Global Warming
Glaciers Growing On California’s Mt. Shasta
USA Today
By Samantha Young
MOUNT SHASTA, Calif. — Reaching more than 14,000 feet above sea level, Mt. Shasta dominates the landscape of high plains and conifer forests in far Northern California.
While it’s not California’s tallest mountain, the tongues of ice creeping down Shasta’s volcanic flanks give the solitary mountain another distinction. Its seven glaciers, referred to [...]
Rush Limbaugh, The Hadron Collider = The End Of The World
The End Is Near
Rush Limbaugh
Those of you worried about the election, or about man made global warming, forget it! You’ve got bigger problems, and you don’t have a lot of time to prepare.
In August, the world’s most powerful particle collider comes online near the border of Switzerland and France. The Large Hadron Collider is a [...]
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What Will Power Our Future - Nuclear Fission vs Nuclear Fusion
A short Primer on our Energy Needs
Nuclear Fission
An atom’s nucleus can be split apart. When this is done, a tremendous amount of energy is released. The energy is both heat and light energy. Einstein said that a very small amount of matter contains a very LARGE amount of energy. This energy, when let out [...]
Ageing Oil Fields + Diminished Investment = Less Available Gas
Oil prices hit a record above $135 a barrel before falling back in Asia Thursday, with supply worries, rising global demand and a slumping dollar keeping crude futures on an upward track.
George W. Bush, King Abdallah
President Bush sits with Saudi King Abdullah upon his arrival at Riyadh-King Kahlid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Friday.
For [...]
CNN Toobin: McCain On Global Warming ‘Like Acknowledging Gravity’
CNN Situation Room
CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, during a panel discussion on Monday’s The Situation Room, reacted sarcastically to John McCain’s recent campaign speech on climate change: “Well, you know, this story illustrates just how low the bar is for Republicans on the environment. You know, the fact that he acknowledges global warming [...]
Two Years Ago Nancy Pelosi Vowed To Cut Energy Prices
Investors Business Daily
Oil Shock: When it comes to energy policy, Democrats always talk a good game. But look at their actual record while in control of Congress in the last year and a half. It’s been nothing short of disastrous.
Wasn’t it two years ago that then-Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi vowed, if her party took over [...]
Whooooooshshshshshsh
Newsweek
Sharon Begley
There Goes Greenland
That sound you hear is Greenland lakes melting through the ice sheet they sit on and greasing the skids for ice to flow out to sea.
That, as everyone knows, raises sea levels. What no one knew is that a lake composed of meltwater and sitting on the Greenland ice sheet can drain [...]
The Rising Impact Of High Oil Prices
ChristianScienceMonitor
Largest Share Of Income Spent On Energy Since 1986
Since the beginning of April, the price of gasoline has risen by 13 cents per gallon, according to AAA, a drivers’ organization in Heathrow, Fla. AAA is predicting gasoline prices on a national basis will hit $3.50 a gallon by Memorial Day. “It’s well within the range [...]
Climate Change - Significantly Worse Than Feared - Al Gore
Owl Gore Shows New Evidence That Climate Change May Be Worse Than Predicted
There are now forecasts that the North Pole ice caps may disappear entirely during summer months within five years, he told a gathering at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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CNN Founder Ted Turner “Insurgents in Iraq Are Patriots”
NewsBusters
By Brent Baker
Ted Turner argues that the world is ending in 30 years.
Ted Turner argued that inaction on global warming “will be catastrophic” and those who don’t die “will be cannibals.” He also applied moral equivalence in describing Iraqi insurgents as “patriots” who simply “don’t like us because we’ve invaded their country” and so [...]
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