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  • ALEC, American Legal Exchange Committee,  actions against CO2
  • Boise Cascade
  • Bush Whitehouse silent on Arctic icecap meltdown.
  • Competitive Enterprise Institute limited government
  • Petroleum News
  • Science Direct  The Yampi Shelf on Australia's North-West Shelf is highly prospective, with two discrete hydrocarbon sources producing dry gas and oil. To reduce exploration uncertainty relating to gas flushing and poor top seal capacity, a study was undertaken to characterise hydrocarbon migration in the area. It used a combination of seismic amplitude and structural data integrated with shipboard water column geochemical sniffer (WaSi) data, satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar or SAR data and aircraft-acquired Airborne Laser Fluorosensor (ALF) data
  • Alfred Wegener Institute Sources, pathways and fate of submarine methane in an Arctic shelf environment (Spitsbergen) Figure 1: Potential temperature, salinity, potential density, methane concentration, 13C-CH4 and 18O-H2O values at a transect reaching the van Mijenfjorden, SW- Spitsbergen. On the SW-Spitsbergen continental shelf we measured methane concentrations exceeding up to two orders of magnitude the equilibrium with the atmosphere in the water column. This methane anomaly extended from its centre on the shelf westwards over the upper slope and eastwards well into the inner basins of the two southernmost Spitsbergen fjords, the Hornsundfjord and the van Mijenfjord. Methane concentrations and stable carbon isotopic ratios varied between 2 and 240 nM, and between -53 ‰ and -20 ‰ VPDB, respectively. Methane in high concentrations was depleted in 13C whereas in low concentrations 13C-CH4 values were highly variable. On the continental shelf we found that methane discharged from seeps on top of sandy and gravelly banks is isotopically heavier than methane escaping from troughs filled with silty and clayey sediments. These distinct isotopic signatures suggest that methane is gently released from several inter-granular seepages or micro-seepages widely spread over the shelf. A potential migration path for thermogenic or hydrate methane may be the Hornsund Fracture Zone, a south-north running reactivated fault system created by stretching of the continental crust. After discharge into the water column, local water currents fed by Atlantic water, coastal water, and freshwater outflows from the fjords further determine pathways and fate of the methane. We used18O (water) and 222Rn data to trace origin and advection of the local water masses and water mixing processes. Methane spreads predominantly along pycnoclines and by vertical mixing. During transport methane is influenced simultaneously by oxidation and dilution, as well as loss into the atmosphere. Due to the estuarine circulation pattern methane is transported also in the West-Spitsbergen fjords. Inside the fjords the specific hydrographic conditions and the bottom topography induce a different methane charge of fjord water and eventually determine the fate of submarine methane. Together these processes cause the spatial variability of the anomaly and heterogeneity in 13C-CH4 in this polar shelf environment.
  • AFP Permafrost, melting ...  To find out, a team of American researchers led by Chien-Lu Ping of the University of Alaska Fairbanks examined a wide range of landscapes across North America.  ...  They took soil samples from 117 sites, each to a depth of at least one metre, in order to provide a full assessment of the region's so-called "carbon pool."   ...   Previous estimates of the Arctic carbon pool relied heavily on a relative handful of measurements conducted outside of the Arctic, and only to a depth of 40 centimetres (15.5 inches).   ...   The study, published in the British journal Nature Geoscience, found that the stock of organic carbon "is considerably higher than previously thought" -- 60 percent more than the previously estimated.   ...   This is roughly equivalent of one sixth of the entire carbon content in the atmosphere.   ...   And that is just for North America. The size and mix of landscapes in the northern reaches of Europe and Russia are about the same, and probably contain a comparable amount of carbon-dioxide producing matter currently held in check only by the cold, the study said.   ...   And the danger of a thaw is real, note climate scientists.  
  • CommunicationAgents "Using hydrogen instead of petroleum-derived fuels would be a first step, although we must find a way to produce the gas without burning more of the black stuff. Options range from the relatively inefficient direct-current electrolysis, solar hydrogen production at sea, the use of metal catalysts, high frequency electric currents, ultraviolet light and the action of bacteria which naturally produce hydrogen. It seems none of the technologies are quite ready to use, but there is no room for complacency."
