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POPSThe UK Meteorological Office: slightly less reliable than tea leaves or cock entrails How does the Met Office know this? Because it’s on a mission, that’s why. Visit its website and you’ll quickly appreciate how this supposedly authoritative and balanced taxpayer-funded body has become the most strident activist on behalf of the global climate-fear-promotion movement. According to the Met Office’s official climate change guide, computer models are “reliable”, the “overwhelming majority of scientists agree on the fundamentals of climate change”, human activity is a major driver of climate change and the Urban Heat Island Effect is an urban myth.
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POPSLAO | Spotlight & Sunshine on So Cal Today New Year's Day 2010 is more than football ... it is also about the Rose Parade and a chance for millions to watch this glorious production on television or in person. If you watching from a more frigid location, today's forecast for Pasadena: Mostly sunny in the morning then becoming partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Local north winds around 15 mph in the morning.
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POPSLAO | A break for shousands of 'snow birds' Check out these weather comparisons for the major population centers of the college football universe whose fans are focused on Southern California this week for the Rose Bowl, Rose Parade, and the National BCS Championship game next week. This is always the time of the year when thousands, if not millions, yearn for a trip to this climate to get a reprieve from winter. ___ http://me.twi.bz/n ___ http://altacities.com
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POPSPhatic communication - in small talk, the container is more important than the content More: # "Phatic communication refers also to trivial and obvious exchanges about the weather and time, made up of ready-made sentences or foreseeable statements. . . . Therefore this is a type of communication that establishes a contact without transmitting a precise content, where the container is more important then the content." (F. Casalegno and I.M. McWilliam, "Communication Dynamics in Technological Mediated Learning Environments." International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, Nov. 2004)
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POPSFlight Simulator Game - Flight Pro Sim Game Really exciting and fascinating flight simulator game. Another thing that really fascinated me about the game was how they made the seasons change. If you fly over the South Pole in the summertime, it's 24 hours of darkness. If it's winter in New Zealand, the sun is hot and you can literally see heat waves coming off the tarmac.
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POPSWinter Tips for Truck Drivers In cold and snowy weather truck drivers face many problems. Fuel economy also drops down a lot in winter. This winter is predicted to be one of the coldest and snowiest. Check this tips for truck drivers to overcome the problems faced in driving in cold conditions as well as to improve fuel efficiency.