{"id":29979,"date":"2017-10-23T13:08:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T20:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29979"},"modified":"2017-10-23T13:08:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T20:08:15","slug":"open-thread-10232017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/23\/open-thread-10232017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/23\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m not sure why it is that I&#8217;m feeling so lethargic today, but because I am, this is my only article.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:39 (average 5:40).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-10-23-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>. How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Agony<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1022Broncos0-Chargers21\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1022Broncos0-Chargers21\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1022Broncos0-Chargers21.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"100\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Useless stinking Orb!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yVDX_ctaac0\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Sean Hannity is echoing Alex Jones<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/yVDX_ctaac0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Birds of a feather are Republican assholes! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/10\/23\/1708637\/-Warm-waters-melting-Antarctic-ice-shelves-have-appeared-for-the-first-time-in-over-7-000-years\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>If Antarctica&#8217;s ice sheets melted, the worlds oceans would rise by 200 &#8211; 210 feet, everywhere. Antarctica holds 6,957,470 cubic miles of ice. That represents over 90% of all the ice on the planet and between 60 to 70% of the worlds fresh water. The sea ice begins to expand at the beginning of winter, and eventually advances by 40,000 square miles per day, surrounding the continent and doubling the size of the ice in Antarctica. The snow that falls takes about 100,000 years to flow to the coast of Antarctica before it breaks off the marine extension of glaciers, or ice shelves, and becomes an iceberg. Once an iceberg breaks off the ice platform, any resistance that it provided to hold back the land ice is lost, and the continental ice can accelerate it\u2019s flow to the southern ocean.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/warm-waters-melting-antarctic-ice-shelves-may-have-appeared-for-the-first-time-in-over-7-000-years-82016\" target=\"_blank\">The Conversation<\/a> notes that for the first time in 7,000 years a phenomenon known as upwelling (the upward flow of warm ocean water to the surface) is rotting the ice shelves from below. It is thought that the upwelling has caused the many ice shelf collapses and ice thinning that we have seen over the past decades.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The ocean surrounding Antarctica is extremely cold, but water over 300m deep, Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW), is about 3\u2070C above the melting point of ice. Normally, the very cold water above keeps this away from ice shelves. But in some areas, CDW is spilling onto the shallow Antarctic continental shelf, causing the ice to thin.<\/p>\n<p>Ice shelf thinning has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/antarctica-s-ice-shelves-thin-threaten-significant-sea-level-rise\/\" target=\"_blank\">accelerated in recent decades<\/a>, but the picture is not the same everywhere. While the east of the Antarctic has shown modest gains in ice thickness, the west has outstripped this with significant ice loss \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/348\/6232\/327\" target=\"_blank\">up to 18%<\/a> in vulnerable areas like the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Seas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I can only hope that a 200&#8242; increase in sea level will coincide with a Trump\/Pence\/Ryan\/McConnell\/Koch vacation to Mar-a-Lago. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/22\/climate\/epa-scientists.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The Environmental Protection Agency has canceled the speaking appearance of three agency scientists who were scheduled to discuss climate change at a conference on Monday in Rhode Island, according to the agency and several people involved.<\/p>\n<p>John Konkus, an E.P.A. spokesman and a former Trump campaign operative in Florida, confirmed that agency scientists would not speak at the State of the Narragansett Bay and Watershed program in Providence. He provided no further explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists involved in the program said that much of the discussion at the event centers on climate change. Many said they were surprised by the E.P.A.\u2019s last-minute cancellation, particularly since the agency helps to fund the <a href=\"http:\/\/nbep.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Narragansett Bay Estuary Program<\/a>, which is hosting the conference. The scientists who have been barred from speaking contributed substantial material to a 400-page report to be issued on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The move highlights widespread concern that the E.P.A. will silence government scientists from speaking publicly or conducting work on climate change. Scott Pruitt, the agency administrator, has said that he does not believe human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are primarily responsible for the warming of the planet.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In context with the last Short Take, we are well and truly screwed. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1023Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1023Cartoon\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1023Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1023Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure why it is that I&#8217;m feeling so lethargic today, but because I am, this is my only article. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:39 (average 5:40).&#160; To do it, click here. How did you do? Religious Agony: Useless stinking Orb! Short Takes: From YouTube (Media Matters Channel): Sean Hannity is echoing <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/23\/open-thread-10232017\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}