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Antarctic Ice Is Growing, Not Melting Away, At Davis Station
schwit1 writes "A report from The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research says that Antarctic ice is growing, not melting away. Ice core drilling in the fast ice off Australia's Davis Station in East Antarctica by the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Co-Operative Research Centre shows that last year, the ice had a maximum thickness of 1.89m, its densest in 10 years. The average thickness of the ice at Davis since the 1950s is 1.67m. A paper to be published soon by the British Antarctic Survey in the journal Geophysical Research Letters is expected to confirm that over the past 30 years, the area of sea ice around the continent has expanded."
Many research scientists live their comfy lives on government-stolen funds. They have to, because no one wants to buy their junk.
I have friends who admit to me, off the record, that their government grants are the only way they can pay off their ridiculous college debt that paid for a talent no one wants. Some have even said that they knowingly adopt accepted practices of shenanigans that fudge the data to support beliefs desired by the State.
This is nothing new:
Teacher's unions don't teach.
Public healthcare takes care of its own industry rather than patients.
Police officers serve and protect the State, not society.
TSA agents work hard to enforce their own barrel-chested powers rather than actual securty.
Why should government-granted shills be any different?
It is time for science to be market-driven rather than socialist in nature.
No. Libertarians are in favor of the least amount of regulation period. There are two subgroups: the limited government ones and the anarcho-libertarians who believe in (essentially) no government at all. Democracts and republicans would both also claim to believe in the least amount of regulation necessary to do the job. Where the political theory differs is in what exactly that job happens to be. BTW, "laissez-faire" is not the same as anarchy. It just refers to the government staying out of the economy.
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
I think you meant, "Climate Change". The world's biggest scam has been redefined.
It wasn't posted as Anonymous Coward because I'm not one. I'm just annoyed of unimaginative morons repeating the same tired jokes year after year after year, and some other morons modding the copypasta up without fail.
So fuck you, fuck the grandparent, fuck the moderators, and FUCK YEAH SEAKING!
Courtesy of a Pseudonymous Sensibly Cautious.
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.