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And, interestingly enough, Kwyjibo is a cromulent proper noun. The Kwyjibo iron oxide-Cu-Au deposit can be found in eastern Canada; here's a map showing its location.

Though the non-proper nouns on that thing are pretty snappy too. Orogen? Skarn? I've likely been stuck with those letter combos in the past.

And, interestingly enough, Kwyjibo is a cromulent proper noun. The Kwyjibo iron oxide-Cu-Au deposit can be found in eastern Canada; here's a map showing its location.

he is part of the ID crew.

According to this article:
http://cgc.rncan.gc.ca/dir/index_e.php?id=14970&_h=bleeker

He went to the "Free University of Amsterdam".
A theology school.
http://www.godgeleerdheid.vu.nl/english/index.cfm

I can get a Phd in Theology in 5 minutes on the internet, and yes it would qualify as a 'Doctorate'. Because, you know, religion always gets a special pass.

Maybe I misread, or miss interpreted some information...I certianly hope so.

I did notice he offers no falsifiable tests or evidence.

We over here in good old Europe knew that climate change was "manmade" for about some decades. really, in the begining of the 90ties I heard the disscusion about climate change on TV.
Wow! The climate never changes on its own? Quite impotent nature is.

Funny, this is posted as some "breaking news" here, because in Europe it is a "consensus".

That still doesn't make you correct.

Oh, and it is really tragic, that in the US of A, which is with 25% by far the worlds biggest "producer" of CO2, the climate change is seen as a myth.

The worlds biggest "producer" of CO2? I suppose there are no natural CO2 emitters in the world. Here's just a few to ponder:

http://www.canada.com/national/features/fires/stor y.html?id=e91e44d4-2462-49f2-b03a-6c211cd1c50a

http://www.cfl.scf.rncan.gc.ca/ecosys/disturb/fire _e.asphttp://www.cfl.scf.rncan.gc.ca/ecosys/distur b/fire_e.asp>

http://www.ucar.edu/communications/newsreleases/20 02/cocarbon.html

BTW, the climate is constantly changing and probably always will.

Thanks for killing the planet, enjoy your SUV - as long as it is still possible. Thanks for killing the planet, enjoy your SUV - as long as it is still possible.

Ahh, yes. Just some more of the obligatory US bashing. Somehow, I really doubt that you are any friend of the US or the Americas especially since you can't seem to separate the two. Hint: the USA is part of North America. Canada is also a part of North America. Then you have all the central and South American countries who probably don't like getting lumped in with the USA. All of us (note the lower case letters) are Americans.

1.) Rather than hydrates being chemically altered by CO2, the implication
is that the process of trying to bury this CO2 could potentially disrupt
any already loose hydrates in that first 300 metres you mention. As you're
aware, the hydrates can then dissolve further in the water, the methane
turning to gas and rising as bubbles.

2.) Even the website for Mallik mentions that gas hydrates are also known
to cause seafloor instabilities. That fact alone should provoke a lot
of research in the feasibility of CO2 storage under the ocean floor.

3.) I don't dispute that hydrates are a possible alternative energy source. And
I certainly agree that the rate of consumption of fossil fuels is absurd. But Mallik
seems at a cursory glance a research project to determine production methods and
feasibility by drilling some permafrost cores. My primary concern would be how
invasive production techniques would be in order to mine the susbstance from
permafrost regions. As it is, the rate of loss of permafrost across the world.
Mt. Kilimanjaro seems to have "already lost some 82% of its permafrost
since 1912 - and 33% of this in the past two decades." Alaska could
potentially lose "as much as the top 30 to 35 feet (10 meters) of discontinuous
permafrost thawing by 2100." Granted, it's hard to play fortune teller, but the
rate of loss of permafrost globally has increased quite a bit over the last two
decades. Depending on the depth of the hydrates in the permafrost regions,
it would seem logical that these hydrates could thaw and further escape into the
atmosphere. If this is true, above-ground hydrate mining doesn't seem so feasible.

You may know much more about this than I do so your thoughts are appreciated.

-Shawn

Expedia is currently the only "Automatic" download option in GPSDrive (there used to be an option to grab USGS Topo maps from "Topozone", but they complained so it's been removed - They weren't QUITE in the right projection for GPSDrive anyway). GPSDrive can work with any map image that is the right size and projection though.

I haven't managed to figure out what projection the "street" maps are in (someone on the mailing list opined that they thought it was a "Miller" projection, but nobody who knew for sure has ever been enticed to post the information in the GPSDrive mailing list that I can find - that's the reason I was asking about the Expedia map projection in an earlier post), but the "Topo" maps are "flat" (or "equirectangular" or whatever term you want to use), meaning each pixel is exactly the same latitude and longitude) ever since the NASA satellite data was added as an option to GPSDrive. Maps need to be 1280x1024, in a graphics format that GTK2 can interpret, and you need to know the "scale" and latitude/longitude of the center of the map.

There appear to be free maps of Canada available here. If you can convert them to the appropriate size and format, you can just stick them in ~/.gpsdrive, add them to the map_koord.txt file and GPSDrive will use them.

The best source for Canadian topo maps online is:
http://toporama.cits.rncan.gc.ca/toporama_en.html

It not as nice as topozone (which incidently has 1:250K topo maps for at least some of Canada) but it may be good enough for your purposes.