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The Bush Administration has decided to cancel NASA climate satellites crucial to our ability to understand climate change. By shelving critical programs such as the Deep Space Climate Observatory, the administration continues to do all it can to conceal the reality of climate change. Two missions that could have helped us to understand?and plan for?global warming have been cut. More than $200 million in future funding has been eliminated for satellite projects called The Deep Space Climate Observatory and The Global Precipitation Measurement mission, despite the fact that the Deep Space satellite has already been built?at a cost of $100 million.
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Alberto has survived strong wind shear and remained anorganized storm, with winds being clocked at 85MPH over thepast few hours. The old eye collapsed in the earlyafternoon, and a new one formed. Thechief danger from this storm will be storm surge, becausethe gulfis shallow and drops off slowly in the area of Florida’swest coast that’s being affected. Seas of 20 feet and asurge of 10 feet ispossible along the coast, and wind may damage power linesand light construction. The Florida governor issued amandatory evacuation order for parts of Dixie, Levy, Taylor,Citrus, Franklin and Wakulla counties, which affected 21,000residents.
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In her new Diary, Anne Strieber writes: “This is the second time I’ve posted a Diary entry about a movie. As of this writing, I have not yet seen The DaVinci Code film, although I plan to. I also must be one of the only people in the US who has never read The DaVinci Code?I relate [the story of Mary Magdalene to the modern world] this way: When religions push out women, their dogmas become hard and dry and they start being able to justify doing things like waging war and murdering and torturing people in the name of some testosterone-soaked male God.” Don?t miss this one!

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The Aftenposten newspaper in Norway reports that earlyWednesday morning, the country was struck by a meteor thathad theexplosive force of the atomic bomb that was dropped onHiroshima in 1945.The meteor hit the side of a mountain. There are no reportsof damage or casualties, but if the impact was as great asit appears, it is one of the most significant such events indecades.
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