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Gotta love ecoEnquirer.com.
Posted on 08/06/2007 4:19:18 PM PDT by dynachrome
"I love it", said local Lars Larsen, wiping frost from his full beard. "This is the warmest summer I can ever remember…even the polar bears are looking for a shady spot to escape the heat."
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(as always, freep the polls while you are perusing the site. ;)
You mean the polar bears are not dropping like flies?
They’re still alive?
Who woulda thunk?
For more on overheated polar bears, see here:
http://www.ecoenquirer.com/polar-bear-heat.htm
“Hunter Jeremiah Johnson comforts a polar bear that had collapsed from heat exhaustion before he could shoot it.”
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All the while sitting in a field of snow....
LOL!
Other interesting news on this site (no kidding)....
“Breaking News: Extra Carbon Dioxide Causing Plant Attacks”
“Levitating Islands in Bermuda Triangle Observed by Spy Satellite”
The sad thing about this is that eco-extremist propaganda actually makes us less sensitive to real climate problems.
NYC city under water or all the ice melting any time soon is fantasy at best or fiction at worst.
But the sea levels are slowly rising and it will be a problem over the long run.
Right now sea level is rising about ..84 mm per year or about one inch every 30 years - half from glaciers melting and half from the seas expanding as they warm up.
This is expected to triple over the next century but we still have 100 years for the first foot of sea level rise.
That wouldn’t make a good movie, however. Or good fund raising for Al Gore. So they don’t like to talk about the slow pace of sea rise.
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Gotta love ecoEnquirer.com.
It’s wonderful to see that some are benefitting from this dastardly global warming. I’m also glad to see that Lars and Jeremiah have taken an interest in the far north. The ecoenquirer is a great publication. :)
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The sea has risen about 400 feet in the last 15,000 years or so, so a few more inches here and there is just measurement error. BTW, how accurate do you think the sea level measurement was at 1000 AD, maybe it went down since and it’s just correcting now. If you consider the medieval warm period when it was quite a bit warmer than now, the sea was likely higher than it is now. The little ice age likely lowered the sea level. If you believe it is going up now, stands to reason it went up and down in recent history.
>>If you believe it is going up now, stands to reason it went up and down in recent history.<<
I beleive the sea level is going up because the National Snow and Ice Data Center’s state of the Cryosphere says it is.
The NSIDC and the SOTC were set up under the Reagan administration to study glacier shrinkage.
http://nsidc.org/sotc/sea_level.html
As for whether it will hold, heck if I know but the people studying this for the government say its speeding up but still VERY slow. I don’t think a foot in a 100 years is a crisis.
But we need to keep studying it. And we need to keep science separate from ecoextremism. And not deny the science from the conservative point of view either.
At the rate of one inch every 30 years that would be 360 years for the first foot of sea level rise. That should be enough time for those who might drown to move a few feet inland, don't you think?
>>At the rate of one inch every 30 years that would be 360 years for the first foot of sea level rise. That should be enough time for those who might drown to move a few feet inland, don’t you think?<<
Depending on who you listen to the rate of sea level rise is expected to be 9-12 inches for the century as the rate increases by three to four times.
And if the slope is gentle, that could come inland dozens of feet.
But still nothing like the disaster being fear mongered.
I was under the impression that all the polar bears were drowning because they couldn't get to land.
“ecoenquirer”
Wish he would write more stories. He is a funny guy,
Some become thieves. ;)
http://www.ecoenquirer.com/polar-bear-thefts.htm
“It appears that the young cubs simply have too much time on their paws, and without close parental supervision, they go out in search of thrills”, explained Manitoba Provincial Police officer Ursula Merrytime. “When the cubs are left unsupervised, anything can happen.”
The question is when does the next ice age begin. Interglacial periods average about 10,000 years. The majority of the Earth's time in the solar system it has been a snowball. The current interglacial period is now about 10,000-12,000 years old, using simple math we are due for a new ice age in the near future.
Very Cool! My buddys sister Dr Jerri Nielson was that gal who got breast cancer down in Antarctica. He and his brother flew in on the C 130 rescue
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