Typically, someone will post a thread based upon an emotion-charged head line and the discussion is off and running. Few bother to even read an article which is linked and fewer still take the time to do a little research to confirm what's claimed. A perfect example is the thread about Obama's "$200 billion" trip to India. It's still running, in spite of the fact that it's been debunked several times.
Here's another example of WHY we should take the time to ferret out the truth before going off half-cocked. It's from today's New York Times, arguably one of the better papers in America and one which explores issues in great depth.
Headline:
"Front-Line City in Virginia Tackles Rise in Sea"
NORFOLK, Va. — In this section of the Larchmont neighborhood, built in a sharp “u” around a bay off the Lafayette River, residents pay close attention to the lunar calendar, much as other suburbanites might attend to the daily flow of commuter traffic.
If the moon is going to be full the night before Hazel Peck needs her car, for example, she parks it on a parallel block, away from the river. The next morning, she walks through a neighbor’s backyard to avoid the two-to-three-foot-deep puddle that routinely accumulates on her street after high tides.
For Ms. Peck and her neighbors, it is the only way to live with the encroaching sea...
But, read the whole article and you find this:
Like many other cities, Norfolk was built on filled-in marsh.
Now that fill is settling and compacting. In addition, the city is in an area where significant natural sinking of land is occurring. The result is that Norfolk has experienced the highest relative increase in sea level on the East Coast — 14.5 inches since 1930, according to readings by the Sewells Point naval station here.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/26/sc...adlines&emc=a2
Excuse me? Sinking land is NOT the same thing as rising sea levels!
But, you can rest assured that won't stop the enviro-wacko's from linking it all to Global Warming.
Seriously, folks....inform yourselves before chasing rabbits...please?
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