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El Niño is Spanish for ….. The Niño!

El Niño is coming!

Al Gore Movie, Art vs. Art, Pravada, Richard Edwards

Pravada
Originally uploaded by xtrarant.
So last night was fun. First off, went to see An Inconvenient Truth. VERY good movie. Really depressing at times, but also really fired me up to help kick some ass this year. Particularly I want to find out what it will take to get the Indy City/County COuncil to pass something [...]

4 Stages of Global Warming Denial

Treehugger: The 4 Stages of Global Warming Denial.

Link Roundup

time to talk about these links in specifics so I’ll do another cheater link roundup. I’m sure you’re excited.

Global Warming

I was going to just respond to this post of my dad’s in his comments section, but I started getting long winded and decided to just make this a post.

Carbon Dioxide Is Your Friend

See, all this global warming hype is much ado about nothing. We shouldn’t be worried about carbon dioxide gathering and causing a greenhouse effect because carbon dioxide is our friend. We breathe out carbon dioxide!!! See? No reason to worry!
And not only will we have more of our friend carbon dioxide, but global warming could [...]

The Artificial Ionosphere

In 1963, US scientists created a temporary artificial ring around the earth, made up of tiny copper needles, to serve as an artivicial ionosphere off which to bounce Cold War communications signals.

Gaussian Gun

Cool! A “gun” made from ball bearings and magnets. Hedonistica – Gaussian Gun

Adventure!

Well, last night’s Indians home opener was certainly an adventure. Was there with CJ, Nate, Cheryl and others. So we got to the game in time for the opening pitch around 7, but it was delated due to some rain. They get the game started around 7:30 and everything was great. Decent game. Good times.
Then, [...]

Crazy Storms

(TheIndyChannel.com: by Charlie Meyer)
Update: It wasn’t a tornado downtown. Just straight line winds of at least 80 MPH.
Update 2: Dina’s photos of the building on Flickr are better than any of the news outlets’ that I’ve seen.
Some crazy storms hit Indy last night. There’s a “photo gallery’ on the star’s site (only 5 pictures? Oh [...]

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