Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Sunday, September 13, 2009
So where were you at durring the terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001?
Originally posted at Toluna.com ...
I was working in Linden, New Jersey. Word spread that something was happening at the World Trade Center. We could seen the smoke from the first tower that was hit. Later, when I went back there was just a huge column of dust and smoke so I thought the towers were still there. A short while after the towers had collapsed, we found out from various media that they were gone.
After another hour or two, I went to one of the offices of the Tri-County Chapter of the American Red Cross where, among other things, I watched the sole remaining broadcast television station, ABC, and collated information for the chapter's use. After nine hours of that, I couldn't watch anymore and checked out of the chapter office.
I recommend everyone ...
1. Build A Kit
2. Make a Plan
3. Get Trained
4. Volunteer ... I suggest the Red Cross.
I was working in Linden, New Jersey. Word spread that something was happening at the World Trade Center. We could seen the smoke from the first tower that was hit. Later, when I went back there was just a huge column of dust and smoke so I thought the towers were still there. A short while after the towers had collapsed, we found out from various media that they were gone.
After another hour or two, I went to one of the offices of the Tri-County Chapter of the American Red Cross where, among other things, I watched the sole remaining broadcast television station, ABC, and collated information for the chapter's use. After nine hours of that, I couldn't watch anymore and checked out of the chapter office.
I recommend everyone ...
1. Build A Kit
2. Make a Plan
3. Get Trained
4. Volunteer ... I suggest the Red Cross.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
My Snarky Comment in Smiley's column ...
Smiley Anders for August 13, 2009
...
Living with immaturity
J.R. Madden notes that in a recent column Louis Miller speculated that he might be “getting mature:”
“Louis Miller may be getting old, but not mature. Louis and I are alike in that we grow old, not up.”
Which reminds me
A few years ago my daughter Tammy was filling out an application of some kind and was asked to name two “responsible adults.”
She put down her mother’s name, then paused.
The gent taking the application asked her, “Is your father deceased?”
“Oh no,” said Tammy. “I just never think of him as a responsible adult. …”
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Photos of recent Family events ...
Claire & Martin's wedding:
Friday, 27 March 2009
Saturday, 28 March 2009
A short video during the ceremony will be added shortly ... I hope.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Do they not like my "comment"?
As of 1130 CT, Saturday, 25 April 2009, my Comment to the Get Liberty blog had not been "approved" by the Blogmeister, apparently.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Sea Level rise impossible ... oh, yeah?
The Americans for Limited Government had an article "An Alarming Trend" On: 04/22/2009 10:21:00 by Isaac MacMillen and Robert Romano. Basically, they state that melting ice caps can not raise sea levels because ice floats, lakes keep water from reaching the oceans, and plate tectonics raise mountains which trap water in snow and ice.
I couldn't stand it and submitted what was to the be the first comment as follows:
"Greenland's Ice Cap is Melting at a Frighteningly Fast Rate"
(http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0811-06.htm)
The vast ice cap that covers Greenland nearly three miles thick is melting faster than ever before on record, and the pace is speeding year by year, according to global climate watchers gathering data from twin satellites that probe the effects of warming on the huge northern island.
The consequence is already evident in a small but ominous rise in sea levels around the world, a pace that is also accelerating, the scientists say.
According to the scientists' data, Greenland's ice is melting at a rate three times faster than it was only five years ago. The estimate of the melting trend that has been observed for nearly a decade comes from a University of Texas team monitoring a satellite mission that measures changes in the Earth's gravity over the entire Greenland ice cap as the ice melts and the water flows down into the Arctic ocean. ...
"Sea level rise could bust IPCC estimate"
(http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16732-sea-level-rise-could-bust-ipcc-estimate.html)
Sea level rises could bust official estimates – that's the first big message to come from the climate change congress that kicked off in Copenhagen, Denmark, today.
Researchers, including John Church of the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, presented evidence that Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice fast, contributing to the annual sea-level rise. Recent data shows that waters have been rising by 3 millimetres a year since 1993.
Church says this is above any of the rates forecast by the IPCC models. By 2100, sea levels could be 1 metre or more above current levels, he says. And it looks increasingly unlikely that the rise will be much less than 50 centimetres.
In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change forecast a rise of 18 cm to 59 cm by 2100. But the numbers came with a heavy caveat that often went unnoticed by the popular press.
...
Because modelling how the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets will react to rising temperatures is fiendishly complicated, the IPCC did not include either in its estimate. It's no small omission: the Greenland ice cap, the smaller and so far less stable of the two, holds enough water that if it all melted, it would raise sea levels by 6 metres on average across the globe. ...
ExxonMobil scientists ... participate in the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and numerous related scientific bodies. (http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/energy_climate_views.aspx)
I couldn't stand it and submitted what was to the be the first comment as follows:
"Greenland's Ice Cap is Melting at a Frighteningly Fast Rate"
(http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0811-06.htm)
The vast ice cap that covers Greenland nearly three miles thick is melting faster than ever before on record, and the pace is speeding year by year, according to global climate watchers gathering data from twin satellites that probe the effects of warming on the huge northern island.
The consequence is already evident in a small but ominous rise in sea levels around the world, a pace that is also accelerating, the scientists say.
According to the scientists' data, Greenland's ice is melting at a rate three times faster than it was only five years ago. The estimate of the melting trend that has been observed for nearly a decade comes from a University of Texas team monitoring a satellite mission that measures changes in the Earth's gravity over the entire Greenland ice cap as the ice melts and the water flows down into the Arctic ocean. ...
"Sea level rise could bust IPCC estimate"
(http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16732-sea-level-rise-could-bust-ipcc-estimate.html)
Sea level rises could bust official estimates – that's the first big message to come from the climate change congress that kicked off in Copenhagen, Denmark, today.
Researchers, including John Church of the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, presented evidence that Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice fast, contributing to the annual sea-level rise. Recent data shows that waters have been rising by 3 millimetres a year since 1993.
Church says this is above any of the rates forecast by the IPCC models. By 2100, sea levels could be 1 metre or more above current levels, he says. And it looks increasingly unlikely that the rise will be much less than 50 centimetres.
In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change forecast a rise of 18 cm to 59 cm by 2100. But the numbers came with a heavy caveat that often went unnoticed by the popular press.
...
Because modelling how the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets will react to rising temperatures is fiendishly complicated, the IPCC did not include either in its estimate. It's no small omission: the Greenland ice cap, the smaller and so far less stable of the two, holds enough water that if it all melted, it would raise sea levels by 6 metres on average across the globe. ...
ExxonMobil scientists ... participate in the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and numerous related scientific bodies. (http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/energy_climate_views.aspx)
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Barbie is 50!
Barbie's 50th birthday was officially celebrated March 9, 2009.
Above: Natural Barbie -- A Brazilian artist’s rendition of what the doll would look like if she had aged normally.
Source: MARCH 2009 AARP BULLETIN (page 35)
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