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  • fuck 2049 The ice is gone NOW! in 2011 google earth Northpole see for your self

  • For the latest version of this research, please see the updated version of this simulation on the NCAR+UCAR Science channel, narrated by National Center for Atmospheric Research scientist Marika Holland (uploaded October 3, 2011).

  • Ice melts when it's heat.

    Ice do not melts when the temperature is below freezing.

    Keep it cool, as simple as that; easy said but not easy to be practical.

    What technology and human behavior are needed to keep it cool?

  • Alright,

    Now shjow me the Winter Maximum for all those years

    psst, the Artic Ice melts in the summer allowing Polar bears to swim and hunt fish and seals

  • A) Ice melting dose not increase water levels 

    B) look up "MCA" or Medieval Warming Period, and further more the "LIA" or little ice age that followed the MCA. the earth has gone 90% of its existence without icecaps at all. The earth was not flooded then nor will it be if the completely melt. the earth has done this before in the last 900 years of recorded history. CO2 has hey to be "PROVEN" a cause of this warm period.

  • @tmaduri ice core samples for the past 400,000 years has shown that CO2 levels never went much above 300 ppm. CO2 levels are now at almost 400 ppm, where exactly do you think the CO2 is coming from and where is your evidence for stating so?

  • @TheModerator79 ??? I think you misread my comment, I never said CO2 was imaginary, or that humans dont account for an increase in it. I said it and no point in time has been linked to "with proof" to this recent warm period, not ot mention the Ice caps are back up from last year considerably. I do not have the burden of proof here you do. The IPCC is charged with the search for JUST ONE shred of proof that CO2 is the soul and direct cause of this new warm period. they have yet to do so

  • This video ceased to be relevent after 2006. Notice the upload date. Most of it is projection based on weak programs.

  • @johnknoefler

    lol what's the matter? does the truth hurt so much that you're ignoring me? lol

    FOR EVERYBODY OUT THERE: I POINTED OUT THAT JOHNKNOEFLER KEEPS BITCHING AND WHINING ABOUT SITUATIONS THAT HE MAY CHANGE IF HE WANTS. HE'S IGNORING ME SINCE THEN AND BLOCKING MY COMMENTS. WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT HIM?

  • ...yeah this video WOULD be valid IF global warming was a real,i dont even know if u ignorant "scientists" even know about "global freezing" 20 or so years ago,just keep preaching ur crap so you can earn money so you can survive this economical panic then say that CO2,which plants need to grow and produe waste known as oxygen,is bad so you can earn more money seeling crazy expensive solar sht bombs that is efecient becase if it were we would be using it now.

  • If anything this is conservative

  • polar ice caps are NOTTT melting its a load of crock

  • @TheEcoTerrorDactyls Of course the ice caps are melting

  • @QuantumOverlord my ice cream is melting

  • OH I hope so. The tens MIllion of acres of land that will not be in a permeant icebox will will raise food for billions of people and expand living space. The new resources that will be discovered under the ice will provide 100's of millions of jobs. The lack of ice will provide a shortcut via the northwest passage will save trillions every year in transportation costs alone. If there is similar warming in the south Antarctica will be like Alaska is now

  • Hey mike when I want you to say something smart I'll take my cock out ya mouth. Do us a favor and STFU!

  • no offence but, really, some people are just really stupid to not beleive the ice caps are melting when its right in front of them. Never picked up a book or traveled.

  • LMFAO! Melting ice caps is pure bullshit. They don't tell you that it all returns the next winter. They are going to tax C02? This is all one big scams to control and make us pay more money through carbon credits. I'll beleive it when Al gore REALLY invented the Internet.

  • dude are you fucking retarded? like are you completly fucking retarded? Your probably jsut some 15 year old american dumbass am I right?

  • woo hoo there's still a teeny bit of ice left by 2049!

  • There's been no change in GLOBAL total sea ice in 30 years of recording.

