The picture that Bush and Cheney didn't want you to see
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The picture that Bush and Cheney didn't want you to see
And it has nothing to do with torture:
Graphic images that reveal the devastating impact of global warming in the Arctic have been released by the US military. The photographs, taken by spy satellites over the past decade, confirm that in recent years vast areas in high latitudes have lost their ice cover in summer months.
The pictures, kept secret by Washington during the presidency of George W Bush, were declassified by the White House last week. President Barack Obama is currently trying to galvanise Congress and the American public to take action to halt catastrophic climate change caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
One particularly striking set of images - selected from the 1,000 photographs released - includes views of the Alaskan port of Barrow. One, taken in July 2006, shows sea ice still nestling close to the shore. A second image shows that by the following July the coastal waters were entirely ice-free.
The Guardian notes that the evidence from 2007 through this year has been equally grim -- not that you'd know that if you read conservative Web sites like the Drudge Report, which run banner headlines everytime a cold June front moves through some Heartland metropolis (although I haven't seen any hype on Drudge or elsewhere about the 100-degree-plus weather in Seattle). Actually, a few stray temps, high or low, even the heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, are highly irrelvant. But what is happening to the Arctic ice cover is very serious indeed, which is why this scientific cover-up is yet another high crime of the Bush years.
Because pictures don't lie. We have plenty of politicians to take care of that for us.
Stay cool this weekend.
"It appears to me that the 2007 photo is the norm for July in Barrow, Alaska." . . . . . Looking at the data, it's a bit disingeuous to use the above photo comparison, because each of the two years represented an anomaly from one extreme to the other. Compared to 1979-2000 averages though, the CURRENT Arctic sea ice extent is about 14% lower for the month of July.
So let me get this right, you didn't like Bush's fiscal irresponsibility but youre not giving a pass to Obama who is optimistically projecting deficits that are all larger than the largest under Bush for each year for the next 10? And that's if his rosy economic predictions are correct. The ones like unemployment wont get over 8%.— tr88- "In their defense, they would much rather spend a trillion or two on uselessly killing Iraqis and flexing our "muscle" than assisting uninsured Americans or improving our health with cleaner air and water." Maybe, just maybe these are examples of government invented crises for them to solve at the taxpayers expense? Meanwhile,the connected elite (Halliburton, Blackwater, Insurance Cos, Al gore's carbon trading biz) reap the rewards.— RG
I'm glad Obama is leaking classified millitary spy photos to mislead the world into enacting his anti-growth economic agenda. Elections have consequences, and this kind of reckless abuse is what we get when we elect leftist idealogues. That's what we were voting for, right?— Mr. Smith- Love how all the knuckle-dragging flat earthers appear when proof of climate change is produced. These are the same guys who, during the 80s, told us these computer thingees were just a fad.— Phxflyer
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Where are the pictures of the Antartic shelf...which is at record ice levels?— rudytbone- Drudge is a Conservative website because he reports everything. Maybe if he would link to Will's blog? nah, never happen. Will is what they call "conventional wisdom", you know what he's going to write without reading it.— tr88
- So the work of three scientists out weighs the work of thousands? You flat earthers are just too funny.— Phxflyer
- Yeah, you guys had sooooooo much dissolution. When? 2006??? How many times did Bush veto his disillusioned party members? You Legatus may have had complaints, but your party or fellow conservatives overwhelmingly gave him a blank check. Who voted for all those Republican congressmen looting the treasury? There has been more liberal criticism of Obama in six months than conservative Bush criticism in six years. Liberals see Obama as centrist, conservatives saw GW as puppet.— pagoda
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- "Love how all the knuckle-dragging flat earthers appear when proof of climate change is produced." Ice melting is far from irrefutable proof of climate change, and even if it were, two questions remain a) is man responsible and b) what are the costs/benefits to implement a solution (assuming, arrogantly, that we knew which solution was best)? Past that, calling people flatearthers is interesting, since there was once that consensus amongst scientists, same with the erath being the center of the universe. Thank goodness they didnt base all economic and policy decisions on those humdingers.— RG
- Genius -- now defined as someone who believes three kooks over thousands of scientists who have proven research. The earth is flat! The earth is flat!— Phxflyer
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- Where are the pictures of the Antartic shelf...which is at record ice levels?— rudytbone
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