  • Notes :Methane Hydrate Gun Hypothesis" or sometimes the "Clathrate Gun Hypothesis". The Hypothesis is that 55 million years ago an increase in temperature started melting deposits of Methane Hydrate which released Methane (a green house gas more than 20 times more potent than CO2) into the atmosphere and started a positive feed back loop of more warming releasing more gas which created more warming and released more gas and on and on. They believe it raised Earth's average global temperature by about 10 degrees in a very short time (maybe a few decades) and killed off almost every living thing in the lower latitudes
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  • Bush, White House  ignores and impedes global warming remediation efforts.  Is it because of Pentecostal belief that the world is coming to an end?
  • MaineBee In January (2006), as beekeepers began preparing to place their beehives into California orchards to pollinate almonds, they found that varroa mites had decimated their bees, leaving many of the colonies dead and others severely weakened. The death of so many bees is creating a pollination shortage, threatening the almond crop -- the first to bloom in the spring. Beekeepers and almond growers have trucked in beehives from as far as Florida to meet the demand. To help with the pollination and to re-populate empty beehives, beekeepers have air-freighted bees to California from Australia
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  • Sir Richard Branson today offered a $25m (£12.8m) prize for scientists who find a way to help save the planet from the effects of climate change.and Guardian
  • OhmyNews  Methane Hydrate Gun Hypothesis.
  • American Enterprise Institute
  • The Republican platform document is over 90 pages long.  Only one page is devoted to the environment and that pages basically says that no environmental policy should adversely affect business.
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  • WMR  October 17-19, 2012 -- Goldman Sachs's island in the Pacific Palmyra Atoll, located halfway between Hawaii and American Samoa, is the only unorganized incorporated territory of the United States and in December 2000, in one of his last acts as President, Bill Clinton permitted the Department of the Interior to sell most of the atoll to The Nature Conservancy. The Nature Conservancy is a deep-pocketed non-profit organization whose headquarters is located among the office buildings in Rosslyn in northern Virginia that house intelligence operations of the Department of Homeland Security, Defense Intelligence Agency, State Department, and CIA. The Nature Conservancy enjoys a $1 billion annual tax-free income and has $5 billion in assets on its books, a nest egg that other environmental groups would give their right arms for. The Nature Conservancy works closely in nations around the world with the CIA-linked U,S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Greenpeace has accused The Nature Conservancy of being a right-wing corporate tool inside the environmental movement. Two days before Clinton left office, Palmyra's adjacent waters and tidal basins became a National Wildlife Refuge closed to commercial fishing. The atoll is uninhabited except for researchers working for the Palmyra Atoll Research Consortium. An airstrip on Cooper Island, built by the Navy during World War II, remains in use. The Nature Conservancy claims it is conducting tests on the coral reefs and the effects of El Nino, all laudable goals, however, in 2008, the Conservancy saw a new President and CEO take over, Mark Tercek, the managing director of Goldman Sachs responsible for Corporate Finance and Equity Capital Markets. Ironically, some of energy efforts backed by Goldman Sachs are causing rising global sea levels, which is slowly submerging Palmyra Atoll under the Pacific.   Palmyra, by all rights, should be part of Hawaii. but the Interior Department separated Palmyra from Hawaii when the state entered the union in 1959. In 1962, the Pentagon took over Palmyra in order to observe nuclear test blasts above Johnston Atoll. After taking over The Nature Conservancy, Tercek immediately began reducing staff in a manner that only a former Goldman Sachs director could enjoy -- and began inking strategic relationships between The Conservancy and notorious polluter companies such as BP, Exxon Mobil, and Conoco Phillips. Oil, mining, chemical, nuclear power, logging, hedge fund, and manufacturing company executives are found on The Nature Conservancy's board. The Nature Conservancy remained neutral in the fight over whether to permit oil drilling in the Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The willingness of The Nature Conservancy to allow drilling in the ANWR has some environmentalists wondering how it can be trusted to protect the Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Beyond the sudden "discovery" of oil or natural gas in the Palmyra Atoll region, there is another reason to fear for the protection of the coral outcrop. In 1995, the Republican Congress considered locating on Palmyra Atoll a nuclear waste storage facility.
