I have a new email address: david.appell@gmail.com
I haven't watched local news in...about as long as I can remember. Here's why.
The global temperature anomaly as measured by UAH is, well, kind of in the middle: +0.284°C. (Can these things really be measured to one part in a thousand?) 
"I can almost remember when a suspect being human was a given, not an option."
I'll be debating Tim Ball on the Victoria Taft radio show (KPAM 860 AM Portland) tonight at 7:05 pm PST. It's available live online.
Via Eurekalert:' [...]
In a recent press [...]
From the Inflated Ego Department: I was one of the more industrious reviewers for IPCC AR4. -- Steve McIntyre. If only the IPCC has listened to him....
I don't know why, but I really like this recording:' [...]
UAH's number for the September global temperature anomaly is +0.42°C -- that's the second September highest in their records. The only warmer September was 1998, at +0.43°C. GISS's 10-year moving average is at a record level. [...] 
Here's an interesting little tidbit: every 4 seconds humans consume as much energy as was released in the Hiroshima atomic bomb. (Both are about 60 trillion Joules.) That is, humans consume over 20,000 Hiroshima bombs worth of energy per day.
I heard this on the Jack Rice radio show this morning:additional chance of dying in the US if you don't have health insurance, compared to someone who does, 1993: +25%.in 2009: +40%' [...] 
Are the seas rising? Yes.
“The engineers always say that they have everything under control, until something happens that they never expected,” said Sabine Hofmann, 47, who lives near the plant.
This Peter Sinclair video is worth watching, as Pat Michaels tells skeptics they can't get too ridiculous and say that the world is now in a cooling phase. ' [...]
Here's a great video clip of a pack of wolves majestically moving up a mountain in eastern Oregon. Oregonian story
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