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Changes in coastal ocean temperatures have been much more extreme over the past 10 years than expected. This could especially affect California, which is a major breadbasket for the rest of the United States.

Researchers have also found that temperature determines where key soil microbes can thrive– microbes that are critical to forming topsoil crusts in arid lands. Scientists predict that in as little as 50 years, global warming may push some of these microbes out of their present stronghold in US deserts, with unknown consequences to soil fertility and erosion.
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The object pictured in this video by photographer Drew Ryan has appeared over the Empire Bay area in New South Wales on July 3–as it happened, World UFO Day. According to Mr. Ryan and others, it has been seen before on at least five occasions. This rules out a meteor–as does its movement–as well as essentially all other prosaic explanations. A high probability that this is a genuine unknown.
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I was so glad to hear that the anti-gay-marriage Proposition 8 has finally been overturned b the California state supreme court. I NEVER thought that a state with TWO mostly gay cities–West Hollywood and San Francisco–could ever have voted for such a bill, but I know why it happened.

Prop.8 was written to seem OPPOSITE of what it actually was. At first glance, it read like a PRO gay marriage bill. It seemed to mean that gay marriage would become legal if you voted FOR it. The local media was incensed, and if I hadn’t read an editorial in the LA Times about it, I might have voted for it too! This type of disinformation is illegal on Federal level, but must not be on the state level.
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The Popocatepetl near Mexico City has emitted more than a hundred explosive eruptions in the past 24 hours, causing American carriers to cancel flights in and out of the area.The ashes haven’t reached Mexico City International Airport. But Delta, American Airlines and Alaska Airlines canceled flights that had been scheduled to depart Thursday. At Toluca Airport also outside Mexico City, Spirit Airlines shut down its operations to Fr. Lauderdale and Dallas. Mexican airlines have not shut down their flights, and the US carriers are expected to resume as soon as the ash plumes subside. The current increase in activity began with an extraordinary eruption on June 17.
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