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Prepare For Even More Volatile Weather in 2017 (engadget.com)

Posted by msmash on from the shape-of-things-to-come dept.

An anonymous shares a report on Engadget: Ice isn't just great for keeping your drinks cool at parties, it also helps keep our planet cool by reflecting some of the sun's heat away. But thanks to our steadfast refusal to address climate change, there's going to be a lot less ice in the Arctic next year. Scientists are observing record high temperatures in the Arctic circle that's likely to lead to record low levels of ice coverage in 2017. Long story short, we're currently melting the wall that's helped stop the seas boiling for all of these years. Normally, by November, the global temperature has dropped sufficiently that ice can form again in the Arctic ready for the following summer. This year, however, climate scientists saw a spike to -7 celsius (19f) -- 15 degrees celsius (27f) warmer than usual. While the readings have fluctuated since November 11, they're expected to rocket up again in the next few days.

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  1. Anti-science bullshit is the new normal here by CajunArson · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Long story short, we're currently melting the wall that's helped stop the seas boiling for all of these years."

    Yes, that bullshit is what passes for "science" on Slashdot these days and if you dare to point out that bullshit is bullshit you can be blacklisted as an "anti-science" nazi for failing to show proper piety to the religion of Global Warming -- oops I mean "Climate Change".

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    1. Re:Anti-science bullshit is the new normal here by slashkitty · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Indeed. If slashdot is going to venture out of tech space, at least they could do is stick to science. This is just a dumbed down scaremonger piece. It has no place in scientific discussion. (other than maybe to point out what is NOT science)

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    2. Re:Anti-science bullshit is the new normal here by Mashiki · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Don't worry. We already know that there will be no more snow by 2010, the telegraph told us so. Oh, and we're going to run out of food by 1980, and the end of natural gas is here too...courtesy of 1985.

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    3. Re:Anti-science bullshit is the new normal here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Oh, but our industry should already be dead because sulfur emission controls would have dealt a death blow to it. And these nice salmon tartar? It doesn't exist because fishing quotas have made fisheries extinct. And these damn industry-killing CFC regulations were the cherry on top, because of them we don't have air conditioning anymore.

      Should I continue with the tropes from the other side?

    4. Re: Anti-science bullshit is the new normal here by Jakune · · Score: 4, Insightful

      In America, that is currently the partisan universe we live in. You can basically bring it up from either with little to no scientific proof or any sort of true data on any topic. And that is what is being done by most, whether it be the politicians, leaders, or the sheeple following those people that call other people sheeple for following someone else. Instead of seeing something on the media "Global Warming is a hoax" or "Global Warming is melting the ice caps" and then looking into it. They just say, this is what fox/cnn/msnbc/cbs/etc says and there for that is what I believe. And to answer the question... Horrible, living in that universe is Horrible and makes me fear the future (Idiocracy anyone?)!

  2. Re:yeah right by Bayoudegradeable · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Haven't been any hurricanes in 10 years? I'm guessing you live in Iowa; hence you didn't see any hurricanes. You are aware that the strongest hurricanes ever observed in the Pacific have been forming regularly? Just because the US hasn't seen a catastrophe doesn't mean "there haven't been any hurricanes for 10 years." This has nothing to do with "politically correct shit." It has to do with science. Don't take my word for it... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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  3. re: human race wiped out? by King_TJ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The fear-mongering that we're going to successfully wipe ourselves out by not immediately embracing solar or wind energy, or electric cars, or whatever the faux solution-du-jour is ..... That's as much B.S. as this sensationalist garbage that our oceans will begin boiling if the polar ice melts.

    If we succeed in destroying ourselves as a species on Earth, it will probably be with a nuclear war. But even that is a situation that essentially peaked in the 1980's, and nations have taken steps to back-pedal from it since then.

  4. You're not helping by belthize · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Stupid ass hyperbole (seas boiling) is not helping.

    Increases in CO2 are real, impacts to global temperature due to CO2 are real, impacts to life (human or otherwise, positive and negative) due to rising temperatures and ocean levels are real.

    Hollywood-esque hyperbole just confuses the issue and makes it trivial to lump all information into the same cesspool of misinformation.

  5. Super sciency lead in by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Ice isn't just great for keeping your drinks cool at parties..."

    Was this written for 3rd-graders?

    Thanks for the credible scientific lead in. I mean, I had NO IDEA that ice was good for anything beyond keeping my drinks cold at parties. And now it turns out it's got something or other to do with the planet? Well I'll be damned. Can't we just go to the mini-mart and buy a few more bags?

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