CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Two seasonal Yellowstone National Park concession workers have been fired after a live webcam caught them urinating into the Old Faithful geyser....(Well maybe he had a few beers....hey al I bet ya a six'er you wont go piss in old faithfull....oh yeah *hic...hic*..watch this yeeeeeeha)

Park spokesman Al Nash says a 23-year-old man on Tuesday was fined $750 and placed on three years of unsupervised probation for urinating, being off trail in a restricted area and taking items from the area. The man also was banned from Yellowstone for two years.

The second employee's case is pending.(wellllll duh)

The park's dispatch center was called after someone watching a webcam on the geyser saw six employees leaving the trail and walking on Old Faithful on May 4.

The geyser was not erupting at the time.

Xanterra Parks & Resorts general manager Jim McCaleb says the former concession workers were hired at the Old Faithful Inn and that such incidents were rare.

too damn funny...riff

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Now this is just too damn funny....I wanted a last burrito...ha ha ha.....gotta love the morons, they give EMS , nurses, and Law enforcement job security...riff

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David Hasselhoff says that the reports claiming he was rushed to an L.A. hospital after suffering alcohol poisoning Saturday are untrue.

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PUYALLUP, Wash. - A small airplane dropping from the sky after its engine failed wound up on a cushioning bunch of portable toilets - and the pilot was able to walk away apparently unhurt.( a loud scream of OHHHHHHHH SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT was heard just prior to landing )

Gary Mayor of the Federal Aviation Administration says the Cessna 182 crashed Friday afternoon in Washington state after taking off from Thun Field, an airfield owned by Pierce County southeast of Tacoma.

Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer says the plane was about 150 feet in the air when the engine quit. (Talk about crappy luck)

Troyer told The News Tribune that the pilot tried to turn around to land but didn't quite make it.

The plane hit a fence, flipped over and landed upside down on top of the portable toilets standing in a storage yard. (when you gotta go you gotta go...rofl)

Authorities didn't immediately give the pilot's identity.

That was a shitty landing.....but if you can walk away from it,,, hey .........rofl....riff

Sorry for the long cut and paste, but it is very informative....But what I see is a bit different than the usual doom and gloom here....As more and more evidence builds up that clashes with Al Bloat's euorphic global disaster sale, it seems the conjured illusion of the entire world turning into a fetid swamp or global Gobi desert, is more of the same hot air that he spews on a regular basis.  Now at least in this article they are saying "hey it is a possible to deal with solution"..-vs- the other scenerios....baby steps folks......My favorite gaffes were the ones about how increased clarity of the Atmosphere (from pollution control effectiveness) was allowing for more sunlight to reach the earth and accelerate global warming...then there was the thought of polluting the air even more to reduce sunlight and cool the earth, with volcano like particles.....but yet the whole time they are screaming protect the enviroment stop polluting....AHHHHHH I just lovethe Demoncraps so called consensus on global warming.....kinda like a mental consensus on who was really the real person in Sybil's fragmented mind...lol....riff

ScienceDaily (May 4, 2009) (my favorite tech news site) — If CO₂ emissions are halved by 2050 compared to 1990, global warming can be stabilized below two degrees. This is shown by two studies by a co-operation of German, Swiss and British researchers in the journal Nature.

To contain global warming, and its risks and consequences, warming compared to pre-industrial times (pre 1900) should not exceed two degrees Celsius. Although, according to the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), there is no specific temperature threshold for dangerous climate changes, and the negative effects are gradually increasing, over one hundred countries have adopted this “2°C target”. Scientists have used a new probability model to calculate how much CO₂ our atmosphere tolerates under these target specifications. This1 and another study², recently published in Nature, produced similar results: From 2000 to 2050, a maximum of 1000 billion tonnes of CO₂ may be emitted into the atmosphere. Roughly speaking, today, around one third of this wad has already been shot.

Like a bath tub

“The behavior of CO₂ in the atmosphere is best described as a full bathtub,” says Reo Knutti, professor at the Institute for Atmosphere and Climate at ETH Zurich, and co-author of one of the two studies. The inflow of the bathtub is large, but the drainage is small. The CO₂ emissions are increasing every year, but the CO₂ is only removed from the atmosphere very slowly. To not let the bathtub overflow, the inflow must thus be stopped early enough. “It is wrong to believe that the temperature will remain constant with constant emissions,” says Knutti.

