All categories - 16 June 2007

And had no good excuse to get out of it.

2007-06-16 03:07:03 · 23 answers · asked by **ZARA** 7 in Polls & Surveys

On my resume, where I insert my educational background, should I just list completed education degrees or other schooling I've had, but where there has been no degree completed?

2007-06-16 03:06:27 · 4 answers · asked by pax5377 1 in Higher Education (University +)

2007-06-16 03:06:22 · 8 answers · asked by Spawn 3 in Dogs

and name three items u could have.......dont worry theres plenty of food and beverages on this island but no alcohol

2007-06-16 03:06:19 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in English Football

is out working in the yard with a bunch of his P&S friends who came to help, please ?

Tell them we are all swimming later, too please?

2007-06-16 03:06:02 · 13 answers · asked by asmikeocsit 7 in Polls & Surveys

2007-06-16 03:05:59 · 25 answers · asked by TNA Ambassador 6 in Etiquette

i haVE 1 TO 2 THOUSAND TO GAMBLE WITH I WANT TO KEEP YRADING IT SO I NEED THE BEST SITE THAT GIVES FREE TRADES TO OPEN AN ACCT OR CHEAP TRADES

2007-06-16 03:05:53 · 5 answers · asked by ollie 1 in Investing

My son is two and uncircumsiced. He has gotten a urinary tract infection for the second time and his doctor has advised us to have him circumcised. Anyone have any experience with this?

2007-06-16 03:05:53 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Toddler & Preschooler

Hey guys, im 15 and I know of a place where i would really like to work for the summer. I have no idea how to go in and ask to apply for the job. It is a baseball store (and i love baseball) and i really want to work there. i dont want to blow it. What do I say???

2007-06-16 03:05:49 · 3 answers · asked by dude 1 in Other - Careers & Employment

months..tell me if this is normal...should ihave to beg my husband to watch our child when i need to clean the house, or cook, or even take a bath basically if i want to do anything i have to bag him to watch our child....he would complain about how he already watch the child...when in fact he didn't watch the baby the baby was sleep and as soon as he wakes up he gives him to me. last night i had to clean the house with the baby strapped to me because he wanted to watch boxing and play his xbox. and he doesn't like to clean up everything is dirty and will stay that way unless i do it..but i have a baby and don't seem to have time to clean because my baby is woke most of the time now...and my husband expects me to cook, clean and do everything i need to do for my child and don't get me wrong i love my child and would do anything for him but am i wrong for needing some asstiance around the house. he works but **** i feel i need a lilltle help...normal or not

2007-06-16 03:05:48 · 11 answers · asked by Babygurl 3 in Marriage & Divorce

On a salary of $5,000 per month, what would be the tax difference in claiming 1 and 2 dependants?

2007-06-16 03:05:31 · 2 answers · asked by xawellington 1 in United States

2007-06-16 03:05:05 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

2007-06-16 03:05:02 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

2007-06-16 03:04:48 · 5 answers · asked by nelly the elephant 1 in Polls & Surveys

StarTribune.com
Kilimanjaro's snows melting, but ...

Yes, the snows of Mount Kilimanjaro are melting, but global warming isn't to blame, some scientists say.

By Sandi Doughton, McClatchy News Service

Last update: June 12, 2007 – 11:22 PM
SEATTLE

The shrinking snow cap atop Mount Kilimanjaro has become an icon of global warming. Pictures of the African peak, which has lost 90 percent of its ice cover, were featured in Al Gore's documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth." Greenpeace activists once held a satellite news conference on the summit to sway participants in an international climate conference.

But most scientists who study Kilimanjaro's glaciers have long been uneasy with the volcano's poster-child status. Yes, ice cover has shrunk by 90 percent, they say.

But no, the buildup of greenhouse gases from cars, power plants and factories is not to blame.

"Kilimanjaro is a grossly overused mis-example of the effects of climate change," said University of Washington climate scientist Philip Mote, co-author of an article in the July/August issue of American Scientist magazine.

Mote is concerned that critics will try to use the article to debunk broader climate-change trends.

He hastens to add that global warming is, indeed, responsible for the fact that nearly every other glacier around the globe is melting away. Kilimanjaro just happens to be the worst possible case study.

Rising nearly 4 miles from the plains of eastern Tanzania, the 19,340-foot Kilimanjaro has seen its glaciers decline steadily for well over a century -- since long before humans began pumping large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, Mote points out.

Most of the world's glaciers didn't begin their precipitous declines until the 1970s, when measurable global warming first appeared.

Also, recent data show temperatures on the volcano never dip below freezing. So melting triggered by a warmer atmosphere can't be the reason the small summit ice sheet is retreating about 3 feet a year, said Georg Kaser, co-author of the article and a glaciologist at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.

