Monday, March 16, 2009

The First Day of Spring

No, not here. Us westies are still mired in snow and the thermometer is reading 36 degrees about an hour 'till noon.

But, according to the AGENDA-PUSHING Boston Globe
:

"Exuberant and green-garbed crowds partake in parade" by Brian R. Ballou, Globe Staff | March 16, 2009

.... A group dressed as Minutemen blasted their rifles, causing a thunderous boom that sent shudders through the crowd, followed by cheers and chants from Mitchell's children for "more."

This is SO DEFLATING to ME!! Yaaaaaaay, the kids say! Give us MORE WAR!!!!

We are done, America (sob).


The parade had a largely patriotic tone.

Which ones don't?


In addition to several groups dressed in Civil War-era garb, soldiers in camouflage sat atop bulky military vehicles, a Marine band played tunes that bounced off three-deckers, and 50 sailors from the USS Taylor, a Navy frigate temporarily docked in Boston Harbor, marched in uniform.

Temperatures that reached into the mid-50s
caused many people to shed their winter wear as they emerged from cars or the subway. Some bought T-shirts from street vendors and made quick changes in the bathrooms of businesses along the route.

Well, it is NICE to KNOW the Globe's reporter os ON the CASE and WATCHING the JOHNS, 'eh?

A few people wore shorts and four men even took their shirts off, exposing pale torsos, to bask in the sun....

I won't be taking my shirt off outside today -- and not in the gym tonight, either.


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And emphasizing the agenda, we get this as the national lead on page A2
:

"Northeast US could suffer most from sea rise; Add 8 inches for the region, new study says" by Seth Borenstein, Associated Press | March 16, 2009

You know, that's odd because a chunk of sky just landed outside
.

Please see
Ocean Farts Causing Global Warming and associated links within (thank you)

WASHINGTON - The Northeastern US coast is likely to see the world's biggest sea level rise from man-made global warming, a new study predicts.

I'm sick of the s***-shovel, folks!

However much the oceans rise by the end of the century, add an extra 8 inches or so for New York, Boston, and other spots along the coast from the mid-Atlantic to New England. That's because of predicted changes in ocean currents, according to a study based on computer models published online yesterday in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Translation: THEY MADE IT UP!!


An extra 8 inches - on top of a possible 2 or 3 feet of sea rise globally by 2100 - is a big deal, especially when northeasters and hurricanes hit, experts said....

Those are LYING EXPERTS, readers!


For years, scientists have talked about rising sea level
s
due to global warming - both from warm water expanding and the melt of ice sheets in Greenland and West Antarctica.

Pffft!
Not lapping at our doors and the beaches are still there (as well as expanding ice sheets)!!! Yup, been PREDICTING IT FOR YEARS NOW!!!!


Predictions for the average worldwide sea rise keep changing along with the rate of ice melt. Recently, more scientists are saying the situation has worsened....

The MSM ONLY COVERS ONE SIDE of the DEBATE, so SCREW THEM and their "more scientists say."

See:
Where's Global Warming, MSM?

Study author Jianjun Yin of the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies at Florida State University, said.... the explanation involves complicated ocean currents.

These guys will latch on to anything. If one scenario doesn't work out, they come up with some other balderdash!


Computer models forecast that as climate change continues
, there will be a slowdown of the great ocean conveyor belt. That system moves heat energy in warm currents from the tropics to the North Atlantic and pushes the cooler, saltier water down, moving it farther south around Africa and into the Pacific. As the conveyor belt slows, so will the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic current. Those two fast-running currents have kept the Northeast's sea level unusually low because of a combination of physics and geography.

Slow down the conveyor belt 33 to 43 percent as predicted by computer models, and the Northeast sea level rises faster, Yin said. So far, the conveyor belt has not noticeably slowed. A decade ago, scientists worried about the possibility that this current conveyor belt would halt altogether - something that would cause abrupt and catastrophic climate change like that shown in the movie "The Day After Tomorrow."

Yes, I liked the movie (not great, but okay); however, I RESENT the AGENDA-PUSHING GARBAGE being PASSED OFF as NEWS!!

But in recent years, they concluded that a shutdown is unlikely this century....

Oh, the SCIENTISTS either LIED or were WRONG, huh? Yeah, SAVE THAT for a SENTENCE, why don't you, you agenda-swilling sacks of s***!!!

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And why don't we take a trip up nawth, huh? Let's see all that ICE MELT!!!

A hardy band of scientists led by a UMass professor - undeterred by white-out blizzards or 40-below-zero cold - today sent a drill through the floor of a Siberian crater lake and deep into the earth. From there, they hope to extract an unparalleled record of climate change.

