Posted on 03/17/2006 10:34:52 AM PST by areafiftyone
Cool! I live in upstate New York, does that mean I'll have ocean front property soon???
I used to think he was just an annoying dweeb, but he's really startin' to piss me off!
The real danger is the temperature change. If the temp changes too much it will kill off all of the sponges, causing them to release water back to the ocean. When that happens Pasadena will be the new coastline in South Bay, just like it was a few million years ago.
Kerry, so much fear and anger. Dude, go boardin.
also, FYI to Kerry
NYC and Boston was under a glacial ice sheet 300 feet thick 50,000 years ago.
http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=12325
GLACIERS IN NEW YORK CITY - INWOOD HILL PARK
Inwood Hill Park
Inwood Hill Park now contains the last natural forest and salt marsh in Manhattan, but the land once lay beneath a huge sheet of moving ice. The most recent ice age began about 1.5 million years ago, at the advent of the Pleistocene Era, and lasted until around 10,000 years ago. At the beginning of the Pleistocene, global temperatures dropped dramatically. Huge masses of snow and ice formed in the Arctic, sometimes as thick as two miles. The tremendous weight and pressure of the ice sheet caused the snow underneath to solidify, providing a surface on which glaciers could travel. During the Pleistocene Epoch, there were four glacial advances - the most recent being the Wisconsin ice sheet, which had the greatest impact on the land beneath New York City.
The Wisconsin ice sheet began its southward journey from the Arctic around 100,000 years ago, reaching what is now New York roughly 50,000 years later. By this time, it had lost some of its bulk, although it was still 300 feet thick and stretched from Massachusetts to Montana. As the glacier moved through this region, it deepened the bed of the Hudson River, carved out such geologic features as the Great Lakes and the Finger Lakes basins, and left its mark on the Adirondack mountains. The glacier also deposited tons of gravel and pebbles, moving boulders from the Palisades to Central Park, plowing up topsoil, leveling the earth, and filling in depressed areas with glacial till. This glacial activity sculpted the characteristic terrain of Inwood Hill Park, with its dramatic caves, valleys, and ridges.
http://www.geotimes.org/feb06/Travels0206.html
What the exhibits won't tell you is that the Puritans settled at the base of Beacon Hill because it is made of stratified sand from a glacial outwash channel. The layered deposits allow groundwater to flow and pool at the base, where the settlers could collect it for drinking water. King's Chapel is built of 450-million-year-old Quincy Granite, which formed when an island the size of Japan collided with the island that carried Boston-to-be, long before it was part of North America. Bunker Hill is a drumlin: a streamlined hill of compacted glacial debris, shaped by a retreating glacier.
From the Prudential Building, most of what you see below you is glacial debris. The Wisconsin Ice Sheet, the last glacier to blanket New England, retreated about 16,000 years ago, leaving in its wake boulders and gravel it had carried down from the North, and forming Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Around Boston, the glacier left dozens of drumlins and "kettles" (bowl-shaped hollows created when glaciers melt), which form most of the ponds of the city's "Emerald Necklace," one of the oldest series of parks and parkways in the United States that are worth a visit unto themselves
New York and Boston gone?
So what's the problem?
Seems to me nothing was done from 1992 to 2000.
What percentage of the Netherlands is below sea level, again?
Does this mean that all the tax money spent on the "BIG DIG" will have been wasted then??? Maybe Kerry better call for a STOP to that wasteful project immediately then!!
Please!
Let debate this jerk on any subject, anywhere, any time!
If that melts, you have a level of sea level increase that wipes out Boston Harbor, New York Harbor - I mean, it's just stunning what we're looking at."
"Department of Redundancy Department, Stuned Division.
Sgt. Kerry Speaking."
LOL!
Back in the '60's, we were told in school that by 1980 we wouldn't be able to go outside without protective clothing.
The videos they showed looked like space suits. They said the air would be unbreatheable and that glaciers would cover the cities.
No one said anything about rap music.
"Kerry blamed the Bush administration's environmental policies for the coming destruction of New York and Boston.
I blame Godzilla!"
I blame the RAT/lib/socialist/environmental wackos who can't keep their mouths shut! It is all of the hot air coming out of Ketchupboy's, algore's, (pick a tree-hugger) mouths! I think they are causing air pollution, too -- severe hallitosis in the ozone!
Did Imus ask about the 180 ?
There are many things we could commemorate.
Joseph Kennedy getting a "twofer" on lobotomies, and Teddy being the only other Kennedy, besides his sister around at the time.
The naming of Marblehead Mass. in honor of John F'n Kerry.
Having a special day, April 1st, for Al Gore.
Just think how lucky we are that he isn't president.
I can say with an absolute certainty, yea, and you were ahead
in the polls and the MSM had you elected president before the votes were counted.
The one thing Kerry can say with absolute certainty is ,he in not now are will ever be TPOTUS.
That maniac right-winger -- probably using Pat Robertson as a conduit to G. -- has already taken out New Orleans. I am sure Seattle and San Fran are on the agenda. Now this news about Boston and New York! I''m sure there must be bad news in here somewhere?
I wonder what kind of plans he has for Las Vegas? [/extreme sarcasm]
Better start sand-bagging his place on Beacon Hill.
ROFLMAO!
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