4 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Insanity Report

• Rep. Steve King Thinks Birth Control Leads to ...
  Both Republicans and Democrats have major flaws.  We know this.  Look at this debt ceiling crisis we just went through.  It shouldn’t have taken going to the brink of default just to raise the debt ceiling.  And I don’t care what anyone tells you, read the bill and you’ll see it’s not as bad ...
• IC 262: No Country For Wookies
  Topics: Man Law: Thou Shall Support Thy Friend’s Opportunity To Judge a Bikini Contest 5k Zombie run WalMart kicks woman out for wearing a string bikini The amazing power of the titty Birth control now available with no copay Bill O’Reilly displays a complete ignorance of how babies are mad Obam ...
• FacePalm of the Week: Oh Bill
  For the second week in a row, Bill O’Reilly has managed to secure the FacePalm of the Week award.  And once again he’s done it early in the week.  I’ll be shocked if anyone can top this.  So what did he say this week?  Well, after an announcement that the White House is ordering Health [...] ...
• Woman kicked Out of Walmart for Wearing String ...
  You know…this is why I don’t go into Walmart often. I always tell people that Walmart is where “Hot Ghetto Mess Meets White Trash” and main, this video proves it. This lady is upset because Walmart employees told her she had to put a shirt on? Ma’am…you’re walking around in a bikini top. That’s ...
• IC 261: Cooking with Bey
  Topics: Captain America and the integrated Army A butt slasher stalks women in VA malls Beyonce has a cooking book coming out Bill O’Reilly thinks the Norway killer can’t be Christian cause Christians don’t commit mass murder PETA thinks animals suffer like black did during slavery Share with yo ...

Simple Climate

• Fire amid the ice kindles global and local worries
  After a record Arctic tundra wildfire in 2007 released as much carbon as all plants in similar landscapes absorbed in a year, University of Florida's Michelle Mack warns such fires could again become common, as they were 10,000 years ago.
• Aerosols paint clearer warming slowdown picture
  Contributions to climate change from “stratospheric aerosols” vary more than realised, Ellsworth Dutton and his NOAA colleagues find, potentially providing a partial explanation for slower warming from the late 1990s.
• Warming puts species at one in ten extinction ...
  Comparing predictions and measurements of the effects of climate change on plants and animals over the past five years shows predictions are accurate, and possibly optimistic, according to the University of Exeter's Ilya Maclean.
• Chinese pollution postpones temperature rises
  Sulphur emissions countered greenhouse gases to cause the much-debated “pause” in warming trend from 1998-2008, but only temporarily, Boston University's Robert Kaufmann told Simple Climate.
• Sea-level rise is the fastest in 2,000 years
  University of Pennsylvania's Benjamin Hortonand colleagues show that sea level has risen at an average of 2.1 mm per year since around 1900, after having stayed roughly stable for the previous two millennia.

e!Science News

• Briny water may be at work in seasonal flows o ...
  Dark, finger-like features that appear and extend down some Martian slopes during the warmest months of the Mars year may show activity of salty water on Mars. They fade in winter, then recur the next spring. read more
• Breakthrough in photonic chip research paves w ...
  Researchers at the California Institute of Technology and the University of California, San Diego have discovered a way to prevent light signals on a silicon chip from reflecting backwards and interfering with its operation. Otherwise, the light beams would interfere with lasers and other photon ...
• Large variations in Arctic sea ice
  For the last 10,000 years, summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has been far from constant. For several thousand years, there was much less sea ice in The Arctic Ocean – probably less than half of current amounts. This is indicated by new findings by the Danish National Research Foundation for Geo ...
• La Ninas distant effects in East Africa
  5 August 2011 | Potsdam: For 20 000 years, climate variability in East Africa has been following a pattern that is evidently a remote effect of the ENSO phenomenon (El Niño Southern Oscillation) known as El Niño/La Niña. During the cold phase of La Niña, there is marginal rainfall and stronger w ...
• New study shows how to eliminate motion sickne ...
  An international team of researchers led by scientists at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that motion sickness on tilting trains can be essentially eliminated by adjusting the timing of when the cars tilt as they enter and leave the curves. They found that when the cars tilt just at t ...

unEarthed

• OMG, GMOs: Food Safety Attorney George Kimbrell
  "This technology is a one-trick pony." George Kimbrell, staff attorney at Center for Food Safety, is serving as co-counsel in Earthjusticeâs genetically engineered sugar beet and alfalfa ...
• Protecting Polluters, Not People, One Rider at ...
  H.R. 2584 compromises public, especially in environmental justice communities Millions of Americans are already suffering from asthma. (Chris Jordan / Earthjustice) ...
• Friday Finds: Tequila Transformation
  Wrecked summer vacations, revved up gas mileage, watered down chemical regs The agave plant, typically used to distill tequila. Courtesy of kimsdinner. Teq ...
• Tracking the Anti-Environmental Congress
  Did you hear what they are up to? Did you hear about the secret attacks being planned on public health and the environment of the United States? Probably not. ...
• America's Wildlife Win Congressional Showdown
  Republicans abandon ship to keep species on the ESA ark Rep. Norm Dicks (D-WA) The current leaders in the House think that saving America’s wildlife is aski ...