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As much as I hate da Bears, I would much rather see them win the division than the Viqueens.
On another note, I predict the Lions first win of the season next week.
Congratulations to whoever one the championship. Can’t beat having a close game for the big one. And congrats to all of you who made the playoffs.
Looking forward to next season. Thanks for extending an invite to me Cheesey. It was a lot of fun.
Welcome to the WGA. What a great way to learn how to use a gps. Have questions? Don’t be afraid to ask anyone in here.
Coins look moooovelous. Thanks.
Humans started causing global warming 5,000 years ago, UW study says
By Lee Bergquist of the Journal Sentinel
Posted: Dec. 17, 2008
Global warming didn’t start with the industrial revolution, but began 5,000 to 8,000 years ago with large-scale agriculture in Asia and extensive deforestation in Europe, according to new research by University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists.
Using powerful supercomputers and advanced climate models, the researchers concluded that methane and carbon dioxide – the building blocks of global warming – began rising with the introduction of rice cultivation and large-scale tree removal.
“I think that the take-home message is that this hypothesis shows that climates are extremely sensitive to small variations in greenhouse gases,” said Steve Vavrus, a climatologist at UW’s Center for Climatic Research.
Vavrus and his colleagues John Kutzbach and Gwenäelle Philippon were to discuss their research today at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
The work of the UW team also shows that the build-up of greenhouse gases over thousands of years has prevented the start of a new glacial age.
Ice ages have occurred at regular 100,000-year intervals over the last 1 million years, they said, mirroring predictable changes in the orbit of the Earth, known as Milankovitch cycles.
Had the man-made gases not been emitted into the atmosphere, portions of the arctic and some mountainous regions would contain more permanent snow and ice than they do today, Vavrus said.
The researchers used data from other scientists who have been measuring oxygen and other gases trapped in ice core samples from Antarctica that are 850,000 years old.
The air samples from 5,000 to 8,000 years ago contained unmistakable levels of methane and carbon dioxide gases.
Methane levels rose from decomposing vegetation in terraced rice paddies, Vavrus said. The rising levels of carbon dioxide came from deforestation known to have taken place in Europe.
Three different climate models were used. The researchers removed the amount of greenhouse gases that humans sent into the atmosphere, based on the ice core samples. The models show more permanent snow and ice cover in Canada, Siberia, Greenland and the Rocky Mountains.
Vavrus said the research supports theories first put forward by William F. Ruddiman, a paleoclimatologist at the University of Virginia.
@Johnny Cache wrote:
@Mathman wrote:
I guess I will play the consolation game against ZUMA.
Don’t count out ZUMA just yet. Westbrook has scored 19 and 29 in his last two games. He’s also had 21 against Atlanta, 20 against Dallas and 16 against St. Louis. Don’t forget he was injured earlier in the year.
Let’s chance fate and taunt the gods. ZUMA is going down. Westbrook will score 17. Maybe less. I’ve put the call in to the Browns and told them to key on Westbrook. It’s the only way they can win the game. ZUMA only made it this far because of beginners luck. He’s a terrible manager and has made so many bone headed moves. I’d love to have him back next year, because the luck will be gone and he’ll be at the bottom with the Banana Splits and TyeDied. It doesn’t look good for Mouthy. It don’t matter to me, because his and CheeseStix team are a bunch of girlie men. I was hoping to see Mouthy balls it up and play Nelson and Jackson. But I think those pickups were for our entertainment. Looks like you’ll die along with the Pack. Anyway, the trophy is mine. VG can start whittling my name in that thing. 🙄 😆
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@w-way wrote:
I have yet to figure one of these out. I have almost 400 finds, yet every puzzle or ? around my house is still available. Is there some trick to doing these things? A lot of help is needed here. w-way ❓
Don’t feel bad. I’m in the same boat. I’ve done a few puzzles, but the ones that really kill me are the cipher puzzles. If I could get a handle on these, I might have career in the armed forces, or CIA, or something.
How many more challenges can I start. I’m trying to get all the counties, I’m working on the regular Delorme challenge, forget Bingo (I want a blackout Bingo), the latest is the SSSS (which I will probably never get), and now this one. I don’t even want to know about the ones I haven’t heard of yet. Thanks Zuma. I don’t know if I mean that sincerely or sarcastically yet. It depends on how much I get accomplished over, I don’t know, the next few years. 🙂
I think it was PBS, maybe I saw it on cable, about 2-3 years ago where some scientist were exploring and mapping(?) an underground river that ended up in the Everglades or maybe the keys. I forget. Anyway, this diver starts out at a spring in this waterway and starts penetrating the sand with his feet, kind of shifting his weight back and forth. Before you know it, he disappears. He is now in this underground river. There were a lot of tight spots, but there were also a lot of places where he could have stood up. He had this GPS tracking device on him so that the guy on the ground could follow him wherever he went. I don’t remember how far they ended up going, though it was quite a long ways. The tracker was walking through woods, streets, restaraunts, and even people’s houses. When the diver started nearing the end of this particular leg, you started to see tires, steel drums, and all kinds of other garbage. If I remember right, he even found a mastadon skeleton, or what was left of it. They then switched over to the guy on the ground and show that he is standing next to a big hole in the ground, kind of like a kettle (?) maybe. It has water in it like a small pond. It turns out that for years, locals had been using it as a dump, and it would never fill in. Then all of a sudden, the diver pops up in this pond.
I would really like to see that film again. If anyone knows about this, let me know.
I don’t have any ECs out there, nor have I done many, but I think this would make a pretty cool one.
I remember in a grade school science unit on geology, we found some rocks with fossils in them. Does that count for anything?
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oooohh cool idea! We will look into that! Thanks for the suggestion! I will have to ask the reviewer(s) or if you are reading this reviewer(s), whose jurisdiction are the river banks? Would you think they would be DNR? Local? Hmmmm – anybody?
Hope we would not get a ton of rain the day of or before and lose our cachers down into the Milwaukee River or something 😯 glug
As far as I know, river banks are like shorelines. You will have to look and see who owns the property. However, you will also have to look at the laws regarding the normal high water marks and probably tresspassing laws in regards to the normal high water marks. Many times the high water mark will be completely on dry land for most of the year and appear to be private property when it isn’t. You will want to be thorough though, because I think that the interpretations on some of these laws may have changed in the last few years. If memory serves, you might be able to find a little something about this in the DNR’s fishing regulations pamphlet which should be available anywhere fishing licenses are sold, or on their website, which I don’t have at this time.
I have 3 finds to my credit. I also think that BMs should be allowed their own forum. I don’t always go looking for them, but for me, it is a nice change of pace from caching every now and then. I also will not go after any benchmarks that have already been found by a cacher. I get such a greater sense of satisfaction or accomplishment by finding something that was last found say 25+ years ago. Especially if somebody else couldn’t find it.
Why do you have to be so thorough? 😳 Yes, you are absolutely right. That condition was after the fact, and your trade offers did help me. I am looking forward to next season though. Especially now that I know what’s going on. Besides, I need to avenge my losses to you. 😛
@Johnny Cache wrote:
Oops. Looks like I just knocked Furby out of the playoffs. Who are my next three victims?
I thought that as a condition of our last trade, you were going to rest your starters for me. I’ll remember that come next year.
Lucky for you that you knocked me out this week, because you would have been toast with Peyton going against the Lions next week. -
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