It's the Island of Misfit Toys! Hurray!
Posted on 04/23/2007 6:50:50 PM PDT by xjcsa
A new island has been discovered in the Arctic after rising temperatures melted the giant ice sheet which covered it.
The rocky mass - dubbed Warming Island - lies 400 miles north of the Arctic Circle in eastern Greenland, reports The Sun.
It was found by US explorer Dennis Schmitt 60 and is seen as further proof of global warming.
Danish mapping expert Hans Jepsen said: "It was clearly detached from the mainland when the connecting glacier-bridge retreated southward."
Explorer Schmitt said: "There is a dark side to this. We were all aware of the dire consequences."
Seriously, if every case of melting ice is evidence of global warming, then isn't every case of freezing water evicence of a new ice age? I just put some water in my freezer in a little tray a few hours ago, and now it's frozen! We're heading for a new ice age!
Oh for cripes sakes..
If an island is found by a U.S. explorer, doesn’t it become a U.S. Island? doesn’t this redraw the map?
It’s always getting colder or getting warmer! The world is going to end!
Not in the Antarctic, due to a treaty that aimed at preventing a continental land grab there.
As in Antactica.
Hey, the Polar Bears have a place to go. “Calling all seals, calling all seals”.
Up From The Skies:
Jimi Hendrix
I just want to talk to you
I won’t uh, do you no harm
I just want to know about your diff’rent lives
On this is here people farm
I heard some of you got your families
Living in cages tall and cold
And some just stay there and dust away
Past the age of old.
Is this true ?
Please let me talk to you.
I just wanna know about
The rooms behind your minds
Uh do I see a vacuum there
Or am I going blind ?
Or is it just uh, remains of vibrations
And echoes long ago ?
Uh things like “Love the world” and uh
Uh “Let your fancy flow”
Is this true ?
Please let me talk to you
Let me talk to you.
I have lived here before
The days of ice
And of course this is why
I’m so concerned
And I come back to find
The stars misplaced
And the smell of a world
That is burned
A smell of a world
That is burned.
Yeah well, maybe, hmm...
Maybe it’s just a... change of climate
Hmm, hmm...
Well I can dig it
I can dig it baby
I just want to see.
So where do I purchase my ticket ?
I’d just like to have a ringside seat
I want to know about the new Mother Earth
I want to hear and see everything
I want to hear and see everything
I want to hear and see everything
Yeah...
Aww, shucks
If my daddy could see me now
Everything, everything, everything, oh everything.
Near the Arctic Circle in eastern Greenland is where this is.
“If an island is found by a U.S. explorer, doesn’t it become a U.S. Island? doesn’t this redraw the map?”
In short, no.
can we start to drill oil there
Let's send a team of geologists to see if there's any oil on that island.
"Nobody wants a Charlie in the Box"!
Arctic diamonds maybe.
If this island is a muslim-free zone... i can foresee a good future... sarc/
Everyone needs to put a large swimming pool in and fill it up, that will take care of all the extra water from the melting ice.
When global warming is proven to be a total farce they can be emptied, filled with dirt and plant a garden.
Say, when the Antarctic finally melts, do you suppose we’ll find Atlantis there?
Did global warming start when the glaciers melted off the North American continent?..../sarcasm
Al Gores hideout!
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