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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."
You are either ignorant or a shill. Either way, please stop trying to share your wisdom. You have none.
Even the Bush administration admits that global warming is occurring now. The argument NOW is not about whether global warming is occurring (it is) but why, if we can do anything about it, and what to do if we can in fact do anything.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I think this dude, along with many others, get paid by the post by ExxonMobil, etc, to respond to anything here with regards to GW. Then again, they could just be uninformed.
BTW, still no skiing on REAL snow in the Poconos, but don't worry, that snow'll be right along.
"Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair" - George Washington
Geez, moderators. Don't you know a joke when you see one? Talk about a waste of a mod point.
...following the principles of Heisenburger's Uncertain Cat...