I'm doing all I can too....I'm having steak for dinner.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Hopefully Ms.Brachah gets off her lazy a** stops going to the grocery store and grows her own damn food.......do your part there chicky......(if this is a man then just change the pronouns and slang)
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
New climate victims: Beer, bats, brothels BY EMILY LANGER The Washington Post
Think global warming is wrecking the world? You haven’t heard the half of it. Climate change is bad news for everything from Bulgarian brothels to baseball bats to beer — or so some people and news outlets would have you believe. “Brothel owners in Bulgaria are blaming global warming for staff shortages. They claim their best girls are working in ski resorts because a lack of snow has forced tourists to seek other pleasures.” ( Metro, a British newspaper, March 2007) “[T]he future of the ash tree is in doubt because of a killer beetle and a warming climate, and with it, the complicated relationship of the baseball player to his bat.” (New York Times article about ash trees, whose wood is used to make baseball bats, July 2007) “Beer will be [in] short supply, more expensive and may taste different as climate change affects barley production, a scientist says.” (News.com.au, an Australian Web site, April 200 “Climate change could be about to claim a new victim — the fashion industry. Designers and industry experts fear that the traditional seasonal collections which have formed the backbone of the business may become meaningless due to [the] increasing unpredictability of the weather.” (The Daily Telegraph, October 2007) “More Americans are likely to suffer from kidney stones in the coming years as a result of global warming, according to researchers at the University of Texas.” (Agence France-Presse, July 200 “Climatic changes could lead to more outbreaks of bubonic plague among human populations, a study suggests.” (BBC News, August 2006) “Global warming has added an extra layer of anxiety to what people are already feeling.” (Sandy Shulmire, a psychologist and practitioner of ecopsychology, quoted in The New York Times, February 200 That last one, come to think of it, isn’t so far-fetched. Looking for more reasons to worry? The Web site http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/ warmlist.htm keeps tabs on hundreds of anxiety-inducing articles about the warming world.
Plants moving up mountain as temperatures rise, study says BY ALICIA CHANG The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Striking new research in the Southern California mountains suggests recent warming is behind a massive die-off and rapid migration to higher ground by nine different plants — from desert shrubs to white firs. Within 30 years, most had moved to elevations 200 feet above their previous growth range. The findings provide a glimpse of what could happen to the world’s vegetation as the Earth faces global warming. Scientists have long warned that human-caused climate change threatens to turn plants into refugees as they migrate to higher, cooler spots to survive. The latest study is the first to physically measure changes in plants’ locations in connection with regional warming — whether man-made or part of a normal cycle — over the past three decades. “The speed [of the plant movement] is alarming,” said ecologist Travis Huxman of the University of Arizona in Tucson, who did not participate in the study. “It means that we’ll likely see vegetation shift a lot faster than we might think.” However, at least one expert suggested that prolonged drought — not climate change — could be the cause of the die-off and migration. Researchers from the University of California, Irvine in 2006 studied the 10 most common plant species in the Santa Rosa Mountains east of Los Angeles at different elevations. With a measuring tape, they recorded the type of plant every 400 feet from sea level to over 8,000 feet, and compared the distribution to a survey that was done in the same area in 1977. The Santa Rosa Mountains host diverse habitats, including conifer forest, chaparral, woodland and desert scrub. Since the 1970s, the region has seen average temperatures rise 2 degrees as well as extended periods of drought. To scientists’ surprise, they found scores of dead trees and shrubs at lower altitudes, but flourishing plants uphill. The habitats of nine of the 10 plant species studied crept an average 213 feet up the mountain face, the study found. “The plant death was striking, and occurred in most species,” said study co-author Michael Goulden of UC Irvine. “The occurrence of plant death was obvious to everyone living in that area.” The results appear in Monday’s issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The findings counter the idea that fast-growing grasses are more flighty than large woody trees since the various plant species edged a similar distance upward in the study, scientists say. U.S. Geological Survey research scientist Jon Keeley said the study provides convincing evidence of plant migration. But he said another factor, prolonged drought, rather than rising temperatures may be the driver behind the move. “Drought certainly stands out as a real likely explanation. It is an extremely severe event” that could wipe out plants at lower elevations, he said.
Even at $3.30 a gallon, it's worth running the car a little longer, don't you think?
And we're now happy with prices coming down into the $3.50's, and we're supposed to thank Congress, who was going to "fix" the high gas prices...just remember this in November.
