An interesting piece on some vanishing glaciers

As annoying as it was using the old incandescent bulbs, I'm still not convinced that the new flourescent bulbs are a better alternative. I'm not thrilled with the cost of the new bulbs... but they do seem to last longer. My boss hates them 'cause it takes a few minutes for them to get fully bright. The mercury in them is also an issue for me. While the amount is extremely small, the end result will be these bulbs being tossed into the garbage by a significant portion of the population. A lot of people are not going to bother with the added expense of proper recycling. Then there's the limit on where you can use them. You can't use them in recessed areas as an example.

I'd like to have the option of using either, and not have the decision forced on me.

Oh, and there's no such thing as bad pizza... just bad pizza makers lol

 

Try using LED lights they are getting better all the time

 

I thought the same thing... after I had turned off the computer lol

Yeah, LEDs may prove the best overall. They last a heck-of-a-long time, they are (now) bright enough, and they use much less energy.

 

Isn't that typical of humans? Everything must be speeded up. The Universe works too slowly for us. Even light travels too slowly for our purposes. At this rate, when are we ever going to get to the other galaxies?

So the Earth was taking too long in warming up. There are investors waiting to build hotels on the North Pole; begin air service; guided tours; the works. They're probably the ones encouraging the views that global warming isn't happening; or isn't our fault.

And if it was going to happen anyway (global warming, I mean), why not speed it up? At least we'll get to see the effects in our lifetime.

(Tongue in cheek.)

 

The flip side is, that after it warms significantly volcanoes will probably be erupting more often, blocking sunlight... possibly swinging us into an ice-age afterwards... maybe, just a guess lol

 

I am curious about what people here think about this article and the comments that follow. The iceberg is calving from a West Antarctica ice shelf. Is it global warming or something else that is causing it?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/...g-the-size-of-Berlin-forms-in-Antarctica.html

 

Penguins with pneumatic drills?

 

ROFL Works for me! I found the comment that had several possible causes listed to be very interesting. But pneumatic drills . . . hmmmm . . .

 

Just a thought

 

I hear about one of these giant icebergs calving of an ice shelf about every other year, for a couple decades now. My opinion is it's getting warmer. One thing I wondered about for years was the unseen melt under the ice, something now getting more attention.

 

The disappearance of our planet's natural structures such as the glaciers are reducing but I have also recently watched something on Animal Planet showing that there are places where the more earthquakes are occurring the rocks are crushing mountains to rise even higher than they are now, specifically in the Himalayas.

 

That people Republicans can ignore the fact that these glaciers are disappearing rapidly isn't a surprise to me, but what can you do? They have an amazingly sick ability to ignore the obvious.

Anyway:

New crust is continuously being formed between some plates (as in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge) and pushes the opposite edges of those plates into other plates. Some plates slide under, like the San Andreas faultline and create volcanoes along the edge of the upper plate (Mt. St. Helens, Mt Rainier, etc.) ...some "crumple" as they colide creating mountains, like the Himalayas. Sometimes both happen, sometimes the plate slides along the edges (as in the Indian Plate that colided into the Eurasian plates, creating the Himalayas). This process is continuous so earthquakes along those plate boundarys are expected and occur often. As those mountains rise landslides occur, and if the mountain is near a water body a tsunami with a wave over 1000 feet can occur. There are at least two areas I know of that are like this, where giant cracks have begun to form across a massive portion of the mountain. Eventually these massive chunks will slide down and cause massive waves. One is located off the Western coast of Africa, the other in Hawaii, so both of America's coasts will experience the event.

 

I'm not sold on this one way or the other. The evidence for global warming is significant and it's silly to pretend human activities have had no effect, but on the other hand this has all happened before, the warming and cooling and melting of ice caps. And you can make the argument that, as humans are part of nature too, what they do for good or ill is natural.

 

I'd say it's the rate that humans have changed. The natural heating and cooling cycles usually take thousands of years to run it's course, humans have increased the heating rate. Instead of a few thousand years it's now a couple hundred. My guess is that as the Earth gets hotter volcano activity increases and plates will be more active (therefore more earthquakes) ...which appears to be occurring. Eventually a major eruption will throw enough ash into the atmosphere to cool the planet down, temporarily anyway. Along with that though comes major crop loss, famine, war, and death.

 

It is a good think that the world does not follow your made up rules. It would have fallen apart years ago if it did.

 

I was wondering how long it would take you to say something idiotic. I have my answer, 18 minutes. Now, go get "vess" to say something equally idiotic. You two are... close... aren't you?