April 22, 2007 – 11:52 am
Ya know, usually I am excerpting from the insanocrats at the Huffington Post. Ah, but today, let's see what a few nutters, by the names of Laurie David and Sheryl Crow, have to say Last night Thelma and Louise drove the bus off the cliff or at least into the White House Correspondents Dinner. The […]
April 10, 2007 – 3:35 pm
Interesting RANONGGA, Solomon Islands (AFP) – The seismic jolt that unleashed the deadly Solomons tsunami this week lifted an entire island metres out of the sea, destroying some of the world's most pristine coral reefs. In an instant, the grinding of the Earth's tectonic plates in the 8.0 magnitude earthquake Monday forced the island of […]
April 1, 2007 – 2:02 pm
Somehow, the natural forces of the Sun and Earth cannot possibly play any part in today's global warming, right? And we are setting the planet on a path to unprecedented destruction, right? Let's take a look back, shall we? From 18,000 B.C. to around 3,000 B.C., the sea levels rose approximately 325-350 feet. Yes, the […]
January 18, 2007 – 12:32 pm
Well, not really. The Weather Channel’s most prominent climatologist is advocating that broadcast meteorologists be stripped of their scientific certification if they express skepticism about predictions of manmade catastrophic global warming. This latest call to silence skeptics follows a year (2006) in which skeptics were compared to "Holocaust Deniers" and Nuremberg-style war crimes trials were […]
January 13, 2007 – 2:35 pm
If McCain wants, desperately, to be President, why does he keep doing all those wacky things that annoy Conservatives, such as this WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Six U.S. senators, including potential 2008 presidential contenders from both major parties, unveiled legislation on Friday that would force power plants and industry to curb heat-trapping greenhouse gases, seeking to […]
January 9, 2007 – 9:09 pm
The LA Times takes on global warming in the past Foreshadowing potential climate chaos to come, early global warming caused unexpectedly severe and erratic temperature swings as rising levels of greenhouse gases helped transform Earth, a team led by researchers at UC Davis said Thursday. The global transition from ice age to greenhouse 300 million […]
January 7, 2007 – 3:00 pm
Major guffaws! (via the NY Times) Hundreds of tourists and locals packed the ice-skating rink at Rockefeller Center yesterday, pretending that it really was a cold, snowy day in early January as they circled the ice beneath the giant Christmas tree. In Brooklyn, eight members of a cold-water-braving organization known as the Coney Island Polar […]
January 1, 2007 – 6:33 pm
Coulda, shoulda, mighta, maybe(a) Global warming could spell the end of the world's largest remaining tropical rain forest, transforming the Amazon into a grassy savanna before end of the century, researchers said Friday. Jose Antonio Marengo, a meteorologist with Brazil's National Space Research Institute, said that global warming, if left unchecked, will reduce rainfall and […]
December 28, 2006 – 3:49 pm
The question is, is this something President Bush is pushing personally, has been involved, or just something pushed by those long term workers in the Executive Office beauracracy? The Bush administration wants to add polar bears to the endangered species list as a result of the ice melting in the Arctic. Global warming is being […]
December 28, 2006 – 12:20 pm
Surprisingly, this AP article doesn't take a "man is causing global warming" position, which is very wise Using fire scars on nearly 5,000 tree stumps dating back 450 years, scientists have found that extended periods of major wildfires in the West occurred when the North Atlantic Ocean was going through periodic warming. With the North […]
