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This video explains the difference between climate and weather.

3. Are you wondering if the bizarre spring heat wave is climate change or just record-setting weather? Yup, me too. I’m just a simple systems engineer, so I have no earthly idea and scientists won’t be able to explain it anytime soon. Science analyzes trends, not variations. Here’s the global tempaerature trend:

Or, we could just continue to let Republicans rattle their virtual swords in Iran’s general direction.

A recent intelligence report, which represents the consensus of 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, indicates that Iran is pursuing research that could put it in a position to build a weapon, but that it has not sought to do so.

National intelligence estimates conclude that Tehran halted efforts to develop and build a nuclear warhead in 2003.

I suspect we’ll look back on this speech in five years and wonder why we didn’t listen. After all, a highly classified U.S. intelligence assessment circulated to policymakers early last year largely affirms that .

“While the Iranian ability to attack us militarily here at home is virtually non-existent for now,” he said, their response could still be devastating. That reaction, he said, could involve closing the Persian Gulf to oil exports and attacking oil facilities in other countries. Most significantly, he said: “Their capacity to wage a series of terror attacks across the Middle East aimed at us and our friends, and dramatically worsen the situation in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and elsewhere is hard to overestimate.”

“While we could undoubtedly set back their (nuclear) program two or three years with an attack,” the result would mean that 70 million restive Iranians “would rally behind their mullahs.”

“In political terms, the tectonic plate of the Middle East has been shattered,” he said. For the foreseeable future, he predicted, the recent developments in the Middle East “present the United States and Israel with far more problems than opportunities.”

“If you think the war in Iraq was hard, an attack on Iran would, in my opinion, be a catastrophe,” he said in a keynote speech to some 400 donors at the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia’s campaign event last week.

2. Former Obama Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates (R), .

Maybe these astronomical gas prices might have something to do with unchecked and ? Nah, can’t be.

U.S. oil production is back to the same level it was in March 2003, when gas cost $2.10 per gallon when adjusted for inflation. But that’s not what prices are now.

If more domestic oil drilling worked as politicians say, you’d now be paying about $2 a gallon for gasoline. Instead, you’re paying the highest prices ever for March.

A statistical analysis of 36 years of monthly, inflation-adjusted gasoline prices and U.S. domestic oil production by The Associated Press shows no statistical correlation between how much oil comes out of U.S. wells and the price at the pump.

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