Mt. Kilimanjaro's Ice Cap is Vanishing
Environment | Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 7:12:37 pm PST
Uh oh. Mt. Kilimanjaro Ice Cap Continues Rapid Retreat, Study Says.
The ice atop Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania has continued to retreat rapidly, declining 26 percent since 2000, scientists say in a new report.
Yet the authors of the study, to be published Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reached no consensus on whether the melting could be attributed mainly to humanity’s role in warming the global climate.
Eighty-five percent of the ice cover that was present in 1912 has vanished, the scientists said.
Monday Afternoon Blues: Joe Bonamassa, 'Blues Deluxe'
Music | Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:39:01 pm PST
From a 2005 concert on the German Rockpalast show, Joe Bonamassa tears up a Stratocaster something fierce.
Iran's Manhattan Project Rushing Ahead
World | Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:42:23 pm PST
Go ahead, tell me you didn’t see this coming: Iran suggests it is not ready to export uranium.
An Iranian diplomat said Monday his country wanted to buy fuel for its Teheran research reactor, the latest indication that Iran is not willing to ship most of its enriched uranium out of the country.
As the centrifuges spin.
Gingrich Angry at Scozzafava
Politics | Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:42:24 am PST
Newt Gingrich is reportedly angry with Dede Scozzafava for endorsing her former opponent, Democrat Bill Owens.
Scozzafava’s decision infuriated Republicans who had stuck with her, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
He told the AP that he was disappointed and “deeply upset.”
“How could she have accepted all that support?” he said, adding later, “I’m very, very let down because she told everybody she was a Republican, and she said she was a loyal Republican.”
Gingrich might be upset because he backed Scozzafava and now has to eat crow and support Hoffman. But it’s a funny kind of loyalty to demand, a loyalty that only works in one direction. If the GOP is going to start enthusiastically carrying out tea party-style purges, it’s a bit hypocritical to complain about disloyalty from the ones who are cast out.
Anti-Abortion Extremists' Auction Goes Online (Briefly)
Weird | Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:21:08 am PST
Last Wednesday we noted a report that eBay had rejected an auction by a radical anti-abortion group to raise money for alleged murderer Scott Roeder: EBay Says No to Scott Roeder Benefit Auction.
According to TPM, however, the auction did go online for a brief time before being pulled down. The person who posted the items, mission.of.life, registered at eBay on October 30, 2009, so this may have been an attempt to get around eBay’s first rejection with a new account.
But Google’s cache still has it here: Drawings Commissioned by Scott Roeder - eBay (item 200401118000 end time Nov-04-09 21:09:16 PST).
And three of the disturbing drawings “commissioned” from a fellow prisoner by Scott Roeder are still online at eBay.
All of these drawings glorifying murder are signed by Roeder, “To all you precious prolifers, thank you for all your support, Scott Roeder.”
