Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Inhofe and O’Brien
The exchanges between Sen. James Inhofe and CNN anchor Miles O’Brien, have been pretty entertaining and not very much discussed.
Wherever MMGW (this blog’s acronym for “man-made global warming”) is discussed as a possibility, the melting ice caps are getting an increasing amount of attention. I have been waiting for one thing here, and I’ve been waiting for a very long time. I haven’t seen it, and I don’t think I’m expecting very much.
I want to know how much melting ice we’re looking at here. Measure it however you will. Cubic miles, tons, whatever you want. I want to know, worst-case scenario, how much of it is falling into the oceans and melting.
And then I want to know how much this brings up the ocean levels. Deriving this, from the answer to the ice question, is just not complicated science. It is simple third- or fourth-grade math. A ton of ice melts and becomes, with some margin of error, so-and-so-many cubic feet of water. A billion cubic feet of water, distributed throughout all the world’s oceans, brings up the level so-and-so many feet.
How much do the ocean levels rise? I’m not looking for just the answer — I’m looking for the math that leads to it. The fourth-grade-level math.
I’m not asking for very much, here, at all. And it says a lot that I have yet to be satisfied here.
Update 10/16/06: Debra Saunders says Global WarmingTM is a religion, not a science.
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