[Willie Green]

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[Drango]

OK I'll lay off the beans....

[chindog]

Holy Cow!!! I just looked at the ice in my cocktail....
its melting!!!!!!

[Noachian]

{Published in cooperation with the Earth Policy Institute online at: www.earth-policy.org}

Quote of Note "Basically, every human individual carries responsibility for the benefit or welfare of humanity and for the planet itself, because this planet is our only home. We have no alternative refuge. Therefore, everyone has the responsibility to care not only for our fellow human beings but also for insects, plants, animals and this very planet." -- His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.

Hey Willie. You left out the last part.

Just what is the Earth Policy Institute's agenda, and what's the 14th Dalai Lama got to do with the global warming crowd?

[kennedy]

Aaaaaah! We are all going to die!!! Within 100 years nearly everyone currently alive will be dead!

It is all Bush's fault. Bush and those damned SUVs.

[Bob Eimiller]

I live in Buffalo NY... It's not melting here....

[Publius Scipio]

No mention of the Gakkel Ridge in relation to Arctic ice melting?

Well...that's intellectual honesty for you. I'm sure the 12 new volcanoes they discovered in 2001 along with intense geothermal activity have nothing at all to do with melting Actic ice. Nope, not a thing.

[usgator]

That damn Bush, he destroyed millions of years of peaceful harmony with nature in only four years!  And all because he ... he ... well ... exactly what did he do anyway?  Oh but wait, the liberals tried to help ... they had meetings, made accords, cried, waved picket signs, sent lots of emails and all kinds of other worthwhile things.  Next, they will take pictures of themselves holding signs that say "Sorry World, we tried to help".

[Flash Bazbeaux]

Oh! You cursed brat. Look what you've done. I'm melting! Melting! Oh, what a world! What a world

[Dr. Frank fan]

Lots of fascinating claims and numbers. Light on sources. Perhaps one could appeal to the author's Authority, but if it's the same Danielle Murray here, she has a Bachelor's degree in Human Biology "and a concentration in International Development and the Environment". (A "concentration" probably means about 3 classes.)

I don't mean to deny that "ice is melting" of course. Ice tends to melt under the right conditions. Conversely, water can tend to freeze under the right conditions. Who knows, however, what percentage of the claims listed here actually have a basis in fact? It's a laundry list of claims of unspecified reliability that for all I know she got by doing repeated Google searches and copy n pasting from who-knows-what source.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

It's OK. Kevin Costner will be able to find the way to dry land...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

More BARF from the Greenies!!!!

See this:

* * * As Antarctica enters summer, the ice should be melting … but it’s not.
See what's happening in other parts of the world.

[johnb838]

Sorry Willie, we're still not going to conform to Kyoto.

[iopscusa]

ZOT this crap...Willie listen to me...Global Warming is a scam not Science, not even prophesy....wake up and smell the Koffi....man you are lucky you ain't a fish cause you took the hook, line and sinker on this as well as Free Trade/Off shoring jobs/all Econ subjects. Nothin' personal man, just try to even out the arguments.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Mount St. Helens glacier growing 50 feet per year. September 20, 2004 - Located inside the volcanic crater formed during its 1980 eruption, America’s youngest glacier is also its fastest growing glacier. Scientists estimate that the thickness of the glacier has increased by nearly 50 feet per year. “Today,” says a brochure published by the US Forest Service, “the snow and ice in the crater is equal in volume to all of the pre-eruption glaciers on Mount St. Helens combined.” Why is no one bothering to tell us about this? (Oct 12, 2004. With the temperature inside the crater now standing at 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit, my guess is that the glacier is melting.)

[bfree]

Good. I'm sick of winter.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Rare Icebergs Spotted off New Zealand - 6 Jan 2005 CBC News - Icebergs measuring up to three kilometers (1.8 miles) wide have been sighted about 700 kilometers (420 miles) off New Zealand’s South Island,  prompting a warning to shipping in the region. It’s the first time icebergs have been spotted in local waters in more than half a century. (Thanks to “Bluedog” in New Zealand for this info.)
http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/01/06/icebergs-newzealand0501 06.html

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Second coldest month on record at the South Pole - 23 Sep 2004 – “We missed the coldest month ever recorded here at the Pole by only six tenths of a degree - minus 89.0 degrees Fahrenheit recorded in August 1987,” says Troy Wiles, a member of the medical team at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. (Not exactly “global warming,” is it?)
http://www.record-eagle.com/2004/aug/poley29.htm

[airborne]

"ICE IS MELTING EVERYWHERE"

Not in my driveway!

[socal_parrot]

My house in coastal Orange County is at 6' 2" above sea level. No wait, 6' 1.999999".


I'm doomed.



Doomed.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

And in summation:

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      New Little Ice Age by 2030!

So says Dr. Theodor Landscheidt, of the Schroeter Institute for Research in
Cycles of Solar Activity in Waldmuenchen, Germany. See New Little Ice Age

Newspaper pulled the article apparently, not consistent with the MSM campaign of r Global Warming!