<i>Probes of Deep Sea Floor Reveals "Strong" Sources of Methane, a Powerful Greenhouse Gas</i>

Probes of Deep Sea Floor Reveals "Strong" Sources of Methane, a Powerful Greenhouse Gas

To understand why this is important, you need to know what the "Science Media" refuses to tell you: While carbon dioxide is classified as a greenhouse gas, it is barely classified as one: It is one of the very weakest to have such a designation.

By the way, carbon dioxide is an even weaker greenhouse agent than understood even by climate skeptics: It begins as a weak greenhouse gas, and then becomes even more weak at higher concentrations. That is, units of carbon dioxide do not "stack" upon themselves as simple as 1 + 1 = 2. It's more like 1 + 1 = 1.4. And the 1 + 1 + 1 = 1.65.

As carbon dioxide concentration increases, the addition of any more carbon dioxide contributes less to the greenhouse effect than the last. The "marginal" impact of every new dose of carbon dioxide is always less than the last dose administered.

Methane, on the other hand, is a powerful greenhouse gas.

How much more powerful is methane than carbon dioxide in terms of greenhouse impact? Try thirty times more powerful, Jack.

The Warming Mongers have occasionally sort of owned up to this Inconvenient Truth. When they talk about cattle farming as being a Danger to Our Very Earth, they're talking about the methane produced by cows' digestion of grass and feed. Their farts, I mean. More cows, more methane, more greenhouse effect.

But of course their central preoccupation is carbon dioxide, which I have a habit of mocking as The Invisible Killer. In fact, it's not so much a killer as a minor bother.

Now scientists have probed the tropical Pacific floor, and have found a great big swath of microbes pumping out a gas that actually has a greenhouse impact beyond the trivial.

Writing in the journal for the International Society for Microbial Ecology, (Friday 24 February 2017) the team describe for the first time how microbial methane production in parts of the seafloor, where the water is very low in oxygen, feeds a vast methane pool which extends from Panama, up to Mexico and as far out as the Hawaiian archipelago.
Joint lead author Felicity Shelley, from QMUL's School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, said: "The research is novel because it's the first time anyone has successfully retrieved sediment from this part of the ocean and directly measured methane production using specialised equipment on board the research ship."
"It is important that we understand how microbes produce and consume this powerful greenhouse gas, especially in the oceans where we currently understand very little."

Hack Scientists Who Didn't Really Major in a Real Science: "The science is settled."

Actual Science: "Yes, lads, you've fathomed all of my mysteries in the thirty years since you've created and then 'pefected' this infant grab-bag science of yours. You've got me all figured out, and there's nothing left to learn. Well done, boys. Very well done. By the way, I'm being very sarcastic. Like Spock with an arched eyebrow. That's how Science rolls."

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Posted by: Rick in SK at March 02, 2017 03:01 PM (FZYNt)

2 But, but CO2!!!

Posted by: HH at March 02, 2017 03:02 PM (DrCtv)

3 Damn brussel sprouts

Posted by: Bruce at March 02, 2017 03:02 PM (8ikIW)

4 boo-yay

Posted by: Rick in SK at March 02, 2017 03:02 PM (FZYNt)

5 Bill Nye begs to differ

Posted by: Rick in SK at March 02, 2017 03:02 PM (FZYNt)

6 Manatee farts are a little-understood phenomenon.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 02, 2017 03:02 PM (8ZskC)

7 Stump a Science Lover : How much carbon is sequestered in Geologic Formations, alone?

Posted by: garrett at March 02, 2017 03:03 PM (ktw54)

8 Just what I've been saying for years, the biggest global warming gases sink on the planet, the oceans.

I deserve a grant.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 02, 2017 03:03 PM (/tuJf)

9 The Global Warming stupidity is human hubris turned to 11 in the absence of belief in a creator.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 02, 2017 03:03 PM (B+qrE)

10 And I will say again, that giant thermonuclear explosion going off over our left shoulder has more impact than anything else.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 02, 2017 03:04 PM (R7+kO)

11 Executive Summary: Here There Be Monsters

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 02, 2017 03:04 PM (8ZskC)

12 Manatee farts are a little-understood phenomenon.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 02, 2017 03:02 PM (8ZskC)

It's the lettuce, isn't it?

I bet it's the lettuce.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 02, 2017 03:04 PM (8nWyX)

13 Ahhhh

* takes deep whiff of New Thread *

METHANE

* passes out *

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 02, 2017 03:04 PM (6TED6)

14 Icebergs contain enough methane to power a neighborhood.

Posted by: Ethiopian woman at March 02, 2017 03:04 PM (loJzf)

15 Gee, it's almost like climate is a highly complex system that we don't really understand all that well and that cannot be adequately modeled based on our current level of understanding and computer power.

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at March 02, 2017 03:04 PM (RD7QR)

16 Raped By Science : The Bill Nye Story

Posted by: garrett at March 02, 2017 03:04 PM (ktw54)

17 produce and consume...

IOW, this is a non-problem.

especially since the only data that shows "warming" is massaged, homogenized and otherwise altered to produce the desired outcome.

this whole campaign is about telling people how to live while the people telling us what we can and can't do get rich and do what they want.

FOAD.

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 02, 2017 03:05 PM (Xmzhr)

18 Stump a Science Lover : How much carbon is sequestered in Geologic Formations, alone?

Let's just hope Vesuvius or Yellowstone don't fart.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 02, 2017 03:05 PM (B+qrE)

19 LEAVE MANATEES ALONE YOU HORRIBLE HORRIBLES

So. This is the first time this type of research has been done. But we totes know each and every one of the inputs into the complex dynamic system that is the climate.

Totes.

Posted by: alexthechick - Pentaverate? I have no idea what you mean! at March 02, 2017 03:05 PM (mf5HN)

20 10 And I will say again, that giant thermonuclear explosion going off over our left shoulder has more impact than anything else.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

ah yes, man's effect on changing climate. ignore the sun!!!!

Posted by: Rick in SK at March 02, 2017 03:05 PM (FZYNt)

21 I Break Wind For Sea Cows

Posted by: Methane Bumperstickers at March 02, 2017 03:06 PM (ktw54)

22 So, did the dinosaurs fart themselves into extinction or what?

Posted by: huerfano at March 02, 2017 03:06 PM (jkkMG)

23 OTOH, this has been a very weird winter. Cold, warm cold etc. Not blaming warming, just the strangest winter I've ever seen.

Posted by: HH at March 02, 2017 03:06 PM (DrCtv)

24 Sorry about that. Had beans for breakfast.

Posted by: zombie Mike Nelson at March 02, 2017 03:06 PM (WDdjT)

25 So the Oceans will kill us with sharknados and gas?

Posted by: @votermom @vm at March 02, 2017 03:06 PM (Om16U)

26 Personally, I like the Deep Probing.

Posted by: Ocean Sandra Fluke at March 02, 2017 03:06 PM (8iiMU)

27 I saw Swath of Microbes open for Jane's Addiction at the Palladium in '88.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 02, 2017 03:06 PM (8ZskC)

28 "It is important that we understand..., especially... where we
currently understand very little."

How actual scientists talk.

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 02, 2017 03:06 PM (6TED6)

29 Actually, this might mean a source for frozen clathrate deposits - "methane ice" on the sea floor, which exists in significant quantities. if the bacteria produce methane in vast amounts right at the sea floor, it suggests a formation mechanism for the clathrates that we see in huge areas of the ocean floor.

But that would be impossible, because areas with frozen clathrates on the sea floor have never been warmer, right?

Posted by: Sporkatus at March 02, 2017 03:06 PM (eXSOZ)

30 We must eliminate the Deep Ocean Floor Immediately!

It is the greatest threat to mankind since 100 watt light bulbs!!!!!!!

Posted by: ManBearPig at March 02, 2017 03:06 PM (J5mC3)

31 All of that is well and good and stuff real people already knew. But it makes no difference since there is no global warming. We have been cooling since 1998.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 02, 2017 03:07 PM (mpXpK)

32
Well.... thats a relief.

CO2 as a percentage of the atmosphere is .04 %. That point oh four. Barely measurable.

Methane is 0.00017%.

In scientific terms..... Climate Changers can go fuck themselves.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 02, 2017 03:07 PM (8XRCm)

33
Hack scientist:

"What does it all imply about topical issue X?"

Actual scientists:

"Hm. How does this fit in with my area of work?"

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 02, 2017 03:07 PM (CPk08)

34 And I will say again, that giant thermonuclear explosion going off over our left shoulder has more impact than anything else.

But the sun's effects are constant.

All the equations say so.

After the decline is hidden, I mean.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 02, 2017 03:07 PM (B+qrE)

35

BILL NYE!!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 02, 2017 03:07 PM (mbhDw)

36 I wish retards like Bill Nye and Al Gore would drop their output of CO2 to zero....

I'd like that a lot.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 02, 2017 03:07 PM (jjaLl)

37 FER GOD'S SAKE, NOBODY LIGHT A MATCH!!!!

Posted by: A Rapey Dolphin at March 02, 2017 03:07 PM (8ZskC)

38 15 Gee, it's almost like climate is a highly complex system that we don't really understand all that well and that cannot be adequately modeled based on our current level of understanding and computer power.
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at March 02, 2017 03:04 PM (RD7QR)

This.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 02, 2017 03:07 PM (R7+kO)

39 So, did the dinosaurs fart themselves into extinction or what?

The dinosaurs taunted Happy Fun SMOD with their tiny tiny arms.

Posted by: eleven at March 02, 2017 03:08 PM (qUNWi)

40
It seems clear we need to kill the oceans to save Earth.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 02, 2017 03:08 PM (ODxAs)

41 This appears to contain both math and science.

Posted by: Weasel at March 02, 2017 03:08 PM (C8aCP)

42 And I will say again, that giant thermonuclear explosion going off over our left shoulder has more impact than anything else.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

-----

Fusion.

Not fission.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 02, 2017 03:08 PM (8XRCm)

43 You didn't probe in the correct place.
Oh, wait, you did.

Posted by: Ocean Hope Solo at March 02, 2017 03:08 PM (8iiMU)

44 25. Better that than the quokkas......

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 02, 2017 03:08 PM (Hi5QV)

45 Mostly gas... Mostly.
Except that liquid stuff on the ocean floor. Oh, and the microbial stuff in the mud.
Gee it's like we haven't explored the ocean at all.

Posted by: IP at March 02, 2017 03:08 PM (hUtue)

46 30 We must eliminate the Deep Ocean Floor Immediately!

It is the greatest threat to mankind since 100 watt light bulbs!!!!!!!

Posted by: ManBearPig at March 02, 2017 03:06 PM (J5mC3)

Marianas Trench Hardest Hit.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 02, 2017 03:08 PM (mbhDw)

47 Science, like the Constitution, means whatever we want, whenever we want!!

This message brought to you by Douchnozzles in Gubmint

Posted by: Bruce at March 02, 2017 03:08 PM (8ikIW)

48 My lower colon, therefore, resembles the tropical Pacific Ocean seabed.

Here, pull my finger.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 02, 2017 03:09 PM (xpfRn)

49 >>especially in the oceans where we currently understand very little

Another of my pet peeves. Yes, space exploration is swell. How about we spend a little time understanding something that covers 2/3 of our planet and is likely to be a hell of a lot more useful.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 02, 2017 03:09 PM (/tuJf)

50 Here is why ALL the models show warming. Because they all assume an increase in CO2 makes for an increase in temperature. That's not based on anything other than the assumption. Because Venus has CO2, and it's hot. I guess Venus is a planet so that sounds like science, but that is pretty much it.

CO2 has increased, there is no question about that.

But whether that makes for a temperature change is good question.

Posted by: blaster at March 02, 2017 03:09 PM (tewYv)

51
This sort of research shouldn't be conducted by the Department of Education, or the Environmental Protection Agency, but by the... give me a second here... help me out?

Posted by: Rick Perry at March 02, 2017 03:09 PM (ZFUt7)

52 When do we reach Peak Panic?

Posted by: garrett at March 02, 2017 03:09 PM (ktw54)

53
Imma gonna punch the next whale I see right it the mouth.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 02, 2017 03:09 PM (ODxAs)

54 How much methane in a giraffe fart?

Posted by: April at March 02, 2017 03:09 PM (1SZIP)

55 i'm not going to worry about CO2 until one of two things happens:

the atmospheric concentration rises to a level that threatens to make it impossible for me to breath the air.
and/or
the people who keep telling me this is a problem start living/acting the way they keep telling me *I* have to...

yeah, i'm looking at you Al Gore, Leonard DiWhateverTheHellHisNameIs, and all the other eco-fascist watermelons...

until then they can eat shit and bark at the moon.

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 02, 2017 03:09 PM (Xmzhr)

56 Well it's obvious what to do here. We have to ban the ocean!

Posted by: Al Gore at March 02, 2017 03:09 PM (u8kLQ)

57 Fusion.

Not fission.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 02, 2017 03:08 PM (8XRCm)

Still an explosion.

