<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - Colorado Bob's Column - Articles and Seeds</title><link>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/</link><description>COLORADO BOB &quot;Sound Beats Print ... Pictures Beat Sound&quot;</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2012</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 06:09:07 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:28:47 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Big Hail Is Bad | Wired Science </title>
<description><![CDATA[I have other stuff to do, but I can&rsquo;t continue after seeing this video of baseball-sized hail in St. Louis.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></source><link>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/12/11669368-big-hail-is-bad-wired-science</link><guid>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/12/11669368-big-hail-is-bad-wired-science</guid><category>science</category><pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 06:09:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=coloradobob1E53E51FC-A491-47F8-B0AA-758F6C1DF822.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="90" width="180" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=coloradobob1E53E51FC-A491-47F8-B0AA-758F6C1DF822.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="60" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title> Newfoundland &amp; Labrador - RECORD APRIL HEAT &amp; EARLY SUMMER PREVIEW</title>
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This April finished with an temperature average of 5.4&deg;, which is an all time monthly record. The previous YYT weather station record for April was 4.3&deg;, set back in 1986. However the all time record we beat, was from the OLD St. John's Weather station, which was 5.3&de&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></source><link>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/01/11493945-newfoundland-labrador-record-april-heat-early-summer-preview</link><guid>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/01/11493945-newfoundland-labrador-record-april-heat-early-summer-preview</guid><category>science</category><pubDate>Wed, 2 May 2012 03:37:02 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Warming could stunt Corn Belt </title>
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PEORIA &mdash;
The Corn Belt may be in trouble as the planet gets warmer, according to a decadelong research effort on climate change.
The study, published this week by a team at Northern Arizona University, shows that plants may thrive in the early stages of a warming enviro&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></source><link>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/10/11122988-warming-could-stunt-corn-belt</link><guid>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/10/11122988-warming-could-stunt-corn-belt</guid><category>science</category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:43:03 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Anchorage, Alaska Breaks Seasonal Snowfall Record </title>
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An epic winter in Anchorage, became an historic one Saturday afternoon. With several inches of new snowfall, according to the National Weather Service, the city officially broke the all-time record of 132.6 inches of snow. That record snowfall came in the winter of 1954-55, bef&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></source><link>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/09/11097400-anchorage-alaska-breaks-seasonal-snowfall-record</link><guid>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/09/11097400-anchorage-alaska-breaks-seasonal-snowfall-record</guid><category>science</category><pubDate>Mon, 9 Apr 2012 11:42:02 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Texas Drought Pushes Sandhill Cranes to the North: </title>
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Sandhill Cranes gather in a cornfield near the Rowe Sanctuary, south of Gibbon, on Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. The cranes usually spend the winter further south in Texas and Oklahoma but due to drought conditions many cranes have been spending the winter in Kansas and Nebraska.
In &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></source><link>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/07/11066978-texas-drought-pushes-sandhill-cranes-to-the-north</link><guid>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/07/11066978-texas-drought-pushes-sandhill-cranes-to-the-north</guid><category>science</category><pubDate>Sat, 7 Apr 2012 06:59:03 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=coloradobob16D2F5D44-812A-4959-8309-D1FDED92F23E.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="231" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=coloradobob16D2F5D44-812A-4959-8309-D1FDED92F23E.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="70" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>McAllen says 1,100 buildings damaged by hail </title>
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McALLEN — The freak hailstorm that battered McAllen late Thursday damaged more than 1,100 buildings, according to a block-by-block damage assessment conducted by city workers.
