The RoanokeSlant

http://www.roanoke.com/news/virginia/virginia-panel-recommends-new-fracking-regulations/article_346197b9-63dc-5390-b623-e1bc86388218.html
AP: RICHMOND, Va. — A Virginia advisory panel is recommending that energy companies disclose the chemical ingredients they use in horizontal fracking, a type of natural gas drilling that has raised environmental concerns.
The recommendation, among 14 proposed by the panel, would also require drilling companies to provide the state with closely guarded industry “recipes” for the fracking fluids.
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EPA declares no ‘widespread’ harm to drinking water from fracking, boosting industry
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/06/04/epa-declares-no-widespread-harm-to-drinking-water-from-fracking-boosting/
Fracking supporters were boosted Thursday by a new Environmental Protection Agency report finding the controversial oil-and-gas extraction process has not caused "widespread" harm to drinking water.
The findings were contained in a draft assessment, as part of a report requested by Congress.
The report said the agency "did not find evidence" that any process has "led to widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources in the United States."
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Facts are debunking years of alarmists draconian stories about burning water faucets and contaminated wells and streams burning with methane.

Energy production involves risk, however, those who have beat the drums of fear-mongering with lies and distortions have been exposed as Radical Alarmists.  They clearly have been greatly aided and abetted by the Pravda Press.
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The great tragedy of Science –
The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley 1860
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Some appropriate Fracking background:
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Obama The Consummate Energy Charlatan And The Saudi War On Fracking
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2015/01/obama-consummate-energy-charlatan.html
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2014 Was A Good Year For Fracking
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/12/2014-was-good-year-for-fracking.html
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Fracking Dropping Oil Prices And Obama’s AGW Global Warming Boondoggle
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/11/fracking-dropping-oil-prices-and-obamas.html
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Fuel Prices Dropping - Our Amazing Fracking Success
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/11/fuel-prices-dropping-our-amazing.html
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Anti-Fracking Filmmakers Exposed And Debunked
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2013/04/anti-fracking-filmmakers-exposed-and.html
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More Global Warming Alarmist And Fracking Issues
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2011/07/more-global-warming-alarmist-and.html
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http://www.roanoke.com/business/news/mountain-valley-secures-new-pipeline-partner-and-customer-in-con/article_419a2c13-3105-5960-b446-cf5b82dfc2cb.html
“Con Edison is responsible for obtaining low-cost, reliable supply to meet its gas customers’ needs,” Kimball said. He said the agreements with Mountain Valley and Equitrans will allow Con Edison customers “to achieve significant savings.”
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Talk about New York Hypocrisy!  Gov. Cuomo and his Democrat Minions have banned Fracking from New York, denying landowners from utilizing their properties, continuation of the pathetic dire economic conditions in south-western NY and continuation of ultra-high energy costs for consumers.  All this in the face of EPA approval of the Fracking Process – but now – the New Yorkers want to import Fracking-Natural-Gas from Appalachia.
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Somewhat reminiscent of New York City’s exploitation of the Catskill and North-Eastern Pennsylvania coal starting in 1828 that now they are besmirching and berating as bad people doing bad things.  Really?  The John’s berating the prostitutes?
http://minisink.org/delhud.html
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This is the same Con Edison that built a new nuclear power plant at the eastern end of Long Island and never started it up!  Talk about massive malfeasance by NYC and it’s electric utility which of course the consumer rate-payers had to pay for with not a Watt of return!
Editorial: Open the Shoreham nuclear power plant
http://www.newsday.com/opinion/open-the-shoreham-nuclear-power-plant-editorial-1.7382176
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NY The Empire State Electric Residential Rates that ConEd says is “low-cost”:
ConEd: 29-cents per KW-Hour
http://nypost.com/2015/02/01/con-edison-seeks-to-increase-city-residential-electric-rates/
AEP  Virginia: 11-cents per KW-Hour
https://www.appalachianpower.com/info/news/rates/virginia/
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NY ConEd Electric Rates are 3-Times AEP-Virginia Rates
The Obama-McAuliffe Energy changes and their war on coal will raise Virginia Rates to NY Levels!
