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Kerry to visit Arctic amid concern over ice melt (Where does he find the time?)
Yahoo News ^ | 4/18/15 | AFP

Posted on 04/18/2015 4:31:54 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

Washington (AFP) - Secretary of State John Kerry will visit the Arctic Circle next week for key ministerial talks on climate change amid global concerns about rising seas and accelerating ice melt.

Global warming is happening twice as fast in the Arctic than elsewhere on the planet and many fear not only devastating impacts of warming but also from an influx of people and industry on the pristine environment, wildlife and Inuit culture.

Kerry will attend a meeting of the Arctic Council in the northwestern Canadian town of Iqaluit, on Baffin Island.

The United States on April 24 formally takes over the two-year rotating membership of the intergovernmental forum -- comprising countries with territory within the Arctic -- Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States.

The body aims to promote cooperation on environmental protection, as well as to help govern oil and mineral exploitation, shipping, tourism and fishing.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arctic; climatechange; icemelt; kerry
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To: Nervous Tick

It was GOPUSA. I was too right wing for them. I had seen what romney did to Massachusetts and said so.

I was banned.


21 posted on 04/18/2015 4:42:23 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Fungi

They also were angry at me for dubbing Obama “The Lyin’ King”. I wa told that it was disrespectful of the Office.


22 posted on 04/18/2015 4:43:28 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Nervous Tick
The one with the tick. Watch out for lyme disease!
23 posted on 04/18/2015 4:43:51 PM PDT by Fungi (So you think you know anything about evolution? Think again.)
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To: Nervous Tick

Hoaxes like this are just very expensive welfare projects for people like Kerry. There is no actual problem, and therefore no actual work to be done. It’s just a lot of rich people getting someone else to pay to fly them around the world to these boondoggles where they get to stay in expensive hotels, eat expensive food, get waited on hand and foot. Then they sit around and flatter themselves about how important and brilliant they are while they decide what burdens (that they are exempt from) to inflict on the rest of us.


24 posted on 04/18/2015 4:44:37 PM PDT by generally
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To: NormsRevenge

Hey John, mind getting over there on that glacier that’s about to calf into the ocean so I can include you in my geographic photo? I need some size reference in the photo. Thanks.

Just stay there awhile - I need to adjust my settings...


25 posted on 04/18/2015 4:45:57 PM PDT by PapaNew (The grace of God & freedom always win the debate in the forum of ideas over unjust law & government)
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To: Sacajaweau

We could send Elizabeth Warren to rescue him.

You know, she could negotiate with the Inuit because she considers herself an Indian.

(I am Inuit, but I refuse to go and rescue him! hahahahaha)


26 posted on 04/18/2015 4:46:04 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Col Frank Slade

And Mukluks! He’s GOT to have Mukluks! hahaha


27 posted on 04/18/2015 4:46:47 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: left that other site

The earth is EVERYTHINNG!! There is no God!! Pagan rituals are needed to save the environment.
Top five wrong predictions about globull warming.
1. Kids in 2015 will remember snow only in memory, perhaps occasionally seeing a storm once every few years.
2. No more skiing in Scotland as there will be no snow
3. DEFINITELY no more snow after February.
4. No more Winter Olympics!!
5. Seals and Polar bears kaput!!
and don’t forget the surge in prostitution. It must be true. That crazy black congresswoman who thinks we landed men on Mars said so.
oh and 6. We are ALL GOING TO DIE!!!


28 posted on 04/18/2015 4:46:53 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: NormsRevenge

He wants to vacation by wind-surfing with polar bears.


29 posted on 04/18/2015 4:46:54 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: left that other site
So much for truth, thus your tagline. John 8:32. Yep, the truth is often hard to deal with, especially for corrupt politicians who always use lies to their benefit.
30 posted on 04/18/2015 4:48:06 PM PDT by Fungi (So you think you know anything about evolution? Think again.)
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To: dp0622

7. Mother gaia has been disrespected by overpopulation. Agenda 21 must be implemented NOW.


31 posted on 04/18/2015 4:50:28 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Of course. He would look too silly visiting Antarctica.


32 posted on 04/18/2015 4:51:07 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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To: Fungi

It was a sad parting, because I made some wonderful friends on that site.

BUT...I had been lurking on FR for years and signed up just before the Tea party movement started. And I am SO glad I did!


33 posted on 04/18/2015 4:52:31 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: left that other site

I had to look both those things up and died laughing :)


34 posted on 04/18/2015 4:53:35 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: NormsRevenge

Kerry should be made aware that those arctic glaciers began receding in earnest after the 1890s. By 1927, some glaciers had already receded dramatically. I just don’t see how industrialization by that time could at all account for such dramatic losses of the glaciers. Rather, I have a strong hunch it has something to do with the sun, for some reason.

Check out these before and after pictures from the Weather Channel. I was amazed at how much the glaciers had receded by the 1920s and 1930s.

Another thing that struck me is how barren and uninhabitable the locations were in 1890, i.e., no vegetation whatsoever and just bleak ice and snow. In contrast, the same areas now are covered in plentiful trees and grasses, making for a beautiful landscape.

http://www.weather.com/science/environment/news/glaciers-then-and-now


35 posted on 04/18/2015 4:53:39 PM PDT by mtrott
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To: tumblindice

Exactly. Check out the pictures from the link I posted above.


36 posted on 04/18/2015 4:54:50 PM PDT by mtrott
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To: musicman
Global warming is happening twice as fast in the Arctic than elsewhere on the planet

More crappy leftist logic. Maybe warming in an area that is 4 percent of the global area is local and not global. Maybe it's the undersea volcanoes. Nah, must be global warming.

37 posted on 04/18/2015 4:56:32 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (behind enemy lines)
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To: dp0622

Was it The Killer Joke?

Whatever you do, don’t let Iran get it!


38 posted on 04/18/2015 4:56:57 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: NormsRevenge

I can’t wait to hear what he thinks he has discovered.

This ought to be a real hoot.


39 posted on 04/18/2015 5:00:02 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question, Jeb Bush? The answer: NO! Rove, is a devious propagandist & enemy of Conservatives!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Inuit Culture includes hunting Whales.

This is a huge dilemma for the Gaia worshipers.

Do whales trump Indigenous Culture?
Does the environment trump Indians?
Do Indians trump whales?

hahaha. I love to watch ‘em squirm.


40 posted on 04/18/2015 5:00:55 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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