The innovative aspect of the study is the fact that the probabilistic model does not perform just one individual simulation, but simulates thousands of combination's of scenarios and assumptions. Knutti adds that, in doing so, all known uncertainties are taken into account. For example, the physical uncertainties in feedback effects from clouds, uncertainties in the carbon cycle – e.g. how much CO₂ is absorbed by the oceans -, as well as uncertainties in the scenarios. These scenarios describe the time when the maximum “allowed” emission has been reached. The model also includes the overall effects of all greenhouse gases, such as CO₂, methane and nitrous oxide, as well as ozone and the aerosol effect.

Everything in one step

So far, these sorts of studies have been conducted in two stages, Knutti explains: “First, the 2°C temperature threshold is converted into a CO₂ target, and then the carbon model is used to calculate how high the emissions can be.” The new study now does this in one step. To do this, scientists have redeveloped and adjusted existing models. They calibrated the calculations on the observed data from the last hundred and fifty years.

Budget quickly exhausted

The models show that there is a 75 percent probability that global warming will not exceed two degrees if a maximum of 1000 billion tonnes of CO₂ are emitted into the atmosphere from 2000 to 2050. This number seems high, but 234 billion tonnes had already been flung into the atmosphere between 2000 and 2006. If the emission remain at this high level, or even increase, the budget would be exhausted before 2030. The results show that time to act is short. Knutti is pleased that greenhouse gas emissions in Switzerland in 2007 were 2.7 percent lower than in 1990 but the values continue to be too high: at least a 50 percent reduction is needed worldwide by 2050; the global long-term goal would be less than one tonne per person per year. Currently, some 6 tonnes of CO₂ per person are emitted in Western Europe each year, 19 tonnes in North America and 3 tonnes in China – without taking into account grey energy.

The researchers believe that the next forty years until 2050, in which, according to the study, CO₂ emissions must be halved, will be a good indicator of how global warming will develop. “If, in 2050, we find that our measures have been successful and are working, and if we continue to implement them, we can assume that we are on the right track,” says Knutti.

The study also shows that, if all conservatively estimated available fossil fuels were to be burnt, two to three times more CO₂ than allowed for the 2°C target would be emitted. This only takes into account the fuels which are already known and which are economically viable to extract. The fossil fuels will therefore not run out before the maximum CO₂ emission calculated by scientists is reached. If we continue to use them, this must take place in combination with effective technologies which capture the CO₂ and extract it from the atmosphere. Whether such technologies can be implemented on such a large scale and at sensible prices is, however, questionable.

“Every tonne of CO₂ is one tonne”

Together with the aforementioned study, Nature also included a second publication on a similar issue, which, however, takes into account a longer period of five hundred years, until the year 2500. This study also concludes that the total amount of CO₂ emissions is crucial in terms of how much the earth warms up. The authors summarize a political interpretation in comments in Nature Reports Climate Change³. According to Knutti, “Every tonne of CO₂ is one tonne, whether it is emitted today or in fifty years. This is often lost in the tangle of emission targets, certificates and negotiations. The total quantity is what matters, and must be limited, but short-term goals are necessary to see whether we are on the right track.”

Knutti has also recently shown that, in a complex climate model and in co-operation with other scientists, with a 70 percent CO₂ reduction by the end of this century, the melting of the Arctic Sea ice can be limited to a quarter⁴. The researchers conclude that this could, for example, help to protect the fauna – such as the polar bears – and prevent the permafrost areas from decreasing by 70 percent. Instead, “only” 45 percent of the permafrost are expected to melt. The frozen permafrost soils are natural reservoirs of greenhouse gas. They store large quantities of CO₂ and methane, which can be emitted into the atmosphere if the soil melts.

The series of studies show that the total quantity of CO₂ emission is limited if people want to limit climate change. “With every year of delay, we are using up our quota, losing flexibility, and increasing the probability of dangerous consequences,” says Knutti........Baby steps yall...baby steps.....riff

Typical of this scumbag...if it is a matter of race baiting, and whining that certain segments of the population are being discriminated against,....this so called reverend is all over it like a 4th generation welfare crack mom on a food stamp.....but when it is not a focus on hating the "White Devil" and he might actually have to display some of the wisdom he pretends to have in overabundance...we get this.....Sorry Jackie ole boy  I just don't buy it.....riff

The (so called )Reverend Jesse Jackson is being sued by the AEI Speakers Bureau for failing to appear for a speech in 2007 in Trinidad; the AEI is reportedly suing Jesse Jackson for $100,000 dollars.

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