Most damage occurred in central and north McAllen, where baseball-sized hail pummeled homes and bus&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></source><link>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/04/11011130-mcallen-says-1100-buildings-damaged-by-hail</link><guid>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/04/11011130-mcallen-says-1100-buildings-damaged-by-hail</guid><category>science</category><pubDate>Wed, 4 Apr 2012 05:51:51 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=coloradobob1DF803EDD-93BE-CB86-6BB9-01FC79BB6AEC.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="172" width="230" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=coloradobob1DF803EDD-93BE-CB86-6BB9-01FC79BB6AEC.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>March Heat Records Crush Cold Records by Over 35 To 1, Scientists Say Global Warming Loaded The Dice </title>
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The final data is in for the unprecedented March heat wave that was &ldquo;unmatched in recorded history&rdquo; for the U.S. (and Canada).]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></source><link>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/04/11010402-march-heat-records-crush-cold-records-by-over-35-to-1-scientists-say-global-warming-loaded-the-dice</link><guid>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/04/11010402-march-heat-records-crush-cold-records-by-over-35-to-1-scientists-say-global-warming-loaded-the-dice</guid><category>science</category><pubDate>Wed, 4 Apr 2012 04:47:17 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=coloradobob164E23F77-9232-2277-9244-3E69689F9877.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="242" width="320" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=coloradobob164E23F77-9232-2277-9244-3E69689F9877.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="91" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>&amp;quot;Strong&amp;quot; Links of Manmade Heat, Rainfall Extremes: Study | Climate Central</title>
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Following on the heels of the March heat wave, which was one of the most remarkable extreme weather events on record in the U.S., are two new scientific papers that discuss the relationship between extreme weather events and global climate change.
Both studies help frame the d&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></source><link>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/31/10960399-quotstrongquot-links-of-manmade-heat-rainfall-extremes-study-climate-central</link><guid>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/31/10960399-quotstrongquot-links-of-manmade-heat-rainfall-extremes-study-climate-central</guid><category>science</category><pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:59:32 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=coloradobob1F0EB0C81-B02F-C010-93B0-7FD599CC6002.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="232" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=coloradobob1F0EB0C81-B02F-C010-93B0-7FD599CC6002.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="70" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Many northern Minnesota lakes ice-free in March for first time on record </title>
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Northern Minnesota lakes continue to lose their ice at all-time record early dates &mdash; even big Ontario border lakes like Gunflint, Crane and Sand Point &mdash; all ice-free in March for the first time on record.
Gunflint Lake, which more often loses its ice in May, lost i&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></source><link>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/31/10960380-many-northern-minnesota-lakes-ice-free-in-march-for-first-time-on-record</link><guid>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/31/10960380-many-northern-minnesota-lakes-ice-free-in-march-for-first-time-on-record</guid><category>science</category><pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:57:08 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>March temperatures shatter records - chicagotribune.com</title>
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This month will be the warmest March on record both in Chicago and statewide by the time it comes to a close at midnight Saturday, shattering temperature records that stood for decades, weather experts said Friday.
The average daily temperature in Illinois through Thursday was&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></source><link>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/31/10959972-march-temperatures-shatter-records-chicagotribunecom</link><guid>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/31/10959972-march-temperatures-shatter-records-chicagotribunecom</guid><category>science</category><pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:58:21 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=coloradobob1EF0FC8F0-05AF-4008-3B67-D1E599F939E9.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="105" width="187" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=coloradobob1EF0FC8F0-05AF-4008-3B67-D1E599F939E9.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Cities Clinch Warmest March on Record </title>
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We're wrapping up an extraordinary March, one many folks won't soon forget.
From violent tornadoes to unusual hailstorms to nearly 15,000 new records for daily high temperatures and warm nighttime lows, March has seemed like a time warp, with many communities having pole-vault&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></source><link>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/31/10959583-cities-clinch-warmest-march-on-record</link><guid>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/31/10959583-cities-clinch-warmest-march-on-record</guid><category>science</category><pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:13:42 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=coloradobob15001E08E-AD77-B11A-8967-3FE5D4F1AFFA.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="67" width="78" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=coloradobob15001E08E-AD77-B11A-8967-3FE5D4F1AFFA.jpg&amp;width=120" width="78" height="67" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Great Lakes ice cover down 71% since 1973 </title>
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Ice cover on North America's Great Lakes--Superior, Michigan, Huron, Ontario, and Erie--has declined 71% since 1973, says a new study published in the Journal of Climate by researchers at NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. The biggest loser of ice during the &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></source><link>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/31/10951640-great-lakes-ice-cover-down-71-since-1973</link><guid>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/31/10951640-great-lakes-ice-cover-down-71-since-1973</guid><category>science</category><pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 07:42:37 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>New Archaeology Technique Exposes 8,000 Years Of Civilization - Space News - redOrbit</title>
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An archaeologist from Harvard University is using computers and satellites images to search the Earth for early human settlements.
