#slatepitch

I love it. How do we get less ambiguous numbers though? i.e. skepticism that isn't flat-out rejection? Because you know that's gonna be the retort.

i guess you'd have to be as obsessive as the guy who looked through all of the papers published on global warming since 1991 like this guy did.

k, i'll email him

But that's only because the damn liberals control the journals and decide what gets published.

/global warming denier

Man Not Made For Space: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/scien ... space.html

Incredible.

BLACK FISH IS REAL

Thanks, Governor.

Yep. They can make road salt out of the shale gas wastewater — that fracking byproduct containing mineral salts, metals, drilling compounds and radioactive materials — and want to potentially spread it throughout Pennsylvania’s snowy streets.

Don’t worry, yet. They’re not doing it, yet.

Via the Daily Kos: “The DEP got caught trying to deceive the public about the permit. While the permit has been temporarily rescinded, the DEP intends to move forward with the plan after a new public comment period.”

http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/phi ... road-salt/

Massive earthquake spike in Oklahoma. 500+ total earthquakes since new year (25+ 3.0 magnitude or greater), 150+ this past week. Oklahoma's fracking boom is suspected (fracking increasing friction and pressure along fault lines).

Do we really need Oklahoma anyway?

we need to frack florida and maybe arizona too

yes, frack all of those states

td11 wrote:we need to frack florida and maybe arizona too

could you hold off on the former for, say, 36 hours?? kthxbai

Phan In Phlorida wrote:Massive earthquake spike in Oklahoma. 500+ total earthquakes since new year (25+ 3.0 magnitude or greater), 150+ this past week. Oklahoma's fracking boom is suspected (fracking increasing friction and pressure along fault lines).

Do we really need Oklahoma anyway?

This is impossible. I've been told by the people making boatloads of money on fracking that fracking is completely safe.

Maybe it will set off the New Madrid fault and the taxpayers can cover the cost of rebuilding after their money grab.

so they broke the planet. literally.

I was albacore tuna fishing off of Santa Cruz, California in the late 90s...we were trolling for the tuna, and all of a sudden, about 50 yards off the port side of the boat, the water start changing color. Goes from a deep blue, to lighter blue, to green to sea foam green...

And all of a sudden, a massive whale breaches, 80% of its body comes out of the water and it just falls backward into the ocean. Looked like he was having fun.

Scared the dookie right out of me. Never saw a whale that close to a fishing boat.

Have had lots of sharks and even barracuda follow hooked fish up to the boat. A killer whale would have made me dookie again in my drawers.

Bill McNeal wrote:
Incredible.

Luzinski's Gut wrote:I was albacore tuna fishing off of Santa Cruz, California in the late 90s...we were trolling for the tuna, and all of a sudden, about 50 yards off the port side of the boat, the water start changing color. Goes from a deep blue, to lighter blue, to green to sea foam green...

And all of a sudden, a massive whale breaches, 80% of its body comes out of the water and it just falls backward into the ocean. Looked like he was having fun.

Scared the dookie right out of me. Never saw a whale that close to a fishing boat.

Have had lots of sharks and even barracuda follow hooked fish up to the boat. A killer whale would have made me dookie again in my drawers.

Bill McNeal wrote:
Incredible.

You're a grown man, you can say you shit your pants.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that shifting tectonic plates create pressure at a steady rate. Every day that passes without an earthquake adds more pressure that will need to be alleviated at some point. Every earthquake relieves some of that pressure, thus leaving less pressure that will need to be alleviated later. Therefore, the kinds of small earthquakes that are happening in Oklahoma because of fracking aren't adding to the problem, they're lessening it.

I don't think it's that simple.