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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.'"
Perhaps one day someone will travel to Norway and discover... Norway, thus making history. Roald Amundsen
Can we have a mod for ignorant? I know there's an underlying "what's the problem with it" if technology causes it, yes I know I'm getting flamed for this, but come on. Gee cool, so we loose New York and Florida as well as most of the world's coastal cities and half the world starves from famine, look on the bright side we got a cheaper way to move crap from China to Europe. Sounds like a deal to me! We aren't talking about more days of summer we're talking about extreme weather like the human species has never seen before. I've heard quotes as high as 18 degree rise in temperatures over the next 100 years, there is reason for that number. That will never happen for one major reason. Increase Ocean temperatures by two or three degrees and and you get a massive cloud build up. Cool you say see nature takes care of us. Wrong. That's nature getting pissed at you like in the old Warner Brothers cartoons were storm clouds formed over character's heads. Drop that little bomb shell of 2 to 3 degree rise in ocean temperatures on a climatologist and after he gets through telling you it'll never happen ask him what would happen. Force five hurricanes normally rare would become common and all storms would get dramatically more intense. Droughts would get worse in one area where as others would be flooded out which can be equally bad. A 3 degree rise would raise water levels several feet without even factoring in Arctic ice melting. We aren't talking end of the world but you can kiss your comfortable life good bye. I don't call half the people starving to death, loosing our coastal cities and a massive increase in storm intensity Hysteria. The radical numbers I heard five years ago are what the conservative people are saying now and no one knows how bad it could get because it's never happened this bad this fast in known history. Come on don't mark people insightful because they can't see the forest for the trees. Dude the trees are on fire and it's seriously time to wake up. Okay flame me.
Terrestrial heat is simply being redistributed from the north pole to the south pole. Of course, that fact won't bolster the case for socialist-style central planning schemes, so count on the IPCC and the media to avoid it. http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/a_new_record_for_antartic_total_ice_extent
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This is insightful, not a troll.
You are all missing the point.
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