Last week they were going after the Second Amendment.
We actually resolved this issue with England a long time ago.
Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
– Patrick Henry March 23, 1775
h/t to Amino
A reminder that Hansen has a bright side.
Monica Hansen
http://www.pacificariptide.com/
0.07 % of California is “abnormally dry.” 0.00% is having a drought.
http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/DM_state.htm?CA,W
Opening Remarks
Sixth Annual Summer Institute of the World Nuclear University
Christ Church
Oxford University
5 July 2010
John Ritch
Director General, World Nuclear Association
President, World Nuclear University
A salient example of positive feedback is the expectation that continued global heating, by melting the arctic tundra in Siberia and Canada, will cause a sudden release of the methane gas trapped within that tundra. This single development could itself be cataclysmic – because the amounts will be massive and methane gas is 20 times more potent in its greenhouse effect than carbon dioxide.
We can rightly regard our accelerating rush toward this expected tipping point as the most dangerous development in the long history of humankind.
h/t to Marc Morano
Last summer, as torrential rains flooded Pakistan, a veteran intelligence analyst watched closely from his desk at CIA headquarters just outside the capital.
For the analyst, who heads the CIA’s year old Center on Climate Change and National Security, the worst natural disaster in Pakistan’s history was a warning.
“It has the exact same symptoms you would see for future climate change events, and we’re expecting to see more of them,” he said later, agreeing to talk only if his name were not revealed, for security reasons.
“We wanted to know: What are the conditions that lead to a situation like the Pakistan flooding? What are the important things for water flows, food security … radicalization, disease” and displaced people? As intelligence officials assess key components of state stability, they are realizing that the norms they had been operating with – such as predictable river flows and crop yields – are shifting.
http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=203804
h/t to Marc Morano
We have been told for the past decade that pine beetle populations prove global warming.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
The beetles have some bad news for the purveyors of doom.
h/t to hauntingthelibrary and Marc Morano
