A.N. Wilson -- Daily Mail (UK)

With his new book, "Inferno." Dan Brown returns to Italy, and to the semi-religious themes he seems to love. This time he has been inspired by the country's great medieval poet Dante and his vision of Hell. "The Bible states there's an underworld, and it hints that it might not be a very nice place, but it wasn't until the 1300s and this vision of Inferno that it became terrifying." Its villain, who commits suicide on page one, is obsessed with Dante, and that is why the book is called Inferno. A mad scientist called Zobrist, he thinks that the world has become so overpopulated that it is only a step away from descending into Dante's vision of Hell. So he leaves a clue written on the back of Dante's famous death-mask in the Chamber of the 500 in Florence, for example. There are also clues in Florence's Baptistery, and in the Cathedral of St Mark in Venice. The first clue left by Zobrist is contained in a Botticelli painting of Dante's Hell. He has slightly altered it, putting Langdon on the alert and leading him to the next clue. Langdon slowly comes to realize that Zobrist has the belief that this tormented world will become a safer place only when at least a third of the population is culled. The Black Death, Zobrist believes, is the best thing that ever happened to Europe because it took away a lot of hungry mouths and made Europe more prosperous. After the Black Death came the Renaissance, he points out, and its accompanying great flowering of artistic and literary talent. So Zobrist has put a slowly dissolving plastic bag... somewhere! Does it contain the deadliest virus known to man? Langdon comes to believe so. He and his beautiful companion arrive in a Venice swarming with tourists and believe the bag is hidden in the lagoon.

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Damian Ghigliotty -- Daily Mail (UK)

Renowned Republican strategist and lobbyist Roger Stone makes that claim in his upcoming book to be published by Skyhorse Publishing in October: "The Man who killed Kennedy: the case against LBJ". Stone also writes that Richard Nixon and Johnson had a documented relationship with Jack Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald's killer, years before he shot Oswald in the basement of Dallas police headquarters in 1963. Stone claims that Johnson "micro-managed" Kennedy's Dallas motorcade, demanding that it pass through Dealy Plaza on November 22, 1963, the notorious day when Oswald shot Kennedy from the overlooking book depository building.

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Fox News

When the Kardashian family heard that their former nanny, Pam Behan, was writing a book about her time working for them, they weren't too happy; but Behan said she decided to write "Malibu Nanny: Adventures of the Former Kardashian Nanny" to share her side of their story. "First of all, I've had hundreds of thousands of people over the course of the last five years tell me I should write a book," the Minnesota native said. "It's really, truly my journey."

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David McCormack -- Daily Mail (UK)

A bizarre legend and unsolved mystery which has haunted a small Iowa town for more than 100 years is the subject of a new book called "The Van Meter Visitor: A True and Mysterious Encounter with the Unknown." For several nights in 1903, the small town of Van Meter, Iowa was terrorized by a giant bat-like creature that emerged from an old abandoned mine. The identity of this mysterious monster has never been discovered, but over 100 years later a new book is retelling the amazing tale and hoping to shed some light on what happened all those years ago. The legend dates back to the fall of 1903, when several of Van Meter's most well respected citizens reported a half human, half animal with enormous, smooth bat wings flying about. The creature is described as moving at speeds the townsfolk had never witnessed before, plus it let off a powerful stench and shot a blinding light from its horned head.

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Shelina Janmohamed -- Telegraph (UK)

Sex is taboo subject for most Muslims. However, a growing number of young Muslim women are talking about what they really want when in the bedroom. Shelina Janmohamed, author of "Love in a Headscarf," explains how women are leading the way in her faith when it comes to understanding sexuality.

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Louise Eccles -- Daily Mail (UK)

Amanda Knox said she is proud of her one-night stands and marijuana use Made the revelations in her autobiography "Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir". She is facing a re-trial for the murder of British student Meredeth Kercher; accused of killing the student with her then boyfriend Rafaele Sollecito.

