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"My initial thought ... was: it's a lunatic ninja coming through the window."

11 March 2009

“The only place where this alleged climate catastrophe is happening is in the virtual world of computer models.”

Mark Morano, spokesman on environmental issues for Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma. Morano is due to speak at a meeting of climate sceptics in New York, focusing on “Global warming: Was it ever a crisis?” (The New York Times, 8 March)

“The science fiction writers are going to be challenged to imagine the diversity that we could expect to find.”

Debra Fischer of San Francisco State University comments on the capabilities of the Kepler space telescope, which NASA launched on…

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