  • screw the F#CK1NG factories and cars

  • Global warming deniers are pretty delusional.

    The entire north polar icecap, which has been there for most of the last 3 million years, is disappearing before our eyes. Forty percent is already gone. The rest is expected to go completely within the next decade.

    What do they think is causing this

    ??

  • well cant be that gas thing I remember some doc actually mentioning that something counter acts the event as it happens. Why did

    he lie before? Apparently there is a team of Researchers whom have made some kind of a deal but the guy who said it had allready become old enough not to care about money so he no longer 'lies' apparently.

  • Nothing is causing it because it isn't happening. Action doesn't equal reaction. "Consequences" are a myth. There is only God!!!

  • Climate deniers are cut from the same cloth as creationists, birthers, truthers and all the other politically inspired anti-science cults that infest the internet. These people don't want to play the game of science by by the rules, they want special treatment for their ideas and more often than not go off into dellusional rants about global conspiracies when they don't get it.

  • @Tapecutter59 damn straight

  • From the summer of 2007 till now de ice sea of Arctic summer it´s growing 500.000 km2 per year, 1.000.000 km2 today. The Antarctic ice it ´s growing too.

    The only sure thing is that before or later we will have a new glaciation. Put in this is your simulations to seeing if this way you learn something.

  • Rubbish.The polar caps grow and shrink in cycles.They have always done so.Why would the polar caps abruptly dissipate,when they have never done so before now, and the Earth is below it's average means because we are still recovering from the little ice age.We are actually cooler today than in the middle ages.What this is,is bad science,or people who do not report the truth.The polar caps are growing larger during their growing cycle than ever before.What about that?

  • absolutly. Couldnt agreem more .

  • NO IS NOT THAT its the effects of it melting

  • What? Try to express yourself with more than one sentence ok.

  • GLOBAL WARMING! That will MELT the ice!

  • Global warming ALWAYS metls the ice caps, it has been doing so since the Earths inception. We are currently BELOW the average Earths temperature. This is a normal cycle that is nothing to worry about.

  • You know what else is normal?

    Comets, meteorites, solar flares, gamma ray bursts, deadly gasses, radiation, parasites, diseases, volcanoes and large rocks falling are NATURAL.

    An astronomically high percentage of the "natural" universe will cause instant death.

    "Natural" has nothing to do with "nothing to worry about".

  • the earth is gonna die out once again and millions of years later the earth will begin with dinosaurs this is the way its ment to be we cant do anything this earth will die and live and die and live. there is ice on mars when this is melted there might be oksygen will this be a 2nd tellus? answer please

  • "... a considerable change of climate, inexplicable at present to us, must have taken place in the Circumpolar Regions, by which the severity of the cold that has for centuries past enclosed the seas in the high northern latitudes in an impenetrable barrier of ice, has been during the last two years greatly abated. "

    President of the Royal Society, London, to the Admiralty, 20th November, 1817

  • Also, there is evidence that the Earth is hollow and there is a hole up there.

  • Whoever -1-ed me, lets debate this.

  • If the ice caps melt the sea water levels should stay about the same or even go down, because water takes up less space than ice. Some people believe what we are seeing with global warming is not so much caused by us, but actually the Earth changing naturally, we have no control over the final outcome.

  • What about ice that is on land? Greendland is covered in tons of ice. If that melts will the sea level still stay the same or drop? No, it will rise. But I do agree with the cause of this. It is a natural occurance. Humans did not create this.

  • So the millions of tons of man made CO2 is part of our lack of control?

  • I believe its reasonable to say we have some control to delay the enevitable, but in the end what is going to happen will happen.

  • Any particular reason you believe this?  Or is it a relgious belief?

  • I wouldn't call it a religious belief, in fact its not really my belief exactly. But given what I've heard from several sources, humans and what we have done to polute the earth isn't the only factor at play here. I have heard that there is evidence that polar shifts have happened before and that climate changes have happened before.

