Posted on 05/17/2004 11:54:12 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
While I don't buy into the human-induced global warming theory at all, its hard to deny that global temperatures have increased.
What I find most significant about the idea of the melting of Arctic ice is that we may have a third coast to give military consideration.
Okay. A couple years ago this came up on FR and we did the experiment. An amusing evening in the FR science division.
How was the next morning?
drag his sled across open patches of water nine times during the 71 days he spent alone.
Well, long range forecasts are only about averages, not details. I predict that in 2024, New York City will generally be cooler from January through March than from June through August.
I personally doubt the cause is man but it definately warmer today in NE in the winter than it was in the 50's. I don't need temperature records for that.
Perhaps you shouldn't sit on it tp...
Or Gin and Tonic, but I have to keep repeating it, because as the ice melts the level of liquid keeps going down...
Sit on what? -- The picture of your foot in mouth?
Thirsty fish.
BTW, this guy isn't an explorer. He's a tourist.
Lighten up just a bit, MBO.
Sitting on your bs meter of course...it's not the proper way to treat an instrument. You know, kind of like the way you have abused your brain.
And the good news is, the NorthWest passage should be available year round!
I find both extremes of the global warming arguement hard to imagine. First, it's obvious that the Earth has climate changes, and that temperatures will change, regardless of what humans are doing. Second, it's difficult to imagine that 4.5 billion of us, many of us generating pollution, don't have some effect on our surroundings.
And to think he could have been a polar bear snack.
He also stated that this is not brought up because if this became widely known, the studiers of global warming wouldn't get any money from Congress.
Actually, a floating object displaces its mass in water. /nitpick
The snow and ice on land would need to melt and run off into the ocean to cause any rise in sea levels. I would imagine that the ice packs on the water would melt before that happened.
I seem to recall the "shocking news" of clear water at the North pole last year. It was trumpeted as (all together now) more proof of Global Warming. Then a few weeks later some scientists debunked the alarm by noting that the North Pole has been documented as frequently ice-free during summer months. This was not a new development, and had no bearing on Global Warming one way or the other.
Does anyone else remember that story?
Gee, when ice cubes in your drink melt does your glass overflow?
No it doesn't. Water actually expands as it freezes (that's why ice floats). When it melts it does not add to volume of water; it was already displacing and equal amount of water.
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