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	<title>Haiku du Jour &#187; environment</title>
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		<title>May 10 &#8220;Zot&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://haikudujour.com/2009/05/may-10-zot-dogs-hate-thunderstorm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 04:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rgdaniel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dogs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Dogs hate thunderstorms: </p>
<p>Big noisy lights in the sky, </p>
<p>Ozone danger smell.</p>
<p>Click for
YouTube video: &#8220;Lightning strikes CN Tower&#8220;
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<p>From Wikipedia:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">In the atmospheric electrical discharge, a leader of a bolt of lightning can travel at speeds of 60,000 m/s (220,000 km/h), and can reach temperatures approaching 30,000 °C (54,000 °F), hot enough to fuse silica sand into glass</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><strong>Dogs hate thunderstorms: </strong></p>
<p><strong>Big noisy lights in the sky, </strong></p>
<p><strong>Ozone danger smell.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Click for<strong><br />
YouTube video: &#8220;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DKZHt7L3ZA" target="_blank">Lightning strikes CN Tower</a>&#8220;</strong><br />
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<p><strong>From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>:</strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">In the atmospheric electrical discharge, a leader of a bolt of lightning can travel at speeds of 60,000 m/s (220,000 km/h), and can reach temperatures approaching 30,000 °C (54,000 °F), hot enough to fuse <span class="mw-redirect">silica</span> sand into glass</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The average <em>peak</em> power output of a single lightning stroke is about a <span class="mw-redirect">terawatt</span> (10<sup>12</sup> W) and the stroke lasts for around 30 microseconds.<sup id="cite_ref-GHCC_primer2_13-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning#cite_note-GHCC_primer2-13"></a></sup></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Lightning rapidly heats the air in its immediate vicinity to around 20,000 °C (36,000 °F) -- about three times the temperature of the surface of the Sun. This compresses the surrounding clear air and creates a supersonic shock wave which decays to an acoustic wave that is heard as thunder.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 510px"><a title="Lightning Hits the Power Station, by rgdaniel" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rgdaniel/973762369/"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1349/973762369_d0b6024ebd.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Lightning Hits the Power Station (hypothetically)</p></div>
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		<title>Apr 10 &#8220;Ya think?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://haikudujour.com/2009/04/apr-10-ya-think/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rgdaniel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haiku]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cold]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Thinner Arctic ice?</p>
<p>Some kind of global warming </p>
<p>could be at work here.</p>
<p>From National Geographic News:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Turns out there is such a thing as being too young and too thin.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Arctic ice continued its decline this winter, with hardy, thicker old ice increasingly being replaced with quick-to-melt, thinner young ice, according to a new [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><strong>Thinner Arctic ice?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Some kind of global warming </strong></p>
<p><strong>could be at work here.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>From <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090406-sea-ice-younger.html" target="_blank">National Geographic News</a>:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Turns out there is such a thing as being too young and too thin.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Arctic ice continued its decline this winter, with hardy, thicker old ice increasingly being replaced with quick-to-melt, thinner young ice, according to a new report by NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center.</p>
<p>This troubling National Geographic video has more.  (<a href="http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/news/environment-news/sea-ice-vin.html" target="_blank">Not seeing the video? View it here</a>.)</p>
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		<title>Apr 1 &#8220;Perseverance&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rgdaniel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[philosophical]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>What doesn&#8217;t kill us </p>
<p>gradually makes us weaker. </p>
<p>Funny &#8217;cause it&#8217;s true</p>
<p>Demotivation: Environment
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<p>Created from scratch in photoshop from my own photos and captions, in the now-famous motivational poster style.
See the whole set here !!</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><strong>What doesn&#8217;t kill us </strong></p>
<p><strong>gradually makes us weaker. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Funny &#8217;cause it&#8217;s true</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Demotivation: Environment<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rgdaniel/162177711/" title="Demotivation: Environment" target="_blank" class="flickr-image alignnone"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/51/162177711_ef2ec910f2.jpg" alt="Demotivation: Environment" class=""  /></a></p>
<p>Created from scratch in photoshop from my own photos and captions, in the now-famous motivational poster style.<br />
See the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rgdaniel/sets/72157594158287280/">whole set here</a> !!</p>
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		<title>Mar 28 Extra &#8220;Earth Hour&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://haikudujour.com/2009/03/mar-28-extra-earth-hour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rgdaniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Lights out for Earth Hour!</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s show them we mean business.</p>
<p>Then, back to normal.</p>
<p></p>
<p>These wind turbines are popping up in agricultural areas around Ontario.  In an effort to minimize the effects of Global Warming, their purpose is to distribute the methane produced from the cow farts more evenly throughout the earth&#8217;s atmosphere.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><strong>Lights out for Earth Hour!</strong></p>
<p><strong>Let&#8217;s show them we mean business.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Then, back to normal.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rgdaniel/536879227/" title="Turbine for Bessie (alternate title: And The Wind Cried Dairy)" target="_blank" class="flickr-image alignnone"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1298/536879227_f1b3dd4810.jpg" alt="Turbine for Bessie (alternate title: And The Wind Cried Dairy)" class=""  /></a></p>
<p>These wind turbines are popping up in agricultural areas around Ontario.  In an effort to minimize the effects of Global Warming, their purpose is to distribute the methane produced from the cow farts more evenly throughout the earth&#8217;s atmosphere.</p>
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