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Proof of global warming in Denver.

Yesterday Denver hit 100 degrees, due to very strong downslope winds coming off the mountains. Normally the spring winds have stopped by now, but everything is running a few weeks late this year due to the long, cold winter.

These hot, dry winds also caused some fires. People build houses in pine forest which normally burns every dozen or so years, and surprisingly the houses burn down.

The Senate Intelligence Committee, whose chairman, Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), has defended the surveillance efforts, asked the NSA on Tuesday to publicly explain programs that use telephone and Internet records “so that we can talk about them, because I think they’re really helpful,” she said.

Tech companies urge U.S. to ease secrecy rules on national security probes – The Washington Post

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I have started taking a short timeout in my phone conversations to greet my NSA agent and make sure he feels welcome listening in on my conversations.

Hello Mr. NSA agent. How are you today? How is the weather in Maryland?

OK, you have a nice day!

I recommend that everybody do that. Spies are people too and they appreciate the kindness.

The Coalition will impose new noise monitoring rules on windfarms that the multibillion dollar industry says will inflict crippling costs, provide no useful information and represent another victory for an anti-noise campaign by concerned citizens backed in part by the climate sceptic lobby.

The yet-to-be-released resources policy is set to require all windfarms to provide “real-time” noise monitoring, with the findings immediately publicly available, so nearby residents concerned about the alleged health impact of windfarms can compare the results with strict state government noise controls. The Coalition resources spokesman, Ian Macfarlane, will also try to introduce the measures before the election with a private members bill.

People living close to windfarms have reported symptoms including headaches, sleeplessness and nausea.

Windfarm industry fears consequences of Coalition turbine noise policy | World news | guardian.co.uk

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

NSA surveillance: anger mounts in Congress at ‘spying on Americans’ | World news | guardian.co.uk

Obama pressured to confront China’s Xi Jinping on cyber spying (+video) – CSMonitor.com

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h/t to Tom Nelson

Why Arctic sea ice will vanish in 2013 | Sierra Club Canada

Arctic ice area is right at the 30 year mean, and the highest in many years. Is this guy a criminal, or is he just stupid?

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