El Nino, Antartic Snowfall, and Hot Summer Nights

A few weather-related notes for tonight. Live Science has a few interesting stories. #1: Looks like we might be headed for an El Nino year this winter in North America. That’s the warm ocean current that hangs out off the West Coast of South America. Some of it’s known effects.. across North America Wet and …

The US/Canada Relationship ices over…

or… what to do during the hardest days between two longtime friends. Imagine for a moment, a frigid day across Canada in mid-January, 2010. The Olympics are just around the corner, the athletes are already arriving, and the whole country is revving up with excitement. A cold snap comes… nothing new for Canadians… it reaches …

Israel targets and destroys UN outpost – Harper says?

The title says it all. Israel has deliberately destroyed a manned UN observation post in southern Lebanon. There is some conflicting reports on the nationalities of the peacekeepers, but there seems to be agreement that one each from Canada, Finland and China were killed. The BBC reports that the 4th was from Austria. The CBC …