  • Do you think mankind should take some action to prevent any potential adverse affects of climate change? Even if it's man-made, completely natural or somewhere in between?

  • Yes I do, to some extent. I heard back in the 1960's American big cities had a big problem with smog caused by all the cars on the road. This issue was helped a lot with the introduction of the pcv valve and the egr valve. I believe prevention helps as well, but eventually are we doomed? I don't know.

  • Check out Dr. Don Esterbrook on google and you will find that he is possibly the world's leading expert on climate and he states that we will have about another 20 to 25 years of colder temperatures. Global warming is a scam and the scam is by Al Gore etc. and they have become multimillionairs over it.

    The artic ice has increased over the last 8 years and is expected to continue doing so for another 25 years at least.

    This is another Y2K crapfeast.

  • Wow garysick, you won that!  You proved us all wrong. You've got mad skilz at debate.

  • Arctic sea ice is now at an 8 year high !

  • Fail:

    In spite of the spectacular failure of Dr. Serrezes widely quoted prediction, there were no retractions, no apologies for misleading the public, no admissions of error, and inaccurate stories like the one above are still in place. So what could possibly be worse news from NSIDC?

    The very man who made that ridiculous statement of an ice free north pole in 2008″ is set to become the incoming director of NSIDC. Apparently alarmism pays, especially if you get press.

  • frigg

  • Global warming is indeed a fact. The planet can do one of three things {climate-wise}: warm up; cool down; remain steady. Recently it has become warmer, though not much warmer as we continue to break records in the record cold dept. Warmer weather means more food and a decrease in fuel- demand to heat our buildings.

  • I wish that global warming were true, we would save money heating our homes in winter. But it is not and the winters are getting colder again. This is just another Y2K crap story.

  • narrow-minded.

  • it is true the reason why it gets really cold in the winter is because one of the effects of global warming is extreme temperature changes from extreme cold in the winter to extreme hot in the summer

  • Just in case you havn't noticed, we are having and have had for the last several years, a very cool summer. This year we are still waiting for warmer temperatures. The crops are hardly growing in the fields it has been so cold. Matter of fact we have had frost warning the last few days.

    No, the global warming crowd is just like the Y2K gang, they are all wrong and they know it but just wont admit it yet.

    When the north freezes over to record ice cover, maybe then you will wake up.

  • if to you its not true then ho do you explain the increase of terrible natural disasters and all the ice melting, i live in Colombia, South america and the temperature has` also increased here

  • It is called weather and it changes all the time. 500 years ago the we went through a mini ice age and a lot of europes rivers froze over.

    We get storms and floods all the time and they are not getting any worse.

    The world's temperature has dropped .2 degrees in the last 7 years and it will get much colder before it starts to warm up again.

    The weather bureau can't even forcast for the next 2 days without getting it wrong so what makes you think they can forcast for the next 50 years?

  • Abrupt ice return in 2009 ... and don't foregt the 30 years of cooling in the Antarctic

  • I hope that this global warming thing is real because it is just to cold out there for me.

  • thats a bad thing u idiot..do you want fresh water or not? and also u better not live next to the ocean or ur house is gone -.-

  • and u live in Afghanistan wtf its not that cold there

  • You do know that it gets cold at night even in the desert, don't you? They still have summer and winter the same as everyone else.

  • It´s a Big Problem, the next years the earth changes global warming every day.

  • Climatologists have used various techniques and evidence to reconstruct a history of the Earth's past climate. From this data, they have found that during most of the Earth's history global temperatures were probably 8 to 15 degrees Celsius warmer than today. In the last billion years of climatic history, warmer conditions were broken by glacial periods starting at 925, 800, 680, 450, 330, and 2 million years before present.

  • The last Interglacial, the Eemian, was about 5 degrees warmer then now. 125,000 years ago. Our ancestors survived, and so did the coral reefs and Polar Bears. Tree lines were about 350 miles further north. Pretty well an ice free Arctic Ocean.

