Posted on 07/27/2009 7:30:19 AM PDT by Slapshot68
" A Canadian astronaut aboard the International Space Station said on Sunday it looks like Earth's ice caps have melted a bit since he was last in orbit 12 years ago.
Bob Thirsk, who is two months into a planned six-month stay aboard the station, said he is mostly in awe when he looks out the window, particularly at the sliver of atmosphere wrapped around the planet.
"It's a very thin veil of atmosphere around the Earth that keeps us alive," Thirsk said during an in-flight news conference. "Most of the time when I look out the window I'm in awe. But there are some effects of the human destruction of the Earth as well."
"This is probably just a perception, but I just have the feeling that the glaciers are melting, the snow capping the mountains is less than it was 12 years ago when I saw it last time," Thrisk said. "That saddens me a little bit."
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Ditto’s bump.
Liberal Canadian astronut bears the scars of life-long indctronation by socialists and needs mowing.
So does Yahoo think that Earth “Bears” the Scars or should it be “Bares” the Scars?
Actually, I was just ahead of my time. I was allowing the resurgence of the natural balance in the local environment.
All one has to do is sit on his butt and poop into a plastic bag.
Hey!
The only way to prove that a bong will work in weightlessness is to test it out.
But maybe he should have waited awhile to write it up.
Two weeks ago flying home from Brussels, we flew over Southern Greenland. I commented to my wife that the ice cover appeared much greater than I observed many times on previous flights in the early 2000’s!
“Looks like it” is a perception, not an objective fact.
Are there huge craters forming in the earth’s crust? Has an asteroid perhaps struck the earth, maybe in an ocean somewhere, we didn’t happen to notice? THESE things change the earth. Not even if all the coal and petroleum on earth were ignited and burning, the overall proportions of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and most other constituents of the atmosphere would not change very much. For one thing, the hydrocarbons, once ignited, could not sustain for long (the heightened levels of CO2 would smother much of the fire), and for another, the carbon dioxide itself triggers luxuriant plant growth, restoring the previous balance of oxygen to our atmosphere.
Carbon dioxide does NOT contribute to global warming, even in heightened levels. Its chemistry just does not work that way.
Nature can break Nature far quicker and more efficiently than we can ever hope to so we better find a way off this rock so we won’t be keeping all of our eggs in one basket anymore.
In June and July 1996, Dr. Thirsk flew as a payload specialist aboard space shuttle mission STS-78, the Life and Microgravity Spacelab ( LMS) mission. During this 17-day flight aboard Columbia, he and his six crewmates performed 43 international experiments devoted to the study of life and materials sciences. The life science experiments investigated changes in plants, animals, and humans under space flight conditions. The materials science experiments examined protein crystallization, fluid physics and high-temperature solidification of multi-phase materials in a weightless environment.
Then there’s those gigantic holes made by nuclear weapons all over the planet.
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