Hah, I was just trying to submit this article, but that headline is much better than what I had in mind. :)

Is it enough to start the feedback to give us snow in july?

Well fark.

I was going to get involved in this thread as usual, but no. I think I would rather have a popsicle.

In before the Climate Change deniers, who all must be at late prayer meetings this Sunday.

Oh snap.

Submitter: well done.

I don't understand how people can be so stupid. Obviously no ice ever melted before the invention of the car

Or, alternately, you could just not be drinking Al Gore's koolaid, and instead just believe that natural climate change is occurring. But that's far too rational a position, and not nearly as troll-riffic as the headline, so I apologize in advance for any ruffled feathers.

Only a weed smokin hippie liberal would compare the size of the ice shelf to Jamaica. Why not say it was the size of something in Mur'ka?

This just in: The Earth goes through periods of increased warmth and increased cooling that can last anywhere from years to centuries. The Earth has been significantly warmer and significantly colder than it is right now countless numbers of times. Climate and global temperature are not now nor have they ever been static and yes, the temperature can, does, and has fluctuated up or down abruptly.

The religion of environmentalism cannot stand the truth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier

It's a little dry in here.....

Clearly, it's headed straight for Iowa.

But it was cold this winter! SNOW! Like Christmas, when JESUS protected us from the FIRES OF HELL! That proves the Earth is NOT WARMING!

Oh yeah? Well, it was COLD here today, subby. Do you understand what that means? Cold I say. Good day, sir! I said good day, sir.

Man the lifeboats!

Thakh: Oh snap.

I see what you did there.

D-Liver: Only a weed smokin hippie liberal would compare the size of the ice shelf to Jamaica. Why not say it was the size of something in Mur'ka?

How 'bout "the size of Al Gore's electric bill"? That's pretty damn large after all.

I blame the engineers. Aren't they supposed to inspect these things?

1 lol for subby.

Oh great. Cue the global warming hysteria.

Folks, the world and its climate are not a fixed, static occurence. Changes have happened through the millenia. That's just the facts, regardless of what the fear mongers will tell you - some of which will post hazy at best "facts".

The "ice bridge" wasn't always there. It was there for a few centuries - which is just a speck in the history of the Earth.

Climate change happens. It always has.

Finally.

And you would be an inbred fundy neocon if you thought it was caused by anything other than global warming.

Falcc: But it was cold this winter! SNOW! Like Christmas, when JESUS protected us from the FIRES OF HELL! That proves the Earth is NOT WARMING!

0/10. Just put in at least a little effort.

JK8Fan: Climate change happens. It always has.

A-Ha! So you don't deny it!?

But wait, how can this be, Obama said he'd make it all go away



Keep hoping arseholes, we're all gonna die of something

JK8Fan: Oh great. Cue the global warming hysteria.

Folks, the world and its climate are not a fixed, static occurence. Changes have happened through the millenia. That's just the facts, regardless of what the fear mongers will tell you - some of which will post hazy at best "facts".

The "ice bridge" wasn't always there. It was there for a few centuries - which is just a speck in the history of the Earth.

Climate change happens. It always has.
Millenia? That sounds like the earth is only thousands of years old. Maybe 6 thousand to be exact?! I know what you're up to!

Glad they put that inset of the world on teh map... otherwise I might not know where Antartica is..

A-Ha! So you don't deny it?

No one expects the climatic inquisition!

*sigh*

CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL.

Man-made climate change, not so much.

"warmth of God's love"

Farking hilarious - I'm going to have to remember that one...

farfigneugan: JK8Fan: Climate change happens. It always has.

A-Ha! So you don't deny it!?

No, we've gone from "There is no climate change!" to "It's natural! We didn't start it and we can't do anything about it!"

