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390 Billion Tons of Snow and Ice Melt Each Year As Globe Warms, Study Suggests (usatoday.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from USA Today, highlighting the key findings from a new study published in the journal Nature: Thanks to global warming, our planet's glaciers continue to melt away, losing up to 390 billion tons of ice and snow per year, a new study suggests. The largest losses were glaciers in Alaska, followed by the melting ice fields in southern South America and glaciers in the Arctic. Glaciers could almost disappear in some mountain ranges by the end of the century, including those in the U.S. The world's seas have risen about an inch in the past 50 years just due to glacier melt alone, according to the study. Since 1961, the world has lost 10.6 trillion tons of ice and snow, the study reported. Melted, that's enough to cover the lower 48 U.S. states in about 4 feet of water.
You better hope it's warming. If we returned to an ice age so many far leftists would die. So would real people.
You tell'em Bill Joe! Why when sea levels rise and swamp the coasts, all them coastal elites are gonna get flooded - just like in the Bible!! And when their multi-million dollar beach house gets flooded, it'll be declared a disaster area, they'll get some big gubberment checks all paid for by the lower classed - especially all them hard working people in the fly-over states!
And that's the way it should be. Because rich people deserve it!
And as the temperatures rise and destroy fisheries, why the coastal elitist fishermen will have to get gubberment subsidies to help them - all paid for the the US taxpayer.
See, the leftists want to raise taxes because leftists love paying taxes - it's kind of kink with them. But the conservatives have a better plan. The one they've used since President Saint Reagan: borrow and spend.
I tell you this leftist fanaticism with Global Warming and wanting to raise taxes because of this "crisis" is just so lefty. Cleaning up the environment! PFFT!
Why can't they just enjoy the pollution like a good American! And look at this propagranda from this Aye-Rab site! Come on! Everyone knows that Diesel fumes and exhaust makes one a man!
Lefties!! Always bitching and moaning about nonsense. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm go'in to the border in my tricked out F-250 and AR-15 and head off the invasion from the Aye-Rabs and Mexi-canns trying to come here to go on welfare, Medicaid, and to mow our lawns.