My Solarcaine says so.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 02, 2017 03:09 PM (B+qrE)

58 54 How much methane in a giraffe fart?
Posted by: April at March 02, 2017 03:09 PM (1SZIP)

We should know any minute, right?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 02, 2017 03:10 PM (mbhDw)

59 Can we tax these microbes for their greenhouse gas production?

Perhaps we can get James Cameron to go down and do it.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at March 02, 2017 03:10 PM (34w2E)

60 Imagine the fart of a diplodicus. Now multiply that by 25 times.

That's one hell of a Dutch oven, baby.

Posted by: Argentinosaurus Huinculensis at March 02, 2017 03:10 PM (8ZskC)

61 CO2 is no bother, it is plant "fertilizer". going from 290 to 400ppm is significant for plant growth, not significant as a "greenhouse gas".

"The real Greening of America", and all arid areas around the world, is almost certainly due to CO2 increases. Going to 600ppm would do more to feed the world than most other efforts.

Thank You CO2 ...

I propose a "thank the internal combustion engine day" to be celebrated by rational people on "Earth Day".

Posted by: illiniwek at March 02, 2017 03:10 PM (YMJtx)

62 How about we spend a little time understanding
something that covers 2/3 of our planet and is likely to be a hell of a
lot more useful.

Posted by: JackStraw
====

Second Look at SeaQuest DSV ?

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 02, 2017 03:10 PM (6TED6)

63 The oceans are farting!

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Purchase A Plethora of Pungent Pithy Phrases at the Outrage Outlet! at March 02, 2017 03:10 PM (hLRSq)

64 I love "settled science" sexually . . . in an angry, revenge-sex sort of way . . . if you know what I mean (and I think you do!)

Posted by: Publius Redux at March 02, 2017 03:10 PM (Fb9aZ)

65 My dad and I used to joke about cows with catalytic converters strapped to them to catch their farts.Actually been done in California.

Posted by: steevy at March 02, 2017 03:10 PM (r/0kC)

66 I'm with Al! I volunteer to drink the entire ocean!

Posted by: Lena Dunham at March 02, 2017 03:11 PM (u8kLQ)

67 62
Second Look at SeaQuest DSV ?
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 02, 2017 03:10 PM (6TED6)

"Pfft!"

- - "Stingray" and "Diver Dan"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 02, 2017 03:11 PM (mbhDw)

68 CO2 has increased, there is no question about that.

But whether that makes for a temperature change is good question.

It's been higher before.

FOLLOWING temperature increases.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 02, 2017 03:11 PM (B+qrE)

69
Reggie Love: I did some deep probing myself after Cinco de Quatro day and sad to say some gasses were released

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 02, 2017 03:11 PM (493sH)

70 Barbara Manatee...you're the one for me!

Posted by: veggietales at March 02, 2017 03:12 PM (TJGQ7)

71
The ocean will give you the crabs.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 02, 2017 03:12 PM (ODxAs)

72 Not fission.

Posted by: fixerupper
Better not. Fission season doesn't open until May 6th here.

Posted by: Bruce at March 02, 2017 03:12 PM (8ikIW)

73 Manbearpig hardest hit. Like the climate is poorly understood or something?

Posted by: Usntakim at March 02, 2017 03:12 PM (hMqvx)

74 Someone fill the bathtub, I'll go get my Aqua Joe Doll and investigate.

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 02, 2017 03:12 PM (ktw54)

75 SCIENCE!

Posted by: Dr. Magnus Pyke at March 02, 2017 03:13 PM (hgEPl)

76 Trump should impose a $2.00 stamp tax on all printed material that advocates the AGW scam. And a $10/min tax on other media.

After all, its a tax!

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 02, 2017 03:13 PM (mpXpK)

77 Methane's effect is also trivial, because it is momentary, or nearly so. Methane is volatile, and breaks down in the atmosphere very readily, very quickly. It is an effective greenhouse gas only in isolation from the atmosphere.

Posted by: Gundo at March 02, 2017 03:13 PM (IFLWF)

78 71
The ocean will give you the crabs.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 02, 2017 03:12 PM (ODxAs)

"We walked into a minefield! Your crabs'll leave you now!"

- - Big Joe

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 02, 2017 03:13 PM (mbhDw)

79 What can I say? I like Mexican food.

Posted by: Pacific Ocean at March 02, 2017 03:13 PM (kTF2Z)

80 >>>>I wish retards like Bill Nye and Al Gore would drop their output of CO2 to zero....

THAT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THEN THEY WOULDN'T BE ALIVE.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at March 02, 2017 03:13 PM (jjaLl)

81 Seaquest was left wing shit worse the ST:TNG.Even had their own Wesley type kid.

Posted by: steevy at March 02, 2017 03:13 PM (r/0kC)

82 62. Sealab 2021.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 02, 2017 03:13 PM (Hi5QV)

83 When do we reach Peak Panic?

Posted by: garrett at March 02, 2017 03:09 PM

It's the only perpetual motion machine.

Posted by: huerfano at March 02, 2017 03:14 PM (jkkMG)

84 35

BILL NYE!!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 02, 2017 03:07 PM (mbhDw)
______________________________________
JJ. I assume this is shouted in the style of Captain Kirk in the Wrath of Kahn - yes?

Posted by: Publius Redux at March 02, 2017 03:14 PM (Fb9aZ)

85
This is like some scientific wet dream.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 02, 2017 03:14 PM (ODxAs)

86 79 What can I say? I like Mexican food.
Posted by: Pacific Ocean at March 02, 2017 03:13 PM (kTF2Z)

Methane then is more prevalent and noxious in Baja.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 02, 2017 03:14 PM (mbhDw)

87 FOLLOWING temperature increases.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 02, 2017 03:11 PM (B+qrE)

This, exactly!!!!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 02, 2017 03:14 PM (jjaLl)

88 I'll have to go back and check Aces math again.

Posted by: Neil D 'super scientist' at March 02, 2017 03:14 PM (uyrlv)

89 If you put catalytic converters on the cows of California, the illegals would just steal them all for the platinum.

Posted by: Chupacabra at March 02, 2017 03:14 PM (pRtaC)

90 People exhale carbon dioxide not methane. Climate change is all about controlling people and implementing NWO. Put a meter on your chest and cut off your breathing if you don't worship Baal (aka Marduk).

Posted by: Ok at March 02, 2017 03:14 PM (K2SnJ)

91 Scientists meanwhile have discovered a veritable ocean of carbon underneath the mantle, located at Yellowstone. This pile of carbon credits contains about 1 billion times, iirc, as much CO2 as the entire Earth's atmosphere.

We're all gonna die.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 02, 2017 03:15 PM (xpfRn)

92 84 JJ. I assume this is shouted in the style of Captain Kirk in the Wrath of Kahn - yes?
Posted by: Publius Redux at March 02, 2017 03:14 PM (Fb9aZ)

Was thinking MATT DAMON!!!!

Kirk is just one word, NYEEEE!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 02, 2017 03:15 PM (mbhDw)

93 what does deep thinker neil the tyson chicken have to say?...

Posted by: concrete girl at March 02, 2017 03:15 PM (puqpI)

94 >>It's the only perpetual motion machine.

It would be like harnessing the Fap-Power of the Horde.

Posted by: garrett at March 02, 2017 03:15 PM (ktw54)

95 Though you can shoot rustlers still, can't you?

Posted by: Chupacabra at March 02, 2017 03:15 PM (pRtaC)

96 I think we are actually experiencing a mini ice age.

Posted by: Max Power at March 02, 2017 03:15 PM (q177U)

97 Methane is also a dutch oven gas.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 02, 2017 03:15 PM (GX63o)

98 Where is that amazing Flipper when you need him?

Posted by: Infidel at March 02, 2017 03:15 PM (ByNzS)

99 Barbara Manatee...you're the one for me!
Posted by: veggietales at March 02, 2017 03:12 PM (TJGQ7)
__________________________

I thought she was a mandrill?

Posted by: IP at March 02, 2017 03:15 PM (hUtue)

100
Paul Mantee.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 02, 2017 03:16 PM (mbhDw)

101
Dear Mr Scientist.

If all the methane is at the bottom of the ocean.... how is it gonna warm the planet???

Posted by: fixerupper at March 02, 2017 03:16 PM (8XRCm)

102
Taco Bell and Thai food.

Bad idea.

Posted by: Methane producing microbes at March 02, 2017 03:16 PM (6TED6)

103 99 The ones with the blue asses??

Posted by: steevy at March 02, 2017 03:16 PM (r/0kC)

104

She's a man drill baby.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 02, 2017 03:16 PM (8XRCm)

105 Way back when, when banded iron was formed in the rock formations (which you can collect in the Keewanauw Peninsula in MI, the atmosphere was NOT mostly nitrogen/oxygen. Itty-bitty microbes used/ate the (whatever, I forget) and shit out oxygen, which we breathe today.

Now, these other microbes are shitting methane.

Bottom line: the world is changing, and has always been changing.
And in the scheme of things, we have less of an effect than most people believe.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt, still loving the Cubs, even though they are WINNERS! at March 02, 2017 03:16 PM (8iiMU)

106 There was a study about 7 years ago surveying the ocean floor for thermal/volcanic vents.

The study estimated that the previously accepted number was too low by a magnitude of 10x.

Which is why i still can't accept the warmunistas' estimates of anthropogenic C02.

No amount of certainty can be had if you're relying on data that is wrong by 10x.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 02, 2017 03:16 PM (4YGWz)

107 I thought microbes that farted hydrocarbons was something that a few startups were trying to develop?

Maybe nature beat them to it, and all we need to do is see what they feed on, scoop them up and see if they'll live somewhere we can actually contain and harvest the gas?

Posted by: 7-11 at March 02, 2017 03:16 PM (TppKb)

108 I see the problem. I'm pretty sure that 1+1 does NOT =2.

Posted by: Neil D 'super scientist' at March 02, 2017 03:17 PM (uyrlv)

109 So, just seal the floor of the ocean with asphalt.

Duh.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 02, 2017 03:17 PM (PY9jH)

110
Oh my Cod, stop carping about fish.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 02, 2017 03:17 PM (ODxAs)

111 Imagine if all of the fish in the ocean were commanded by Aquaman to fart at the same time under a burning oil slick.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Purchase A Plethora of Pungent Pithy Phrases at the Outrage Outlet! at March 02, 2017 03:17 PM (hLRSq)

112 What? No, I am not the last polar bear. There are plenty of us, thanks. We're doing fine. What? No, I don't care what Al Gore said.

Jeebus, what's wrong with you people? You gullible or what?

Posted by: The Last Polar Bear at March 02, 2017 03:17 PM (Fw5cQ)

113 But I thought the science was settled?

Imagine my pain and disappointment.

Posted by: Sgt. Hulka at March 02, 2017 03:17 PM (2PU5o)

114 81: I blame NBC for that shit. Of all the big 3, they seem to be the most obnoxious about injecting tasteless lefty propaganda. It was a good show when they laid off the propaganda. And it also helped that Jonathan Brandis was a waaaaay better actor than Wil Wheaton.

Posted by: Jackal at March 02, 2017 03:17 PM (Nfr/7)

115 "Pfft!"

- - "Stingray" and "Diver Dan"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 02, 2017 03:11 PM (mbhDw)

Kansas Katie loved her a deep-sea diver, IYKWIMAITTYD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXCxr06FBsY

Posted by: zombie Mike Nelson at March 02, 2017 03:17 PM (WDdjT)

116 Second Look at SeaQuest DSV ?
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 02, 2017 03:10 PM (6TED6)

"Pfft!"

- - "Stingray" and "Diver Dan"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 02, 2017 03:11 PM (mbhDw)

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: What am I, chopped Richard Basehart?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 02, 2017 03:18 PM (493sH)

117 My Give-a-Shit meter has not moved.

At all.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 02, 2017 03:18 PM (0tfLf)

118 Fusion.

Not fission.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 02, 2017 03:08 PM (8XRCm)

That is why I said thermonuclear.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 02, 2017 03:18 PM (R7+kO)

119 Oh, thank God!

Can everyone please stop obsession over our flatulence now???
It's not like you guys don't toot after eating beans.

Posted by: Cows at March 02, 2017 03:18 PM (NOIQH)

120 Does it ever occur to anyone that when you say "Green House Gas" that it doesn't apply to the planet Earth?

We don't have a covering over us. The atmosphere thins out above us into space. That isn't exactly what a green house does.

Posted by: HH at March 02, 2017 03:18 PM (DrCtv)

121 Feed me a bowl of hot chili with kidney beans and I'm a walking methane refinery for at least 24hrs.

Posted by: Under Fire at March 02, 2017 03:18 PM (fqERy)

122 No amount of certainty can be had if you're relying on data that is wrong by 10x.

Equally to the point, if you're depending on instrumented measurement that's got a margin of error over history of +/-, say, half a degree, and you've only got actual measurements of 35% of the globe, but you're claiming to cook up results planet-wide accurate to 0.02deg, you're full of shit.

Posted by: 7-11 at March 02, 2017 03:19 PM (TppKb)

123 92
84 JJ. I assume this is shouted in the style of Captain Kirk in the Wrath of Kahn - yes?

