No, I don't want to talk about the
glowing bunnies, and I figure the new estimates on how much money it's going to take
to raise your child to adulthood story is too upsetting for the bedtime hours, or the morning hours, or any of the other hours either, so let's all contemplate sea ice for a moment.
In Antarctica, researchers looking to the end of the last ice age have come up with clues as to how modern global warming will impact the continent going forward. One new finding is that the large ice sheets of West Antarctica began to heat 2,000-4000 years before the higher elevations of East Antarctica did, a discrepancy that matches modern observations.
Modern West Antarctica is one of the fastest-warming places on the planet. The middle of West Antarctica has warmed by 4.4 degrees Fahrenheit (2.4 degrees Celsius) since 1958, three times as fast as the overall rate of global warming. But relatively little warming — half a degree or less — has been measured in East Antarctica. […]
The authors — a consortium of 42 researchers signed off on the study — suggest that 20,000 years ago, warming in the Southern Ocean melted sea ice around Antarctica. The missing ice meant more storms traveled inland, boosting West Antarctica's warming.
"West Antarctica is influenced by the ocean much more than the ice up high in East Antarctica, so you are able to see this [warming] happening before you notice it in East Antarctica," Fudge said. "We're seeing something similar in the modern climate, where West Antarctica seems to be changing more quickly."
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2012—Pres. Obama mocks Mitt Romney's windmill-on-car comment: 'I know he's had other things on his car':
And at a moment when homegrown energy is creating new jobs in states like Iowa, my opponent wants to end tax credits for wind energy producers. He's said new sources of energy like these are "imaginary." His running mate calls them a "fad."
During a speech a few months ago, Governor Romney even explained his energy policy this way: "You can't drive a car with a windmill on it."
That's what he said about wind power: "You can't drive a car with a windmill on it."
Now, I don't know if he's actually tried that. I know he's had other things on his car.
Apparently, Mitt Romney would rather strap the family dog to the roof of his car than take the time to learn about how wind and other renewable sources can generate the energy we need to fuel a new generation of vehicles that run on electricity. |
Tweet of the Day:
I bet the people who applied for one-way trip to Mars are trying to get away from LinkedIn updates. I can't blame them, but it won't work.
— @pourmecoffee
On today's
Kagro in the Morning show, great round-ups from both
Greg Dworkin and
Joan McCarter today, including: the NYC mayoral race, early 2016 polling issues, Obamacare implementation delays, Gop gov't shutdown strategizing, abortion protesters want clinics shut down because they attract crazy abortion protesters with guns, Rs target their own with food stamps cuts, and fresh outrage in the Detroit bankruptcy. And the outfit that tried to "unskew" 2012 polling, has published a piece trying to unskew coverage of that gun-safety-instructor-who-accidentally-shot-a-student story. Caution: your brain might try to escape and possibly kill itself while reading this article.
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