Global warming nightmare?

Ocean Currents Speed Melting of Antarctic Ice

Stronger ocean currents beneath West Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf are eroding the ice from below, speeding the melting of the glacier as a whole, according to a new study in Nature Geoscience. A growing cavity beneath the ice shelf has allowed more warm water to melt the ice, the researchers say—a process that feeds back into the ongoing rise in global sea levels. The glacier is currently sliding into the sea at a clip of four kilometers (2.5 miles) a year, while its ice shelf is melting at about 80 cubic kilometers a year - 50 percent faster than it was in the early 1990s - the paper estimates.

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A Major Glacier is Undermined: Ocean Currents Speed Melt of Antarctic Ice

Earlier today there was a tornado watch out for New York City... but who would ever have thought a twister would touch down in Springfield, Mass.? Not I!

via youtube - Uploaded by wish Tornado touches down Springfield, MA www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5fX072sQH8

Mother Earth has been very testy over the last few years. Payback for the Gulf Oil Spill?

Tornado hits Springfield as violent storms sweep across state
1 hour ago

Babcock said the agency believed the storm that hit Springfield was a tornadoand had received damage reports from the city. ...

Springfield TORNADO!

More Monkey Business in Malaysia: Tweets on the acid splasher

More Monkey Business in Malaysia: Tweets on the acid splasher

Written by Mong Palatino · East Asia

More than 20 cases of acid attacks have been reported already in Malaysia since March. According to Global Voices, many residents are scared to walk in the streets. Nutty Malaysian Netizens were quick to spread information about the 'acid splashing' cases but some reports turned out to be false. read »

Here's (literally) the biggest baby on the net today:
Wednesday's Flood in Louisiana Update (UPDATED) Flooding continues in Louisiana even though I didn't write about it yesterday. This is the last full week of school and I'm feeling like a zombie. But compared to the people down south, I've got no troubles at all. Here's a little aggregation of ...

The Rapture is coming! Here's a survival kit

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Las Vegas Weekly - Kristen Peterson - via Google

Forget Harold Camping's failed Rapture prediction of 1996. The Christian radio broadcaster says this time it's for real. He's predicted May 21, 2011 as the ...

End of the world, May 21, 2011? Whatever, it's funny‎ - CBS News
Megan Hart: Don't worry about the world ending on Saturday ...‎ - Muskegon Chronicle - MLive.com
May 21: Judgement Day?‎ - KPSP Local 2

TechCrunch

Angry Birds Tops 200 Million Downloads; More Than Double Its “Crazy” Forecast (TCTV) - BERLIN-- Yesterday at the Next 11 conference, I interviewed Rovio's Mighty Eagle Peter Vesterbacka on stage...

HAPPY BIRD!

Health Nut Wannabee Mom

Wingy Wednesday!!Fluffy Flies! Rescued Baby Crow Is Going To Be Fine! Our 3rd Rescued Bird This Spring! Whew -  *Here he is..................... Fluffy..........* 

Famous Bloggers

Marketing Your eBook as an Audiobook

A Newbie's Guide to Publishing

Why You Won't Succeed - Ebooks aren't a straight path to fortune and fame.

TechCrunch

#TwitterAllowsYouTo. discuss. - For someone so disdainful of the Internet, New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller sure fits the textbook definition of a troll.

NetActive 18 May 2011

Although I haven't been well the last few days, I didn't feel like sitting around the house or calling in sick to work, especially with President Bill Clinton scheduled to speak in Albany. You can barely see him in this fuzzy cellphone pic I snapped from the media area. (Hover and click on the pic for higher res shots taken by University photographer Mark Schmidt) Those up-close pix you see on TV and in the papers were taken from the same spot, by reporters and camera operators armed with telescopic lenses!


Wednesday night was very cold, with a icy wind and a touch of snow in the air as I headed out to the University campus. Although I arrived before the 7pm media check-in time, I parked what seemed like miles from the SEFCU arena. (Getting OUT of the parking lot later was tantamount to a 'Keystone Kops' episode. Authorities looped traffic around and back in a confusing fashion instead of allowing what should have been a relatively normal but bumper-to-bumper flow. It wasn't too bad for me, but many other drivers were frustrated!)

