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Scientists Marvel At 'Increasingly Non-Natural' Arctic Warmth (msn.com)
mmell writes: Recognizing that this is a dreadfully old story (at least by Slashdot standards), current developments make this once more a current story. Scientists studying the Arctic environment are used to seeing broad variations in average temperature readings, but recent results have been so far beyond the normal range that they are only able to conclude that they are being caused by human activity. The temperature data (which includes a great many days with readings above 0C) is bolstered by measurements showing that the Arctic ice shelf is both thinner and less extensive than has ever been previously recorded. I wonder if the Arctic ice cap will reform in the winter, or if it's possible that its absence will cause irreversible changes to the Earth's ocean currents (and by extension, Earth's climate)? "[A]fter studying the Arctic and its climate for three and a half decades, I have concluded that what has happened over the last year goes beyond even the extreme," wrote Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, in an essay for Earth magazine. According to The Washington Post, the scientists' simulations predict some places in the high Arctic will rise over 50 degrees above normal. One chart, embedded in the report and shared by several meteorologists online, shows a "jaw-dropping and emblematic display of the intensity and duration of the Arctic warmth. It illustrates the difference from normal in the number of 'freezing degree days,' a measure of the accumulated cold since September."
Here's your broom. Now push back that ocean.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I feel reminded of the Dead Parrot sketch by Monty Python
cue a flooded street, two men standing in front of a wall of sandbags that tries its best to keep the flood out
A: Hello? I'd like to register a complaint. About the climate change. ... rain.
B: Oh yes, yes, the climate change, the biggest science hoax of the century, yes, what about it?
A: What about it? It's coming right up to my front door here!
B: Oh no, no, that's just
A: Look, matey, I know a flood if I see one, and that's a flood, no rain.
B: No, no, that's rain. We get that a lot lately. Wonderful weather, ain't it? Relaxing and soothing the pitter-patter of drops...
A: Pitter-patter? No pitter-patter enters into it, it's a flood!
B: Oh, that water you mean? Yes, that's coming down the hill. Happens sometimes.
A: Down the hill? The hills are dry as bones since the glaciers went away, but there's no beach anymore. Actually THIS IS the beach!
B: It's not (take a pump and pumps some of the water back out behind the sand bags) See? It's reciding!
A: You pumped it out.
B: That was you moving the water.
A: I never did such a thing!
B: (pulls a sand bag out of the wall, an arm thick stream of water starts to flood the area). See? It's flooded!
A: You made it!
B: I what?
A: You made the water appear. You're trying to trick me into believing you.
and so on.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Look. I wrote my name. Here, I'll hold it up and wave it around so everybody can see I wrote my name. See? I wrote my name. Mike Pence is here, standing right behind me, clapping like a trained seal on cocaine, he's so proud of the way I wrote my name. Also to remind you what will happen next.
By slashdot. Winter is usually the off season for these nuts. Not hard to drum up a leftist hysteric whenever they need one.
Hey, is that you Donald?
. Virginia can kiss Norfolk goodbye.
If it weren't for the fact that there is much more to Norfolk than the HQ to PeTA, I would be rather apathetic. Fuck PeTA.
Historically, the artic, has, Been ice free.
Nice try, Mr. Shatner.
Ceci n'est pas une signature.