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Nicholas Pisa -- Daily Mail (UK)

For centuries scientists have argued about the authenticity of the Shroud, which is kept in a secure vault in Turin Cathedral, and it has become one of the most iconic images of the Roman Catholic faith. The 14ft-long linen cloth bears the faint image of the front and back of a tall, long-haired, bearded man and appears to be stained by blood from wounds in his feet, wrists and sides that match those suffered by Christ at his Crucifixion. The findings are in a new book called "Il mistero della Sindone" ("The Mystery of the Shroud") which is published on Good Friday. The authors, Professor Giulio Fanti, an expert in mechanical and thermal measurement at the University of Padua's Engineering Faculty and journalist Saverio Gaeta, examined fibres from the Shroud and compared them to samples of cloth dating back to between 3000BC and up to the modern era to contrast them and see if it is a Medieval forgery.

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Daily Mail (UK)

A teen idol of the 1950s who virtually invented the singer/songwriter/heartthrob combination that still tops pop music today, Paul Anka rocketed to fame with a slew of hits-from "Diana" to "Put Your Head on my Shoulder"-that earned him a place touring with the major stars of his era, including Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Buddy Holly. He wrote Holly's last hit, and just missed joining the rocker on his final, fatal plane flight. Anka also stepped in front of the camera in the teen beach-party movie era, scoring the movies and romancing their starlets, including Annette Funicello. "My Way: An Autobiography" is bursting with rich, rollicking stories of the business and the people in Anka's life: Elizabeth Taylor, Dodi Fayed, Tom Jones, Michael Jackson, Adnan Khashoggi, Little Richard, Brooke Shields, Johnny Roselli, Sammy Davis, Jr., Brigitte Bardot, Barnum & Bailey Circus acrobats, and many more. Anka is forthcoming, funny and smart as a whip about the business he's been in for almost six decades.

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A 1,200-year-old Egyptian manuscript tells the story of the crucifixion with incredible plot twists, including the revelation that Jesus could change shape. The ancient illuminated text's claim explains why Judas used a kiss to betray Jesus, since the Christian Messiah had the ability to transform his appearance. It also claims Jesus in fact spent his last supper with the man who ordered his execution, Roman prefect Pontius Pilate, who is said to have offered to sacrifice his own son in Jesus' place. And it defies the official Easter timeline by putting the day of Jesus' arrest on Tuesday evening, rather than the canonically agreed Thursday. The translation from the original Coptic has been revealed for the first time in a new book by Roelof van den Broek, emeritus professor of the History of Christianity at Utrecht University in the Netherlands: "Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem on the Life and the Passion of Christ: A Coptic Apocryphon (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae: Texts and Studies of Early Christian Life and Language)"

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Zev Chafets -- Vanity Fair

Roger Ailes is one of the most powerful-and controversial-characters in television media, pilloried by critics and many in the mainstream media and lionized by conservative viewers who can't get enough of his posse of charismatic hosts. His Fox News was accused of being the "communications arm of the Republican Party" in 2010 by then White House communications director Anita Dunn and has been criticized by Barack Obama himself (criticism that Ailes publicly countered with gusto, claiming the president "just has a different belief system from most Americans"). But as outspoken as the Fox News chief may be, little is known about Ailes the man-an extraordinarily private and security-conscious person who once personally safety-tested the thickness of the glass at the network's Manhattan studios. This year, the veil is pulled back by a biography written with Ailes's cooperation, by award-winning columnist and author Zev Chafets. Chafets was given unprecedented access to the man himself, as well as his friends, family, and colleagues. What resulted from theis effort was a series of intimate encounters that have made their way into the book, showing the world from Ailes's perspective. Herein is an adaptation of Chafets's book, "Roger Ailes: Off Camera," to be published later this month by Penguin Sentinel, in which several of these private moments are detailed-including one famous face-off with the president.

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Annabel Venning -- Daily Mail (UK)

 AND TEXT. Mary Best was 17 years old when she contracted cholera in India. All alone since her adoptive mother left the country some months earlier, Mary suffered hours of agonising stomach cramps and sickness, her pulse becoming weaker and weaker until, at last, the doctor pronounced her dead. She was buried in the vault of her adoptive family a few hours later, in the French cemetery in Calcutta. The year was 1871, and cholera victims were generally buried very soon after death to prevent the germs spreading. In India's tropical heat, a rapid burial was all the more necessary. Nobody questioned Mary's hasty interment. But ten years later, when the vault was opened to admit the body of Mary's newly deceased uncle by adoption, the undertaker and his assistant were greeted by a horrifying sight. The lid of Mary's coffin, which had been nailed down, was on the floor. The girl's skeleton was half in, half out of the coffin, and the right side of her skull bore a large, ugly fracture. The fingers of her right hand were bent as if clutching at something, perhaps her throat, and her clothes were torn. Mary, it seemed, had not been dead when she was nailed into a coffin, but merely unconscious. This is one of the horrific true stories in "Premature Burial: How It May Be Prevented."