Posted by: Publius Redux at March 02, 2017 03:14 PM (Fb9aZ)

Was thinking MATT DAMON!!!!

Kirk is just one word, NYEEEE!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 02, 2017 03:15 PM (mbhDw)
________________________________________heh.
OK - just trying to get oriented to time and place my friend.

Posted by: Publius Redux at March 02, 2017 03:19 PM (Fb9aZ)

124 ...do more to feed the world...

Death cult NWO wants to kill 66.6% of the world human population. North Korea is their test bed.

Posted by: Ok at March 02, 2017 03:19 PM (K2SnJ)

125 Me, I'm going to follow Matt Damons plea. Drink me some Stella Artois and the people that need water will somehow get water.
It's like magic!

Posted by: Bruce at March 02, 2017 03:19 PM (8ikIW)

126
1. Americans are huge energy users
2. CO2 is produced by energy users
3. More Americans means more CO2 produced
4. Immigration to the USA is good for the planet

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 02, 2017 03:19 PM (ZFUt7)

127 Meanwhile , back at the Congressional ranch...

Senator John McCain prepares a Methane cap and trade bill - aka Methane Tax.

Senator Lindsay Graham looks on and giggles.

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 02, 2017 03:19 PM (6TED6)

128 If you set out to violate every tenet of the Scientific Method you'd have Global Warming theory

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 02, 2017 03:19 PM (SIY7D)

129 Sessions holding a 4pm press conference?

If he bags it, it's all over. One scalp too many.

Posted by: Chupacabra at March 02, 2017 03:19 PM (pRtaC)

130 I'M SORRY I POOPED IN THE OCEAN!!! MY BAD GUYS!!!

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at March 02, 2017 03:19 PM (hc6jn)

131 Feed me a bowl of hot chili with kidney beans and I'm a walking methane refinery for at least 24hrs.

The REAL Matrix. Here's your hose.

Posted by: 7-11 at March 02, 2017 03:19 PM (TppKb)

132 119 I think you boys have had enough beans!

Posted by: Mr. Taggart at March 02, 2017 03:20 PM (TJGQ7)

133 Alas, poor sock, I knew him well.

Posted by: JEM at March 02, 2017 03:20 PM (TppKb)

134 Uh, you guys saying we can't eat any seaweed now, too?

Posted by: Vegans at March 02, 2017 03:20 PM (NOIQH)

135 Are the methane people and the carbon dioxide people going to start fighting over government research funding?

Posted by: rickl at March 02, 2017 03:20 PM (zoehZ)

136 Yellowstone Caldera is the only thing that can save us.

Posted by: Infidel at March 02, 2017 03:20 PM (ByNzS)

137 My local gas station has a hydrogen pump which I have never seen anyone use, this is where we should be heading instead of the stupid toxic electric cars.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 02, 2017 03:20 PM (6Ll1u)

138 Fascinating.

Posted by: Mr. Spock at March 02, 2017 03:20 PM (5JlYa)

139 Big pool covers need to be put on the oceans now.

Posted by: scofflaw_x at March 02, 2017 03:20 PM (y9ZJX)

140 By the way, the URI graduate school of oceanography posts a link to the video feed of the expeditions they run. They've been showing some underwater shots of the deep ocean Pacific off the Canadian coast. Lots of cool sea creature and good shots of underwater ocean venting.

http://nautiluslive.org

Posted by: JackStraw at March 02, 2017 03:21 PM (/tuJf)

141 No jokes about being Dutch-ovened by the Pacific Ocean?

You guys are slacking off.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 02, 2017 03:21 PM (PY9jH)

142 If you put catalytic converters on the cows of California, the illegals would just steal them all for the platinum.

I thought they were planning small pilot lights to flare it off?

Posted by: JEM at March 02, 2017 03:21 PM (TppKb)

143 Are the methane people and the carbon dioxide people going to start fighting over government research funding?
Posted by: rickl at March 02, 2017 03:20 PM (zoehZ)

====

pfffffft

There's enough for EVERYBODY.

Posted by: Lindsey Graham at March 02, 2017 03:21 PM (8XRCm)

144 the article didn't state if this is a new phenomena.

Posted by: Avi at March 02, 2017 03:21 PM (jBXZd)

145 125 Specifically it is women that need water because they spend so much time collecting it it some such.

Posted by: steevy at March 02, 2017 03:21 PM (r/0kC)

146 If there were a Justice League of Greenhouse Gases, then CO2 would be Aquaman.

Posted by: Hudson21 at March 02, 2017 03:21 PM (nsy7c)

147 Poseidon ate a burrito

Posted by: Roy at March 02, 2017 03:21 PM (VndSC)

148 My local gas station has a hydrogen pump
==

Don't those things have a tendency to sort of explode?

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 02, 2017 03:21 PM (6TED6)

149 Can't I just chew on my cud

Posted by: moo moo tfg at March 02, 2017 03:22 PM (9n0dl)

150 I think I have the problem solved.

We need to plant trees on the ocean floor.

Posted by: Rick in SK at March 02, 2017 03:22 PM (FZYNt)

151 >>Me, I'm going to follow Matt Damons plea. Drink me some Stella Artois and the people that need water will somehow get water.
It's like magic!

Isn't it specifically to help *women* get clean water?
I don;t know why women need water more, but....

Posted by: Cows at March 02, 2017 03:22 PM (NOIQH)

152 140
By the way, the URI graduate school of oceanography posts a link to the
video feed of the expeditions they run. They've been showing some
underwater shots of the deep ocean Pacific off the Canadian coast. Lots
of cool sea creature and good shots of underwater ocean venting.

http://nautiluslive.org

Posted by: JackStraw
_____________________________________________

"underwater venting" - is that slang for something sexual?

Posted by: Publius Redux at March 02, 2017 03:22 PM (Fb9aZ)

153 Are the methane people and the carbon dioxide people going to start fighting over government research funding?
Posted by: rickl at March 02, 2017 03:20 PM (zoehZ)

CO2 people say the methane people are full of shit.

Posted by: Roy at March 02, 2017 03:22 PM (VndSC)

154 Will Jacqueline Bisset in a wet t-shirt be involved in any of this? If not, I got work to do.

Posted by: josephistan at March 02, 2017 03:22 PM (7HtZB)

155 The core of the earth is well over a million degrees. Did I also mention that I happen to help create the internet?

Posted by: Al Gore , son of segregationist at March 02, 2017 03:22 PM (loJzf)

156 No jokes about being Dutch-ovened by the Pacific Ocean?

Isn't that cultural appropriation?

Posted by: Indonesia at March 02, 2017 03:22 PM (TppKb)

157 and if anyone has direct experience in plugging the sources of methane, it's Lindsey Graham.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at March 02, 2017 03:22 PM (WfqJf)

158 15 Gee, it's almost like climate is a highly complex system that we don't really understand all that well and that cannot be adequately modeled based on our current level of understanding and computer power.
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at March 02, 2017 03:04 PM (RD7QR)

This.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 02, 2017 03:07 PM (R7+kO)

Don't forget the thousands of new life forms that are discovered EVERY SINGLE FREAKING YEAR.

Posted by: Country Boy - just a humble, occasionally hotheaded poster at March 02, 2017 03:23 PM (vyPoc)

159 And what of dolphin and killer whale farts? Have these geniuses factored those into their "science"?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 02, 2017 03:23 PM (Dg36k)

160 Wait. Eat a sirloin save the planet?

Posted by: Marcus T at March 02, 2017 03:23 PM (gjdGN)

161
AG Sessions to speak to the MFM at 4pm Eastern

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 02, 2017 03:23 PM (493sH)

162 Sessions new conference at 4.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 02, 2017 03:23 PM (gjdGN)

163 Don't those things have a tendency to sort of explode?

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 02, 2017 03:21 PM (6TED6)

Pffft. There's an unexploded nuclear bomb somewhere in the water just a few miles from me. Google "Tybee Bomb." Air Force can't find it.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 02, 2017 03:23 PM (PY9jH)

164 "underwater venting" - is that slang for something sexual?

"You had the bean soup last night? Here, you need the wetsuit with the one way valve..."

Posted by: JEM at March 02, 2017 03:23 PM (TppKb)

165 Bill Nye begs to differ

Posted by: Rick in SK at March 02, 2017 03:02 PM (FZYNt)
.............

You misspelled "suck shplibs".

Posted by: wth at March 02, 2017 03:24 PM (HgMAr)

166 TAMALE!!!!

Posted by: George Costanza at March 02, 2017 03:24 PM (BDZWU)

167 78 71
The ocean will give you the crabs.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 02, 2017 03:12 PM (ODxAs)

reminds me of the old anthem, 'Wet Dream' by Kip Addotta...
My Barracuda was in the shop so I was driving a red Stingray, and it was overheating,
so I pulled into a Shell station.
They said I'd blown a seal.
I said, "Fix the damn thing and leave my private life out of it, okay?"

Posted by: the Butcher at March 02, 2017 03:24 PM (AGJqR)

168 Eat your porpoise and relax.

Posted by: One killer whale to another at March 02, 2017 03:24 PM (Dg36k)

169 WE MUST DRAIN THE PACIFIC OCEAN RIGHT AWAY AND PLUG THOSE METHANE HOLES!

Posted by: red speck at March 02, 2017 03:24 PM (RcEOo)

170
Sharknado is real!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 02, 2017 03:24 PM (ODxAs)

171 AG Sessions to speak to the MFM at 4pm Eastern
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 02, 2017 03:23 PM (493sH)

------

Thank you for coming to this hastily called Presser.

Kindly, fuck off now.

That is all.

Posted by: AG Sessions at March 02, 2017 03:24 PM (8XRCm)

172 If Sessions throws in the towel, I give up.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 02, 2017 03:24 PM (PY9jH)

173 >>Big pool covers need to be put on the oceans now.

*opens notebook*
*starts scribbling calculations*

This is gonna take waaaaaaay more fabric than the time I draped a curtain across a canyon!! How do you feel about the color orange?

Posted by: Christo at March 02, 2017 03:24 PM (NOIQH)

174 Science bitches, science will set you free until Al Gore wants his second chakra!

Posted by: Killerdog at March 02, 2017 03:24 PM (7SC+O)

175 AG Sessions to speak to the MFM at 4pm Eastern

Hopefully there will be paramedics and possibly a coroner's wagon waiting outside.

Posted by: JEM at March 02, 2017 03:24 PM (TppKb)

176 Bill Nye says they wouldn't be growing wine grapes in England today if it wasn't for man's addition of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
(How the fuck is that a bad thing? I don't have a clue.)

I'm sure you've all heard of all the experiments that tell exactly what Earth's average temperature would be today if we had never used carbon-based fuels.

No?

Neither has anyone else.

Because real science has measurements and numbers--not "computer models."

But, that's the real damned question here, isn't it?

"What is the 'optimal' temperature for the Earth?"
"When was the Earth at this optimal temperature?"
"Why is that the optimal temperature?"

The man-made global warming people WILL NOT answer those three questions.

Posted by: RoyalOil at March 02, 2017 03:24 PM (AmMfi)

177 151
>>Me, I'm going to follow Matt Damons plea. Drink me some Stella
Artois and the people that need water will somehow get water.
It's like magic!

Isn't it specifically to help *women* get clean water?
I don;t know why women need water more, but....

Posted by: Cows at March 02, 2017 03:22 PM (NOIQH)

________________________________
Well - if there isn't more water for women - how are they going to retain it every month? ( Ok - apologies to our female morons - but I could simply not let that straight line go by - it was like trying to lay off the hanging curve ball - I simply cannot do it)

Posted by: Publius Redux at March 02, 2017 03:25 PM (Fb9aZ)

178 Seal the bottom the ocean with Vegemite. Once cured, it's virtually impenetrable.

Posted by: Under Fire at March 02, 2017 03:25 PM (fqERy)

179 >>"underwater venting" - is that slang for something sexual?

It's a nice way of saying the ocean is farting. Constantly.

But cow farts are what's heating the planet.

Idiots.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 02, 2017 03:25 PM (/tuJf)

180 How do you do, fellow kids?

Posted by: Maxine Waters at March 02, 2017 03:25 PM (OD2ni)

181 "Poseidon ate a burrito

Posted by: Roy at March 02, 2017 03:21 PM (VndSC) "

I did not! I had Chik-Fil-A for lunch!

Oh, *Po*seidon. Yeah, I don't let that asshole in the brocean anymore - his chest hairs get caught in the filter.

Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at March 02, 2017 03:25 PM (oZ6kz)

182 9 The Global Warming stupidity is human hubris turned to 11 in the absence of belief in a creator.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 02, 2017 03:03 PM (B+qrE)

It's not hubris. It's coming up with a rationale for vastly expanding the reach of the government.

Earth Day has been around since the early '70's but if I remember correctly, concern about Gaia really kicked into high gear after the Berlin Wall came down.

As PJ O'Rourke said back when he was still funny - we kicked the Marxists out the front door and they found a way to sneak in through the back. Watermelons - green on the outside, red on the inside.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at March 02, 2017 03:25 PM (ZM2xo)

183 "Mother of all Storms" by John Barnes. Great novel and on point

Posted by: jack burton at March 02, 2017 03:25 PM (cYj9+)

184 BBBBRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPP

Sorry.

