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(CNN) — An Indian airline has hit on possibly the worthiest excuse yet for hiring slim women as cabin crew — it saves fuel and therefore money.

Airline recruits women to save fuel – CNN.com

Climate nutjobs are spreading rumors all over the Internet that this region near the North Pole is a huge hole in the ice.

arctic.io – Arctic Terra – (2013/179)

10-Day Temperature Outlook for the Conterminous U.S.

arctic.io – Arctic Terra – (2013/179)

They were warned

(1) Mainstream Last First

July 24, 2012

Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt

WASHINGTON — For several days this month, Greenland’s surface ice cover melted over a larger area than at any time in more than 30 years of satellite observations. Nearly the entire ice cover of Greenland, from its thin, low-lying coastal edges to its 2-mile-thick center, experienced some degree of melting at its surface, according to measurements from three independent satellites analyzed by NASA and university scientists.

On average in the summer, about half of the surface of Greenland’s ice sheet naturally melts. At high elevations, most of that melt water quickly refreezes in place. Near the coast, some of the melt water is retained by the ice sheet and the rest is lost to the ocean. But this year the extent of ice melting at or near the surface jumped dramatically. According to satellite data, an estimated 97 percent of the ice sheet surface thawed at some point in mid-July. 

NASA – Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt

According to NASA, 47% of the ice sheet melted unnaturally last summer. There is only one weather station on the ice sheet, and it had no days last summer which averaged above freezing.

At the bottom of the article, NASA casually mentioned that whatever they claimed was unnaturally happening, actually occurs about once every 150 years.

“Ice cores from Summit show that melting events of this type occur about once every 150 years on average. With the last one happening in 1889, this event is right on time,” says Lora Koenig, a Goddard glaciologist and a member of the research team analyzing the satellite data.

The Greenland Country Club is getting buried in snow. We are going to lose it, unless NASA can melt 97% of the ice again this summer.

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Obama tells us that a climate catastrophe is coming in the future, unless he leads the world away from it.

Some people might interpret this is a sign of advanced mental illness, but ignoring that for a minute – it would be nice to know what the catastrophe and the date of the catastrophe are?

It appeared through their line of questioning that prosecutors wanted to prove that Zimmerman’s injuries were neither life-threatening nor cause enough for him to fire his gun

Witness describes Zimmerman’s injuries, phone call to wife | Fox News

To make his point clearer he could have volunteered to have some MMA students pound his head in lying down in the parking lot.

Police can shoot you 23 times for holding a flashlight, but having your head pounded in is not grounds for self defense.

A bipartisan group of 26 senators, led by Sen. Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) asked Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to detail the scope and limits of the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities in a letter released Friday.

The NSA’s surveillance program has come under intense scrutiny following a leak revealing the agency harvested the phone metadata of millions of American citizens.

The senators noted that the federal government’s authority under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act is broad and rife with potential for abuse. Among the senators’ concerns was whether the NSA’s bulk data harvesting program could be used to construct a gun registry or violate other privacy laws.

Potential to construct gun database, senators say | Washington Free Beacon