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Tevi Troy -- Washington Post

Tevi Troy, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, was a senior adviser to President George W. Bush. He is the author of the forthcoming "What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted: 200 Years of Popular Culture in the White House." Gene Sperling has reserved for himself a special place in Washington lore. In the days leading up to the sequester deadline Friday, the city found itself immersed in a bizarre debate over whether Sperling, an economic adviser to President Obama and a Clinton administration veteran, tried to intimidate The Washington Post's Bob Woodward by suggesting in an e-mail that Woodward would "regret" his writings about the president's fiscal policy proposals. Though the full e-mail message, once leaked, ended up reading far more chummy than threatening -- it was virtually "e-kissed," as one reporter put it -- the spat, quickly dubbed "Woodwardgate," had a compelling historical symmetry to it. The very notion of a senior White House adviser possibly attempting to intimidate an enterprising reporter smacked of exactly the kind of arrogance that Woodward himself uncovered decades ago in his exposes of Richard Nixon's presidency.

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Matt Blake -- Daily Mail (UK)

At the height of tensions between America and neighboring Communist Cuba in the early 1960s, JFK was implicit in the freeing of rapists, drug dealers, and Mafia hitmen through CIA in a bid to recruit "untraceable" spies willing to risk their lives on dangerous missions rather than go back to jail, a new book sensationally claims. Desperate to remove Castro from power, the president resorted to using dangerous criminals as operatives -- rather than CIA agents -- to "do America's dirty work" as they couldn't be linked back to his administration, it is claimed. In one failed plot, an ex con was smuggled into Cuba in 1962 to pose as a waiter in Castro's favorite restaurant where he would drop poison tablets into the revolutionary leader's soup. The explosive claims come in a new book by veteran American Journalist and author William Deane, "Smooth Criminal: A One-Man American Crime Wave,"who claims specially-recruited criminals became "untouchable" and were allowed to embark on 'crime sprees' in the US without fear of prosecution.

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Tom Leonard -- Daily Mail (UK)

They grew him a wild flower meadow in the desert where he and Nicole Kidman could frolic hand-in-hand. They salute him and call him "sir." And when he needed a new woman in his life, they "auditioned" dozens of actresses for the role. The extraordinary lengths to which the Church of Scientology has allegedly gone to woo Tom Cruise are detailed in a controversial new book which contrasts his demi-god status in the organization with the miserable existence of its rank-and-file devotees. To outsiders, it has always seemed odd that the squeaky-clean Hollywood superstar has lavished praise on the "church" as a force for good in the world, when a growing number of ex-members have portrayed it as a ruthless and exploitative cult that rules its brainwashed flock with a rod of iron. Now a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Lawrence Wright has painted a withering portrait of an organization which has always seen celebrity endorsement as essential to its mystique. In "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief," Wright claims that Scientology boss David Miscavige succeeded in cultivating Cruise as a spiritual leader of his movement after he became Hollywood's biggest star with films such as "Top Gun" and "Mission: Impossible." Cruise, in turn, willingly became the church's smiling public face, ploughing millions of dollars into its work and even attempting to lobby foreign leaders to advance its dubious cause around the world.

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Jane Ridley -- New York Post

Visiting then-First Lady Hillary Clinton at 1600 Pennyslvania Ave. in the 1990s, Anna Wintour couldn't help herself. She stuffed a pile of White House letterhead notepaper and envelopes into her Prada handbag, and gave the distinctive stationery to her family as "been there, done that" souvenirs. It's the sort of prank you might expect from social-climbing desperate housewife Jill Kelley on a private West Wing tour, not the fashion veteran who is rumored to be on President Obama's shortlist for US ambassador to the UK, or possibly France. "It kind of underscores her political knowledge or lack thereof," says Manhattan-based writer Jerry Oppenheimer, who described the bizarre incident in his unauthorized biography of Wintour, "Front Row: Anna Wintour: What Lies Beneath the Chic Exterior of Vogue's Editor in Chief." Oppenheimer is among a number of critics who find it absurd to think that Wintour, once famously nicknamed "Nuclear Wintour," might become a key diplomat. ...

