Frozen Methane being destabilized by the Gulf Stream

Published October 24, 2012 | By Iowadawg

Read a book a couple of weeks back that had all to do with frozen methane down in the ocean floors. OH, you must get the book “Frozen Waters” by Bill Evans and Marianna Jameson. Go to amazon, your local library or see if in the kindle store. Or for $100.00 one lucky person can get this book signed and dated by IowaDawg! LOL

In this visualization, the Gulf Stream is seen as the dark red current coming into the Atlantic from the Gulf of Mexico.

A changing Gulf Stream off the East Coast has destabilized frozen methane deposits trapped under nearly 4,000 square miles of seafloor, scientists reported Wednesday. And since methane is even more potent than carbon dioxide as a global warming gas, the researchers said, any large-scale release could have significant climate impacts.

Temperature changes in the Gulf Stream are “rapidly destabilizing methane hydrate along a broad swathe of the North American margin,” the experts said in a study published Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.

Using seismic records and ocean models, the team estimated that 2.5 gigatonnes of frozen methane hydrate are being destabilized and could separate into methane gas and water.

It is not clear if that is happening yet, but that methane gas would have the potential to rise up through the ocean and into the atmosphere, where it would add to the greenhouse gases warming Earth.

The 2.5 gigatonnes isn’t enough to trigger a sudden climate shift, but the team worries that other areas around the globe might be seeing a similar destabilization.

The President’s Ridiculous Pamphlet

Barack Obama has released a ridiculous little 20-page pamphlet — 20 pages with lots of pictures — detailing his agenda for a second term. He calls it the “New Economic Patriotism,” and if that name seems to you redolent of early-20th-century totalitarians, that may be because it is not the first N.E.P.: Lenin’s was the Novaya Ekonomicheskaya Politika. Mitt Romney published an economic-policy book, too. No pictures.

Apparently, Obama’s second term is to be a more or less precise repeat of his first term. In fact, the sixth item on his seven-point list merely touts Obamacare, which, if memory serves, already has been passed. He also wants to add six-figure numbers to the headcounts of the public-sector unions that finance and staff his campaign. And build batteries. There’s no picture of the batteries, but there are 17 photographs of the president, most of them centerfolds. In fact, photographs of the president gazing down benevolently upon children, doctors, oldsters, and one guy with a baseball cap on sideways account for about 80 percent of the space in the booklet. That is appropriate, inasmuch as the Obama campaign, like the Obama presidency, is not about jobs or economic growth: It is about Barack Obama.

Such scant substance as there is exhibits the president’s characteristic dishonesty. He repeats the canard about tax deductions for outsourcing, when in fact no special tax deduction exists. (Business expenses are deductible when calculating income for tax purposes — that’s it. No special benefit for outsourcing expenses exists.) He boasts that his policies have led to a dramatic reduction in oil imports, and he is in a sense correct: Demand for oil is down because the economy is stagnant. Demand for lots of things is down for the same reason, and Obama’s policies are an important part of the reason for that. He suggests that we will reduce our demand for foreign oil even further by investing in wind, solar, and clean coal. He is not very clear on how that will work, since those technologies are used to produce electricity, which is not what we use oil for. Perhaps he thinks the country runs on diesel generators. Cars that run on cool breezes and sunshine are not yet commercially available.

In truth, Obama’s policies are a dagger pointed at the heart of the American energy industry. Oil production on federal lands is declining, and his EPA is poised to pounce upon the natural-gas industry, threatening to squelch innovative techniques for recovering natural gas from shale deposits. In the unhappy event the president should win reelection, he will not be constrained by the thought of having to face the voters again, and his EPA will be off the leash.

The president also repeats his misleading statement about job growth in “the auto industry rescued by President Obama.” (Sure, you taxpayers may have played a role, too, but don’t expect a mention.) In truth, most of the growth in automotive employment has not been at the bailed-out firms, which still are significantly underperforming such competitors as Toyota and Volkswagen.

