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leonine -> RE: Majority of Scientists skeptical of climate crisis (9/10/2013 9:29:23 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Phydeaux
Still avoiding the graph, eh alarmists?
I suppose pictures of the current arctic ice cap are also things you'd like to avoid discussing?
Here's a few quotes from a lovely article, found here:http://hotair.com/archives/2013/09/08/global-warming-cleverly-hides-itself-with-1-million-sq-miles-more-arctic-ice/
Only six years ago, the BBC reported that the Arctic would be ice-free in summer by 2013, citing a scientist in the US who claimed this was a ‘conservative’ forecast. Perhaps it was their confidence that led more than 20 yachts to try to sail the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific this summer. As of last week, all these vessels were stuck in the ice, some at the eastern end of the passage in Prince Regent Inlet, others further west at Cape Bathurst.
Some of the analysts currently scratching their heads over how the planet stubbornly refuses to do what they insist it must are apparently now reflecting on some much older data. Reports are available which indicate a massive melting of the arctic ice sheet in the 1920′s and 30′s, long before the era of global climate studies. But then, it crashed into another period of increased freezing and expansion. The current photo has a few of them wondering if we might be in danger of heading into another ice age, which would be disastrous for mankind.
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The really funny thing, if you like gallows humour, is that while the likes of Shell and BP are sponsoring people to tell you that the arctic isn't melting, they are also pouring money into expeditions to drill for oil in sea areas which are ice free for the first time in recorded history. (And since people have been trying to sail past the Pole since the 15th Century, that's a lot of recorded history.) At least they're smarter than the politicians who actually believe their own propaganda.
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