Posted on 06/27/2008 1:02:25 PM PDT by pabianice
Character from climatescience.com on Fox now. Warns that the North Pole may (50-50 chance) COMPLETELY MELT this summer because of "global warning." This will, he says, create an ever accelerating melt of the Arctic that will be unstoppable.
This sounds like good news for shipping and oil drilling to me.
Didn’t Arctic ice also grow it’s largest expanse in a long time this past winter?
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=332289
I think those odds also mean it may NOT melt this summer, right?
What an idiot. 50-50 chance? And by what ingenious mathamatical formula did this Einstein come up with that?
What an idiot. 50-50 chance? And by what ingenious mathamatical formula did this Einstein come up with that?
Rush was saying that a huge volcano is forming in the Artic and that may be why there is melting.
How many miles of beach is this going to free up? I see a great real estate potential.
GW = BS/MSM
Limbaugh just buried this bs earlier today. What a farce. Last year at this time, there were something like 7.5 million square acres of ice and this year it’s well over 10 million square acres of ice. But none of these charlatans pushing this bs ever has to answer for their bs. There’s never a penalty, so there’s no disincentive keeping them from spreading the next lie.
Is this the same guy that predicted (before the global warming hysteria/fad) that an ice age would be upon us by 2000, or that the depleted ozone layer above the So. Pole would soon expand around the entire globe?
He's just one of the many alarmists/hysterics of the left.
Oh my gosh! No more Santa?
We’re doomed.
Following that logic, there’s a 50 - 50 chance I’ll grow wings and fly to the moon. It just isn’t going to happen.
The reality is that there is substantially more ice in the arctic now than there was at this time last year.
Short version: Not so fast, bucko.
I believe you have overlooked the real gold! Beach front property as far north as you can go and still be in Canada.
New ports on Hudson bay.
Hey I may have Beach Front here in Detroit too!
When people say the Arctic ice will melt completely, they are really only talking about mid-August to mid-September.
Right now, it is nearly the height of the summer for most of us, but 90% of the arctic ocean is still frozen solid.
It does look like there will be a big melt this year (mid-August to mid-September that is) as there are already small open areas within the Arctic circle which is very unusual.
The odds make perfect sense. Either it will or it won't. One chance in two.
Actual posts from DU:
“Chalk up another one for President A$$hole.”
“two decades of RW talk radio and oil company-funded ‘scientists’ and shortfunding education has paid off in spades...the shift to the new order has exceeded all expectations...”
“This is one case where I DO believe in the death penalty.. Charge them with crimes against humanity and put them all in the electric chair.. FRY...”
(but child rapists are good people who deserve to live)
” There is no correlation between sunspots and climate:”
“Of COURSE Bush caused this How dare you suggest otherwise!!!”
“Don’t forget Reagan/Bush. A Bush “not helping” has been going on for 28 years.”
So much for Ice Road Truckers. LOL
A friend of my Grandson is stationed in Alaska and he says, yesterday on the phone, that it is pretty warm up there because it is hitting 68 degrees in the daytime. Wow, sounds like a heat wave alright.
Great movie! A true classic.
"Negotiating an underwater tunnel [beneath the ice] to gain the island's interior, those aboard U-33 are amazed to discover a tropical prehistoric world kept warm by volcanic forces. Here dinosaurs that should be long extinct live and roam, as do a curious race of humanoid savages that appear to exhibit all the various phases of Man's evolutionary development. To survive long enough to repair and replenish the U-boat, wartime enemies must put aside their differences and cooperate with one another. But not everyone is playing from the Kumbaya songbook... The Land That Time Forgot is a thoroughly old fashioned sci-fi/fantasy adventure of the type they weren't really making anymore even in 1975. A lot of this has to do with the script sticking to Burroughs' Victorian style. (His Caprona tales were first published in 1918; as late as World War II he'd still be cranking out novels in the writing style of the 19th Century.) The film's a throwback to the likes of the original King Kong and potboilers such as Unknown Island (1948) and The Land Unknown (1957), only in color."
http://www.eccentric-cinema.com/cult_movies/land_time_forgot.htm
Volcanic eruptions reshape Arctic ocean floor: study
June 25, 2008 | AFP
Recent massive volcanoes have risen from the ocean floor deep under the Arctic ice cap, spewing plumes of fragmented magma into the sea, scientists who filmed the aftermath reported Wednesday.
The eruptions -- as big as the one that buried Pompei -- took place in 1999 along the Gakkel Ridge, an underwater mountain chain snaking 1,800 kilometres (1,100 miles) from the northern tip of Greenland to Siberia.
Scientists suspected even at the time that a simultaneous series of earthquakes were linked to these volcanic spasms.
But when a team led of scientists led by Robert Sohn of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts finally got a first-ever glimpse of the ocean floor 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) beneath the Arctic pack ice, they were astonished.
What they saw was unmistakable evidence of explosive eruptions rather than the gradual secretion of lava bubbling up from Earth's mantle onto the ocean floor.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037073/posts
From Ohio State University News, Dec 2007...
EARTH'S HEAT ADDS TO CLIMATE CHANGE TO MELT GREENLAND ICE
COLUMBUS , Ohio -- Scientists have discovered what they think may be another reason why Greenland 's ice is melting: a thin spot in Earth's crust is enabling underground magma to heat the ice.
They have found at least one “hotspot” in the northeast corner of Greenland -- just below a site where an ice stream was recently discovered.
The researchers don't yet know how warm the hotspot is. But if it is warm enough to melt the ice above it even a little, it could be lubricating the base of the ice sheet and enabling the ice to slide more rapidly out to sea.
They say that Repubs are fear mongers and believe the War on Terror is all about instilling fear for corporate profit.... but the eat up this dooms day crap like its going out of style.
Islamofascism is going to kill us = “oh bull, just fear mongering”
Global warming is going to kill us = “OMG we're gonna die!”
What this report doesn’t tell you is that there is nearly 50% MORE Arctic sea ice right now than there was at this time last year.
LOL! Ay!
LOL!
They’ll be fine. Maybe him and the Miss’ will lose a few lbs.
We’d all better invest in good life-vests and survivor suits. OH, and take underwater swimming lessons.
LOL What a loon.
I'm predicting there is a 50-50 Chance that the sun won't come up in the morning.
Does that make me a genius?
I believe that was the Antartic
Also breaking: There is a 50% chance monkeys will fly out of my butt.
Yes, but at least one of the articles cleverly (read as ignoring physics) claim that those volcanoes will not contribute to melting of the ice. I find it odd that molten rock can’t melt ice but CO2 can.
The zoos had better stock up on polar bears before they all drown.
Send Hillary there.....problem solved.
From the article I posted.
“And remember the Arctic Sea ice? The ice we were told so hysterically last fall had melted to its “lowest levels on record? Never mind that those records only date back as far as 1972 and that there is anthropological and geological evidence of much greater melts in the past.
The ice is back.
Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa, says the Arctic winter has been so severe the ice has not only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places than at this time last year.”
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