Vanessa Weber -- ABC News (US)

 AND TEXT. From "Dancing With the Stars" to her famously fluctuating weight, Kirstie Alley is a woman who loves to reinvent herself and isn't afraid to tell all. Her latest disclosure: a secret romance with Patrick Swayze. The co-stars fell in love working on the movie "North and South," Alley said, and Swayze wanted Alley to get a divorce from her husband and marry him, but Alley wouldn't do it. "I probably was more willing to break up my marriage, and I wasn't willing to break up his marriage," Alley told ABC News' Barbara Walters, in an interview about her new book, "The Art of Men (I Prefer Mine al Dente)," which details her ups and downs in life and in love. Alley's acting career took off, and her love of Hollywood men did not end with Swayze. After a wildly successful run on "Cheers," Alley signed on to do a film with John Travolta about a talking baby: 1989's "Look Who's Talking" and love bloomed. Alley and Travolta made two successful sequels and became lifelong friends. The actress dashed the rumors that Travolta is gay.

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 A bestseller before even published. "The Casual Vacancy," the new book by JK Rowling, is surrounded by secrecy and mystery. Only a few details have been revealed. A strategy which has worked in the past. Pre-order sales have reportedly topped a million copies and British booksellers expect it to be the best-selling fiction title of the year.

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 Tony Danza spent part of 2009 and 2010 in Philadelphia, not on an acting job but grading papers. He taught 10th Grade English at the largest public high school in the city. The actor has written about his experience that's now available, entitled "I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High."

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Justin Fishel -- FOX News

The author of a recently announced insider account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden has been identified as a 36-year-old former Navy SEAL Team 6 member from Alaska who also played a role in the high-profile rescue of an American captain kidnapped by Somali pirates. The book, "No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden," is set to hit shelves on Sept 11. It is penned under the pseudonym "Mark Owen," according to the publisher, but multiple sources told Fox News his name is in fact Matt Bissonnette, 36, of Wrangell, Alaska. Bissonnette could be exposing himself to legal trouble, as the Pentagon has not vetted the account. The tell-all book also has apparently upset a large population of former and current SEAL members who worry about releasing information that could compromise future missions. One Navy SEAL told Fox News, "How do we tell our guys to stay quiet when this guy won't?" Other SEALs are expressing anger, with some going so far as to call him a "traitor."

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Dalya Alberge -- Guardian (UK)

An extraordinary memoir is to reveal how a gifted artist managed to forge his way to riches by conning high-profile auctioneers, dealers and collectors over four decades. The book, "Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger." tells the story of Ken Perenyi, an American who lived in London for 30 years. The revelations within it are likely to spark embarrassment on both sides of the Atlantic. Perhaps Perenyi's proudest moment came when a forgery of "Ruby Throats with Apple Blossoms," by the American 19th-century artist Martin Johnson Heade, made the front page of a national newspaper and was heralded as a major "discovery." It later fetched nearly $100,000 at auction in New York. Claiborne Hancock, of Pegasus Books, describes the revelations in Caveat Emptor as "a bombshell for the major international auction houses and galleries."

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 Kirk Douglas delights fans in California as he launches his book "I Am Spartacus!: Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist."

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Agence France-Presse (FR)

The Vatican slammed a "sexual morality" book written by an American Catholic nun on Monday, warning believers to stay away from the tome which justifies masturbation, homosexuality and divorce. Margaret Farley's 2006 book "Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics" "affirms positions that are in direct contradiction with Catholic teaching in the field of sexual morality," the Vatican said in a statement. Farley, a member of the Sisters of Mercy and professor emerita at Yale Divinity School, expressed support for a long list of sins in the eyes of the Church. "Masturbation usually does not raise any moral questions at all. It is surely the case that many women have found great good in self-pleasuring... (which) actually serves relationships rather than hindering them," she wrote. On the issue of homosexuality, the prominent theologian said "same-sex relationships and activities can be justified according to the same sexual ethic as heterosexual relationships and activities" and "should be respected."