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  • National Center for Science Education (NCSE) is a nonprofit organization working to defend the teaching of evolution against sectarian attack. The group is committed to defending the teaching of evolution.
  • Progressive Theology Science and the Bible.
  • The Religious Left, Rev. James A. Forbes Jr., Manhattan congregation.  see Riverside Church.
  • Riverside Church
  • Secularism.org
  • Theocracy Watch, Rise of Religious Right in the Republican Party    
  • ZNet Benedicts Maledicts  "Christian priests invented religious war and the politics of hatred well before the advent of Islam."
  • AIP  Discovery of Global Warming
  • Conservation Reserve
  • Council on Environmental Quality Whitehouse office, info on NEPA, National Environmental Policy Act
  • Evangelical Environmental Network and Creation Care
  • Planetizen  Brookings Institution
  • World Socialist Web Site "John Hagee of the Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, who is close to former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, preaches that the day is fast coming when “All over the earth, graves will explode as the occupants soar into heaven.”
  • notes: The name Armageddon is found in Revelation 16:16. It is part of a vision of the Apostle John in which kings from the East gather to oppose God. The name in Hebrew means Mount of Megiddo.  "Since Megiddo was a place where various armies were defeated (in history)," Koester said, "the name Armageddon is suitable for the battle at which the forces of evil are defeated at the end of time."
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Methane release 'looks stronger' By Michael Fitzpatrick Science reporter, BBC News  Jan 2010
  Frozen depositories are giving up methane to the sea Scientists have uncovered what appears to be a further dramatic increase in the leakage of methane gas that is seeping from the Arctic seabed.  ...  Methane is about 20 times more potent than CO2 in trapping solar heat.   ...   The findings come from measurements of carbon fluxes around the north of Russia, led by Igor Semiletov from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.   ...   "Methane release from the East Siberian Shelf is underway and it looks stronger than it was supposed [to be]," he said.   ...    Professor Semiletov has been studying methane seepage in the region for the last few decades, and leads the International Siberian Shelf Study (ISSS), which has launched multiple expeditions to the Arctic Ocean.    ...    The preliminary findings of ISSS 2009 are now being prepared for publication, he told BBC News.   ...    Methane seepage recorded last summer was already the highest ever measured in the Arctic Ocean.    ...   High seepage Acting as a giant frozen depository of carbon such as CO2 and methane (often stored as compacted solid gas hydrates), Siberia's shallow shelf areas are increasingly subjected to warming and are now giving up greater amounts of methane to the sea and to the atmosphere than recorded in the past.   ...   METHANE HYDRATES Methane gas is trapped inside a crystal structure of water-ice The gas is released when the ice melts, normally at 0C At higher pressure, ie under the ocean, hydrates are stable at higher temperatures This undersea permafrost was until recently considered to be stable.   ...   But now scientists think the release of such a powerful greenhouse gas may accelerate global warming.   ...    Higher concentrations of atmospheric methane are contributing to global temperature rise; this in turn is projected to cause further permafrost melting and the release of yet more methane in a feedback loop.   ...    A worst-case scenario is one where the feedback passes a tipping point and billions of tonnes of methane are released suddenly, as has occurred at least once in the Earth's past.   ...    Such sudden releases have been linked to rapid increases in global temperatures and could have been a factor in the mass extinction of species.    ...    According to a report by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), the springtime air temperature across the region in the period 2000-2007 was an average of 4C higher than during 1970-1999.     ...    That is the fastest temperature rise on the planet, claims the university.     ...    The recent thaw over the last decade means that some of the large reserve of carbon from organic material such as dead animals and plants in sediments is now being released into the sea and into our atmosphere.     ...    Trapped below that is the methane hydrate now warming and leaking through holes in the defrosting sediments.    ...    1. Methane hydrate is stable at high pressure and low temperature 2. Nearer the surface, where water pressure is lower, hydrates break down earlier than at greater depth as temperatures rise 3. Gas rises from the sea-bed in plumes of bubbles - some of it dissolves before it reaches the surface 4. The ISSS team says it has detected methane breaking the ocean surface.       ...    Previously it was thought much of this gas was absorbed into the sea.      ...    But according to a recent report that Professor Semiletov and his team compiled for the environmental group WWF, the shallow depth of arctic shelves means that methane is reaching the atmosphere without reacting to become CO2 dissolved in the ocean.    ...    Professor Semiletov's fellow researcher aboard the Russian icebreaker that carries the ISSS team each year is Professor Orjan Gustafsson from Stockholm University in Sweden.     ...    He said that methane measured in the atmosphere around the region is 100 times higher than normal background levels, and in some cases 1,000 times higher.    ...    'No alarm'    ...    Despite the high readings, Professor Gustafsson said that so far there was no cause for alarm, and stressed that further studies were still necessary to determine the exact cause of the methane seepage.    ...    "It is important now to understand how fast it is being released and how much is being released," he said.    ...    However, there is a real fear that global warming may cause Siberia's subsea permafrost to thaw.    ...    Some estimates put the amount of carbon trapped in shelf permafrost at 1,600 billion tonnes - roughly twice as much carbon as in the atmosphere now.    ...    The release of this once captive carbon from destabilised ocean sediments and permafrost would have catastrophic effect on our climate and life on Earth, warn the scientists.   