The record will be in the form of an unusually detailed sample of ancient sediment, layers upon layers of it, pulled to the surface in a hollow tube, 10 feet at a time. All told, the cylinder of sediment will be 1.5 times longer than the Empire State Building is tall. The layers will tell a rare story of an earlier era when the Arctic was warmer, and provide clues about Earth's future.

What? You mean it WARMED UP NATURALLY?!! Icky-icky humans not responsible? Say it isn't so!!!

"It's a pretty good analog for where we are headed now," said Julie Brigham-Grette, a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and chief scientist for the expedition to the lake, 62 miles north of the Arctic Circle.

The scientists, from Germany and Russia as well as the United States, have spent 2 1/2 months battling the flesh-freezing Arctic elements.

But we got global warming!

They departed in mid-December from a Siberian airport in a convoy of bulldozers and trucks, forging a road across the tundra for 25 days to reach Lake El'gygytgyn. They towed trailers and hauled coal-burning stoves and generators to build a camp on the lake's barren shores.

Now WHAT is THAT DOING to WARM the PLANET, 'eh? Them and their BULLDOZERS, TRUCKS, and COAL-BURNING POWER SOURCES!!! Gimme a frikkin' break!!!!

The crew worked 12-hour shifts on days with only six hours of sunlight, preparing the drill sites and assembling gear on the frozen surface of the 11-mile-wide crater lake. The wind whipped the snow into ground blizzards, creating whiteout conditions that delayed the work for several days.

Amongst all the melting ice, right?

To find their way from the drilling site back to camp, they rely on dozens of bamboo poles with orange flags to guide them through the disorienting white landscape. When they go to the outhouse, they carry shovels to dig themselves out of snowdrifts that, in just a few minutes, can pile high against the door.

"It's certainly one of the most extreme environments we've ever drilled in," said Dennis Nielson, president of DOSECC, a nonprofit drilling outfit that serves academic research groups and has sent five of its staff on the mission.

Brigham-Grette has been in contact with the research team remotely, using satellite phones and e-mail. On Saturday, she will fly - by plane and then helicopter - to Lake El'gygytgyn to join the drilling crew. She will be joined by one of her graduate students; another is already at the camp. Four other faculty from UMass-Amherst will work on the project remotely.

The mission will last until mid-May, when the lake's annual thaw begins and the ice will be too thin to support the more than 180,000 pounds of drilling equipment. Even now, the research crew has had to thicken the ice - flooding the surface near the drilling area with water pumped from deep in the lake so that it forms an additional layer - so it can support the weight of the drill rigs.

The core samples will be flown to the University of Cologne in Germany for analysis.

Lake El'gygytgyn, dubbed Lake E by the scientists, was formed when a giant meteor smacked into Earth 3.6 million years ago. Unlike many other lakes in northern latitudes, it was never plowed by glaciers, which scrape away layers of soil. As a result, scientists believe, it could hold the only detailed record of sediment deposits on a polar land mass that dates back millions of years....

Steve Colman, who is a geologist and director of the Large Lakes Observatory at the University of Minnesota at Duluth, but is not associated with the expedition, said this project will fill a gap by showing what happened on the continents during climate transitions. The information is critical for predicting how vegetation and weather patterns will change as the planet warms at an unprecedented rate....

I'm sick of the lies, aren't you?

Lake El'gygytgyn's sediment cores are of particular interest to scientists because the planet's polar regions are especially vulnerable to global warming. Scientists believe their temperature changes more dramatically when the Earth's climate shifts....

Brigham-Grette compares the expedition to "CSI," the popular television series about forensic scientists who reconstruct crimes.

Oh, now NATURALLY OCCURRING PROCESSES are a CRIME to these CULTISTS!!! And when you HAVE a CRIME you need CRIMINALS and when you HAVE CRIMINALS you need PUNISHMENT -- and that's where the CARBON TAX COMES IN!!!!!

"It's much like detective work," she said. "We're going to compare the evidence of climate change there to similar records in the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean or even Antarctica to get a much better idea of how the Earth has worked as a system."

You mean you geniuses DON'T KNOW?

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As for the DETECTIVE WORK, we all know what a FRAME-UP is, right?

Yup, WHAT RESULT do you want, then TAILOR the EVIDENCE to meet it -- and IGNORE ANY CONTRARY EVIDENCE!!!

I, personally, am OFFENDED by the TV SHOW REFERENCE, but THAT'S what AmeriKa's shitpapers,'er, I mean newspapers have become!