West Antarctica, the part of the frozen
continent most vulnerable to
climate change, has thawed several times
in the past few million years, most recently
400,000 years ago, according to Thursday's
edition of the journal Nature.
Ap
Fact; when Mount St.Helens erupted
it slightly changed the earths axis. Fact; when
the earthquakes sent the tidal waves into
Indonesia they also slowed the earth's rotation
. Two events that affected our planet. The
big one has not happened yet, the super volcano.
Guess when the least one erupted, you got it
40,000 years ago. I agree with getting us off
gasoline as our dominate source of energy and I
lean pretty heavy to the green side of life, but
please do not try to convince me that it is
because we live here we control the planet's
temperature..
A related paper in Nature suggested that past
collapses of the West Antarctic ice were linked
to the
earth's rotation. "The pattern of
collapse suggests an influence of 40,000-year
cycles in the tilt of Earth's rotational axis,"
Nature said of the study led by scientists in
New Zealand.
Here are some quotes from leaders in the animal rights movement:
Ingrid Newkirk, president and co-founder of PETA: "I am not a morose
person, but I would rather not be here. I don't have any reverence for
life, only for the entities themselves. I would rather see a blank space
where I am. This will sound like fruitcake stuff again but at least I
wouldn't be harming anything."
Michael W. Fox, Scientific Director and former Vice President of HSUS:
"Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal
on earth."
"Les U. Knight" (pseudonym), "Voluntary Human Extinction," Wild Earth,
Vol. 1, No. 2 "If you haven't given voluntary human extinction much
thought before, the idea of a world with no people in it may seem
strange. But, if you give it a chance, I think you might agree that the
extinction of Homo sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not
billions, of Earth-dwelling species ... Phasing out the human race will
solve every problem on earth, social and environmental."
Wayne Pacelle, President of HSUS: "One generation and out. We have no
problem with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of
human selective breeding."
For more information, visit
www.pet-law.com
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Animal-rights activists get personal in
wave of California attacks The
Christian Science Monitor -
Fri Mar 13, 4:00
AM ET
Los Angeles - The recent fire-bombing of a university professor's car here appears to be part of a trend of animal-rights activists targeting the personal lives of researchers, rather than just the labs or companies where they work. The idea is to scare the scientists into reconsidering using animals in their research work
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