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  • Daily Green  Global Warming May Have Shifted Jet Stream  ....  The migration of the jet stream is small – just 12 miles poleward per decade – but the scientists warned that "if the trend continues the impact could be significant." For instance, hurricanes might become more frequent or intense, as the jet stream ushers more tropical and subtropical storms into North America.
  • PlanetSave
  • John-Daly Heat Wave in Europe, due to Jet Stream changes
  • ResourceInvestor Climate warming has become so universally accepted that it is worth one’s reputation to raise even a tepid question regarding warming wisdom or its factual accuracy.  global warming skeptic, denier article.
  • ScienceRay Coldest Europe Winters  or   Oceanographer Josh Willis of NASA, in turn, proved that, over the past 18 years for the contrary became only more powerful and warmer. Scientist for nearly two decades to collect data from research vessels and satellite, which observed the sea surface
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  • CDM Watch Clean Development Mechanism watchdog
  • Environmental Defense
  • Global Policy search
  • Green Peace search
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  • Northern Alaska Environmental Center Boreal Forest, Denali Watch, Mining, Coal Bed Methane
  • The Weather Channel
  • World Wildlife Fund WWF search
  • notes: clathrates, discovered by Sir Humphrey Davy, 1810, other common clathrates are ethane, propane, isobutane, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulphide, can cause undersea slumps that spawn tusnamis, generated by bacterial degradation of organic matter in low oxygen environment, complex process requiring the activity of several varieties of bacteria, methanogenesis, mainly restricted to high latitudes and continental margins in the oceans, average thickness of the clathrate stability zone along continental shelf is 500 meters,  eThomas.web,
  • EPA administrator: Mike Leavitt: "Kyoto was a bad treaty..."
  • UN Statistics Division Dept. Economic & Social Affairs
  • Center for International Environmental Law
  • Dept of Energy interested in methane hydrates as fuel source
  • EPA, Compliance, Enforcement 
  • eThomas.web, Weslayan, 
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  • UN Environment Program
  • Pew Center on Global Climate Change
  • POP's Persistent Organic Pollutants,
  • Wikipedia, Clathrates, search terms: gas hydrates, hydrogen-bonded water molecles, occur in large quantities in outer planets and the earth's deep ocean floor, at Storegga Slide, Norwegian continental shelf, also found in permafrost regions such as Mallik gas hydrate field in the Mackenzie Delta, Canadian arctic, can plug gas pipelines.
  • Wikipedia, Carbon sequestration 
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  • ALEC, American Legal Exchange Committee,  actions against CO2
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  • ALEC, American Legal Exchange Committee,  actions against CO2
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  • Inuit Circumpolar Conference,  
  • ArcticRefuge.org, slide presentation dates, action, info.
  • Bush Green Watch tracking environmental misdeeds of Bush Administration
  • Changing the Climate Tag SUV campaign.
  • Earth Crash Earth Spirit  Healing ourselves and a dying planet ...  The Arctic Ocean may be underlain with a 50 million year-old, 2 mile thick layer of high azolla organic content hydrocarbon source rocks providing massive amounts of compressed frozen methane hydrates
  • NewScientist  Over 250 plumes of gas have been discovered bubbling up from the sea floor to the west of the Svalbard archipelago, which lies north of Norway. The bubbles are mostly methane, which is a greenhouse gas much more powerful than carbon dioxide.
