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Comment Advocate?! (Score 1) 618

by davidej on Saturday February 03, 2007 @12:43AM (#17870330) Attached to: How Do You Advocate Linux in 5 Minutes?

Why are you advocating in the first place? I'm so tired of people talking about Linux as if it's some sort of cause or crusade... So bored with that. Move on. It's not '95 or even '05 anymore... It's just a freaking tool, not a religion or political cause celebre...

Study Finds World Warmth Edging to Ancient Levels 534

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday September 26, 2006 @01:06PM from the is-it-warm-in-here-or-is-it-just-me dept.

Krishna Dagli writes to mention a decades-long study by NASA scientists. According to the research, global temperatures are reaching highs not seen in thousands of years. From the article: "One of the findings from this collaboration is that the Western Equatorial Pacific and Indian Oceans are now as warm as, or warmer than, at any prior time in the Holocene. The Holocene is the relatively warm period that has existed for almost 12,000 years, since the end of the last major ice age. The Western Pacific and Indian Oceans are important because, as these researchers show, temperature change there is indicative of global temperature change. Therefore, by inference, the world as a whole is now as warm as, or warmer than, at any time in the Holocene. According to Lea, 'The Western Pacific is important for another reason, too: it is a major source of heat for the world's oceans and for the global atmosphere.'"

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