Random Politics & Religion #25

Hillary Clinton: A political veteran committed actual crimes that put Americans at risk, got off on a questionable interpretation of motive. Verdict? Nothing to see here.

Hillary Clinton: A political veteran committed actual crimes that put Americans at risk, got off on a questionable interpretation of motive. Verdict? Nothing to see here.

Donald Trump Jr.: A political noob who wasn't even officially part of the Trump campaign attended a meeting for opposition research and nothing came of it. Verdict? Treason.

Donald Trump Jr.: A political noob who wasn't even officially part of the Trump campaign attended a meeting for opposition research and nothing came of it. Verdict? Treason.

HURN

Hurn him, hurn him good!

Rooks, let's go a hurning.

Kojo is the biggest hurn of them all!

Lina likes to hurn all night long~♡

Vyre hurns with the best of them.

Hurn baby hurn!

Such a useful word isn't it.

Sounds like something you moan when you strain out a turd.

HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.............................*plop*

Isn't that your Chanti impersonation?

It started with there's no evidence of collusion. Then we moved on to collusion isn't criminal. Since Trump Jr. is now showing us evidence of the collusion, next we'll transition to who wouldn't want oppo research on their opponent? Even if it was offered by a hostile foreign country run by the former head of the KGB, who I'm sure is completely trustworthy and has know ulterior motives in sowing further dissension within the country? In fact, many of us are already there.

What threatens a free people is when they become so closely tethered/identified with their political class, that they debase themselves to participate in their corruption, hypocrisy, and lack of character. For if we are the people who vote these politicians in, and these politicians come from us, that means we have polluted our own water table at its source.

An iceberg about the size of Delaware has split off from Antarctica

"Calving" is the process of glacial expansion, and the culprit of the loss.

So the iceberg GREW too big (because its not warm), collapsed and broke away.

ZOMGdawarming!!!!

Large Canadian Arctic climate change study cancelled due to climate change

The Science Team of the Canadian Research Icebreaker CCGS Amundsen has cancelled the first leg of the 2017 Expedition due to complications associated with the southward motion of hazardous Arctic sea ice, caused by climate change.

This regrettably postpones the much-anticipated Hudson Bay System Study (BaySys) involving 40 scientists from five universities across Canada. Timing was key for this $17 million, four-year, University of Manitoba-led project.

The need to deal with extreme ice conditions in the south meant the ship would arrive too late on site to meet research objectives.

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The decision to terminate the 2017 program has significant impacts on partners and the large number of graduate students involved.

“Considering the severe ice conditions and the increasing demand for Search And Rescue operations (SAR) and ice escort, we decided to cancel the BaySys mission. A second week of delay meant our research objectives just could not be safely achieved – the challenge for us all was that the marine ice hazards were exceedingly difficult for the maritime industry, the CCG, and science,” says Dr. David Barber, Expedition Chief Scientist and BaySys Scientific Lead.

"Calving" is the process of glacial expansion, and the culprit of the loss.

So the iceberg GREW too big (because its not warm), collapsed and broke away.

ZOMGdawarming!!!!

McGrath said the growth of the crack, given our current understanding, is not directly linked to climate change.

not everything people post here are political endorsements/convictions.

The article itself said:


Just posted the article and a joke, not everything people post here are political endorsements/convictions.

“The Antarctic Peninsula has been one of the fastest warming places on the planet throughout the latter half of the 20th century. This warming has driven really profound environmental changes, including the collapse of Larsen A and B,” McGrath said. “But with the rift on Larsen C, we haven’t made a direct connection with the warming climate. Still, there are definitely mechanisms by which this rift could be linked to climate change, most notably through warmer ocean waters eating away at the base of the shelf.”

The article itself said:


Just posted the article and a joke, not everything people post here are political endorsements/convictions.

July 2017 By David Brown, Explorer Correspondent

The world has anticipated the “rapid exhaustion” of crude oil supplies for at least 100 years.
Will it go on being close to running out of crude for the next 100?

“Peak Oil” — the idea that global oil production will soon reach a maximum and then begin to decline — attracted a significant number of believers in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Then unconventionals happened.

Unconventional resource production blossomed in the United States. With rising crude production, the U.S. stopped soaking up the world’s excess oil supply.

