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Arctic ice cap melting at worrying rate: NASA
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| 10/24/2003
Posted on 10/24/2003 2:37:14 PM PDT by jazzo
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Here we go again!
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posted on
10/24/2003 2:37:15 PM PDT
by
jazzo
To: jazzo
20,000 years ago Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois were covered in ice. Darn global warming!
To: jazzo
Exxxcccelllent. If the ocean level rises a few feet all of the demonrats will be washed away.
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posted on
10/24/2003 2:40:36 PM PDT
by
Naspino
To: jazzo
Perfect! I'm 85' above sea-level, and living in the northeast...it's cold.
I can look foreward to beachfront/ocean-view, and palm trees. Koowel!
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posted on
10/24/2003 2:40:47 PM PDT
by
dasboot
(Celebrate UNITY!)
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To: jazzo
We cannot afford to wait a long period of time for technological solutions So many logical errors in such a condensed form!
Maybe we will like having a much smaller icecap with sea navigation possible all around it. Maybe there is nothing to be done anyway. Maybe we can wait or maybe we can do what???? Not wait???
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posted on
10/24/2003 2:41:34 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: jazzo
It's funding time again! Keep those appropriations coming, folks!
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posted on
10/24/2003 2:41:47 PM PDT
by
thulldud
(It's bad luck to be superstitious.)
To: jazzo
By means of a special satellite launched last year to measure the thickness of the polar ice cap, NASA has confirmed that part of the Arctic Ocean that remains frozen all year round shrank at a rate of 10 percent per decade since 1980, NASA researcher Josefino Comiso said. BS. Until the launch of ICESAT, there was no reliable way of measuring ice thickness over large areas. Comparing ICESAT laser altimeter data to the guesswork about ice thickness done prior is useless.
To: jazzo
With retraction of the ice cover, that means that less of surface is covered by this highly reflective snow and sea ice, and so more energy has been absorbed and the climate warms." Hmm. Aluminum is reflective, right? So if we quit painting drink cans and simply disposed of them alongside the roads, we could increase - by some small increment - the overall reflectivity of the planet, could we not?
I'm willing to do my part! Are you?
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posted on
10/24/2003 2:44:10 PM PDT
by
neutrino
(Oderint dum metuant: Let them hate us, so long as they fear us.)
To: jazzo
David Rind, Ph.D.
Climate Modeler, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University
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posted on
10/24/2003 2:44:43 PM PDT
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: jazzo
"Part of this is probably simply due to natural variability in the climate system," he added. "But the general consensus of the climate community is that part these changes are due to human impact."
Since when does a general consensus equal scientific fact?
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posted on
10/24/2003 2:47:14 PM PDT
by
Spok
To: jazzo
Beginning in the 11th century and continuing for almost 300 years, Greenland and eastern Canada were colonized by Vikings, Basques and other Europeans. In Greenland, the climate was so temperate that row crops and cereals were cultivated and livestock were raised.
There were very few coal plants and even fewer SUV's in the 11th century. Cholofluorocarbons in spray cans were completely unknown. Global warming is cyclic and unrelated to man's puny activities.
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posted on
10/24/2003 2:53:55 PM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(I got hemoglobin, you got hemoglobin, all God's children got hemoglobin)
To: Spok
Sorry to rain on all your parades (no pun intended) but the increase in fresh water in the worlds oceans will TURN OFF the Gulf Stream warming current causing A NEW ICE AGE,
Buy thermal insulation and heating stocks (again no pun intended or implied)
....enjoy................
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posted on
10/24/2003 2:57:01 PM PDT
by
spokeshave
(Cancel the San Jose Merc and the one way truck to Nevada)
To: GOPgirl2000
Arctic ice cap melting at worrying rate: NASA From NASA. The people who brought you the Challenger and the Columbia.
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posted on
10/24/2003 2:59:53 PM PDT
by
gg188
To: Spok
"Part of this is probably simply due to natural variability in the climate system," he added. "But the general consensus of the climate community is that part these changes are due to human impact."" Oh, the statement is right on target (i.e. accurate). EVERYONE is in agreement that SOME PART of the changes are due to human impact. The unknown point is exactly HOW BIG THAT PART IS with respect to "natural" variation from other causes. To date, the evidence is that the "human-instigated" portion is tiny compared to that due to solar intensity variation, variation in the earth's orbit, and changes in cosmic ray intensity, and many others.
To: jazzo
NASA worrying about non-shuttle issues at an alarming rate!
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posted on
10/24/2003 3:08:43 PM PDT
by
theDentist
(Liberals can sugarcoat sh** all they want. I'm not biting.)
To: jazzo
NASA Offered a Prozac Suppository
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posted on
10/24/2003 3:10:29 PM PDT
by
theDentist
(Liberals can sugarcoat sh** all they want. I'm not biting.)
To: jazzo
This whole thing has become so politicized I find it almost impossible to believe anyone. Just in the last 2 weeks I have read four different reports on this two of which claim temperatures are rising (this report and one on North America last week) and two of which claim temperatures are falling (in South Africa and Siberia). Putting this into the political arena retards action as partisans battle over who is right or wrong.
Oh well, I guess we'll know who's right when gondoleers are singing arias whole polling down Madison Avenue. Or when the Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce starts budgeting to promote the local ski resorts.
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posted on
10/24/2003 3:13:41 PM PDT
by
scory
To: jazzo
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posted on
10/24/2003 3:16:04 PM PDT
by
Truth666
To: jazzo
Send Barbara. She'll make it
real cold again up there.
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posted on
10/24/2003 3:18:05 PM PDT
by
Recovering_Democrat
(I'm so glad to no longer be associated with the Party of Dependence on Government!)
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