You know they are running scared when they can’t even manage a handful of spoken questions for 10 minutes.
So what does a Tea Party Representative do when they get questions they don't like? Arrest the questioner because someone like Nicole Sandler is a danger.
Isn't it funny how many Tea Partiers came to Town Halls last year armed (and remember how West's chosen chief-of-staff called for bullets to solve how to win elections for the right) and yet they are not as dangerous as a radio talk show host asking the hard questions?
Tim DeChristopher Keynote at Power Shift
by Oly Mike
Mary is right about the methane hydrate feedback loop. I have been talking about methane release from thawing permafrost and icesheet melting for several years. The release of methane is a deadly tipping point that we are approaching.
I got an email from Jack Zeiger in Olympia with a link to Tim DeChristopher's speech at Power Shift. I think Tim is also seeing the tipping points approaching and passed and concluding as I do that we are in for some rough times ahead. We still have the choice that no one can take away from us (thank you, Viktor Frankl) to choose how we seek meaning in our lives.
A couple of Frankl quotes for the day:
“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.”
“When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.”
so thanks to Jack for sending the following:
So did you hear about the Power Shift conference that was going on in Washington, DC? Sounded pretty amazing. In addition to the bill McKibben speech below, make sure to check out Tim DeChristopher's speech (Tim is the student who disrupted an auction of oil and gas drilling leases by posing as a bidder in 2008). Here's his speech:
Open Thread
by Mary
Attempting to reduce the birther craziness, the White House released the long form birth certificate for Obama. But, will it stop the madness? Check in to TPM as they will be documenting the birthers freaking out and in full denial mode.
Tuesday :: Apr 26, 2011
Open Thread
by Mary
This report about methane hydrate feedback is the scariest piece I've read for a long time. And as Joe Romm says:
It is worth noting that no climate model currently incorporates the amplifying feedback from methane released by a defrosting tundra. Indeed the NSIDC/NOAA study I wrote about in February on methane release by the land-based permafrost itself doesn’t even incorporate the carbon released by the permafrost carbon feedback into its warming model!
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