I wonder if one factor in increasing allergies is that in the past before modern medicine many people with a serious allergy would die young and their allergy would never have been identified as such.

I doubt there is much if any US Government money going in to building the Keystone XL pipeline. It's a private venture. Of course a lot of government money has been spent on analyzing it.

Then you should have a show on TLC.

The cost of producing the tar sands oil is high enough ($75-$95/barrel) that at current prices (below $55/barrel) it's uneconomical to produce so it won't help reduce prices until the price goes back up over $95/barrel.

With a built in camera. Think of the porn.

Yes, the Bolos are another apt comparison.

Fred Saberhagen's Berserkers come to mind.

Sorry, you got stoned and you missed it.

What makes you think my comment was a joke? It was a straight up expression of my opinion.

Chemical weapons are essentially pesticides for humans.

Well, there are winters in both the northern and southern hemispheres each year so maybe not. But maybe I should have said the northern hemisphere explicitly. I live on the US west coast and both winters have been warmer than normal. The point is that you can't take your experience in one small part of the globe or hemisphere and apply it to the whole.

Here's the story with a link to the abstract.

Complication doesn't change the fact that there's objective reality. It just makes it harder to find.

Many things drive climate but greenhouse gases are definitely one of them.

The next "epoch of crushing cold" has been postponed indefinitely. Scientists have calculated that CO2 would have to get down to 240 ppm to get another ice age going.