Of Arrogance and Mountain Pine Bark Beetles

There are 750,000 squares miles of dead standing Lodgepole pine across the Pacific Northwest, a fire storm waiting to happen, that could burn from Mount Shasta (California) to Southern Alaska.

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NOAA: 2010 land and ocean surface temperatures warmest on record

NOAA says 2010 is the hottest year on record.  However, skeptics, some of whom are in the scientific community, argue that the second half of 2010 will be cooler and that the evidence for global warming is cloudy at best.  What’s a layman to think? 

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