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Huge Freshwater Bulge In Arctic Ocean

New submitter turkeyfish writes "UK scientists are reporting today in the journal Nature Geoscience that a huge bulge of freshwater is forming in the Western Arctic Ocean caused by a large gyre of freshwater. The gyre appears to indicate that the ice is becoming thin enough over the Arctic Ocean that the wind is beginning to affect the motion of water under the ice. A sudden release of this water or its emergence to the surface will greatly accelerate the melting of the remaining polar oceanic ice and likely alter oceanic circulation in the North Atlantic."

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  1. Personally by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I welcome a 60 meters rise in sea level, if for no other reason than Florida will no longer exist.

    Fuck humans, all 7 billion of them, they are a scourge of locust upon this Earth, and everyone thought the biblical plague would be actual insect locust.

  2. Pfffft by Tablizer · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Bulges are a liberal myth. True Americans don't have any bulges.

  3. Re:How "An Inconvenient Truth" can it get by paiute · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    But Al Gore lives in a big house and lies about inventing the Internet, so he's a big weenee and we don't have to listen to him lalalalalalalalalala

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  4. Re:doh. by viperidaenz · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Pretty serious people, whose livelyhood depends on grants given to those who have the ability to make others worry, are pretty worried

  5. Re:Too bad we can't capture all that freshwater by Tastecicles · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Qadhaffi funded irrigation of the whole of North Africa down to the Equator. A large portion of that irrigation was already in place by the time he was murdered by capitalists bent on denying he and his people the wealth they had guaranteed for themselves - in addition, Libya was a net exporter of all basic commodities, including water, oil, sugar, rice, coffee and corn. Now the population of Libya are seeing abject poverty and disease in 99% of their population, with the top 1% made up primarily of foreign workers attached to oil interests and corporate agencies, including but not limited to the American military industrial complex. The water infrastructure installed by Qadhaffi's "regime" has been either destroyed or retasked for diverting oil.

    So tell me, how was the murder of Qadhaffi in the best interests of any but oil shareholders? That's blood money now. I hope you choke.

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