News from Thursday

Global Warming to end due to the Sun's lack of enthusiasm.

There is a close correlation between variations in the sunspot cycle and earth's climate. The previous time a cycle was delayed like [what is being observed right now] was in the Dalton Minimum, an especially cold period that lasted several decades from 1790. Northern winters became ferocious: in particular, the rout of Napoleon's Grand Army during the retreat from Moscow in 1812 was at least partly due to the lack of sunspots."

"Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh," warns Phil Chapman writing in The Australian. Chapman is a geophysicist and astronautical engineer who was the first Australian to become a NASA astronaut. Link-O to that nut job "crazy scientist"

We've got that to look forward to.

On the bright side, the wars in the Middle East will be a whole lot easier to fight if it's only 72 degrees in the desert.

North Korea holds hands with Syria and builds them a nuclear reactor - not for sunshine and happiness - but for smiting thine enemies.

Let's hand it to Matt and Trey because the plot of Team America was SPOT effing On!? Here's the Link to North Korea and Syrian story

Really. An effing puppet show had these links figured out before DEBKA, NSA, CIA or - anyone else?

Maybe it's good that the sun might go out.