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It is totally flipping cold and dry here. It's kind of neat to see icicles hanging off the banisters and windows, but sheesh, running is brutal. The bricks and sculptures I used for my garden are frozen into the ground. Anything left outdoors cracks and breaks. I'm finally over my sinus problems, though.
A few days ago we finally broke down and bought some holiday lights. The house was completely dark every year while other houses have a shiny blue and white glow or colorful lights around their trees. I was browsing some bookstores and ran across some literature about Yule. I was struck by how important warm, glowing lights are this time of year. Fires, candles. Strings of lights and happy snowmen glowing against the bitter ice and snow.
I was looking for winter book suggestions, and wouldn't you know it, the goddess of Ecology was listening. As I wandered the nature aisle I found the most wonderful treasure: the Princeton Encyclopedia of Mammals. I've never seen a book as incredible as this. 934 pages of all-out beauty. Stunning, cutting-edge data on over 5,000 mammal species.
Some highlights:
Group living of european rabbits in the chalk and dune land warrens
Nonstop motherhood of honey possums
Form and function of the carnivore body plan
Mammals of the middle Eocene
I am in love with this book. I think our lights and this reading will keep me warm all winter. I so recommend this book if you have any interest in mammals. I recommend a latte or a spiced hot chocolate in your local bookstore-cafe while you browse the nature section. On Saturday our bookseller had hired a violin-cello quartet to play holiday music while people browsed and drank coffee. A lovely evening!
I was having a laugh with a Botanist friend of mine about the Evolution debate. Although questioned by Creationists,150 years of additional evidence has essentially solidified the Theory of Evolution, even without Darwin. We're finally seeing this same pattern with Global Warming. New evidence is making the theory stronger as time goes on.
A study of the Himalayas has provided new evidence for anthropogenic-caused climate change. Black soot from diesel engines and coal-fired plants has been found to cause melting glaciers in the Himalayas.
A new poll (of actual scientists, this time) shows that 97% of Climatologists believe that humans are causing climate change. And if you're confused by this cold weather, remember that climate change is not just about warming, it's about extreme patterns. So there it is, the theory is beginning to hold its own.
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Alex Jones breaks down the conclusion of the Copenhagen United Nations Conference on Climate Change (UNFCC), including the foundations of a new era of Global Governance-- as evidenced by quotes directly from the mouths of Al Gore, UN Head Ban Ki-Moon and bankster heir David de Rothschild.
Though new taxes have been levied and mechanisms for world regulation have been layed down, the Climate Change agenda has taken a lot of political damage. The beginnings of Climategate with the East Anglia CRU email leaks were just the beginning of a chain reaction of revelations that has fueled anger, doubt, denial and speculation worldwide. Compromised or fudged data have been identified from research centers in Russia, New Zealand, Australia and beyond.
Further, many leaders from Third World nations became angered at the 'Danish text leak' revealing plans to burden lesser-developed nations with greater emissions cuts and plans to levy a proposed $100 Billion in 'green' debt system. George Soros has proved to be at the center of what has been critiqued as 'Climate Colonialism' and would prove deadly to at-risk for starvation populations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe, in particular. Already, growing ethanol in the place of food has been blamed for millions of deaths in the LDCs.
Alex also breaks down revelations about the carbon trading and other green schemes. It's not only players like Al Gore, the Rothschilds and George Soros who stand to make a killing. President Barack Obama-- with a great conflict of interest-- was a founding investment partner in the Chicago Climate Exchange alongside Maurice Strong, a top Rockefeller agent and leading climate change schemer. Chicago Climate Exchange is written into the architecture of many of the proposals for alternative energy credits, carbon derivatives and other green financial products and stands to enrich its membership.
In the end, the forced-incrementalism towards total world government, with complete dominance over money, debt, food, engery and resources, paid a price in exposure at COP15. Many politicians, journalists and people in general are now well aware that a scam has been forced down upon them-- and both their freedom and sovereignty are certainly at stake.
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