Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Thursday, July 1, 2010

Oil and Hurricanes, together at last

by anderson


One thing I haven't seen anyone mention is the potential of the rather
strong albedo effects of the oil producing a knock-on warming of the
Gulf of Mexico. It was already looking hottish earlier in the year,
and now surface temperatures are hitting 30C.

The oil can only make this hotter, fuel for stronger hurricanes, which
will wreck even greater havoc with "clean up," containment, and relief drilling,
which in turn ensure that even more oil is shat into the sea, helping
warm up things even more. Oh, yes, and let's do keep burning globs of the
stuff on the surface. That'll help, too.  Tremendous.  Another gw positive feedback loop, with both horrific short and long term consequences.

The oil helps the
hurricane get strong by trapping gobs of heat energy for the system. The hurricane helps the oil keep that go-juice flowing by fucking up all
efforts to stop and contain the oil. And it will all come to a literal head
midst hurricane, as Cat. 5 winds and pounding oily waves conjoin midair, like whales, and blow their moist and finely aerated ejaculate of oily, toxic sludge-mist all over everything.

This
looks like the start of a beautiful friendship.

Ah, BP; who knew you were such matchmakers?



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