Friday, August 31, 2012

Okie's and the meth jet

   In our extended family is a NASA Physicist researching global warming, specifically ice pack melts.  The GoP set a goal to fire him and all his associates to halt this endless growth in knowledge and data gathering.  All we really need to know about earth is what the honorable Senators from Oklahoma proclaim.
   Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times better at trapping heat than CO2.  When released it traps and increases earths heat for up to 20 years.   In the last few years the permafrost in Russia, Canada, Norway, Alaska, Finland, Greenland started melting, releasing methane stuck there for eons when biomass rots below the ice.  As the ice packs melt away in Greenland and other areas, even ice afloat for thousands of years over shallow seas, methane gets out.  Over the last couple of decades it accounted for 14% of the greenhouse warming, now it will account for much more, a continuous curve, increasing till it folds back on itself, a tipping point. So far NASA does but the Okie's don't have an inconvenient account of the jet stream of methane gushing form the arctic.  Most all of us are going to live long enough to see the increased frequency of crop killing  summers, dead lawns, higher water bills, more poison ivy, fire ants, africanized bees, west nile virus and pythons in the city park.
   Don't worry, when oil companies stop paying senators and governors they will help fix the problem. They will even ask NASA scientist for advice.  But when, any projections?  Ask the senators from Oklahoma, we all know they are honorable men.

4 comments:

  1. Darrel,
    I doubt Jim Inhofe can read....


    Ron

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    1. Sure he can, he reads the names of who sent the oil and coal checks. In fact he probably has carpel-tunnel from endorsing so many.

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  2. Ask the senators from Oklahoma, we all know they are honorable men.
    More like the Tejas definition of a honest politician,"Someone that once they're bought, stays bought!!"

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    1. Kulkuri, thats good, I will remember that, "stays bought!".

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