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Global Warming Expedition Stuck in Ice
Posted on 7/22/16 at 11:48 pm
Posted on 7/22/16 at 11:48 pm
Global Warming Expedition Stuck in Ice
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An expedition to the North Pole intended to measure the effects of global warming ground to a halt this month when the scientist’s ship got blocked by the ice packs near Murmansk, Russia, reports reveal.
The Polar Ocean Challenge set out on a two-month campaign hoping to prove that the ice at the North Pole was melting. As the expedition’s Website Explains, the group aimed to show “that the Arctic sea ice coverage shrinks back so far now in the summer months that sea that was permanently locked up now can allow passage through.”
Despite their best intentions to show that the ice is melting and the temperature at the pole is higher than normal, the group has only been confronted with the exact opposite as ice continues to block their path. The website Real Climate Science that the Polar melt season is half over, but temperatures have not climbed high enough to sponsor a large melt off of ice. According to the site, there has not been a big melt, and ice gains seem to be very close to the amount of ice lost because temperatures near the pole have been persistently below normal this year. And at the very least, large ice floes have blocked the ocean passages around the area.
The global warming expedition expected to be able to sail all around the Arctic Ocean through the Northeast and Northwest Passages because they assumed the ice would be gone, but they have been stymied because ice blocks most of the route they planned to take.
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An expedition to the North Pole intended to measure the effects of global warming ground to a halt this month when the scientist’s ship got blocked by the ice packs near Murmansk, Russia, reports reveal.
The Polar Ocean Challenge set out on a two-month campaign hoping to prove that the ice at the North Pole was melting. As the expedition’s Website Explains, the group aimed to show “that the Arctic sea ice coverage shrinks back so far now in the summer months that sea that was permanently locked up now can allow passage through.”
Despite their best intentions to show that the ice is melting and the temperature at the pole is higher than normal, the group has only been confronted with the exact opposite as ice continues to block their path. The website Real Climate Science that the Polar melt season is half over, but temperatures have not climbed high enough to sponsor a large melt off of ice. According to the site, there has not been a big melt, and ice gains seem to be very close to the amount of ice lost because temperatures near the pole have been persistently below normal this year. And at the very least, large ice floes have blocked the ocean passages around the area.
The global warming expedition expected to be able to sail all around the Arctic Ocean through the Northeast and Northwest Passages because they assumed the ice would be gone, but they have been stymied because ice blocks most of the route they planned to take.
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Posted on 7/22/16 at 11:50 pm to Sancho Panza
Posted on 7/22/16 at 11:51 pm to Sancho Panza
Every frickin' year this happens.
Fools.
Fools.
Posted on 7/23/16 at 12:14 am to Sancho Panza
Posted on 7/23/16 at 12:16 am to InfantryDawg
I was a TankerDawg, some years back...
Posted on 7/23/16 at 8:47 am to Sancho Panza
fricking liberalsPosted on 7/23/16 at 9:08 am to Sancho Panza
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Global Warming Expedition Stuck in Ice
Good. Hopefully they remain there as permanent landmarks/reminders of liberal progressive folly.
Posted on 7/23/16 at 9:14 am to Sancho Panza
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Posted on 7/23/16 at 9:44 am to Sancho Panza
Only liberals think global warming is still a thing.
Posted on 7/23/16 at 9:57 am to kywildcatfanone
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Only liberals think global warming is still a thing.
This post was edited on 7/23/16 at 9:58 am
Posted on 7/23/16 at 10:08 am to Sancho Panza
Can't wait to see SpidermanTuba explain this one
Posted on 7/23/16 at 10:24 am to kywildcatfanone
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Only liberals think global warming is still a thing
Its definitely a thing. And I'm no liberal.
Whether it's a bad thing or mostly human caused is debatable.
Posted on 7/23/16 at 11:17 am to PrivatePublic
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Whether it's a bad thing or mostly human caused is debatable.
It's a bad thing in that it is exacerbating the extinction event caused by an expanding human population around the globe. Flora and fauna that are dependent upon an unchanging environment are the first to go.
While the earth is in a natural warming cycle, it's not debatable that the rising amounts of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are the direct results of human industry and farming. The amount of damage done to the environment will depend upon the technological demands of "developing" countries, a slowing and then reduction of the earth's population, and the development of technology to help the earth's natural processes of rejuvenating itself.
This self-repair is illustrated by the shrinking ozone hole over the Antarctic continent. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) were taken out of aerosol-driven spray cans and refrigerants and the ozone began to repair itself immediately.
It can be done. It just takes acknowledgement of the problem for an appropriate solution to be installed.
This post was edited on 7/23/16 at 11:55 am
Posted on 7/23/16 at 12:16 pm to Sancho Panza
May 2016 Was the 13th Consecutive Warmest Month on Record, NOAA Says
"May 2016 was the warmest May on record for the globe, making it the 13th consecutive warmest month on record.
