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Legend
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PostPosted: 10-10-2014 07:42 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Largest glacier calving ever witnessed




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Etile
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PostPosted: 10-10-2014 07:57 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


that must be what it's like when geoff's wife lets go of the side of their above-ground pool




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Digital Nausea
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PostPosted: 10-10-2014 08:43 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


But old, innit?




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PostPosted: 10-10-2014 08:52 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


How is this climate change?... This shit prolly happens all the time and is rarely noticed is all... Grow up...




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Cool #9
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PostPosted: 10-10-2014 11:13 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Here we go...




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Truffle Shuffle
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PostPosted: 10-10-2014 11:23 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Good news is that the Antarctic is getting record highs for sea ice and the Arctic ice is up on previous years :up:



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plained
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PostPosted: 10-10-2014 11:27 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


come on guys!

recycle your juice boxes and cereal boxes faster!

we can stop this!



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PostPosted: 10-10-2014 12:05 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


anyone who lives north of 32°N is a moron...my suggestion is to move south...




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Digital Nausea
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PostPosted: 10-10-2014 12:20 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


losCHUNK wrote:
Good news is that the Antarctic is getting record highs for sea ice and the Arctic ice is up on previous years :up:


Yeah, there's no doubt we're contributing to global warming. But like you said, there are record highs for sea ice right now and these things fluctuate. We could easily just be in another normal climate cycle. Another ice age could happen any time. The world will go on doing its thing, with or without us...




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PostPosted: 10-10-2014 12:38 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


xer0s wrote:
We could easily just be in another normal climate cycle. Another ice age could happen any time.

Tomorrow's forecast calls for a dusting of snow with a chance of Ice Age. :dork:



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Digital Nausea
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PostPosted: 10-10-2014 12:42 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I know right!

When I say any time, I'm talking within a few thousand years, which in the grand scheme of time, isn't that much...




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PostPosted: 10-10-2014 01:09 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


xer0s wrote:
Yeah, there's no doubt we're contributing to global warming. But like you said, there are record highs for sea ice right now and these things fluctuate. We could easily just be in another normal climate cycle. Another ice age could happen any time. The world will go on doing its thing, with or without us...


clueless moron...its not a normal climate cycle...events usually cause climate shifts...humans are doing the slow motion moronics event into extinction...dont pretend its something else...




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Just another Earthling
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PostPosted: 10-10-2014 04:35 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Extinction sounds about right ... ...



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I'm the dude!
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PostPosted: 10-10-2014 06:42 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


xer0s wrote:
losCHUNK wrote:
Good news is that the Antarctic is getting record highs for sea ice and the Arctic ice is up on previous years :up:


Yeah, there's no doubt we're contributing to global warming. But like you said, there are record highs for sea ice right now and these things fluctuate. We could easily just be in another normal climate cycle. Another ice age could happen any time. The world will go on doing its thing, with or without us...


That's like saying you can keep yourself cooler in the summer by leaving your refrigerator door open. Sure, you might feel a bit of momentary relief by letting the cool air from the fridge drift around your skin, but overall the fridge is generating more heat through the back of the unit heating up your house more than before.

Climate change is happening, and it's getting significantly warmer, faster, at an increasingly faster rate, and it is due to human intervention. What brief sense of cooling that you may think you feel is caused by more extreme weather conditions fluctuating as the global average temperature increases. What you're saying about highs of sea ice is untrue, huge swaths of ice shelves have collapsed in recent years and they aren't being replaced. Any thickening of ice is caused by higher amounts of precipitation as more water is being heated and evaporated in other parts of the world and freezing in the arctics.


That documentary "Chasing Ice" is on Netflix. It's a good watch for anyone interested.



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PostPosted: 10-10-2014 07:21 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


All I need to see is some asshole bury a 30FT pole into solid ice and come back a year and the fucking thing is laying on its side because 30FT thick of ice has melted in a year. See you all in hell.




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opa!
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PostPosted: 10-10-2014 07:51 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


this is why I'm waiting before I upgrade.




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Etile
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PostPosted: 10-11-2014 12:56 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


plained wrote:
come on guys!

recycle your juice boxes and cereal boxes faster!

we can stop this!


lollercakes




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Risen From The Ashes
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PostPosted: 10-11-2014 06:56 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


scared? wrote:
anyone who lives north of 32°N is a moron...my suggestion is to move south...


