Another Week of GW News, October 19, 2008

Sipping from the internet firehose...


This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup

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Low Key Plug

My first novel Water was published in Canada May, 2007. The American release was in October. An Introductionto the novel is available, along with the Unpublished Forewordand the Launch Talk. An overview of my writing is available here.

<regards>

-het

P.S. Recent postings can be found in the week archive and the ancient postings can be accessed here, which should open to this.


"Saving the planet is not an after-dinner drink, a digestif you take or leave. Climate change does not disappear because of the financial crisis." -José Manuel Barroso


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