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Pictures: Dramatic images of Lufthansa 737 elevator after lightning strike

David Kaminski-Morrow
Flight Global
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:06 UTC


Sofia Flight Lightning Strike
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Engineers in the Bulgarian capital Sofia are repairing a Lufthansa Boeing 737-300 which suffered elevator damage from a lightning strike after departing to Frankfurt.

The aircraft, operating flight LH3431, had taken off from Sofia on 5 April with 44 passengers and six crew members on board.
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Einstein

Investigating "The Great Global Warming Swindle"

Ethan Gutmann
Arstechnica.com
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:48 UTC
Climate change is a contentious issue among the public. One of the main arguments made by people who claim that climate change is not caused by humans states that recent global warming is a result of changes in solar activity. Indeed, a 2007 broadcast on Channel4 titled "The Great Global Warming Swindle" tried to make exactly that case.

Comment: The study can be read here.

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Lord Lawson claims climate change hysteria heralds a 'new age of unreason'

Christopher Booker
Telegraph.co.uk
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:04 UTC
One of the striking features of how concern over global warming has risen to the top of our political agenda is the extraordinary unanimity with which it has been taken up by our political establishment.
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South Africa: Swallows dying by the thousands


SA
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:14 UTC
Tens of thousands of swallows have died in Limpopo province a week before they were due to migrate to Europe, said BirdLife SA on Wednesday.

Executive director Gerhard Verdoorn said the vast climate changes during March, from the extremely hot to the bitterly cold, played a major role in the death of the swallows.

About three weeks ago, cold air from Angola passed over Namibia and Botswana and entered the South African Lowveld. Temperatures plummeted from 21° to 9°.
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Scientists downplay global warming's effect on hurricanes

Martin Merzer
MiamiHerald.com
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:56 UTC
Global warming is not the cause of increased hurricane activity, researchers said, but many more busy -- and costly -- seasons are ahead.
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Nobel scientist issues warning on global warming

Tom Brown
Reuters
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:53 UTC
The Nobel Prize-winning scientist who rang the first alarm bells over the ozone hole issued a warming about climate change on Saturday, saying there could be "almost irreversible consequences" if the Earth warmed 2.5 degrees Celsius above what it ought to be.

"Things are changing and there's no doubt that it's as a result of human activities," said Mario Molina, a Mexican who shared a Nobel prize in chemistry in 1995 for groundbreaking work on chlorofluorocarbon gases and their threat to the Earth's ozone layer.

Comment: It would be helpful if this story would point to how Mr. Molina reached his conclusion that "Things are changing and there's no doubt that it's as a result of human activities". The science is still out on what is causing Global Warming and its effects. For a few related stories, see here, here and here. Here's one on the media's complicity.

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Iceland: life on global warming's front line

Adam Cox and Kristin Arna Bragadottir
Reuters
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:37 UTC
If any country can claim to be pitched on the global warming front line, it may be the North Atlantic island nation of Iceland.

On a purely physical level, this land of icecaps and volcanoes and home to 300,000 people is undergoing a rapid transformation as its glaciers melt and weather patterns change dramatically.

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Scientists from around the world meet in Rhinelander to discuss global warming

Michael Skubal
The Daily News
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:33 UTC
Twenty different organizations with over 100 people from eight countries met at the Holiday Inn in Rhinelander the past few days.

It was one of the largest scientific meetings ever held in the city.
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Global warming continues, says U.N.


The Hindu
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:30 UTC
The long-term trend of global warming is continuing, despite the current La Nina weather phenomenon that is bringing relatively cooler temperatures to parts of the Equatorial Pacific region, says the United Nations World Meteorological Organization.

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Uncommon cold is an antidote to warming fears

Frank Miele
DailyInterLake.com
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:21 UTC
You have to hand it to the global warming crowd. A little cold and snow doesn't scare them one bit.

Here in Northwest Montana we recently received good news when it was announced that our local ski resorts are having record years for snowfall. The Whitefish Mountain Resort, for instance, had gotten 424 inches of snow at the summit as of April 4, a hefty improvement over the previous record of 406 inches, which was set in the 1996-97 season.
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