used by skeptics to discount global warming data, is the very real effect in which all that pavement, buildings and other thermal mass that …
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