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‘Potential Apocalypse’: NYT Warns Of Global Warming Floods Of Biblical Proportions
dailycaller.com ^
| 5/20/2017
| Michael Bastasch
Posted on 05/21/2017 7:39:51 AM PDT by rktman
The New York Times has taken warnings about global warming to a whole new level, publishing a three-part series suggesting a “potential apocalypse” from melting ice sheets if humans keep pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
“If that ice sheet were to disintegrate, it could raise the level of the sea by more than 160 feet — a potential apocalypse, depending on exactly how fast it happened,” NYT reporter Justin Gillis wrote of what some scientists predict could happen to Antarctica.
Gillis points to recent research suggesting “the collapse of the ice sheet will become inevitable,” likening the projected 160-foot sea-level rise to flood stories from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the Bible’s Old Testament.
“In the Epic of Gilgamesh, waters so overwhelm the mortals that the gods grow frightened, too,” Gillis wrote, “In India’s version, Lord Vishnu warns a man to take refuge in a boat, carrying seeds. In the Bible, God orders Noah to carry two of every living creature on his ark.”
“I don’t think the biblical deluge is just a fairy tale,” Terence Hughes, a retired glaciologist told Gillis. “I think some kind of major flood happened all over the world, and it left an indelible imprint on the collective memory of mankind that got preserved in these stories.”
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: fookinidjits; globalwarming; warmunists
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To: rktman
They will exploit the bible when it suits them.
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posted on
05/21/2017 12:49:09 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
If we really want to do something to save the earth from a potential world-wide cataclysmic disaster, we should figure out a way to blow up or divert any large asteroids or comets that might be heading our way at some time in the future.
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posted on
05/21/2017 2:37:20 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
A lot of people working on that problem for a long time.
The best bet is a small diversion over a great distance. But that implies detecting asteroids from a long way away.
It can be as simple as painting half the asteroid either black or white, and let sunlight do the work.
There could even be a “defensive network” of small asteroids with ion drive engines on them, that can be used as high velocity impact objects against a much larger asteroid.
Comets need different solutions.
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posted on
05/21/2017 4:17:29 PM PDT
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("Baizuo" A derogatory term the Chinese are using to describe America's naive "White Left")
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
OR ... we could just call Billy Bob Thorton.
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posted on
05/21/2017 4:39:48 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: rktman
All you got to do is give the UN control over your resources and and the economy’s means of production (oil) and pay them a lot of money in taxes and they will call off the floods.
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posted on
05/22/2017 12:57:02 PM PDT
by
SaraJohnson
( Whites must sue for racism. It's pay day.)
To: umgud
I’m not buying the math.
Serves you right for knowing how to do math. : )
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05/22/2017 1:23:22 PM PDT
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SaraJohnson
( Whites must sue for racism. It's pay day.)
To: Tennessean4Bush
I miss the days when entertainers actually had a sense of humor.
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posted on
05/22/2017 1:25:53 PM PDT
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SaraJohnson
( Whites must sue for racism. It's pay day.)
To: SaraJohnson
The area of the World Ocean is about 361.9 million square kilometers (139.7 million square miles), which covers about 70.9% of Earth’s surface, and its volume is approximately 1.335 billion cubic kilometers (320.3 million cubic miles).
Ocean - Wikipedia
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posted on
05/22/2017 1:47:35 PM PDT
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umgud
To: rktman; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; AlexW; alrea; ...
To: BenLurkin
If it wasn’t for global warming, Chicago would still be under a mile of ice.Suddenly, it makes sense to me to fight it.
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posted on
05/22/2017 4:29:36 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: rktman
‘Potential Apocalypse’: NYT Warns Of Global Warming Floods Of Biblical ProportionsIt's entirely possible for AGW to be biblical in proportion, cause there were BSers in the Bible, too.
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05/22/2017 4:39:21 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
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