Jason Ur, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, worked with Bjoern Menze, a researcher at MIT, to develop a system that ide&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></source><link>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/22/10802428-new-archaeology-technique-exposes-8000-years-of-civilization-space-news-redorbit</link><guid>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/22/10802428-new-archaeology-technique-exposes-8000-years-of-civilization-space-news-redorbit</guid><category>science</category><pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:38:17 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Jellyfish inspires latest ocean-powered robot</title>
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ScienceDaily (Mar. 21, 2012) &mdash; American researchers have created a robotic jellyfish, named Robojelly, which not only exhibits characteristics ideal to use in underwater search and rescue operations, but could, theoretically at least, never run out of energy thanks to it &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></source><link>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/21/10800873-jellyfish-inspires-latest-ocean-powered-robot</link><guid>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/21/10800873-jellyfish-inspires-latest-ocean-powered-robot</guid><category>science</category><pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 02:38:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=coloradobob12E536D3B-F50B-CDA5-98F8-53DF05DCB8BF.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="66" width="100" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=coloradobob12E536D3B-F50B-CDA5-98F8-53DF05DCB8BF.jpg&amp;width=120" width="100" height="66" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>APNewsBreak: Agricultural losses hit $7.62 billion </title>
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HOUSTON &mdash; The driest year in Texas history has caused record-setting agricultural losses, costing the state's farmers and ranchers about $7.62 billion in 2011, the Texas AgriLife Extension Service said Wednesday.
The estimate provided to The Associated Press before its p&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></source><link>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/21/10797572-apnewsbreak-agricultural-losses-hit-762-billion</link><guid>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/21/10797572-apnewsbreak-agricultural-losses-hit-762-billion</guid><category>science</category><pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:05:03 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Heat Wave Sends Temps Soaring Into Uncharted Territory ·</title>
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The March heat wave went from extreme to downright unprecedented in parts of the Midwest on Tuesday, as Chicago, Detroit and areas all the way north into Canada shattered longstanding records. So many records have been broken &mdash; 3,550 record daily highs and 3,109 daily war&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></source><link>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/21/10795988-heat-wave-sends-temps-soaring-into-uncharted-territory</link><guid>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/21/10795988-heat-wave-sends-temps-soaring-into-uncharted-territory</guid><category>science</category><pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:52:47 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Stubborn drought expected to tax Mexico for years </title>
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* Current drought seen as sign of drier years to come
* Government bracing for climate change damage
* Water authority sees need for $24 billion investment
By Mica Rosenberg and Noe Torres
CHIHUAHUA, Mexico, March 21 (Reuters) - A severe drought in Mexico that has cost farm&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></source><link>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/21/10795234-stubborn-drought-expected-to-tax-mexico-for-years</link><guid>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/21/10795234-stubborn-drought-expected-to-tax-mexico-for-years</guid><category>science</category><pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:43:17 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Flooding Rain Pounds Australia</title>
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Heaviest rain, many spots having 250 to 500 mm (about 10 to 20 inches) since last Friday, pelted coastal Queensland from Cairns to Townsville and Mackay.