He boasts of the three free-trade pacts he has signed, every one of which was handed down to him by the Bush administration. In fact, he slow-walked the Colombia trade pact under pressure from his labor-union allies.

He proposes to cut corporate tax rates. It is our understanding that there is another candidate in the race with a similar idea.

He proposes to create 20 federal institutes for innovation in manufacturing, because innovation is the first thing most people think of when they think of the federal government.

He also promises to cut spending and to reduce the deficit, issues upon which he simply has no credibility. If he were going to adopt a deficit-reduction plan, he would have proposed one by now instead of torpedoing every idea sent his way for the last four years, including the recommendations of his own deficit-reduction commission.

If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, what is economic patriotism? The last refuge of a man with President Obama’s record.

Senator Lindsey Graham calling for the Department of Defense to formally classify the Fort Hood shooting as terrorism, not ‘workplace violence’

The Republican senator was responding to a push by victims for the Obama Regime to change its description of the rampage Islamic jihad to a terrorist act which would make survivors eligible for certain benefits and awards (i.e., Purple Heart).

Left Wing Loon, Thom Hartmann, suggests Benghazi terror attack was a right wing plot to bring down Obama

Now you know why liberal Air America Radio failed so quickly. Bleeding ‘Hart’mann was one of its hosts.

Hartmann has this theory that because he heard it rumored that the Romney campaign was planning to turn Barack Obama into Jimmy Carter, they must have concocted the anti-Mohammed film which (apparently he still believes) caused the attack on the US Consulate.

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Balances Brutal Beating with Burned Obama Sign

Obama thugs’ attempted murder of a Romney supporter? Barely newsworthy.

From Big Journalism:

While the story of Sean Kedzie, the son of Wisconsin State Senator Neal Kedzie, who was brutally beaten by thugs shouting support for President Obama, is spreading nationally, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel does not seem to think the story is that important.

After a press release and photo of Kedzie’s beaten face were issued by the senator’s office Monday afternoon, the story quickly began to spread. Last night, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel decided to publish 74 words about the incident. Despite Kedzie being bludgeoned by two white men after he caught them removing pro-Romney signs from his yard, causing possible skull and eye socket fractures, the Sentinel fails to describe the severity of the attack.

The Sentinel merely mentions Senator Kedzie’s description that his son was “wrestled to the ground, beat and choked.” This is followed by the non-descriptive line, “Sean Kedzie was treated at a hospital and later released.”

Never mind the fact that Kedzie was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance and told Breitbart News, “if the neighbor who came out and scared off his attackers didn’t come out, it could have been much worse.” Kedzie says he could barely say “please stop,” he was being choked so hard, and he admits he feels he could have been killed.

I spoke with Sean Kedzie this morning. He has appeared on two prominent radio shows — Mark Belling and Charlie Sykes in Wisconsin — and he has been contacted by Fox 6 Milwaukee, Channel 3 and 15 Madison, and the Janesville Gazette. However, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has not contacted him or anyone in his father’s office for details on an attack that many are now referring to as a vicious hate crime.

Here is the full text of the Journal Sentinel‘s article. The article was also published without the graphic photo of Sean Kedzie, which illustrates a very scary picture of what has become of the political atmosphere in Wisconsin.

The son of state Sen. Neal Kedzie (R-Elkhorn) was beaten at his home in Whitewater after confronting a man taking down a Romney/Ryan campaign sign, the senator said Monday.

Sean Kedzie was attacked by the man and another man, who wrestled him to the ground, beat and choked him, the elder Kedzie said.

Sean Kedzie was treated at a hospital and released, his father said.

Whitewater police Monday confirmed they were investigating the incident.

Now THIS is newsworthy, deserving of all the hyperbole the liberal morons can muster.

However, twenty-five minutes after the Sentinel posted this brief piece, the paper made sure to cover in detail another local political incident where a pro-Obama sign was burned in someone’s yard. The Sentinel published a segment from Muskego Nowand linked directly to the entire article, in which they interviewed the victim of the sign burning. “It reminded me of Mississippi in the ’50s,” he said, referring to churches and other property burned by opponents of the civil rights movement.

