Frozen Gore

[xsited1]

http://www.compeaus.com/frozen.html

 

[uscitizen]

Those Alaskans must have a lot of free time on their hands.

I thought maybe frozen gore was what was left behind after Palin field dressed her moose.

 

[Big Black Dog]

I wonder if Al Gore would still be preaching global warming if he had frost on his testicles - that is, if he has any?

 

[xsited1]

I wonder if Al Gore would still be preaching global warming if he had frost on his testicles - that is, if he has any?

Gore is too effeminate to have testicles.

 

[Sinatra]

Frozen Gore - that is pretty awesome!

 

[ba1614]

haha, that's funny.

Interesting that Gore won't go see the people in Alaska, or anyone else who calls him out on his bullshit.

 

[Old Rocks]

Really fucking dumb comments from some fucking dumb assholes. Are you guys ever going to grow up and actually research something before talking out of your assholes?


Home
Alaska’s climate has warmed about 4°F since the 1950’s and 7°F in the interior during winter. The state experienced a 30% average increase in precipitation between 1968 and 1990. The growing season has lengthened by two weeks. Sea ice has retreated by 14% since 1978 and thinned by 60% since the 1960s with widespread effects on marine ecosystems, coastal climate, and human settlements. Permafrost melting has caused erosion, landslides and damaged infrastructure in central and southern Alaska. Recent warming has been accompanied by “unprecedented increases in forest disturbances, including insect attacks. A sustained infestation of spruce bark beetles, which in the past have been limited by cold, has caused widespread tree deaths over 2.3 million acres on the Kenai Peninsula since 1992, the largest loss to insects ever recorded in North America” (US Global Change Research Program, National Assessment, 2001).

 

[Old Rocks]

http://www.iser.uaa.alaska.edu/Publications/Juneclimatefinal.pdf

Scientists expect Alaska’s climate to get warmer in the coming years—and the changing climate could make it roughly 10% to 20% more expensive to build and maintain public infrastructure in Alaska between now and 2030 and 10% more expensive between now and 2080.
These are the first estimates of how much climate change might add to future costs for public infrastructure in Alaska, and they are preliminary.
“Public infrastructure” means all the federal, state, and local infrastructure that keeps Alaska functioning: roads, bridges, airports, harbors, schools, military bases, post offices, fire stations, sanitation systems, the power grid, and more. Privately owned infrastructure will also be affected by climate change, but this analysis looks only at public infrastructure.
A warming climate will damage Alaska’s infrastructure because it was designed for a cold climate. The damage will be concentrated in places where permafrost thaws, flooding increases, and coastal erosion gets worse. But the extra costs will likely diminish over time, as government agencies increasingly adapt infrastructure to changing conditions.
Keep in mind that we’re not projecting how much Alaska’s climate may change in the future. Scientists from around the world are doing that. We’re estimating how much the future costs for public infrastructure in Alaska might increase, based on what scientists expect to happen.

 

[Old Rocks]

US National Assessment of Climate Change.  Overview: Alaska

Observed Climate Trends
Alaska has warmed substantially over the 20th century, particularly over the past few decades. Average warming since the 1950s has been 4�F (2�C). The largest warming, about 7�F (4�C), has occurred in the interior in winter. The growing season has lengthened by more than 14 days since the 1950s. Some records suggest that much of the recent warming occurred suddenly around 1977. Alaska has also grown wetter recently, with precipitation over most of the state increasing 30% between 1968 and 1990. The observed warming is part of a larger trend through most of the Arctic corroborated by many independent measurements of sea ice, glaciers, permafrost, vegetation, and snow cover. In contrast to other regions, the most severe environmental stresses in Alaska at present are climate-related.

 

[Old Rocks]

December of 2009, the interior of Alaska was 6 to 8 degrees warmer than normal for December.

 

[Coyote]

The whole term "global warming" is a misleading media term. "Climate change' is more accurate. Some areas would get colder and some warmer. For example if enough polar ice melts it could alter the gulf stream which is what keeps the British islands so moderate despite their far north latitude.

 

[jeffrockit]

The whole term "global warming" is a misleading media term. "Climate change' is more accurate. Some areas would get colder and some warmer. For example if enough polar ice melts it could alter the gulf stream which is what keeps the British islands so moderate despite their far north latitude.

Yeah the climate does change and it has for millions of years and will for millions more. It is a cycle that man has no power to change. Global Warming or Climate Change is nothing more than a giant redistribution of wealth scheme for the world. The earth will be here long after we are gone just as it was before man.

 

[Old Rocks]

The whole term "global warming" is a misleading media term. "Climate change' is more accurate. Some areas would get colder and some warmer. For example if enough polar ice melts it could alter the gulf stream which is what keeps the British islands so moderate despite their far north latitude.

Yeah the climate does change and it has for millions of years and will for millions more. It is a cycle that man has no power to change. Global Warming or Climate Change is nothing more than a giant redistribution of wealth scheme for the world. The earth will be here long after we are gone just as it was before man.

Have you anything to say except mindlessly repeating meaningless wingnut talking points? Things happen in nature in response to forcings. The forcing in todays rapidly warming world is no differant than in several other times. GHGs. But this time, it is not Trapp Volcanics, but the actions of an intelligent species with little collective wisdom.

 

[misterflew]

Anybody know if Gore got real stats on the global warm business? I saw the movie and think maybe somebody didn't give him the correct numbers. Where I am at, it feels a flew months off.
Peace
Flewy

 

[Coyote]

The whole term "global warming" is a misleading media term. "Climate change' is more accurate. Some areas would get colder and some warmer. For example if enough polar ice melts it could alter the gulf stream which is what keeps the British islands so moderate despite their far north latitude.

Yeah the climate does change and it has for millions of years and will for millions more. It is a cycle that man has no power to change. Global Warming or Climate Change is nothing more than a giant redistribution of wealth scheme for the world. The earth will be here long after we are gone just as it was before man.

Climate change has nothing to do with whether the earth will or will not be here. It's durable. Nature is durable. It just may not be the sort of world we might want to live in. Man's influence is variable but evident - just look at desertification. But hell...what's the future matter when it comes down to short term monetary gain in this wonderful concentration of wealth scheme you all fight so hard to save?

 

[Sinatra]

I believe it was about 30 below when they completed that ice sculpture!

Gore is becoming one of the greatest jokes of the modern era...

Compeau's Online

 

[Sinatra]

Alaska glaciers grew this year, thanks to colder weather

Two hundred years of glacial shrinkage in Alaska, and then came the winter and summer of 2007-2008.

Unusually large amounts of winter snow were followed by unusually chill temperatures in June, July and August.


"In general, the weather this summer was the worst I have seen in at least 20 years."

Never before in the history of a research project dating back to 1946 had the Juneau Icefield witnessed the kind of snow buildup that came this year. It was similar on a lot of other glaciers too.


Alaska glaciers grew this year, thanks to colder weather | McClatchy

 

[Dr.House]

haha, that's funny.

Interesting that Gore won't go see the people in Alaska, or anyone else who calls him out on his bullshit.

Algore knows that Manbearpig does not like the cold of Alaska...

 

[Sinatra]

And for those in the know - HERE YOU GO

 

[Sinatra]

And some more for those in the know - HERE YOU GO

(so easy to dispatch the doom n gloom of Old Rocks... )