Egon
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The last time I looked it up the "shutdown of the Gulfstream" was due to the effect of the Labrador current and the flow of coldwater from Greenland disupting it southeast of Greenland. I had not read of any "quick" changes in climate for parts west of where the shutdown occurs. So I think that the US and Canada would only be slightly directly affected.And southern New England, Maine, NS,PEI,Canada north to Greenland!
The gulfstream affects these places to a degree before it heads across the Atlantic- though less than Europe.
Now all of a sudden when the natural gas drillers are being slammed because of the people that are having the their water polluted. The oil and gas industries, wants people to just wait for the science to do its work and not judge the practice prematurely.
Tollster said:Here is why they want to wait for the scientific proof, as its written in Pennsylvania's new frac law, act 13, which makes Pennsylvania residents the test subjects without any legal recourse. Meanwhile,they continue to exploit the citizens, and the environment with their toxic brew.
"The law also prevents heath professionals from discussing medical impacts. On page 99, it requires oil and gas companies to tell medical professionals what chemicals are used in drilling fluids but only after they sign the statement of need and a confidentiality agreement. However those details the chemicals in drilling fluid and medical significance it states a page later, are secret and shall not be a public record.
I know exactly why that is in there, said Shields. That makes it extremely difficult to bring a civil suit if the information is locked away behind confidentiality agreements. A physician can't release information during discovery. They can't even tell another patient that they are dealing with the same thing. They can't go to a public health official and disclose it this lady has benzene in her blood, or methyl-whatever. He can't do it.
Here is a brief overview of the law from the people that have to live it on the recieving end.
I know many here do not like to hear the truth, no matter where it comes from!
Fracking Democracy: Why Pennsylvania's Act 13 May Be the Nation's Worst Corporate Giveaway | | AlterNet
Cat_Driver said:The real fact on GULLIBLE WARMING.
Me, just a knucklehead with a high school edumacation. Pretty stupid, blue collar, Joe six pack, paper bag lunch kinda guy. Now, this ol earth has been around for about 5 billion years. That is BILLION. There has been ice 200 feet deep right where I am sitting.
Exact, well kept records on climate have been kept by people far smarter then me for some 150 years. Now, along comes this guy, Al Gore, who tells us all to jump on our bicycles or the sky will fall. The earth has been cooling, freezing, warming, getting hotter then Flukes panties for as long as that medium size star we call the sun has been burning.