Ted Nugent, archetypical chickenhawk

Ted Nugent’s making some news this week for saying he wanted Obama beheaded and implying he might just try to do it if the President wins a second term. For you younger whippersnappers, Nugent was a great guitar player in the 70s and, like most people in his generation, he did not want to be drafted and killed in Vietnam (Nor does any sane person blame him for that in the least). Back then he used to brag about his novel solution to stay clear of military service: [Read more…]

Greenland’s glaciers speed up

Ice floats. That’s fortunate, because if frozen water was denser than liquid, earth would be a very different world. Ice would build up at the bottom of the sea until only a thin surface ocean would be left, perhaps only seasonal at that, affecting climate in dramatic ways. But floating ice combined with warmer temperatures can also cause glaciers to speed up. Moulins form more often and earlier, lubricating the interface between ice and land below and buoying up the ice sheet. That now seems to be happening in Greenland: [Read more…]