Most glaciers in temperate zones, like those on Mount Rainier, extend to lower elevations where their terminus is warmed to the melting point in summer.

On Kilimanjaro, ice loss seems to be driven by two factors: a lack of snowfall and sublimation, the same process that causes freezer burn by sucking moisture out of food.

Researchers believe Kilimanjaro's glaciers formed about 11,000 years ago, when the region was undergoing a period of wet weather that allowed snow to accumulate. But even before the first Europeans reached the summit in 1889, the weather has been dry in Eastern Africa. There simply hasn't been enough snowfall to keep up with the loss of ice due to sublimation, Kaser explained.

Sublimation, caused by exposure to sunlight and dry air, occurs when ice essentially skips the melting step and evaporates.

Kaser, who climbs Kilimanjaro twice a year to gather data, says the ice topography shows little evidence that melting is anything but a minor force. Jagged spires and cliffs made of ice up to 120 feet tall are not softened around the edges.

Even though the mountain presents an interesting scientific puzzle, it's an anomaly compared with what's happening with other glaciers, said Douglas Hardy, a paleoclimatologist at the University of Massachusetts. The new article will be seized on by "global warming naysayers" and could give people the mistaken impression that it calls global warming into question, Hardy predicted.

"What value to society does that serve?" he asked.

© 2007 Star Tribune. All rights reserved.

2007-06-16 03:04:40 · 4 answers · asked by GREAT_AMERICAN 1 in Global Warming

I assume that the mony part means one.As in the two become one.but where did the word come from and what is its real meaning?

2007-06-16 03:04:17 · 17 answers · asked by Christal 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-16 03:03:56 · 15 answers · asked by Smelly Cat 6 in Polls & Surveys

People who are not depressed almost disturb me. They seem irrational and in denial of what life is really like. It's one thing to be content with life, hell, one can even be content with life and meet all the critera for life, but those who think that's ill? I don't get it.

I have mood swings, maybe it's bipolar, maybe it's just anxiety, who knows, but even in my happiest moments, I don't think depression is so crazed.

2007-06-16 03:03:51 · 7 answers · asked by qwertatious 4 in Mental Health

a little more LeRoy in their life???

2007-06-16 03:03:21 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

including startin lessons, etc

2007-06-16 03:02:51 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Insurance & Registration

Near where I live, just over a week ago, we went from the worst drought in Australia's history, to sudden devastation by flood. A dozen lives were lost, thousands of homes and commercial premises flooded in over a metre of water along with 5000 cars washed away. The gale force winds that accompanied the flood brought down thousands of trees with hundreds of homes smashed. Over 200,000 people were without power for 4 days. Tens of thousands were also without running water. The storm was so fierce that at the start of it, a 40,000 ton cargo ship, 220 metres long got washed up onto the beach.

As the waters were receding, I heard someone on the radio say "We can thank god that the worst is over".

???

Isn't it a bit weird to thank god for only throwing a hundred rocks at you instead of two hundred?

I know that positive thinking's a good thing, but if they want to thank their sky daddy for ending the storm, why not take him to task for the storm coming in the first place?

2007-06-16 03:02:48 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

how to get a gril friend there are lots of hot grils, how do i get one?

2007-06-16 03:02:23 · 13 answers · asked by nelly the elephant 1 in Polls & Surveys

The package on the finger brush says every day- I was thinking I would try to do it twice a week. Anyone else have an older dog who brushed more or less often and the results? Opinions?

2007-06-16 03:02:19 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dogs

Any comments?

Oh, Al Gore and David Suzuki are both hypocrits by the way. Lead by example or just shut up.

Any comments on that?

2007-06-16 03:02:17 · 7 answers · asked by Mark S 2 in Global Warming

When I apply my brakes on my 1995 Grand-AM, The front end and steering wheel like shake back and forth. And sometimes going at highway speeds, the front end seems to wobble,and shake, like a knot on a tire, or something. But it's really bad when I apply my brakes...What could cause this?

2007-06-16 03:01:25 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Maintenance & Repairs

I'm glad the show won along with the Guiding Light, but did anyone else thing it was rather odd and neglectful for Lynn Marie Latham to not at least mention the shows creator Bill Bell?

2007-06-16 03:01:06 · 8 answers · asked by Bingo's Mommy 5 in Soap Operas

When you're at your threshold of absolute insanity and are chained to your miseries by the flesh, would you do it? Why or why not?

2007-06-16 03:00:48 · 47 answers · asked by WeirdMe 2 in Polls & Surveys

2007-06-16 03:00:46 · 10 answers · asked by bkendrick13 1 in Other - Computers