Ice Is Melting Everywhere

Environment News Service ^ | February 25, 2005 | Danielle Murray

[BobS]

"Perhaps in the future, children will look back on the fabled polar bears of the icy North Pole the way we imagine woolly mammoths in the last Ice Age."

No, we'll put them in zoos and they'll lay around on ice bags - Rush Limbaugh

[OldEagle]

Ice Is Melting Everywhere


Yes it is Spring time. Happens each year about this time.

[D-fendr]

Ninety percent of the ice in the world is in Antartica. And it's getting thicker.

Other than that, well, other than that, the article is stupid.

[Proud2BeRight]

Dateline Chicago, 18,000BC: Ice is melting everywhere. Glacial ice that has covered the area for thousands of years is retreating. Lake Michigan may become "wet" within a few years. Woolly Mammoth populations are decreasing at an alarming rate. In sports, the Cubs are looking for a pitcher in their quest to win the pennant.

[Cruising Speed]

Global warming makes me very nervous, and I am hughly series about this. If the globe keeps warming up, the mindless masses just may decide to burn down our power plants and factories--plunging us into, literally, a new dark age, all because of idiots like the author above who insist we puny humans are responsible.

History tells us that climate change is responsible for the fall of most of the ancient civilizations--global change or local, it did't matter. In most cases, the end was hastened by the masses revolting against whatever institutions they'd erected--blaming them for the changing weather, thus destroying their civilization even before the changing climate drove them out of the area.

The climate has always changed and will always change--any talk of a 'normal' climate or 'lost tundra' is just plain stupidity. And mass stupidity is extremely dangerous.

Jonestown is a microcosm of what may happen if the environmentalists succeed in establishing the notion that humans are responsible for runaway climate change on a global scale.

A mere series of hot summers could lead to specific acts of self-destruction by otherwise sane countries like the U.S.A.--joining Kyoto comes to mind.

[KC_for_Freedom]

This thread has the right perspective on all this warming:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1350746/posts

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

AND:

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Not by Fire but by Ice

THE NEXT ICE AGE - NOW!

Pacemaker of the Ice Ages

Changes in global ice volume during the last 500,000 years, as determined from CLIMAP isotopic measurements. Chart is from John and Katherine Imbrie's book Ice Ages: Solving the Mystery, by permission of Enslow Publishers. Data from J. D. Hays et al., 1976, by permission J. D. Hays.

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• In 1976, scientists at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory spearheaded a project called CLIMAP (Clint: Long-range Investigation Mapping and Prediction) to map the history of the oceans and climate.

• They discovered that ice ages begin or end, almost like clockwork, every 11,500 years. It's a dependable, predictable, natural cycle. Pacemaker of the Ice Ages, they called it.

• They drew up a chart of the cycle (above).

• See the sharp peaks every 100,000 years or so? Each peak marks the abut end of a period of warmth similar to today's and the catastrophic beginning of a new ice age.

• See where we are today? (At the far right side of the chart?) We're at the tip of the highest peak ever, teetering on the knife-edge of disaster. We haven't been that high on the chart for half a million years.

• And do you see what happened--without exception--every time we got that high on the chart?

• Instantaneous ice age.

• The next ice age could begin any day.

[uglybiker]

It sure as heck hasn't thawed out that chick at the other end of the bar.

Brrr!

[Noachian]

Don't the rice, soy, and corn yields fall when the temperature rises?

I don't really, but I know that people don't get as sick in warm weather as they do in cold weather.

The roads aren't as slick in warm weather, so there's less accidents. And, children attend school more in warm weather than winter weather.

How about home heating bills?

I suppose we could go on and on, but until someone can come up with a climate that's "too warm" (hot actually), and prove it, a warming seems to have more pluses than minuses. It sure beats an Ice Age.

[LRS]

Ice cubes possible if the ice doesn't melt?

Try: Evidence of extreme disturbance in Earth’s core – can earth explode? at: http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/1701.asp

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

And this is good:

New Little Ice Age
Instead of Global Warming?

[UCANSEE2]

The change in the jet stream, the increased rate of the sun's output, and the increased rate of sunspots also, have absolutely nothing to do with climate change.

The more CO2, the more TREES. Plants and Trees absorb CO2 and give off OXYGEN. The more TREES and PLANTS, the more OXYGEN.

A loss of the amazon forest would produce a desert due to the water carried up with the oxygen.

The ocean breathes. It's water is filtered through caves all over the bottom of the ocean, like filters in a fish tank. The land underneath the ocean farts. Large farts can swallow ships.

North America used to be covered with glaciers. I ain't whining because it's not now.

Who declared the withdrawal of the ice age was over? That it stopped somewhere, and starting advancing again?

Gimme the date that happened, and then we can start talking cooling/warming theories.

[fortcollins]

She is from Vermont. Nuff said

[Bostton1]

Do we have the secret plans, to take central and south America completed yet?

[UCANSEE2]

The North pole gets more sun than the South, so it's kinda predictable too.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[UCANSEE2]

Thanks for posting this humor provoking article. We love it.

[UCANSEE2]

Aren't these icebergs from the recent shelf breakage, and then the Rhode Island size berg crashed back into the next section of shelf, fracturing it into calves each several miles across, and numbering in the 100's?????

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

AAAAAAAAAANND:

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Chandler's Wobble Causes Earthquakes, Volcanism, El Nino, and Global Warming

The exact location of the North and South Poles of the Earth's spin axis are constantly changing while the Earth's crust wobbles slightly around and over the poles in the 14 month and 6.5 year cycles of Chandler's Wobble. The eigth graphs in this story board demonstrate that peaks of seismic and volcanic activity come and go in accordance with these rhythms of Chandler's Wobble to produce the El Nino syndrome. The graphs also prove that the total amount of this activity has progressively increased during the last 50 years while the center of Chandler's Wobble has slowly drifted towards the Great Lakes. It is highly likely that this increase in global volcanism is the cause of global warming..