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North Pole Ice On Track To Melt By September?
phobos13013 writes "Recently released evidence is showing the North Pole ice is melting at the highest rate ever recorded. As a result, the Pole may be completely ice-free at the surface and composed of nothing but open water by September. As reported in September of last year, the Northwest Passage was ice-free for the first time known to man. The implications of this, as well as the causes, are still being debated. Are global warming experts just short-sighted alarmists? Are we heading for a global ice age? Or is the increase in global mean temperature having an effect on our planet?"
Oh no! What will happen to santa and his elves, and the reindeer? Won't someone think of the reindeer?
Viral software licensing is not freedom, it is in fact GNU/Socialism.
That we carpet bomb the damn thing just to be safe.
Virginia is for lovers. EVE is for griefers.
It's about fucking time those damn penguins get what they deserve.
But lack of polar bears is good for seals. screw those polar bears and their radical bear agenda!
But lack of seals is good for cod. screw those seals and their radial seal agenda!
Without these natural predators the population of Arctic researchers could reach dangerous levels.
Just read a great book about China's 'discovery' of the America around 1421 and they were able to get their junks around Greenland, a feat not otherwise possible, but it was warm that year.
Just think how much they've progressed, now they can get their junks all the way to Walmart!
It's almost like mother nature is giving humanity some 'gentle' urging to move-out and get our own place.
Pretty soon, however, if we don't get our ass in gear I have a feeling we might find all our stuff thrown out on the front lawn...if you follow the analogy.
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It is comical to me that in the past decade, I've seen the headlines purchased by oil company spin doctors go from:
Global Warming: Fact or Fiction?
to
Global Warming: Are We Causing It?
to
Global Warming: What Can We Do About It?
to
Antarctica: The New Hawaii
They live in areas around which, according to the article, have plenty of ice...
Damn...That must be why my freezer keeps growling at me.
my insights may be modded Funny, but at least some of my jokes are modded Insightful
No, thats the half eaten carton of Ben and Jerry's from 1997, clean out your damn fridge..
"Ahh! Arrogance and stupidity in the same package, how efficient of you!" --Londo Molari
Stop overreacting. With the opening of the Northwest Passage, additional trade routes will open. And you know what that means!
More pirates!
But the cod eat plankton. Screw those fish and their radical cod agenda!
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
After the ice melts, the poles flip. Eventually we'll be in the next iceage... It has nothing to due with my SUV or your solar panels, it is the nature of the cycle of destruction. After the mass extinction, the strong will survive and slowly rebuild. Our Children and generations more will forget what came before. They will worship our relics and call God by his new name: ComPewTur
Am I kidding? Maybe, Maybe not...
--- Relax, that mass muderer is just trying to reduce our carbon footprint, one fetus at a time...
Those seals are not radial! They exhibit bilateral symmetry!
Note: the above is a marine biology joke. If you have not majored in Marine Biology, please go back to college and complete enough courses until the above is funny in context.
- Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...
My friends refer to it a climate-porn...
Can't say I strongly disagree since it has the feel of watching a loooong slow train wreck...
Are you implying that your porn resembles a loooong slow train wreck? I think you're doing it wrong.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Sung to the tune of Santa Clause is coming to town "Santa Clause is going to drown"
And, plankton take solar energy and convert it into stored food energy.
So, Global Warming = Less Polar Bears = More Seals = Less Cod = More Plankton = More Solar Conversion = Global Cooling!!!!
Then please, please tell me why anyone thinks Al Gore is remotely relevant on the issue of climate change!!!
Because he invented the Internet, silly.
I don't care how warm it is, I could never get my junk around Greenland.
Believe me, I'm as surprised by my comment as you are.
Or, go back and major in maths. You get all the jokes!
Your ad here. Ask me how!
So, Global Warming = Less Polar Bears = More Seals = Less Cod = More Plankton = More Solar Conversion = Global Cooling!!!!
See? The planet is fine. It'll handle this whole global warming thing without a problem.
:D
The people living on it? Well, we're pretty much screwed.
The wise follow a damned path, for to know is to be forsaken.
Nope, that's Zuul.
I see your informative link, and raise you a pithy comment.
You sound like you plan on being part of the 99% who fail to survive the first 6 months. Tough luck.
It will be a wonderful and renewed world afterwards.
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
Isn't that just general bio?
It's kind of gamey... like spotted owl and bald eagle.... :-D
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So what you are saying is that some people don't have maps?
Yes! The reason 1492 China people can not find the US on maps, I believe, is that many 1492 China people do not have maps, such as 1492-China-people-Americans, the Iraqis, the South Africans, such as.
Well I'm making *two* Low Budget HDV Filipino Horror Movies in NYC.
What do Walruses and Tupperware have in common?
...they both like a tight seal!
sorry...last day, won't be here all week =(
Walk with Music;
If it doesn't happen, will we get an apology for misleading us?
Nope. We'll get a dupe.
Hey, if I'm getting wiped out, I'm taking as many other species with me as I can!
I like my beverages with warning labels!