In this impressive photograph, an aurora meets a volcanic eruption in Iceland. Even though its photographic display is a strange one. it certainly is captivating.
Derweze, also known as the door to hell, is a 70 meter wide hole in the middle of the Karakum desert in Turkmenistan. The hole was formed in 1971 when a team of soviet geologists had their drilling rig collapse when they hit a cavern filled with natural gas. In an attempt to avoid poisonous discharge, they decided to burn it off, thinking that the gas would be depleted in only a few days. Derweze is still burning today
Wow! And we thought the BP Oil spill was bad.
It ain’t over yet, but let us all let our uteruses breathe a sigh of relief today.
Thank goodness!!!! I did not want that man anywhere near the Presidency.
God look at the notes
Yeah, only 5 million? Why isn’t there more?
and counting….
Holy shit.
Not satisfied until that hits ~6.79 Billion Notes.
-Joe
Maybe the biblical Jesus just went from carpentry into shoes, and we’ve been mistranslating it all along.
THIS!
A few days ago, the Wall Street Journal published an anti-climate change op-ed signed by 16 scientists. None of the authors are climate scientists, nor do peer review research in the field.
No matter, it got published anyway. And shortly after the piece was published, real climate scientists came out off the woodwork to condemn the WSJ and the so-called scientists that wrote it. Andrew Revkin of the NYTimes has been tracking the pushback, here.
I’m happy to say that the WSJ published a rebuttal from real climate scientists and researchers, and it is epic. A taste:
Check With Climate Scientists for Views on Climate
Do you consult your dentist about your heart condition? In science, as in any area, reputations are based on knowledge and expertise in a field and on published, peer-reviewed work. If you need surgery, you want a highly experienced expert in the field who has done a large number of the proposed operations.
You published “No Need to Panic About Global Warming” (op-ed, Jan. 27) on climate change by the climate-science equivalent of dentists practicing cardiology. While accomplished in their own fields, most of these authors have no expertise in climate science. The few authors who have such expertise are known to have extreme views that are out of step with nearly every other climate expert. This happens in nearly every field of science. For example, there is a retrovirus expert who does not accept that HIV causes AIDS. And it is instructive to recall that a few scientists continued to state that smoking did not cause cancer, long after that was settled science.
Climate experts know that the long-term warming trend has not abated in the past decade. In fact, it was the warmest decade on record. Observations show unequivocally that our planet is getting hotter.
Via Revkin
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Really? Scientists are immoral and need to be regulated? Dear me! Hide me from those evil scientists who want to cure me of diseases and pain! How immoral of them! Don’t let the evil scientists teach me anything about the world in their reality based warped point of view! Mathematics are so diabolical! Just look at those poor children slaving away in schools, being forced to learn math and science. We should free these poor children from their clutches. They would be much happier sewing beads to shirts that are being sold at Wal-Mart, anyway.
Kentucky, really? This is your priority? ~ Kim
Kentucky Gov. Cuts Education Funding While Preserving Tax Breaks For Biblically-Themed Amusement Park
By Travis Waldron on Jan 20, 2012 at 11:45 am
When Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear (D) proposed his 2012-2013 budget this…
Shameful! (I feel like a little old woman when I say that! :) )
