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...card industry. Greeting-card giant Hallmark has rolled out some 25 new recession-themed cards this year - up from just five last year. "We can say it: This wasn't the year that any of us had hoped for," reads one gold-inked card. Another shows a small Christmas tree with three wrapped presents underneath: "We don't have to have a lot to have everything...
According to PSU's Mann, that statistical "trick" that Jones refers to in one e-mail - which has been trumpeted by skeptics - simply referred to the replacing of proxy temperature data from tree rings in recent years with more accurate data from air temperatures. It's an analytical technique that has been openly discussed in scientific journals for over a decade - hardly the stuff of conspiracy...
...just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline." (By the "decline," Jones is presumably referring to the fact that temperature data reconstructed from tree-ring density - a common way to estimate global temperatures before the widespread use of the thermometer - diverges somewhat from recorded temperatures after...
...construction in East Jerusalem. Amid the stalemate, private Israeli groups like Elad are continuing their efforts to expand Jewish settlements in Arab neighborhoods, some with the goal of preventing any Israeli government from giving up East Jerusalem in a final peace deal.(See TIME's photo-essay "The Lemon Tree...
...President's state dinner or crash a balloon into a Colorado field. Like Michaele and Tareq Salahi, the socialites and Real Housewives of D.C. aspirants who swanned into the White House on Nov. 24, you do doughnuts on the lawn of notoriety and smack head-on into the tree of shamelessness. Then you take pictures of the steaming wreck and post them on Facebook while touting your availability for "national and international" product endorsements. Anyone with further questions can see your agent. (See the top 10 people caught on Facebook...