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Our Choice = Al Gore’s book on global warming and climate change

How Al Gore is profiting from global warming Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis The Weather Channel founder wants to sue Al Gore: Al Gore on climate change (Google Earth Climate introductory tour): GreenPeace: Previously: PETA asks … Continue reading

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PETA asks Al Gore to stop eating meat — and Glenn Beck agrees.

Will PETA manage to convince Al Gore to become a vegan (like Mike Linksvayer)? Next: Our Choice = Al Gore’s book on global warming and climate change

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The director of “Not Evil, Just Wrong” (a documentary challenging Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”) dares to ask a question at the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference.

“Apparently Mr. Gore only allows the ‘right kind’ of questions to be asked of him.” Not Evil, Just Wrong @ Twitter

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Al Gore’s activism at work

Will the .eco top level domain name be approved by ICANN?

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Lance Fortnow’s new car —out of Al Gore’s textbook

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In black, the comment made by the ubber president of the Pennock fan club. But I want Jason Ruspini to dissent in the comment area with another argument.

- UPDATE: He took the bait… -

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Asymmetry in Obama nomination market

As of today, on regular margin, it would take roughly $10,000 to raise the probability of nomination by 0.5%, but only $1,000 to lower it by 10%, briefly. Even for profit-takers, a roughly 30% after-fees annualized return seems like a … Continue reading

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Al Gore is off his rocket, going thru the roof.

- Nick Barrowman: Prob(Gore pres.) = Prob(Gore pres. & Gore nom.) = Prob(Gore pres. | Gore nom.) * Prob(Gore nom.) Therefore Prob(Gore pres. | Gore nom.) = Prob(Gore pres.) / Prob(Gore nom.) So Prob(Gore pres. | Gore nom.) = 2.1%/1.7% … Continue reading

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InTrade-TradeSports are fucking up contracts, once again.

Once again. I have been inundated with complaints from InTrade traders, since Christmas. Here’s the problem. InTrade traders tell me that the expiration dates for the Bloomberg and Gore announcement contracts have been extended —at InTrade’s whim. The contract statements, … Continue reading

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An Inconvenient Truth – Al Gore’s movie

I just saw the DVD —and so did George Tziralis’ brother. The main points: The Keeling curve, measuring CO2 from the Mauna Loa Observatory. [See chart below.] The retreat of numerous glaciers is shown in before-and-after photographs (see Retreat of … Continue reading

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