The Ice is Melting! The Ice is Melting! (Or Maybe Not...)

Here is an article I found in the Associated Press (my comments to follow):

“By RAY LILLEY, Associated Press Writer Wed Jun 27, 1:19 AM ET
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - An ice sheet in Antarctica that is the world's largest — with enough water to raise global sea levels by 200 feet — is relatively stable and poses no immediate threat, according to new research.
While studies of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets show they are both at risk from global warming, the East Antarctic ice sheet will "need quite a bit of warming" to be affected, Andrew Mackintosh, a senior lecturer at Victoria University, said Wednesday.
The air over the East Antarctic ice sheet, an ice mass more than 1,875 miles across and up to 2.5 miles thick centered on the South Pole, will remain cold enough to prevent significant melting in the near future, the New Zealand-led research shows.
But it eventually may become vulnerable to the effects of rising sea levels driven by the melting of other ice sheets, Mackintosh's team found. Their research was published this week in the journal Geology.
"The East Antarctic ice sheet is the largest and the coldest and is going to be the last to respond in any great way" to global warming, he said. "Our research suggests changes in sea levels due to global warming will not be caused by changes in the East Antarctic Ice Sheet yet."
The researchers found that from 13,000 to 7,000 years ago, when sea levels rose by more than 330 feet, the East Antarctic ice sheet thinned by 660 feet to 1,150 feet. Rising waters during that period would have lifted the buoyant ice sheet's edges off its rocky base, causing pieces to detach or "calve" and melt.
If the sheet experienced such calving again, even small changes could have a significant impact, the researchers said.
The study — conducted with Australia's Macquarie University and the Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organization — did not predict how much sea levels would have to rise before the sheet's edges started to break away.
Glaciologist Wendy Lawson, head of geography at Canterbury University who took no part in the study, said the new research supported previous modeling indicating the sheet was stable.
"There is no short-term risk as far as the overall magnitude of the East Antarctic ice sheet goes," she said”

Okay, so what I hear is that the biggest polar ice sheet is in no danger from “global warming”. In fact, it did experience breakage and shrinkage from 7,000 to 13,000 years ago, according to this article. Doesn’t that mean that there was climate change and global warming before man had any technology that he does today? What this tells me is that I’m right about “global warming”; it is a big scare tactic, and if it does happen, it will actually have positive, not negative effects:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/01/resisting_global_warming_panic.html

So, don’t be freaking out about global warming, seas rising, the earth turning into a fireball, etc. Rest easy, and “let not your hearts be troubled.”

We Need Tolerance and Free Speech!!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,285933,00.html


Sounds like a liberal rally cry, right? Actually, it’s what conservative radio talk show hosts are saying. Why? Because the left is trying to revitalize the “Fairness Doctrine” which is nothing more than trying to even out the playing field in the entertainment industry. Why would they need to do that? Because all of their liberal talk shows suck, that’s why! Of course, that fact really hacks them off because they can’t compete in the marketplace of ideas, let alone talk radio. They’re upset because talkers like Rush, Hannity, Savage, and Beck have huge success and a big audience. But its not just that. Its two other facts that have them skeered. One is that the conservatives have a powerful voice, and potential voters are getting swayed to the right. Two, and to them the most dangerous, is that conservative news/talk is exposing the lies and left slant of the mainstream media! Look, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that leaving out information is just as harmful as giving false information. That’s what the left-leaning mainstream media does; report stories, but leave out one or two facts which change the face of the story. This has been free advertising and propaganda for the left for decades, and now they don’t know what to do because its being countered and exposed by talk radio.

So, having said that, I, the mental giant, am about to shine the light of truth of what the left are doing: censorship! Appalling isn’t it, that the party that champions civil liberties and freedom of choice want to silence talk radio because they don’t like what they hear (and the affect it has on the populace). The left has no new, viable ideas to lead this country to greatness, they’ve done nothing but engage in hatemongering towards the President since he took office, and they want us to somehow believe that they are more SOPHISTICATED than we are and know more than we do. Well, I think the average American shmoe sees right through the smokescreen. What have the liberals in Congress accomplished since they got the majority a few months ago? Hmmm…nothing. They’re even afraid to stop funding for the war that they supposedly disagree with. But they’re too scared that they might lose votes.

Anyway, I’d better stop before I lose my mind. Keep your eyes and ears open for the censorship, I mean “Fairness” doctrine to come around again. When it does, get on the phone with your representatives and tell them what you think. Until next time…

Mars, Venus, What the Heck Is Going On Here?

