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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?

  2. Ridiculous by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Trump won - get over it. He's going to give us the best weather ever.

  3. 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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  4. The seas are NOT going to boil. by emil · · Score: 5, Informative

    Anyone with a cursory understanding of climate over the geologic ages knows that ice at both poles is rare:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_and_icehouse_Earth

    Permanent ice is actually a rare phenomenon in the history of the Earth, occurring only during the 20% of the time that the planet is under an icehouse effect.

    Humans as a species do not have any serious ability to harm the planet. We can easily make it completely unsuitable for human life, however.

  5. Re: yeah right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are you positive that those trees fell down due to "wind"? Correlation does not equal causation you know. Maybe those trees were just tired. Or, maybe they got drunk and passed out. Quit blaming everything on this "wind" hocus-pocus.