bush Finally Does Something I Agree With

Bear


I would add that both senior and junior Bush and mom would also live for 200 years so they could both blame Barbara Bush for the evil child of her womb.

BBB

200 years. I wonder where Bush has been the last four years. Consider he is now having meetings with his "Top" advisors inorder that they explain to him what the situation in Iraq is. {and I suppose how to add two and two.} And when and if he understands HE will make the decision on how to proceed.
That's right he will make the decision. Scary to even think of is it not.

au1929


Its all Barbara Bush's fault that her son takes after her.

BBB

TORONTO, Ontario (AP) -- A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada's Arctic, scientists said.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/12/29/canada.arctic.ap/index.html

Ice mass snaps free from Canada's Arctic
Ice mass snaps free from Canada's Arctic
By ROB GILLIES, Associated Press Writer
Fri Dec 29, 2006

A giant ice shelf has snapped free from an island south of the North Pole, scientists said Thursday, citing climate change as a "major" reason for the event.

The Ayles Ice Shelf ?- all 41 square miles of it ?- broke clear 16 months ago from the coast of Ellesmere Island, about 500 miles south of the North Pole in the Canadian Arctic.

Scientists discovered the event by using satellite imagery. Within one hour of breaking free, the shelf had formed as a new ice island, leaving a trail of icy boulders floating in its wake.

Warwick Vincent of Laval University, who studies Arctic conditions, traveled to the newly formed ice island and couldn't believe what he saw.

"This is a dramatic and disturbing event. It shows that we are losing remarkable features of the Canadian North that have been in place for many thousands of years," Vincent said. "We are crossing climate thresholds, and these may signal the onset of accelerated change ahead."

The ice shelf was one of six major shelves remaining in Canada's Arctic. They are packed with ancient ice that is more than 3,000 years old. They float on the sea but are connected to land.

Some scientists say it is the largest event of its kind in Canada in 30 years and that climate change was a major element.

"It is consistent with climate change," Vincent said, adding that the remaining ice shelves are 90 percent smaller than when they were first discovered in 1906. "We aren't able to connect all of the dots ... but unusually warm temperatures definitely played a major role."

Laurie Weir, who monitors ice conditions for the Canadian Ice Service, was poring over satellite images in 2005 when she noticed that the shelf had split and separated.

Weir notified Luke Copland, head of the new global ice lab at the University of Ottawa, who initiated an effort to find out what happened.

Using U.S. and Canadian satellite images, as well as seismic data ?- the event registered on earthquake monitors 155 miles away ?- Copland discovered that the ice shelf collapsed in the early afternoon of Aug. 13, 2005.

Copland said the speed with which climate change has effected the ice shelves has surprised scientists.

"Even 10 years ago scientists assumed that when global warming changes occur that it would happen gradually so that perhaps we expected these ice shelves just to melt away quite slowly," he said.

Derek Mueller, a polar researcher with Vincent's team, said the ice shelves get weaker and weaker as temperatures rise. He visited Ellesmere Island in 2002 and noticed that another ice shelf had cracked in half.

"We're losing our ice shelves and this a feature of the landscape that is in danger of disappearing altogether from Canada," Mueller said.

Within days of breaking free, the Ayles Ice Shelf drifted about 30 miles offshore before freezing into the sea ice. A spring thaw may bring another concern: that warm temperatures will release the new ice island from its Arctic grip, making it an enormous hazard for ships.

"Over the next few years this ice island could drift into populated shipping routes," Weir said.

I saw that. someone will be along soon to explain why it's meaningless and those who are upset about it are stupid.

Lol.

Quite a number of us "joined" you before there was a "you" to join!


I recommend you join us.


It renders life both more rational and more pleasurable.

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are you talking to me Ms. Buns?

I thought Bushco had now embraced global warming as a serious issue? Our local Bush has.

Does this not mean that the someones will now generally also now be born again worriers about climate change?

They'll probably blame it on the farts from the billions of polar bears, though, and demand a cull.

Yes.

Actually, I was talking to you last night, or trying to, when lightning caused my computer to switch off, but the reply window was sweetly open for me still when I turned it on a while ago.

Please Deb, Bear or anyone else who is smart enough to not reply to her vile being. Slap my hand with a ruler the next time I forget.

Why Diane? cause i handed you some of your own bile? lmao
If you can't take it, don't dish it out.

You really DID go to the nuns, didn't you?


That ruler on the hand thing was, I believe, a nun thing?

It must be totally reassuring to always know you're right and everone else is an idiot.

just talking ABOUT her is unacceptable. Let her die.

Y'all really ought to use the 'ignore' function. You won't miss the constant bleating pain in the ass.

how does one do that?

I've read only the first few posts on this thread, but I find this "endangered species" acknowledgement by Bush as a farse. Bush hasn't done anything for our environment for the past six years, and this little act smells of hypocrisy and political rhetoric.

Ya gotta get the mozilla firefox browser - It's free to download, and it's well worth the trouble, for never having to see anything that cesspools like LSM produce (except when someone uses their comments in a quote - can't help seeing that). When you use the browser and sign in to A2K, there is a little [X] right next all the members' names. You just click on the 'X', and voila! Relief!

b'live I'll look into that.... thanks.