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Uh excuse me....Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming Similar
Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on. No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major glob...Feed: Villagers with Torches
The Tribal Mind: The smartest lines on the box Similar
To name the most visitable country in the world, go to Who We Are by David Dale The Emmy awards ceremony, in which Hollywood honours a whole lot of programs our networks end up showing late at night or not at all, will this year make a feature of the most memorable lines of dialogue in 60 years of scripted television. It's apparently an attempt to cheer up the screenwriters who went on strike earlier this year in an attempt to to get extra payments when their work is sold again (via DVDs and the internet). Already US websites are jumping with nominations, so before we get on to the topic of th...Feed: Who We Are
The Other Election Similar
On November 4th, Americans will chose their next president. Two weeks before that, the world will chose the newest members of the Security Council. The excellent Security Council Report offers a nice run down of which countries are in the running. Here's how it breaks down: Five of the ten non-permanent Security Council seats will be vacated in 2008. Two of these seats belong to the Western Europe and Others Group ("others" being Canada, New Zeland, Australia, Israel and the United States,) one to Asia, one to Africa and one to Latin America. Uganda and Mexico are running uncontested for thei...Feed: UN Dispatch
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