New MIT study on the historical climate of the American West
Here’s how it happened… …and is happening now.
The drying of the American West. Where did all the water go?
The Watering Hole, Tuesday August 4, 2015 – Environmental News and Food Politics
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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
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http://www.learner.org/interactives/collapse/chacocanyon.html
The area to west was/is seismically and volcanically active.
A quick flight over Northern Arizona reveals cinder cones and volcanic activity that is recent by human standards.
We’ve spent many intriguing weeks wandering through the lava and cinder deposits in the Sunset Crater area a few miles NE of Flagstaff. Fascinating, and not even a thousand years old. And Sunset is but a few miles from the much older and taller volcanic remnants, the San Francisco Peaks where the max elevation is over 12000 ft, AZ’s highest point, sacred to the Hopis, themselves apparently descended from the ancient Sinagua people.
The later arrivals — white people — have also found the cinder deposit areas to be extremely useful in making new blue jeans with that well-worn “old” look about them. Can’t recall what they’re called for some reason or other, but the contrast between native people who see the area as sacred and white immigrant descendants who only see anything for the money in it is staggering.
So dagnabbit, that clinches it! Global Warming started 8,000 years ago, just 2000 years before Gawd created the earth.,
And aren’t stalagmites little bugs that bite you in Nazi prison camps?
Speaking of the ENVIRONMENT, here’s a classy little paragraph…
In March — for the first time since records began — global carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere passed 400 parts per million (ppm). The last time carbon dioxide levels were this high, humans did not exist.
It might be too late to save the oceans
Kongradualations, Hoomans, yoove skrewed yourselfes into eventual ekstinkshun.
h/t Raw Story
And again – another story that begs the question: “and what am I achieving here, with this stupid fookin’ keyboard, why not just take the day off and do something with your life?”
Politics in 2016: Ted Cruz releases a video where he cooks bacon by wrapping it around the barrel of a machine gun and then opens fire.
http://www.myfoxhouston.com/story/29698055/ted-cruz-makes-bacon-with-machine-gun-in-new-video
Ted, just admit it, you’re an idiot.
That is not a machine gun.
It is a semi automatic AR-15.
If you make it into a fully automatic weapon, you are committing a felony.
TedTeh Cruz = Teh Stupid (or whatever the term is that falls as far beneath the word “stupid” as verbally possible).I would also like to add: That is no way to treat bacon.
WTF is wrong with you?
And so the belief that guns are effing toys is reinforced among the stupidest people on the planet.
bdmm, is today your birthday or Thursday?
You sure do keep track.
Hiroshima Day, or an upcoming infamous day, The first GOP debate.
BHO is 54!
Last year he said he was 53. This year he says he is 54. Why can’t Obama keep his story straight?
I think we all understand why he went to Africa. But the fact that he went to *Kenya* this close to his “birthday” speaks untold volumes. Untold classified volumes.
The only useful thing these bullets did was take each other out of the battle.
Wow, but then the density of the men and guns in that bloody slaughter was higher in Gallipoli than almost anywhere else, ever.
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace says he has some “doozies” planned for the Republican debate.
Uh huh.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/10-gop-candidates-will-be-trying-to-win-a-debate-chris-wallace-wants-to-make-that-tough-for-all-of-them/2015/08/03/ffd27cf2-eae8-4718-af4a-6c3c08cd1a33_story.html
You might be surprised. I watch Fox News Sunday every week (unless there’s a Formula One race, some things are sacred). Wallace’s visible reactions to answers on the show indicate to me he would like a relatively credible GOP, compared to what they have now.
I would be quite surprised. My feeling is there will be 50 questions regarding Hilary and 4 about Bengazi!
That’s funny — I don’t see the word “terrorists” or “terrorism” anywhere in this article.
http://www.wccbcharlotte.com/news/crime/FBI-Men-Arrested-For-Making-Explosives-To-Resist-Government-320513112.html
Pasty white.
GOP presidential hopeful believes in deficit spending, has no problem with a 27.24% interest rate on his personal debt. Holy crap. NO ONE who is stupid enough to take out a loan at that rate should be President.
http://www.businessinsider.com/scott-walker-has-tens-of-thousands-of-dollars-worth-of-credit-card-debt-2015-8
It’s ok for Scott because some kochsucker will pay it all off for him once he becomes POTUS.
Lindsey Graham’s people are totally kicking themselves right about now. Stupid move destroying the phone on video, when they could have done this instead.
Here’s something that would make blind people gouge their eyes out.
Have a barfbag handy.
http://whatdidyoubringme.homestead.com/files/neckties/RushLimbaughNeckties.htm
I have no cell phone service.
So far so good here in the SF South Bay.
Is the weather playing any part in that outage?
(today is ‘switch over’ to fiberoptic day. Will be doing that in just a little while. Hope at&t doesn’t go kaput)
Well, the phone was only down for five hours, from about 2pm central until a few minutes ago. Still can’t find an explanation for what went wrong and the news channels haven’t mentioned it.
Two men open fire on Jade Helm training. Two white males opening fire on a military facility? Oh…I was worried it might be terrorism.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/two-men-open-fire-mississippi-military-facility
And the
winnersclown posse forThursdayIdiots Day:It’s only Idiots Day for the Repugnants who will be on stage.
That works. They do define the word ‘idiot’ after all.
Actually, the word ‘Republican’ defines ‘idiots’ these days. Doesn’t change anything though.
A conscious unmuppeting:
“I consider myself a classical liberal” said: a) Bernie Sanders b) Jon Stewart or c) Charles Koch?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/08/04/charles-koch-on-the-2016-race-climate-change-and-whether-he-has-too-much-power/
Riiiiiight. That’s why he has spent somewhere around a billion dollars, and counting, placing his pet rightwhiners in the halls of power.
Not to mention all the ‘donations’ to colleges, contingent on the curriculum matching his ideology.