Posted on 07/27/2009 7:30:19 AM PDT by Slapshot68
" A Canadian astronaut aboard the International Space Station said on Sunday it looks like Earth's ice caps have melted a bit since he was last in orbit 12 years ago.
Bob Thirsk, who is two months into a planned six-month stay aboard the station, said he is mostly in awe when he looks out the window, particularly at the sliver of atmosphere wrapped around the planet.
"It's a very thin veil of atmosphere around the Earth that keeps us alive," Thirsk said during an in-flight news conference. "Most of the time when I look out the window I'm in awe. But there are some effects of the human destruction of the Earth as well."
"This is probably just a perception, but I just have the feeling that the glaciers are melting, the snow capping the mountains is less than it was 12 years ago when I saw it last time," Thrisk said. "That saddens me a little bit."
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12 years and the earth has changed? Really? I think maybe he's not getting enough oxygen.
Being a genius is not a requirement to be an astronaut.
This has already been posted under a slightly different headline.
You and the rest of your cult, Spaceboy. And that's all you have.
I can’t even remember what my back yard looked like 12 years ago.
And it is summer at the North Pole.......
“Canadian astronaut” hummm
Balony!
He is looking into the wrong end of the telescope or binocs he is using.
Haven’t we had ice caps melting before now? Like even before humans trod this earth? England has archaeological evidence of once being a tropical climate. The English Channel was once frozen making a path to Europe.
And what made the glaciers melt, like the ones that carved out the great lakes....there had to have been global warming to do this. I don’t think ‘camp fires’ if there were any, sped this process along.
I am not educated in this area...but the focus on humans having so much influence in the ‘solar system’ only reflects the extremely narrow egocentricity of those who credit mankind with the climate change.
His perception does not comport with reality.
http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/test/print.sh?fm=06&fd=20&fy=1996&sm=06&sd=20&sy=2008
I wonder what that big fireball used to propel her dumb ass into space did to the earth’s resources?
“Being a genius is not a requirement to be an astronaut.”
It is an affirmative action hire anymore.
Well, heck...why do we spend all this money on gathering climate data when we can just eyeball it?
Leave it to Canada to make astronauts out of their global warming hippy wackos.
Maybe this same guy should design a scientific experiment to determine whether smoking dope in a space station makes you “higher” than smoking the same amount of the same weed on earth.
HEY! I might be on to something. I’ve gotta go call NASA!
Great, now the liberals have taken over the space station. Is there any end to this madness...
“I just have the feeling that the glaciers are melting...”
Oh, for the love of .... I have a feeling they’re tap dancing when we’re not looking.
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