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The official home of the Voyager Series. Find out what happens when Voyager 1 gets picked up by two itinerant spacecombers from Morys Minor...WUFOOB
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"I read the news today, oh boy."
A sincere and unequivocal attempt to make nonsense of a range of topical issues of the day...Short Stories
Here is a catalogue of my prose writings, including children's fiction, short stories, non-sequiturs and odd scraps of surrealism with or without a straightforward narrative. Don't believe me? Well, to prove it, here's a picture of a man being fired from a cannon:
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Scientists are racing to find dark matter in the universe. You may find some of it here in the form of conspiracy theories, dark secrets, sinister and bizarre tales...The Moonwalkers
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Tag Archives: global warming
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Paris climate deal legally binds all to limit warming Tribune, Sunday 13th December 2015 A landmark climate change deal was tonight clinched with the approval of India, China and the US, after days of tough negotiations here with the legally-binding … Continue reading
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IPCC in damage control mode Forbes, Thursday 26th September 2013 As its global warming narrative unravels, the IPCC is in damage control mode. Previous Next WUFOOB Archive
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Tagged 95% likely, Fifth Assessment Report, global warming, IPCC, Rajendra K. Pachauri
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Scientists 95% sure humans causing global warming BBC, Friday 27th September 2013 A landmark IPCC climate report says scientists are 95% certain that humans are the “dominant cause” of global warming since the 1950s. The panel warns that continued emissions … Continue reading
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Tagged global warming, IPCC
MMBC News
Global warming is on ice Morys Minor’s most watched news channel MMBC News The British Met Office has lowered by 20% its previous prediction of how much hotter the planet will get in the next few years. Which is inconvenient, … Continue reading
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Tagged al gore, global warming, Met Office, MMBC, MMBC News, Morys Minor, smolin9
MMBC News
Global warming on the Pale Blue Dot Morys Minor’s most watched news channel MMBC News Earthlings are increasingly worried about global warming and the environment. Today, I’m visiting one of their wind farms, where they’re presumably hoping to grow some, … Continue reading
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Tagged global warming, MMBC, MMBC News, Morys Minor, smolin9, wind turbines
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What do we need to do to speed up global warming? The Telegraph, Saturday 16 March 2013 Sir David Attenborough was wrong to join the chorus on global warming. Between 1966 and 2006 polar-bear populations increased. Metro, Monday 18 March … Continue reading
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The truth, according to science
According to the BBC, the Dutch team competing against Portugal in Euro 2012 enjoyed 56% possession of the ball and managed 529 passes compared to their opponents’ mediocre tally of 349. Of those passes, Holland achieved a success rate of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayern Munich, BBC, Champions League, Chelsea, Daily Telegraph, Didier Drogba, Euro 2012, Fernando Torres, Fritz Vahrenholt, global warming, Greenpeace, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, match stats, natural climate drivers, solar cycles, statistics, talking point, tick-box culture
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“Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.”(Mark Twain) As we face another day of blizzards and record sub-zero temperatures, you might be interested to hear what the clever people at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the … Continue reading
Science or pasta?
Do scientists now believe the planet gets cooler when the sun gets hotter? The science journal Nature recently published research relating to the sun’s energy output. The study, led by Professor Joanna Haigh of Imperial College London, measured solar warming during a three-year period between … Continue reading
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There is now irrefutable evidence of a link between pirate numbers and global temperatures. I know correlation does not imply causation, but hey …
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Tagged global warming, humour, nonsense, pirates, satire