Posted by: Pacific Ocean at March 02, 2017 03:25 PM (kTF2Z)

185 170
Sharknado is real!
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 02, 2017 03:24 PM (ODxAs)

The science is settled.

Posted by: josephistan at March 02, 2017 03:25 PM (7HtZB)

186 Fire ice, frozen methane in huge concentrations on the sea floor. There have been plans to try and mine this for several years.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 02, 2017 03:26 PM (7ZVPa)

187 JackStraw, that is cool!

Posted by: Infidel at March 02, 2017 03:26 PM (ByNzS)

188
We need to plant trees on the ocean floor.

Posted by: Rick in SK

=====

Consider yourself funded, son! Is 1.2 billion enough?

Now if you'll excuse me I need to go talk to this nice man about exclusive sea-floor agricultural rights, investing in underwater tree futures and related legislation...boring stuff, nothing you would be interested in.

Posted by: GOPe at March 02, 2017 03:26 PM (6TED6)

189 So the ocean smells like a fart. Got it.

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at March 02, 2017 03:26 PM (B11vO)

190 I really hope Sessions gives the media a big FU, by speaking the truth.

Any speculation?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt, still loving the Cubs, even though they are WINNERS! at March 02, 2017 03:26 PM (8iiMU)

191 Obviously we need to tax the seafloor for this.

Posted by: wth at March 02, 2017 03:26 PM (HgMAr)

192 I suggest we relocate that Ken doll surgical freak to the seabed. Not for any ecological reason, just to get him the hell away from us.

Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at March 02, 2017 03:26 PM (oZ6kz)

193 Bill Nye says they wouldn't be growing wine grapes in England today if it wasn't for man's addition of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

Proper response to that is "Well, they were growing wine grapes there, even in fucking Greenland a few centuries ago, and man's total industrial contribution to climate change at that point was ox farts. How do you explain that?"

Posted by: JEM at March 02, 2017 03:26 PM (TppKb)

194 y Aquaman to fart at the same time under a burning oil slick.

Methane isn't a real problem because it BURNS.

CH4 + O2 + sunlight -> CO2 + H20

Posted by: DaveA at March 02, 2017 03:27 PM (8J/Te)

195 191 That fucker SpongeBob needs to pay his fair share!

Posted by: steevy at March 02, 2017 03:27 PM (r/0kC)

196 186 Fire ice, frozen methane in huge concentrations on the sea floor. There have been plans to try and mine this for several years.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada

Just buy a bottle of Fireball

Posted by: Roy at March 02, 2017 03:27 PM (VndSC)

197 Yeaaaaa! We're off the hook!

Posted by: Happy California Cows at March 02, 2017 03:27 PM (7C+kV)

198 Oh and the way the watermelons will spin this shit is this way:
1. NOW THIS IS WHY FERTILIZERS ARE TEH EVULZ!!!
(Because Fertilizers = Algae Blooms donchaknow. They will fail to mention that fertilizer runoff affects freshwater stores and what gets to the ocean floor is essentially a drop in the bucket. We also don't know how much of this stuff reaches the ocean surface unchanged, i.e. eaten by other bugs. What do you think happened to all that oil released by the Deepwater Horizon disaster?)
2.SEE! SEE! GLOBAL WARMING = METHANE RELEASE!!!
(They'll attempt to conflate these findings with well known clatherate deposits)
Keep all of this in mind when you see the LIVs start tearing their hair out over this.

Posted by: Jackal at March 02, 2017 03:27 PM (Nfr/7)

199 Bill Nye says they wouldn't be growing wine grapes in England today if it wasn't for man's addition of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

-------

Well..... 10 thousand years ago where my house is was under ice a fucking mile thick.

And your point??

Posted by: AG Sessions at March 02, 2017 03:27 PM (8XRCm)

200 I just pray to God those cows don't learn how to ignite their farts

Posted by: Mr. Taggart at March 02, 2017 03:27 PM (TJGQ7)

201 10 And I will say again, that giant thermonuclear explosion going off over our left shoulder has more impact than anything else.

Wouldn't that be a runaway fusion reaction?

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at March 02, 2017 03:27 PM (kUmUV)

202 146 If there were a Justice League of Greenhouse Gases, then CO2 would be Aquaman.
Posted by: Hudson21 at March 02, 2017 03:21 PM (nsy7c)

What about Green Lantern? Or was he even invited to be in the Justice League?

Posted by: moki at March 02, 2017 03:27 PM (gfRCk)

203 >>JackStraw, that is cool!

I love the octopuses. Octopis?

Posted by: JackStraw at March 02, 2017 03:28 PM (/tuJf)

204 Bill Nye says they wouldn't be growing wine grapes in England today if it wasn't for man's addition of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

Even though the Roman Legions grew wine grapes there way back when.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2017 03:28 PM (kca06)

205
this sock thing is starting to worry me

Ive become David Casssidy.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 02, 2017 03:28 PM (8XRCm)

206 93 what does deep thinker neil the tyson chicken have to say?...
Posted by: concrete girl at March 02, 2017 03:15 PM (puqpI)

++++

He doesn't "think", he "senses", which is even more profound.

Posted by: washrivergal at March 02, 2017 03:28 PM (Ivjge)

207 Guise, guise, guise. I've got it.

The lack of warming is further proof that we're living in a simulation! Because our models can't be wrong. Somebody has to be fucking with us on a cosmic level.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at March 02, 2017 03:28 PM (34w2E)

208 Plug all the meth vents with Ivanka's unsold merchandise?

Posted by: Under Fire at March 02, 2017 03:29 PM (fqERy)

209 49 >>especially in the oceans where we currently understand very little

Another of my pet peeves. Yes, space exploration is swell. How about we spend a little time understanding something that covers 2/3 of our planet and is likely to be a hell of a lot more useful.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 02, 2017 03:09 PM (/tuJf)

Posted by: Chillin the most at March 02, 2017 03:29 PM (Cl52v)

210 I really hope Sessions gives the media a big FU, by speaking the truth.

Any speculation?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt, still loving the Cubs, even though they are WINNERS! at March 02, 2017 03:26 PM (8iiMU)

I can't imagine Sessions quitting over such a flimsily constructed hit job. I'm betting he'll tell them to pound sand.

Posted by: troyriser at March 02, 2017 03:29 PM (Fw5cQ)

211 I think Shep and Miss Lindsey would make a cute couple.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 02, 2017 03:29 PM (PY9jH)

212 I just pray to God those cows don't learn how to ignite their farts

If you could capture it, and run it through a very small gas turbine, you could put a blower on the cow that'd keep her warm as well as sending the flies to the next county.

Kickstarter time.

Posted by: JEM at March 02, 2017 03:29 PM (TppKb)

213 I love the octopuses. Octopis?

Octopussies?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2017 03:29 PM (kca06)

214 CNET tried to carry Nye's water in his terrible debate vs Tucker, could not quite do it. From the article:

"It made for entertaining but not enlightening television. Rationalists are finding it very hard these days to get their arguments heard in an era where facts have dual personalities and emotions drive thoughts."

They think they are referring to Nye as the rationalist. They be wrong.

http://cnet.co/2l8DJ6J

Posted by: LizLem at March 02, 2017 03:29 PM (hvf9s)

215 The lucky thing here is that all you need is to dump a shitload of Listerine on the microbes and the problem is solved

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at March 02, 2017 03:29 PM (XB6U8)

216 I can't imagine Sessions quitting over such a flimsily constructed hit job. I'm betting he'll tell them to pound sand.

I am hoping for 'indignant and angry'.

Posted by: JEM at March 02, 2017 03:30 PM (TppKb)

217 If you could capture it, and run it through a very small gas turbine, you could put a blower on the cow that'd

pass a motorcycle.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2017 03:30 PM (kca06)

218 If Sessions resigns, my prediction about Mike Flynn is correct.
They are unraveling the sweater one thread at a time.

Posted by: navybrat at March 02, 2017 03:30 PM (w7KSn)

219 BBBBRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPP

Sorry.
Posted by: Pacific Ocean at March 02, 2017 03:25 PM

What am I, an SBD?

Posted by: Sargasso Sea at March 02, 2017 03:30 PM (7C+kV)

220 All the more proving that it's not really doing any harm at all, only further allowing other species to SURVIVE on this planet.

the SCIENCE is settled......

Posted by: Sponge at March 02, 2017 03:30 PM (ooC43)

221 I remember, as a kid, seeing those photos of the tube worms from those deep-sea vents and being filled with a nameless terror.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 02, 2017 03:30 PM (Hi5QV)

222 I think Shep and Miss Lindsey would make a cute couple.

Posted by: Jane D'oh

===

I live for my daily dose of Shep-hate courtesy of Jane D'oh.

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 02, 2017 03:31 PM (6TED6)

223 People dog Aquaman, but at least he has unique powers for the group. Are they all that useful? Not usually, but they can be.

But better than someone with no powers except being rich but not as rich as Batman and a good archer (Green Arrow) or someone who can fly and use a mace (Hawkman).

Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at March 02, 2017 03:31 PM (oZ6kz)

224
Bill Nye says they wouldn't be growing wine grapes in England today if it wasn't for man's addition of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

He used 1750 as his baseline year for that statement which of course was during the little ice age

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at March 02, 2017 03:31 PM (lKyWE)

225 Many people believe logic demands that we MUST be living in a simulation.

I would argue that a simulation of sufficient size and complexity is no longer a simulation, and the argument is a semantic one.

Posted by: Max Power at March 02, 2017 03:31 PM (q177U)

226 "My local gas station has a hydrogen pump"

The "hydrogen highway" was one of the "green" policy obsessions of our former Governator, Ahnuld der Schtuppenfuhrer.

Despite a whole bunch of public money having being poured into this nonsense, I've never seen a single hydrogen-fueled vehicle on a road in Commiefornia.

Even by-God actual rocket engineers have endemic ongoing difficulties with handling cryogenic liquid hydrogen as a fuel. Hey, I know, let's use it in Grandma's car for trips to the grocery store!

Posted by: torquewrench at March 02, 2017 03:31 PM (noWW6)

227 The science is unsettling.

Posted by: JoeF. at March 02, 2017 03:31 PM (7uYFy)

228 Oh and BTW Joel Pollak over at Breitbart appears to have taken my advice and rewritten ace's morning post into something that covers the bases on the Sessions hit-job in language GOPe legislators could understand.

Posted by: JEM at March 02, 2017 03:31 PM (TppKb)

229 OT
I can highly recommend Daniel Humphrey's first novel as seen on votermom's Horde books. I was a beta tester; great guy and great read.

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at March 02, 2017 03:31 PM (jUxc6)

230 Rump. Rump. Rump!

Posted by: cow with blower on it, at the Christmas Tree at March 02, 2017 03:31 PM (WDdjT)

231 I can't imagine Sessions quitting over such a flimsily constructed hit job. I'm betting he'll tell them to pound sand.

Posted by: troyriser at March 02, 2017 03:29 PM (Fw5cQ)

Well, he DID get the dreaded "vote of confidence" from his leadership......

Posted by: Sponge at March 02, 2017 03:32 PM (ooC43)

232 Just want to point out a couple of things:

--- Oceans cover 75% of earth - and we cows do not cover the remaining 25%, so give us a break already!

--- Man is not doing anything on deep sea floors, so how ya gonna lump tjis in as "man-made climate change"???

--- Eat moar chiken

Posted by: Cows at March 02, 2017 03:32 PM (NOIQH)

233 you could put a blower on the cow that'd

pass a motorcycle.

Posted by: rickb223

Wow, passing a motorcycle would be worse then passing a stone.

Posted by: Bruce at March 02, 2017 03:32 PM (8ikIW)

234
The ocean will kill you.

Posted by: Steve Irwin at March 02, 2017 03:32 PM (ODxAs)

235 El Nino/La Nina weather pattern causes major disruptions across the Americas.

A major weather event impacting billions.

And they can't even tell you when the next one will occur.

At best, they give about 6 months lead.

And, it is all driven--so far as they can tell--by the temperature of the Pacific Ocean.

Something they can measure in real-time--not divining from tree rings and ice cores.

And they still can't tell Midwest farmers not to plant soybeans this year because of the heavy rains that EN/LN will produce.

Posted by: RoyalOil at March 02, 2017 03:32 PM (AmMfi)

236 I'm living rent free in the Leftists head

Posted by: Peter Petrovich Konovnitsyn at March 02, 2017 03:32 PM (HDU3V)

237 "The science is settled" is about the most unscientific sentence a person can utter.

Posted by: Mega at March 02, 2017 03:32 PM (hHFOx)

238
Sessions isn't going anywhere.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 02, 2017 03:32 PM (ZFUt7)

239
I just pray to God those cows don't learn how to ignite their farts

Hay, hold my milk!

Posted by: Farting Cow at March 02, 2017 03:33 PM (IqV8l)

240 190
I really hope Sessions gives the media a big FU, by speaking the truth.

