Ice shelf collapses in Antarctic - need more pirates

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Ice shelf collapses in Antarctic.

Photo in National Geographic news.

"The chunk of coastal ice was some 160 square miles (415 square kilometers) in area—about seven times the size of Manhattan."



We need more pirates!

[Griffin NoName]

We may have enough pirates. They are just in the wrong place.

I just watched "Day after Tomorrow". Then I heard the news item as above. It's getting a bit real.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

We may have enough pirates. They are just in the wrong place.

I just watched "Day after Tomorrow". Then I heard the news item as above. It's getting a bit real.

I may just have to dust off my pirate patch.... an' learn how to speak Pirate again.

[Bruder Cuzzen]

Oh bouy ! Another piece falling off down south ...and the northwest passage rapidly becoming clear to shipping all year round.

The global warming naysayers are looking very stupid , their motives for their stance obviously due to bribery or they have vested interests in polluting practices .

I'd like to hear what they are saying now , i'd like to see all their names posted online so they may be suitably taunted ...ARGH!

[Sibling Chatty]

Start with George W. Bush.

Of course taunting him isn't that much fun. He's too damn stupid to understand.

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

  Must teach myself pirate. And migrate to New Zealand or something.

[anthrobabe]

Would stabbing my coworker who took down the entire computer and all associated WITHOUT ONE SINGLE SOLITARY BACKUP in the eye or groin while yelling ARGH help? I'd sure like to try.....

I have 15000 field interview cards to reenter-- and that's just one thing.

really can I stab them?

Scriblerus-- I'll migrate to New Zealand with you ...

[Pachyderm]

Make them enter all the lost data. Every time they slow down in the typing, stick them with a cattle prod.

[anthrobabe]

Make them enter all the lost data. Every time they slow down in the typing, stick them with a cattle prod.

I wish-- but we have a bad case of 'not me' round here. The other shift dispatchers sort of get all rolly eyed and go blank when I tell them what WE must now do.....
I am wearing my eyepatch to work tomorrow and bringing 'softy' the stuffed parrot as well. If they don't like it well- they can get stuffed.

All pirates need to put on their shiny stuff as well!

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

Yaarr! I could wiv some company, down wiv all the kiwis. Meeybe we kin stay wiv me cousin and 'er 'usband on the ranch, when not at sea. If'n ye don' mind the smell, 'o course, Gert.

It just occurred to me that my extended family is not helping with the global warming. They own sixty ranches in Montana and Nebraska alone. Plus the relatives abroad with their own, such as the kiwi cousin.

Maybe we can put the cows all on a tread mill thingy and have them generate electricity. There's several thousand of them all told, so they could sure as hell help.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Yaarr! I could wiv some company, down wiv all the kiwis. Meeybe we kin stay wiv me cousin and 'er 'usband on the ranch, when not at sea. If'n ye don' mind the smell, 'o course, Gert.

It just occurred to me that my extended family is not helping with the global warming. They own sixty ranches in Montana and Nebraska alone. Plus the relatives abroad with their own, such as the kiwi cousin.

Maybe we can put the cows all on a tread mill thingy and have them generate electricity. There's several thousand of them all told, so they could sure as hell help.

Actually, cows contribute quite a bit to global warming-- all that lovely sulfated methane gas.  Err--cow farts, if you please.

If we could somehow trap those gas emissions, we could use it to power quite a few things.

There was an actual serious study, back in the '80's or so, at Oklahoma University, that studied the amount and possible use of and for cow farts.

They never did figure out how to collect it from cows out in the fields, though....

[Aggie]

They are getting close.... 

http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2211482/californians-turn-cow-power

_{admittedly, I assume it's from anoxic digestion, not trapped cow farts}