dohboi wrote:I see the denyalists and the do-nothing-ists are out in force today.
No matter how much or how fast things fall apart, these people will continue to blather,"It's all natural, nothing to worry about here, go on about your business of shopping, driving and flying..."
And of course by "doing nothing" if you are living an average life in a developed country (but especially in the US), your are doing something enormously damaging.
We are active participants in the destruction of the living world just by being "normal" participants in consumer culture.
This is hard to hear and hard to accept. So denyalists, keep on denying, and do-nothing-ists, keep telling yourselves that you are not culpable.
But know that you are not just part of the problem, you are the problem.
Flood disaster threatens Himalayas
3:00 16 April 2002
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2 ... layas.html
More than 40 lakes in the Himalayas could burst their banks at any
time and flood communities up to 100 kilometres downstream,
according to a new UN study. Very few of the people at risk would
get any advance warning.
The analysis of more than 5000 Himalayan glaciers and lakes
revealed 20 in Nepal and 24 in Bhutan that are at bursting point.
Hundreds more lakes elsewhere in the Himalayas remain unsurveyed.
The lakes are formed as mountain glaciers melt, a process much
accelerated by global warming. The water is kept in place by ice or
piles of sediment, known as moraines, that were deposited when
the glacier was at its longest. But as the lakes grow, the moraines
are starting to collapse and every monsoon season, the risk of a
disaster grows...
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Glacial lake outburst flood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_la ... urst_flood
New satellite images show that an Antarctic ice shelf continues to disintegrate — and even more surprising is that it's happening during the Southern Hemisphere's winter.
Experts warned last March, at the end of the Antarctic summer, that the Wilkins Ice Shelf was disintegrating more quickly, but they expected that the winter cold would put the trend in a temporary deep freeze.
At 6,000 square miles in size, Wilkins "is the most recent in a long, and growing, list of ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula that are responding to the rapid warming that has occurred in this area over the last 50 years," David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey said in a statement released by the European Space Agency as it revealed the satellite images late Thursday.
Zardoz wrote:Memo to the GW denialist industry: Go f**k yourselves.
Forney2008 wrote:we would still be in the stone age today with few accomplishments.
Zardoz wrote:Okay, Global Warming denialist trolls, what crap are you going to spout about this?
Experts surprised that cold hasn't frozen trend, now expect quicker demiseNew satellite images show that an Antarctic ice shelf continues to disintegrate — and even more surprising is that it's happening during the Southern Hemisphere's winter.
Experts warned last March, at the end of the Antarctic summer, that the Wilkins Ice Shelf was disintegrating more quickly, but they expected that the winter cold would put the trend in a temporary deep freeze.
At 6,000 square miles in size, Wilkins "is the most recent in a long, and growing, list of ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula that are responding to the rapid warming that has occurred in this area over the last 50 years," David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey said in a statement released by the European Space Agency as it revealed the satellite images late Thursday.
Memo to the GW denialist industry: Go f**k yourselves.
Zardoz wrote:Okay, Global Warming denialist trolls, what crap are you going to spout about this?
essex wrote:Surprise! There’s an active volcano under Antarctic ice.
Zardoz wrote:Zardoz wrote:Okay, Global Warming denialist trolls, what crap are you going to spout about this?
Wait for it. Wait... Wait...
And there it is!essex wrote:Surprise! There’s an active volcano under Antarctic ice.
Rogozhin wrote:That's great, there's probably vast amounts of oil that we can now extract since the ice will be gone.
Next, it will be alien abduction of our ice pack.
Next, it will be alien abduction of our ice pack.
UFO FOUND IN ICEBERG
Alien crew is missing & still at large, warn scientists! The captain of a ship rammed an iceberg in the frigid waters of the Greenland Sea -- and found a perfectly preserved UFO frozen inside. What's more, the alien crew is missing and may still be at large!
Scientists from all over the world have been summoned to an undisclosed location near the seacoast town of Scoresbysund, Greenland, to investigate the intact alien craft. "The design and technology of this space capsule is years ahead of anything yet developed on Earth," says Dr. Gerd Stuber of Bern, Switzerland. "It's definitely from another planet.
The discovery occurred above the Arctic Circle between Norway and Greenland when a seismic exploration ship struck a huge floating iceberg at about three p.m. on May 24. Damage to the ship was minor but the collision knocked a large piece out of the iceberg, exposing part of a strange metal object.
"My staff and I have examined every inch of it and all the evidence indicates that the craft was manned by a crew of five beings who apparently lost control and crashed. However, we can find no trace of them."
When the crew chipped away enough ice to get a good look at it, that metallic "something" turned out to be the hull of a UFO.
No one is able to pinpoint exactly when the spaceship crash-landed on Earth, or how it became encased in an iceberg, and experts differ widely about the fate of the missing aliens. and even when they might have crashed, some speculate that the great black out that hit the eastern sea board was caused by a ufo crash. "They're dead," says Dr. Juan Cordoba, noted Spanish biologist and member of Dr. Stuber's staff. "Even if they survived the crash, there's no way they could stay alive in New york with out being spotted."
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