Ice-free Arctic could be here in 23 years (1 Viewer)

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The new figures show that sea ice extent is currently down to 4.4m square kilometres (1.7m square miles) and still falling. The previous record low was 5.3m square kilometres in September 2005. From 1979 to 2000 the average sea ice extent was 7.7m square kilometres.

Whoa! Hold on a sec - so there's fuck all sea ice in the summer anyway? 7.7 sq km is a circle with a radius of 1.6km, you could walk across it in an hour. Is this right?

 

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Oh, I missed the little "m" there - it's 7.7 MILLION square km

 

[Lili Marlene]

ah sure it's all a myth, why waste money? If we're wrong what a waste of money that would be.

Sure if we're right and did nothing we'll all be dead but i'm willing to take that risk to save a few bob

 

[Scientician 0.8]

anyone one ever read olaf stapletons "of first and last men"? we're so insignificant...

No but I read The Starmaker, yes insignificanticus!

 

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No but I read The Starmaker, yes insignificanticus!

What?

Jesus. Serious thread here boss. All gonna die.
Starmaker?

 

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http://www.worldwithoutus.com/did_you_know.html

 

[Lili Marlene]

http://www.worldwithoutus.com/did_you_know.html

new york falls apart, the rest of the world lives on!

 

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/sep/08/climatechange?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront

The Greenland ice cap is melting so quickly that it is triggering earthquakes as pieces of ice several cubic kilometres in size break off.
Scientists monitoring events this summer say the acceleration could be catastrophic in terms of sea-level rise and make predictions this February by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change far too low.

Surprise surprise.

 

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Aw jaysus
If that thing flops into the sea quickly then we really are in trouble. Wish I had some money to buy a place to live in forn parts

 

[Lili Marlene]

21 years!

 

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Whoa! Hold on a sec - so there's fuck all sea ice in the summer anyway? 7.7 sq km is a circle with a radius of 1.6km, you could walk across it in an hour. Is this right?

nah, its closer to 20 minutes.

 

[ann post]

Give up sitting on your computer and burning up electricity.

i think the carbon footprint of thumped would be much greater if it were conducted on paper.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

its lies

"The outgoing leader of Greenpeace has admitted his organization's recent claim that the Arctic Ice will disappear by 2030 was "a mistake." Greenpeace made the claim in a July 15 press release entitled "Urgent Action Needed As Arctic Ice Melts," which said there will be an ice-free Arctic by 2030 because of global warming."

seen the bbc video during the week,just tryna find it again.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

http://www.prisonplanet.com/greenpe...ization-put-out-fake-global-warming-data.html

there we go,video is about half way down the page.

 

[Froog]

genuinely worrying, global warming feedback loops begin:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i95cdYgYkw4qtBvKXa_n70i_pkJgD9ADC1C01