It's not cute. It's infuriating. When we're all facing war because of mass migrations and food riots, I wonder how the deniers are going to justify their support of inaction.
They'll say they were always the champions against Climate Change, but thick-headed liberals blocked their efforts to cut taxes and unleash industry to comes up with the new technologies that could have saved the day.
Exactly: it's weather when winter after winter sets records for freezing temperatures and frozen bodies of water. It's climate when it's hot somewhere.
1. Global cooling was never "settled science". 2. Global warming is a type of climate change. 3. Weather is localised and short-term effects. Climate data points are (iirc) forty year average changes.
The collapse of large parts of the ice sheet in West Antarctica appears to have begun and is almost certainly unstoppable, with global warming accelerating the pace of the disintegration, two groups of scientists reported Monday.
The finding, which had been feared by some scientists for decades, means that a rise in global sea level of at least 10 feet may now be inevitable. The rise may continue to be relatively slow for at least the next century or so, the scientists said, but sometime after that it will probably speed up so sharply as to become a crisis.
“This is really happening,” said Thomas P. Wagner, who runs NASA’s programs on polar ice and helped oversee some of the research. “There’s nothing to stop it now. But you are still limited by the physics of how fast the ice can flow.”
-- NYT (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/13/science/earth/collapse-of-parts-of-west-antarctica-ice-sheet-has-begun-scientists-say.html?hpw&rref=science)
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Date: 2014-05-12 03:12 am (UTC)but thick-headed liberals blocked their efforts to cut taxes and
unleash industry to comes up with the new technologies that
could have saved the day.
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Date: 2014-05-12 06:37 am (UTC)http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/18l8gy/unusually-large-snowstorm
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Date: 2014-05-12 06:25 am (UTC)1. Global cooling was never "settled science".
2. Global warming is a type of climate change.
3. Weather is localised and short-term effects. Climate data points are (iirc) forty year average changes.
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Date: 2014-05-12 07:54 am (UTC)http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/27/the-willful-idiocy-of-alleged-global-temperature-decline-is-based-on-a-mirage/
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Date: 2014-05-12 01:44 pm (UTC)about 'hiding the decline', and I had not heard an
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Date: 2014-05-12 02:05 pm (UTC)so long as they belong to someone else. ;)
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Date: 2014-05-12 06:08 pm (UTC)The finding, which had been feared by some scientists for decades, means that a rise in global sea level of at least 10 feet may now be inevitable. The rise may continue to be relatively slow for at least the next century or so, the scientists said, but sometime after that it will probably speed up so sharply as to become a crisis.
“This is really happening,” said Thomas P. Wagner, who runs NASA’s programs on polar ice and helped oversee some of the research. “There’s nothing to stop it now. But you are still limited by the physics of how fast the ice can flow.”
-- NYT (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/13/science/earth/collapse-of-parts-of-west-antarctica-ice-sheet-has-begun-scientists-say.html?hpw&rref=science)