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ICE Satellite Maps Profound Polar Thinning
xp65 writes "Researchers have used NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite to compose the most comprehensive picture of changing glaciers along the coast of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. The new elevation maps show that all latitudes of the Greenland ice sheet are affected by dynamic thinning — the loss of ice due to accelerated ice flow to the ocean. The maps also show surprising, extensive thinning in Antarctica, affecting the ice sheet far inland. The study, led by Hamish Pritchard of the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, England, was published September 24 in Nature."
Why do we need to fight it? The increase in arable land due to warming more than offset the loosses around the coast lines. It will be great if we can settle and develop Antarctica.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
And that's proved by.... ?
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Environment changes with or without us, wtf do I care which way it goes? We're sentient beings, we develop technologies and my goal as a Scientist is it keep the speed of technological development as high as possible, I couldn't care less what a bunch of tree hippies around me do or want. If, when some change in the environment does occur, we'll tackle it with the technology we've advanced by then. But by keeping the rate of our technological advancement as high as possible, we'll also be able to achieve numerous other benefits (Singularity amongst them).
Why does it matter if a bunch of species dies? I don't care, I eat beef/chicken... All animals and plants I consume are domesticated, no matter the impact we make on the environment, we can feed our own, civilised states through the use of hydroponics, genetically modified crops (which are just as good or better than any other crop, protein is protein is protein, it's all the same atoms and molecules, compounds...it's all just starch, glucose... and it doesn't matter what DNA it came from), and genetically modified meat.
I've never seen a penguin or a tiger or a giraffe, and I don't give a shit about them, if they were to be wiped out tomorrow, wouldn't affect me the slightest. And if somehow it would, I'd look towards technology to help me get over the problem... stop whining hippies, it's people like that makes me want to join the marines and go shoot and mow down with tanks some hippie college kids... I now understand why those guys enjoyed doing it during the 80s, you hippies are annoying and unproductive as shit. Just spreading useless FUD, because of your kind other nations who can't support their own populations did not take the genetically modified crops we offered that would have saved billions of people, why? because a bunch of dumb hippies kept saying that those crops would kill them...
I'm not going to conserve any energy, in fact I'll use more, why? because I can, and I want to, and it does no good for me to save it...
it's a "librul conspiracy"
This quote is bound to decrease intelligent discourse. Painting your opposition as backwoodsy by misspelling a word to match a much-maligned accent's pronunciation seems trollish behavior. Are you a troll, good sir?
Anyone who buys into the whole "man made" global warming is a NUT, pure and simple. The OUTPUT from the sun increased (with the sunspot CYCLE) and caused the earth to warm. We are now in a solar minimum, which explains the (northern hemisphere) lack of summer we had this year. Not to mention the retreating ice sheet has uncovered things like lost villages, mining camps etc. Now, if hundreds of thousands of years ago, there were places humans existed, then it wouldn't take a genius to figure out it was WARMER then. You tree hugging hand wringing anti anything humans do should just go sit in a cave somewhere and leave the rest of us the hell alone.