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Why an eccentric band of tree lovers is cloning an ancient forest

I found this article froma link from somewhere (it's so easy to get lost on the 'net and not find your way back). It tells about some people who care enough to try and save the earth's biggest, hardiest trees by cloning them. Such good work, really. He started this work after a near-death experience.

Did you know that the believed oldest tree is a California Redwood that they believe is 4,842 years old? Incredible! Even more incredible is that we're all working hard to kill as many as we can. We don't think about that, but our everyday actions are leading to it...

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So,

are the reindeer going to have problems running into the exhaust chimneys?

Facebook sets up data centre in Lapland, Sweden

"Facebook is heading to Lapland, lured not by the possibility of seeing Father Christmas but because of the climate."

I wonder, if other companies follow their lead, what will happen to the climate there? Ultimately it must have some effect on it...

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It does my heart good

to see someone from the U.S. political right admit to this:

My Road to Damascus Moment on Climate Change

It is also good to see a thoughtful, and, I expect, prayerful person, let their faith help them come to this conclusion. Now if only the people who need to make the decisions, and those of us who have to sacrifice to make the changes, could come to the same conclusion...

(Sorry for the graphic. I need one that says 'climate change' and not 'global warming. I'll try to fix that.)

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Good Column on Science

Global Warming not a fraud I think Carroll makes an important point about the politicization of ignorance here.

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At least

she's not saying 'don't worry be happy'...

Anti-human Copenhagen

"There is no nihilism like the nihilism of a 9-year-old."

She does have valid opinions in the article. The difference between her and the nihilists is that she looks at things optimistically, while the nihilists look at things as pessimists. And who is right?

If the things that need doing get done to deal with climate change, then the optimist could well be saying 'nyahh, nyahh' to the pessimists. However, if the world has to wait for the various levels of government bureaucracies to make change to their laws while protecting the various interest groups that vote for them, I fear that the nihilists may well be right. And that the little children should know that.

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Is anyone surprised?


Low targets, goals dropped: Copenhagen ends in failure

"Deal thrashed out at talks condemned as climate change scepticism in action"

Nothing ever really changes.

"Not with a bang but a whimper."

Goodnight, all...

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For anyone

who didn't know, or anyone who forgot, at 8:30 p.m. tonight it's

Earth Hour.

Vote for the earth!