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		<title>NZ Army sells bad Bullets to the Public?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This story was reported in the Dominion Post, NZ Herald and in Stuff.co.nz.
The New Zealand Defence Force bought $590,000 worth of bullets for  the army&#8217;s Steyr rifles, despite the manufacturer warning they were  useless.  The stock of 5.56mm ball ammunition had worked well in the past, but  when the manufacturer changed the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herkinderkin.com/2010/03/nz-army-sells-bad-bullets-to-the-public/</link>
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		<title>Racism in NZ Politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Democracy is not working for Maori, according to the New Zealand Minister of Maori Affairs, Pita Sharples.  He says Maori will not be fairly represented in the Auckland super city.
New Zealand has separate Maori seats in parliament, which is something Sharples wants for the super city, and he now says democracy is failing Maori.  &#8220;There [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herkinderkin.com/2010/03/racism-in-nz-politics/</link>
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		<title>CO2 Domes and Charlatans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Any scientist who can&#8217;t explain to an eight-year old what he is  doing is a charlatan.&#8221; &#8211; Dr Felix Hoenikker, nuclear scientist.
&#8220;Write it down, then ask yourself &#8216;Would it make sense to my Grandmother&#8217;?&#8221; &#8211; Ken Dixon expounding his &#8220;Grandmother Test&#8221;.
A Stanford University study has concluded that domes of increased carbon dioxide concentrations  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herkinderkin.com/2010/03/co2-domes-and-charlatans/</link>
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		<title>Potsdam Institute &#8211; Professional Advocates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, a group composed of natural and social science researchers, announced a study that &#8220;shows&#8221; that a solar minimum will not slow global warming.  The study is an attempt at a pre-emptive strike.  The sun goes into a cooler period and bingo &#8211; they rush to add to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herkinderkin.com/2010/03/potsdam-institute-professional-advocates/</link>
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		<title>Conservation and Climate Change &#8211; The State of the Birds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 14 2010, Sciam (Scientific American) tweeted a report called &#8220;Climate Change &#8211; State of the Birds 2010 Report&#8221;.  A link is in the Reference section at the end of this post.
My wife and I are a lifelong conservationists with a special place in our hearts for birds.  In our home country, New Zealand, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herkinderkin.com/2010/03/conservation-and-climate-change-the-state-of-the-birds/</link>
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		<title>Institute of Physicists under Attack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
The UK Institute of Physicists submitted a strongly worded thirteen-point memorandum to the UK Parliament commission of enquiry into the CRU.  Leading scientists promptly attacked the submission in emotive terms, without addressing any of the points in the memorandum.  The I.O.P. response to the attacks is strangely meek.  It looks suspiciously like they are backing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herkinderkin.com/2010/03/institute-of-physicists-under-attack/</link>
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		<title>Skeptics are NOT arguing against Global Warming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a post in the SFGate blog, Dr Peter Gleick sets out to counter AGW skepticism by painting skeptics as deniers and bar-room brawlers.
He starts by stating that there is no argument against global warming, ignoring the fact that skeptics do not argue that global warming is not happening.  That&#8217;s the first mistake.  There are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herkinderkin.com/2010/03/skeptics-are-not-arguing-against-global-warming/</link>
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		<title>Public Opinion about Global Warming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Gallup global warming poll, reported in the Gallup website on March 11 2010, shows a marked shift in US public opinion against AGW.
No surprises here &#8211; the US is coming out of a dinny-hazer of a winter, with record snowfalls and frosts even in Florida.  Even though weather is not climate, it is not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herkinderkin.com/2010/03/public-opinion-about-global-warming/</link>
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		<title>Vegetarianism and Global Warming &#8211; what Next?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Francis Moore Lappe&#8217;s daughter Anna has written her own book &#8211; &#8220;Diet for a Hot Planet&#8221;.  Her mother wrote &#8220;Diet for a Small Planet&#8221;, promoting a vegetarian lifestyle, back in 1971.  Now her daughter is doing her own thing and playing off the title of her mother&#8217;s book.  And she is pitching her update of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herkinderkin.com/2010/03/vegetarianism-and-global-warming-what-next/</link>
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		<title>Who killed the Golden Toads?  Not Global Warming, but&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study shows that the extinction of Monteverde golden toads in the Andes in the 1980s was not caused by global warming.  Earlier widely publicised studies said global warming was the cause.  The authors of the new study, however, are careful to warn us that  global warming may cause ecosystem stresses that may [...]]]></description>
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