The Journal Sentinel via Muskego Now continued to play up the extremism of this occurrence: “He places the blame on extremism whipped up by talk shows that spread negativity onto the stage of ideas. He also cited politicians who refuse to cooperate with each other so that they can play the blame game. Pushing people to extremes eventually poisons the body politic, Schuele said.”

More here.

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Democrat Boss Caught on Video Planning Vote Fraud

In a shocking display of lawlessness and contempt for our electoral system, a Democrat Party boss was caught on videotape planning vote fraud. Art Moore of WND.com reports on the story:

The son of Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va. — who serves as the field director for his father’s campaign – has been caught on video advising an undercover reporter how to fraudulently cast ballots in the name[s] of registered voters by forging utility bills and relying on the assistance of Democrat lawyers.

The investigation was conducted by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas, of ACORN exposé fame.

The undercover reporter approached Moran’s son, Patrick Moran, and claimed that he and a friend wanted to cast votes for Virginia residents. According to WND, their conversation went as follows:

Reporter: There are 100 people who don’t vote. He’s looking for two guys to help him…

Patrick Moran: Crank it out?

Reporter: Yes. He’s got a van and he and me were going to go around. …

Patrick Moran: Rally these people up and get them to the polls.

Reporter: Well, he was actually going to get in a van and vote for them.

Patrick Moran: Ohhhh

Reporter: I know, but –

Reporter: It’s scary, but I’m not. … I don’t want to lose, and I’m frightened.

Patrick Moran: Yeah.

Moran also unwittingly explained why Democrats steadfastly oppose voter-ID laws: he told the reporter that such laws would make vote fraud more difficult. Nonetheless, as indicated earlier, he had advice on how to circumvent the system at the ready.

Now, note that Moran talks about this plotted vote fraud as if it’s nothing unusual. This raises the question: how many similar incidents occur that we never even hear about?

Another case we did hear about came out of Bridgeport, Connecticut, where just a week and a half ago Mayor Bill Finch was caught on video joking (boasting?) about being able to steal an election.

While meeting with Democrat CT congressman Chris Murphy, who is running neck-and-neck for the US Senate against Republican Linda McMahon, Finch said that “even if it takes a couples of days to get the results, ‘You can be guaranteed you’re going to get the vote,’” writes The Weekly Standard. By the way, Finch and Murphy were comrades in their state senate for four years, and Finch has a history of stealing elections via Bridgeport ballots.

Then there’s another kind of machine politics. There was a report yesterday that voters in Guilford County, North Carolina found that their Mitt Romney ballots automatically defaulted to Barack Obama at the Bur-Mil Park polling location. Writes MyFox8.com:

Sher Coromalis…says she cast her ballot for Governor Mitt Romney, but every time she entered her vote the machine defaulted to President Obama.

…Guilford County Board of Elections Director George Gilbert says the problem arises every election. It can be resolved after the machine is re-calibrated by poll workers.

“It’s not a conspiracy [sic] it’s just a machine that needs to be corrected,” Gilbert said.

…Marie Haydock, who also voted at the Bur-Mil Park polling location, had the same problem.

Is it my imagination, or is this problem that arises every election one where machines just always happen to malfunction in favor of Democrats?

I’ve said for a long time that this election is going to be the dirtiest in US history, mainly because the left moves ever further down the rabbit hole of relativism, which begets an end-justifies-the-means mentality. Moreover, I truly believe that these liberal political operatives can steal enough votes in swing states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Mexico to turn them in Obama’s favor and thus steal the election. Remember, you don’t need an October Surprise when you have a November 6 Surprise.

And, just imagine, the United Nations-affiliated election monitors dispatched to our shores will be looking for vote fraud on the part of conservative groups.

Conservatives had better wise up, load up, and realize that this is a war.