Any speculation?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt, still loving the Cubs, even though they are WINNERS! at March 02, 2017 03:26 PM (8iiMU)

What'd be really nice is to announce a massive RICO of all Soros connected entities up to and including obama's OFA, freezing of assets, seizing of passports. I think I'd keel over right now, soil my jockeys, and let out a big Pacific Ocean fart simultaneously at that.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 02, 2017 03:33 PM (GX63o)

241 "216 I can't imagine Sessions quitting over such a flimsily constructed hit job. I'm betting he'll tell them to pound sand.

I am hoping for 'indignant and angry'."

I hope so. Even the idiots at Twitchy are pushing the bogus BS that he lied at his hearing. F them and their slow loading site.

Posted by: Maxine Waters at March 02, 2017 03:33 PM (OD2ni)

242 Oh, the huge manatee!!!

Posted by: radio announcer watching a manatee fart explode at March 02, 2017 03:33 PM (nlbfN)

243 LEAVE MANATEES ALONE YOU HORRIBLE HORRIBLES

Totes.

Posted by: alexthechick - Pentaverate? I have no idea what you mean! at March 02, 2017 03:05 PM

Oh, the huge manatee....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 02, 2017 03:34 PM (p+Wdc)

244 29
Actually, this might mean a source for frozen clathrate deposits -
"methane ice" on the sea floor, which exists in significant quantities.
if the bacteria produce methane in vast amounts right at the sea floor,
it suggests a formation mechanism for the clathrates that we see in huge
areas of the ocean floor.

But that would be impossible, because areas with frozen clathrates on the sea floor have never been warmer, right?

consider a big hunk of methane hydrate on the ocean floor start to "melt" with a ship passing on the surface above. instant sinking.

Posted by: WaldoTJ (in Texas) at March 02, 2017 03:34 PM (M1MpJ)

245 >>
I think Shep and Miss Lindsey would make a cute couple.

They'd be cuter if they retired to Tierra del Fuego. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Cows at March 02, 2017 03:34 PM (NOIQH)

246 Missed it by > < that much!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 02, 2017 03:34 PM (p+Wdc)

247 Many people believe logic demands that we MUST be living in a simulation.

I would argue that a simulation of sufficient size and complexity is no longer a simulation, and the argument is a semantic one.

Posted by: Max Power at March 02, 2017 03:31 PM (q177U)

Logic demands no such thing. That whole trendy life-as-simulation fantasy is just a modern re-tooling of the gnostic heresy. Everything old is new again.

Posted by: troyriser at March 02, 2017 03:34 PM (Fw5cQ)

248 Get with the narrative, denier! All global warming is caused by Republicans!

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at March 02, 2017 03:34 PM (OloKm)

249 There has to be a way to extract a price from the Dems for their stupid, destructive shit.

A way short of war, I mean.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 02, 2017 03:34 PM (97XyN)

250 If they DON'T get rid of Sessions?

There shall be no mercy on the pansy ass GOP mopes that called for him to do anything other than stand firm. Investigate their finances. All the slush funds. All the dirty donor bribes.

Every one of these is a litmus test. If it turns blue? Light em the fuck up.

Every single one.

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 02, 2017 03:35 PM (6TED6)

251 Sessions should act indignant and angry, as one poster said.
And THEN say "...and FUCK YOU."

Posted by: JoeF. at March 02, 2017 03:35 PM (7uYFy)

252 Bill Nye says they wouldn't be growing wine grapes in England today if it wasn't for man's addition of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

He used 1750 as his baseline year for that statement which of course was during the little ice age
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic

Go back another 1600 years or so. Roman Legions did it.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2017 03:35 PM (kca06)

253 Hello, Heifers!

I am, how you say, turbine-powered.

And I promise you more than 8 seconds ...

Posted by: Paolo the Bull at March 02, 2017 03:35 PM (7C+kV)

254 Despite a whole bunch of public money having being poured into this nonsense, I've never seen a single hydrogen-fueled vehicle on a road in Commiefornia.

Toyota Mirai. Got a relative who has one.

Her only fueling station is 30 miles from her, in a direction she doesn't normally go, but I guess she can leave her virtue signal on all the way there and back again.

And I should try to come up with a one-page explanation of why that hydrogen she's tanking up with takes far more hydrocarbon energy to produce than she'll ever save by using it.

Posted by: JEM at March 02, 2017 03:35 PM (TppKb)

255
The science has settled at the bottom of the ocean.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 02, 2017 03:35 PM (ODxAs)

256 I'm rather proud of my work with manatees.

You might know one who goes by a name with the initials L.D.

Posted by: Dr Moreau at March 02, 2017 03:35 PM (vZ9Fw)

257
There has to be a way to extract a price from the Dems for their stupid, destructive shit.

Firing squads?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 02, 2017 03:35 PM (PY9jH)

258 The Warmists Claim:

1. There is a Global Warming "Pause" Since 1998
2. Every Year Since 1998 is the "Hottest Year on Record"

Hmmmmmm.....

Posted by: Mega at March 02, 2017 03:35 PM (hHFOx)

259 In with the carbon dioxide...
Out with the oxygen...
ah. Repeat after me...

Posted by: every plant on earth at March 02, 2017 03:36 PM (HgMAr)

260 And we could put roller skates on the cows, and we could solve public transportation issues as well

Posted by: Mr. Taggart at March 02, 2017 03:36 PM (TJGQ7)

261 OT: GA womyn rams chicken truck because....Vegan
DRUDGE

Posted by: Under Fire at March 02, 2017 03:36 PM (fqERy)

262 >>>But better than someone with no powers except being rich but not as rich as Batman and a good archer (Green Arrow)

No one is better than Batman. Because he's... (wait for it)

Posted by: Max Power at March 02, 2017 03:36 PM (q177U)

263 Damn there are some weird ass fish on the bottom of the ocean.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 02, 2017 03:36 PM (/tuJf)

264 244: And an alternative source of at least some natural gas and oil deposits. Clatherates get dragged down in subduction zones. Heat + Pressure = Oil, perhaps.

Posted by: Jackal at March 02, 2017 03:36 PM (Nfr/7)

265 CO2 is a by product of current technology and lifestyle. That's what's really under attack.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 02, 2017 03:36 PM (oVJmc)

266 By the way, the URI graduate school of oceanography posts a link to the video feed of the expeditions they run. They've been showing some underwater shots of the deep ocean Pacific off the Canadian coast. Lots of cool sea creature and good shots of underwater ocean venting.

http://nautiluslive.org
Posted by: JackStraw at March 02, 2017 03:21 PM (/tuJf)

Ohhh thank you for that.

Posted by: alexthechick - Pentaverate? I have no idea what you mean! at March 02, 2017 03:36 PM (mf5HN)

267 Hopefully, Sessions walks out in front of a huge, lathered-up press gaggle, and announces:

"I'm here to tell you that we're appointing a special prosecutor to look into illegal contacts by foreign nationals during the Presidential campaign of 2016 [pause for dramatic effect] between Hillary Clinton and the government of Saudi Arabia. No expense will be spared, and we'll turn over every last rock."

Posted by: torquewrench at March 02, 2017 03:37 PM (noWW6)

268 What'd be really nice is to announce a massive RICO of all Soros connected entities up to and including obama's OFA, freezing of assets, seizing of passports. I think I'd keel over right now, soil my jockeys, and let out a big Pacific Ocean fart simultaneously at that.

There'd be so many Democrats shitting their pants you'd have to declare the Beltway a Superfund site.

Posted by: JEM at March 02, 2017 03:37 PM (TppKb)

269 Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 02, 2017 03:35 PM (PY9jH

LOL what a FUNNY JOKE Jane

Ha ha ha ha ha. I agree with you and am laughing at it too. HO HO HO!

Posted by: Mega at March 02, 2017 03:37 PM (S1URs)

270 If gasoline was just invented it would never be allowed to be touched by the public due to safety concerns, it's highly combustible you see.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 02, 2017 03:37 PM (6Ll1u)

271 In with the carbon dioxide...
Out with the oxygen...
ah. Repeat after me...
Posted by: every plant on earth at March 02, 2017 03:36 PM (HgMAr)

--------

Screw you. 90% of the worlds photosynthesis hapens here.

Posted by: The Epipilegic Zone at March 02, 2017 03:37 PM (8XRCm)

272 Even by-God actual rocket engineers have endemic ongoing difficulties with handling cryogenic liquid hydrogen as a fuel. Hey, I know, let's use it in Grandma's car for trips to the grocery store!
Posted by: torquewrench at March 02, 2017 03:31 PM (noWW6)
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Or metal hydrides.

Posted by: RioBravo at March 02, 2017 03:37 PM (SsblQ)

273 methane isn't the only thing that burns,

it does when I pee...

Posted by: Rick in SK at March 02, 2017 03:37 PM (FZYNt)

274 266 Sea Spiders.As big around as a manhole cover.

Posted by: steevy at March 02, 2017 03:37 PM (r/0kC)

275 You would think that by now the GOP would have taken Trump's lead and learned how to tell the Dems and the media to go fuck themselves. But no.

Posted by: JoeF. at March 02, 2017 03:38 PM (7uYFy)

276 225. Thank you, Mr. Anderson.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 02, 2017 03:38 PM (Hi5QV)

277 Actually.... CO2 will no longer do anything to global warming at all.

If you look at what wavelengths it absorbs, it shares many bands with Water vapor...

And ALL of that energy is already being absorbed by the combination of CO2 and Water Vapor...

ALL OF IT...

For CO2 to have a further effect, you would need to add energy at those wavelengths... which can only be done by an actual Warming of the Earth itself (Blackbody radiation).

Note,... when we talk about Global Warming, the Earth itself is not getting hotter, its the measurement of the temperature of the atmosphere....

Posted by: Don Q. at March 02, 2017 03:38 PM (NgKpN)

278 I can't imagine Sessions quitting over such a flimsily constructed hit job. I'm betting he'll tell them to pound sand.

Posted by: troyriser at March 02, 2017 03:29 PM (Fw5cQ)

Well, he DID get the dreaded "vote of confidence" from his leadership......
Posted by: Sponge

Yeah. The non-politician leadership. Totes different style.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2017 03:38 PM (kca06)

279 >>> Bill Nye says they wouldn't be growing wine grapes in England today if it wasn't for man's addition of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
(How the fuck is that a bad thing? I don't have a clue.)

Three words: medieval warming period.

Obviously due to Ace's Time machine visiting and spitting out a bunch of modern icky greenhouse gases. NOT that the Earth does weird stuff we don't understand.

Posted by: LizLem at March 02, 2017 03:38 PM (hvf9s)

280 Off Topic: OB/GYraffe
I was only 7 or 8, so my recall isn't the best, but when my uncle had a cow with birthin' issues, there was a vet, and a tractor, and a tow rope, and PDQ/ASAP/toot-sweet, there was calf in the mud.

Posted by: Citified Cousin at March 02, 2017 03:38 PM (2lks9)

281 O/T

Could somebody-any one of you-please send Shep some Midol? He so wants this Session thing to be true that it is causing him to get the vapors. Kind of scary to watch him flail about wondering why Sessions is not already in jail. No telling how Dana Perino is doing. They both seem to be unable to accept that Hillary did not win.

Posted by: Chillin the most at March 02, 2017 03:38 PM (Cl52v)

282 If gasoline was just invented it would never be allowed to be touched by the public due to safety concerns, it's highly combustible you see.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 02, 2017 03:37 PM (6Ll1u)
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Timing is everything!

Posted by: RioBravo at March 02, 2017 03:38 PM (SsblQ)

283 Moo.

Posted by: Candy Crowley at March 02, 2017 03:38 PM (HgMAr)

284 No more methane. This town finished.

Posted by: Master Blaster at March 02, 2017 03:39 PM (OD2ni)

285
I don't think the ocean is doing it on porpoise.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 02, 2017 03:39 PM (ODxAs)

286
GA womyn rams chicken truck because....Vegan

I hate Vegan poetry.

Posted by: Arthur Denture at March 02, 2017 03:39 PM (IqV8l)

287
changes sock before dementia sets in

Posted by: fixerupper at March 02, 2017 03:39 PM (8XRCm)

288 In with the carbon dioxide...
Out with the oxygen...
ah. Repeat after me...
Posted by: every plant on earth at March 02, 2017 03:36 PM (HgMAr)

--------

Screw you. 90% of the worlds photosynthesis hapens here.
Posted by: The Epipilegic Zone

So then we can log the Amazon Rain Forest!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2017 03:40 PM (kca06)

289 @6 Manatee farts are a little-understood phenomenon.
-----------------

Wendell the manatee, CFO of Correiatech, would like a word with you.

On another note...

Does this mean that we need to drain the oceans to save the planet from the evil methane greenhouse gas scourge?

Posted by: junior at March 02, 2017 03:40 PM (nsZ+m)

290 He used 1750 as his baseline year for that statement which of course was during the little ice age
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic

Go back another 1600 years or so. Roman Legions did it.

Exactly the point. That's what all these shits do, and why you find few geologists and comparatively few physicists buying into AGW.

Unless you're talking on multi-thousand-year timeframes, you cannot evaluate anything related to Earth's climate.

