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Miniposts 0.6.5

Learning by Candlelight
As I waited night after night for the electricity to return, candlelight kept teaching me about moving air’s talent for removing heat, hampering any effort to keep warmth “down here” by constantly sending it up and away.   Read more here. (0)

People Powered Gym
A US gym has installed specially-adapted exercise bikes that recycle energy generated by people as they work out.   Read more here. (0)

Flying on Vegetable Oil
A passenger plane has successfully completed a two-hour test flight partly powered by vegetable oil.  Read more here. (2)

Reef Recovery After Tsunami
Scientists have reported a rapid recovery in some of the coral reefs damaged by the Indian Ocean tsunami four years ago.  Read more here. (0)

Lots of Dinosaur Fossils in China
Scientists in China say they have discovered the world’s largest dinosaur fossil site in the eastern province of Shandong.  Read more here. (0)

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Not Much Ice at the Arctic in 1818

Dear Jennifer
 
As any internet search confirms, climate change doomsayers use Greenland as a key indicator of “global warming”. At least some of the phenomena they observe are clearly not the effect of greenhouse gases.  Take for example the following item from page 159 of the February 1818 issue of The Gentleman’s Magazine:
 
“Voyage of Discovery. - Government, [...]

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I’m in Tokyo

I arrived in Tokyo yesterday for a meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society. 
My mobile phone is not working, so any messages will go unanswered for at least a week.  If you need to contact me, try email.  
The four pale-coloured elongated images in the pond are fish. The photograph was taken this morning at the New Otani [...]