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Originally Posted by Kirk  55 million years ago? You must be joking. The seabed there wasn't even at the pole 55 million years ago. Ever heard of plate tectonics?
We are pouring 8 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere each year. Half the North Pole has melted in just 50 years. This is no joke. |
Fifty years isn't even half a blink in the grand scheme of things on Earth. Five thousand years is barely a blink and whether you like it or not, the Arctic was ice free 55 million years ago and has been more ice free than it is now numerous times and even NASA doesn't think the current ice melt is due to AGW or global warming:
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October, 2007--Assume for a moment that a new study by NASA proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that manmade global warming was indeed responsible for the recent ice melts in the Arctic. Think media would have reported it?
In reality, that's a bit of a trick question, for in the past several weeks, television newscasts, papers, and magazines have been filled with hysterical assertions about decreasing Arctic ice levels destined to cause imminent flooding to coastal regions around the world.
As such, it certainly was no surprise when NASA released a report Monday claiming "the rapid decline in winter perennial ice the past two years was caused by unusual winds," virtually no media outlets shared the information with the citizenry, and those that did still blamed the melting ice on - you guessed it - global warming.
Unusual Winds Caused Arctic Ice Melts, Not Global Warming | NewsBusters.org |
I happen to love storms. When a really promising cloud comes up, even though I do not hope for lives to be endangered or property destroyed, I eagerly anticipate the charged air, lightning, thunder, and rain pounding on the roof. If the cloud doesn't meet expectations I am disappointed.
Is that the phenomenon at work here? Some of you people are so desperate for us to be in global crisis, you don't want to see any evidence that even suggests that all is quite well?