“...The shutdown will cause the icecaps to melt too....”
That’s cause the shutdown is affecting the sun, too... it’s shining a little brighter and hotter, causing even MORE cute fuzzy little 1200 pound polar bears to get stranded on ice floes and possibly drown... ‘cause the shutdown made them forget how to like...swim... and stuff...
Honest... Jay Carney said so...
/s
Eat them before they eat you.