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NASA Study Shows Antarctic Ice Sheet Shrinking
deman1985 writes "A recently released NASA study has shown that the Antarctic ice shelf is shrinking at an alarming rate of 36 cubic miles per year. The study, run from April 2002 to August 2005, indicates that the melting accounted for 1.2 millimeters of global sea level rise for the period. From the article: 'That is about how much water the United States consumes in three months and represents a change of about 0.4 millimeter (0.01575 inch) per year to global sea level rise, the study concluded. The study claims the majority of the melting to have occurred in the West Antarctic ice sheet."
Your deranged rant about having babies isn't that interesting. But your basic point about your insignificance is.
Please post your bank acc't# and PIN. Then kill yourself. I'll gladly breathe the oxygen you're not using, and appreciate the tiny little bit of quiet you leave behind.
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I will probably be marked flamebait but this is a serious question.
Hasn't the Earth been warming up since the last iceage?
and
Hasn't the polar ice caps been receeding since the last ice age?
Have we not observed things in nature usually cycled. Why couldn't the global temperature be any different?
10 Iceage
20 global warming
30 life becomes almost extinct
40 global warming continues
50 spontaneous fires produce enough smoke to block the sun
60 lack of sunlight causes global cooling
70 goto 10
run
it is only after a long journey that you know the strength of the horse.
Our climate records go back hundreds of thousands of years, in icecores and other samples.
So you're talking out of your ass. You're quoting Greenhouse denial nonsense. Personally I'm just a little annoyed that the adults are saving your worthless ass while we cope with the climate catastrophe underway. But if I can get you to stop braying like a FoxNews mule, it will at least make our jobs just a little easier.
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His point is specious, and sure to be rejiggered no matter what facts hassle it.
You too are insisting on some other argument. Like I said, it's not important whether you agree that humans caused the current climate change. What's important is the evidence that stopping our pollution will slow or stop the trend.
So, since you've used up your chance at respect with your little trick strawman, you can take some advice. Don't piss off my little friends. Because they're coming to get you - much faster than the seas will drown you.
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Are you sure what you're carrying on about has anything at all to do with science?
No. It has to do with public policy.