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Gorebal Warming or just pure nonsense?

by bar ( 14 Comments › )
Filed under Climate at May 24th, 2009 - 10:06 am

JUNEAU, Alaska — Global warming conjures images of rising seas that threaten coastal gorehypnosisareas. But in Juneau, as almost nowhere else in the world, climate change is having the opposite effect: As the glaciers here melt, the land is rising, causing the sea to retreat.
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The geology is complex, but it boils down to this: Relieved of billions of tons of glacial weight, the land has risen much as a cushion regains its shape after someone gets up from a couch. The land is ascending so fast that the rising seas — a ubiquitous byproduct of global warming — cannot keep pace. As a result, the relative sea level is falling, at a rate “among the highest ever recorded,” according to a 2007 report by a panel of experts convened by Mayor Bruce Botelho of Juneau.

Gorebal warming science claims sea levels will rise, but when that doesn’t happen in reality they just put a new spin on it. Personally, I would have blamed the many volcanos in Alaska, but that doesn’t fit the Gorebal warming agenda. So this new claim is that the glaciers melt and the land does not have as much of the tremendous weight, so the land springs upward faster than the ocean rises. First off, I would like to see proof that the ocean is rising, not just the assumption that it is, but we will play their game for now.

As a result, the region faces unusual environmental challenges. As the sea level falls relative to the land, water tables fall, too, and streams and wetlands dry out…….. And meltwater carries the sediment scoured long ago by the glaciers to the coast, where it clouds the water and silts up once-navigable channels.

My BS detector just went off the chart.
How do streams dry out when they have to be filled with lots of meltwater from all the glaciers that are melting? How do these “dry” streams carry all that silt down and make the channels unnavigable?
Erosion happens everyday in every river and stream and silt also happens to be deposited at the bottom of said river or streams. Every shallow navigable channel in the world gets silted up and has to be dredged to stay navigable. Notice that dredging companies existed long before Gorebal warming hysteria.

In some places along the coast, the change has been so rapid that kayakers whose charts are not up-to-the-minute can find themselves carrying their boats over shoals that are now so high and dry they now support grass or even small trees.

Now with up-to-the-minute hysteria. It takes a lot of energy to move even small amounts of land. If that coast line is changing that fast, I highly doubt you could kayak enough for two there!

Relative to the sea, land here has risen as much as 10 feet in little more than 200 years, according to the 2007 report. As global warming accelerates, the land will continue to rise, perhaps three more feet by 2100, scientists say.

The rise is further fueled by the movement of the tectonic plates that form the earth’s crust. As the Pacific plate pushes under the North American plate, Juneau and its hilly Tongass National Forest environs rise still more.

You have to take that 10 feet with a grain of salt somewhat.
We have not had the technology to accurately measure elevations 200 years ago or even 100 years ago.
Now here could be the real and only culprit, the tectonic plates, which surely have the power to move large land masses large distances and sounds much more plausible to this anti-science guy than the ideas these bozo “scientist” can conjure up.

Hasta La Vista, Baby!

by bar ( 16 Comments › )
Filed under Economy, Media, Politics at May 21st, 2009 - 8:38 am

Great video from Reason TV, via Hot Air.


The Governator and his promises, promises. Now America is following in our footsteps.

Thursday Morning News roundup 5/21/09

by Phantom Ace ( 30 Comments › )
Filed under Open thread at May 21st, 2009 - 7:37 am

Here is a quick roundup of the news for this morning.

The next bail out will be Cali!

The Coming California Bailout


Indian Voters want an American alliance. Obama should realize this and stop appeasing the Pakistanis.

Why the U.S. Should Listen to India’s Voters


Poll shows Democrats not Pro Israel

Obama Rides The Waves Of Change


Obama and Cheney to have dueling speeches on who will appease Islam less!

Barack Obama: U.S. ‘lost way’ fighting terror


Russia to install Missiles on Polish Border if US deploys Patriot Missile.

Russia could deploy missiles near Poland: Officer


Obama’s new Amigo Hugo Chavez seizes American owned food company. This may give Obama some ideas!

Venezuela seizes U.S.-owned food plant

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TOTUS to Notre Dame: Yeah Im a baby killer, so what?

by bar ( 70 Comments › )
Filed under Abortion, Barack Obama, Religion at May 19th, 2009 - 8:48 am

Remarks of President Barack Obama
Notre Dame Commencement
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Notre Dame, Indiana

In typical fashion TOTUS starts out with a thank you, then some lame jokes which he always seems to be the center of. He then brags about his B-ball skills and offers to play B-ball for Notre Dame next year. Then this gem:

This is the generation that must find a path back to prosperity and decide how we respond to a global economy that left millions behind even before this crisis hit – an economy where greed and short-term thinking were too often rewarded at the expense of fairness, and diligence, and an honest dayʼs work

Its pretty ironic that the very guy who left them footing the mammoth bill reminds them at their graduation they have to pay it all back. How nice of him.

March 20, 2009 From Foxnews: The Congressional Budget Office figures, released Friday, predict Obama’s budget will produce $9.3 trillion worth of red ink over 2010-2019. That’s $2.3 trillion worse than the White House predicted in its budget.

It must take a diligent honest day’s work to come up with that mammoth budget, I guess the price of fairness is pretty expensive.

We must decide how to save Godʼs creation from a changing climate that
threatens to destroy it.

I wonder if LGF 1.0 will notice that TOTUS is a creationist? I think I hear a bus starting.

We must seek peace at a time when there are those who
will stop at nothing to do us harm

I wonder how you do that?
Because if they don’t stop at something, how can there be peace?

And then TOTUS goes on about supporting baby killing but also wanting to reduce the number of abortions.

I suppose we do that by paying for overseas abortions and repealing the conscience clause?
Do you see a pattern here?

The rest of this dribble can be summed up as Yada, yada, yada.