NOAA's global State of the Climate report released Thursday found May's temperature over the Earth's surface was 0.87 degrees Celsius above the 20th century average. This beat out the previous record warm May set just last year by 0.02 degrees Celsius.
The 13-month streak, which dates back to May 2015, is the longest stretch of months in a row that a global temperature record has been set, according to NOAA's dataset which goes back to 1880."
"May 2016 was the warmest May on record for the globe, making it the 13th consecutive warmest month on record.
NOAA's global State of the Climate report released Thursday found May's temperature over the Earth's surface was 0.87 degrees Celsius above the 20th century average. This beat out the previous record warm May set just last year by 0.02 degrees Celsius.
The 13-month streak, which dates back to May 2015, is the longest stretch of months in a row that a global temperature record has been set, according to NOAA's dataset which goes back to 1880."
Posted on 7/23/16 at 12:51 pm to Kentucker
quote:It sure can. and w/o hurting the economy.a change in farming practices by itself could eliminate almost half of the greenhouse emissions, and we'd all be eating healthier.
It can be done.
quote:Have you read this board?
It just takes acknowledgement of the problem
Posted on 7/23/16 at 1:12 pm to MIZ_COU
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It sure can. and w/o hurting the economy.a change in farming practices by itself could eliminate almost half of the greenhouse emissions, and we'd all be eating healthier.
That coupled with a rapid reduction of the population would right the balance between human enterprise and the environment by 2100. Humanity isn't likely to cooperate willingly, however, so a Malthusian future seems assured.
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Have you read this board?
Yes, but quote:
When you surround yourself with only like-minded people, it’s very easy to stop there and just surround yourself with people who agree with you because you all have the same beliefs, think the same way and do the same things. It becomes very easy to simply accept that something is true because enough of the people around you say it’s true and accept that what you believe is right just because people around you say it’s right.
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Instead of wrestling with hard questions, you settle for token answers to token questions. Instead of legitimately asking questions that might challenge the way you think, the things you do and the things you think are possible, you let the beliefs of your group guide you and group think takes over.
You adopt their viewpoints, their mantras, their quotes, their hobbies and their interests. You’ll see this behaviour everywhere, from people in churches to politics to sports teams to blogging circles. Instead of resulting in a thinking group of people constantly questioning “why?” and searching for the best answer possible to all the hard questions, it’s very easy for your like-minded group of thinkers to turn into a nice little circle where everyone pats each other on the back. Telling each other how good/smart/interesting each one of you are while insulating themselves from any type of dissent and ignoring the hard [and oftentimes legitimate] questions that other people have about the way that your little group does things
Posted on 7/23/16 at 1:40 pm to Kentucker
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Flora and fauna that are dependent upon an unchanging environment are the first to go.
Survival of the fittest if ever there was a case. A species that cannot survive change is not going to survive long.
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The amount of damage done to the environment will depend upon the technological demands of "developing" countries, a slowing and then reduction of the earth's population, and the development of technology to help the earth's natural processes of rejuvenating itself.
Again, there is no consensus about this "damage" that is being done to the environment from global warming. Species come and go, and even if some extra kick off due to humanity expanding and advancing, many would argue that's a more than worthwhile sacrifice.
Posted on 7/23/16 at 2:07 pm to PrivatePublic
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Again, there is no consensus about this "damage" that is being done to the environment from global warming.
It isn't just global warming that's affecting earth's biosphere, however. Pollution, deforestation, damming water routes, mining, farming, roads, depleting water tables and a host of other human activities are physically changing landscapes and eliminating animal and plant habitats. Global warming will make it hot but it's the other human effects that are making earth's environment unlivable for many species.
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Species come and go, and even if some extra kick off due to humanity expanding and advancing, many would argue that's a more than worthwhile sacrifice.
Species come and go in a natural biosphere. They just go where humans dominate the landscape. Evolution takes time. Human zeal for growth eliminates that factor.
"Advancing" is the operative word in your statement. Is a species advancing when it has to eliminate or subjugate other species for its own growth? What is it advancing towards?
Is a world where the only intelligent species has totally dominated and reshaped its environment advanced? Wouldn't it be more intelligent and advanced to live in harmony and perpetuity with the environment?
Posted on 7/23/16 at 6:06 pm to Kentucker
You may be right but that doesn't answer the question as to the how. I hate seeing any living thing just "go" but it's kind of inevitable isn't it?
Posted on 7/23/16 at 7:28 pm to GoldenDawg
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Every frickin' year this happens.
It sure seems to. My guess is goobers get together and convince themselves that THIS must be the year. And when, as is bound to happen, the Arctic has an abnormally warm summer this will be their PROOF.
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