A 24-hour fall of 418 mm (16.5 inches) was registered at Black River north of Townsville, the ABC said. An automated rain g&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></source><link>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/19/10760083-flooding-rain-pounds-australia</link><guid>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/19/10760083-flooding-rain-pounds-australia</guid><category>science</category><pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:03:29 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Historic March Heat Wave Sets New Milestones </title>
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The March heat wave continues to shatter longstanding records from the Upper Midwest to the Northeast, with more than 2,200 warm temperature records set during the month so far. It&rsquo;s quite possible that this March heat wave will be considered as an unprecedented event in &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></source><link>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/19/10760047-historic-march-heat-wave-sets-new-milestones</link><guid>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/19/10760047-historic-march-heat-wave-sets-new-milestones</guid><category>science</category><pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:01:19 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=coloradobob16565B590-51D8-9DF9-9008-6E9663C1BFD0.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="301" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=coloradobob16565B590-51D8-9DF9-9008-6E9663C1BFD0.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="91" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>The Glass House Effect: Heartland Institute Tried To Steal Documents From Greenpeace | ThinkProgress</title>
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A Heartland Institute front man phoned a Greenpeace activist and lied about his identity in an effort to get her to turn over UN climate conference documents to which he had no legitimate access. Heartland senior fellow James Taylor then boasted about the scam in a press releas&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></source><link>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/19/10759745-the-glass-house-effect-heartland-institute-tried-to-steal-documents-from-greenpeace-thinkprogress</link><guid>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/19/10759745-the-glass-house-effect-heartland-institute-tried-to-steal-documents-from-greenpeace-thinkprogress</guid><category>science</category><pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:35:51 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>CapitalClimate: Preliminary Data Lift March Heat Records to Nearly 19 Times Cold Records</title>
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The surge of early spring heat records reached over 400 yesterday alone in preliminary reports from the National Climatic Data Center. This includes 68 official National Weather Service locations out of 290 possible records. In other words, over 23% of all official reporting lo&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></source><link>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/18/10747091-capitalclimate-preliminary-data-lift-march-heat-records-to-nearly-19-times-cold-records</link><guid>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/18/10747091-capitalclimate-preliminary-data-lift-march-heat-records-to-nearly-19-times-cold-records</guid><category>science</category><pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:31:27 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Summer in March continues for Midwest; Dexter, MI tornado an E F-3 </title>
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For the third consecutive day, Chicago, Illinois hit their warmest temperature on record so early in the year, going back to 1872. The mercury hit 82&deg;F, giving the city its third consecutive day of 80&deg;+ temperatures, smashing the old record by a month. Previously, the e&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></source><link>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/17/10734803-summer-in-march-continues-for-midwest-dexter-mi-tornado-an-e-f-3</link><guid>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/17/10734803-summer-in-march-continues-for-midwest-dexter-mi-tornado-an-e-f-3</guid><category>science</category><pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:04:06 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The Monarch Way Station Project</title>
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Monarch Butterfly Numbers Take a Hit
This winter's surviving population covers only about 7 acres (2.89  hectares), almost a third less than the area the butterflies covered in  the 2010-2011 season.
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The announcement from researchers with WWF and Mexico's National  Commis&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></source><link>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/17/10727439-the-monarch-way-station-project</link><guid>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/17/10727439-the-monarch-way-station-project</guid><category>science</category><pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 06:13:30 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=coloradobob15BCCACFE-25FF-ACB8-0EFA-C0A3AAB1B6F5.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="257" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=coloradobob15BCCACFE-25FF-ACB8-0EFA-C0A3AAB1B6F5.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="77" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Global Warming: Pine beetles thriving at higher elevations </title>
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The effects seem particularly pronounced at higher elevations, where warmer temperatures have facilitated beetle attacks. In the last two decades at the Mountain Research Station, mean annual temperatures were 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than they were in the previous two dec&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></source><link>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/16/10725895-global-warming-pine-beetles-thriving-at-higher-elevations</link><guid>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/16/10725895-global-warming-pine-beetles-thriving-at-higher-elevations</guid><category>science</category><pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 03:25:52 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=coloradobob10B7B93BD-8379-5068-8DB2-DDF0C22479A0.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="134" width="300" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=coloradobob10B7B93BD-8379-5068-8DB2-DDF0C22479A0.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="54" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Monarch Butterfly Numbers Take a Hit </title>
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Monarch butterflies have taken a hit this year, according to researchers who monitor the colorful insects' numbers at their traditional overwintering grounds in a forest in central Mexico.
This winter's surviving population covers only about 7 acres (2.89 hectares), almost a t&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Colorado Bob]]></source><link>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/16/10721690-monarch-butterfly-numbers-take-a-hit</link><guid>http://coloradobob1.new.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/16/10721690-monarch-butterfly-numbers-take-a-hit</guid><category>science</category><pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:05:34 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=coloradobob1ED72629F-1F52-CCFD-C776-9EC1C654BDE6.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="108" width="162" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=coloradobob1ED72629F-1F52-CCFD-C776-9EC1C654BDE6.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item></channel></rss>
