Posted on 08/11/2006 10:49:56 AM PDT by cogitator
Oh no! Where are the doomed guys? We're DOOMED!
It's Bush's fault!
Could it possibly be "SUMMER"
Greenland used to be green! That's why it's called Greenland. Go figure! :)
"Could it possibly be "SUMMER"
Good point- they didn't have summer 5 years ago when the ice was melting at a much slower rate. How trying to debunk every single global warming report (often in very illogical fashion) became a conservative issue is beyond me.
"studies suggest the shrinking ice sheet now contributes about 0.02 inch (0.5 millimeter) a year to global sea level rise."
So in a hundred years the sea level may rise about half a meter?
Fine. Next problem, please.
As written it is nothing but a typical scare piece about the earth melting and the seas rising.
Summer is bad about doing that.
You know, it is called GREENland for a reason...because when the Danes/Vikings/Norsemen discovered the place it was, like, FREAKIN' GREEN! Meaning, no damned glaciers. So, if there are now glaciers then simple logic (which most enviro-freaks missed out on) would dictate that between its discovery and now, things got much colder, so that the glaciers formed. If the glaciers are now melting back somewhat, it ISN'T because of man-made global warming, it ISN'T Bush's fault, and Algore DOESN'T deserve to be President.
No, this is data acquired over a few years.
It was "Greenland" before it became completely covered in ice.... guess there must have been global warming 1,000 years ago due to all those Viking SUVs and Medieval fossil-fuel power plants.........
An entrepeneuring type should go up there and bottle that meltwater and sell it. It could be the chic new "boutique water" with the added plus that drinking it prevents all that nasty freshwater from going into the oceans and messing up the environment....
So contextually, this very big number suggests that after 100yrs., the seas will rise 2"? That really is huge..
The Danes are up to no good. They are sprinkling pepper all over the glaciers to melt them. In twenty years they want Greenland cleared of ice so that Danes can relocate as Muslims sweep through Old Europe. It's got nothing to do with climate, its cultural. It's Jihad
There are two concerns; one is accelerated melting rates, and the other is a collapse of the sheet and rapid entry into the ocean. Not exactly the whole thing sliding off and into the water, but a similar process.
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