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The Arctic Is Leaking Methane
registerShift and other readers sent in news that the Arctic Ocean seabed is leaking methane. "...climate experts familiar with the new research reported in Friday's issue of the journal Science that even though it does not suggest imminent climate catastrophe, it is important because of methane's role as a greenhouse gas. Although carbon dioxide is far more abundant and persistent in the atmosphere, ton for ton atmospheric methane traps at least 25 times as much heat. ... [One scientist] estimated that annual methane emissions from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf total about seven teragrams. (A teragram is 1.1 million tons.) By some estimates, global methane emissions total about 500 teragrams a year. ...about 40 percent is natural, including the decomposition of organic materials in wetlands and frozen wetlands like permafrost."
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Yo' momma. ::rimshot:: ::in before the other yo momma jokes::
Living With a Nerd
I needed to get my fuck on last night so I headed to the bar. There wasn't much available, but I was able to find this one chick. She was a little too fat and her skin was kinda greasy, but whatever, I just needed a nut-hole for the night. When we got home and I got her granny panties off, she had this funky smell, somewhat like unbaked bread. Weird. Anyway, I did the deed.
Today I wake up and there is a mushroom growing out of the end of my penis. I can't break it off because the roots going way down inside. I don't know what to do!
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...sailing the sausage seas!
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No room for manufacturing until you get rid of lawyers and unions and not necessarily in that order....
Lawyers run up the cost of everything because companies get sued because parents don't know to keep bags off of kids head and someone forgot to print the detailed parental instructions on the packaging...
Union run up cost because of increased labor/pension costs. Many companies/cities are having pension issues. A big city down the street is 30Million in debt because the previous administrations picked up 100% of pension for police & fire unions... using typical scare tactics that we will have civil unrest without them and it is need to hire quality service folks, etc... result? They are broke and hurting and will be soon eating each other over tax dollars. One idea floated.. If you earn money outside of the city you should be taxed on that income also. Sounds like a quick way to empty a city to me. sad...sad...sad...
Unions used to protect workers from dangerous working environments... Now they just fleece pockets at the expense of the company or taxpayers (or both if you are GM or Chrysler worker)
"...while we pass legislation to make manufacturing even more difficult in America..."
It does not MATTER how difficult (or not) manufacturing is in America. Managers of public companies are trying to "maximize shareholder value" and also pad their own salaries and bonuses as much as possible. Therefore, they export as many jobs as possible from the U.S. to China to hire the cheapest possible workers. Environmental regs or not, that's their strategy, and it' short-term thinking. Gradually, the manufacturing skill and knowledge moves from the U.S. to China. Less gradually, U.S. workers are out of jobs and can't afford the goods anymore. It's a race to the bottom in order to maximize profit in the near-term.
Now go ahead, and fuckin' mod this as flamebait. Whatever.