  • Planetizen  Brookings Institution
  • Competitive Enterprise Institute limited government
  • High North Alliance Defending Icelandic Whaler, communities
  • Independent Institute saving the environment, friend or foe?
  • Thoreau Institute responsible  environmental policy
  • UNOilGas  The Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently predicted that world consumption of natural gas alone will rise by 91% to 182 trillion cubic feet in less than twenty-five years. ...  Hydrate gas is used to make fertilizer for food production. It is estimated that for every gram of carbohydrates we consume, 10 grams of hydrocarbons have been used to make that 1 gram of food.
  • Utopia Springs "As the Methane Ice accumulates and the earth cools, Ice Caps advance and sea level slowly drops. During the last Ice Age, sea level dropped 300 feet. This lowering of sea level by 300 feet is just enough to change the critical pressure necessary for the Methane Ice. When the pressure drops to below a critical level, the Methane Ice effervesces rapidly out of the ocean and floods the Atmosphere with the very powerful greenhouse gas, Methane. The end of the Ice Age then occurs very rapidly, sea level raises rapidly and the methane can then begin to accumulate again in and on the Continental Slope soft sediments. Apparently it is accumulating again and the earth will begin to cool. The slight rise in recent average temperatures has decreased the Ice Caps further and this will raise sea level slightly but then more Methane Ice will accumulate and increase the cooling rate until the next Ice Age begins."
 
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2006  No. 5 - The Fate of the Earth in the Balance: The Metaphysics of Climate Change, Steven F. Hayward No. 4 - Climate Policy, by Kenneth P. Green No. 3 - Bringing Down Gas and Oil Prices, by Kenneth P. Green No. 2 - Air Pollution and Health: Do Popular Portrayals Reflect the Scientific Evidence? by Joel Schwartz No. 1 - Fate of the World Redux: Assessing the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, by Steven F. Hayward

2005  November-December - The China Syndrome and the Environmental Kuznets Curve, by Steven F. Hayward September-October - Katrina and the Environment, by Steven F. Hayward July-August - A Cross of Green? Reflections on Eco-Theology, by Steven F. Hayward May-June - Air Quality: Much Worse on Paper Than in Reality, by Joel Schwartz March-April - Resurrecting Clear Skies, by Ted Gayer January-February - Climate Change Science: Time for "Team B"?, by Steven F. Hayward 2004

November-December - That Old Time Religion: A Review of Recent Environmental Books, by Steven F. Hayward September-October - Finding Better Ways to Achieve Cleaner Air, by Joel Schwartz July-August - Beyond Kyoto: Real Solutions to Greenhouse Emissions from Developing Countries, by Roger Bate and David Montgomery May-June - "Changing All the Rules," Ignoring All the Facts on New Source Review, by Steven F. Hayward March-April - Climate Change and Mosquito-Born Disease, by Roger Bate January-February - Emissions Down, Smog Up. Say What? by Joel Schwartz and Steven F. Hayward

 

2003  November-December - Environmental Justice: Where Selma and the Cuyahoga River Fire Meet, by Steven F. Hayward September-October - "Censorship" and the Uncertain Science, by Samuel Thernstrom July-August - Making Sense of "New Source Review," by Steven F. Hayward May-June - Eco-Hysteria Then and Now, by Steven F. Hayward April - New Doubts about the Dominant Climate Change Models, by Steven F. Hayward March - A Blow to Chemophobia, by Steven F. Hayward January - Lomborg Gets the Galileo Treatment, Or, "'Shut up,' They Explained," by Steven F. Hayward

2002  December - Fading Green, by Steven F. Hayward November - The State of the Nation's Ecosystems: A Review, by Steven F. Hayward October - The New Corporate Balance Sheet: Black, Red--and Green, by Steven F. Hayward August - Sustainable Development in the Balance, by Steven F. Hayward July - AEI's Environmental Policy Outlook, by Christopher DeMuth and Steven F. Hayward

 

