Posted on 06/16/2024 9:32:42 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
he edge of Greenland’s ice sheet looked like a big lick of sludgy white frosting spilling over a rise of billion-year-old brown rock. Inside the Twin Otter’s cabin, there were five of us: two pilots, a scientist, an engineer, and me. Farther north, we would have needed another seat for a rifle-armed guard. Here, we were told to just look around for polar-bear tracks on our descent. We had taken off from Greenland’s west coast and soon passed over the ice sheet’s lip. Viewed from directly above, the first 10 miles of ice looked wrinkled, like elephant skin. Its folds and creases appeared to be lit blue from within.
We landed 80 miles into the interior with a swervy skid. Our engineer, a burly Frenchman named Nicolas Bayou, jerked the door open, and an unearthly cold ripped through the cabin. The ice was smoother here. The May sunlight radiated off it like a pure-white aurora. We knew that there were no large crevasses near the landing site. This was a NASA mission. We had orbital reconnaissance. Still, our safety officer had warned us that we could “pop down” into a hidden crack in the ice if we ventured too far from the plane. Bayou appointed himself our Neil Armstrong. He unfolded the ladder, stepped gingerly down its rungs, and set foot on the surface.
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Yeah. I was a member in good standing of a lot of forums since 1997. Covid hit and I got canceled from six or seven of them. It was laughable. I was very friendly in my responses but they just didn’t like what I was saying and they would come back with terrible visceral and finally get me shut down. I don’t take our modern culture too seriously anymore. I also don’t post nearly as much as I used to because there’s just no point. You got to let things play out.
The plan is to have Gilligan move the pots closer to shore.
If he screws that up, hit him with your hat.
You can use it to fill up suburban swimming pools. All winter long, it’ll stay more or less frozen, then comes summer, you add some chlorine, turn on the filter, and it’s fun for all the family! Capitalism. Exploitation. It’s great!
I think we should just get on with it and flood the Obama’s multi-multi-million dollar beach house in Hawaii.
What a brave man. He knew from his very best science advisors that his home would soon be underwater. But he bought it anyway for an heroic last stand!
“the last ice age is still ending, nothing we can do will stop that, slow that, or speed it up.”
You’re right. But if I had to pick, I would pick not having another ice age any time soon.
An inspiration to us all.
Catastrophic sea level rise….LOL, LOL, LOL, WHY doesn’t someone ask this asshat WHY IN THE HELL has Obama, Zuckerburg, Biden, Pelosi, just recently purchased mansions surrounded by water from the sea!! For God’s sake open your damn eyes and use some common sense!! Do some ACTUAL research and realize the screaming over climate change has been going on for DECADES!!! I remember from the EARLY 70’s every damn magazine cover saying we were going to freeze to death, THEN it was ALL of the ice caps would be melting and killing the polar bears NOW none of that materialized SO it has become just climate change and seas are going to rise YET every damn elite lib OWNS property on the ocean!!! Common sense folks just a little common sense DO NOT listen to these elites WATCH what they do!!
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If anyone really believed the hoax, then seashore property on either U.S. Coast would be abandoned or selling for a song or outright condemned.
Let the dykes build it themselves!
Dyke had a Dick?
The destruction of Aral Sea was caused by the Soviets taking all the inflow water to irrigate cotton. Nobody dared speak up against the projects. The Soviets knew that stopping inflow to the Aral Sea would destroy it, but they didn’t stop.
Yeah. And he was a great singer, dancer and comedian, and identified as a man. But he’s crippled with arthritis, so it’s up to the dykes to build the dike and keep Dick dry.
You forgot the “population bomb” of the 1960s.
What they did was drive down the price of beach front property so they could buy it up cheap.
Back when “The Coming Ice Age” was all the rage in the 1970’s, they were thinking of coating the ice on the poles with coal dust and oil. The dark color would adsorb the sun’s heat, thus saving the planet!
I guess they found out that the poles didn’t receive that much radiation antway..
IOW, a sort of North Africa at the time of Hannibal capable of supporting cropland and wildlife, including elephants.
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