Global Warming...New Report...and it ain't happy news

georgeob1 wrote:

This is Blatham's response to a point made by Thomas in reference to Londborg's published opposition to the conventional environmentalist dogmatists in Europe.

Actually, a good number of the dogmatists -- probably more than the number of European ones -- teaches at Stanford and Berkeley. It's you Californians, not us Europeans, who are the left-wing loonies here.

georgeob1 wrote:

This is Blatham's response to a point made by Thomas in reference to Londborg's published opposition to the conventional environmentalist dogmatists in Europe.

Actually, a good number of the dogmatists -- probably more than the number of European ones -- teaches at Stanford and Berkeley. It's you Californians, not us Europeans, who are the left-wing loonies here.

georgeob1 wrote:

This is Blatham's response to a point made by Thomas in reference to Londborg's published opposition to the conventional environmentalist dogmatists in Europe.

Actually, a good number of the dogmatists -- probably more than the number of European ones -- teaches at Stanford and Berkeley. It's you Californians, not us Europeans, who are the left-wing loonies here.

Bill Bennett: "[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down"

Addressing a caller's suggestion that the "lost revenue from the people who have been aborted in the last 30 years" would be enough to preserve Social Security's solvency, radio host and former Reagan administration Secretary of Education Bill Bennett dismissed such "far-reaching, extensive extrapolations" by declaring that if "you wanted to reduce crime ... if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down."

Would I, for example, violate the parameters if I were to advance the notion that "If you wanted to increase intelligence...if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every christian baby in this country, and your overall intelligence scores would zoom up like an evangelist's boner when he's beating a black whore senseless."

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There you go.It is a status badge as I suspected and is dependent on low intelligence for its successful deployment.Only morons would buy into the idea that because it is asserted that Christians have low intelligence and rootless,alienated,urban aetheists have high intelligence it follows that a rootless,alienated,urban aetheist is more intelligent than a Christian.It is more like having oneself filmed in sepia-tone and watching it wearing rose-tinted spectacles with a Barry Manilow soundtrack.

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Who care one whit about Mars? I live on the planet earth.

www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn1660
The World's No.1 Science & Technology News Service

Mars is undergoing global warming that could profoundly change the planet's climate in a few thousand years, new data suggests.

High-resolution images taken by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor show that the permanent south polar "ice" cap shrank significantly between two successive Martian summers - a period roughly corresponding to two Earth years. If the trend continues at the same rate and the polar cap is entirely frozen carbon dioxide, "the whole cap would be evaporated in a few thousand years," Mike Caplinger of Malin Space Science Systems told New Scientist.

This would release enough carbon dioxide to give Mars an atmosphere one-tenth the density of the Earth's. "That takes us from a situation of working in a near vacuum with a space suit to being able to run around on the surface with an oxygen mask and a heavy coat. It's what the terraforming people were always talking about," says Caplinger.

However, Caplinger warns it is hard to make long-term predictions using observations over such a short period.

David Smith of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center thinks the shrinkage may be part of a multi-year climate cycle, like the terrestrial El Nino/Southern Oscillation. Recent dust storms might also have aided the melting of the cap.

Seasonal cycle
Planetary scientists have long recognized a seasonal cycle of growth and shrinkage of the frozen cap on Mars.

Separate new observations with the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter show up to two meters of fresh CO2 ice freezes out of the atmosphere each winter onto the polar caps, then evaporates in the spring and summer.

The high-resolution photographs allowed scientists to examine the permanent southern polar cap after the seasonal ice had evaporated. They pictures show a scattering of broad flat pits 30 to 100 meters wide with steep walls several meters high, like holes in a slice of swiss cheese on a flat surface.

The walls of many pits retreated one to three meters during the Martian year, but Caplinger could find no evidence the ice was being redeposited elsewhere.

No fluffy snow
Both sets of observations confirm that the upper layers of the ice caps are frozen carbon dioxide, as had been expected. One surprise was that the density of the seasonal "ice" - about 0.9 grams per cubic centimetre - is much higher than the density of snow on Earth, but not as high as that of solid blocks of frozen carbon dioxide.

This indicates the carbon dioxide "ice" froze on the surface, rather than falling as fluffy snow, which would have been lighter due to spaces between the crystals.

Planetary scientists hope the new data will help them understand past Martian climate. It also shows "there's really some interesting stuff yet to be discovered" about Martian seasons and climate, says David Paige of the University of California at Los Angeles. Plans call for a continuation of the high-resolution imaging for at least another Martian year to see if the trends continue.

Journal reference: Science (vol 294, p 2141, 2146)

On the lively topic of "political correctness"...the following seems to be a case of that term in violation:

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Bill Bennett: "[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down"

Addressing a caller's suggestion that the "lost revenue from the people who have been aborted in the last 30 years" would be enough to preserve Social Security's solvency, radio host and former Reagan administration Secretary of Education Bill Bennett dismissed such "far-reaching, extensive extrapolations" by declaring that if "you wanted to reduce crime ... if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down."

Go get them niggras, Bill. After aborting all the mistakenly-colored fetuses (good christian doctors won't want to do this, but jew doctors have their uses after all) you'll want to do some organized nut-cutting too so as to prevent more of the little blighters. Round 'em up in one location (a big football stadium, perhaps) and start snipping. Keep the gene-pool clean.

Of course, Bill ought to be allowed to say all this. And say it without fear that someone might come along, tie him down, and shove a military light-stick up his ass. Even my quoting him here is a case of political correctness and liberalism gone mad. Bork would agree. And nobody wants to hear that a light-stick has been shoved up Bork's ass, that's for sure. Well, I guess I do but am I allowed to say it under the present rules of propriety in speech. Would I, for example, violate the parameters if I were to advance the notion that "If you wanted to increase intelligence...if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every christian baby in this country, and your overall intelligence scores would zoom up like an evangelist's boner when he's beating a black whore senseless."

Can you fill me in on the rules of 'political correctness', george?