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2007-12-19 Science & Technology

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2007-12-19 11:02|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Brrrrr...

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-12-19 11:17|| 2007-12-19 11:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Facts? We don't need no stinkin facts! The Goreacle said the planet is on fire so we must submit.

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2007-12-19 11:21|| 2007-12-19 11:21|| Front Page Top

#3 This kind of thing is why they came up with the "Climate Change" dodge. That way, whatever happens with the weather, they can say mankind dunnit.

Posted by Gabby Cussworth 2007-12-19 11:48|| 2007-12-19 11:48|| Front Page Top

#4 YEAH! New ice age! Sled city!

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-12-19 11:50|| 2007-12-19 11:50|| Front Page Top

#5 I think I know where the "vanishing" ice caps went.
They're piled up next to my driveway.

Posted by tu3031 2007-12-19 11:50|| 2007-12-19 11:50|| Front Page Top

#6 according to my forecast, al-goreing will be flying over me this weekend.

Posted by swksvolFF 2007-12-19 12:14|| 2007-12-19 12:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Then don't think of it as global warming. Think of it as stopping the flow of national treasure to OPEC to the tune of 106 Billion a year.

Posted by Penguin 2007-12-19 14:19|| 2007-12-19 14:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Exactly. And not only just OPEC, but those of the R.O.P. who squat on all that oil and wish us dead.

That is the way the argument should have been phrased all along.

Posted by Gabby Cussworth 2007-12-19 14:43|| 2007-12-19 14:43|| Front Page Top

#9 If you want to know why we're having such cold weather, consider the fact that Sunspot Cycle 26 is something like 19 months late in starting (or it's "started", and there just haven't been any sunspots). Of course sunspots and the sunspot cycle "has nothing to do" with weather on earth...

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-12-19 16:18|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-12-19 16:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Dang, OP. What kind of SUV can I drive that'll stop the sunspot cycle. I wants one of them!

Posted by eLarson 2007-12-19 17:04|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-12-19 17:04|| Front Page Top

#11 The one thing that might punch through is if the northern icecap reconstitutes itself. However, I don't think there is a regular survey of the icecap that is published on the Internet.

If anybody knows of one, say so.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-12-19 17:07|| 2007-12-19 17:07|| Front Page Top

#12 Who cares about the northern ice cap anyway? If the whole thing melted, sea levels would not rise one millimeter. Ice shrinks as it melts. (The Greenland and Antarctic ice caps are different, since they are over land.)

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2007-12-19 17:11|| 2007-12-19 17:11|| Front Page Top

#13 Rambler: The northern ice cap matters because it is a huge barrier between northern hemisphere nations.

Canada, Russia, the Norse countries, are all trying to territory grab if the ice melts. Trade and tourism among them could explode. It will also cause a major change in the flow of goods if the northwest passage opens as well.

And the US Navy will have a whole new ocean to police. And boy do they know it, really jumping to map the ocean floor and set up navigation equipment. It would mean the Russian Navy could get a LOT closer than they could before.

The bottom line is (typical), that everything the MMGW crowd is worried about is unimportant, and everything they are indifferent to will be world changing.

One other oddity that could matter is that there seems to be a volcano forming under part of Greenland, which could do all sorts of things.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-12-19 18:03|| 2007-12-19 18:03|| Front Page Top

#14 'Moose, by "caring", I meant about the "flooding" that will come from melting the Arctic ice cap. Obviously the world will be different if the whole ice cap melts. But at least it won't be underwater.

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2007-12-19 19:12|| 2007-12-19 19:12|| Front Page Top

#15 Won't global warming make most the mooselimb areas a bit to hot for comfort?

Isn't that good?

Posted by 3dc 2007-12-19 21:12|| 2007-12-19 21:12|| Front Page Top

#16 Let's see global cooling is caused by global warming. Global warming can explain everything and thus has no place in science. More like a religion. What hog wash.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-12-19 22:10|| 2007-12-19 22:10|| Front Page Top

#17 See also NEWSMAX > HOSTETLER - GET READY FOR GLOBAL COOLING. Author H. indics that cooling per se should officially begin circa Year 2009-2010. * HMMMM, Guam getting densely, darkly foggy like Britain-Euro, Dream > dipping my hand in cold ice-slushy = semi-frozen Pacific ocean waters, ..... ICE AGE MAMMOTHS GETTING TUSK CAVITIES + CONUS GLACIAL MELTS VIA COMET AIRBURSTS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-12-19 23:45|| 2007-12-19 23:45|| Front Page Top

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