Posted by: JEM at March 02, 2017 03:40 PM (TppKb)

291 258 The Warmists Claim:

1. There is a Global Warming "Pause" Since 1998
2. Every Year Since 1998 is the "Hottest Year on Record"

Hmmmmmm.....
Posted by: Mega at March 02, 2017 03:35 PM (hHFOx)

In 1998 they put up new satellites to measure temperature...

Kinda makes ya go... hm.mmmmm......

Posted by: Don Q. at March 02, 2017 03:40 PM (NgKpN)

292 "Bill Nye says they wouldn't be growing wine grapes in England today if
it wasn't for man's addition of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. (How the fuck is that a bad thing? I don't have a clue.)

They grow wine grapes (Frontenac) in Minnesota thanks to hybrids that survive at 20 below. I'd have to check to see what they grow in England, but I doubt they grow "vinifera".

Posted by: illiniwek at March 02, 2017 03:40 PM (YMJtx)

293 Bovine Lives Matter = BLM!

Posted by: a different cow at March 02, 2017 03:40 PM (nlbfN)

294 283 Moo.
Posted by: Candy Crowley

Moo yourself

Posted by: Marie Harf at March 02, 2017 03:40 PM (FZYNt)

295 >>OT: GA womyn rams chicken truck because....Vegan
DRUDGE

These people are insane.

A few years ago a dude with a yuuuuge "EAT VEGAN" tattoo across his *neck* burned down an Overland Sheepskin store fill of high-end leather goods.
Best part? He was at a friend bbq the day before and had eaten a burger.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 02, 2017 03:40 PM (NOIQH)

296 1 kill methane-producing oceans.
2 ?
3 Profit, with man-produced Eden

Posted by: Long-Time Christian, Concerned Conservative at March 02, 2017 03:40 PM (iynDC)

297
Canadians sure pee in the pool a lot.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 02, 2017 03:40 PM (ZFUt7)

298 What I always found amusing is the way greenies came up with the notion that earth's atmosphere is just like a greenhouse because of refractive properties of carbon dioxide.

Carbon dioxide traps heat. Just like greenhouses! The Science is settled!

This is such an idiotic, crude simplification even a caveman would see through it.

Posted by: Barack Obama at March 02, 2017 03:41 PM (1BQGO)

299 Dana Perino is not upset because Hillary didn't win. She's just mad that Jeb! didn't lose to her......

Posted by: JoeF. at March 02, 2017 03:41 PM (7uYFy)

300 >>>>But of course their central preoccupation is carbon dioxide, which I
have a habit of mocking as The Invisible Killer. In fact, it's not so
much a killer as a minor bother.
.
.
.It's not a bother, it's a requirement for plant life on Earth. The higher the better as far as growing crops are concerned.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at March 02, 2017 03:42 PM (le7jz)

301 "Earth Day has been around since the early '70's but if I remember
correctly, concern about Gaia really kicked into high gear after the
Berlin Wall came down."

see: State of Fear by Michael Crichton

great fun hearing the protagonist eviscerate the AGW crowd. but the title doesn't become obvious until the conversation with the (alleged) "loony" conspiracy nut about 2/3rds of the way through.

Posted by: WaldoTJ (in Texas) at March 02, 2017 03:42 PM (M1MpJ)

302 Does this mean that we need to drain the oceans to save the planet from the evil methane greenhouse gas scourge?

Actually, what it means is we need to stick a big giant funnel down there and catch it all.

Posted by: JEM at March 02, 2017 03:42 PM (TppKb)

303 And new for 2017, I'm introducing our newest scent for men, Methane Floor.

Posted by: calvin klein at March 02, 2017 03:42 PM (nlbfN)

304
Bill Nye says they wouldn't be growing wine grapes in England today if
it wasn't for man's addition of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

--
Even though the Roman Legions grew wine grapes there way back when.
======
Damn it you guys! He's the Science Guy, not the History Guy.

Quit being smart-asses.

Posted by: RoyalOil at March 02, 2017 03:42 PM (AmMfi)

305 >> Sea Spiders.As big around as a manhole cover.

Pffffft!

QOOQQQQQ

Posted by: Aliens in "Arrival" at March 02, 2017 03:42 PM (NOIQH)

306
I don't know how they can reproduce without womanatees.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 02, 2017 03:42 PM (ODxAs)

307 "in language GOPe legislators could understand"

Money. Money money, money money money money. Money? Money money money: money. Money!

Posted by: torquewrench at March 02, 2017 03:42 PM (noWW6)

308 O/T... the traitorous Bitch Jane Fonda, is now saying she was raped and abused as a child...

Thus gaining victim status and sympathy, to over ride her being a Traitorous Bitch.

(and yes, I take this personally, a friend of Mines Dad was shot down in Viet Nam... he never returned...)

Posted by: Don Q. at March 02, 2017 03:42 PM (NgKpN)

309 Obviously due to Ace's Time machine visiting and spitting out a bunch of modern icky greenhouse gases.

Is Ace's time machine like Rush Revere's horse ?

Posted by: McCool at March 02, 2017 03:42 PM (08MOs)

310 OT: GA womyn rams chicken truck because....Vegan
DRUDGE Posted by: Under Fire at March 02, 2017 03:36 PM (fqERy)

I have a gorgeous new faux leather purse I got cheap-ish that happens to be vegan. If any vegans ever attack it because they think it's real leather, there WILL be blood.

Posted by: LizLem at March 02, 2017 03:43 PM (hvf9s)

311 Moo.

Posted by: Candy Crowley at March 02, 2017 03:38 PM (HgMAr)

That moment when something hits you as too funny.

I think I have hurt myself.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 02, 2017 03:43 PM (B+qrE)

312 And really, another chemical in the atmosphere that is more abundant than CO2 and a stronger greenhouse gas.

Yes, you guessed it.

Water vapor. Water vapor in the atmosphere is going to kill us all.

And yes, this is all madness.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....deplorable American at March 02, 2017 03:43 PM (RFeQD)

313 Off Topic: OB/GYraffe
I was only 7 or 8, so my recall isn't the best, but when my uncle had a cow with birthin' issues, there was a vet, and a tractor, and a tow rope, and PDQ/ASAP/toot-sweet, there was calf in the mud.

Damn 1%'ers using a tractor. We had to use a come-along.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2017 03:43 PM (kca06)

314 >>>>244: And an alternative source of at least some natural gas and oil
deposits. Clatherates get dragged down in subduction zones. Heat +
Pressure = Oil, perhaps.
.
.
.That is one of the theories on Abiotic Oil.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at March 02, 2017 03:44 PM (le7jz)

315 When do we reach Peak Panic?
Posted by: garrett

Two weeks

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....deplorable American at March 02, 2017 03:44 PM (RFeQD)

316 First live shots of the USS Independence in 65 years going on right now.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 02, 2017 03:44 PM (/tuJf)

317
Yes, you guessed it.

Water vapor. Water vapor in the atmosphere is going to kill us all.

And yes, this is all madness.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....deplorable American at March 02, 2017 03:43 PM (RFeQD)

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Not even Bill Nye The Douchebag Guy would propose water restrictions on planet 70% covered in water.

I think.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 02, 2017 03:44 PM (8XRCm)

318 Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 02, 2017 03:36 PM (oVJmc)

Its a byproduct of the West.

The Demodummy Party is financed in large part by the slimists, period. Look who ended up with CurrentTV. Connect the dots.

Posted by: Mega at March 02, 2017 03:45 PM (S1URs)

319 Moo yourself
Posted by: Marie Harf

Still waiting for that lap dance, Marie.

Please don't bring Jen.

Posted by: JEM at March 02, 2017 03:45 PM (TppKb)

320 Jeff Sessions press conference at top of the hour.

Posted by: rd at March 02, 2017 03:45 PM (iT57s)

321 Canadians sure pee in the pool a lot.
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We have to to warm it up until late July/early August when the sun's good enough.

Posted by: andycanuck at March 02, 2017 03:45 PM (nlbfN)

322 313. And the city slicker asked, ''Just how fast was that dog running when it collided with the cow?"

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 02, 2017 03:45 PM (Hi5QV)

323 Damn there are some weird ass fish on the bottom of the ocean.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 02, 2017 03:36 PM

Damn, there are some weird ass mammiforms on surfaces of this planet.

Posted by: Weird Ass Fish on the Bottom of The Barrel at March 02, 2017 03:45 PM (7C+kV)

324 Carbon dioxide traps heat. Just like greenhouses! The Science is settled!

This is such an idiotic, crude simplification even a caveman would see through it.

Posted by: Barack Obama at March 02, 2017 03:41 PM (1BQGO)

And greenhouses trap heat because they block the convection of heated air, not because the glass blocks re-radiation of long-wave infrared radiation.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 02, 2017 03:45 PM (WDdjT)

325
Not even Bill Nye The Douchebag Guy would propose water restrictions on planet 70% covered in water.

I think.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 02, 2017 03:44 PM (8XRCm)

And which State now taxes you for Rain on your land?

Maryland?

Posted by: Don Q. at March 02, 2017 03:46 PM (NgKpN)

326 >>>People dog Aquaman, but at least he has unique powers for the group. Are they all that useful? Not usually, but they can be.

Ever heard of tentacle porn?

Posted by: I'm Aquaman, Bitch at March 02, 2017 03:46 PM (zOXV1)

327 Step 1: Ram chicken truck

Step 2: ???

Step 3: VEGAN!

Posted by: Max Power at March 02, 2017 03:46 PM (q177U)

328 Time to boil the oceans, bitches.

Posted by: Kasper Hauser at March 02, 2017 03:46 PM (HqpV0)

329 And new for 2017, I'm introducing our newest scent for men, Methane Floor.
Posted by: calvin klein

You are 54 years too late. Be wearing it since '62.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2017 03:46 PM (kca06)

330 Dow crashing. Down 104. I told you so.

Posted by: Paul Enron Krugman at March 02, 2017 03:46 PM (IqV8l)

331 314: Yeah and if its shown that the clatherates are of bacterial origin and they are the feedstock for natural gas and petroleum production, then its not really an abiotic origin. Its just not the origin we thought it was.

Posted by: Jackal at March 02, 2017 03:46 PM (Nfr/7)

332 I was only 7 or 8, so my recall isn't the best, but when my uncle had a cow with birthin' issues, there was a vet, and a tractor, and a tow rope, and PDQ/ASAP/toot-sweet, there was calf in the mud.

Damn 1%'ers using a tractor. We had to use a come-along.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2017 03:43 PM (kca06)

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Pulls chains.

And soap.

The only time we called the vet was the occasional bovine version of the water head. That required emergency surgery.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 02, 2017 03:46 PM (8XRCm)

333 And really, another chemical in the atmosphere that is more abundant than CO2 and a stronger greenhouse gas.

CO2 is shitty greehouse gas because of its molecular straight lines.

Water and methane are crooked and therefore get more photon hits.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 02, 2017 03:46 PM (B+qrE)

334 When I was a kid, every weepy-eyed presentation about POLLUTION had a shot of New York City's garbage going out to sea on scows. They'd sink the scows in those days, I think. Now I guess they just dump them. Recycling.

The thing is, great big cities still do that. And the people who live in them bitch at you for your fireplace, and your car, and your barbecue, and your god damned weed whacker. While their shit and trash go right into the sea.

Now, how NYC's trash ends up on the bottom of the Pacific is left as an exercise to the reader. I'm not saying it's Godzilla, but I'd sure as hell be sending some EPA higher-ups out there to find out. For Science, and, children.

You never know. Gorgo and Reptilicus could be in on this, too.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 02, 2017 03:47 PM (H5rtT)

335 Damn 1%'ers using a tractor. We had to use a come-along.

There's an idea...

Posted by: The Giraffe at March 02, 2017 03:47 PM (TppKb)

336 Hillary 2017 Mayor of NYC signs popping up. I suppose since she is so wildly popular in the big city....(why, I don't know) Gracie Mansion, here she comes. Polls, Hillary 61 percent... She leads among all groups Doesn't she have to live in NYC?? or a carpetbagger again.

Posted by: Colin at March 02, 2017 03:47 PM (izi2Z)

337 Why do Leftists hate science?

Posted by: Skip at March 02, 2017 03:48 PM (HDU3V)

338 329 And new for 2017, I'm introducing our newest scent for men, Methane Floor.
Posted by: calvin klein
===

You stole my idea!

Posted by: Cosmo Kramer at March 02, 2017 03:48 PM (BDZWU)

339
Dow crashing. Down 104. I told you so.

==

Sell! SELL!

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 02, 2017 03:48 PM (6TED6)

340 Jeff Sessions press conference at top of the hour.

Hopefully, Trump told him to tell the MFM to eat a bag of dicks.

And that he's opening RICO investigations on Soros, Obama , and OFA.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 02, 2017 03:48 PM (vZ9Fw)

341 The thing is, great big cities still do that. And the people who live in them bitch at you for your fireplace, and your car, and your barbecue, and your god damned weed whacker. While their shit and trash go right into the sea.

