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Global Warming Exposes New Islands in the Arctic
circletimessquare writes "The New York Times has a sobering article about the rapidly accelerating pace of glacial melting across the arctic, focusing on the discovery of new islands and the fact that this is occurring far faster than climate scientist's models predict. What were called Nunataks or 'lonely mountains' in Inuit, trapped in the ice, only a few years ago, are now in the open ocean by kilometers. Off of Greenland, what was known previously as peninsulas have been revealed to be islands as the ice retreats. Dennis Schmitt, a modern day explorer and discoverer of one of these new islands and fluent in Inuit, has named it Uunartoq Qeqertoq: the warming island."
For all those interested, all the OceanLand Islands are property of me, and are being sold at $499,999,999.99 each.
Not only am i chepaer than the competition, my islands are real. Please, check them out, you'll warm up to them faster than you'd think.
Have you read my journal today?
Why bother putting it on the map? Soon global warming will also put it under water too.
Problem solved! Hurray!
- Adam L. Beberg - The Cosm Project - http://www.mithral.com/
You're right. We need to stay open to the possibility that temperatures staying the same (or even cooling) may be the cause of all this ice melting. ;-)
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It will be interesting to see what else is under the ice.
The lost city of Ry'leh... Run everyone, C'thulhu is coming! AHHHHHHH!
Canada calls Shotgun! Those islands are now the soverign soil of Canada! Hurray!
You freaking pinko commie oil-loving corporatist hippy! Take that back!
...following the principles of Heisenburger's Uncertain Cat...
The ultimate irony would be if oil was discovered on the Global Warming island.
Well.. sort of... nowadays we call it "marketing".