Boxer sees global warming up close (heh)

Orange County Register ^ | July 28, 2007 | DENA BUNIS

[GFritsch]

Babs is just getting a taste of the very warm conditions she’ll find in hell.

[freekitty]

Gee, Barbara, I thought they did that naturally. I would think it would be a worse situation if this didn’t happen; like glacier piled on top of glacier on top of glacier.

Well, you get the picture.

[cavador]

Has she ever watched an undersea volcano?
(It's more fascinating!)

White chimneys at Champagne vent site, NW Eifuku volcano. The chimneys are ~20 cm (8 in) across and ~50 cm (20 in) high, venting fluids at 103ºC (217ºF). Notice the bubbles in the upper left portion of the image.

[Quick Shot]

That is more interesting. Do you have a link? Thanks

[norwaypinesavage]

Hey Babs. Its warm in the summer time. A glacier that is “crashing into the sea” is growing, not shrinking. A receding glacier would be melting, and all you would see is runoff.

[zipper]

Uh... hey Babs, was that a hybrid helicopter?

[Suzy Quzy]

Boxer is the Jewish version of Sheila Jackson Lee.

[upchuck]

Perhaps Babs should have read up on glaciers before she spent a bunch of my tax dollars to go see one:

Glacier: A huge mass of ice slowly flowing over a land mass, formed from compacted snow in an area where snow accumulation exceeds melting and sublimation.

Maybe then she would have been informed and not made such stupid comments.

[The Great RJ]

That’s the second group from Congress making the pilgrimage to Greenland to worship in the Church of Global Warming. Nancy Pelosi lead some House members earlier this year. Besides wasting taxpayers money just to look at some glaciers, this also shows these members of Congress to be ignorant of history. About 1,000 years ago, the Vikings had FARMING settlements on Greenland that lasted several centuries until global COOLING forced them to be abandoned. The place wasn’t named green land because the Vikings were color blind.

[Tai_Chung]

How many helicopters and airplanes were involved on this trip?

How much CFC were released to transport them all from Washington DC to Greenland and back (including the helicopter rides and ground transportation)?

Where less environmentally damaging ways of gathering information available (i.e. satellites, ships, etc)

How much did this trip cost?

[Dick Vomer]

[cavador]

Try="http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/"
Heaps of links there!