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Global Warming To Leave North Pole Ice-Free
cwolfsheep writes "Tonight, Yahoo & AFP news are
reporting on a study, further backing up a
previous report, that suggests the North Pole will be ice-free in the summer by the next century. Oddly enough, they say the melting will not
add to the sea-level of the ocean (since the ice is already in the ocean) and that the extra water will help absorb more greenhouse gases. Maybe we need to start using more
aerosols."
I'm not a geologist, but this much I can tell you:
The Sahara has been there since before civilization arose in the fertile crescent.
It became a desert when some geological phenomenon made mountains appear, blocking the natural flow of rain clouds into the area.
The land in Africa is like the land in any other place. It's not especially infertile, it's merely littered with some of the dumbest people on Earth who have done nothing but fight each other and set up dictatorship after dictatorship, destroying what little infrastructure existed and robbing the people of their rightful resources like food and water. Of course old colonialism didnt help and modern capitalism doesnt help either.
Western corporations enjoy the cheap labour and products from Africa, encouraging countries to produce crops of tropical fruit instead of, say wheat, which we have plenty of. So they buy cheap goods from them and when they have no food sell them some of our excess for twice as much as what they would have spent had they grown their own.
Also, some previously fertile areas depended on the natural cycle of yearly floods which irrigated the areas adjacent to the rivers. This has been disrupted by dams.
Thank you W. Bush Jr. for destroying the Kyoto treaty...
You are partially responsible for the fires and the deads in Europe now.