Arctic Could Face Warmer and Ice-Free Conditions (Pliocene projections - USGS)

U.S. Geological Survey ^ | Dec 29, 2009 | Unknown

[Jim from C-Town]

‘“Arctic Could Face Warmer and Ice-Free Conditions”

Or, it could get colder. Or stay the same.

Where’s my government grant?’

You may have struck upon something there. How hard could it be to get a government grant? They give grants for the dumbest things. I bet I could devise a plan to ‘study’ the effects of climate change on the nocturnal emissions of salamanders and if the paperwork and forms where filled out correctly, I would get a million dollars of your money to churn out a report that was completely phony. Since no one will actually read the report, it really wouldn't matter.

I could then get on TV regularly to pontificate how the increased/decreased nocturnal salamander emissions are the warning sign to the destruction of the entire ecosystem and without the purchase of salamander emissions credits, the entire Earth and all of the people on it would DIE.

It is lucky for every one that I happen to have an unlimited supply of Salamander Emission Credits I would be happy to sell you for the right price.

[liberalcide1]

“And how did those conditions in the Pliocene occurr?” Of course they were caused by all the cars, factories, lawnmowers, charbroling, etc that went on back in those days.

[AbeKrieger]

Those bastard Flinstones and their 3,500,000 BC Escalades!

[GraceG]

>> And how did those conditions in the Pliocene occur?

“Lucy” and “Ardi” racing SUVs .... <<

Not it was the Neanderthals racing SUVs because only Neanderthals drive SUVs, come on get the story right!

[Little Ray]

COOL! We can start cultivating Greenland!

[Dixie Yooper]

“Arctic Could Face Warmer and Ice-Free Conditions” Or, it could get colder. Or stay the same.

If you narrowed it down, you would be guessing...

[Man50D]

Meteorologists have difficulty predicting the weather five days from now and yet these people expect us to believe they can forecast the weather years from now!

[Signalman]

These articles always have qualifying words in the headline: “could”, “may”, “might”, “there’s a chance...”. It’s all BS.

[steelyourfaith]

I did see that on F&F and was cheered by that young lady’s courage to take truth to power.

[Just another Joe]

Arctic Could Face Warmer and Ice-Free Conditions (Pliocene projections - USGS)

And my Aunt could grow testicles and be my Uncle.
There's about as much chance of one as the other.

[icwhatudo]

The left claims we have lost 40% of arctic sea ice.

[InterceptPoint]

There is increased evidence that the Arctic could face seasonally ice-free conditions and much warmer temperatures in the future.

Let's count what I call "Weasel Words". Weasel Words are modifiers that give the writer cover when after a few years it becomes clear that he/she was DEAD WRONG. Here they are:

INCREASED. From what???? How about from zero up to 2%. That's a big jump.

COULD. Wow that's definitive isn't. How about COULDN'T. Just as likely.

MUCH WARMER. OK, I get it. They must mean 20 degrees C. Or do they mean 100 degrees C. Or do they mean .5 degrees C?

IN THE FUTURE. That really nails it down doesn't it? Maybe we are talking a few million years. Or a billion or two. Who knows? Who cares?

[DrDavid]

Those bastard Flinstones and their 3,500,000 BC Escalades!

This predates CAFE standards by 3,501,975 years, which must be the problem.

[CottShop]

[[Global average surface temperatures during the mid-Pliocene were about 3°C (5.5°F) greater than today and within the range projected for the 21st century by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.]]

These friggin criminal morons can’t even keep their stories straight- First they claim we’re ‘hotter than evah before’, and that ‘man must act now to reverse the damage we’ve done’, but hten we get articles liek htis one that show that DESPITE the claim that we’re now ‘hotter than evah’, it was infact 5 freakin degrees hotter BEFORE the industrial age-

So, apparently, We’re not putting enough CO2 into the atmosphere because we’re STILL 5 freakin degrees cooler than it was before (and lo and behold- DESPITE the FACT that it was 5 freakin degrees hotter BEFORE the industrial age, the world survived just fine, species thrived, survived, and moved into new nitches, and the world and everythign in it went along just fine- but apaprently, because we’re a tenth of a degree warmer than we were in the 40’s, everyhtign is goign to die and hte world will burn to a crisp? These freakin ‘scientists’ haven’t got a freakin clue, and hsoudl be stripped of their degrees for criminal fraud after tryi9gn to defraud the world!)

[CottShop]

[[She complained to the school board and F&F also wrote a letter and got a response that “they would look into it.”]]

She shoudl write another letter stating “Yiou’d better ‘look into it’ pretty darn quick because I’m bringing a massive lawsuit agaisnt this school for violating the school clause and agreement for teachers to remain unbiased and present neutral material, and this lawsuit will begin imediately if you fail to act SOON!”

The girl has a case because the school has a policy to present BOTH sides of issues, and requires it’s teachers to remain neutral on issues when teaching- they have failed to honor their policies, and failed the students by teachign htem garbage that is a proven fraud

[MiltonFriedmanFan]

Theres no way they can even predict such major climate or geological “changes” within a few hundred years, let alone 5,10 or 20 years from now.

[bray]

Good that will open more oil wells.

Happy New Year Patriots

[CottShop]

where did you get that picture? Got any pictures comparing summer sea ice?

[NormsRevenge]

Gonna need a rewrite of Born FRee. ;-)

Ice FRee

far as the eye sees

hmm hmm hmm hhmm

[CottShop]

[[Theres no way they can even predict such major climate or geological “changes” within a few hundred years, let alone 5,10 or 20 years from now.]]

you are correct, and it’s high time we stopped calling these inept physics ‘scientists’ and start callign htem what they are- criminal fraud artists- they shoudl be sittign in booths at state fairs reading palms, bot ‘predicting’ climate changes- yet because they wear the title ‘scientist’ the world is suppsoed to ooooh and aaaah and beleive every word they say? When the FACTS show that what they say are so far off base and incorrect time and time again? I don’t htink so- these peopel are NOT scientists- they are charlatan ‘psychics’ making ‘predictions’ dressed up in lab coats, and WASTING billions of taxpayers dollars!!!