How is that going to impact Virginia residents and businesses?
Why are people not challenging these adverse and regressive changes?
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New York’s economy is a mess after two Cuomo Democrat Administrations:
http://nypost.com/2015/07/07/fresh-bad-news-on-new-yorks-economy/
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The Mercatus Center at George Mason University ranked the (NY) state’s economic health at 46th in the nation, barely ahead of Connecticut (47th) and New Jersey (49th).
Yet these are the very states and people whose votes determine the Presidency and the Congress.  What a joy!
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A telling question for the Empire State:
Do you know anyone who has moved to NY to retire?  Me neither!
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Feds approve pipeline to bring Marcellus gas to New York, New England
https://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2014/12/03/feds-approve-pipeline-to-bring-marcellus-gas-to-new-york-new-england/
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has given the green light to a proposed interstate pipeline that would bring Marcellus Shale natural gas to markets in New York and New England, provided it meets certain environmental conditions.
The Constitution project involves building 124 miles of new 30-inch-diameter pipeline, connecting gas production in Susquehanna County to existing transmission lines in New York. It would be operated by subsidiaries of Williams Partners, Cabot Oil and Gas, Piedmont Natural Gas, and WGL Holdings.
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Fracking In New York: For Farmers, Gas Drilling Could Mean Salvation
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/21/fracking-new-york-farmers-gas-drilling_n_1532618.html
ALBANY, N.Y. -- When Dan Fitzsimmons looks across the Susquehanna River and sees the flares of Pennsylvania gas wells, he thinks bitterly of the riches beneath his own land locked up by the heated debate that has kept hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, out of New York.
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Gov. Cuomo And NYS Democrats Ban Fracking in NYS
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/nyregion/cuomo-to-ban-fracking-in-new-york-state-citing-health-risks.html?_r=0
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NY Officially Bans Fracking After EPA Says It’s Safe
http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/29/ny-officially-bans-fracking-after-epa-says-its-safe/
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Con Edison provides electricity, natural gas and steam to most of New York City and Westchester County, New York.
http://www.roanoke.com/business/news/mountain-valley-secures-new-pipeline-partner-and-customer-in-con/article_419a2c13-3105-5960-b446-cf5b82dfc2cb.html
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Oh wait – this in-spite-of him, not because of him!
Obama has done everything he and his pen and his cell-phone and Reid and Pelosi could do to throttle our energy infrastructure and stop the Fracking industry!
How much was gasoline when Obama took office?
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Fuel Prices Dropping - Our Amazing Fracking Success
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/11/fuel-prices-dropping-our-amazing.html
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An extract from a prior blog item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/01/one-am-jan-7-2014-five-degrees-with-no.html
“This is the epitome of Obama’s energy policy that is focused on destroying our energy infrastructure:
No coal
No fracking oil
No nuclear
No hydro (tearing down every dam they can)
No oil or gas pipe lines
No drilling on “the peoples” land
And the latest this week: No wood burners”
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It is indeed a major success that the American Free Enterprise System can solve problems in the face of massive government harassment and abuse and misdirection and malfeasance!
God Bless The United States of America!
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Fracking Dropping Oil Prices And Obama’s AGW Global Warming Boondoggle
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/11/fracking-dropping-oil-prices-and-obamas.html
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Two Fracking Stories
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2013/06/two-fracking-stories.html
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Anti-Fracking Filmmakers Exposed And Debunked
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2013/04/anti-fracking-filmmakers-exposed-and.html
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EPA won't confirm fracking pollution tie, tells states to do their own investigation
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/21/epa-wont-confirm-frack-pollution-tie/
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After several years of hysteria that Fracking for Oil contaminates ground water, Obama’s EPA is stepping aside without definitive data to support the claim.
