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Australians Are Saving The World From Burping Sheep
November 30th, 2009 | 
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Scientists down under are attempting to eradicate what is, apparently, a world-threatening problem: sheep burps.
They’re trying to breed a strain of sheep which will be less prone to oral flatulence, in the hopes of reducing their country’s contribution to greenhouse gases (in this case, methane).
We suggest that their next target should be the regulars in SlantedScience’s local bar: on the average Friday night, we must burn a hole in the ozone layer as big as Texas. Read the rest of this entry »
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Climate Change Research Center Is Hacked: Documents Show Fraudulent Science?
Oh dear. The Climate Research Center of the University of Anglia, UK, has had its computers hacked by persons unknown. Files stolen during the hack were posted to a rapidly-closed Russian server, but later disseminated across the internet. They seem to indicate that the field’s leading scientists have been colluding to silence those colleagues whose research does not promote their own hysterical viewpoints.
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