By 2040 Greenhouse Gases … Open Arctic Sea in Summers

!!!! Alarm Bells – anyone hear them over the din of Limbaugh, FOX News, Coulter, DeLay, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, body counts, ….?
By 2040, Greenhouse Gases Could Lead to an Open Arctic Sea in Summers ANDREW C. REVKIN of the NY Times is writing about an article from the journal Geophysical Research Letters,

Basically, we’ll have shipping lanes from Atlantic to Pacific oceans north of Canada. Folks will be buying land in northern Canada, and building ports and fuelling stations up there, as the polar bears begin to run out of territory. The problem will continue to get worse as the darker colored ocean waters will absorb more heat than the white ice. Ironically, the winters will be colder, as blowing winds pick up more cold from the melted waters than from the frozen ice.

You really need to look at the map in the Times article to see how huge this summer ice melt will be. Almost the entire northern polar ice cap will be melted in the summer, leaving a small amount of summer ice to the north of Eastern Canada and Greenland.

Meanwhile, in my home state of Texas, we are being hijacked by the pinheaded Governor Rick Perry who is fast tracking the permits for 11 new coal-burning power plants. These are not the new, cleaner coal burners, he is letting them build 11 OLD TECHNOLOGY COAL PLANTS!!!!!!

With the foresight and intelligence of Rick Perry, I’m starting to think that he’s ready for the national scene in ‘08. Yeah, that’s the ticket, “PERRY FOR PREZ IN ‘08.” It would be a relief to get him out of Texas. Poor Washington.

If only we’d simply forgotten about Iraq after we’d finished up in Afghanistan, we could have gone to war against global warming.

IF ONLY WE’D DEVELOPED AN ENERGY POLICY IN THE 70′S.

If only we’d been as smart as Brazil. They were quick to react to the oil embargoes of the early 70’s, and started on a national program to convert their vehicles to ethanol. By last year the transition was complete. Every vehicle in Brazil runs on ethanol produced from sugar cane, which has a higher per acre yield than corn. In fact, Brazil is now an exporter of ethanol.

If only, … aaaahhhhh, But no, the U.S. is still dependent on Middle Eastern oil, and getting worse, and soon to be competing with a China on the fast track to consumerism and demands for more oil. So we are trying to permanantly embed ourselves in the Middle East to bring democracy to the region, rid it of WMD, kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people so that we preserve our own national interests over there. Can you spell oil with me kids, O-I-L. Very Good!

My how the time flies when I’m off on a good rant. Thank God and Little George Bush that we’re winning in Iraq!!! We’re winning? Right? Little George????

YUP, REPUBLICANS LOST IRAQ WAR!

I’m beginning to be a fan of a lot of the Huffington Post’s writers, Cenk Uygur being one of my favorites. He’s a lawyer, and co-host of THE YOUNG TURKS, a morning show on Air America. He wrote a blog piece for the Huff-Po folks, entitled: THE REPUBLICANS LOST IRAQ, to which I replied:

You said it so lucidly Mr. Uygur. The blame for losing the Iraq War rests squarely on the Republican shoulders. Anyone who tried to inject sanity into their jingoistic monologue was scorned as a traitor. From day one I was incensed by Ann Coulter calling anyone who openly disagreed with the President, ON ANY TOPIC, an unpatriotic traitor. We all should have been rounded and tried like terrorists, in Ann’s and Rush’s and O’Reilly’s insane, reptilian worldview.

I am concerned that Democrats will now be roped into the “blame pool,” having won both houses. However Rumsfeld’s latest leaked memo written two days before he resigned, and the fact that most of the mainstream media now call it a Civil War, should limit the Democrat’s liability for the calamity ahead. Watch, though, the neocons will still be grousing that if they had been given enough time they would have pulled Iraq out of its current funk. (Hey neo-knotheads, it’s gone on longer than the America’s involvement in W.W. II.

The failed Republican – neocon approach has ignited a searing fire in the bellies of future generations of Middle Eastern jihadists. They will rightfully blame the U.S. for the 650,000 civilian deaths in Iraq.

The best approach to the Iraq situation would have been to grant more time to the initial weapons inspectors, and to a diplomatic solution.

I feel that your main point, Mr Uygur, needs to be hammered out loudly and firmly for the media and the world to hear, and remember. Say it loud! Say it proud! REPUBLICANS LOST IRAQ!

I feel that this bears repeating as a mantra for a while, vain and arrogant as it may sound, as a dose of reality to Republicans, neocons, their followers, and the rightwing media who have been pounding the terrorist war drums for the last five years. We need to drum this truth, into their heads.

If you have not yet checked out the Huffington Post, you need to do so, daily, or hourly if you are like me. It updates several times an hour, tracks the main wireline news, and has the best bloggers out there. It’s a national treasure. Give them a visit.

I’ve got several posts to get pasted up in the next few days – maybe Tuesday, or so. Thanks for your patience, Denny.