"It is thought that as the climate warms it may allow the earth covering these shallow chambers to heat up enough to melt the thin protective layer of earth above it. ...  Hope this explanation helps."   ...no, I am afraid the explanation does not help.  It is, for lack of a better word, sheer stupidity.    ...more

Yes, that must be it!  the weight of the ice caps!  Pure genius...  Now if we can only get Americans to diet and lose weight we can reduce the pressure even further.    ... billfitz781, I feel compelled to ask you a question.  Do you even know what the word "science" means?

Yes, becuase SUVs cause volcano eruptions!  You Sir, are a genius.

DemsRDummies:  You waste your time trying to educate the Liberal-Progressive-Socialist masses.  Thinking rationally and using facts to support a plan of action is alien to them.

billfitz781:   Given that you are posting a rant about global warming in an article about a volcano in Alaska erupting, are you contending that global warming caused the eruption?    How does not using oil help start new industries?  I will make it easy for you and provide the answer.  It does not.  You most l...more

Mr. Botkin:   You, sir, are too stupid to express an opinion among adults.  Please go back to the kiddie table.    Selling a drink which is legal for sale and consumption in the United States is not "murder for profit".  The voluntary consumption by a person of a substance which is legally a food product is no...more

That is good advice, but it is in the wrong forum.

I feel like I just heard a weather report on television stating that the weather may be either good or bad, but there will be some weather.  Jim, this article was more like the random musings of an amateur investor rather than an experienced one.    Buying quality industrial stocks of companies that will survive a...more

I wonder what the efficiency of atmospheric water condensers (using the cooling condensation method) is, if a solar powered condenser is used.  It may not be ideal and efficiency may suffer given that the regions with the best solar power uses are typically dry, but if the aquifiers are being depleted it seems to me th...more