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 Australian Crash Victim Develops French Accent

Miriam Berger -- Reuters

 Australian Leanne Rowe suffered a head injury in a car crash eight years ago -- leaving her with a rare case of Foreign Accent Syndrome and an unwelcome French accent. ...

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 BBC Documentary Claims Uri Geller Was A Secret C.I.A. Spy. The Really Mind-Boggling Part: It Might Just Be True

Tom Leonard -- Daily Mail (UK)

Best known as a spoon-bender who befriended singer Michael Jackson -- and branded a charlatan by critics -- it now appears that Uri Geller may have had a second career as a C.I.A. spy. According to a new BBC documentary, he used his psychic powers in an attempt to wipe secret Soviet computer records. It is alleged he also tried to disable military radar and influence the mind of a Russian negotiator during Cold War arms talks in Geneva by beaming peace messages at his head. The Israeli-born showman's life has been littered with outrageous claims. Over the years, his tricks have baffled scientists and enraged his rivals. Now, the BBC film, to be broadcast later this year, claims Geller was recruited to help Western intelligence services as they battled to stay ahead of their Communist enemies in the Seventies and Eighties. The research with Uri went into a high gear after a phone conversation with his secret C.I.A. contact 3,000 miles away, in which Uri correctly described a detailed anatomical illustration the agent was looking at on his desk. With his seemingly incredible skills in telepathy, Geller became the poster boy for the paranormal. He spent months wired up in lab tests and, according to the documentary, the results convinced scientists that he really did have special skills. ...

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David Bellamy Says The End Of His Career Was Caused By His View That Climate Change Was "Poppycock." "I Was Shunned. They Didn't Want To Hear"

Paul Cahalan -- Independent (UK)

But for the grace of God, he would be revered as the man who brought botany to life through glorious rambling monologues in a time before CGI graphics and hi-tech film techniques became de rigueur. But his fame and acclaim rolled off the rails in 2004 when he said global warming was nothing but "poppycock." He was deserted by fans, shunned by peers and, he says, ostracised by broadcasters and conservation groups that once thrived through his endorsement: he was fired as president of the Wildlife Trusts. Bellamy, who appears not to be able to shake the habit of speaking as if the camera were still rolling, is unrepentant. He is clear his stance on climate change ended his TV career. "All of the work dried up after that. I was due to start another series with the BBC but that didn't go anywhere, and ITV didn't want to know. I was shunned. They didn't want to hear the other side." But does he still believe he is right? "Absolutely. It is not happening at all, but if you get the idea that people's children will die because of CO2 they fall for it," he says, perhaps buoyed by forecasters at the Met Office this week downgrading a prediction for global warming to suggest that by 2017 average temperatures will have remained about the same for two decades. ...

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"There Has Been No Global Warming For 16 Years"

John Griffing -- WND

The attendees at the recent global "climate" conference in Doha, Qatar, most of them highly influential and powerful in their home countries, were treated to a special address recently. "There has been no global warming for 16 years (actually 18 or 19 years, on closer examination)," the speaker said. "Even if warming were to occur at the predicted rate this century, it would be many times cheaper to adapt ... than to attempt, futilely, to mitigate it today. An independent scientific enquiry would be a good idea, to make sure that the conferences on the climate were still heading in the right direction." Those words are what Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, described as the high priest of climate skepticism recalls telling the stunned crowd of affluent attendees. He addressed the conference, which had just finished hours of consultation and discussion of how to prepare for the catastrophe long predicted by Al Gore, that of global warming. "My intervention in Doha was on the spur of the moment, right at the end of the final plenary session when no one else wanted to speak," he said. "The intervention gained very substantial international publicity, and I had not expected this. As a result, it is now widely known that there has been no global warming at all for more than a decade and a half." ...

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What Global Warming? Alaska Is Headed For An Ice Age As Scientists Report State's Steady Temperature Decline

Daily Mail (UK)

Since 2000, temperatures in Alaska have dropped by 2.4 degrees Fahrenheit. Scientists reviewed weather reports from 20 climate stations operated by the National Weather Service located across Alaska; 19 of the 20 weather stations reported falling temperatures. An ocean phenomenon has disrupted a storm regulating system thus allowing cold winter storms to linger longer and bring a deep chill. Local residents have noticed the colder temps but say its no big deal since they are already bundled up for 20-below zero temperatures. ...

