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A study of NASA data by scientists at the University of Alabama shows much more heat is being released into space than was thought:  HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (July 26, 2011) — Data from NASA’s Terra satellite shows that when the climate warms, Earth’s atmosphere is apparently more efficient at releasing energy to space than models used to forecast climate change have been programmed to “believe.”The result is climate forecasts that are warming substantially faster than the atmosphere, says Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist in the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.  The previously unexplained...

Someone forgot to tell him that nerds are supposed to be smart. I’m talking about the geeky ex-governor of Minnesota. The other day, the New Republic carried a piece titled "The Tragedy of Tim Pawlenty" in which the writer, Walter Shapiro, tells of watching the wannabe GOP presidential nominee deliver his stump speech. It offered the following passage about how Pawlenty ended up in law school: "I remember walking past my dentist’s office," he recalled, "and, as I looked at his Buick Riviera parked in the driveway, I began thinking that, to get ahead in life, you had to be...