You get greenie San Franciscans driving their Priuses to Ocean Beach for big open-pit fires, then bitching and moaning when someone wants to shut them down.

Posted by: The Giraffe at March 02, 2017 03:48 PM (TppKb)

342 I still can't keep my socks from bunching up.

Posted by: JEM when will my sockfails end! at March 02, 2017 03:49 PM (TppKb)

343 Each human's share of the atmosphere is 864,000 tons. So for man to be screwing up the air, each person has to be messing up 864,000 tons of air. Try heating 864,000 tons of air and you'll realize what pure bullshit man made global warming is.

Posted by: An Observation at March 02, 2017 03:49 PM (1ijvk)

344 Moo

Posted by: Amy Schumer at March 02, 2017 03:49 PM (TJGQ7)

345 Now, how NYC's trash ends up on the bottom of the Pacific is left as an exercise to the reader.

That's a long fucking haul. I'd think taking it to the Atlantic would be quicker, but what do I know? I'm not a geographer.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2017 03:49 PM (kca06)

346 340 Jeff Sessions press conference at top of the hour.

Hopefully, Trump told him to tell the MFM to eat a bag of dicks.

And that he's opening RICO investigations on Soros, Obama , and OFA.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 02, 2017 03:48 PM (vZ9Fw)

Conspiracy Investigation into the illegal leaking of information gained WITHOUT a Normal Court Warrant, about a US Citizen.

Posted by: Don Q. at March 02, 2017 03:50 PM (NgKpN)

347 This has been a wonderful winter in south Texas. Low 80s in the afternoon, high 50s at night. Feels like we got four additional months of spring.

Posted by: Ernie McCracken at March 02, 2017 03:50 PM (kB7gX)

348 Jeff Sessions press conference at top of the hour.

You know when I said I'd recuse myself on Hillary.

JUST KIDDING.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 02, 2017 03:50 PM (B+qrE)

349 Jeff Sessions press conference live at LI

Posted by: Skip at March 02, 2017 03:50 PM (HDU3V)

350 And that he's opening RICO investigations on Soros, Obama , and OFA.

We need FOA - Fuck Off Obama.

Posted by: JEM at March 02, 2017 03:50 PM (TppKb)

351 "And yes, this is all madness."

You know one sure sign (of many) this is all a huge hoax?

I believe it was 2009 at the Copenhagen Climate conference. Hugo Chaves, Venezuela strongman whose country was entirely dependent on oil revenues was given a massive standing ovation. But not for any pledge to reduce his production/sale of oil. There was none. It was for repeated bashing the US and demanding more money for the third world.

Oil thug receives huge applause from environmentalists.

That one event should have made it clear to anybody that cared what this is all about.

Posted by: Ripley at March 02, 2017 03:50 PM (1BQGO)

352 There's an idea...

Posted by: The Giraffe at March 02, 2017 03:47 PM (TppKb)

Maybe, for you, a High-Hoe?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 02, 2017 03:50 PM (WDdjT)

353 Oh, duh.

For some reason, I thought Sessions still had to be confirmed.
He is the AG at this moment.

Yeah, I now think he is NOT quitting, and would like him to drop a few BoomHammers, especially of the RICO Suave variety.....

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt, still loving the Cubs, even though they are WINNERS! at March 02, 2017 03:50 PM (8iiMU)

354 When I was a kid, every weepy-eyed presentation about POLLUTION had a
shot of New York City's garbage going out to sea on scows. They'd sink
the scows in those days, I think. Now I guess they just dump them.
Recycling.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 02, 2017 03:47 PM (H5rtT)

I remember those, I think the bottom opened up, and they dumped what was in the scow. I remember the sea gulls following them.

Posted by: Colin at March 02, 2017 03:50 PM (izi2Z)

355 154 Will Jacqueline Bisset in a wet t-shirt be involved in any of this? If not, I got work to do.

Posted by: josephistan at March 02, 2017 03:22 PM (7HtZB)

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You mean like she had a Metamucil mishap?

Posted by: Slo-Pitch Whiffer at March 02, 2017 03:51 PM (5JlYa)

356 "When I was a kid, every weepy-eyed presentation about POLLUTION had a shot of New York City's garbage going out to sea on scows. They'd sink the scows in those days, I think."

Were those the commercials with Elizabeth Warren crying?

Posted by: Benji Carver at March 02, 2017 03:51 PM (OD2ni)

357
I still can't keep my socks from bunching up.
Posted by: JEM when will my sockfails end!

I can't find a shirt that looks good untucked!

Posted by: Untucker Uncarlson at March 02, 2017 03:51 PM (IqV8l)

358 Dear Sirs:

Please kindly send me further details on this deep probing activity. Many thanks in advance.

Curious

Posted by: Undocumented at March 02, 2017 03:51 PM (SsblQ)

359 someone who can fly and use a mace

+++

Cmon man that's fucking hardcore

Skreeawww *skutch* *whackawackawack*

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at March 02, 2017 03:51 PM (XB6U8)

360 You know when I said I'd recuse myself on Hillary.

JUST KIDDING.

"I am here to announce the indictment of fourteen Obama Administration officials, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton..."

Press heads pop like zits.

Posted by: JEM at March 02, 2017 03:52 PM (TppKb)

361 ( *belch*)

Yeah, that's why you all need to be chicken of the sea.

Chicken, get it?

Aw, you wouldn't know funny if it bit you on the ass!

Release the Kraken!

Posted by: Neptune at March 02, 2017 03:52 PM (tgrKG)

362 Hugo Chaves, Venezuela strongman

Don't hear much from Hugo these days.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 02, 2017 03:52 PM (B+qrE)

363
The jerkoff on Coast to coast Wacko Radio Show has been talking about a methane bubble in the China Sea or somewhere for many years that will kill us all any day now.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at March 02, 2017 03:52 PM (fZunb)

364 IN HIS HOUSE IN R'LYEH
DREAD C'THULU LIES FARTING

"...c'mere, pull my tentacle..."

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at March 02, 2017 03:52 PM (9krrF)

365
And new for 2017, I'm introducing our newest scent for men, Methane Floor. Posted by: calvin klein

When I was a kid they use to sell this cologne at novelty stores that smelled like farts. It was called "Morning Breeze"

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at March 02, 2017 03:53 PM (lKyWE)

366

Hopefully, Sessions pulls a Trump, that is, 'the wall just got 10 feet higher'.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 02, 2017 03:53 PM (ZFUt7)

367 We could plug My Etna, now currently errupting, with Michael Moore's spleen...if it fits.

Posted by: Under Fire at March 02, 2017 03:53 PM (fqERy)

368 someone who can fly and use a mace

Thor.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2017 03:53 PM (kca06)

369 Clearly the ocean is an enemy to a peaceful, eco-friendly Earth.

The only solution is to NUKE THE OCEAN.

Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at March 02, 2017 03:53 PM (oZ6kz)

370 the traitorous Bitch Jane Fonda, is now saying she was raped and abused as a child...
............

Thank goodness it didn't stop her from showing us her boobs in Barbarella.

Posted by: wth at March 02, 2017 03:54 PM (HgMAr)

371 Livestream of Sessions presser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gx2I6hAyDE

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 02, 2017 03:54 PM (97XyN)

372 >>The jerkoff on Coast to coast Wacko Radio Show has been talking about a
methane bubble in the China Sea or somewhere for many years that will
kill us all any day now.

Bubble in the China sea?
Piker.

Posted by: Yellowstone Caldera at March 02, 2017 03:54 PM (NOIQH)

373 They tried to shut down beach fires here a while ago because the rich people across the street where complaining, that shit got shut down real quick by voters flexing their phone muscles.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 02, 2017 03:54 PM (6Ll1u)

374 Sessions isn't going anywhere. He'll most likely just clarify that he was answering the questions as asked and that, of course, he met with ambassadors as that was his job.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 02, 2017 03:55 PM (kTF2Z)

375 Yeah, I now think he is NOT quitting, and would like him to drop a few BoomHammers, especially of the RICO Suave variety.....

As much as I'd love to see Soros dragged over the RICO coals, there are some serious procedural issues involved, and it might just be easier to give Putin some 'flexibility' in dealing with the Soros interests.

Oh, and take his money. All of it. Just grab the bankers by the balls until they turn blue. Then tell Soros to try to get it back. Orbit a couple B-52s over his tax havens while you 'negotiate'.

This authoritarian thing could get to be fun. I must control myself. After all, it's Lent, and I promised myself I'd give up eliminationist rhetoric.

Posted by: JEM at March 02, 2017 03:55 PM (TppKb)

376 Why do Leftists hate science?
Posted by: Skip at March 02, 2017 03:48 PM

It's a proxy for The Basket of Despicable Deplorables.

Posted by: The Leftists at March 02, 2017 03:55 PM (7C+kV)

377 O/T... the traitorous Bitch Jane Fonda, is now saying she was raped and abused as a child...

Horseshit.

So effing what? Is everyone supposed to roll over and give her Ultimate Moral Authority because she claims X, Y, or Z?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 02, 2017 03:55 PM (oVJmc)

378 BREAKING: Sessions is holding a press conference to announce his resignation.
Posted by: Bill Wynn at March 02, 2017 03:55 PM (dnJP5)

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Yup..... he's resigned to indicting your ass as a co-compirator.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 02, 2017 03:55 PM (8XRCm)

379 Things that I wish:

Attorney General Sessions: "I have a short statement. You idiots are unhinged. I will now take your questions."

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 02, 2017 03:56 PM (B+qrE)

380 Don't hear much from Hugo these days.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 02, 2017 03:52 PM (B+qrE)

He has assumed room temperature.

And I keep the thermostat cranked, lemme tell ya.

Posted by: Satan, cranking the wick up a tad. at March 02, 2017 03:56 PM (WDdjT)

381 Posted by: Bill Wynn at March 02, 2017 03:55 PM (dnJP5)

that shit never gets old

Posted by: Rick in SK at March 02, 2017 03:56 PM (FZYNt)

382
Posted by: Bill Wynn at March 02, 2017 03:55 PM (dnJP5)
Looks like an Early Night!!

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 02, 2017 03:56 PM (oVJmc)

383 "Were those the commercials with Elizabeth Warren crying?"

From the era of Iron Eyes Cody to that of Ironic Lies Cow.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 02, 2017 03:56 PM (noWW6)

384 Sessions will get audience hoping he drops out, then (hopefully) he drops the hammer on Fake News, and straightens out all the misinformation.

Is there any reason for a Russia investigation?
Will Obama's last minute rule change on intel being shared across agencies be changed back to regular process?
Why did Obama make that last minute change?
Can we hang the leakers, or just life in prison?

Posted by: illiniwek at March 02, 2017 03:57 PM (YMJtx)

385 BREAKING: Sessions is holding a press conference to announce his resignation.

My guess is he'd sooner come out there in an explosive vest full of nails and detonate it in the middle of the press.

Posted by: JEM at March 02, 2017 03:57 PM (TppKb)

386 Don't hear much from Hugo these days.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 02, 2017 03:52 PM (B+qrE)

He has assumed room temperature.

He's stabilized.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2017 03:57 PM (kca06)

387 For the people that believe in global warming her's a car for you.

The Tesla model X now with Vegan interior

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/tesla-offers-all-vegan-interior/

I think back in the 70s they called it vinyl or Naugahyde.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 02, 2017 03:57 PM (P/aDH)

388 After all, it's Lent, and I promised myself I'd give up eliminationist rhetoric.
-------------------
I'm giving up chocolate and chips so I can say... kill the mo-fo and his heirs!

Posted by: andycanuck at March 02, 2017 03:57 PM (nlbfN)

389 16 Raped By Science : The Bill Nye Story
Posted by: garrett at March 02, 2017 03:04 PM (ktw54)

Raped By Science II: She Blinded Me With Science

In this edge-of-your-seat thriller, trans-woman Billie Nye joins the Taliban and throws acid in the faces of climate deniers!

Posted by: Anthropogenic at March 02, 2017 03:57 PM (wx6iv)

390 Iro Eyes Cody was the Rachael Dolezal/Shaun King of Indians.Italian American from NY that went full feather injun

Posted by: steevy at March 02, 2017 03:58 PM (r/0kC)

391 Thank goodness it didn't stop her from showing us her boobs in Barbarella.

Posted by: wth at March 02, 2017 03:54 PM (HgMAr)

Her only worthwhile contribution to the art of cinema.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 02, 2017 03:58 PM (WDdjT)

392 I don't expect him to announce his resignation. But he could announce he's recusing himself from any Russian investigation.

Posted by: JoeF. at March 02, 2017 03:58 PM (7uYFy)

393 375 Sessions isn't going anywhere. He'll most likely just clarify that he was answering the questions as asked and that, of course, he met with ambassadors as that was his job.
====

2 minute warning.

Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at March 02, 2017 03:58 PM (PXbkt)

394 CNN should recuse itserlf from covering politics and DIAF

Posted by: @votermom @vm at March 02, 2017 03:59 PM (Om16U)

395 Maybe Sessions can get to the bottom of this April the Non-Birthing Giraffe fiasco.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at March 02, 2017 03:59 PM (s/EUv)

396 Someone in a restroom at Fox, Shep is fapping away.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 02, 2017 03:59 PM (PY9jH)

397 It'd be better if Sessions announced they were investigating the previous administration using the IC for political purposes.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 02, 2017 03:59 PM (oVJmc)

398 I think back in the 70s they called it vinyl or Naugahyde.

Ultrasuede permuted into Alcantara, so...

