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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!!!
As if it wasn't bad enough, the flamewar that's about to erupt here will further speed up the process...
Man is a slave because freedom is difficult, whereas slavery is easy.
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?
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!
Coding with assembly is like playing with Legos. Coding an application in assembly is like building a car with Legos.
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.
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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