    Global Warming is nothing new. Just be glad it isn't Global Cooling. Then you would really have a serious problem. Imagine mile thick ice scraping cities from the face of the Earth and almost no crops growing at all. Mass starvation on a level never seen.

  • "Our ancestors survived, and so did the coral reefs and Polar Bears."

    Conditions on Earth have changed just a little since then. Population is a higher, close to 7 billion, and environmental stressors and depletion is, well, everywhere. To compare conditions of 125000 years ago to now and say we'll be fine is, what's the right word, insane, yes that's it.

  • You're a fool. I'm not talking about anything other then temperatures then and now. Somehow higher temperatures now, are more dangerous to Polar Bears then much higher temperatures 125,000 years ago? I don't think so. Got news for you bud, Polar Bear populations have increased since your Global Warming alarmism started in the 1970's. You're the fool. Climate always changes. Try doing a study of Paleoclimatology. Oops, you better try to get through high school first. You brainwashed leftist.

  • Take it easy with the insults. They make you seem insecure. A quick fact check makes your increasing polar bear population claim deceptive at best. Polar bear harvests have been limited so populations have risen a little. And unfortunately there are environmental factors other than just weather to consider. So to think that human populations, pollution, and even your favourite, man made climate change are irrelevant is, as I said, insane. Keep dreaming.

  • You were the one that started.. With the word "insane". You seem to be insecure too if that's the case.

  • If you refer to five fold increase in Polar Bear population as having "risen a little", then WOW, what an understatement. Funny how as the world warmed a little tiny bit since the 1970's the Polar Bear Population is now five times higher, and so they are in danger. Talk about "insane". This whole talk is about Global Warming. Well, if the world warms a bit, there are most likely more good things about a litte warming then there would be about cooling don't you think? Think, "harvests" and food.

  • The five-fold increase is not true. As for insane, well we do live in an insane system that's driven us to the edge of oblivion and may well drive us over the edge in the next two generations. Don't you worry about your grand kids? What kind of system uses things up until there completely gone. We live in a civilizatiopn that's driven people, animals, plants extinct. We don't think ahead to life for our children. It's scary, it's insane and so many people - you included - support it.

  • Fivefold increase not true? Care to cite your sources? And then I'll cite mine. The point is, Polar Bear numbers have been increasing over the Global Warming years since the 1960's. You deny it? What are we using up until it is completely gone? Oil? They are discovering more all the time. And our vehicles and furnaces are becomeing more fuel efficient. We will discover new sources of energy for transportation and heat before we run out of oil.

  • "The IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group reclassified the polar bear as a vulnerable species on the IUCN's Red List of Endangered Species at their most recent meeting (Seattle, 2005). They reported that of the 19 subpopulations of polar bears, five are declining, five are stable, two are increasing, and seven have insufficient data on which to base a decision." This is from the Polar Bears International site. Apparently people see and report more bears because ice the bears lived on melted!

  • Burning gas, is a retarded aspect that needed to go away around the turn of the century, yet has turned out to be a tyrannical nightmare of carcinogens and war. You are more likely to die from the cancer causing shit from gas than the global warming. Im still all for technology and large scale society.

    solar panel + hydrogen, not complex.

  • Get involved!

    WeCanSolveIt(dot)org

    Read what our most reliable experts have said about the issue.

    Google...

    Scientific Opinion on Climate Change Wikipedia

  • The 2008 Arctic ice cover is 30% GREATER than 2007.

    Antarctic has been cooling for 30 years.

  • I am somewhat skeptical of this projection. Most climate models are rather inaccurate owing to the massive amount of factors present. There are also some things we still don't know about climatology. I think this is a bit extreme.

  • I'm just wondering...but wat would happen to the SOUTH POLE???

    Lol I just keep hearing things about the North, but nothing about the South

  • nothing, the south pole is colder...I've seen in TV that the South Pole will be melt a little bit, but not too much...but it's not good too!!

  • The south pole has real landmass beneath it. The north pole is just sea ice.