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World Leaders Face Riddle Of Lack Of Warming

Dr. Benny Peiser -- Canada Free Press (CA)

The most recent global temperature record, released this week, shows the average global temperature fell last year for the second year. There is now general agreement that the rising trend has stalled. This is the background against which governments will meet in Doha to negotiate a globally binding agreement to cut carbon emissions, as agreed at last year's meeting in Cape Town, South Africa. ...

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Global Warming Stopped 16 Years Ago, Reveals Meteorology Office Report Quietly Released

David Rose -- Daily Mail (UK)

The figures, which have triggered debate among climate scientists, reveal that from the beginning of 1997 until August 2012, there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures. This means that the "plateau" or "pause" in global warming has now lasted for about the same time as the previous period when temperatures rose, 1980 to 1996. Before that, temperatures had been stable or declining for about 40 years. The new data, compiled from more than 3,000 measuring points on land and sea, was issued quietly on the internet, without any media fanfare, and, until today, it has not been reported. This stands in sharp contrast to the release of the previous figures six months ago, which went only to the end of 2010 -- a very warm year. Ending the data then means it is possible to show a slight warming trend since 1997, but 2011 and the first eight months of 2012 were much cooler, and thus this trend is erased. ...

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Climate-Change Prophet Al Gore Bails From Green-Energy Investment, Even As His Company Still Touts Profits Of "Alternative" Market

Colin Flaherty -- WND

If you are thinking about green energy for your portfolio, Al Gore has a few words of advice: "Don't do it." "Of course he does not say that in public," says Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management. "Gore's company still talks about how alternative energy is a good investment. How companies are adopting it, governments are subsidizing it and people are using it." But SEC filings from Gore's company, Generation Investment, tell a different story, says Gunderson, who hosts a nationally syndicated financial talk radio program and writes for MarketWatch and TheStreet.com. "Generation Investment says it is all about climate change, but it is just a typical investment fund with typical stocks," Gunderson said. "It has Amazon, Colgate Palmolive, eBay, Nielsen, Qualcomm, Strayer University and a smattering of stocks from biotech and health care. Not one company that makes solar panels, or windmills or biogas or electric cars. Catheters and commercial real estate, yes. Solar panels, no." ...

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Dr. Tim Ball Says Climate Is Changing ... It's Cooling

WND

In the midst of recent wildfires, deadly storms and a record-setting heatwave, many climate change proponents claimed these extreme events were further proof of man's impact on our environment. They claim part of the human impact is greater volatility in our climate. Dr. Tim Ball says that's nonsense. Ball is a former professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg and is one of the leading scientific voices challenging the climate-change movement. Ball says the events we're seeing are cyclical and are actually the start of a cooling trend for our climate. ...

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Discovery Of Historical Photos Shows Greenland Ice Loss Greater In The 1930s Than Today

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A chance discovery of 80-year-old photo plates in a Danish basement is providing new insight into how Greenland glaciers are melting today. Researchers at the National Survey and Cadastre of Denmark -- that country's federal agency responsible for surveys and mapping -- had been storing the glass plates since explorer Knud Rasmussen's expedition to the southeast coast of Greenland in the early 1930s. In this week's online edition of Nature Geoscience, Ohio State University researchers and colleagues in Denmark describe how they analyzed ice loss in the region by comparing the images on the plates to aerial photographs and satellite images taken from World War II to today. Taken together, the imagery shows that glaciers in the region were melting even faster in the 1930s than they are today, said Jason Box, associate professor of geography and researcher at the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State. ...

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Global Warming Skeptics As Knowledgeable About Science As Climate Change Believers, Study Says

Maxim Lott -- FOX News

Are global warming skeptics anti-science? Or just ignorant about science? Maybe neither. A study published Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change finds that people who are not that worried about the effects of global warming tend to have a slightly higher level of scientific knowledge than those who are worried, as determined by their answers to questions. The quiz, containing 22 questions about both science and statistics, was given to 1,540 representative Americans. Respondents who were relatively less worried about global warming got 57 percent of them right, on average, just barely outscoring those whose who saw global warming as a bigger threat. They got 56 percent of the questions correct. ...

