"The gods are angry"


	"The gods are angry"

kmcolo

3-4-2009 4:56 AM

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climate change, global warming, nepal

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3-6-2009 10:37 AM

Oortcloud

And yet we have people coming out and saying that the earth is cooling for the last decade ...

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