  • im 13 and we study this in school. im sorry that your a grumpy old ignorant man and that most of your life is already over.

    piss off u fat cunt

  • lol

    its actually you who sounds stupid having an arguement with a 13 yr old girl!

    rofl

    even my mum n dad n all my friends say u mustnt have much of an exciting life. ad nd just shut up about it now lol

  • inside our earth is a core of heat (gas) and it has its own rotation, and that gets hotter and hotter and hotter... so the ice will melt, cool down the earth(stop it exploding), then the excess water will gradually freeze again because of how cold the earth will be...(we all be dead probably -so no more fossil fuels) and then the whole bacteria growing into life forms in an ice-age, then life forms adapting and evolving will happen. But not ever night, over billions and billions of years.

  • this guy is retarded, just so u guys know. he posts the same assasine response on everything global warming related.

  • no its actually true,,, and this guy is a girl!

    please beleive me i've studied all of this.

    Theres nothing we can do.

  • piss of, i didnt ask you to assess it

  • i only posted this over lots of global warming videos to let people know.

  • you're letting people know your own personal diluted beliefs. You haven't studied anything you just like to type to read yourself type.

    Our earth does not fuse hydrogen or helium in it's core and does not heat up. In fact the Mantle and Core of the earth are cooling, they have been for millions of years, hence how we are able to live on the surface of earth. You have no clue what you're talking about, and people deserve to know that

  • oomg chill out u fucking stress bag.

    relax for once

  • NO this guy is definately wrong. Ice caps melt due to rising sea temperatures period.

  • Detroit doesn't care, they keep producing vehicles that hasten the end. Of course the bigger culprits are coal burning power plants and the cattle industry. Took millions of years to produce fossil fuels, and we burn everything in just over a century. Nice, huh?

  • What they don't tell you is 1979 was the coldest year for the arctic in nearly a century, accumulating abnormal amounts of ice coverage. Data such as this is only gathered from 1979 on. And nevertheless it was the threat of "global cooling" and Ice Age. You need to cover other facts dude. There are plenty of scientific organization websites out there that conflict with these theory's.

  • you're wrong about that, the vast majority of the scientific community agrees with the warming of the earth and it's being backed with hard science. It's ok to be cynical and skeptical, but it's foolish to be ignorant and in denial. You must consider both sides and make an educated decision. Look around once in a while don't assume you know everything.

  • i have studied it. why else would i put something like this?

    god im not stupid and im not ignorant or in denial, i have definately considered both sides of the story, and i DID NOT ask for some one to assess what i commented.

  • this was just to someone who kept being mean to me, not any of you lot sorry

  • You haven't studied anything or considered anything, you just made up your own inaccurate and incorrect opinon and you're trying to sell these good people snake oil.

    And if you make a comment i have every right to comment back, especially if you're wrong.

  • you cant have an incorrect opinion.

    opinion means :a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty

    so get overyrself get your head out from your arse.

  • you can have an opinion that green pixies come out at night and dance wildly through your garden with little purple elephants and pink hippo's, the fact is this doesn't happen so your opinion is wrong.

    Your story about the expanding gasses is fundamentally, scientifically proven to be incorrect. It's an opinion based on the fact that you haven't done research on scientific conclusions or accepted theories. You made up your own green pixies because you are bored.

  • i love those pixies dont you!!!! :)

    opinion means :a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty

    so get overyrself get your head out from your arse.

    xxxxx

  • You're wrong citing pseudo science as scientific facts, all your spamming of global warming videos is a personal opinion devoid of scientific research or fact. So you and your pixies amount to an insignificant pile of pixie dust, now blow away quietly.

