It's Monday Jan 26, 2009, and I've gotten started on the content for this new blog. If you have some insight into how best to get the blog going in a respectable way that many Clarkies and The Old Man himself will get involved, PLEASE within the next 48 hours, get in touch with me. You can send a private notification through clicking on my CCN member name, but I trust you guys and I'm going to share my own email addy, also:

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When Wes was asked recently to recommend a book for the CCN Book Club to discuss, he thought for just a moment before suggesting The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery. “It’s about global warming.” And so, our first Wes recommended book will be The Weather Makers.

Written by Australian scientist Tim Flannery, The Weather Makers was just named Book of the Year at this year’s NSW Premier's Literary Awards. The book has been called “powerful and persuasive” and “authoritative yet accessible” by Kirkus Reviews, “destined to become required reading” by Publisher’s Weekly, and “the finest account of the overwhelming science behind global warming” by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.