 WMR Former congressman run out of town after taking on Obama-connected energy firms   January 3-4, 2011
Former Representative Eric Massa (D-NY) was subjected to gay sexual harassment charges, all subsequently dismissed by House-appointed attorneys and which were partly-engineered by senior staffers for outgoing openly-gay Representative Barney Frank (D-MA), after Massa took on two energy firms closely connected to the Obama White House.    ...   Before he resigned from office amid unsubstantiated harassment charges made by his chief of staff Joseph Racalto, the former "driver" for Frank, in March 2010, Massa took on Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corporation and its CEO Aubrey McClendon, the natural gas "fracking king" and a proponent of non-coal carbon energy sources, including the Canadian Keystone oil sands pipeline project. McClendon has been a political donor to Democrat and Republican presidential candidates, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain.    ...   Chesapeake Energy is the major exploiter of fractured natural gas from the Marcellus Shale of Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio and shale oil from the Utica Shale of New York and its operations have contaminated fresh water supplies and caused earthquakes.    ...   WMR has obtained correspondence documenting Massa's opposition to Chesapeake's environmentally-damaging operations in western New York. In a January 10, 2010 letter to McClendon, Massa asks for a meeting to discuss a proposed Chesapeake disposal facility in the town of Pulteney in the pristine Finger Lakes region. Massa pointed out to McClendon that Keuka Lake was surrounded by several communities that relied on tourism and agriculture, both of which rely on clean water.    ...   Massa demanded that the politically-connected McClendon withdraw plans for the facility, which would store resurfaced fluids from hydraulic fracturing and endanger the fresh water resources of the region. The letter was followed by communications between members of Massa's staff and Frank's staff to bring down Massa in a contrived scandal.    ...   Earlier, on September 11, 2009, Massa took on President Obama on one of his pet energy projects, wind energy. Under Obama's "stimulus" package, designed to create hundreds of thousands of jobs across the country, including in wind energy projects, $74.6 million in taxpayers' money was awarded by the Departments of Energy and the Treasury to Canandaigua Power Partners, LLC and Canandaigua Power Partners II for wind projects in Cohocton, New York.    ...    The two firms are shell companies that operate on behalf of First Wind, a firm under investigation by then-New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for bribery, intimidation, and other misconduct involving wind energy projects across the northeastern United States. First Wind was financially backed by Dearborn Partners, a major source of campaign funds for then-White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel. White House economic adviser Larry Summers was also linked to First Wind.    ...   Alarm bells went off among the Emanuel-Summers cabal after Massa's September 11 letter was received. The letter stated: ". . . the award of $74.6 million dollars to corrupt companies that have changed names time and again forming new LLCs and new Inc.s but maintaining their business model of lie, cheat, and corrupt at the expense of taxpayers has stirred great unrest in New York's 29th Congressional District." Massa pointed out that Canandaigua collected electricity production rewards for non-existent energy.     ...   Eventually, Massa was forced to resign. Republican Tom Reed replaced Massa in the 29th district and WMR's sources in the district report that Racalto and Reed continue to maintain a relationship. Reed is wholly-owned and operated by the natural gas fracking and the wind power industries. Frank has announced he is not running for re-election, citing re-districting. It is highly unlikely that the addition of a few hundred more Republican voters in Frank's heavily-Democratic district is the real reason behind his decision not to run again.
