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Impassable Northwest Passage Open For First Time In History
An anonymous reader writes "The Northwest Passage, a normally ice-locked shortcut between Europe and Asia, is now passable for the first time in recorded history reports the European Space Agency. Leif Toudal Pedersen from the Danish National Space Centre said in the article: 'We have seen the ice-covered area drop to just around 3 million sq km which is about 1 million sq km less than the previous minima of 2005 and 2006. There has been a reduction of the ice cover over the last 10 years of about 100 000 sq km per year on average, so a drop of 1 million sq km in just one year is extreme.'"
You can not disprove this fact.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
the neo-cons will say that the planet is not warming up. They will also point to a few glaciers that are growing, and discount the nearly 95% of the glaciers that have shrunk.
This is assinine given that in the past 30 years the worldwide population of polar bears has climbed 500%. Just don't tell any members of the Church of Global Warming.
I get all of my global warming news from the Drudge Report, so I know for a fact that global warming is a liberal conspiracy created by pencil-necks like Al Gore for their own financial gain. Hell, there was a record snowfall somewhere in the US just last winter!
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
Bullshit. All the whiner Americans suck a big one too. The fact is this: America will will do anything rather than give up their gluttinous driving of automobiles. Oil for fuel, corn for fuel, horseshit for fuel. Corpses, anything, for fuel as long as they can keep driving their cars.
It's like diamonds. Rare? Bullshit, the world is awash in diamonds. They're only expensive because the criminal cartel DeBeers falsifies the market. Cars are the same way, only it's a psychological market. Americans think a certain car says "something" about them. How can anything made in such quantities as are cars say anything about anybody? Sure Mr. Big Shot, you've got a BMW 750, but so do a lot of twenty year old drug dealers. Cars are little more than Dixie Cups with an inflated price tag. The problem is that America has to re-invent itself for change to happen. We, unlike the rest of the world, can do this if we need to (and we do) but it's not going to happen as long as whiner Americans get their self image from their cars. And it's not going to happen as long as our President's oil cronies control what he does. My son is too young to die for them and their SUVs, but there are already several thousand who weren't so lucky.
America will pull back right at the brink. We (unlike the rest of the world) can do this because we still don't know who we are; the founding fathers were smarter than anybody we've put into the Whitehouse so far, and that makes it difficult to know where it is that They knew we should go. But we'll do it, I think. Right now, America has its head up its ass, but the founders knew where we should go and we'll get there. That's why, as fucked up as we are right now, people are still willing to die for a chance to live here.
Yawn, Your doing some rounds now aren't you. Tell me do you get paid to troll around and counter everything? I remember another guy who did it also. You aren't him with another name are you? I think you have followed me and replied to almost ever post in this thread.
Anyways, The same error that made the US's temp different also made the rest of the worlds different. We don't have numbers published for some reason after the fixes have been made. When the story about the bad math and the US numbers was released, it was said that they were working to fix the calculations but they haven't went further then that. So i would say the entire worlds numbers are different too. Not just the US's. But just like the US, before the number were changed, the 30's were of th hottest in the world too so I think it is a pretty educated guess that it covers the entire world.
And since when it this a right wing thing? I mean I know typically the left and right oppose each other. I know the politics in this are at odds. But I didn't hear about half the shit being spewed on the last few years being done so based around faulty numbers and faulty math from the right wing media. I heard most of it right here. And you were right here too defending your position then too. And I think you might have thrown some right wing shit around back them for some reason. Maybe it is an automatic pass off for the left? I don't know. But the political leanings of anything don't in itself lend credit or discredit anything. And you posting 500 times to make your voice heard more then anyone else's doesn't make you "right" or more correct either.
Sure it will "balance" itself. The problem is the human cost of that transition and the out of control nature of it. What the "invisible-hand's-fist-up-your-ass" method of society managment proponents always neglect is the human cost of their activities. If it is not on a Wall Street ticker, it doesn't exist to them. Imagine two steam-filled boilers, one at very high pressure, representing the accumulated and continuously generated wealth of the industrialized West and one at very low, representing the, mostly poor, rest of the world. There are several methods to "equalize" the pressure in those tanks: to try to heat the low pressure one while adding water (which is the sane approach), to let steam escape through a controllable valve (not so smart - but suppose that unlike in real life the ability of the empty boiler to generate steam also increases with this transfer, so it has some merit) and the last one, the "invisible-hand-smashing-you-in-the-face" approach is to blow a big hole in the big tank with a grenade and use a bicycle pump to try to catch steam as it escapes and pump it into the empty one. The "lost" steam which escapes the pump (i.e. most of it) into the air is called "profit". The end result is that the empty tank's preasure increase is negligeable and the big one is simply busted and would need to be repaired by someone other then the "invisible-hand-of-fuckups" people.
This is utter bullshit, I am sorry to say. What applies to individuals (sustinence vs. specialization) and to some degree to companies (accuracy of which decreases with the size of the operation - most Asian conglomerates make everything from diapers to oil-tankers) does not apply to countries and continents!! The scale changes the nature of things! Grains of sand are moved by different processes then boulders and mountains!
But ignoring this for a moment, in order for your "single economy" to work, these things would have to occur: global corporations (the only ones with the reach) would have to replace all kinds of other businesses. Since their power would then exceed that of all nations and local governments (as it already does for many) they would become the defacto rulers of the world. Since corporations are feudal entities at core, this would by necessity mean that your new globalization utopia is, by its very nature, a feudal structure comprised of corporate kingdoms and their vassals.
The energy requirements (and the types of energy) required to make this nonsense work are simply unsustainable. The present scam operates only because the fossil fuels, accumulated over the course of hundreds of millions of years, are insanely undervalued, and can be blown in seconds out of our collective asses to make disposable plastic chairs and throw-away packaging, which then can be transported all over the world for next to nothing. Not to mention driving veritable battle tanks around to and fro our urban spawl McMansions. As soon as the fossilized remains of trees and animals run out, this traveling circus of utter, short-sighted stupidity is going to hit a brick wall at a rather high velocity. The other types of energy are orders of magnitude more expensive and nowhere near as flexible as fossil fuels. In short