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The founder of the Weather Channel is saying he will sue Al Gore (among others) for fraud. He feels that the media is only presenting one side of the global warming issue and that the whole issue is nonexistent. But since he can’t get anyone to dialog seriously about it, he figures maybe the courtroom will get the issue discussed.

“As you look at the atmosphere over the last 25 years, there’s been perhaps a degree of warming, perhaps probably a whole lot less than that, and the last year has been so cold that that’s been erased,” he said.

“I think if we continue the cooling trend a couple of more years, the general public will at last begin to realize that they’ve been scammed on this global-warming thing.”

You can read more about this news story here.

Last night someone told me that today was Pie Day. At least, that’s what I heard. I got to thinking about different kinds of pie and how fun that could be to celebrate. Then I looked on a calendar this morning and saw that it wasn’t “pie,” but “PI” Day! And then I looked at the date again and it made perfect sense! Today’s date is 3.14.

I suppose technically the Pi MOMENT was at 1:59:27 this morning. And that’s as far as I ever really learned Pi: 3.1415927. For most practical purposes, that’s good enough.

So celebrate International PI Day today! Draw some circles or measure some diameters!

Or even better, listen to this interesting take on Music a la Pi. Tom Dukich took the numbers 0-9 and made them represent a rest (0) and then notes going up a major scale. He calls it Pi to 1,000 Places: Piano Solo.