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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.'"
I'm sure the Northwest Passage Cruise Line vacation scam spams will begin soon.
that prime waterfront property in Kansas....
Karma Whoring for Fun and Profit.
What could cause this?
Plus, those big ships'll have a shorter route on which to belch their nasty so-called "greenhouse gasses" (and will, therefore, not pollute as much!); this could be the best thing to happen to the environment in 30 years!!
Where is Linux gonna get a new mascot when their home is gone?
-1 wrong pole
Table-ized A.I.
all this global warming, freak weather and now the northwest passage is open? I'm losing my faith in coincidences here...
Because trying to get through it is a rite of passage for any competent explorer.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
To turn your virgin children into islamofascists. I'm sure I saw this on Fox. No no no a thousand times no. If Global Warming were caused by man God would have given us gills.
This laptop is powered entirely by my own sense of self-satisfaction.
Congratulations on your Mac purchase :-)
If moderation could change anything, it would be illegal.
That regional changes in weather patterns, including temperature, occur, is not disputed. That we are in an actual warming phase - globally - is in question and that it is caused by Al Gore jetting around in a private plane is an article of faith.
oh fuck me
this is worse than the OP
at least the OP was obviously fake/troll/spam/what-the-fuck-ever
but yours is disturbingly real
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
You make a good post and get intelligent responses. Yet some moderator thinks it is not politically correct and mods you a troll.
I get moderator points quite frequently and recently there are few occasions where I am not using some of them to reverse stupid moderation! Gawd moderators, Get real? Why do you want to suppress the contrarian point of view? Is it against your religeon or something?
The truth with regard to global warming is that planetary climate change is due to a number of factors and these include the distribution of the continents, the amount of land at high elevation (Ie mountains and plateaus like the Colorado and Tibetian), ocean currents an connections between oceans like for instance the Isthmus of Panama.
CO2 levels are not linked to climate change in the geological record. One would think they would be if CO2 is a significant factor.
Yet of those who wish for a change in the way we live and use the non-renewable resources of Mother earth... and recognize that burning fossil fuels is both unsustainable and does add CO2 to the atmosphere... well - for these people yes, it would be correct to recognize that if we adopt a sustainable life style then at the same time we might reduce CO2 emissions.
Yet - this observation does not mean that climate change if it exists is necessarily linked to Co2 emissions.
I will say this. I think those who feel this way are going to get their wish.
The best information I have is that the world's oil production peaked in September of last year. Is this information published? Well - not really. The media has not picked up on it. Why? Because you don't get good information from the media.
My sources are very reliable. But I will caution that we need to go 5 more years past peak before we can confidently look in the mirror and say we are past peak. Even then, something unexpected could happen like finding that oil is abiogenic and there is an ocean of it sitting under say the Alberta Tar sands.
If the preliminary data is correct and we are past peak then those who want us to drive less and emit less CO2 will get their wish. This still doesn't mean that CO2 driven climate change exists.
I will point out that anyone who is really concerned about CO2 emissions should open the walls of their house and increase the insulation to about R50 in the walls and R70 in the ceiling and that they can do this during construction for about $1 buk per square foot of building envelop.
Until I see people do this I will not listen to their concerns... why? Because unless someone is concerned enough to actually do what is in their power to do - then I do not think they are much more than a hypocrite. Sorry - but that is just the way it is.
End of rant.
Now if we could get rid of this bad moderation.
Bah! In my day we used to walk the Northwest passage, barefoot. Once I got three quarters of the way there, ran out of food had to turn round and go home. And it was uphill both ways.
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