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30 Americans have died since Memorial Day in Afghanistan, including one from Fort Collins. 970 troops have died in Afghanistan since Obama took office. What was the point? It seems clear now that Obama’s plan is to hand Afghanistan back to the Taliban.

–Spc. Richard C. Emmons III, 22, North Grandby, Conn., May 31, 2011
–Sgt. Jeffrey C. S. Sherer, 29, Four Oaks, N.C., June 2, 2011
–Sgt. Christopher R. Bell, 21, Golden, Miss., June 4, 2011
–Sgt. Joshua D. Powell, 28, Quitman, Texas, June 4, 2011
–Spc. Devin A. Snyder, 20, Cohocton, N.Y., June 4, 2011
–Spc. Robert L. Voakes Jr., 21, L’Anse, Mich., June 4, 2011
–Chief Warrant Officer Kenneth R. White, 35, Fort Collins, Colo., June 5, 2011
–Chief Warrant Officer Bradley J. Gaudet, 31, Gladewater, Texas June 5, 2011
–Sgt. Joseph M. Garrison, 27, New Bethlehem, Pa., June 6, 2011
–Cpl. William J. Woitowicz, 23, Middlesex, Mass., June 7, 2011
–Lance Cpl. Nicholas S. O’Brien, 21, Stanley, N.C., June 9, 2011
–Cpl. Matthew T. Richard, 21, Acadia, La., June 9, 2011
–Capt. Michael W. Newton, 30, Newport News, Va., June 11, 2011
–Lance Cpl. Jason D. Hill, 20, Poway, Calif., June 11, 2011
–Lance Cpl. Sean M. N. O’Connor, 22, Douglas, Wyo., June 12, 2011
–Lance Cpl. Joshua B. McDaniels, 21, Dublin, Ohio, June 12, 2011
–Pfc. Eric D. Soufrine, 20, Woodbridge, Conn., June 14, 2011
–Staff Sgt. Jeremy A. Katzenberger, 26, Weatherby Lake, Mo., June 14, 2011
–Pvt. Ryan J. Larson, 19, Friendship, Wis., June 15, 2011
–Sgt. Mark A. Bradley, 25, Cuba, N.Y., June 16, 2011
–Spc. Scott D. Smith, 36, Indianapolis, Ind., June 17, 2011
–Pfc. Brian J. Backus, 21, Saginaw Township, Mich., June 18, 2011
— Sgt. 1st Class Alvin A. Boatwright, 33, Lodge, S.C., June 18, 2011
–Sgt. Edward F. Dixon III, 37, Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., June 18, 2011
–Staff Sgt. Alan L. Snyder, 28, Blackstone, Mass., June 18, 2011
–Spc. Tyler R. Kreinz, 21, Beloit, Wis., June 18, 2011
–Pfc. Josue Ibarra, 21, Midland, Texas, June 19, 2011
–Sgt. James W. Harvey II, 23, Toms River, N.J., June 20, 2011
–Pfc. Gustavo A. Rios-Ordonez, 25, Englewood, Ohio, June 20, 2011
–Lance Cpl. Jared C. Verbeek, 22, Visalia, Calif, June 21. 2011

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/us-casualties-afghanistan-have-increased

Last month, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar attended the Seventh Ministerial Meeting of the Arctic Council in Ruuk, Greenland,

The symposium, the fourth in a series of conferences, followed Naval Operations in an Ice-free Arctic

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A fifth grader wrote this :

Lately I have heard about global warming and how this affects the weather and the air we breathe. I have heard adults talk about how the weather is changing, and how global warming and climate changes are related. It seems that the climate is changing and that the earth is warming up.

The warming of the earth causes increases in temperatures and decreases the natural habitat of many species. In fact, many species are losing their ability to adapt to the changes in temperatures and we are losing a number of ecosystems. Many agree that climate change may be one of the greatest threats facing the planet.

Extreme rainstorms and snowfalls have become more frequent and this type of weather has often caused deadly flooding and other natural disasters. The change in severity seems to be most apparent in North America where weather instruments are the most reliable, although severe weather is being experienced throughout the globe.

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Chris Matthews was somewhat surprised with Al Gore’s harsh critique of President Obama inRolling Stone regarding his inaction on climate policy. Instead Matthews argued that even if Obama has not been perfect, Gore should really be angry at the “corrupt media on the right” who refuse to believe in climate change, not because they are stupid, but because in Matthews’ opinion they are “evil.”

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Why are environmentalists happy? Because there’s a coal plant that uses water from Lake Powell, and if the lake continues to drain away, the coal plant may be left high and dry.

http://www.naturalnews.com/002364.html

 

http://lakepowell.water-data.com/

Gavin says that the 2004 low was due to global warming (which apparently ended in 2005.)

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The press is reporting that the west is burning up. It must be due to snowpack up to 3657% of normal.

MONTANA
  KOOTENAI RIVER BASIN .........................  7 of  8     446*      129 
  FLATHEAD RIVER BASIN ......................... 14 of 16     457*      132 
  UPPER CLARK FORK RIVER BASIN ................. 14 of 15     769*      123 
  BITTERROOT RIVER BASIN .......................  7 of  7     527*      118 
  LOWER CLARK FORK RIVER BASIN .................  8 of  8    1047*      128 
  JEFFERSON RIVER BASIN ........................ 19 of 19     568*      123 
  MADISON RIVER BASIN .......................... 11 of 11     560*      123 
  GALLATIN RIVER BASIN .........................  7 of  7     429*      119 
  MISSOURI HEADWATERS .......................... 31 of 31     535*      124 
  HEADWATERS MISSOURI MAINSTEM .................  5 of  5    1170*      127 
  SMITH, JUDITH, AND MUSSELSHELL RIVER BASINS ..  9 of 10    1829*      137 
  SUN, TETON AND MARIAS RIVER BASINS ...........  5 of  6     715*      123 
  MISSOURI MAINSTEM RIVER BASIN ................ 19 of 21    1035*      130 
  ST. MARY AND MILK RIVER BASINS ...............  3 of  3     241*      120 
  UPPER YELLOWSTONE RIVER BASIN ................ 23 of 24     403*      127 
  WIND RIVER BASIN (WYOMING) ................... 12 of 13     471*      118 
  SHOSHONE RIVER BASIN (WYOMING) ...............  5 of  6     318*      134 
  BIGHORN RIVER BASIN (WYOMING) ................ 15 of 16     496*      132 
  TONGUE RIVER BASIN (WYOMING) .................  6 of  7    3657*      137 
  POWDER RIVER BASIN (WYOMING) .................  6 of  7    1867*      130 
  LOWER YELLOWSTONE RIVER BASIN ................ 31 of 35     503*      128

http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/snotelanom/snotelbasin

Our local drainage is only 603% of normal. The bottom line with environmental reporting is to assume that everything they say is intentionally incorrect.

June 16, 1947

Greenland is getting greener and Iceland’s ice is shrinking. The Arctic is losing its chill.

Retreating Glaciers. Mountain glaciers, “very sensitive to climatic changes,”

In central Norway, Lapland and Greenland, the glaciers have been drawing back their long tongues of ice. Some have disappeared entirely. Icelandic glaciers are yielding up farmland which they have overridden for the last 600 years.

Advancing Fish. In the 19th Century only a few cod were caught off southwestern Greenland. Now they are schooling far north of the Arctic Circle, where grateful Greenlanders and Eskimos are hauling them up by the ton. Many times in geological history, over long periods of years, the ice has piled up in the north and crunched down into the temperate zones.

http://www.time.com/