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Methane-Trapping Ice May Have Triggered Gulf Spill
sciencehabit writes with an excerpt from Science that begins: "Methane-trapping ice of the kind that has frustrated the first attempt to contain oil gushing offshore of Louisiana may have been a root cause of the blowout that started the spill in the first place, according to [UC Berkeley] professor Robert Bea, who has extensive access to BP p.l.c. documents on the incident. If methane hydrates are eventually implicated, the US oil and gas industry would have to tread even more lightly as it pushes farther and farther offshore in search of energy."
homosexuals must be eliminated
Sweet. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio has a nice rack. Didn't they make a movie about that once that happened to take place underwater? ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
I thought this was a random troll, but I looked into it and the figures check out looking back as far as 1960. I guess I'll add this one to the list:
* Global warming is inversely proportional to number of pirates.
* Global warming is directly proportional to cultural acceptance of homosexuality.
Thus explaining how the Pirates of the Caribbean series failed to have the expected cooling effect.
The enemies of Democracy are
You asked for citations, and I provided six. There's no need to bitch about it again in a separate post. Dick.