Saturday, September 29, 2012
Climate Change Happening Faster Than Predicted
The world's coral reefs are dying: http://phys.org/news/2012-09-sea-dead.html
The artic circle is melting:
Last week, the National Snow and Ice Data Center, in Boulder, Colorado, announced that the Arctic sea ice had reached a new low. The sea ice shrinks in the summer and grows again during winter’s long polar night. It usually reaches its minimum extent in mid-September. On September 16, 2012, the N.S.I.D.C. reported, the sea ice covered 1.3 million square miles. This was just half of its average extent during the nineteen-eighties and nineties, and nearly twenty per cent less than its extent in 2007, the previous record-low year.
Haven't heard much lately about climate change, have you? Well, our candidates don't mention climate change. Nope, they just jump right over that topic like it was a rattle snake. You might enjoy this article from the New Yorker...
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/09/candidates-ignore-an-arctic-disaster.html#ixzz27pDeszG0
And here is an article in Huffington Post about 2012 being the hottest year on record: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/27/2012-hottest-year-ever-on-record_n_1920639.html?utm_hp_ref=green
The artic circle is melting:
Last week, the National Snow and Ice Data Center, in Boulder, Colorado, announced that the Arctic sea ice had reached a new low. The sea ice shrinks in the summer and grows again during winter’s long polar night. It usually reaches its minimum extent in mid-September. On September 16, 2012, the N.S.I.D.C. reported, the sea ice covered 1.3 million square miles. This was just half of its average extent during the nineteen-eighties and nineties, and nearly twenty per cent less than its extent in 2007, the previous record-low year.
It would be difficult to overstate the significance of this development. We are now seeing changes occur in a matter of years that, in the normal geological scheme of things, should take thousands, even millions of times longer than that. On the basis of the 2012 melt season, one of the world’s leading experts on the Arctic ice cap, Peter Wadhams, of Cambridge University, has predicted that the Arctic Ocean will be entirely ice-free in summer by 2016. Since open water absorbs sunlight, while ice tends to reflect it, this will accelerate global warming. Meanwhile, recent research suggests that the melting of the Arctic ice cap will have, and indeed is probably already having, a profound effect on the U.S. and Europe, making extreme weather events much more likely. As Jennifer Francis, a scientist at Rutgers, observed recently in a conference call with reporters, the loss of sea ice changes the dynamics of the entire system: “It’s like having a new energy source for the atmosphere.”
Haven't heard much lately about climate change, have you? Well, our candidates don't mention climate change. Nope, they just jump right over that topic like it was a rattle snake. You might enjoy this article from the New Yorker...
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/09/candidates-ignore-an-arctic-disaster.html#ixzz27pDeszG0
And here is an article in Huffington Post about 2012 being the hottest year on record: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/27/2012-hottest-year-ever-on-record_n_1920639.html?utm_hp_ref=green
Friday, September 28, 2012
Ann Romney Uncensored
Picked up from Reuters... "I think my biggest concern obviously would just be for his mental well-being," she said. "I have all the confidence in the world in his ability, in his decisiveness, in his leadership skills, in his understanding of the economy. ... So for me I think it would just be the emotional part of it."
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Thursday, September 20, 2012
The Heart Of A Hypocrite
Thank you Martin Bashir.
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Monday, September 17, 2012
Performance Poet Laura Zuniga on "Energy Drinks"
Performance Poet and teaching artist Laura Zuniga on "Energy Drinks..."
And if you like that one, you will like her other videos...check them out on YouTube.
Pure Raw Talent
It is rare to stumble on such a rare gem...
This young girl has the voice, the poise and the talent!
She randomly walks into this store, picks up the mic, and well...you just have to listen for yourself!
This is going to go viral. Only 455K have seen this as I post.
The Last Word
This is beginning to look like the end.
This is what Bloomberg says... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-17/today-mitt-romney-lost-the-election.html
Saturday, September 15, 2012
"Obama's Way"
By Michael Lewis
Vanity Fair Magazine
To understand how air-force navigator Tyler Stark ended up in a thornbush in the Libyan desert in March 2011, one must understand what it’s like to be president of the United States—and this president in particular. Hanging around Barack Obama for six months, in the White House, aboard Air Force One, and on the basketball court, Michael Lewis learns the reality of the Nobel Peace Prize winner who sent Stark into combat.
To read more, go here.
Vanity Fair Magazine
To understand how air-force navigator Tyler Stark ended up in a thornbush in the Libyan desert in March 2011, one must understand what it’s like to be president of the United States—and this president in particular. Hanging around Barack Obama for six months, in the White House, aboard Air Force One, and on the basketball court, Michael Lewis learns the reality of the Nobel Peace Prize winner who sent Stark into combat.
To read more, go here.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Saturday, September 1, 2012
A Long List Of President Obama's Accomplishments With Citations.
September 1, 2012...Thank you to the blog, Addicting Info for this excellent list of President Obama's accomplishments.
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