The Gainesville Sun - Another Liberal Florida Newspaper
From the heart of Florida liberalism...the home town of the University of Florida...there is a liberal rag called the Gainesville Sun. So of course, its newsmen are of the best and brightest variety. This was obvious from a recent editorial excerpted by Best of the Web (WSJ OpinionJournal):"Another example of anthropomorphizing nature appears in a Gainesville (Fla.) Sun editorial:
Our earth and its atmosphere seem to be reacting to something that doesn't agree with it.
The ground is fidgeting with earthquakes, and the atmosphere is flailing and thrashing with hurricanes and tornadoes.
Could it be a result of global warming that has been warned of so often, an idea resisted by many?"
WSJ then asks: "Anyone care to explain how "global warming" is supposed to cause earthquakes?"
I mean this is really priceless. Only a committed believer could write such crap, but it's written as if by some sophomore...in high school that is. To be fair, this editorial is entitled "Science may hold answers to year's litany of disasters" and all it does is list several disasters and plaintively conclude: "This country sent a man to the moon, so a way probably will be found to live in a warmer climate. In the meantime, scientists need to explain how it is happening and how this is different from all the previous changes on this earth, such as the warming that changed the Ice Age 10,000 years ago."
Now, I believe there is "global warming" occurring. But let's see, there have been numerous such cycles since the earth cooled. Besides, when there are volcanoes spewing incredible volumes of gases and particles and the sun is in a dazzling warming mode, just how will feeble man fix this? Oh, yeah, by impoverishing himself so he won't be able to use technology to defeat the effects of global warming. Yeah, that's the right and smart move...that might be supported by at least one liberal newspaper here in Florida.
Our earth and its atmosphere seem to be reacting to something that doesn't agree with it.
The ground is fidgeting with earthquakes, and the atmosphere is flailing and thrashing with hurricanes and tornadoes.
Could it be a result of global warming that has been warned of so often, an idea resisted by many?"
WSJ then asks: "Anyone care to explain how "global warming" is supposed to cause earthquakes?"
I mean this is really priceless. Only a committed believer could write such crap, but it's written as if by some sophomore...in high school that is. To be fair, this editorial is entitled "Science may hold answers to year's litany of disasters" and all it does is list several disasters and plaintively conclude: "This country sent a man to the moon, so a way probably will be found to live in a warmer climate. In the meantime, scientists need to explain how it is happening and how this is different from all the previous changes on this earth, such as the warming that changed the Ice Age 10,000 years ago."
Now, I believe there is "global warming" occurring. But let's see, there have been numerous such cycles since the earth cooled. Besides, when there are volcanoes spewing incredible volumes of gases and particles and the sun is in a dazzling warming mode, just how will feeble man fix this? Oh, yeah, by impoverishing himself so he won't be able to use technology to defeat the effects of global warming. Yeah, that's the right and smart move...that might be supported by at least one liberal newspaper here in Florida.
posted by RightinFlorida | 6:21 PM
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As noted by www.livescience.com
on global warming....
Rebounding crust
One particular feature that can change the balance of forces in Earth's crust is ice, in the form of glaciers and ice sheets that cover much of the area around Earth's poles plus mountains at all latitudes. The weight of ice depresses the crust on which it sits.
As the ice melts, the crust below no longer has anything sitting on top of it, and so can rebound fairly rapidly (by geological standards). (This rebounding is actually occurring now as a result of the end of the last Ice Age: The retreat of massive ice sheets from the northern United States and Canada has allowed the crust in these areas to bounce back.)
Areas of rebounding crust could change the stresses acting on earthquake faults and volcanoes in the crust.
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