Tag: Climate Change

GOP: Is The Game Afoot?

Holy crap!  Did I somehow step through “the Looking Glass”?   Is the GOP trying to re-define itself ahead of the 2016 election?

First we have news that there is a push back on the opposition to immigration reform….then the ladies pull their support for an anti-abortion bill in essence killing the bill (for now)……and then I got word that there was another vote that shocked me…….

I got this piece of news from Ace news group for whom I write op-eds from time to time……..

#AceWorldNews – WASHINGTON:Jan.22: Sometimes snippets of news just have to be published and this snippet is just one of those and is just as The Hill reported.

The Senate on Wednesday voted that “climate change is real and is not a hoax” as Democrats used the Keystone XL pipeline debate to force votes on the politically charged issue ahead of the 2016 elections.

The Senate on Wednesday voted 98-1 in favor of a an amendment stating that “climate change is real and is not a hoax.”

The provision offered by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) to put Republicans on record about climate change ahead of the 2016 election passed with near unanimous support, with only Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), the chairman of the campaign committee for Senate Republicans, voting no.

First, Wicker is my Senator and I would expect nothing different from this big business crony……

Okay, what the Hell is going on with the GOP?

I thought is that they are playing a game to make them look like a real party and not some group of bumbling morons……all this is to look good to the groups that they have lost in the past….women, environmentalists, immigrants……it is all a game, in my mind, a well thought out game…..but a game none the less.

The GOP is moving at record speed in this redefining operation…..but will it last?

Even the d/bags in the Tea Party seem to be playing along with this dice roll……it is all about 2016……nothing to do with the reality of things….just to win an election and have TOTAL power…..this may not last long…..until the gamers get tired of playing.

So whatcha think?  Is A Game Afoot?

Remember Climate Change?

With all the shootings, deaths, hackings and just mind numbing gossip I had thought that the issue of climate change was off the radar at least until the 2016 campaigns……but it appears that I may have been mistaken…….

Think back for a moment…..recall when the big news was the cow farts was the leading cause of climate change?

Well there seems that ‘science’ and I use the term loosely has found a new culprit to blame for the changes…….anyway it is a culprit you would never suspect……

We were just trying to help. Turns out the efforts of humankind to save beavers from extinction over the past century have had an eco-unfriendly side effect: The animals, whose population has rebounded, are contributing to climate change, researchers say at EurekAlert. Beaver dams create shallow ponds, which can host growing levels of carbon as biological material accumulates on the floor. The result is methane, a greenhouse gas that doesn’t dissolve in the ponds; instead, it travels into the atmosphere. These days, beaver ponds release 200 times more methane than they did in 1900, when centuries of hunting threatened the animals with extinction.

Today, the animals are definitely doing better; in fact, there are about 10 million of them, researchers in Canada figured in a new study. One result of that is some 16,000 square miles of dammed ponds, which has led to the release of some 882,000 tons of methane, or 15% of what deer, antelope, and other cud-chewing wild creatures produce. And that figure could grow, says a researcher. Beavers aren’t the only rodents to blame for climate change, the Independent reports: Arctic squirrels are doing their share, too, say US scientists. They dig burrows, which warms the ground and helps melt permafrost, where carbon has been building up “for tens of thousands of years,” an expert explains. (Meanwhile, swamp rats are shrinking Louisiana.)

Will the ‘deniers’ now support a jihad aimed at beavers?  They were quick to jump on cows farting.  And what about those damn ground squirrels?

There you have the big news in climate science….BTW the other story mentioned in that piece is also as interesting as this one……get it a try.

Syria: What Happened?| ThinkProgress

Everyone knows that I keep an eye on the Middle East and back in 2012 I read a piece, then printed it, to keep in my files, about the area that could help answer a question that many have asked……..

How did Syria become such an international nightmare?

Think about what is written…….then ask where else could this become the problem?

 

Syria: Climate Change, Drought and Social Unrest | ThinkProgress.

Earth: What The Hell Is Happening?

we all have an opinion on climate change/global warming……either you think that we humans are screwing up everything and are worried about the future of our beloved planet or you are one of those morons that ignores all science in the name of ….well who knows?

Now that I have said that let me interject……that is not why I am writing today….I just thought I would throw that in to stir the pot….did it work?

I am always looking for subjects to write about on weekends that has little to do with the chaos we humans are perpetrating on the planet….I do this with the hope that my readers will find something of interests no when they visit…..and I have found something that is….well…..just weird!

For decades sink holes have been appearing all over the globe but it does seem like Florida does have more than its fair share.  These sink holes seem to be getting bigger as the years go by……swallowing everything from fire hydrants to cars to houses……so far there has not been an adequate explanation for these occurrences.

About a month ago I wrote about this large sinkhole that appeared in Siberia…….

A mysterious giant hole and crater have suddenly appeared in Siberia, Russia. There are not many details right now, but the video captured from a helicopter shows a weird configuration with debris and signs of combustion around it. What the hell is this?Update: New pictures and video show the interior of the hole in detail.

The hole is about 262 feet (80 meters) in diameter and it certainly doesn’t look like a sinkhole, although you can see a large cavern under it.

Of course there as many opinions about the formation of this hole as there are hairs on a persons butt……but so far few ‘real’ answers.  I of course had to equate it with the old belief of the Hollow Earth, where there is a whole other civilization under the crust of the Earth.  (Only because I watched an Ancient Alien marathon on the History Channel)…….

Yep the whole thing is just weird, right?

Hold on!  It is getting even more weird!

(Newser) – Scientists are scratching their heads over a crack in the Earth that’s more than half a mile long, Sky News reports. A drone last week captured video footage of the 16-foot-wide, 26-foot-deep crack, which cuts across highway 26 between the coast and Hermosillo in northwest Mexico. Officials say a San Andreas Fault earthquake may have caused it, but experts at the University of Sonora are eying an underground stream as the possible culprit, Australia’s News Network reports. They say a farmer-built levee started leaking, creating an underground stream that weakened the earth and caused it to crumble. (Another geological marvel: water “missing for decades” is found 400 miles below the US.)

Check the video out…….freaky!

Okay people….what the Hell is going on?

Is the Earth starting to come apart like some cheap SyFy movie?

Has anyone got a good explanation?

If so then NOW is the time to share it with my readers.

There is no magic bullet to slow climate change | Al Jazeera America

Climate change is one of the hot topics whenever politicos get together……..is it real or is it just a natural change…..that argument will go on until it is too late to do anything to try and stem the tide……

A good article and well worth the read if you are interested in the situation……

 

There is no magic bullet to slow climate change | Al Jazeera America.

Attention, pols: Voters overwhelmingly prefer candidates who support climate action – Salon.com

Oh geez!   This oughta send the deniers over the edge….but after thinking it over….they will just ignore any such evidence to keep preaching the crap they are fed……will the people put their votes where their mouth is or will they revert back to re-electing the same d/bags that they have always re-elected?

 

Attention, pols: Voters overwhelmingly prefer candidates who support climate action – Salon.com.