Okay, so there was a book a few years ago explaining why men and women are different. It was a best-seller, especially since so many marriages are on the rocks. What's sad is the fact that somebody actually had to write a book telling us something that humankind has known since we've been around! Unfortunately, the women's rights movement, coupled with societal androgyny and the psychological castration of men, has driven that concept out of our brains. No more is a boy allowed to be a boy, and a man allowed to be a man. We have to be sensitive, nurturing, understanding, great listeners, blah, blah, blah. I read a great book called "Wild at Heart" (John Eldredge) and it opened my eyes. Eldredge maintains that men need to be powerful, dangerous, and have a woman to rescue. What boy, he asks, says, "I want to grow up and be a nice guy. I want to work at a boring desk job and look forward to retirement?" No boy does, because we are always told we are to deny our baser instincts of violence, power, danger, adventure, and winning the girl of our dreams. I could write pages and pages on this topic, but the bottom line is this: men, let's be men and women, be women. Its okay to be different, because that's the way God made us. Not better or worse than the other sex, but equal. As I tell my Bible study group, God made men and women with different roles and engineering, but with equal worth and value.

Unsatisfied

Okay, its 12:08 a.m. on a Sunday morning and I'm waiting for my wife to get home from work, so what should I do? Blog.

I'm at home and thinking, "Ah, the good old days were when I was single." You know, no wife (spouse) kids, etc. I could come and go as I please; screw around all day; actually wash and wax my car, then vacuum it, armor all the dash, the good stuff. Then I got to thinking, "Yeah, but you were pretty lonely and miserable back then too. How many times were you sitting in the front of your barracks wishing you had a girl, a family?" Of course, I think when you're single and in the military like I was, you are the loneliest of the lonely.

Its the same with jobs too. I started out in hospitality at Disney in Orlando. While there, I complained the whole time. Then I went to the military and dreamed of being back at Disney. I got out of the military and got a desk job at a small company. Of course, I spent a lot of my time there complaing about "being tied to a desk." You get the idea.

So what is it about us homo-sapiens that make us wish we were back where we were? You know, a few years after leaving Disney, I came back. I did appreciate it more, but I was still complaining. Especially working every weekend and holiday. So I went back to a desk job and now what do I do? Complain all day about being stuck behind a desk!

However, as a responsible blogger and being wise and a mental giant (MG), I would not enrapture you with this topic without offering a "why" and a solution. The why is simple: we are all flawed beings. We are imperfect. If we can be unsatisfied with something, we will. That is a fairly "deep" answer, but I know y'all expect a little better answer from someone of my mental caliber. Okay, here it is. The reason we always want to go back, always think the "grass is greener on the other side" is because we are putting our stock, our happiness, in the wrong thing. What is that thing? Circumstances.

Being happy is different, by definition, than being joyful. Being happy is when the Denver Broncos score a touchdown, the scale says I'm 5 pounds lighter, or the movie ends up being pretty good. But what if the Broncos fumble at the 1 yard line and lose the game? What if the scale says I'm 5 pounds heavier? What if the movie stinks? That is where joy comes in. Joy says, "Look, the Broncos just lost the game, but at least I'm over at my buddy's house having a great time watching football." Joy says, "I'm heavier, but wow!, that double hot fudge brownie sundae I had last night was good!" Joy says, "The movie was over-priced and miserable, but at least I'm out on a date with my wife and we are getting to reconnect again."

So, if you're mister nostalgia like me, and you find yourself on a nice trip down memory lane wishing things could be the way they were before, remember to pull out of that lane, do a u-turn, and get back to being THANKFUL for what you have and where you are now.

You Go, Girl

I'm so busy at work that this will be a short post. I got this article from a friend:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3228069&page=1

The girl is being raked over the coals for sharing her faith in a valedictory speech at high school graduation. She supposedly violated the separation of church and state. Here's a clue, there is no such thing, in the constitution, as the separation of church and state. Its that simple. In fact, the government is to protect our right to free speech and free practice of religion. This country is trying to erase God out of the equation, and I pray it doesn't happen. At least not on this blog. I will write and speak about my faith no matter what happens to me. I'm tired of hearing all the pansies who cry "I was offended". What a miserable life they must lead to be offended at the least little thing. Grow up, toughen up, and stop bellyaching!