Greenland Ice Core Analysis Shows Drastic Climate Change Near End Of Last Ice Age
ScienceDaily (June 19, 2008) — Information gleaned from a Greenland ice core by an international science team shows that two huge Northern Hemisphere temperature spikes prior to the close of the last ice age some 11,500 years ago were tied to fundamental shifts in atmospheric circulation.

The ice core showed the Northern Hemisphere briefly emerged from the last ice age some 14,700 years ago with a 22-degree-Fahrenheit spike in just 50 years, then plunged back into icy conditions before abruptly warming again about 11,700 years ago. Startlingly, the Greenland ice core evidence showed that a massive "reorganization" of atmospheric circulation in the Northern Hemisphere coincided with each temperature spurt, with each reorganization taking just one or two years, said the study authors.

The new findings are expected to help scientists improve existing computer models for predicting future climate change as increasing anthropogenic greenhouse gases in the atmosphere drive up Earth's temperatures globally. I report,U decide.

To the editor,

Senator Norm Coleman introduces bill to bolster domestic energy supply and bring down energy prices. The bill will authorize deep water exploration of oil and gas, increase oil and gas production, expand nuclear energy capacity, , fund renewable fuels and accelerate the production of coal to liquid technology. The only opposition will be the environmentalists and their good friends of the Democratic party.

The motivating passion for environmentalism is too often a desire for political control first and environmental improvement second. The control environmentalists seek is not only fool's gold ,but actually the fastest route to a less healthy environment and a poorer society. The only reliable guarentee for sustained environmental health is precisely the freedom and property rights so many environmentalists see as the cause of all our problems.

The reason Democrats favor environmental issues is that they donate over 90% of their political donations to the Democratic party. This can be seen at www.opensecrets.org/pacs.

From Wikipedia:"In 1980, United States federal legislation was passed that levied such a tax on oil companies because of the profits they earned as a result of the sharp increase in oil prices brought about by the OPEC oil embargo. Since then, the tax has not been reenacted, however with gas prices once again reaching record levels there is renewed pressure on the U.S. government to bring back the tax. Amid low oil prices, the tax was ended in 1988 by President Ronald Reagan [1]."

"The Congressional Research Service has analysed that the windfall profit tax brought in $80 billion in extra revenues for the United States government, which was far less than the projected $393 billion. Also, domestic oil production by oil producers was said to be lowered"

As I see it the tax will be levied as 2% of gross sales. With Exxon-Mobil net profit of 40 billion in 2007, at 11% of gross sales, is a normal profit for most businesses.At 360 Billion gross sales this tax would reduce their net profit to 32.8 billion or 9%.

To the editor,

Al Franken for Congress?
Now the liberal loonies in Minnesota have become even loonier than should be permitted, even in a free society. Al Franken, for congress, huh? Franken is but a comedian and an acerbic, mean spirited, misguided one at that. If that's what congress needs, I think Laurel and Hardy would have been a better choice for congress. Or maybe Lucille Ball.

About a year after his release from a North Vietnamese prison camp, Cmdr. John S. McCain III sat down to address one of the most vexing questions confronting his fellow prisoners: Why did some choose to collaborate with the North Vietnamese?

Mr. McCain, a Navy lieutenant commander, was by all accounts what the American prisoners called a “tough resister.” He was nicknamed Crip for the severity of the injuries he sustained — a shoulder, both arms and his knee broken, with a bayonet wound near the groin — when his fighter plane was shot down in October 1967. Military rules only allowed P.O.W.’s to go home in the order of their capture, but some senior officers said his medical condition justified accepting an offer of release from the North Vietnamese. Mr. McCain, the son of a prominent admiral, did not want to be part of North Vietnamese propaganda, so he chose to endure years of torture instead.