Methane release 'looks stronger' By Michael Fitzpatrick Science reporter, BBC News  Jan 2010
Frozen depositories are giving up methane to the sea Scientists have uncovered what appears to be a further dramatic increase in the leakage of methane gas that is seeping from the Arctic seabed.  ...  Methane is about 20 times more potent than CO2 in trapping solar heat.   ...   The findings come from measurements of carbon fluxes around the north of Russia, led by Igor Semiletov from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.   ...   "Methane release from the East Siberian Shelf is underway and it looks stronger than it was supposed [to be]," he said.   ...    Professor Semiletov has been studying methane seepage in the region for the last few decades, and leads the International Siberian Shelf Study (ISSS), which has launched multiple expeditions to the Arctic Ocean.    ...    The preliminary findings of ISSS 2009 are now being prepared for publication, he told BBC News.   ...    Methane seepage recorded last summer was already the highest ever measured in the Arctic Ocean.    ...   High seepage Acting as a giant frozen depository of carbon such as CO2 and methane (often stored as compacted solid gas hydrates), Siberia's shallow shelf areas are increasingly subjected to warming and are now giving up greater amounts of methane to the sea and to the atmosphere than recorded in the past.   ...   METHANE HYDRATES Methane gas is trapped inside a crystal structure of water-ice The gas is released when the ice melts, normally at 0C At higher pressure, ie under the ocean, hydrates are stable at higher temperatures This undersea permafrost was until recently considered to be stable.   ...   But now scientists think the release of such a powerful greenhouse gas may accelerate global warming.   ...    Higher concentrations of atmospheric methane are contributing to global temperature rise; this in turn is projected to cause further permafrost melting and the release of yet more methane in a feedback loop.   ...    A worst-case scenario is one where the feedback passes a tipping point and billions of tonnes of methane are released suddenly, as has occurred at least once in the Earth's past.   ...    Such sudden releases have been linked to rapid increases in global temperatures and could have been a factor in the mass extinction of species.    ...    According to a report by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), the springtime air temperature across the region in the period 2000-2007 was an average of 4C higher than during 1970-1999.     ...    That is the fastest temperature rise on the planet, claims the university.     ...    The recent thaw over the last decade means that some of the large reserve of carbon from organic material such as dead animals and plants in sediments is now being released into the sea and into our atmosphere.     ...    Trapped below that is the methane hydrate now warming and leaking through holes in the defrosting sediments.    ...    1. Methane hydrate is stable at high pressure and low temperature 2. Nearer the surface, where water pressure is lower, hydrates break down earlier than at greater depth as temperatures rise 3. Gas rises from the sea-bed in plumes of bubbles - some of it dissolves before it reaches the surface 4. The ISSS team says it has detected methane breaking the ocean surface.       ...    Previously it was thought much of this gas was absorbed into the sea.      ...    But according to a recent report that Professor Semiletov and his team compiled for the environmental group WWF, the shallow depth of arctic shelves means that methane is reaching the atmosphere without reacting to become CO2 dissolved in the ocean.    ...    Professor Semiletov's fellow researcher aboard the Russian icebreaker that carries the ISSS team each year is Professor Orjan Gustafsson from Stockholm University in Sweden.     ...    He said that methane measured in the atmosphere around the region is 100 times higher than normal background levels, and in some cases 1,000 times higher.    ...    'No alarm'    ...    Despite the high readings, Professor Gustafsson said that so far there was no cause for alarm, and stressed that further studies were still necessary to determine the exact cause of the methane seepage.    ...    "It is important now to understand how fast it is being released and how much is being released," he said.    ...    However, there is a real fear that global warming may cause Siberia's subsea permafrost to thaw.    ...    Some estimates put the amount of carbon trapped in shelf permafrost at 1,600 billion tonnes - roughly twice as much carbon as in the atmosphere now.    ...    The release of this once captive carbon from destabilised ocean sediments and permafrost would have catastrophic effect on our climate and life on Earth, warn the scientists.  
  • The people who endorse Intelligent Design also endorse the following:
  • Interfaith Stewardship Alliance  Fundamentalist Christian right wing (Bush) view of environmental issues: "....scientific evidence better supports the view that climate change in the past 30 to 150 years, as well as what may be projected with reasonable confidence into the foreseeable future, has been and will be: 
    • well within the bounds of natural variability, in which Earth’s climate has warmed and cooled cyclically throughout its history; 
    • largely natural in origin; 
    • unlikely to be catastrophic to humanity or the rest of the biosphere; 
    • not susceptible of significant reduction by any actions we take; 
    • far from the most serious threat to humanity and the rest of our environment. Further, we believe: 
    • the costs of achieving even tiny mitigation of future temperatures through any policy of greenhouse gas emissions reductions would far outweigh the benefits, and 
    • the benefits of adaptation to whatever temperatures the future brings–warmer or cooler (and geologic history assures us that they will be both)–can outweigh the costs." and printscreen and pdf  (for the record)
  • The environment is a 'lefty' distraction to the evangelical right... it 'distracts' from their brainwashing.   Racism and discrimination are alive and well.  (see more from Sen. Larry Craig and his 'family values' from the bathroom stall at the airport) Before he was discovered tapping his feet in the men's bathroom at the airport, Senator Larry Craig was considered a pillar of the 'CONSERVATIVE 1%' white male Christian community and was highly instrumental shaping the  'CONSERVATIVE 1%' agenda.  Craig and people like him have put this country in the position it is in.  Larry Craig probably supports Uncommon Descent and their idea of a joke ... its pretty funny really ... evolutionism.