Instead of cutting back crude production to balance the market, Saudi Arabia increased production to protect its market share.

And ta-da! — we got a global glut of crude and liquids, along with a truly major price collapse. Today, you are more likely to hear people talk about a possible worldwide peak in oil demand rather than a peak in oil production.

But the principal arguments for Peak Oil haven’t changed much.

[…]

Doomsday Averted

The concept of Peak Oil developed from a theory put forth by American geoscientist M. King Hubbert. Based on overall reserve estimates and the pattern and history of field discoveries in the United States, Hubbert created a composite, mega-decline curve that predicted U.S. crude oil production would peak in the 1965-70 time period.

And U.S. oil production did reach a peak, a little later than the original Hubbert curve predicted. But with the discovery of North Slope oil in Alaska, production began to increase again. The domestic Peak Oil estimate was re-labeled as a Lower 48 prediction.

Now, it appears that Hubbert’s approach predicts a profile for conventional oil production in a defined geographic area, when technological development and oil prices remain within limited bounds.

“When people ask, ‘How much oil is there?’ the answer is, ‘At what price?,’” Sternbach noted. “Things like tar sands could release huge amounts of oil at the right price.”

Breakthroughs in technology, especially horizontal drilling plus hydraulic fracturing — call it “hydrozontal development” — combined with today’s improved exploration and production tools have reversed the U.S. oil production decline.

In its June energy outlook, the U.S. Energy Information Agency forecast that U.S. crude production will reach an all-time high of more than 10 million barrels per day (b/d) in 2018, along with 4.19 million b/d of natural gas liquids and 1.02 million b/d of ethanol.

Instead of Peak Oil, the world has gotten a peek at a new energy future.

Innovation is “ increasing the value of the resources and it’s reducing the cost of getting to them. When those two things combine, you get to a sweet spot,” Sternbach said. “That’s a paradigm shift that creates waves of increased value.”

In the interest of full disclosure: I have been employed in the U.S. oil industry as a geophysicist/geologist since 1981, with a six-year exile into management. I have always worked for “little oil” (as opposed to BIG OIL). I am a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) and Houston Geological Society (HGS). Despite my penchant for ridiculing greenschist, green is actually my favorite color… Oil is colored green on maps and well logs. Peak Oil is real but not really very relevant, abiotic oil is possible (despite a total lack of evidence for it) and is also irrelevant. Neither the reality of Peak Oil nor the lack of evidence of abiotic oil are part of a conspiracy to keep oil prices high. If it was, it would be a pretty p!$$ poor conspiracy because oil prices have been low for most of my career. And, no, ExxonMobil is not hiding the secret formula for turning (fill in the blank) into oil… But they did know all about Gorebal Warming waaay before Al Gore invented it… They knew it was wrong.

Dont get your panties in a bunch.

Ice extend is quite high this year, so high that a global warming research team had to cancel their trip due to heavy ice.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/06/15/arctic-expedition-cancelled-due-to-excess-climate-change/

Quote:
Large Canadian Arctic climate change study cancelled due to climate change

The Science Team of the Canadian Research Icebreaker CCGS Amundsen has cancelled the first leg of the 2017 Expedition due to complications associated with the southward motion of hazardous Arctic sea ice, caused by climate change.

This regrettably postpones the much-anticipated Hudson Bay System Study (BaySys) involving 40 scientists from five universities across Canada. Timing was key for this $17 million, four-year, University of Manitoba-led project.

The need to deal with extreme ice conditions in the south meant the ship would arrive too late on site to meet research objectives.

…

The decision to terminate the 2017 program has significant impacts on partners and the large number of graduate students involved.

“Considering the severe ice conditions and the increasing demand for Search And Rescue operations (SAR) and ice escort, we decided to cancel the BaySys mission. A second week of delay meant our research objectives just could not be safely achieved – the challenge for us all was that the marine ice hazards were exceedingly difficult for the maritime industry, the CCG, and science,” says Dr. David Barber, Expedition Chief Scientist and BaySys Scientific Lead.

That ***was funny to read. Global Warming is causing the world to be too cold and creating too much arctic ice. This is getting to the point where everyone just see's right through it.