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raven mad

(4,940 posts)
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 01:54 PM Jan 2015

Hi, all. I'm an Alaskan very proud of our President today!! Just joined this group so

am not quite familiar, yet, with the discussions. However, the Alaska Dispatch News has a really great article about the Beaufort Sea, now 9.8 million acres protected by our President, and bowhead whales. I hope y'all enjoy it! Quite chilly here in the Interior today at 44 below - think warm thoughts for us!

Bowhead whale songs are complex and copied, new study shows
Yereth Rosen Alaska Dispatch News January 26, 2015

Inuit legend says Sedna, the beautiful but tragic goddess of the ocean, sings underwater to give detailed instructions to the whales and other sea animals.

Now scientists have new information about the level of detail in the songs that bowhead whales sing to one another when they are migrating into the Beaufort Sea each spring.

The researchers documented 12 unique songs sung by at least 32 individual whales while swimming off Point Barrow. It is the greatest number of songs cataloged during the population’s spring migration, possibly a result of the growing population, says the study, a joint project of scientists from Bates College, the University of Washington, the North Slope Borough, Norway’s FRAM-High North Research Centre for Climate and the Environment and Cornell University.


http://www.adn.com/article/20150126/bowhead-whale-songs-are-complex-and-copied-new-study-shows

Environmentally a very sensitive Sea, and energy gets in there because Big Oil and all the Kochsuckers really want to drill, baby, drill. Pres. Obama just blocked that kick!

Glad to be here, friends. I hope this post is okay!
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Hi, all. I'm an Alaskan very proud of our President today!! Just joined this group so (Original Post) raven mad Jan 2015 OP
I am doing BACK FLIPS over this!!! !!!! NoJusticeNoPeace Jan 2015 #1
I literally went to my knees! raven mad Jan 2015 #2
+1 for pissed off non liberals. bravenak Jan 2015 #5
How could anyone, in good conscience, complain? Frustratedlady Jan 2015 #3
"In good conscience"???? LOL! raven mad Jan 2015 #4

NoJusticeNoPeace

(5,018 posts)
1. I am doing BACK FLIPS over this!!! !!!!
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 01:56 PM
Jan 2015

I wish I could, this is a TWOFER for me, he does a GREAT thing and ROYALLY pisses off NON liberals.

Everywhere, there are NON liberals EVERYWHERE and they are pissed today


raven mad

(4,940 posts)
2. I literally went to my knees!
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 02:00 PM
Jan 2015

Cried a little, laughed a lot, yelled YEEEEEEEEEHAWWWWWWWWW loud enough to disturb the kitties.................. NoJusticeNoPeace, it's a banner day!

Rock ON, Mr. President

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
3. How could anyone, in good conscience, complain?
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 02:14 PM
Jan 2015

I know, the greedy oilers and environmental criminals. However, I did say "in good conscience" and that would eliminate most of them.

Obama is having one heck of a time with his paybacks. Lovin' it!

raven mad

(4,940 posts)
4. "In good conscience"???? LOL!
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 02:23 PM
Jan 2015

Just be glad you don't have a Murkowski, Young or Sullivan "representing" you............. they represent only special interests, Big Oil, Big Pharma and of course, KochSuckers Inc.!

I am so tickled with this. Heads are exploding all over Anchorage (without oil, it'd still just be a port full of hookers and drunks).

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