bombadil wrote:I wonder who those people are.  Universally, my experience in talking to the local Inuit in Greenland is that they're really upset about climate change.  Losing your village in a landslide that sweeps it into the ocean or to a raging river flowing out from under the Inland Ice, or from a lake on top of the ice that has breached its natural levee are not things taken lightly among the people I know up there.

Wall Street Journal, eh?  

For Icy Greenland, Global Warming Has a Bright Side
By Lauren Etter

QAQORTOQ, Greenland -- Stefan Magnusson lives at the foot of a giant, melting glacier. Some think he's living on the brink of a cataclysm. He believes he's on the cusp of creation.

The 49-year-old reindeer rancher says a warming trend in Greenland over the past decade has caused the glacier on his farm to retreat 300 feet, revealing land that hasn't seen the light of day for hundreds of years, if not more. Where ice once gripped the earth, he says, his reindeer now graze on wild thyme amid the purple blooms of Niviarsiaq ...

DEBATING GLOBAL WARMING
Global Warming Skeptics
Are Facing Storm Clouds
By ANTONIO REGALADO
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
A big flap at a little scientific journal is raising questions about a study that has been embraced by conservative politicians for its rejection of widely held global-warming theories.
The study, by two astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, says the 20th century wasn't unusually warm compared with earlier periods and contradicts evidence indicating man made "greenhouse" gases are causing temperatures to rise.
Since being published last January in Climate Research, the paper has been widely promoted by Washington think tanks and cited by the White House in revisions made to a recent Environmental Protection Agency report. At the same time, it has drawn stinging rebukes from other climate scientists.
This week, three editors of Climate Research resigned in protest over the journal's handling of the review process that approved the study; among them is Hans von Storch, the journal's recently appointed editor in chief. "It was flawed and it shouldn't have been published," he said.

bombadil wrote:...There was a pile of heads stacked up around me at the end of every day.  Very cold work.  No gloves, blowing snow, bloody knife handle slippery as hell...

bombadil wrote::lol:    

There's a lot more to tell from that little adventure.  Ahhh, the frozen north.  So rich in experiences, and vastly under-appreciated.

Kind of like Philly.  

Keith the Thief wrote:
Speaking of which, have you seen this book (tome?):

Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi?

I've always been fascinated by the JFK assassination.  

I went from being a conspiracy believer to a lone gunman believer to not really giving a rat's ass, but when I saw this 1600 [sic] page book devoted to proving the lone gunman hypothesis, I had to at least take a look.  

So I picked it up (and then put it down again due to upper body strain) and stood in B&N and read the first 20 ppg of 10-point font just standing there in the bookstore.  

I doubt I'll buy it (at $50), but it's worth taking a look at while you drink a $9 cup of coffee.  The author does an incredible job of asking very fundamental questions that have simply been ignored for the last 40 years.

Keith

Badmike wrote:
Bugliosi did a fantastic job of pure RESEARCH, something a lot of the conspiracy freaks seem to forget in their zeal to blame Cuba, the Russians, the Mob, Nixon, whoever.  You gotta appreciate the sheer volume of time Bugliosi put into this study.  I flipped through it..just the appendices and index alone is bigger than some books.  Too bad it took this long to come out with what may be the definitive work on this moment in history...but I guess with time comes perspective.

Mike B.

Keith the Thief wrote:I'm sure Bugliosi will have numerous detractors, but I did like a couple of the points he made:

Like why would Earl Warren, of Miranda fame, want to cover up the assassination of a Democrat by right-wing fanatics?

Or, why no one seems to have bothered to check the Warren report's findings that a military-trained sharpshooter can indeed fire 3 accurate shots with a Mannlicher-Carcano in the required time span.

Those are, of course, qualitative arguments and speculative at best, but they happened to catch my eye.

Well, whatever the quality of the book turns out to be, at least it brings some balance to the study in the popular press.

Keith

Keith the Thief wrote:
Or, why no one seems to have bothered to check the Warren report's findings that a military-trained sharpshooter can indeed fire 3 accurate shots with a Mannlicher-Carcano in the required time span.