  • HOW ABOUT U GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ARSE. LEAVE MY PIXIES AND OPINIONS ALONE. AND STOP ACTING LIKE SUCH A CHILD. GET OVER IT THAT I HAVE MY OPINIONS AND YOU HAVE YOURS, GET OVER IT THT AN OPINION CANT BE WRONG. how about i get my "pixies" to tell you that i have studied the effects of global warming. its like studying religion- u gonna say religion is a big lie too. no one knows f god is real but they still study and beleive that stuff. think about what yr saying u insignificant pile of SHIT

  • The fact you're going on the "no opinion can be wrong" crap tells me you're about 18 years old and are finally learning you can "think" for yourself. U can have any opinion you want, you haven't done scientific research, you haven't utilized the scientific method to prove your hypothesis, you are simply creating an opinion with zero scientific base, and that is an incorrect way to address a scientific issue. That's why i'm telling you to stop posing pseudo science as scientific fact or theory.

  • your the one who was saying, "this isnt real" in the first place, and i said i think it is. So you went off on one saying "just because you THINK..blah" well its you. And global warming is real its obvious, here in england it rains all summer and all winter and all srping. we have the odd warm day.

    i have the the reseach but i dont have a diploma. im 13. well done you can argue with a 13 yr old. but we r doing it in school, and even I can tell its a problem. so dont get up my arse about it.

  • i'm sorry for you that you're 13 and so ignorant already. hopefully you'll grow up someday.

  • There is already a report out that we're 30-40 yrs ahead of what they predicted and the sea ice in summer in the arctic could be gone by the end of this summer or next.

  • god this is really sad that people like you are so in it for themselves that they dont care.

    the human race makes me sick sometimes with some of the people that are on it. I mean we should care for our planet and stop treating it like a big giant trash pile. We have the technology right now to solve this problem and Hydrogen vehicles are a big part of the solution. We just need to switch to Clean Renewable non polluting sources of energy and get away from oil.

  • Great cartoon, now ask yourself. Is the world better or worse without polar ice caps.

    You have more oceanfront housing and waterview housing. The weather is great, more fresh water. Every house would exchange their cars for boats. I love global warming

  • Glaciers have melted on the earth before, when humans were around and no industrial pollution. CO2 levels used to be much higher,several times higher than it is now and the earth was fine, with plants and animals thriving in that environment. Humans freak out because we live all over the world in areas susceptible to any number of disasters, nature doesn't pick and choose who or what to hit, its natural.Earth survived asteroids, comets, supervolcanoes. A little natural global warming is harmless

  • The ice is melting. there is proof everywhere. Why can't you global warming denialists see this??? I guess it will take the ocean lapping at the white house door before anyone cares enough to do anything. WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!

    How can it be due to a natural process when in the past 100 yrs we've gone from ice covered poles to almost losing half the arctic ice? All since the industrial revolution began!!! Its human caused. Get over it and lets come up with a solution, ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

  • omg, I just found this out. 80 years ago, about 20 years after global warming started (that is what you say right) all the grandpa's I know were born. So global warming must be causing a flood of grandpa's somehow. This is terrible, we should do something, or we will all die of overexposure to grandpa's.

  • just think... when the ice melts, the canadians, russians, danes, and norweigans will move in and steal all the oil underneath, while we cry foul...

    yes, the PC US is that fucking stupid

  • your dumb oh just read my other coment dip stick.

  • Im pretty sure that not to long ago the entire continent of north america was covered in glaciers...that melted before humans did anything. So..it kinda disproves that it has anything to do with humans.

  • In which case, it took 10,000+ years for global temperatures to increase 4 degrees. We're managing to do the same in less than two centuries.

    The global warming denial case is utterly discredited. Not only by the science; but also by the fact that the argument keeps shifting. First it was "global warming isn't happening", then it was "global warming is happening, but it will be a good thing!", now it's "global warming is happening, it won't be good, but it's not our fault". Liars.

  • just remember back in the 1970s and 1980s all we heard was GLOBAL COOLING THIS AND THAT AND OH NO!!!!!

    because we had a few colder years... it's complete crap... no other countries are taking 1/3 the measures we are... so what if we "tax emissions on carbon"

    OH I KNOW I KNOW what will happen... a deep recession caused by energy... we shoot one foot out from under us by not drilling, and we shoot the other one for taxing it...

