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Posted on 02/02/2010 8:35:53 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Five nations are competing heavily for the resource of the Arctic -- the United States, Russia, Canada, Denmark, and China. A number of others are eying the region as well, which may contain more than 160 billion barrels of oil.
A leading armed forces publication, the Navy Times, interviewed
U.S. Navy officials about how they are preparing for the changes -- and the race that will follow. Rear Adm. David Titley, oceanographer of the Navy, states, "The Arctic is changing, and it is changing rapidly. If the Navy does not start looking at this today … we could wake up in seven or eight years and find ourselves way behind the power curve."
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(Excerpt) Read more at dailytech.com ...
Gee... I didn't know they had SUVs centuries ago!
Much discussion in the Daily Tech article comments section about whether the Artic is actually warming and whether Eskimos is a pejorative word like negro....
Ping.
Every year the same claims of an ice free arctic are made and every year the lie falls apart in the winter and then is remade in the summer. Kind of like the ice.
It looks like they’ve totally missed out on what Kate at Small Dead Animals calls the Gates.
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/013242.html
Oops, everyone may have to delay those plans for an ice-free Arctic.
“A report from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado finds that Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/watercooler/2010/jan/10/inconvenient-truth-ice-cap-growing/
Does that include the sea ice the size of California that (Hansons) NASA faulty sensors missed?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1242011/DAVID-ROSE-The-mini-ice-age-starts-here.html
The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.
Their predictions – based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans – challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy’s most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in
summer by 2013.
According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007 – and even the most committed global warming activists do not dispute this.
With Badcrack Obamao in charge, we’ll be lucky if the rest of the world lets us have so much as a slushy from the arctic.
Global Warming idiots forget the earth is tilted on it journey around the sun and during the summer there is more sunlight = more heat and in the winter there is less sunlight = less heat.
DUH!
You can not possibly be serious! Our dear Leader has so much spine flexibility that we don’t have to worry about any problems in foreign relations. Wait till he uses it on Russians and Chinese.
From Arctic Climate Research at the University of Illinois
Not sure I would believe stuff out of Chicago.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
Earth is Cyclical in it’s weather. There is NOTHING in this that leads to or SHOULD lead to any conclusion other than a normal 30 year warming cooling trend.
As the shape of the Earth’s orbit changes, and our summers/winters change their corresponding times in relation to our oval shaped orbit, these cycles will ALWAYS occur.
CO2 emissions can’t do a damned thing about the shape of a planet’s orbit, or effect the output of the sun. THOSE factors are the only ones that really matter.
IPCC now in Bizarroland: Pachauri releases “smutty” romance novel
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Just when you think things can’t get any more bizarre with the IPCC, having just learned that the IPPC 2007 report used magazine articles for references, head of the IPCC, Dr. Rajenda Pachauri, provides comedy gold. According to the UK Telegraph, he’s just released what they describe as a “smutty” romance novel, Return to Almora laced with steamy sex, lots of sex. Oh, and Shirley MacLaine.
Here’s the good doctor, grinning like a Cheshire cat at his book launch in India on January 10th.
Click for more photos from his book release
The Telegraph’s Robert Mendick and Amrit Dhillon in Delhi write:
As the UN’s climate change chief, Dr Rajendra Pachauri has spent his career writing only the driest of academic articles. But the latest offering from the chairman of the UN’s climate change panel is an altogether racier tome.
Some might even suggest Dr Pachauri’s first novel is frankly smutty.
WARNING ADULT CONTENT FOLLOWS:
(First time I’ve had to do that on WUWT)
Return to Almora, published in Dr Pachauri’s native India earlier this month, tells the story of Sanjay Nath, an academic in his 60s reminiscing on his “spiritual journey” through India, Peru and the US.
click for bookseller
On the way he encounters, among others, Shirley MacLaine, the actress, who appears as a character in the book. While relations between Sanjay and MacLaine remain platonic, he enjoys sex – a lot of sex – with a lot of women.
In breathless prose that risks making Dr Pachauri, who will be 70 this year, a laughing stock among the serious, high-minded scientists and world leaders with whom he mixes, he details sexual encounter after sexual encounter.
The book, which makes reference to the Kama Sutra, starts promisingly enough as it tells the story of a climate expert with a lament for the denuded mountain slopes of Nainital, in northern India, where deforestation by the timber mafia and politicians has “endangered the fragile ecosystem”.
But talk of “denuding” is a clue of what is to come.
By page 16, Sanjay is ready for his first liaison with May in a hotel room in Nainital. “She then led him into the bedroom,” writes Dr Pachauri.
See #18....
ROFL!!!
Checking Amazon...be back later.
And people can actually speak this phrase while at the same time believing in the IPCC "hockey stick" graph.
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