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Check out the weather charts for today in Texas. Global warming has hit hard, pounding the area with streams solidified humidity, and temperatures in the double digits. Temperatures in Texas continue to be higher than those in Alaska. Al Gore must have been buying a hell of a lot of "carbon credits" recently to have this incredible impact on Global Warming. I wish he could have received hi Nobel Peace Prize today in Dallas.

Sun's fickle heart may leave us cold 25 January 2007 From New Scientist Print Edition.Stuart Clark There's a dimmer switch inside the sun that causes its brightness to rise and fall on timescales of around 100,000 years - exactly the same period as between ice ages on Earth. So says a physicist who has created a computer model of our star's core. Robert Ehrlich of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, modelled the effect of temperature fluctuations in the sun's interior. According to the standard view, the temperature of the sun's core is held constant by the opposing pressures of...