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FOUND: 115,830 square miles of polar ice
Flopping Aces ^
| 01-30-12
| DrJohn
Posted on 01/30/2012 3:58:17 PM PST by Starman417
Fake but true:
IT APPEARED to provide incontrovertible proof that global warming was accelerating faster than even the most doom-laden scientists had predicted. There was considerable alarm when the word’s most authoritative atlas printed a map which showed that Greenland was rapidly turning green.
However, experts from around the globe pointed out that the cataclysmic chart had no scientific support and was contradicted by all of the most recent satellite images.
Now the Scottish map-makers responsible for the disappearance of 115,830 square miles of polar ice have admitted publicly they were wrong.
As an act of contrition, The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World cartographers have produced a new map which restores Greenland’s ice cover.
We're sorry- that we got caught.
Jethro Lennox, senior publishing editor of the £150 tome, insisted lessons would be learned from the episode, which generated headlines around the globe. The Glasgow-based map-maker said: “We’re very disappointed at the way it happened.
Nothing to see here, move on:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
TOPICS: Politics; Science
KEYWORDS: agw; catastrophism; climate; warming
To: Starman417
Found!
Kind of small, but more than was expected.
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posted on
01/30/2012 4:39:47 PM PST
by
hadaclueonce
(scrap copper is more than $3.00 a pound. wind generators are full of copper)
To: Starman417; Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
01/30/2012 4:46:25 PM PST
by
Fred Nerks
(The cat)
To: Starman417
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posted on
01/30/2012 4:52:38 PM PST
by
Fred Nerks
(The cat)
To: Starman417
Settled science! LOL
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posted on
01/30/2012 4:57:06 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
To: Starman417
and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!
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posted on
01/30/2012 5:07:26 PM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Starman417
I didn’t even know it was missing.
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posted on
01/30/2012 5:18:46 PM PST
by
rfreedom4u
(Forced diversity causes dissent!)
To: Starman417
I wondered where I’d left that.
To: Starman417
They probably forgot there was an Internet and scientists, honest ones still.
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posted on
01/30/2012 6:03:53 PM PST
by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
To: Starman417
Found on a table in Hillary Clinton’s bedroom?
To: Starman417
They re-iced Greenland? I guess I'll have to cancel my expedition to recover all those lost WWII aircraft that were supposed to be sitting out on the tundra with the ice gone.
To: Starman417
If 15 per cent of ice was lost, then sea levels would have risen by one metre...”
huh ?
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posted on
01/30/2012 7:23:19 PM PST
by
stylin19a
(time to Obamanos)
To: Starman417
The only thing that they are disappointed about is that they were caught.
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posted on
01/30/2012 7:37:31 PM PST
by
DarkWaters
("Deception is a state of mind --- and the mind of the state" --- James Jesus Angleton)
To: 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; ...
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posted on
01/31/2012 6:21:56 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(FReep this FReepathon!)
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