Clinton panel warns of warming’s impact on the poor BY DEEPTI HAJELA The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The world’s poorest people are the ones hardest hit by changes in the climate, and solutions need to be found that address anti-poverty and anti-global warming goals, panelists at the Clinton Global Initiative said. “We need programs to match public policy to empower the poorest people and at the same time public policy to fight climate change,” President Felipe Calderon of Mexico said at the panel on Thursday. Rajendra K. Pachauri, who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore for sounding the alarm on global warming, said developing countries should aim for sustainable development but also had to be realistic in efforts to reduce inequality. “In the initial period, if one has to provide infrastructure, industrialize and at the same time provide basic services, we really don’t have too many choices but to use fossil fuels,” he said. But he warned developing countries against following the path of the industrialized world and encouraged them to find a new, sustainable way. In the United States, anti-global warming efforts can be an opportunity for anti-poverty efforts, said Van Jones, a civil rights and environmental advocate. “If we’re going to beat global warming, that means we’re going to have to weatherize the United States, millions of buildings,” he said. “That’s thousands of contracts and millions of jobs.” Day 2 of the Clinton Global Initiative saw presidential politics come into the picture, as Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama spoke to attendees. McCain spoke first, underlining the connection between U.S. interests and international problems such as maternal and child health. “In fighting disease and sparing unnumbered lives across the world, we serve not only strategic interests,” he said. “We serve our moral interests, and we show the good heart of America.” In remarks broadcast via satellite, Obama struck a similar note, pledging his commitment to goals including reducing greenhouse gas emissions and getting more children in school. “Climate change, poverty, extremism, disease — there are issues that offend our common humanity,” he said. “They also threaten our common security.” Both men called for prompt bipartisan action on the Bush administration’s $700 billion bailout plan before Congress to rescue financial institutions from crippling debt. Former President Clinton spoke warmly of both men. Clinton praised McCain on the environment: “When most people in his party had been thinking that global warming was overstated ... he decided to look into it.” In lauding Obama, Clinton referred to a conversation the two had earlier this month at Clinton’s Harlem office. “Eighty percent of the conversation had nothing to do with politics and everything to do with the responsibilities of the next president for the welfare of the American people and the future of the world,” Clinton said. The conference opened Wednesday and included former Vice President Al Gore, Bono, Bill Gates and Lance Armstrong. Celebrities including Muhammad Ali could be seen in the audience. CGI, now in its fourth year, draws world leaders, celebrities, activists and scholars for three days of discussions about pressing global problems. It coincides with the General Assembly meeting taking place on the other side of town at the United Nations.
The world’s poorest people are the ones hardest hit by changes in the climate, and solutions need to be found that address anti-poverty and anti-global warming goals, panelists at the Clinton Global Initiative said.
Here comes more bleeding heart liberals with the feartactics and using the 'poor' as victims/pawns.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
MIT scientists baffled by global warming theory, contradicts scientific data Trendwatch By Rick C. Hodgin Thursday, October 30, 2008 09:55 49 votesBuzz up!
Boston (MA) - Scientists at MIT have recorded a nearly simultaneous world-wide increase in methane levels. This is the first increase in ten years, and what baffles science is that this data contradicts theories stating man is the primary source of increase for this greenhouse gas. It takes about one full year for gases generated in the highly industrial northern hemisphere to cycle through and reach the southern hemisphere. However, since all worldwide levels rose simultaneously throughout the same year, it is now believed this may be part of a natural cycle in mother nature - and not the direct result of man's contributions.
Methane - powerful greenhouse gas
The two lead authors of a paper published in this week's Geophysical Review Letters, Matthew Rigby and Ronald Prinn, the TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, state that as a result of the increase, several million tons of new methane is present in the atmosphere.
Methane accounts for roughly one-fifth of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, though its effect is 25x greater than that of carbon dioxide. Its impact on global warming comes from the reflection of the sun's light back to the Earth (like a greenhouse). Methane is typically broken down in the atmosphere by the free radical hydroxyl (OH), a naturally occuring process. This atmospheric cleanser has been shown to adjust itself up and down periodically, and is believed to account for the lack of increases in methane levels in Earth's atmosphere over the past ten years despite notable simultaneous increases by man.
More study
Prinn has said, "The next step will be to study [these changes] using a very high-resolution atmospheric circulation model and additional measurements from other networks. The key thing is to better determine the relative roles of increased methane emission versus [an increase] in the rate of removal. Apparently we have a mix of the two, but we want to know how much of each [is responsible for the overall increase]."
The primary concern now is that 2007 is long over. While the collected data from that time period reflects a simultaneous world-wide increase in emissions, observing atmospheric trends now is like observing the healthy horse running through the paddock a year after it overcame some mystery illness. Where does one even begin? And how relevant are any of the data findings at this late date? Looking back over 2007 data as it was captured may prove as ineffective if the data does not support the high resolution details such a study requires.
One thing does seem very clear, however; science is only beginning to get a handle on the big picture of global warming. Findings like these tell us it's too early to know for sure if man's impact is affecting things at the political cry of "alarming rates." We may simply be going through another natural cycle of warmer and colder times - one that's been observed through a scientific analysis of the Earth to be naturally occuring for hundreds of thousands of years.
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