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The crazy Dutch want to use refrigerators as thermal sinks (and therefore electrical sinks) to help manage 50,000 Megawatt-hours of energy.

Seventh Circuit Judge and University of Chicago law professor Richard Posner writes that the future losses of delaying climate change outweigh the present value of cleaning up the problem.

In other words, solving this problem makes sound economic sense.

The U.S. has declined to join an international accord on secret detentions, child soldiers.

Source: Washington Post

It doesn’t look like I’m going to get winter her in Holland. I’m pretty happy about that, actually. Global warming has its upside.

The downside, of course, is that Holland is on average 15 feet below sea level. If when the ice sheets melt, I’m pretty much screwed if I’m still here.

Sometime in the last few weeks, the worst insult one could leverage on someone opposing the “war on terror” is not to Hitler, but to Neville Chamberlain. The implication seems to be that appeasing “terror groups” [Hezbollah] or “terror states” [Iran] will lead to the creation of a dictatorship that threatens the security of the world. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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