We've no time to discuss Rmoney's apacolyptic death cult--we're all going to DIE

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

XemaSab (55,857 posts)

Y'all do realize that the Arctic sea ice is going to be GONE within the next administration...

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 ...right?

<graph that does not reflect recent showing arctic ice is expanding>

CrispyQ (14,213 posts)

1. We have our collective head in the sand.







We Are Writing the Epilogue to the World We Knew
by John Atcheson

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/31
 

snip...

In 1990 we could have averted this disaster and saved money doing it. As late as 2010 we still had a shot at avoiding it. But now, the die is cast, the future foretold. What follows will be an epilogue to civilization, as we knew it.
 
Hyperbole? Let’s look at the facts.

~more at link

Very depressing

So, in other words Obama and the dems threw away their decisive legislative majorities and doomed our world by wasting our last chance to avert doom by arguing for a healthcare plan nobody likes.

Junkdrawer (24,758 posts)

4. Two unstoppable trains are racing toward each other on the same track....

The petro-driven techo-industrial train and the reality of tipping point AGW.

Faced with increasing evidence of the AGW train, the petro-driven techo-industrial train keeps mashing down the accelerator and giving more money to the scientific whores who tell them the AGW train is a liberal conspiracy.
 
The only certainty is that the crash will be horrific. Oh, and most of us will live to see it.

It's curtains for certains!

Gregorian (18,596 posts)

7. No one is going to stop doing what they're doing.

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The next Olympic village will be built. Military practices will continue. Tourists will fly and drive.
 
I can't hear you.

Edit- that graph is extrapolated. I seriously doubt all ice will be gone withing that short period of time. But it's the concern that I share.

Junkdrawer (24,758 posts)

17. I see an exponential process. The curve is a best-fit exponential curve.

So far, it's predicted each next data point with uncanny accuracy. Other models have under predicted.

Sure, skippy. Sure.

Motown_Johnny (14,380 posts)

16. IMO we are already past the point of no return.

The climate is going to change radically even if we stopped burning all fossil fuels yesterday.
 
That isn't to say that we should not try to mitigate the damage, we should. Anything that can be done to reduce the damage should be done. Unfortunately it will be to little to late.
 
This time in history will be known as a new dark age. We like to think we are a in a new Enlightenment due to our technological advancements but we are wrong. We are children with matches who have learned to start a fire but without the ability to comprehend that the house being on fire is a bad thing.

Just remember who the military-worshipping, industrrial-minded, gun-toting faction is.

And which faction is too ****ing stupid and lazy to present ID for ordinary tasks.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021249269

[jukin]

So 0bama did not lower the sea levels? 

Another failed promise from Obama. It is almost like he is an empty chair or something.

[obumazombie]

Any reporting on the increases in antarctic ice ?

[obumazombie]

So 0bama did not lower the sea levels? 

Another failed promise from Obama. It is almost like he is an empty chair or something.

An empty suit IN an empty chair.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Any reporting on the increases in antarctic ice ?

On our forum?

Plenty

At DU the absence of impending doom would be the worst thing ever for their fragile little psyches.

[Happy Fun Ball]

[JohnnyReb]

If glowbull warming is real, why haven't the DUmmies junked their cars, turned off the lights, the computers, the heat/air conditioning, the stove, the refrigerator, the cell phone chargers, the etc.........

They know it's all bull shiite. They just want you to suffer.

[obumazombie]

If glowbull warming is real, why haven't the DUmmies junked their cars, turned off the lights, the computers, the heat/air conditioning, the stove, the refrigerator, the cell phone chargers, the etc.........

They know it's all bull shiite. They just want you to suffer.

Where is the vast exodus of libs back to the caves ?

[BlueStateSaint]

Where is the vast exodus of libs back to the caves ?

Don't go giving them any ideas--they'll show up here at CC.

[Tucker]

So 0bama did not lower the sea levels? 

Another failed promise from Obama. It is almost like he is an empty chair or something.

In hindsight, wouldn't it have been great if Clint would have laid a suit across the back of the chair.

[formerlurker]

 

Oh NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS!!!!  It;s following the trend.  It like goes down and shit and then goes up and stuff.    What the hell??   run away, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD RUN AWAY!!!!


... whatever you do... please please please DON'T DRINK THE MILK!!!!! 

[Chris_]

Oh NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS!!!!  It;s following the trend.  It like goes down and shit and then goes up and stuff.    What the hell??   run away, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD RUN AWAY!!!!


... whatever you do... please please please DON'T DRINK THE MILK!!!!! 

[formerlurker]

Antarctic ice may cover 4 billion tons of methane
By: Staff Writer
Posted: 1:00 AM | Comments: 1 (including replies)
 

LOS ANGELES -- Enormous reservoirs of the potent greenhouse gas methane could lurk beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, hastening the rate of global warming if portions of the sheet collapse, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Nature.

Methane, a byproduct of dead and decaying organic matter, probably exists within the sediments below the ice sheet, according to the study's authors. Though scientists have attempted to calculate the amount of greenhouse-gas-generating substances in Arctic permafrost, they have not previously considered reservoirs of methane beneath the Antarctic ice sheet.
Using mathematical models, the study authors estimated up to 4 billion tons of methane could reside beneath the ice sheet -- almost the same amount of methane some scientists have recently estimated exists within the Arctic permafrost.

"It's easy to forget that 35 million years ago, when the current period of Antarctic glaciation started, this continent was teeming with life," said Slawek Tulaczyk, a study co-author and professor of earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. "Some of the organic material produced by this life became trapped in sediments, which then were cut off from the rest of the world when the ice sheet grew. Our modelling shows that over millions of years, microbes may have turned this old organic carbon into methane."

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/world/antarctic-ice-may-cover-4-billion-tons-of-methane-168257976.html

Oh no no no -- it's GWB's fault!!!!   Carbon Credits.... Prius.... organic cat food!!!!

SAVE MOTHER EARTH!!!!! 

 

[ChuckJ]

If glowbull warming is real, why haven't the DUmmies junked their cars, turned off the lights, the computers, the heat/air conditioning, the stove, the refrigerator, the cell phone chargers, the etc.........

They know it's all bull shiite. They just want you to suffer.

It's like work to them...they want you to do it so they don't have to. 

[GOBUCKS]

I see nothing but upside to melting the Arctic ice.

It's floating, so it will have no effect on sea levels.

With no ice, it will be easier to get oil tankers to the North Slope and the NWR.

[Airwolf]

Sorry but the world is in more danger of a nuclear war breaking out over the Middle East then Global Warming. Get back to us when the Jihadist want to stop threatening the use of nukes against Israel

[98ZJUSMC]

Any reporting on the increases in antarctic ice ?

Strangely absent from (D)U.

Shocking, I know.

[Randy]

Strangely absent from (D)U.

Shocking, I know.

What? Higher brain function? No not shocking at all. 

[JohnnyReb]

we're all going to DIE ...yeah, but as long as we are the last ones to die, OK. They say only cockroaches will survive and we wouldn't want to leave the earth to be infested with DUmmie cockroaches.