So the ice, which has been around for millions (billions? or maybe only 10,000 or so years if you’re a Creationist), is now the lowest it’s been since Sputnik?
Oh, wait! Sputnik was just an empty tin can launched for propaganda purposes. What they REALLY mean is that the ice is below the minimum set over the couple of decades that we’ve been measuring it. Out of so many millions of years the ice has been around (unless you’re a Creationist).
I do have positive evidence that NSIDC employs Actuaries, however, because they use the phrase “the strong negative trend in summertime ice extent characterizing the past decade continues.” It takes a credentialed actuary to turn a short-term movement into an extrapolated long-term trend.
I’d be laughing even harder at this hysteria if so many people didn’t take it so seriously …
Bill: right on. “Liars figure” vs. ‘figures don’t lie’. If we had someone in the media [besides you-know-who] that had a back bone to stand up to this “pop science” we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
Tropical flora and dinosaur fossils have been discovered in Antarctica. Greenland used to be inhabited by thousands of Vikings who suddenly froze to death with all their flocks.
There are active volcanoes under the Arctic ice cap, and there’s this big hot thing in the sky that might burn a few degrees hotter or cooler from time to time.
So someone please tell me, What ended the last Ice Age?!
Yep, and so what! This will help the No. European countries, especially Russia and their growing petroleum-based economy. 30 years ago National Geographic and the scientific community was concerned about the coming ice age! How quickly that changed! In the meantime, as I understand it, the ice in the southern hemispere (7th continent – Antartica) is GROWING!. Interesting stuff, no doubt, but again — so what!
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I am just ROTFLMAOPIMP about this.
“Since the dawn of the satellite era?” Hah!
So the ice, which has been around for millions (billions? or maybe only 10,000 or so years if you’re a Creationist), is now the lowest it’s been since Sputnik?
Oh, wait! Sputnik was just an empty tin can launched for propaganda purposes. What they REALLY mean is that the ice is below the minimum set over the couple of decades that we’ve been measuring it. Out of so many millions of years the ice has been around (unless you’re a Creationist).
I do have positive evidence that NSIDC employs Actuaries, however, because they use the phrase “the strong negative trend in summertime ice extent characterizing the past decade continues.” It takes a credentialed actuary to turn a short-term movement into an extrapolated long-term trend.
I’d be laughing even harder at this hysteria if so many people didn’t take it so seriously …
FINALLY! someone else who has sense!!! THANK YOU!
Bill: right on. “Liars figure” vs. ‘figures don’t lie’. If we had someone in the media [besides you-know-who] that had a back bone to stand up to this “pop science” we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
Tropical flora and dinosaur fossils have been discovered in Antarctica. Greenland used to be inhabited by thousands of Vikings who suddenly froze to death with all their flocks.
There are active volcanoes under the Arctic ice cap, and there’s this big hot thing in the sky that might burn a few degrees hotter or cooler from time to time.
So someone please tell me, What ended the last Ice Age?!
Yep, and so what! This will help the No. European countries, especially Russia and their growing petroleum-based economy. 30 years ago National Geographic and the scientific community was concerned about the coming ice age! How quickly that changed! In the meantime, as I understand it, the ice in the southern hemispere (7th continent – Antartica) is GROWING!. Interesting stuff, no doubt, but again — so what!