Posted by: JEM at March 02, 2017 03:59 PM (TppKb)

399 Nood Sessions...
That doesn't sound quite right.

Posted by: andycanuck at March 02, 2017 03:59 PM (nlbfN)

400 The news jackals were all just handed some printouts at the Sessions thing.....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 02, 2017 04:00 PM (jjaLl)

401 Someone = somewhere

jeebus

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 02, 2017 04:00 PM (PY9jH)

402 I'm suddenly reminded of the Panchaea Complex in the video game Deus Ex: Human Revolution. All throughout the game you hear about the new Panchaea Complexes, which are supposed to help deal with global warming by filtering carbon out of seawater.

Spoiler Warning - That's not what they get used for in the game.

(though I wouldn't be surprised if most of the game development team believes in AGW)

Posted by: junior at March 02, 2017 04:00 PM (nsZ+m)

403 By the way, carbon dioxide is an even weaker greenhouse agent than understood even by climate skeptics: It begins as a weak greenhouse gas, and then becomes even more weak at higher concentrations. That is, units of carbon dioxide do not "stack" upon themselves as simple as 1 + 1 = 2. It's more like 1 + 1 = 1.4. And the 1 + 1 + 1 = 1.65.

This is true in general. People usually measure absorbance, not transmittance, because absorbance is proportional to concentration, while transmittance (the percentage of light at a particular wavelength that gets through) has a logarithmic relationship. This is known as Beer's Law:

http://teaching.shu.ac.uk/hwb/chemistry/tutorials/molspec/beers1.htm

Further, let us compare some infrared spectra.

CO2 absorbs quite well, but over a narrower wavelength. Water absorbs more weekly, but over a much broader range.

Here is an infrared spectrum of CO2:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/gmbn7x8

Here is an infrared spectrum of H2O:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/zzywhwy

To compare, here is a background spectrum with atmospheric CO2 and H2O:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/z32glgb

Pro-tip: There is ten times as much H2O in the atmosphere than CO2, and H2O concentration is far more variable than CO2 ever could be.

Now, here is an infrared spectrum of methane:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/hswlxqr

IOW, "settled science" is not actual settled science.

Posted by: The Chemical Hat at March 02, 2017 04:00 PM (rUIbB)

404 ro Eyes Cody was the Rachael Dolezal/Shaun King of Indians.Italian American from NY that went full feather injun
Posted by: steevy at March 02, 2017 03:58 PM (r/0kC)

Yeah but there was a tradition of Sicilian-American--and other swarthy European types-- playing Indians long before Iron Eyes came along

Posted by: JoeF. at March 02, 2017 04:00 PM (7uYFy)

405 The Tesla model X now with Vegan interior

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/tesla-offers-all-vegan-interior/

I think back in the 70s they called it vinyl or Naugahyde.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 02, 2017 03:57 PM (P/aDH)

If I wanted a Vegan interior, I'd buy a Vega. Why settle for an expensive copy of a cheap car?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 02, 2017 04:00 PM (WDdjT)

406 "I am here to announce the indictment of fourteen Obama Administration officials, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton..."

Press heads pop like zits.
Posted by: JEM at March 02, 2017 03:52 PM (TppKb)

Because everyone seems so worried about the Russians, we are opening a criminal investigation of the Clinton Sec State actions which led to Russia getting US uranium.

Thank you....

Posted by: Don Q. at March 02, 2017 04:00 PM (NgKpN)

407 He's GOING to recuse himself

Posted by: JoeF. at March 02, 2017 04:02 PM (7uYFy)

408 Iro Eyes Cody was the Rachael Dolezal/Shaun King of Indians.Italian American from NY that went full feather injun

Posted by: steevy at March 02, 2017 03:58 PM (r/0kC)

No love for Grey Owl (aka Archie Belaney)?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 02, 2017 04:02 PM (WDdjT)

409 275 You would think that by now the GOP would have taken Trump's lead and learned how to tell the Dems and the media to go fuck themselves. But no.

Posted by: JoeF. at March 02, 2017 03:38 PM (7uYFy)

Some are gutless wonders. Others are in cahoots with the Deep State and want to keep the status quo intact.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at March 02, 2017 04:02 PM (ZM2xo)

410 His press conference is being held at the DOJ conference room so...

yeah.

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 02, 2017 04:02 PM (6TED6)

411 408 He's GOING to recuse himself

Posted by: JoeF. at March 02, 2017 04:02 PM (7uYFy)

Damnit!

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at March 02, 2017 04:02 PM (ZM2xo)

412 Are you disappointed Bill Wynn?

Does it hurt a little?

Please describe the pain. In detail.

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 02, 2017 04:04 PM (6TED6)

413 In light of this new scientific finding, it's obvious that there is only one thing to do: drain the oceans.

Alternatively, we can attempt to reason past Step 1. So, you're saying at the oceans pump out greenhouse gas... which allegedly causes the earth to increase in temperature... which causes the oceans to evaporate... which, over time, might reduce the level of ocean greenhouse gases... which, over time, may cause the earth to cool.

Why, it's almost like there might a very long cycle of heating and cooling that has nothing whatsoever to do with the human activities and corresponds to long term climate change data that hasn't been altered into fake hockey sticks.

Nah. Couldn't be. We'd better ban some more asthma medication or CA, NY, and DC might be underwater in 10 years.

... wait... CA, NY, and DC underwater and destroyed? By giant, unpredictable tsunamis flooding that will wipe out everyone there without warning?...

Hmmm.

I'm going to go burn some tires.

Posted by: Damiano at March 02, 2017 04:04 PM (71OEY)

414 Wow, this place cleared out like someone farted...

Posted by: browndog at March 02, 2017 04:06 PM (bGMOs)

415 You know what else is just sitting there on the bottoms of the oceans? Manganese nodules. Right there for the picking.

Posted by: George Tirebiter at March 02, 2017 04:07 PM (/zyrl)

416 >>> O/T... the traitorous Bitch Jane Fonda, is now saying she was raped and abused as a child...
Horseshit.So effing what? Is everyone supposed to roll over and give her Ultimate Moral Authority because she claims X, Y, or Z? Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 02, 2017 03:55 PM (oVJmc)

Lena dunham had a scene on Girls apparently where a character has a questionable sexual encounter. Women complained it was a rape scene and was horrible. Lena's retort was no, I was raped and mine was nothing like that! So it can't be rape. So there.

So there's rape, and then according to Lena and Whoopi there is rape-rape. Which was Jane's?

Posted by: LizLem at March 02, 2017 04:14 PM (hvf9s)

417 Methane clathrates, methane trapped in ice crystals on the sea floor.

"The clathrates in these deep deposits are thought to have formed in situ from the microbially produced methane..."

http://tinyurl.com/joytf9m

http://tinyurl.com/hndy5j9

Posted by: geoffb5 at March 02, 2017 04:15 PM (d3wbb)

418 chronic liar and champion cocksucker Bill Wynn has been banned again. Like FaceBook, I will not tolerate #FakeNews from dishonest shills.

Posted by: ace at March 02, 2017 04:19 PM (8rNrN)

419 Methane cometh from pig shit.

Posted by: The Collector at March 02, 2017 04:33 PM (ndGCC)

420 I remember seeing the NYC garbage scows when I flew into JFK after Desert Storm to pick-up my babies. Nasty and lots of seagulls following it.

Posted by: Mad Madam Mim at March 02, 2017 04:40 PM (cZgG4)

421 You know what else is just sitting there on the bottoms of the oceans? Manganese nodules. Right there for the picking.
Posted by: George Tirebiter at March 02, 2017 04:07 PM (/zyrl

Keep your finger out of your manganese nodules. It's not polite.

Posted by: StrawMan at March 02, 2017 04:50 PM (chFFu)

422 the role of CO2 in life on this planet is critical. without it, all we carbon based lifeforms would have NO CARBON. anyone who calls CO2 as pollutant is not a scientist. the only lifeform that can ignore CO2 is silicon based life, and we have yet to see any of that to my knowledge.
Burning methane converts its nasty-ness greenhouse gas into CO2 and H2O. 2 lessor greenhouse gasses. plus it gives some heat and light to keep out the iceage.

Posted by: talgus da Deplorable at March 02, 2017 04:54 PM (fJQAI)

423 Gaia farts

Posted by: Tilikum KAW at March 02, 2017 04:54 PM (0x/TW)

424 It's true that methane is a very powerful greenhouse gas, but it's also true that its absorption spectrum overlaps that of water vapor by quite a bit, so most of the radiation it would be trapping has already been absorbed by the water vapor. This is a fact that the panic peddlers like to ignore when they're raising the alarm about cow farts. In fact, the alarmists like to look at each greenhouse gas in isolation ("see how much hotter this fishtank full of C02 is than this tank of air?").
That way they can ignore the fact that the atmosphere is much more complicated than their simple-minded scare stories would suggest.

Posted by: mikesixes at March 02, 2017 05:12 PM (dMTFL)

425 "What is the 'optimal' temperature for the Earth?"
"When was the Earth at this optimal temperature?"
"Why is that the optimal temperature?"

The man-made global warming people WILL NOT answer those three questions.

Posted by: RoyalOil at March 02, 2017 03:24 PM (AmMfi)

Bush 43's NASA Administrator, Mike Griffin, posed it a little differently, but the same point:1. First, let's decide what the optimal temperature of the Earth's atmosphere is, then2. Let's figure out the most cost-effective way of getting there.3. I'm pretty sure it's not by controlling the economies of all the nations of the world to regulate CO2.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 02, 2017 07:57 PM (jK8Z7)

426 A CEO of a company you have heard of once said to me, "I know there are whole planets with methane atmospheres out there and I don't think they had any dinosaurs, so I think methane probably comes from somewhere else."

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 02, 2017 07:58 PM (jK8Z7)

427 Can't find the post above about significant digits. I agree generally with your point, but there shouldn't be a problem with 0.5 degree observations if we use a large number of them and they are unbiased. OTOH, if you're using a rule like "round all the .5's up to the next degree," then you've introduced a bias.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 02, 2017 08:01 PM (jK8Z7)

428 The bigger point is that all of the models are no better than random variation, even though they are "tuned" to produce warming with increased anthropogenic CO2. They cannot account for other periods of warming and cooling, so the null hypothesis, which is that the current warming trend is due to the same kind of random variation as has occurred in the past, cannot be disproven. The models are not, ahem, science.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 02, 2017 08:03 PM (jK8Z7)

429 Dear Mr. Ace, the Great White Scotsman makes an interesting point; HOWEVER, given that we have passed Al Gore's tipper point, AND, that Mother Gaia has sequestered SIX THOUSAND times as much CO2 in her cellulite, (AKA limestone,) deposits -- it is not possible that said Gaia's CO2 induced hot flash ever ended. THEREFORE we do not exist. QED

Posted by: Marooned at March 02, 2017 09:52 PM (KdYVH)

430 To bad I'm so late to this party.

You all MISSED the crucial detail that NONE of the climate models suggested that CO2 is a big enough deal to do much of anything on it's own, so they MANUFACTURED a "feedback mechanism" of sorts, where the CO2 warmed the Earth a little, which caused more WATER VAPOR to be released, which is a STRONG greenhouse gas.

In reality, that feedback mechanism not only doesn't exist, and has been disproven, but it COULDN'T have existed, because it's unstable - so if it really existed the least little exhale of CO2 would have set the whole thing off millenia ago.

If anything, more water vapor makes for more clouds, which reflects away more of the Sun's radiation, which has a cooling effect. As one would expect, the Earth's thermodynamic equilibrium is extremely STABLE. These people are a disgrace to the name of science.

Posted by: Optimizer at March 03, 2017 12:31 AM (EnK/R)

431 @428 Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 02, 2017 08:03 PM (jK8Z7)

A few years ago, there was an article in The Economist, where they actually drew a confidence interval, and were fretting that the data was about to exit it. There are a number of things to observe:

(1) The whole point of a confidence interval is that if you exit the interval, you're supposed to REJECT the hypothesis. In this case, GW is essentially the hypothesis. Of course, they said nothing about how we were on the cusp of GW being REFUTED, even though that's exactly where what they presented led.

(2) Instead, they spoke of simply making the confidence interval WIDER, going to a "95% confidence level" instead of 90%. At the same time, declaring that this meant they were MORE confident, when it really means the exact opposite. In layman's terms, this is called "moving the goalpost" - not exactly "science".

(3) As you point out, it wasn't even the right NULL hypothesis - they had GW as their H0, which is giving GW a HUGE advantage (and yet it was StILL on the verge of being refuted).

Posted by: Optimizer at March 03, 2017 12:44 AM (EnK/R)

432 Did someone say silicone based life?

Posted by: Cher at March 03, 2017 01:49 AM (cvGKG)

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