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Is the media getting the Himalayan glacier story wrong?

July 30, 2012 / / 8 Comments

Question by Dana1981: Is the media getting the Himalayan glacier story wrong?
The “big story” today is that the IPCC made an error in saying that Himalayan glaciers could be gone by 2035. However, a recent expedition found that this prediction might not be so far off after all.

“researchers discovered that levels of black carbon in the ice core of the Tibetan plateau had soared since the 1990s because of smokestack industries and coal fires in millions of homes.

The plateau’s 36,000 glaciers, which once extended for 18,000 square miles, could vanish before mid-century if present rates of warming persist. More than 80% of them are in retreat. The overall area has shrunk by 4.5% in the past 20 years.”

“The snow is thawing and the snowline has risen from 4,600 metres to 5,300 metres. The Jianggendiru glacier, which is the main water supply of the Yangtze, has been degenerating fast since 1970, and when the glaciers shrink there will be a water crisis in the Yellow and Yangtze rivers.”

“Qin Dahe, an eminent scientist and explorer, has been permitted to disclose alarming official assessments of the causes to Xinhua, the state news agency. “Owing to global warming, glaciers on the QinghaiTibet plateau are retreating extensively at a speed faster than in any other part of the world,” he said.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6907919.ece

So ironically, while the IPCC made an error here, it turns out their erroneous figure was actually pretty close to reality. Why isn’t that bit of information making the news stories?

Best answer:

Answer by Dr Feelgood
Read this with an open mind. Glaciers only bring in 3 to 4% of the drinking water. It’s the monsoons and snow melt each year that is the major source of the drinking water. Many glaciers there are actually growing or are stable according to these scientists in India. And no the IPCC is still way off base.

http://www.skepticsglobalwarming.com/?p=20424

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strange but true facts…….whats your opinion?

July 29, 2012 / / 17 Comments

Question by new and improved yahoo princess: strange but true facts…….whats your opinion?
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

City with the most Rolls Royce’s per capita: Hong Kong

State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska

Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%

Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33

Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $ 6,400

Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:

Spades – King David
Clubs – Alexander the Great,
Hearts-Charlemagne, and
Diamonds – Julius Caesar.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn’t added until 5 years later.

“I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The term “the whole 9 yards” came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got “the whole 9 yards.”

Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt.

The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the “General Purpose” vehicle, G.P.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.

Best answer:

Answer by simjensnake
Cool stuff man.

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Q&A: Will anyone take this?

July 28, 2012 / / 3 Comments

Question by j: Will anyone take this?
Your boyfriend that you’ve dated for three years proposes while y’all are on a date on a dinner cruise ship!!!! You decide to marry at 1.__________ and honeymoon in 2.___________.

Two years after you get married, you have a little girl. You name her with the meaning PRETTY and she is just that!!! She has shiny beach-blond hair and huge blue eyes. What is her name? 3.
http://www.gentlejourneysbirthing.com/assets/images/sleeping_baby.jpg

Your little girl is now 2 and wants a baby sister. She gets 3 baby sisters!!! 4.You name them after celebrities and their children.
http://images.veer.com/IMG/PIMG/IPP/IPP0018813_P.JPG

When your first daughter is 5 and your triplets are 3, you and your husband see an advertisement for an orphanage in China. The little one-year-old girl you adopt has soft black hair and brown eyes. You name her with a Chinese first and a unisex middle.
http://www.beehiveco-op.com/brandimages/square-knits-2.jpg

After your oldest is 7, the triplets are 5, and your adopted girl is 3, your husband really wants a son!!! Y’all have twins, a boy and a girl. They both have brown hair and green eyes. Your son’s name is his Daddy’s middle, and you name his middle after your father. Your daughter is the same with her mother’s middle name and her grandma’s .
http://z.about.com/d/multiples/1/0/-/a/blgal1110.jpg
Congrats on your big family!!!

Best answer:

Answer by ♥Kαуlee♥ (Hello Santa Baby)ツ
1. Our Church
2. Honeymoon in England
3. Caroline Ruby (Caroline means Beautiful Woman, and I like that better than Pretty)
4. Katherine Sophia, Eva Madeleine, & Lucy Elizabeth (after Katharine Hepburn, Eva Longoria, & Lucille Ball)
5. Maylin Addison
6. Benjamin Riley & Lynette Rose (my middle name is Lynn, but I don’t like that as a first name)

So I have:
Caroline, Katey, Eva, Lucy, Ben, Maylin & Lynette[♥]

This was fun! Can you make another one, please : )
♥кαуℓєє ℓуηη

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So, all 4 of the earliest civilizations are now 3rd world, and the former “barbarians” are now 1st world?

July 27, 2012 / / 1 Comment

Question by LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE MEEEEEE!!!!: So, all 4 of the earliest civilizations are now 3rd world, and the former “barbarians” are now 1st world?
The 4 earliest civilizations were the Nile River civilization (present day Egypt), the Euphrates-Tigris Rivers civilization (present day Iraq), Indus River civilization (present day India), Yangtze-Yellow Rivers civilization (present day China), all of which date to at least 2500 BC, are now reduced to 3rd world status, whereas the NW Europeans, which were considered by these civilizations as nothing but “barbarians”, are now the 1st world. The table has turn 180 degrees. Agree?

