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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."
I thought the melting of Arctic ice will, in fact, reduce the ocean levels. This is because ice has a larger volume than water. It's the Antarctic and Greenland ice caps that increase the ocean levels. Of course, all these 3 happen at the same time.
The Raven
Okay. Evolution. See that? Foundation of modern biology? Now, that's just a theory. You don't want to believe that.
See this? We are DOOMED. It is OVER. We are industrial pigs who will OMG DESTR0Y T3H PLANET. And we MUST STOP USING CARS.
NOW.
Excuse me:
No you do not.
Again, in case you weren't listening:
No. You do not understand what is happening and why it is happening.
What you have is a theory. A theory which is very new, which is based on very little study and very little fact, and has about as much proof behind it as the eugenics craze of the early 20th century.
In fact, your reply greatly illustrates the problem with you 'global warming' Chicken Little types: whenever someone disagrees with you, you don't cite fact or reason. You begin with the 'you aren't paying attention', 'you're in the pocket of the oil companies', 'you're stupid', etc.
The fact of the matter is that global climate is a very complex issue, and it doesn't reduce down to 'businesses just need to cut CO2 emissions and the world will be a better place'. There are many factors to be studied, and quite a bit of the evidence on record clearly shows that environmentalists have no clue what they are talking about.
Oh, and by the way - no environmental action has ever actually succeeded in its goals. Ever. National park reserves? Failure. The 'Endangered Species Act'? Failure. Recycling? A failure. Your type are all about good intentions and bad reasoning ... see my .sig.
But there is NO consensus that it's human-caused. That's the point. Everyone seems to want to jump on the bandwagon that is not only human-caused, but that it's Bush's fault or the U.S. fault. We've cut polutants dramatically in this country and probably do more than almost any country but get no credit for it. Couple that with a huge disparity between scientific belief on the cause of this warming trend and you can understand why it's not taken as seriously as it should.