While some politicians and scientists embrace global warming and climate change with almost religious fervor, new evidence has surfaced to suggest the science is not in fact settled.
Researchers off the coast of Norway’s Svalbard archipelago have discovered that where methane gas bubbles up from seafloor seeps, surface waters above the seeps absorb twice as much carbon dioxide as surrounding waters, thus lessening the impact of climate change.
The previous assumption had been that methane seeps would inevitably increase the amount of greenhouse gases. Seeps occur above fissures on the seafloor caused of the earth’s tectonic activity.
Biogeochemist John Pohlman of the U.S. Geological Survey in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, began the research near Svalbard to learn just how much methane the Arctic Ocean was contributing to the global balance in the atmosphere.
Find out just how surprising the findings were not only to the Pohlman team but other scientists looking at the same issue regarding methane. It’s all found on the next page.
I’m so confused, how is Trump taking away our healthcare?? Obama took my
healthcare away a long time ago.
Heres one for all of you …..I DONT GIVE A RATS ASS
Once again for you stupid people….. climate change has been going on for a very long time. Their is no scientific proof that man has any ability to change it! End of lesson
Nice where were you when obama flushed us….
Eric, in your 34 years as a craftsman, how many jobs have you gotten from poor people?
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Shane Edwards
The climate has been changing since the beginning of time. Man didn’t cause the ice age yet we had one. Im gonna go burn a tire now.
AMERICA’S VANISHING MIDDLE CLASS
You remember them, right? The ones with well-paying, secure, private sector jobs? The ones with the nice family homes, weekend cabins, multiple cars, regular vacations, pensions, and great healthcare?
Wonder what happened to them? It’s ridiculously simple. They forgot who brought them to the dance.
1. Unions. Organized labor and its immense power brought the first American Age of Robber Barons to an end.
2. Democrats and the New Deal. That’s Social Security and the Social Safety Net programs, as well as fairer laws, tax increases on the wealthy, and restrictions on child labor.
3. WW2. The men went to war and women went to work. Their tours abroad made the men more cosmopolitan. At home, the women gained a new sense of self-worth and independence. That broke entrenched social mores and was the true beginning of the cultural revolution.
4. The G.I. Bill. When our guys came back from the war, they received free education. America went to college and the massive infusion of professionals transformed our economy and society as a whole.
5. Democrats and the Great Society. Programs like Medicaid, expanded Medicare, affirmative action, and other initiatives enfranchised millions of people and began to level the playing field.
And then, somehow, they forgot how this all came to be and voted Republicans into power. GOP “trickle down” fantasies and fanatical worship of unrestrained capitalism began to unravel the fabric of our prosperity. It led to the deregulation of our financial institutions, huge tax giveaways to corporations and the rich, and the “down-sizing”, corporate raiding, and colossal debt of the 1980’s. The resulting recession of 1991 brought the Democrats back into power for eight years, and ushered in a period of runaway growth, debt reduction, and the last balanced Federal budgets and surpluses since then. One$#%&!@*later, we voted Republicans back into power and got two unfunded wars, sky-high debt, monster tax giveaways, and the Great Recession. So we voted Democrats back in and the economy recovered, unemployment fell, the ACA and expanded Medicaid made healthcare accessible to millions, and our renewable energy industry grew exponentially. But the President was black. So we voted Republicans back in. Five months later and we’re on our way back to the Pit. Anyone else see a pattern?
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