Best answer:

Answer by ♥*~Shallow Seas~*♥
careful…it may turn another 180 soon enough.

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What is the overall impact of melting glaciers?

July 27, 2012 / / 1 Comment

Question by Noah H: What is the overall impact of melting glaciers?
India, Pakistan,Nepal, Bhutan, China. The Ganges, Indus, Brahmaputra, Mekong, yellow and Yangtze rivers. What all of these rivers have in common is that they’re fed by glaciers. All of the countries mentioned depend on these rivers for most of their water supplies. Three of these countries have nukes. Since 1960 1/5 of this ice has melted while populations have almost doubled….currently about three billion people. China projects a 43% further decrease in glacierated areas in the next 50 years. Time to worry about melting ice, or ignore the implications?

Best answer:

Answer by Morpheus
Oh man – we’re going to turn this place into a bad desert. Food and water will get real scarce in the next 50 years. Disaster is headed our way – but at least the republicans are still insisting that it’s a “myth”.

You got to love those republicans. But it will be fun to watch them starve to death.

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Q&A: Extending Knowledge: Two Chinas and Two Rivers?

July 26, 2012 / / 0 Comments

Question by nonestopchick: Extending Knowledge: Two Chinas and Two Rivers?
1. There are two distinct regions within China defined by the Yangtze and the Huang-He Rivers. China south of the Huang-he grows wheat and grains. How would the geography, climate, and foodstuffs lead to two different Chinese cultures?

2. What policies and technologies would have been necessary to control and to unify geographically large Chinese state?

Best answer:

Answer by Sean Slater
Fighting on both sides of the river.

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Now you know more than you did before!! ?

July 25, 2012 / / 3 Comments

Question by Jean18yahoo: Now you know more than you did before!! ?
Stewardesses’ is the longest word typed with only the left hand .

And ‘lollipop’ is the longest word typed with your right hand. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn’t you?)

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

‘Dreamt’ is the only English word that ends in the letters ‘MT. ? (Are you doubting this?)

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The sentence: ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ uses every letter of the alphabet. (Now, you KNOW you’re going to try this out for accuracy, right?)

The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). (Yep, I knew you were going to ‘do’ this one.)
There are only four words in the English language which end in ‘dous’: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (You’re not doubting this, are you?)

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: ‘abstemious’ and ‘facetious.’ (Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e I o u)
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. (All you typists are going to test this out)

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (Some days that’s about what my memory span is.)

A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years. (I know some people that could do this too.!)
Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that also)

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (Good thing he did that.)

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Now you know more than you did before!!

O.M.G Who’s a clever boy!! Its only a bit of fun!! Rob

Thanks 😛

Best answer:

Answer by (:P)
That’s amazing! I will not be starting a war against chickens anytime soon.

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Can you help me with this poem? is correctly punctuated? is it right?

July 24, 2012 / / 1 Comment

Question by smart girl: Can you help me with this poem? is correctly punctuated? is it right?
Deep down, beneath years
Of elegant clothes and food
A shrewd, vain girl’s story hides
Raging with jealous
She neglects the consequences
The result appeared to her before the senses tingled in her small brain
Molten tears ran because of the deaths
Like the floods in the bloody river Yangtze
Nowhere to go
No one to talk to
The live of the poor girl is betrayed
No one thought that this envious girl’s life would end up in the dumpster!
One heartbreaking person
One heartbreaking choice
can you say what grade I can get? the quality?

Best answer:

Answer by Regina
you dont need the exclamation mark after dumpster and make it jealousy and it will make more sense and LIVE needs to be LIFE

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Top 10 best places in China?

July 23, 2012 / / 5 Comments

Question by : Top 10 best places in China?
Here are given to 10 travel attraction in China
1. The Great Wall of China
2. The Forbidden City
3. The Temple of Heaven
4. The Yellow Mountain
5. The Potala Palace
6. Yangshuo Tourist Destination
7. The Silk Road
8. Yangtze River of China
9. The Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses
10. Tiananmen Square

Hello friends, China has many more beautiful places to visit. If you like any other place you cna add here as your best place.
For more information you can also visit: http://xplore4life.com/china-tour-top-10-tourist-attractions/
http://xplore4life.com/?p=4745

Best answer:

Answer by Soursalt
Hong kong and shanghai too! Go on istockphoto.com, type in Shanghai, then Hong Kong. I’m sure you’ll add them to your list after going on the website 🙂

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Strange but true facts… what is your opinion??

July 22, 2012 / / 15 Comments

Question by ♠ Conƒused Band Fяeak ♠ ® ツ: Strange but true facts… what is your opinion??
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

City with the most Rolls Royce’s per capita: Hong Kong

State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska

Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%

Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33

Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $ 6,400

Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:

Spades – King David
Clubs – Alexander the Great,
Hearts-Charlemagne, and
Diamonds – Julius Caesar.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn’t added until 5 years later.

“I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The term “the whole 9 yards” came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got “the whole 9 yards.”

Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt.

The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the “General Purpose” vehicle, G.P.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.

Best answer:

Answer by ryuken8000
Lies Lies all Lies

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