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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (24802)	9/9/2009 11:06:58 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

Tuesday, September 08, 2009 So Can We Cool It With The Global Warming Nonsene Yet? Posted by: Duane R. Patterson at 12:09 AM We just came off of one of the coolest winters we've had in a long time in North America. Just ask the Minnesotans. This summer has not been as hot as previous summers on average. And yet, after ER concluded its record run on NBC this past season, we were treated to endless PSA's of ER star Noah Wylie pleading to help stop global warming and save the beloved polar bear, who were all going to drown because their environment was melting all around them. The situation is so dire that the polar bear is now on the Endangered Species list. Now comes a story from last Saturday's London Telegraph: BBC viewers were treated last week to the bizarre spectacle of Mr Ban Ki-moon standing on an Arctic ice-floe making a series of statements so laughable that it was hard to believe such a man can be Secretary-General of the UN. Thanks to global warming, he claimed, "100 billion tons" of polar ice are melting each year, so that within 30 years the Arctic could be "ice-free". This was supported by a WWF claim that the ice is melting so fast that, by 2100, sea-levels could rise by 1.2 metres (four feet), which would lead to "floods affecting a quarter of the world". Everything about this oft-repeated item was propaganda of the silliest kind. Standing 700 miles from the Pole, as near as the stubbornly present ice would allow his ship to go, Mr Ban seemed unaware that, although some 10 million square kilometres (3.8 million square miles) of sea-ice melts each summer, each September the Arctic starts to freeze again. And the extent of the ice now is 500,000 sq km (190,000 sq m) greater than it was this time last year – which was, in turn, 500,000 sq km more than in September 2007, the lowest point recently recorded (see the Cryosphere Today website). By April, after months of darkness, it will be back up to 14 million sq km (5.4 million sq m) or more. In case you don't have a sense for how much surface area half a million square kilometers is, think Texas. So after a cycle that saw a reducing ice sheet until 2006 or so, it appears that the Arctic is actually expanding again, so much so that the UN Secretary-General couldn't reach closer than 700 miles to the North Pole because the expanding ice sheet was too treacherous to traverse. That much expansion seems quite alarming to me. Look at the explosion in the polar bear population that's going to lead to. Look at the smaller environment the fish and sealife are going to have available to them with the oceans decreasing in size. I see only one solution to combat this new cooling trend. Gentlemen (and Ladies), Start Your Engines! townhall.com