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Ice-Free Summers Coming To Arctic
rocketjam writes "CNET reports that researchers from the University of Arizona and other universities have concluded that the Arctic will likely see ice-free summers within a century due to the increasing rate of global warming. The melting will raise ocean levels worldwide, flooding coastal areas where a substantial proportion of the world's population live. The increasing rate of ice melt is already having an impact on people and animals in the Arctic. Currently, researchers cannot foresee any natural forces that will counteract the trend."
As the escaped penguins in Madagascar said when reaching the wind-blown South Pole, "This sucks!"
> . So, the evidence is mounting to the point where even the Bush administration is having to acknowledge that global warming is a reality.
yes, but they can blame it on asteriods, so we need to build more weapons in space to attack them nasty aliens....
I think the real problem is when the weather swings the other way and we're all huddled round the nearest space heater and claiming the global cooling researchers are full of it.
The only flaw in your logic is that polar bears don't mind being wet.
No, that's "evil-you-shun". It's obvious really. Evil-you-shun is the work of the devil and was actually devised by al-Quaeda to steer God-fearing Southern Baptist Americans away from their faith. Have you looked at pictures of Charles Darwin and Osama bin-Laden? The beard is a dead giveaway. Plus, have you ever seen them in the same place twice? Think about it.
And of course when faced with evil-you-shun, then as a God-fearing American (and let's face it, if you're not God-fearing you have no business being an American), you'd darned well better shun it.
Global warming doesn't exist. There is a lot of evidence that proves it doesn't.
1. It was colder than average at my house for 2 days last week.
2. The planet is supposed to get warmer and colder, it is natural. Just look at the tropical fossils and dinosaur bones in Canada. The temperature changes are natural.
3. Man has only been on this planet for 10,000 years, it says so in the bible. This means the scientific data uncovered about earths climate is wrong. It was probably planted by the devil.
4. It has been cloudy for 2 weeks, how can it be warming with no sun?
5. Doesn't ice expand when it freezes, so melting would lower the sea level right?
6. I have a paintball gun, powered by C02. That stuff is cold! How could it warm the planet?
7. We can't be sure the planet is getting warmer simply because the measurements say it is. Don't cloud the issue with facts.
8. If there is soo much C02 around, then why are my garden plants dead? The extra C02 should make them grow fast. I only got 4 cuekes this year.
9. How can the planet be getting so much warmer when more and more of the world now has air conditioning?
10. If the planet was getting that much warmer, we would see a consistant rise in the stock price of anti-perspirant companies. Us overweight americans are using less deodorant than ever!