Just as NASA is finding that Antarctica and Greenland are losing ice faster than previously estimated --- yes, yet another revision upward where models are proving too conservative --- just as we have more evidence of climate change, we also have a news that the House of Representatives is using it's profound powers of scientific illiteracy to deny all evidence and prudence. Here in this space I normally refrain from the political but this is just stupid.
Choice lines:
"From 1992 to 2009, the two regions lost on average 36.3 billion tons more ice every year than the previous year"
“If present trends continue, sea level is likely to be significantly higher than levels projected by the United Nations”
Full article: http://bloom.bg/g1gMbz
Full article: http://bloom.bg/g1gMbz
And in the realm of protracted political tragedy, played out at the pace of a creeping glacier:
House Panel Votes to Strip E.P.A. of Power to Regulate Greenhouse Gases
"Many Republicans also argue that global warming is an unproven theory and that no action is needed to combat it, and they are backed by lobbies representing manufacturers; small businesses; agriculture; and the chemical, coal and oil industries; all of which have a big financial stake in hamstringing the E.P.A."
“We’ll never know what this president could have achieved...because he didn’t try.”
Full article: http://nyti.ms/g9DqHR
But hey, we can still have our fun, consequences aren't to be paid until well after the current political cycle (and after the death of most of these illiterates). Science damn it!
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Have a nice day
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