    All members save Paul and Kucinich should be thrown out...

  • Oh yeah because the people who are saying Global Warming is caused by human actions, dont shift what they say, Think about what you say before you say it.

    The fact of the matter is, this is probably going to cause an Ice age, if it a cyclic thing

  • you hit it right on the dot brother nothing truer than that i take my hat of to you at least sombody knows somthing in the world today. it happened millions of year ago and there were no humans or cars so what makes people think that we are doing somthing some people are just plain stupid and listien to these dumb ideas of the democrats also.

  • The point is regardless of whether you believe in global warming , which i believe most people wont believe until something major happens.

    (like we start losing cities and such) or the ice is completely gone etc. is that we should all do our part to switch to clean alternatives and stop polluting our environment. Our planet is a precious resource and we should stop treating our only home as a giant waste bin

  • SOS Everyone must watch this now! Urgent warning from NASA!! Please pass this message on!

    watch?v=JUtVQ7QbCNU

  • Yes very true!

  • Google "invisionfree 2050".

  • seeing something like this makes me want to be less green...because apparently i can have no affect. global warming is an unstoppable force that will drown us all!!! run for your lives...in a few hundred years.

  • a few hundred years..? how bout 50.

  • How about 2012?

  • Just let the believers believe in Global Warming, so if they believe, and GW is not going  to happen, still it's not gonna affect the believers

  • I don't have a problem with the Global Warming Believers being duped by Al Gore and his ilk. The world is full of stupid people, such is life.

    However, just like many other religions, the Global Warming crowd has a bad habit of trying to force it's beliefs on others. In this case, they want to destroy freedom and commerce in the name of their great god "Saving The Planet". THAT, I can't abide.

  • Global warming is not a religion because it is materialist. I am a Christian environmental activist, so this "Global Warming is religion" argument makes no sense to me. The way I see it, you are trying to force your belief that we all must bow down at the altar of the free market.

  • Thats science. most of its Kinda guess work till its happened. Still, what would you rather believe? Religion? LOL

  • March 2008

    ANTARCTIC ICE GROWS TO RECORD SIZE

    It is now at 16.17 million sq. km.

    The old record is 16.03 million sq. km

    And it is still growing.

    According to Al Gore's predictions this wasn't supposed to happen.

    Now the alarmists are saying only SEA ICE (yes they capitalize it) is growing as if some how it's warmer over land in Antarctica and the ice is melting there. But its land ice gets thicker every year for 1000's of years now. Yearly snow compresses underlying snow into ice.

  • Gore waves his hand in a circular motion over a map of Antarctica and talks about it melting and sea levels rising 20 feet.

    But,

    Antarctic ice has grown to record size, growing both in circumference and thickness, and it is still growing.

  • ARCTIC ICE RAPIDLY GROWING--NORTHWEST PASSAGE IS CLOSED*

    *Al Gore is silent about this

  • Al Gore made a big deal out of the Northwest Passage opening a few months ago. But he was grossly negligent to not also state that it has been open several times in history--rather, he tried to make it appear some very unusual thing had happened.

    So since he promoted a hysteria based idea I think it should be pointed out that, in reality, there is nothing to worry about. The Northwest Passage opening and closing is an event that falls within the boundries of normal occurrences in the earth.

  • They dont stop at 2007 so you won't notice we lost 20% since 2006.

  • so what?You guys better come and live in ukraine it is so old country and nothing had happend,no floods,no earthquakes,no tornadoes,no hurricanes/we will be still alive while ya mudafuckas live in ya mudafucking penthouses and fuck with 2 girls

  • so what?You guys better come and live in ukraine it is so old country and nothing had happend,no floods,no earthquakes,no tornadoes,no hurricanes/we will be still alive while ya mudafuckas live in ya mudafucking penthouses and fuck with 2 girls

  • GOOD BYE AMERICA

  • The ice caps are following a cycle, it will not dissapear. Even if it does, we will be witnessing a change in our planet, it happens.

