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Rapid Arctic Melt Called 'Planetary Emergency'
Freshly Exhumed writes "Drawing on new data released Wednesday by the National Snow and Ice Data Center that the Arctic ice pack has melted to an all time low within the satellite record (video), NASA climate scientist James Hansen has declared the current reality a 'planetary emergency.' As pointed out by Prof. David Barber from the University of Manitoba, 'The thaw this year broke all the records that we had previous to this and it didn't just break them, it smashed them.' So, not sure why your mainstream press isn't covering this story? 'It's hard for the public to realize,' Hansen said, 'because they stick their head out the window and don't see much going on.' Thankfully, some people are noticing, as Bill McKibben's recent Rolling Stone article, Global Warming's Terrifying New Math has gone viral."
Pretty rich arpad1, to lie and then call others liars. Don't you have a Discovery Institute meeting to attending or something?
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Last time I checked, there's a fair amount of ice above the level of the water. Melt that ice and it doesn't stay above the water - it moves down, into the water, thus raising the water level.
How did your post get modded informative? Because you cite Archimedes principle? Just sad...
what scares me about the sheer audacity of the sea level rising doomsayers is that any "hard" science they have is based on measurements taken at the edge of the Pacific Rim - in a region of Alaska around the town of Newtok that is *sinking*. The plate section is *moving toward the Earths core* relative to the surrounding terrain at the rate of about half an inch a year. Proof? Around the plate section, the tide marks have not moved, which those same individuals neglect to add to their prophecies of doom... Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the Great Global Warming Scam.
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