NASA reports that North America weather patterns for July 2014 were upside down: If you live in the northern hemisphere, the past few weeks have been strange. In places where it should be seasonably hot—the eastern and southern United States and western Europe—it’s just been warm. In places where weather is usually mild in the […]
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Strange July Weather
Posted in Environment, Global Warming, Science, weather
Tagged climage change, extreme weather events, global warming, jet stream, ocean temperatures, precipitation, winds
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The Naked Truth
If God had meant for us to be naked, we would have been born that way. — author unknown
Research
Research, n: Consider Columbus: He didn’t know where he was going. When he got there he didn’t know where he was. When he got back he didn’t know where he had been. And he did it all on someone else’s money.
Decorous Age
Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Consequences Of Climate Change
NASA scientists warn: Global climate change has already had observable effects on the environment. Glaciers have shrunk, ice on rivers and lakes is breaking up earlier, plant and animal ranges have shifted and trees are flowering sooner. Effects that scientists had predicted in the past would result from global climate change are now occurring: loss […]
Posted in Environment, Global Warming
Tagged climate change, extreme weather events, global warming
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Ramadan
Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar; Muslims worldwide observe this as a month of fasting. Ramadan is a time of deep reflection for Muslims worldwide. “While fasting from dawn until sunset, Muslims refrain from consuming food, drinking liquids, smoking, and engaging in sexual relations; in some interpretations Muslims also refrain from other […]
Colorado Water Rights
Colorado is one of the states with the most restrictive water rights. Similar to how mineral rights can be sold separately then the other property rights, water rights in Colorado are often owned by someone other than the property owner. This means it is illegal to even capture rain water. Colorado has it’s own government […]
Rational
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. — Bertrand Russell
Franz Ferdinand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated on June 28, 1914. Franz Ferdinand was the heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne. His assassination started the chain of events that led to World War I. His assassination in Sarajevo precipitated Austria-Hungary’s declaration of war against Serbia. This caused the Central Powers (including Germany and Austria-Hungary) and […]
Posted in Government, International, music, Politics, War And Peace
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Dolphin Intelligence
Man has always assumed that he is more intelligent than dolphins because he has achieved so much — the wheel, New York, wars and so on — while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But, conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far […]