GOOD! Maybe they can start growing their own ethanol now. That's energy independence baby. (:^*)
BTTT!
Thats a shame about Manhattan but the Netherlands and much of California being gone? Well...GOOD!
ckick my name for my adventure as a weaterman on the Greenland icecap.
Considering that it's been proven the
Far North frigid zone was once a tropical
zone, wherein is the amazement about its
going through another cycle? At what
level did these global warming geeks
abandon the fundamentals of education
and skip to the "Mother Nature is Doomed"
philosophy?
Global warming is a win-win situation. First, we've finally thwarted the Vikings! Second, when California is submerged, we can hand it over as a homeland for the illegals.
GOOD! Maybe they can start growing their own ethanol now. That's energy independence baby. (:^*)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2840137.stm
11 March, 2003
BBC
Greenland is significantly cooler now than it was 40 years ago.
Data taken from eight stations
While scientists report warming trends in many parts of the globe, it seems this northern polar region has been moving in the other direction.
The finding is based on an analysis of historical meteorological data collected by Danish researchers.
It shows that during the period 1958 to 2001 average temperatures in the southern part of the island fell by 1.29 C. Sea-surface temperatures in the Labrador Sea also fell.
Globally, temperatures have risen over this period (+0.53 C) and in Greenland itself scientists have recently reported fairly dramatic thinning of the island's ice sheet. ...
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It appears in 2006 some new Danish researchers were found to massage the data.
Perhaps it is true that over the past several decades the average temperatures have risen, but up here next to the Arctic Circle we've had the "summer without a summer." Right now it is about 52 degrees outside under gray skies, which is more typical of mid-August than mid-July. June was a bust - lots of cold weather and rainy skies. It might have snowed on the north slope last night.
All of which says nothing about global warming, since one season is not a trend. However, I can tell you that 5,000 years ago the treeline was significantly north of its present location, and 18,000 years ago, the forest in my backyard was replaced by a grassy plain like central Asia.
Even if the dire predictions are the ones that are real, the best response is based on free-market capitalism and a society based on individual liberty and human freedom. However, having been raised on dire predictions all of my life, starting with "The Population Bomb" when I was in junior high school and concluding with an overheated planet, I simply don't believe the scaremongers. Climate changes have taken place for millions of years - and are apparently especially marked during ice ages, in which we are in the middle of one episode. I expect change. One day, when Antarctica moves away from the South Pole and the Atlantic opens up sufficiently to allow warm water to wash into the Arctic Ocean, then we can all bask in the same warmth as the dinosaurs as redwoods and oaks circle the lukewarm water at the top of the world.
All I can say is that I'm glad I didn't try corn and watermelon this year (which worked great last summer, which was a hot one). Maybe next year.
I've been saying this for months. When we are forced to migrate to Alaska we'll be thankful for the couple of degrees.
As a possession of tiny (and lowlying) Denmark, here is a place for coastal folks to go.
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/gl.html
Greenland was warmer in the past, with trees. Lief Ericson and other Vikings were there for awhile. They went west to explore coastal Canada.
Alas, then there later was global cooling, and the ocean levels dropped and there was a water shortage, but the only difference was that then, no liberal socialists existed to scream about it.
The natives wet to eating fish and seals while scarfing the odd polar bear, and then starved.
History puts modern environmentalist liberal socialist screaming meemies into the chicken little category.
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http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/lia/end_of_vikings_greenland.html
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By the year 1300 more than 3,000 colonists lived on 300 farms scattered along the west coast of Greenland (Schaefer, 1997.) However, even as early as 1197, the climate had turned much less favorable and drift ice was beginning to appear along the vital trade routes (Lamb, 1995.) Cool weather caused poor harvests in an already fragile climate. Because of the poor harvests there was less food for the livestock which resulted in a decreased meat supply. These conditions made it even more vital that trade continued with Iceland and the rest of Europe.
Due to an increase in drift ice along Greenland's east coast, the sailing route had to be changed. Ships had to head farther south and then turn back to reach the settlements along the southwest coast. The longer distance and increased threat of ice caused fewer ships to visit Greenland (Bryson, 1977.) Ivar Bardsson, a Norwegian priest who lived in Greenland from 1341 to 1364, wrote: "From Snefelsness in Iceland, to Greenland, the shortest way: two days and three nights. Sailing due west. In…the sea there are reefs called Gunbiernershier. That was the old route, but now the ice is come from the north, so close to the reefs that none can sail by the old route without risking his life." (Ladurie, 1971.) In 1492, the Pope complained that no bishop had been able to visit Greenland for 80 years on account of the ice (Calder, 1974.) It is most likely that his Greenland congregation was already dead or had moved on by that time. Hermann (1954) notes that during the mid-1300's many Greenlanders had moved on to Markland (presently Newfoundland) in search of a more suitable environment, mainly due to a cooler climate and over-use of their natural resources.
The graves and ruins in Greenland show that the people did make an attempt at civilized living until the end but the cold and lack of proper nourishment took a heavy toll (Bryson, 1977.) The early Greenland Vikings stood 5'7" or taller but by about 1400, Lamb (1966) states that the average Greenlander was probably less than five feet tall. After World War I, Denmark sent a commission to Greenland which found the remains of the early settlements. In their last years, the Greenland Vikings were severely crippled, dwarflike, twisted, and diseased (Hermann, 1954.)
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When will the Vikings return?