That's the one-line version of a new story on MSNBC, called 'Smoking gun' on humans and global warming claimed: NASA-led scientists say ocean data ties manmade emissions to warmer Earth.
The article gets a bit technical [wow! real science on a major media site!] and you can read it for yourself if you like, but if you're not technically inclined, you can skip the read and I'll try to explain what they're driving at.
Remember in school how they taught you to check your math? If you could do a problem two different ways and get the same answer, then you knew you were doing it right. Well, two groups of scientists studying the question in two different ways have reached the same answer. And that means they're both right.
In more technical terms, new practical research has confirmed previous theoretical work. That means the theory is correct. And the theory says Humans Cause Global Warming.
So now we can use it as a headline. Now we can tattoo it on our foreheads. Now we can scream it from the rooftops. Even in the USA.
And this is important because, even though everyone else in the world already seems to understand the connection between human activities and global warming, the current American administration hates science unless it agrees with the Bible, thinks that the American economy is more important than the global environment, and refuses to accept the notion that Humans Cause Global Warming.
Well guess what? They're wrong! Wrong again! They are wrong about Iraq, wrong about Social Security, wrong about Terry Schiavo, wrong about the so-called Nuclear Option, and ... oh man! Please don't get me started. They are wrong. Wrong again. Let's leave it at that.
On second thought: No, no, no, let's keep going. They are not just Wrong, they are Wrong On Purpose. They're not mistaken and they're not misled, they are deliberately lying. It's an expensive lie, for two reasons.
Do you have any idea how much money is being spent to perpetrate this deliberate lie? More than I make in a year? Ha! It's more than I will make in a lifetime!
Where does the money come from? And where does it? Take a guess! Then read this!
The second reason why it's an expensive lie? Take another guess! And read this!
Thanks to Raw Story for the link to the MSNBC article.
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We haven't had a song in a while. All news and no music makes Winter Patriot a dull blogger.
This one's from Peter Gabriel.
Here Comes The Flood
When the night shows
the signals grow on radios
All the strange things
they come and go, as early warnings
Stranded starfish have no place to hide
still waiting for the swollen Easter tide
There's no point in direction
we cannot even choose a side.
I took the old track
the hollow shoulder, across the waters
On the tall cliffs
they were getting older, sons and daughters
The jaded underworld was riding high
Waves of steel hurled metal at the sky
and as the nail sunk in the cloud,
the rain was warm and soaked the crowd.
Lord, here comes the flood
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent
in any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.
When the flood calls
You have no home, you have no walls
In the thunder crash
You're a thousand minds, within a flash
Don't be afraid to cry at what you see
The actor's gone, there's only you and me
And if we break before the dawn,
they'll use up what we used to be.
Lord, here comes the flood
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent
in any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.