
Ponca City, We love you writes “NPR reports that with snow blanketing much of the country, the topic of global warming has become the butt of jokes; but for scientists who study the climate, there’s no contradiction between a warming world and lots of snow . ‘The fact that the oceans are warmer now than they were, say, 30 years ago means there’s about on average 4 percent more water vapor lurking around over the oceans than there was… in the 1970s,’ says Kevin Trenberth, a prominent climate scientist.
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Only a month after Netflix announced it was giving into Warner Bros. and delaying new releases, DVD rental kiosk company Redbox has decided to do the same.

coondoggie writes “The European Space Agency’s Mars exploring satellite will make a number of close-up passes of the Martian moon Phobos.
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It merited only a few paragraphs inside newspaper sports sections.

It merited only a few paragraphs inside newspaper sports sections. Crystal Cox, a member of the gold-medal-winning U.S. women’s 1,600-meter relay team in the 2004 Athens Olympics, had admitted to using a performance-enhancing drug.