It is difficult when you have a prolific speaker like President Clinton to go through minutes and minutes of recorded audio and pick out highlights when the entire speech is in itself a highlight. I could have filled 20 minutes, but squeezed what I could into 4 and a half. Albany County Executive Mike Breslin was among regional officials attending the Clinton speech, which he called "an amazingly optimistic approach to where we are in the world today." And indeed it was. The spark of optimism burned thru each and every person who had sat in that auditorium as they made their way into the cold night. The words of change and hope for the future will stick in everyone's memory, I'm sure.

The Times Union mentioned one of the topics I had to pass on: the volatile situation in the Arab world right now. Clinton said he was concerned about Middle East because people try to hijack every revolution. He said democracy could flourish in those countries and praised the young people for risking their lives to bring it about peaceably. He closed the topic with a "wait and see" flavor applied... had the media been granted access to the President, I'm certain that would have been one of the items Mr. Clinton would have been asked a zillion questions about.

A 2010 Wall Street Journal/NBC news poll determined Clinton is regarded as the most popular politician in the United States.

PS - if anyone finds a "Bill Clinton UAlbany Transcript" link, please drop it in the "comments" area below! THANKS!

Tags: Bill Clinton at UAlbany, President Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton at UAlbany

Why does this scenario remind me of the movie "Avatar"?

Wish I could attend the presser! (And stay for morning tea!)

TUESDAY 1ST MARCH 2011
PHOTOCALL: 10.30AM
PRESS CONFERENCE: 11AM
FLOODING OUR FUTURE: THE THREAT TO INDIGENOUS LANDS FROM HYDRO-POWER SCHEMES IN LATIN AMERICA.
• Bianca Jagger, Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation/Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador/Amnesty International/Amazon Charitable Trust
• Ruth Buendia Mestoquiari, President of Central Ashaninka Del Rio Ene, Peru
• Sheyla Yakarepi Juruna, Belo Monte, Brazil
• Almir Narayamoga Surui, Brazil
Main Auditorium, The Human Rights Action Centre, Amnesty International, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA.
The press conference will be followed by morning tea.

Bianca Jagger & Hydro-power in Latin America

Entrecard Experiencing Technical Difficulties

Entrecard Experiencing Technical Difficulties

The popular hybrid advertising/social blogger's network is having a "dashboard" dilemma: Droppers can't reciprocate the way they are accustomed to! "Serious error: We have a bug in our software..." read »

Brazil: Exclusive Internet Interview with the Founder of WikiLeaks

Written by Paula Góes · Translated by Melissa Mann · Americas

Brazilian netizens were invited to participate in an exclusive and collective interview with Julian Assange, founder and editor of the polemical WikiLeaks. Assange explains why he works with mainstream media – though he never fails to criticize it. read »

Egypt: Hosni Mubarak Appoints Vice-president (Politics)
A. Fatih Syuhud - 19 hours agoIn other countries vice-president appointment might not be a news at all. Not in Egypt. Since, Husni Mubarak have not appointed any VP during his 30-year rule.

Egypt: Solidarity Pours in from Around the World

Written by Hisham · Middle East & North Africa

On Saturday, in different cities around the world, people demonstrated in solidarity with the Egyptian protesters. This is a round up of some of the videos of the marches posted!

Around The Blogosphere 30 January 2011

::: !STORM! ::: CAPITAL REGION ::: NYC
Where I was today... Senator Chuck Schumer is joined outside Albany City Hall by Congressman Paul Tonko, Albany County Executive Mike Breslin, Mayor of Albany Jerry Jennings, Mayor of Schenectady Brian Stratton, Rensselaer County Executive Kathy Jimino and Albany County Legislator Brian Scavo.

U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer stopped by Albany City Hall on a freezing cold Tuesday morning to call on the Department of Homeland Security to provide the Capital Region with its fair share of counter terrorism funding this year. Last year, despite an overall increase in this type of funding nationwide, the region saw its funding level cut by almost 50%. Currently the Albany Urban Area Working Group, consisting of Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady and Schoharie counties, are engaged in constructing an interoperable communications network that would allow all the area’s first responders to communicate in the event of a natural disaster or an attack on one of the region’s numerous high-profile targets. Schumer says construction of this critical network will be severely hindered if the Capital Region is not given its share of funding this year, and the investments that have already been made could be lost.

MIA fans! Internet Connection (The Remixes)

There's an organized e-mail campaign making the rounds: Tell Elle that women don't have to be white to be beautiful.

Pictures of Bill Clinton in Haiti

Follow President Clinton (@clintontweet) on Twitter live from #Haiti, where he is marking the one-year anniversary of the January 12 earthquake.

