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http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-04/why-cant-planes-fly-through-volcanic-ash-because-nasa-tried-once It basically starts to eat the plane's internals

What that story really implies is that there was an ash cloud from an icelandic volcano over europe in February 2000. No air space was shutdown. And noone crashed (including the Nasa plane). They found some "scary" engine damage by examining their engine with a microscope.

(By the way, your link is dead, here is the google cache)

God damned video keeps vanishing around the net.

Here is googles cache of it:

http://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:http://collateralmurder.com/

http://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,212940,00.html&hl=en&strip=1

http://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:O6bmbLpdB1gJ:www.sdtimes.com/DOES_WINDOWS_COST_MICROSOFT_OPPORTUNITIES_/By_David_Worthington/About_NET_and_WINDOWS/34203+http://www.sdtimes.com/link/34203&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk

Pass laws against bad weather and sharp corners on furniture while your at it. If the sites break laws - shut 'em down. Otherwise shut the firetruck up (please).

"it's almost like you are abandoning a walk-on part in the war for a lead role in the cage or something."

Ouch!

Having dug deeper into the issue and reading the IPCC statement on the subject, I agree that the paragraph in question was not properly referenced. The fact that the 2035 date was lifted from a WWF report does not in itself imply the WWF report was not properly referenced but it does show that in this case the IPCC failed to follow their own procedures and used a third hand source.

It is by far the sloppiest bit of work to come out of the IPCC in 20yrs (that I am aware of), and I was too quick to write it off as a simple typo. However it does not change my opinion that the reports are "one of the most robust surveys of peer-reviewed work ever undertaken on a single question". Addressing the error in the manner that they have will assist in making the reports more robust but nothing they do can ever bridge the gap between usefull and perfect.

A story http://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:enWVsPf5lZAJ:www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html%3Fid%3D1285658+http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html%3Fid%3D1285658&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=safari about this was submitted to slashdot in Feb 2009, it was rejected.
Did not see any interest in the story and thought it was 'over' for Canada back then. Looks like the Canadian Taliban have won. Your broadband devices will be smashed and hanging from lamp posts and trees.
Become a citizen journalist and talk to your politicians in public.
Film them and get it up on youtube. Always fun to see them try to explain their policies without a teleprompter and a set of tame journalists.
Pastor Martin Niemoller's poem is getting filled up again people.

When the Canada's Minister of Public Safety came for the pedophiles,
I remained silent;
I was not a pedophile.
Then they rendered the terrorists,
I remained silent;
I was not a terrorist.
Then they came for the gangsters,
I did not protest;
I was not a gangster.
Then they came for the p2p users,
I did not speak out;
I was not into file sharing programs.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out for me.