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Climate Change Is Making the Earth Wobble
yahoo ^ | Dec. 11, 2015 | Emily J. Gertz

Posted on 12/12/2015 2:47:24 PM PST by PROCON

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To: fhayek

Why, yes. You are correct. A further benefit was realized when I closely examined a topographical map following the reading of your comment. Flooding to the degree our nations southern border from sea to shining sea, the breadth of which would require the abilities of only those having Olympic qualification to cross, would be the result. A number easily addressed by the deployment of a low number of personnel resulting in a huge saving of national treasure. Hmm. I’ll uncap a bottle of Dos Equis in an effort to promote the ice melt through CO2 release and consider further. Would you care to contribute while we wait?


101 posted on 12/12/2015 4:22:04 PM PST by chulaivn66 (Mental exercises should be limited in frequency and duration to avoid blindness.)
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To: chulaivn66

If you bring the beer, I will bring the bottle opener...


102 posted on 12/12/2015 4:31:50 PM PST by fhayek
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To: PROCON

This is some of the stupidest climate change idiocy to date. Too bad many will believe it.


103 posted on 12/12/2015 4:38:13 PM PST by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: fhayek

I would, however I am now in no condition to travel. I’ve had too much to think I drink.


104 posted on 12/12/2015 5:20:41 PM PST by chulaivn66 (Mental exercises should be limited in frequency and duration to avoid blindness.)
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To: kiryandil

Must be the earf wobbling when my fat kitty runs down the hall.


105 posted on 12/12/2015 5:25:02 PM PST by dforest
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To: PROCON
“Scientists widely agree”

Yet they have to be dishonest about their supportive data and won't debate the subject in public.

106 posted on 12/12/2015 5:27:10 PM PST by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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To: PROCON

Earth wobble is horse hockey


107 posted on 12/12/2015 5:28:10 PM PST by Cats Pajamas
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To: Vision
BTW, congrats to the Navy Midshipmen from this old Army vet.

Finally a close game...yet another Army loss.

*sigh*

108 posted on 12/12/2015 5:32:18 PM PST by PROCON (It's not islamophobia, it's islamonausea)
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To: Fungi
For more on the "year without a summer" see the book by William K. Klingaman and Nicholas P. Klingaman, The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano that Darkened the World and Changed History (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2013). The eruption of Tambora was about ten times as powerful as the more famous eruption of Krakatoa.

Tens of thousands of people in Europe died of starvation as a result of the crop failures of 1816. Going through church records on microfilm (thanks to FamilySearch.org) for a village where some of my ancestors lived, it appeared that about 10% of the inhabitants died of starvation in 1817. I think at least 3 of my direct ancestors were among the victims--one in that village and two in a nearby village.

In the US the cold weather caused a lot of crops to fail but does not seem to have caused any mass starvation--but it did spur a lot of emigration from areas in the Northeast that were hard hit.

109 posted on 12/12/2015 5:49:03 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: chulaivn66
No! No! No! Wait! That simply will not do unless we can be assured the resultant wobble of the weebles following consumption of the beer occurs in random fashion much like the lack of cadence in the steps of troops traversing a bridge. We should ponder further and I suggest we have a beer while we do so.

The high-speed wobs:

No reports on the involvement of beer.

110 posted on 12/12/2015 5:56:05 PM PST by kiryandil ("When Muslims in the White House are outlawed, only Barack Obama will be an outlaw")
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To: 5th MEB
still have roof work that needs doing but can't unroll the roofing paper, it just cracks and snaps off.

Synthetic underlayment. Once you use it, you'll NEVER go back.

Especially the 5-foot wide rolls.

111 posted on 12/12/2015 5:58:32 PM PST by kiryandil ("When Muslims in the White House are outlawed, only Barack Obama will be an outlaw")
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To: PROCON

Army can stand proud of that game (other than that failed trick play). Last year was a close game too. I root for Navy but didn’t serve. The last two years I’ve been pulling for Army. If they could hold on to the ball and have better play calling they could have won. Maybe next year, a lot of Navy’s team are seniors.


112 posted on 12/12/2015 6:01:27 PM PST by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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To: Verginius Rufus

“The eruption of Tambora was about ten times as powerful as the more famous eruption of Krakatoa.”

That is my feeling too but at least one author who appeared on the Dennis Prager show did not think so as he was promoting his book.
It was an incredible event and shows despite what nature does, many times more than man can do, the earth is resilient and always returns to livability. This attempt at controlling CO2 in the name of “saving the planet” is pure unadulterated rubbish, meant for nothing more than control and revenue.


113 posted on 12/12/2015 6:07:13 PM PST by Fungi
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To: PROCON

Years ago, a popular story used in tabloid newspapers was the “threat” that the entire population of China had been ordered to stand on chairs, and on the same exact moment, to all jump off, the force of their group effort pushing the Earth out of its orbit.

I mention this only to note that this is one of the few arguments never advanced as a cause of man made global warming. Chinese chair jumping.

Though if they did advance it as an argument, I’m sure they would insist that 97% of climate scientists would agree with its “peer reviewed” conclusions.


114 posted on 12/12/2015 7:05:59 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Yes, this so-called consensus is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on us.

Red Communism in "green" form.

*spit*

115 posted on 12/12/2015 7:08:54 PM PST by PROCON (It's not islamophobia, it's islamonausea)
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To: Fungi
Klingaman and Klingaman (I think they are a father & son team--both have Ph.D.s but in different fields) have a table on page 13 of the "Volcanic Explosivity Index" for 8 volcanos dating back to A.D. 79 (Vesuvius), in which 1 number higher equals 10 times greater force.

On this table, the 2010 volcano in Iceland rates only a 4. Vesuvius and Mt. St. Helens were both 5's. There are 4 6's including Krakatoa in 1883 and Pinatubo in 1991. The only 7 on the list is Mt. Tambora in 1815. (The only one before 1600 on the list is Vesuvius so it may be incomplete for the period before 1600.)

Since they are just giving whole numbers, each one ten times that of one number lower, perhaps Tambora was not exactly 10 times greater, but just in that range.

116 posted on 12/12/2015 7:49:01 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Peruse the Wikipedia article on the largest volcanic eruptions and Mt. Tambora is not at the top. Then again, see another on Tambora and you get another perspective. Wikipedia should be taken with a grain of salt—perhaps a truck load.


117 posted on 12/12/2015 8:11:15 PM PST by Fungi
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To: PROCON

Wobal Glarming?


118 posted on 12/12/2015 11:15:53 PM PST by TauntedTiger (Born free!)
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To: kaehurowing; ExCTCitizen

The sagas say the Leif Ericksson named Greenland because the name his father had given to Iceland discouraged settlers from Norway. Only rudimentary agriculture was possible on Greenland, even in those days. The Greenland settlements died out after about a century.


119 posted on 12/13/2015 5:04:24 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Men need a reason to shop. Women need a place.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

It was Erik the Red who named Greenland that, for the reason given. The Greenland settlements lasted more than a century—seem to have disappeared in the 1400s.


120 posted on 12/13/2015 1:37:53 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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