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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (17330)	10/26/2007 3:07:44 PM
From: tonto	Respond to of 224749

Kenneth, stop spinning. a 23,000 acre started by arson is not a small thing...your bs does not fly. A 23,000-acre blaze in Orange County has been declared arson. Five people in San Diego, San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties have been arrested on suspicion of arson, but none has been linked to any of the major blazes, authorities said Thursday.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (17330)	10/26/2007 3:14:58 PM
From: DizzyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224749

No, Kenneth, you are the sniper. You run through this thread with your inane and disingenuous talking points on a daily basis. In fact here is one of your disingenuous posts: The Santa Ana winds are warmer because of global warming and drought which is also enhanced by global warming. The burning vegetation is certainly drier because of global warming. Message 23989455 I've asked you several times to provide some proof that the Santa Ana winds are warmer due to Man-Made global warming. You have provided nothing. Therefore I can only assume that you made it up. Get off your high horse, Kenneth. Nobody is buying your indignant poster routine. Diz-

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (17330)	10/26/2007 3:58:56 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224749

Banana Republic headline>Argentina First Lady Expected to Win Vote Oct 26, 2007 By BILL CORMIER, Associated Press Writer Argentina's First Lady Heading For Presidency SAN JUSTO, Argentina (AP) - Most polls project first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will crush 13 rivals Sunday to replace her husband as Argentina's president. But no matter how easy her win, what follows will be tough: easing poverty, inflation and unemployment. In San Justo, a gritty Buenos Aires suburb of more than 1 million people, the voters crying "Cristina! Cristina!" at one of her final rallies besieged her with hand-scrawled messages on slips of paper, pleading for jobs, better schools, better roads. Some asked for electricity and running water—basics still lacking in the trash-strewn shantytowns that circle the capital five years after an economic meltdown hobbled Argentina. Fernandez took the notes and handed them to aides, and she made no immediate promises. Yet people seem to believe she will respond. To win Sunday without going to a runoff, Fernandez must get either 45 percent of the vote or 40 percent with at least a 10-percent lead over her closest rival. Polls indicate the 54-year-old first lady and three-term senator very well could achieve that. In an interview with a pro-government journalist broadcast Wednesday on La Red radio, Fernandez didn't announce any specific proposals and brushed off comparisons to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. "Hillary and I have few things in common: We've both been senators, lawyers, and wives of presidents, but not much else," Fernandez said. "I don't want to be compared with Hillary Clinton, nor with (former Argentine first lady) Evita Peron, nor with anybody," she added.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (17330)	10/26/2007 4:17:14 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 224749

kennyboy, we republicans always shoot straight, ONLY demoRATs sneak by back doors, alleys, cover up with band aids ....

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (17330)	10/26/2007 6:26:42 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224749

The stage was set for those fires by the extreme drought in Southern California which is partly caused by global warming It's called the golden state because it's dry and brown - besides the "drought" is what limited the amount of fuel for the fire - if they had had more rain earlier this year the fire would have been even larger due to growth of more brush. The fire was probably caused by arson but driven by the predictable yearly winds. If you think the drought was caused by global warming then you'll be happy to know additional Global Warming will ensure less fuel in future years so this type of fire won't happen again. Three cheers for GW!!!

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (17330)	10/26/2007 10:24:40 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 224749

droughts happen, we've had worse, it's just a cycle.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (17330)	10/26/2007 10:26:41 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 224749

The study, in which Cook was joined by scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as well as the universities of Arizona and Arkansas, maps a 400-year period of recurring mega-droughts that make the West's current five-year dry spell look puny. "Compared to the earlier 'mega-droughts' that are reconstructed to have occurred around AD 936, 1034, 1150 and 1253, the current drought does not stand out as an extreme event because it has not yet lasted nearly as long," the authors wrote. "This is a disquieting result because future droughts in the West of similar duration to those seen prior to AD 1300 would be disastrous." Cook called the centuries between 900 and 1300 "the most persistently dry period on record in the last 1,200 years." Large portions of the West were gripped by droughts that lasted two or three decades at a time, dwarfing the current drought that, despite its comparative brevity, has dramatically shrunk reservoirs and raised the possibility of water shortages in the Colorado River Basin. "I think the impact of the current drought indicates how vulnerable a good part of the West can be," Cook said. "Tack on another five years and I think the scenario is grim." The research team plotted tree ring data across North America from the last 1,200 years, painting the broadest picture yet of past drought conditions on the continent. Prior reconstructions, the authors said, dealt with smaller areas and shorter time frames. To back up the tree ring record, the team looked at other data from the same period. Fire scars on sequoias, wildfire-deposited charcoal in ancient lake beds and elevated lake salinity levels all reflected arid conditions in the West during the late Middle Ages. The dry conditions roughly coincided with a period believed to have been warmer in North America. That ancient coincidence, said co-author and NOAA paleoclimatologist C. Mark Eakin, is in accord with climate modeling that indicates warmer temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean have led to the upwelling of cooler waters in the eastern Pacific, causing drier, La Niña conditions. "So if we see warming in the future, that could lead to the same sort of cooler, eastern Pacific, drier West as we've seen in the past," Eakin said. But Alan Hamlet, a research scientist with the Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington, said global warming won't necessarily lead to drier times. "We have high confidence things are getting warmer and will probably continue to get warmer. What is still uncertain is what will happen with precipitation," he said. "I have not seen compelling evidence that just because it gets warmer, it gets drier. "I don't think the paleo record sheds a lot of light on what's going to happen" under global warming, he added. The study published in Science is the second released in recent months to suggest that the West had experienced far longer droughts than the current one, which is the most severe in the Colorado River basin since record-keeping began in 1906. In August, researchers from the University of Nevada and Scripps Institution of Oceanography published a paper that concluded this drought was the seventh worst to hit the Upper Colorado River Basin in the past 500 years. "The current drought is bad, but it could be worse," they concluded.