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Satellite data over the last 40 years suggest that global warming of the atmosphere has progressed at a snail’s pace, +0.13 C per decade, with no attendant increase in severe weather events. Surface warming has been somewhat greater but is
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“Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn't really matter.”
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“Yet, by March 9, when Italy imposed its first lockdown, the country had suffered only about nine thousand coronavirus cases and five hundred deaths. With one of the world’s oldest populations and harsh northern winters, Italy regularly suffered severe winter flu epidemics. In the winter of 2014–2015 and again in 2016–2017, influenza and other flu-like illnesses had killed more than forty thousand Italians—eighty times as many as had died from the coronavirus at the time of the lockdown.”
― Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives
― Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives
“Your life story is really about how the hands of history caught you up, played with you, and you with them. History plays for keeps; individuals play for time.”
― Egg & Spoon
― Egg & Spoon
“To be a Baptist in Soviet Russia was to know that you were a permanent outsider. They endured it because they knew that truth was embodied in Jesus Christ, and that to live apart from him would mean living a lie.”
― Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents
― Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents
“People tell boring lies about politics, God, and love. You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
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