Vast expanses of Arctic melting fast in almost 86 degree temperature

I find the picture interesting => http://current.com/items/90651730_vast-expanses-of-arctic-melting-fast-in-almost... because it compares arctic ice at 1989 with 2007. It seems that 1989 was some kind of pivot point in history. I keep coming across important stuff that happened in 1989... too many to remember.

I got caught by a maelstrom in 1989 myself. The Exxon Valdez had its crash, losing some 13 million gallons of crude into the water. I had a rare thyroid condition that had not been diagnosed, so when the news reporter said "well, it isn't so bad" because much of the crude oil was being evaporated by the sun I had no idea what was coming my way.

I was hired for the best-paying driving job I had ever had. The following Monday I was to be making deliveries up north Connecticut way ending with my last stop in New Hampshire... about the time the jetstream was carrying all that evaporated oil across the northeast. Apparently the oil molecules were beginning to combine with dust particles and settling down into the breathing space so I was inhaling RAW CRUDE OIL MOLECULES.

Since my thyroid was dysfunctional my body was unable to process inhaled crude oil, so the following week I made a bad judgement call on the job that resulted in me getting plastered onto the ground by a falling 1,000 lb. bale. After my foot was squashed up to the shinbone my saga of not getting treated by health care workers for my injuries began in earnest, taking me down the path I've followed to inventing many zero pollution engines... all of which this society has decided to ignore.

I later found out a friend of mine from highschool had had a really off-the-wall accident here in Roanoke right about the same time. He got on a forklift, the kind you stand on, and the previous person had failed to write it Out of Service because it did not have any brakes! So he went tooling down an aisle on a very large forklift with no brakes. When he got to the end he had to do something fast so he flipped the wheel and made a right turn but he still ended up slamming into a building girder. His foot slipped off, so he had some toes clipped off and his foot mashed.

Something really strange happened to the Valdez people, to me and to him that caused all of us to make some really awesome bad judgements within less than a month of each other. In 1989. It just seems like so much happened then that has continued down to this day and it's spreading out and involving everyone on the planet...

Schwarzenegger made the movie True Lies about that time, showing jets flying through a building. The "bad guy" is of course an Arab looking fellow {ugh, yuck} so he of course dies in the end, as all American movies show us winning over everybody else. But did the people overseas get upset by our movies depicting them that way so that they formulated plans to take down Manhattan buildings?

Movies affect people, so people voted in a Cowboy President yippee kay ai kill foreigners at all costs George Bush. Have we been making these choices or did dominoes from Hell start falling in a straight line beginning in 1989?

That's a great idea! Dig up Indiana, run a trench across from the Atlantic and make a brand new Great Lake. All the ocean rise pours there. Where's my calculator? We'll be the first country on earth to have saltwater fishing dead center within its borders.

Instead of people all over the world having to evacuate only Indianians have to move.

I wish I could think of something rational and informative to say right now, but I'm still in awe that an ice chuck the size of Indianna is melting away...everyday!

I'm going to slink back and ponder that visual for the next several hours...

Since everybody on both sides of the fence seem agreed that this planet is taking self-healing action, I would propose that melting the ice is being done to counter ocean pollution caused by {UGH} Man. But of course we know that can't possibly be TRUE.

But in the event it was true it would follow that if we reduced pollution dumping into the ocean we would cause the self-healing to stop. And since the ocean of water and the ocean of atmosphere are in direct contact with each other and have an ongoing interchange of pollutants swapping, cleaning the air of pollution would also help.

Otherwise the self-healing mechanisms of planet Earth will soon be erasing the Naval bases of many seaside locations throughout the world.... costing the United States possibly $6k,000,000,000.00 more stimulus dollars to rebuild its overseas ports/bases.