Baby Born on Snow Sled
Shirley Bonanni of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, went into labor Thursday. Before she and her husband Fabian could go to the hospital, they waited for Fabian's parents to come and stay with their two-year-old son. By the time they arrived, after dealing with snow-covered roads, Shirley was so far along in labor that she couldn't walk. The car was down at the bottom of the hill, because the road was too slippery to get it up to the house. At this point, the normal thing to do would be to keep the mother in the house and call for emergency help. But Fabian got a snow sled to take her to the car.
The baby couldn't wait, and came into the world as her mother was being transported.
Neighbor George Leader saw the commotion outside, heard Shirley yelling, and called 911.
"I was on the phone with 911, talking him through it and he certainly delivered his own baby, right there, on the side of the road," Leader said.
Fabian ran the baby -- wrapped in blankets back up to their house. The new Grandma and Grandpa -- who'd watched the birth -- helped George and his roommate carry Shirley, still on the sled, into their house to keep warm.
An ambulance arrived later to take mother and daughter to a hospital for observation. Little Bella Sophia Bonanni is doing well. After the publicity of the birth, Firestone is giving the family four new snow tires so this won't happen again. -via Arbroath
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You might also be surprised about China. It's not as strong as it is in the US, but there's a growing environmental movement there. As their middle class grows, they've begun to realize that prosperity is useless if you're too sick to enjoy it due to a toxic environment. They're actually investing far more than the US in renewable energy sources. Really, we're playing a global game of the prisoners dilemma, where doing nothing is the equivalent of ratting out your neighbor. It also explains why inaction is the likely outcome.....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/29/climate-change-sceptics-change-mind
That doesn't quite fit the narrative, does it?
And to respond to timothyemerson, the first thing we can do about global warming is to get non-scientists to acknowledge it exists. Although I do know how hard it is for people to stop foaming at the mouth about taxes (even though raising taxes need not be a part of the solution.)
Like the stealth funding of the tea-party, follow the money. Don't vote against your own best interests.
You are absolutely right about China, not only are they NOT going to stop but they are making new deals right now to ship even more coal from Wyoming all the way to Oregon, down the Columbia River and straight to China! (Wonder what that will do to the cost of coal for Americans?)
Fossil fuels will be used and burned, bought and sold, no matter how many global warming studies are done. Period. LOL!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html
Do you really think China is going to reduce the amount of fossil fuels that they use because some people claim that the planet is being heated up by Man? Do you?
LOL
Timothy, let not your heart be troubled. The AGW bleating is not worth a cup of warm spit. Nothing will be done because nothing will happen.
Global Warming alarmists, however, remain unmoved.
Check out this link:
http://www.populartechnology.net/2012/06/truth-about-richard-muller.html
From the wikipedia entry on skepticism:
"A scientific (or empirical) skeptic is one who questions beliefs on the basis of scientific understanding. Most scientists, being scientific skeptics, test the reliability of certain kinds of claims by subjecting them to a systematic investigation using some form of the scientific method."
This is exactly what Muller did, which resulted in him changing his mind. This is also exactly what other so-called climate "skeptics" do not do. Calling them skeptics is a huge compliment they don't deserve. They are simply deniers, and denying doesn't require any work.