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Global Warming Past The Point of No Return
mad_goldfish writes "The UK's Independent is running a front page story today on a scientific report claiming that global warming is now unstoppable, after measuring changes in the level of ice in the arctic." From the article: "The greatest fear is that the Arctic has reached a 'tipping point' beyond which nothing can reverse the continual loss of sea ice and with it the massive land glaciers of Greenland, which will raise sea levels dramatically. Satellites monitoring the Arctic have found that the extent of the sea ice this August has reached its lowest monthly point on record, dipping an unprecedented 18.2 per cent below the long-term average." Either way, someone wins a bet.
And you thought it was a bad movie, it's a FEMA training film now!!!
I wonder if the Russians have started counting their roubles yet?
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As if it wasn't bad enough, the flamewar that's about to erupt here will further speed up the process...
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Soon I'll be able to sell my vial of ice-9 for billions!
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
Now I won't have to hear them drone on about the threat of global warming anymore!
Thanks, polluters! The power is yours!
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Hey, I've got some oceanfront property in Arizona!
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Talk about your schadenfreude experiences, eh? Either these scientists are wrong, or they get to gloat about how nobody listented to them.
I am just waiting for President Schwarzenegger's address from the beaches of Las Vegas explaining that global warming is not a serious problem, and there was never a place called Venice.
How does the Slashdot Effect happen given that no slashdotters ever RTFA?
On a tangential note, does anybody else get annoyed by the overuse of the phrase "tipping point"? It's like "perfect storm" was a few years ago, everybody's favorite trite phrase-of-the-moment. It's like we've reached a tipping point of "tipping point" usage, and this perfect storm of "tipping point"s has driven out the "perfect storm" meme.
Have you read my blog lately?
When will people learn that this kind of crap will happen with or without human intervention? The Earth has been changing constantly for millions of years and will continue to change past our existence. Holy crap, a climate shift!! I am sure it was the Neanderthals who brought on the ice age by causing nuclear winter. How else could that have happened?
It looks like Lutin Plunder has finally held true to his word.
Past the point of no return, no backwards glances
Our days of global warming have now begun
Past all thoughts of right or wrong, no going back now
Abandon thoughts, and let the warmth begin
When will the fires shall burn the forest, when will the flood hit my costal mansion
When will the warming at last consume us?
Past the point of no return, the final threshold
The iceberg is crossed, so stand and watch it melt
We're past the point of no return.
(with apologies to the Phantom of the Opera musical).
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Sweet! If we're past the point of no return, there is no sense worrying about it now!
Repeal the Kyoto Treaty and fire up the coal power plants. If we're all going to die, it mine as well be full speed ahead!
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Training implies that there are competent people at FEMA. An assertation I'm not sure a certain region of the US would agree with.
The days of the digital watch are numbered.
Time to start dropping huge ice cubes into the ocean. That will solve global warming once and for all.
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I SAID ONCE AND FOR ALL!
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Best to go ahead and kill yourself now. That way, nothing scary and complicated will happen to you.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
Remember Lex Luthors plan to get rich ? Buy all the property on the east side of the san andreas fault, then set off nukes in the fault to sink the west half of the state. Lex would overnite own the majority of waterfront property in california.
According to the sinless triumverate of truth (moveon.org, indymedia, and dailykos), Karl Rove has almost completed his master plan of melting all global ice to raise the world sealevel by 23ft.. which in a single stroke would wipe out almost all democratic voters in the US, as well as place all socialist-european countries in state of total turmoil whilst they tried to rebuild their cities and save their tax base (their population).
The republicans would then RULE THE WORLD!
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Exactly the point I was trying to get across. We have so many questions about the Earth's climate over the long term that it's not even funny.
This has got to be one of the most insightful comments on the whole page. We need TONS more data, over a LONGER period of time, before doing Chicken Little impressions. Yeesh.
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