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Is the Earth striking back?
CNN.com ^ | April 23, 2010 | Alan Weisman

Posted on 04/24/2010 12:07:24 AM PDT by TN4Liberty

... As we have learned, these gases form an invisible barrier that, like a greenhouse's glass ceiling, keeps reflected heat of the sun from escaping our atmosphere. The denser that gaseous barrier grows, the hotter things get and the faster glaciers melt.

As they flow off the land, we are warned, seas rise. Yet something else is lately worrying geologists: the likelihood that the Earth's crust, relieved of so much formidable weight of ice borne for many thousands of years, has begun to stretch and rebound.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; crust; earthquakes; eyjafjallajokull; geology; globalwarming; gorebullwarming; hotaircult; junkscience; paniccult; volcano
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To: TN4Liberty

I wondered how long it would take them. Now we will have to endure the “flex earth” theory of global warming caused by SUV’S. Your Explorer is causing the volcanos to erupt.


21 posted on 04/24/2010 1:55:07 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (i)
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To: 21twelve

The documented fact is that the earth is expanding in girth every year with the help of earthquakes. Selective reasoning is a liberal narcotic.


22 posted on 04/24/2010 3:00:52 AM PDT by x_plus_one (Luke 22:36 ......and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.....)
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To: TN4Liberty

T O T A L. C R A P


23 posted on 04/24/2010 3:13:07 AM PDT by databoss
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To: x_plus_one

Time to put the earth on a diet and maybe a workout schedule!


24 posted on 04/24/2010 3:18:45 AM PDT by xp38
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To: TN4Liberty

I propose that it’s the weight of all those letters in the Icelander names. Elyyliayapapjailgarapskull and the capital, Ridakillerkayak? The island is being squeezed like a stomped on bull frog, I tell ya!


25 posted on 04/24/2010 3:37:08 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: TN4Liberty

A 6 year old’s view of science and weather!


26 posted on 04/24/2010 4:03:04 AM PDT by J Edgar
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To: TN4Liberty

Editor’s note: Alan Weisman is the author of “The World Without Us,” an international bestseller now in 33 languages. It was named the Best Nonfiction Book of 2007 by both Time magazine and Entertainment Weekly, the #1 Nonfiction Audiobook of 2007 by iTunes, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction.

NON FICTION BOOK?!?!?!?!

Follow the link- The thesis of this idiocy is determined, and repeatedly touted by the lefties as “Non Fiction”! BWAHAAHAA!!!!

Talk about scientific ignorance of the highest order...

This is just so gloriously laughable, too freaking bad the left doesn’t read.


27 posted on 04/24/2010 4:16:56 AM PDT by DanielRedfoot (What a fool believes, No wise man has the power to reason away)
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To: TN4Liberty

We desperately need a PLATE TECTONIC TAX to save the planet! STOP the PLATES from moving, or we are doomed! Limit population growth by Govt. funded abortions so the US doesn’t tip over and sink. ALGORE where are you? Please save us!


28 posted on 04/24/2010 4:39:08 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: TN4Liberty

It’s looking like this may be a long decade. And if we don’t pull carbon out of the way we energize our lives soon, a small clump of our not-too-distant surviving descendants may find themselves, as Gaia scientist James Lovelock has direly predicted, like the first Icelanders: gathered on some near-barren hunk of rock near one of the still-habitable poles, trying yet anew to eke out a plan for human civilization.


This exemplifies the speculative Eco-babble that passes for “science” now-a-days. Just WTF is a “Gaia scientist” anyway? An Earth scientist that worships Gaia? I’m counting the days before Al Gore and the UN declare this a crisis worthy of a new tax.


29 posted on 04/24/2010 4:59:49 AM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: TN4Liberty

That writer is absolutely full of himself.


30 posted on 04/24/2010 5:10:06 AM PDT by republicangel
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To: PetroniusMaximus
You know, the seas have risen quite a bit. When I was a child, you could walk form North Carolina to Bermuda without getting your feet wet.

No, but 12 000 years ago you could walk from Japan to China or Thailand to Indonesia without getting your feet wet.

Now THAT was global warming!

31 posted on 04/24/2010 5:14:16 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Let tyrants shake their iron rod, and slavery clank her galling chains)
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To: SunkenCiv

Possible catastrophism ping for an article about how global warming is causing earthquakes and volcanoes. CNN actually tries to make the case.


32 posted on 04/24/2010 5:16:25 AM PDT by TN4Liberty (My tagline disappeared so this is my new one.)
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To: PetroniusMaximus

“When I was a child, you could walk...”

Right on - it used to be you could walk from the Antrim coast of Ireland to Scotland on the Giants Causway w/o getting your feet wet!


33 posted on 04/24/2010 5:42:12 AM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
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To: rbg81

Algores dietary habits are going to result in a massive cardiovascular event one of these days. Think about it - significantly less ‘global warming’ from that fat blob...


34 posted on 04/24/2010 5:47:19 AM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
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To: TN4Liberty
Yet something else is lately worrying geologists: the likelihood that the Earth's crust, relieved of so much formidable weight of ice borne for many thousands of years, has begun to stretch and rebound.

Only a screwball "geologist" would come up with a theory like that - a disgrace to the profession.

35 posted on 04/24/2010 5:52:07 AM PDT by Godzilla (3-7-77)
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To: TN4Liberty; Defendingliberty; 4horses+amule; Nervous Tick; Amagi; Beowulf; Tunehead54; Clive; ...

 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

36 posted on 04/24/2010 6:44:17 AM PDT by steelyourfaith (Warmists as "traffic light" apocalyptics: "Greens too yellow to admit they're really Reds."-Monckton)
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To: TN4Liberty
George Carlin on the Environment

You gotta see this! Mark Levin featured it on his show.

37 posted on 04/24/2010 6:49:35 AM PDT by zeebee (Ask a teenager now, while they still know everything.)
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To: TN4Liberty

Too astounded at the stupidity to comment. Didn’t these people ever take physical sciences in high school?


38 posted on 04/24/2010 7:23:14 AM PDT by Desdemona (I hate acronyms. SPELL IT OUT!)
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To: TN4Liberty

I know a lady that walks from New York to London and back all the time without getting her feet wet. She’s an airline stewardess.


39 posted on 04/24/2010 11:28:04 AM PDT by seawolf101
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To: Cvengr

That was kind of you, treating a Marlin to a snack while dune buggying at low tide.


40 posted on 04/24/2010 3:12:20 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ( Two-state solution: A bad idea whose time has gone.)
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