Some people believe those who live in colder climates have a higher IQ because it took more intelligence to survive natural selection in those conditions.

Is it nice and toasty in Texas today? :clownboat:




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Canadian Shaft
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PostPosted: 10-11-2014 06:57 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


plained wrote:
come on guys!

recycle your juice boxes and cereal boxes faster!

we can stop this!

You have kids right? I wouldn't be making jokes if I were you...




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Etile
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PostPosted: 10-11-2014 07:25 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


his kids will be too busy trying to survive in the ever-bleaker world of 21st century capitalism to worry about climate change




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Canadian Shaft
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PostPosted: 10-11-2014 07:31 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


seremtan wrote:
trying to survive in the ever-bleaker world of 21st century capitalism


which will be made vastly more difficult due to climate change




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PostPosted: 10-11-2014 08:39 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


serious question...why is puff such a pretentious faggy douche?...something to ponder...




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Canadian Shaft
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PostPosted: 10-11-2014 08:43 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


scared? wrote:
serious question...why is puff such a pretentious faggy douche?...something to ponder...

pre·ten·tious
adjective: pretentious

attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.


Sounds a lot more like you no?




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PostPosted: 10-11-2014 08:51 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Not really... But u go girl...




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Etile
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PostPosted: 10-11-2014 09:55 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:
seremtan wrote:
trying to survive in the ever-bleaker world of 21st century capitalism


which will be made vastly more difficult due to climate change


adapting to or reduction of which will be made vastly more difficult due to perma-'austerity', widening inequality and the corporate capture of regulatory institutions., i.e. ever-bleaker capitalism

and so on...




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Digital Nausea
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PostPosted: 10-11-2014 02:07 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


scared? wrote:
serious question...why is puff such a pretentious faggy douche?...something to ponder...


lol




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Etile
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PostPosted: 08-26-2015 10:54 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


nifty article explaining the 3% 'contrarian' claims about global warming:

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... ian-papers

Quote:
There is a 97% expert consensus on a cohesive theory that’s overwhelmingly supported by the scientific evidence, but the 2–3% of papers that reject that consensus are all over the map, even contradicting each other. The one thing they seem to have in common is methodological flaws like cherry picking, curve fitting, ignoring inconvenient data, and disregarding known physics.




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Arrr?
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PostPosted: 08-26-2015 05:08 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Does this surprise ANYone?



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PostPosted: 08-26-2015 07:31 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


When preaching to the choir, of course not. But you'll be surprised by the number of conservative dumb fuck climate-change deniers out there.



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PostPosted: 08-26-2015 11:16 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


People should have to take a test before they can reproduce.



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Your Other Daddy
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PostPosted: 08-27-2015 07:34 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


like an algebra test



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Canadian Shaft
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PostPosted: 08-27-2015 08:22 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


So have you all heard about this 6th great mass extinction that has begun?




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Digital Nausea
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PostPosted: 08-27-2015 08:32 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Ohhhhhhh, do tell!




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Etile
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HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:
So have you all heard about this 6th great mass extinction that has begun?


welcome to the Holocene, baby :drool:




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PostPosted: 06-30-2016 05:39 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


http://www.alternet.org/environment/unp ... am-crosses

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Climate scientists this week expressed alarm after “unprecedented” data showed the Northern Hemisphere Jet Stream crossing the Equator.

In a column on Tuesday, environmental blogger Robert Scribbler noted that the Northern Hemisphere Jet Stream had merged with the Southern Hemisphere Jet Stream.

“It’s the very picture of weather weirding due to climate change. Something that would absolutely not happen in a normal world,” he wrote. “Something, that if it continues, basically threatens seasonal integrity.”
...

“That’s bad news for seasonality,” he continued. “You get this weather-destabilizing and extreme weather generating mixing of seasons that is all part of a very difficult to deal with ‘Death of Winter’ type scenario.”
University of Ottawa climate scientist Paul Beckwith called the new behavior “unprecedented.”

“Our climate system behaviour continues to behave in new and scary ways that we have never anticipated, or seen before,” Beckwith observed. “Welcome to climate chaos. We must declare a global climate emergency.”

In a YouTube video, Beckwith said that the jet stream behavior signaled “massive hits to the food supply” and “massive geopolitical unrest.”




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