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Friday Night Open Thread

By Jeralyn, Section Blog Related
Posted on Fri Apr 16, 2010 at 09:25:13 PM EST
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I'm still working, working, working. The TL kid just arrived for dinner, so it will be a few hours before I can check the news or see what everyone's been up to and thinking about today.

Here's an open thread, all topics welcome.

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    thanks for the tip (none / 0) (#2)
    by Jeralyn on Sat Apr 17, 2010 at 02:27:09 AM EST
    I'll keep an eye out for it.

    It's 1:30 am and I'm just finishing a motion. Time for bed, I guess the news just escaped me today, I'll try and catch up over the weekend. No promises though, I still have so much to do.

    Global warming: volcanic eruptions, earthquakes (none / 0) (#3)
    by FoxholeAtheist on Sat Apr 17, 2010 at 03:12:52 AM EST
    There's no shortage of nooz coverage on the massive volcanic eruption in Iceland (on Wednesday), that has brought air travel to a virtual standstill in much of Europe this weekend. But, thus far, we're hearing virtually nothing about any possible relationship to global warming except, notably, from this Reuters story, Ice cap thaw may awaken Icelandic volcanoes:
    A thaw of Iceland's ice caps in coming decades caused by climate change may trigger more volcanic eruptions by removing a vast weight and freeing magma from deep below ground, scientists said on Friday...

    Carolina Pagli, a geophysicist at the University of Leeds in England, said there were risks that climate change could also trigger volcanic eruptions or earthquakes in places such as Mount Erebus in Antarctica, the Aleutian islands of Alaska or Patagonia in South America. She and Freysteinn Sigmundsson, a vulcanologist at the University of Iceland, wrote a 2008 paper in the scientific journal Geophysical Research Letters about possible links between global warming and Icelandic volcanoes...

    [Scientists] said there was no sign that the current eruption from below the Eyjafjallajokull glacier that has paralysed flights over northern Europe was linked to global warming. The glacier is too small and light to affect local geology... [However] Sigmundsson said that monitoring of the Vatnajokull volcano since 2008 suggested that the 2008 estimate for magma generation was "probably a minimum estimate. It can be somewhat larger."

    In contrast to the Reuters article, the three following stories do not even contain the word "climate", let alone "global warming". Associated Press, Volcano Ash Cloud Flight Disruptions Worsen In Europe; The New York Times, Air Travel Chaos Deepens Into Weekend; and The Atlantic, FAQ on Volcanic Ash Mess - which concludes on this fallacious and self-congratulatory postscript:

    Widely available reports have been accurate, informative, and non-alarmist. Who says journalism is headed straight down? What does it show about global warming? Topic for another time.
    Wife's flight to London on Friday (5.00 / 1) (#7)
    by coast on Sat Apr 17, 2010 at 08:15:22 PM EST
    was cancelled due to the ash.  I was facing a week of taking care of the kids alone for a week.  I put up a brave face and feigned sympathy when her flight was offically cancelled.  But underneath, I was very relieved.  My patience level is no where near my wife's.  Kids already don't think of me as "the fun parent".  Lord knows what they would have been saying after a week.  I did take them to see the Blue Angles today though.  What a show!

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    I believe the dust and dirt cast into the (none / 0) (#4)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sat Apr 17, 2010 at 07:31:44 AM EST
    atmosphere will contribute to global cooling.

    Kinda like Nuclear Winter we were all supposed to worry about.

    Link

    Of course there is so much hot air over the subject......

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    Wingnut Poker TV (none / 0) (#5)
    by squeaky on Sat Apr 17, 2010 at 04:10:48 PM EST
    A show made for our ppj...

    Fox news is fair and balanced and everyone else is way liberal, so "the right" has decided that it has no choice but to launch its own network. I'm not kidding:

    digby

    Numerous Overton Window moves for the price of one (none / 0) (#6)
    by FoxholeAtheist on Sat Apr 17, 2010 at 06:59:05 PM EST
    The right will obviously move the Overton Window to the right when they create their 'own' network; and then they will move it ever further to the right with ongoing faux rants about how FOX is too librul - and the New York Times, et al, are raggedy a$$ communists.

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