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Ones that got away

“My garage won’t hold them. They’ve got to go someplace.”

After scrapping plans for a gigantic 2,700-turbine wind farm because of technical problems, Texas entrepreneur T. Boone Pickens will put the 687 turbines he’s already bought on four smaller sites.

“It’s a perfect commentary on the potential problems of this approach. Plus, it’s a sasquatch paper.”

Jeff Lozier of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has projected climate-induced range shifts for Bigfoot to make the point that ecological models are only as good as the data that go into them.

“We’ll be in until Christmas, so I’m not worried about it.”

US Senator Barbara Boxer remains confident that climate legislation will pass through the Senate this year, despite the decision to delay it until Fall.

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