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UN Climate Report Fails To Capture Arctic Ice: MIT
An anonymous reader writes "The United Nations' most recent global climate report 'fails to capture trends in Arctic sea-ice thinning and drift, and in some cases substantially underestimates these trends,' says a new research from MIT. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, released in 2007, forecasts an ice-free Arctic summer by the year 2100. However, the Arctic sea ice may be thinning four times faster than predicted, according to Pierre Rampal and his research team of MIT's Department of Earth, Atmosphere, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)."
hmm, well let's look at this one. It we could be losing it at x rate, or 4x! Translation: we don't have any frapping clue. Yeah, that's what we want to base worldwide economic policy on.
4x factorial, that's insane. On the bright side, Canada will finally gain an ice free northwest passage.
Looks like Sir John Franklin jumped the gun by 200 years. Lead is a helluva drug.
It would be different if I could ride a polar bear to work, though.
Waltz, nymph, for quick jigs vex Bud.
But in fact 18000 did die,
Every July, I dress up in my Red, White, and Blue and tell people about the ATTACK on this country by H5N1! The flue hates our Freedom!
They ask, "How can Flu hate our Freedom!"
And I respond, "it's because we're Free!"
If that's true, they say and it was about Freedom, then why didn't the Flu attack Sweden?! I say, "IT DID! That's how treacherous it is!
I've protested! And no one pays attention, but we wake up and find our nation ruled by the law of the Flu, they'll wake up! They sure will!