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords remained in stable condition and would remain on a ventilator as a precaution, doctors said on Tuesday.

Someone has finally made a movie shot entirely on an iPhone!

Pop Clips » 11 Jan 11

The 2nd Snowiest Place in the USA is right here in NYS!

A child-eating wolf in eco-friendly sheep's clothing?

10:10 touts TODAY as "the largest day of positive action on climate change ever."

At first glance, it all seems good, until you take a look at THIS.



Tags: 10:10, Michelle Malkin

10:10 ::: Friend or Foe?

Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot

Hurricane Andrew: 18 Years Later - When Hurricane Andrew struck South Florida on August 24, 1992, my family was unprepared for the disaster.

Orient Lodge

Cold Wind and Rain - The cold wind and rain arrived on Cape Cod this week, soon after we did and an old folk song with 'cold wind and rain' in the lyrics

Miss Info

Video: John Legend & The Roots at Miss Universe 2010 and Big Boi on Late Show with David Letterman - Leading up to their collaborative LP Wake Up! that drops on September 21, John Legend & The Roots took to the stage at the 2010 Miss Universe Pageant!

Uncommon Sense and Blog for Cuba report on the arrest of blogger Luis Felipe Rojas Rosabal.

Michelle Malkin

Time Once Again to Play ‘Write the Headline for MSNBC’ - "Unwanted advances"

Sam Pratt has created a mobile app for Hudson blogs...

Famous Bloggers

10 Best Web Design Articles at MMO Social Network - Today we are going to do our weekly MMO round up. This round up is all about web design articles that were submitted to MMO at one point.

TechCrunch

Apple Looking To Slice Up Cable 99 Cents At A Time - The wheels are in motion. The rumors have persisted for a while now that a new Apple TV is approaching...

A site for Bloqosfer 2010 [AZ] to be held in Nabron, Azerbaijan, on 10-12 September has been launched at http://www.bloqosfer.com/2010. The hashtag #bloqosfer10 is used on Twitter.

Around The Blogosphere 24 August 10

A Fujian family hides in a tunnel to avoid heat stroke

YES! Another SCORCHER here in New York! It's hotter than Jennifer Lopez's career in 1999 and if you don't have air conditioning, you're screwed. Beat the heat with Gawker ::: Check out Fauna's post about Chinese People Coping With Hot Summer Temperatures. Stay cool, Albany! And you kids in Troy, stay off the 112th St. bridge!

With "Mean Girl" Lindsay Lohan headed for the pokey, Observer wonders who might replace her in the Linda Lovelace biopic?

I was busy doing something else the other day when a TV show announced it would be showing a report about the 10 best public restrooms ... I'm not sure if they were in New York or the USA or the world ... needless to say I didn't bother checking it out... but now comes word via Global Voices that Moroccan blogger Big Brother Maroc [Fr] reports on the launch of Bitelma [Fr] (which translates to Water Closet), a website that invites visitors to publish pictures of “the worst public toilets in the country” listed by city and address (train stations, bars, restaurants, malls, universities…) in an effort “to pressure the authorities and private owners to better maintain toilets used by the public.”

Now read this! The Lotus of Trinidad and Tobago: Kamla Persad-Bissessar (from Active Voice by Annie Paul!)

Orient Lodge

Technologists and Entrepreneurs Meetup at #swct - “How do we use the social web to help developers and entrepreneurs help each other?” That is the question...

Xiaxue has released a new batch of clicknetwork videos!

Around The Blogosphere 07 July 2010

A videotape posted on the Russia Today news site shows an amateur cameraman filming oil-slicked streets in River Ridge, a suburb of New Orleans.

The camera pans across oil running down the streets and into storm drains. The videographer, who isn't identified at the RT Web site, describes it as "the same brown bubbly stuff we saw yesterday in the Gulf under the Bay St. Louis Bridge."

He continues: "You can see it. It's raining oil. It is literally raining oil in River Ridge. ... Is this not crazy, dude?"

Because oil generally doesn't evaporate, it shouldn't be possible, under normal circumstances, for it to rain down from the skies. But Charlie Paxton of the National Weather Service tells WTSP in Tampa that "a water spout could pick up some oil and carry it a short distance."

Another possibility is that the dispersant BP has been using to thin the oil, Corexit, may have made some of it light enough to be absorbed in the atmosphere.

Almighty Oil!