Blizzard in Hawaii
          A vast Arctic cold front drove temperatures to record lows from Norway to Siberia and Japan in January, and brought snow to the slopes of Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii. Tourists from California who were climbing the volcano were almost stranded when the latest blizzard began.
          Park rangers who work there say they have never seen snow in Hawaii before. Temperatures in Moscow plunged to 35 below and the US Northeast experienced heavy snowfall. Bitter cold gripped northern India, and New Delhi saw record lows.
          Global climate change is apparently well under way, with just the sort of extremes predicted by climate scientists.
                                                  (Source: www.unknowncountry.com)
 

NASA safety violations
          Valerie Benson sent in an article that appeared recently in The Washington Post, with the headline, “NASA’s Inspector General Probed — Failure to Investigate Safety Violations Is Among the Charges.” An FBI-led watchdog agency has opened an investigation into multiple complaints accusing NASA Inspector General Robert W. Cobb of failing to investigate safety violations and retaliating against whistleblowers, according to the article.
          Valerie writes, “(This article) gives credence to the suspicion that the public space program is a sham and never intended to be successful. It reminds me of the movie The Arrival. There are two astronomers in that movie who report anomalies and they are fired, and then the director of the lab tries to have them done in. Get this movie! The Arrival came out the same day as Independence Day, and is a far superior movie.”