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The hysteria came to a crescendo when a film “Gasland” by Josh Fox alleged to show lighting a kitchen faucet on-fire due to all the methane gas in the water caused by Fracking.
Yet another Al Gore type trip into misdirected fear-mongering.
 http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/whats-fracking
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Two Skeptics countered with their own movie FrackNation, an independent documentary produced by Los Angeles-based filmmakers Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney:
Independent film takes pro-fracking perspective
http://articles.philly.com/2013-01-23/business/36486683_1_gasland-fracknation-josh-fox
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Get your own personal copy:  Extra Energy Edition DVD
http://fracknation.com/purchase/extra-energy-edition/
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Anti-Fracking Filmmakers Exposed And Debunked
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2013/04/anti-fracking-filmmakers-exposed-and.html
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CO2 Emissions Reduced and Climate Alarmists AGW Disarmed
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2012/08/co2-emissions-reduced-and-climate.html
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More Global Warming Alarmist And Fracking Issues
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2011/07/more-global-warming-alarmist-and.html
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More Polar Bear Activity, Arctic Ice Melting Again and Those Fracking-Alarmists
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A leading climate scientist whose report in 2006 of drowning polar bears in Arctic waters galvanized the global warming movement -- and was highlighted in Al Gore's Oscar-winning climate-change documentary -- has been suspended, possibly over the accuracy of his observations.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/29/polar-bear-researcher-under-investigation-for-integrity-issues/
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As a light contrast click to view three of the 2100 happy bears in Greenland’s Davis Straight:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/Gore-Bear-Graph.jpg
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Greenland Ice Melting – AGAIN!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2011/07/greenland-ice-melting-again.html
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Brown Polar Bears at Risk
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/brown-polar-bears-at-risk.html
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Washington Post News: The Arctic Icebergs are disappearing with awful consequences:
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The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulafft, at Bergen, Norway.
Reports from fishermen, seal hunters, and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes.
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Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the Gulf Stream still very warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.
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Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelt which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds. Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.
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This report was from November 2, 1922, as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post - 89 years ago.
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Roanoke Times Editorial: Stop “Fracking” for shale-oil in the National Forests.
Fracking is the primary process of obtaining oil from shale. It involves deep horizontal drilling and high-temperature liquids. Opponents (Fracking-Alarmists) claim that the process introduces flammable gases into domestic water deep-well systems.
The Fracking-Alarmists have seized upon a film by Josh Fox (no relation to Fox News) that purports to show flaming gas coming from a kitchen sink due to fracking. However, the attached video clearly shows Fox admitting that for many decades before fracking there had been methane in that area and reports of burning tap water but he chose not to include that key information in his report and video!
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Liar-liar – your pants are on-fire!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9CfUm0QeOk&utm_source=NOT+EVIL+ALL+CONTACTS&utm_campaign=d66ac2aa52-Journalism+beats+censorship&utm_medium=email
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I personally know that in the Catskills it is not unusual for home water wells of 500 feet or more to have enough methane dissolved in the water to cause the exhaust from domestic water tanks to be flammable and there has never been any Fracking in that area.
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Yet more selective and managed data from those with an alarmist agenda!
Why can’t they tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
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Why I became an Gore-AGW Skeptic and Why I Still Am:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/AGW-Skeptic/
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New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism
By James Taylor  Forbes – Wed, Jul 27, 2011
http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-data-blow-gaping-hold-global-warming-alarmism-192334971.html
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Commonwealth Foundation: JULY 27, 2011 Policy Brief by PAUL CHESSER, MARK NEWGENT
The Great Frack Attack: The War on Natural Gas
http://www.commonwealthfoundation.org/research/detail/the-great-frack-attack-the-war-on-natural-gas
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Greenland Ice Melting – AGAIN!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2011/07/greenland-ice-melting-again.html
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Latest News  11-5-2013:
U.S. Returns Fire in Saudi Arabia's Oil War
"Now what the U.S. may do is buy crude to offset a price collapse caused by Saudi dumping and support U.S. shale producers."