    Global warming is no time for panic, it is another test of Human Being's ability to adapt.

  • Summer ice will be gone before 2030, sorry 2020, sorry 2015, sorry 2012. Every time I see a timeline the date gets closer and closer.

  • does the earth die when it melt?

  • earth was never alive to begin with

  • no i ment do the people die n that?

  • i guess, unless u know how to swim for a very long time lol

  • but isnt it just global hot spots that get affected?

  • wrong...

  • omg!!!!!

  • its fuckin bullshit in the middle ages it was way warmer, but they dont say that next to this news

  • With a simple Passport taking months, Acumulated data published on Jan 23 08 by any organization connected to Government, would have been after many endless months of study and consencus. Therefore obsolete as an old copy of an alarmist issue of National Geographic magazine. Current studies reveal a different analysis. Science released to the public is always just behind the curve. Political Beurocracy also has a disproportunate effect on information divulged to the masses.

  • I've said it over and over.Freedom for Greenland, down with the Polar Ice.

  • With information available to anyone interested in the world today, there is little excuse for ignorance. Data of course can be manipulated to suit a political agenda. Change is inevitable in the sciences, including Climatology.

  • Where are you people getting these absurd statements from?! Stop making up BS!

    Search:

    NASA (23 Jan 2008) "Antarctic Ice Loss Speeds Up, Nearly Matches Greenland Loss"

    WIKIPEDIA "Significant acceleration of sea-level rise"

    To see RECENT NASA pictures and find RELEVANT research go to my blog at:

    dub-dub-dub (dot) midority (dot) com

    Follow the links for useful information and open your eyes to this serious problem, or at the very least stop writing ignorant comments.

  • what cause it to shrink so much already that we are able to live in canada and way up north for for 100s of years

  • water in the ocens is 16 feet is will add 4 more do is be flooding earth for a little in 21 1/2 centery

  • The effects of the ice sheet melting could throw the human race into termoil. Climate refugees, wars over food supply, and spread of tropical disease north could wipe out millions. Think about human extinction next time your start up your GMC Yukon, because you're causing it. Greed. One word that destroys the human race for good.

  • the US has hydrogen and know how to turn water into hydrogen. when a car releases H20 vapor...heat can separate the atoms. I found the link to perepetual energy. If we can find a way to cool the engine...the greenhouse gas emmissions may be cut by 50% or more. Now if the government is too greedy for their own good...well...good bye to that plan.

  • Why?. As a optimist scientist I instead see Floating Cities, multiple hyponic agricultural farms that can feed the entire population with no need for soil and can use sea water, and people helping people survive for the whole of humanity. Also the Arctic is a floating Ice sheet and Total meltdown in Earth's History only raised the Sea level 20 feet (hardly a "Water World") and the North Pole was a Swamp and Tropical Jungle with Dinosaurs once,so...

  • they are warning us........is anyone listening?

  • Peak of the 'Medieval Warm Period' to the depths of the 'Little Ice Age' was less than 100 years. Last Ice Age was no ski holiday. 'Laurentide Ice Sheet' covered most of the North American Continent, you wouldn't have liked it.

  • according to the latest NASA data, we apparently have 5 years not 40 :P

  • Blah Blah blah...melting..heat...yeah yeah..<-This is the attitude most Americans have about it so what should we do about it? The world these days...so many questions that will NEVER be answered..

  • Yeah... great ..

    We will can't see the real Polar bear anymore.

  • Yeah anybody whos lived down in hawaii knows this happening. they get flooding like nobodies business on their coastlines nowadays. also ,tailand, i lived there for 6 months and they were experiencing their hottest summer in 30 years, i come back to the northeast and we get the hottest summer on record for 57!

  • but at the rate humans are screwing up the Earth, it may be 3 generations before the Earth is uninhabitable.