[ex-Texan]

I ;ove it ! Pretty soon we will be able to sail directly off the coast of Siberia and launch missles at Red China.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Right.

[COBOL2Java]

Guess we ought to start buying up all that beachfront property in Tennessee...

[spqrzilla9]

This report has been attacked already by a polar ice expert who points out that the ice is just being blown around.

[Diddle E. Squat]

OK, there is something here that I have never heard a satisfying explanation about: Just for the sake of argument assume that global warming is true, since 90% of an iceberg is below the surface, and ice takes up more volume than water, how can melting icecaps(they are floating) raise sea levels significantly?

[mad_as_he$$]

What! I thought that global warming would have all negative benefits!

[SGCOS]

Ever since global warming started, the water level in my toilet keeps rising.

Anybody else experiencing this phenomenon?

[Conan the Librarian]

Climate models have shown that should the icecap melt, we would go straight into an Iceage. (Increase of moisture in and dry environment, coupled with the cold would allow more freezing rain and snow) If this is true, then the coastline will grow and the seas will become more shallow. Futher study is needed in this new science before reports like this are published.

[reality bytes]

yeah, and we can get together and drink sake with those crazy japs, oh, and while we are at it, we could loot those crazy ruskies oil supply. and don't even get me started on the canadian possibilities....

[Consort]

We're all going to die when long dormant microbes, germs, bacteria, viruses, etc are freed from the ice become alive again.

[TomGuy]

We cannot allow this to continue!
If the sea level rises, Oregon will be under water.
Then what's to become of the Spotted Owl?
Oh, my...[handwringing]
(end sarcasm)

[RightOnline]

"Late News Bulletin: It was also noted in this late report from the Navy that the "shrinkage" of the Polar ice cap seems to coincide, strangely enough, with the rapid approaching of "spring", typically accompanied by increased surface temperatures. Scientists continue to investigate this phenomenon."

[David]

Does anyone know if we can conclusively exclude the prospect that the heat source might be volcanic (like the Pacific trench that causes El Nino)?

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Arctic Summer Sea Lanes Open By 2015 Forecasts ONR

[Publius6961]

Shouldn't this be in the new TINFOIL ALERT forum?

[ez]

Satellite imagery found that a regular commercial ship could have traveled last summer from the Atlantic to Pacific oceans over Canada.

Hutchison Whampoa has to be kicking themselves for paying all that money to manage the Panama Canal.