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2014/11/05/us-returns-fire-in-saudi-arabia-oil-war/?intcmp=ob_homepage_business&intcmp=obnetwork
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Latest News 11-4-2014:
Oil Slump Continues as Saudi Arabia Targets U.S.
Oil accelerated a months-long slump after Saudi Arabia cut its prices for U.S. buyers in an effort to counter the shale boom.
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Why?
Because the non-US producers now know that, our Frackers (all on private lands) are making the US a major energy producer again.  These non-US producers are now driving down the world-wide price of fuel hoping to reach a level that will cause us to slow-down our Fracking.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2014/11/03/oil-skids-as-saudis-adjust-prices/?intcmp=fbtopstories
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WSJ:  Fracking Firms Get Tested by Oil’s Price Drop
http://online.wsj.com/articles/fracking-firms-get-tested-by-oils-price-drop-1412899027
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-science-is-settled-government-cant.html
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An extract from a prior blog item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/01/one-am-jan-7-2014-five-degrees-with-no.html
“This is the epitome of Obama’s energy policy that is focused on destroying our energy infrastructure:
No coal
No fracking oil
No nuclear
No hydro (tearing down every dam we can)
No oil or gas pipe lines
No drilling on “the peoples” land
And the latest this week: No wood burners”
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It is indeed a major success that the American Free Enterprise System can solve problems in the face of massive government harassment and abuse and misdirection and malfeasance!
God Bless The United States of America!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2013/06/two-fracking-stories.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2011/07/more-global-warming-alarmist-and.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2013/04/anti-fracking-filmmakers-exposed-and.html
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Phelim McAleer, director of controversial "pro-fracking" documentary FrackNation, will attend the premiere of rival filmmaker Josh Fox's Gasland 2 in New York, NY at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Setting up the Battle of the Fracking Filmmakers at Tribeca Film Festival
http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=65361a4a899c736f66ed8fb13&id=a14aeaba58&e=179569db2e
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Variety said that FrackNation "makes a good case against Fox's (anti-fracking) movie" and that it "debunks the famous Gasland scene of a fracking 'victim' setting his tap water on fire."
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It’s interesting that the Hollywood and Major Media people continue to highlight and support the discredited hypothesis and schemes and claims of the Alarmist and anti-energy crowd.
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More Global Warming Alarmist And Fracking Issues
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2011/07/more-global-warming-alarmist-and.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2012/09/global-warming-agw-michael-mann-cover.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2011/08/global-warming-alarmists-still.html
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Oil, gas prices in freefall as OPEC reels from US fracking
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/11/28/opec-keeps-oil-output-steady-despite-falling-prices/
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Oil prices keep plummeting as OPEC starts a price war with the US
http://www.vox.com/2014/11/28/7302827/oil-prices-opec
Fuel Prices Dropping - Our Amazing Fracking Success
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/11/fuel-prices-dropping-our-amazing.html
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What an amazing situation.  Obama in shock that gasoline prices are going down.  He declared that energy prices would greatly escalate with passage of his Carbon Tax (that he is implementing with his War on Coal).  When Al Gore ran for president, his platform included an immediate additional 50-cent tax on gasoline.
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Who could have seen all this coming?
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And in spite of the data and facts that there hasn’t been any global warming for the past 17 years, Obama and his AGW Global Warming Alarmist Minions continue to hawk their snake-oil hysteria that we must decimate our energy infrastructure and facilities in order to save the World Order as they dictate it to be.

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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/11/another-dubious-hot-month-claim.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/11/tim-kaine-still-making-bad-inconsistent.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/11/man-made-global-warming-agw-crashes.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/06/obama-and-agw-alarmists-launch-energy.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/01/global-warming-meets-mother-nature.html
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