  • Beware of these people: Rabbi Gary Perras, Temple Israel, Daytona Beach, Florida Ron D. Petitte, D.P.A., Director, Honors and Political Science Programs, Bryan College, Tennessee Dr. Joey Pipa, President, Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, North Carolina Jay W. Richards, Research Fellow, Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty Rev. Gregory Lee Robertson, Interim Pastor, Loving Savior of the Hills Lutheran Church (LCMS), Chino Hills, California Dr. Robert Royal, President, Faith and Reason Institute , Dr. Herb Schlossberg, Senior Research Associate, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, Chairman, Traditional Values Coalition ,Rev. Robert Sirico, President, Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, Dr. Frank J. Smith, Editor, Presbyterian International News Services, Dr. Roy W. Spencer, Principal Research Scientist, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Dr. Kenneth G. Talbot, President, Whitefield Theological Seminary, Florida, Dr. Timothy Terrell, Associate Professor of Economics, Wofford College, South Carolina, Rev. Dr. Jim Tonkowich, President, Institute on Religion and Democracy , Rev. Ralph Weitz, Stewardship Pastor, Immanuel Bible Church, Springfield, Virginia , Dr. Harry V. Wiant, Jr., Ibberson Chair in Forest Resources, Penn State University, David A. Williams, President, L.D. Advantage, Inc; Former Representative on NAE Social Action Commission , Alan Wisdom, Interim President, Institute on Religion and Democracy, Dennis Oliver Woods, Headmaster, ClassicalFree Virtual Academy
  • Karl Rove didn't 'make' them support Bush.  He knew he had a willing and able audience for his dirty tricks.  The sheep willingly followed him.  Period.
  • Boycott ABC, Boycott NBC, Boycott CBS, Boycott Fox, Boycott CNN.
  • Sen. James Inhofe, global warming:  file   and  Sen. Inhofe also noted that the Congressional Budget Office had recently released a report titled "Trade-Offs in Allocating Allowances for CO2 Emissions" that found a carbon dioxide allocation scheme would disproportionately harm the poor. The Senator referred such a scheme as "Robin Hood" in reverse.  ...  Inhofe cited a quote from Barrett Duke, Vice President of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, who cautioned that we should avoid global warming policies that "make the delivery of electricity to [undeveloped countries] more difficult, millions of people will be condemned to more hardship, more disease, shorter lives and more poverty."  and  The Senator then offered his own Biblical perspective regarding global warming, saying that we "should respect creation and be wise stewards, but we must be careful not to fall into the trap of secular environmentalists who believe man is an afterthought on this Earth." For good measure, he quoted Romans 1:25: "They gave up the truth about God for a lie, and they worshiped God's creation instead of God who will be praised forever. Amen." National Center  In other words, environmentalists and the care of the environment are a distraction from the evangelicals ability to 'control the message'  and more IRD BS.
  • CBO report 2005  In addressing climate change, researchers and policymakers face various sources of uncertainty. The potential stakes in making policy choices are high: although emissions restrictions could impose significant costs, many experts believe that, if left unchecked, emissions could ultimately lead to costly damages.    and Uncertainty in Analyzing Climate Change: Policy Implications, 2006 ... This uncertainty flies in the face of overwhelming evidence from scientists who say that global warming caused by human activity is a FACT.  It is the CONSERVATIVE 1% religious influence on the Congress that is pushing the 'uncertainty' argument.   
  • Institute for Religion and Democracy, Global Warming skeptics list  file  and pic  But what is the evidence that mankind is responsible for our present warmth, and is that warmth necessarily a bad thing? Could the warmth have a natural explanation? And would a loving God give us an Earth that is so sensitive that our use of the fuels He has provided us could so easily alter the climate system? ... I hope this paper will help you to better understand, contrary to what you might have heard from various media outlets, that the scientific theory of manmade global warming is based upon faith as much as it is upon the scientific evidence.
  • MediaTransparency, IRD connections graphic
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