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We're Due For Global Cooling, Caused By Solar Minimum -- Again

Space Daily

An abrupt cooling in Europe together with an increase in humidity and particularly in windiness coincided with a sustained reduction in solar activity 2800 years ago. Scientists from the German Research Center for Geosciences GFZ in collaboration with Swedish and Dutch colleagues provide evidence for a direct solar-climate linkage on centennial timescales. Around 2800 years ago, one of these Grand Solar Minima, the Homeric Minimum, caused a distinct climatic change in less than a decade in Western Europe. The exceptional seasonally laminated sediments from the studied maar lake allow a precise dating even of short-term climate changes. The results show for a 200 year long period strongly increased springtime winds during a period of cool and wet climate in Europe. ...

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Wind Farms Make Climate Change WORSE: Turbines Actually Heat Up Local Areas

Rosie Taylor -- Daily Mail (UK)

Wind turbines could warm local climates up to ten times faster than the natural rate, a study has shown. Air temperatures around four of the world's largest wind farms have increased by up to 0.72C in a decade, researchers have found. In contrast, Earth's average temperature has warmed by only 0.8C since 1900. As more wind farms are built, temperature increases may have a long-term impact on wildlife and regional weather patterns. ...

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Another Challenge To Obama's Eligibility

Bob Unruh -- WND

A longstanding eligibility case challenging Barack Obama's presence in the White House soon could be headed to the state Supreme Court in Alabama, where one justice already in a court filing has questioned the authenticity of Obama's documentation, and the incoming chief justice is a dyed-in-the-wool Constitution supporter with little tolerance for those who want to bypass the document. The move is pending in an eligibility challenge brought by Hugh McInnish and others against the Alabama Secretary of State Beth Chapman. The case calls for a determination that Chapman "has a duty to verify the eligibility of those seeking office." ...

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Lord Monckton Crunches Numbers On "Mistakes" In White House Birth Certificate: One In 62.5 Quintillion Against

WND

Entire books have been written about the problems with the "birth certificate" that was released by the White House purportedly documenting Barack Obama's birth in Hawaii. Computer imaging experts have found it to be fraudulent and the conclusion of an official law enforcement investigation assembled by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is that it is just not real. But it wasn't until now, through the work of the Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, that the world was informed just exactly what the odds are against all of those anomalies occurring naturally. One in 62,500,000,000,000,000,000. (That's 62.5 quintillion). The question at hand is whether Obama is constitutionally qualified for the office, under the Constitution's requirement that presidents be a "natural born citizen." ...

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 Sofia Vergara, star of the ABC series "Modern Family," butts into the social media scene with hot poolside pictures. ...

Laura MacBeth -- Mirror (UK)

It's not that we weren't expecting Tamara Ecclestone to have a massively luxury honeymoon, given her billionaire Dad and everything. It's just that we could probably have done without seeing it in all it's frolicking around on a luxury yacht in the sunshine glory, if we're honest. The heiress and new husband Jay Rutland are honeymooning in St Tropez on a 300k a week luxury superyacht called the Silver Angel, which is big enough for 14 guests, and comes complete with its own jacuzzi, marble interiors and even a helipad (ya know, just in case). It can also carry 21 members of staff for the ultimate superyacht experience (with ten and a half staff each that's fairly ultimate). ...

Daily Mail (UK)

Karrueche Tran flaunted her toned body in a black bikini on Saturday before hosting a party at a Florida club favored by Chris Brown. The 25-year-old model and fashion designer pranced on the beach in Miami, Florida with a male friend. Karrueche wore a two-piece fringe bathing suit that showed off her lean pins, flat abs and the rest of her fit body. The model has been dating Chris off and on while the 24-year-old singer has been shuttling back and forth with singer Rihanna. ...

Tim Nixon -- Sun (UK)

Serena Williams shows off her strong athletic physique as she celebrates her French Open win with a break in Miami. Serena's two-piece drew attention to the muscly arms, stomach and legs that have helped her rack up an impressive 16 Grand Slam singles triumphs in a career spanning 18 years and counting. ...