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Arctic Warming Drying Up Lakes
kingofalaska writes "An accelerating Arctic warming trend over the past quarter of a century has dramatically dried up more than a thousand large lakes in Siberia probably because the permafrost beneath them has begun to thaw, according to a paper to be published the journal Science." From the article at the LA Times: "About 125 of the 1,170 shrunken lakes disappeared altogether, and most are now considerably smaller than the study's baseline of 40 hectares, or about 99 acres, the researchers found. If Arctic temperatures continue to rise, the scientists said, many of the lakes in high northern latitudes, where they are ubiquitous, could eventually disappear."
... let the global warming deniers begin!
Before the advocates pipe up, global warming most likely did not cause this. Why? Global warming barely exists! There has only been a small (0.5, 1cm) rise in seawater levels since the 1800s, as much as the zealots would have us believe otherwise. No, this was likely caused as a result of regional discrepancies, not global worming. (Pre-emptive :P)
This post is the biggest load of BS I have EVER heard!
Maybe you should eat a steak every once in a while, help get some badly needed protein to that undernourished brain of yours. Hyperbole isn't going to solve this problem; do you want to use the same tactics that bush uses to speak, or do you want to be an intelligent insightful person that people will respect the opinion of. Yes, global warming is a big problem, but your shrill voice makes you easy to dismiss. Yer either wit' us or agin' us, right?
Marxism is the opiate of dumbasses
Fact is, the ice caps aren't melting at a rate anywhere near fast enough to cause disruption to the gulf stream. To say otherwise is a blatant lie.
It is entirely expected that the ice caps melt to some extent in a period between cie ages.
There will be an ice age at some point anyway, though probably not for many thousands of years. whether it is human caused or not is entirely disputable.
In fact, but the standards of the past couple of millennia, this is quite a cool period. The early medieval period was warmer than this by some way, from about 1000-1300. In Roman times, the climate was much warmer - in fact, grapes were grown as far north as York in england. However, there was a cold snap from about 1600-1850, from which we are now recovering to much mroe historically normal levels.
When people - few of whom seem to be "experts" at all but rather people with a political agenda and little knowledge of science or history - claim that we are absolutely and definitely sleepwalking into global disaster the likes of which the world has never sen before and omg it is all the fault of Mankind, it is time to get sceptical and call bullshit.
IMO environmentalism is a form of religion. It is well known in sociology that if you try to suppress some deeply rooted cultural phenomena, it just pops up in another form. So we have environmentalists sayign that we, Man, used to be in a state of bliss in a Garden of Eden, but then we ate from the tree of knowledge and fell into a state of pollution, AKA industrialism, and will face a final apocalytpic reckoning unless we subscribe to the beliefs of the environmentalists, when we can save the world and go to heaven, presumably. Whatever. You're all a bunch of superstitious irrationalists.
Except when you consider that well-used grazing land is more beneficial than land which is sitting fallow and not being used for grazing. Yes current methods are bad, but again, properly used, mixing cattle grazing with cropland helps remove co2 from the atmosphere. Or do you not care about the facts when you spout your meat baaaaad rhetoric.
Marxism is the opiate of dumbasses