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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."
Hey, someone hand me my spray-paint can. I want to help speed up our continuing problem with pollution and mass-habitat destruction. Don't worry about plantlife or animals, they can all die out and we can continue using our greenhouses to grow what we need to eat. It's no big deal because we can just throw another barrel of oil under one of the Bushs' noses and they'll buy it.
At a rate like this, I think we should follow Iceland's lead in their aspiration for being the first modern country to be completely independant of oil. If we relied on synthetic lubricants, cleaner fuels (Like solar or hydrogen), then maybe we could extend that global warming to "never". This is all based on the asumption that we as humans don't populate Mars first. Excuse me.
I'm racked off with all these environmentalist and climatologists telling us the worlds going to end. They've been predicting runaway feedback and environmental disaster forever and it hasn't happened yet. I'm sorry but after all the crying wolf that they've done I've reached the stage where I think they've got no f*****g idea how the world climate system works. We'd all have been dead 30 years ago if they'd got it even partly right.
Erm, well, no I don't remember.
I amazoned for the crackpot book that you must be referring to, but can't find any books published in the past 30 years whose premise is that we are headed for an ice age.
the magnetic poles are supposed to reverse (flip) sometime between now and then next 700 years
Pole reversal has happened but predicting when is another favorite topic of those crackpot books you are reading.
and we have at most 2000 years of recrded history
You wagged school and stayed home to read "The Young Person's Old Testament" didn't you?
The fact that 99.99% of the worlds climate experts say that human activity is effecting the global climate - and the fact that scientists in the other 0.01% once worked for tobacco companies and now work for the Bush administration makes me think that you are talking crap.
Mongrel News all the news that fits and froths
No no that is an anecdote, not scientific evidence. All real scientific evidence points out that there is massive global warming. All real scientists agree on this. Anyone who says otherwise is a Saudi-paid Bush lover.
Secondly, global warming is not a theory. It is a fact.
No, it is a theory supported by computer models that may or may not have any relation to reality.
You don't need to look at any models. Just look at the data!
I've spent my life working in the statistical modeling field and have an extensive background in numerous scientific and damn near every engineering field (see profile)
Can I see a list of your publications?
Current models are all over the place as to what they predict and in almost every case what they predict isn't even close by an order of magnitude to what has happened in that past.
Citations please.
I apologize, I have to go to work during they day and perform other various activites and cannot respond to everything that someone posts on the web. Now please go and get a life.
Mathematics is made of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs, and 50 percent imagination.