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To: TideGlider who wrote (731126)	8/6/2013 12:15:15 AM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1577025

Al-Qaeda May Have Invented Explosive Clothing: Report FROM SAME GUY BEHIND THE UNDERWEAR BOMB By Ruth Brown, Newser Staff newser.com ( I've been prepared for this, and am ready to travel nude. I used to date a nudist, so, I've got experience. ) Posted Aug 5, 2013 6:35 PM CDT (NEWSER) – From the mastermind behind the underwear bomb, US officials now fear a new couture-based weapon: clothes dipped in liquid explosives. ABC News says senior government officials heard about the potential new threat at a briefing on yesterday's embassy closures. Two officials present at the meeting say the explosive clothes would be undetectable by current security measures. "It's ingenious," says one of them. The technique is believed to have been developed by Ibrahim al-Asiri, who is also thought to be behind " body bombs." Al-Asiri, a member of al-Qaeda affiliate al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, is one of 25 people named by the Yemeni government today as the country's top terrorists. The government has put a bounty of $23,000 for any information leading to any of their arrests.

To: TideGlider who wrote (731126)	8/6/2013 12:18:19 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577025

Climate Change Moving Marine Life 4 Miles Every Year COULD BE FATAL FOR SOME By Ruth Brown, Newser Staff newser.com Posted Aug 5, 2013 7:26 PM CDT (NEWSER) – Climate change is really jerking animals around—literally. A new international study has found marine life is moving an average of 4.3 miles towards the poles each year, while land animals are moving about 3,280 feet, as ocean and air temperatures rise, the Guardian reports. "We knew that changes were happening, but we didn't expect them to be so pervasive," says a study leader, per the ABC. "We didn't expect to pick up changes in every single ocean and we certainly didn't expect the changes to be as rapid as we're seeing." The move could prove fatal for some species that can't withstand the cooler waters where their prey might now be, the Guardian reports. "Some species like barnacles and lots of shellfish are constrained to living on the coast, so in places like Tasmania, if they’re already at the edge of the range there’s nowhere for them to go. You could potentially lose those," says Dr Christopher Brown, a researcher from the study. But even if humans change our climate-changing ways now, the sea creatures may have moved another 87 miles by the time it has any effect. "There’s a long lag time," says Brown. "Even if we reduce emissions now then those effects won’t be seen for 20 years or so.”

To: TideGlider who wrote (731126)	8/6/2013 12:38:48 AM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1577025

Read all about Climate Depot: sourcewatch.org "ClimateDepot.com is the website of Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow employee Marc Morano, a conservative global warming denier who previously served as environmental communications director for a vocal political denier of climate change, Republican Sen. James Inhofe. Launched in spring 2009,Climate Depot claimed it would be "the Senate EPW website on steroids," and "the most comprehensive information center on climate news and the related issues of environment and energy." [1]" " Funding ClimateDepot.com is being financed by the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a nonprofit in Washington that advocates for free-market solutions to environmental issues. Public tax filings for 2003-7 (the last five years for which documents are available) show that the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the ExxonMobil Foundation and foundations associated with the billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, a longtime financier of conservative causes, including being the primary source of money used to fund attacks against Bill Clinton during the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky eras of his presidency [1]. According to a report issued by the Union of Concerned Scientists, from 1998-2005, approximately 23% of the total ExxonMobil funding for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow was directed by ExxonMobil for climate change activities [p. 32]. Craig Rucker, a co-founder of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, said the committee got a third of its money from other foundations. However, Rucker would not identify them or say how much his foundation would pay Marc Morano. Rucker did say that ExxonMobil did not contribute anything to the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow in 2008 [2]."