Predicting in ten-twenty years: "Limousine liberals didn't do anything about it when they should have and now it's too late so why should we destroy the economy!"

randomjsa: This just in: The Earth goes through periods of increased warmth and increased cooling that can last anywhere from years to centuries. The Earth has been significantly warmer and significantly colder than it is right now countless numbers of times. Climate and global temperature are not now nor have they ever been static and yes, the temperature can, does, and has fluctuated up or down abruptly.

Right. But we should be entering a cold cycle right now, actually on our way to another Ice Age. Instead, it's getting warmer.

See the problem?

I call troll

This has happened over and over again ever since the end of the last ice age.

So nice, they had to greenlight this story twice? (new window)

Fact: The climate is changing.
Fact: I don't care.

Send some icebergs up through Niagara Falls. I'd pay to see that.

randomjsa: The Earth goes through periods of increased warmth and increased cooling that can last anywhere from years to centuries.

Can you show that the Earth is currently in a cycle of increased warmth, and that this period is not anomalous, as the overwhelming majority of researchers claim it is?

socalnewwaver: instead just believe that natural climate change is occurring

Can you show the mechanism by which this natural change occurs, and further show that this mechanism is having the largest net effect on current trends?

JK8Fan: Climate change happens. It always has.

If you truly believe this, what preparations are you making to survive the coming mass extinction that has historically followed such natural cycles?

socalnewwaver: Or, alternately, you could just not be drinking Al Gore's koolaid, and instead just believe that natural climate change is occurring. But that's far too rational a position, and not nearly as troll-riffic as the headline, so I apologize in advance for any ruffled feathers.

Why on earth would it be natural? Is there anything natural about burning thousands* of years worth of carbon over the course of 300 years?

*I presume you are a young earth creationist.

farfigneugan: JK8Fan: Climate change happens. It always has.

A-Ha! So you don't deny it!?

No, I don't deny it. I also don't think that man is the CAUSE of it.

However, global warming will keep some scientists employed until they are able to retire. If I were a scientist in the field, I would find enough evidence of global warming to get myself enough grants to last for about 30 years of study. Then I'd just retire.

Well, time to buy some beachfront property.

I actually went with a fudgesicle. It's delicious.

/still not joining in this time

Unless said ice is 6 billion years old or so, I'm not worried in the slightest. if it wasn't for ice melting in the first place, half the world would still be under a glacier.

randomjsa: This just in: The Earth goes through periods of increased warmth and increased cooling that can last anywhere from years to centuries. The Earth has been significantly warmer and significantly colder than it is right now countless numbers of times. Climate and global temperature are not now nor have they ever been static and yes, the temperature can, does, and has fluctuated up or down abruptly.

The religion of environmentalism cannot stand the truth.

JK8Fan: Oh great. Cue the global warming hysteria.

Folks, the world and its climate are not a fixed, static occurence. Changes have happened through the millenia. That's just the facts, regardless of what the fear mongers will tell you - some of which will post hazy at best "facts".

The "ice bridge" wasn't always there. It was there for a few centuries - which is just a speck in the history of the Earth.

Climate change happens. It always has.


while i understand your sentiment and agree with what you are saying, just because our planet's temperature fluctuates doesn't mean that environmental causes are pointless. i dislike fearmongers--whether their rallying cry is "ZOMG terrorists!" or "ZOMG global warming!"--but when people take the information that environmental changes might NOT be man-made and use it to say, "well, let's keep on consuming a finite energy source and dumping the waste all over the world," how can that be a good thing?

socalnewwaver: Or, alternately, you could just not be drinking Al Gore's koolaid, and instead just believe that natural climate change is occurring. But that's far too rational a position, and not nearly as troll-riffic as the headline, so I apologize in advance for any ruffled feathers.

Ah, yes, the Al Gore boogey man. Never mind all the actual scientists and reams and reams of climate studies. Nope, it's just ol' Al Gore making it all up.

/'tard

If you listen to/watch the video.. you can't help but wonder if the asshats landing aircraft on the damned thing and pounding stuff into it MIGHT have had ANYTHING to do with it breaking apart...