News Of The Week

Yes neo con This is indeed what it is all about. Climate change starts out slow(what, you thought it was like in the movies? Massive change taking place over 1 90 min movie?), for one thing the post is snark-I guess neo con republicians are humor impaired(maybe that could become a new disability under the McCain attempt to update the americans with disabilities act) and second; Global Warming is fact, not fiction. Ask anyone in Alaska(except Stevens-the internet is a series of tubes, or Young-on the take from just about everyone)about how the permafrost is doing. Ask why the Artic Ocean will be totally ice free this summer-for the first time in recorded history, ask the scientists in Patagonia-where the glaciers have almost disappeared in the last 5 years, ask the scientists in Antarctica-where an ice shelf larger than the state of RI has broken off, ask the people on Greenland who have watched the glaciers retreat more than 1 mile in some areas over the last 5 years. Do the ice cores mean nothing? Studies of them have shown the drastic increase in the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. How about the birds in North America. They have totally changed their habits over the last 10 years. Go north earlier, build nests, lay eggs months earlier, so that their babies will arrive at the same time their food sources hit the maximum-like insects who are starting out months earlier than ever before. How about bears? they are now ending their hibernation up to 3 months earlier. Nope. The facts are in, the conclusions are clear. Global warming/climate change is no longer in the future, it is here. The melting does not proceed in a steady stream from year to year. The more melting occurs, the faster is occurs. Switzerlands mountains are without snow for the first time in memory. Laugh and scoff all you want. It might not happen in your lifetime, maybe not even in your childrens or grandchildrens lifetimes, but the oceans rise will continue. Ocean side cities all over the world will be flooded. But republicians don't care about the future, all they seem to care about is how much money they can stuff in their pockets from the worlds polluters. Oh, and have your WH send out talking points to FNS, which will repeat them word for word, after all FNS is the republician propaganda network. That is what a bushco insider says anyway, and I have yet to hear anyone refute him.

An ice shelf in Greenland falls into the sea threatening to inundate two continents. Bush Administration announces plans to study the matter.

Rignot and Kanagaratnam say their calculations indicate that the Greenland melt currently contributes about two-hundredths of an inch (0.5 millimeters) to the annual 0.12-inch (3-millimeter) rise in global sea levels. The glacier speed-up is responsible for more than two-thirds of that contribution, they say.

So let me get this straight. This is what all the hoopla is about?

Good roundup!
Taken as a whole, ti makes me laugh through my tears.

Democrats in Congress move to finish the job of bankrupting the country with neolib spending nostrums after Republicans almost succeed in doing the job with their own neocon economic and militaristic quackery.

Thank you. I hope that people start getting it.

I hope that everyone starts demanding a balanced budget and fiscal responsiblity. I hope we figure out a way to actually start paying down our debt and getting this country back on track to fiscal integrity.

As I have ranted and raved, whined and cried for months...........The greatest threat to our national security is a congress and president who have no idea about fiscal responsibility.

I would hope democrat and republican alike would understand this and urge their own parties to embark upon fiscal restraint instead of spending frezies that make shark feedings look mundane.